Nikou Asgari
@nikasgari.bsky.social
Financial Times digital markets correspondent | reporting on crypto and capital markets www.ft.com/nikou-asgari
Banks, asset managers and exchanges are spending hundreds of millions of dollars on blockchain, this time for real Today's FT Big Read - as.ft.com/r/23bbd917-c...
Wall Street learns to love blockchain
Financial companies hope to modernise markets with the technology but systemic risks remain
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New - one of crypto's biggest conferences held its afterparty at a Miami club with pole dancers... at least one of the sponsors is not happy www.ft.com/content/ea06...
Sponsor reviews crypto conference partnership over pole-dancing party
Crypto exchange OKX reconsiders sponsorship of Consensus Miami after ‘immature’ official after-party event
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A dissection of CZ's self published memoir for @alphaville.ft.com www.ft.com/content/6cda...
We read CZ’s ‘memoir’ to protect anyone else from having to
A dull account of an interesting life
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Very fun talking about Wall Street vs crypto, on the latest episode of the FT's Behind the Money podcast
Michela Tindera@mtindera.ft.com · 5mo agoOn the latest ep. of Behind the Money from the @financialtimes.com, @nikasgari.bsky.social explains the conflict ⚡ that’s been brewing between Wall Street banks and crypto companies. 🎧 Listen to the full show here: podfollow.com/behind-the-m...
Trump did everything right for the crypto industry. So how come his memecoin is down >90% from peak, and MelaniaCoin (or whatever it's called) has lost 99% asks @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/0012...
“The whole entire market is mispricing Strategy" I spoke to the bitcoin believers who are keeping the faith in Saylor's company www.ft.com/content/5922...
Strategy diehards keep faith in company that ‘the market doesn’t understand’
Bitcoin hoarder’s business model has come into question but retail traders still view founder as ‘visionary leader’
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Today on complicated crypto financing - Tether's secretive chair Giancarlo Devasini and its CEO bought a crypto miner from a data centre company owned by Tether itself. Shares in the data centre co are down 13% after today's FT story www.ft.com/content/352f...
Tether-owned firm sells crypto miner to companies run by its founder
Stablecoin giant’s Devasini is director of groups that bought Peak Mining from Northern Data
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Crypto’s rocky year-Explanations for the sell-off — more than $1tn has been erased from the combined capitalisation of about 18,000 digital tokens over the past two months — range from uncertainty… www.ft.com/content/728a... @nikasgari.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Crypto’s rocky year
The industry was hugely optimistic when Donald Trump returned to the White House. But bitcoin has fallen by a quarter in two months
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Kwasi Kwarteng does crypto - the former UK chancellor is helping launch a bitcoin treasury company www.ft.com/content/c5a6...
Former UK chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng backs bitcoin investment company
Ex-politician infamous for 2022 mini-Budget will become non-executive director of Stack Bitcoin Treasury
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FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto. Some great work here www.ft.com/content/2ea2...
FT Investigation: How the Trump companies made $1bn from crypto
The president and his family have built a rapidly growing digital assets empire which has been fuelled by the administration’s industry-friendly policies
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Welcome to the bitcoin-per-share market. Going to be an interesting ride Big Read by @nikasgari.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/8a16...
Why struggling companies are loading up on bitcoin
Biotechs, miners and hoteliers are snapping up crypto to boost their share prices, but experts warn of a crisis if markets crash
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The grass is not always greener. US listings often fail to boost European companies’ valuations, according to FT analysis from @nikasgari.bsky.social and Patrick Mathurin with nifty data viz. www.ft.com/content/6706...
US listings often fail to boost European companies’ valuations
FT analysis finds that while liquidity usually improves, adding a New York listing does not always boost multiples or coverage
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Our stories often downplay the computational lift that goes into getting them. Suffice it to say "a Financial Times analysis of blockchain data" denotes some really impressive data journalism work from @olihawkins.com, @eadehemingway.bsky.social and @nikasgari.bsky.social.
