Finance is ready for a blockchain reset

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is the co-founder of Ethereum and chief executive and founder of Consensys, a blockchain software company The modern financial system is undergoing a foundational stress test. Decades of globalisation combined with increasingly fragile … Read more

Data centres remain troublingly reliant on Chinese lithium

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Artificial intelligence chatbots, cloud storage platforms and financial systems all depend on data centres that operate round the clock. These facilities underpin the digital economy where even brief interruptions can have far-reaching consequences. That means … Read more

Stablecoins reconsidered

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every weekday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Good morning. The S&P 500 rallied yesterday, as investors rejoiced over Donald Trump backing down, for now, from higher tariffs … Read more

the ball is in Europe’s court

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a former supervisory board member of the European Central Bank and a senior fellow at Bocconi University Paul Volcker’s famous judgment against financial innovation sounds exaggerated today. In late 2009, the former … Read more