JD Vance touts bitcoin’s emergence and hails pro-Trump crypto investors

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world JD Vance has hailed the arrival of cryptocurrencies into the US economy’s “mainstream”, vowed to establish “pro-innovation” rules for digital assets, and praised the crypto billionaires who backed Donald Trump’s White House bid … Read more

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