Approved on Monday (because why not start the week with some corporate fireworks?), this program gives Forward the liberty to buy back its stock at any time-open-market purchases, block trades, or private deals. And, no surprise, they made sure to shout it from the rooftops with a shiny press release.
Hold onto your wallets, folks-Dash (DASH) has officially rocked the crypto scene today, Nov. 4, 2025, by becoming the top-performing cryptocurrency in the top 100 list. In less time than it takes to microwave your lunch, Dash jumped by a whopping 50%, reaching prices that haven’t been seen since the wild days of March 2022. Is it a fluke? A glitch in the Matrix? Or something else entirely? Let’s find out.
Picture this: FTSE Russell’s indices-Russell 1000, 2000, 3000, and the FTSE 100-home alone no more, now chilling on the blockchain, accessible, verifiable, and probably doing the funky chicken dance. This isn’t some secret handshake anymore; it’s a full-blown parade of data, all securely shared without the middlemen making a buck or two. Because who likes middlemen? Not the modern, crypto-savvy robot sitting in your basement!
Here’s the scoop: Ripple has just swallowed Palisade, and with that, they’ve massively upgraded their Ripple Custody service. This allows them to serve every type of corporate, fintech, and crypto-native company looking for a top-notch, super-secure way to store their digital assets. Forget your piggy bank, we’re talking digital vaults.
According to the oracle of blockchain analytics, Lookonchain, the thief wasted no time in swapping pilfered tokens for ETH, as if conducting a midnight ballet with the market’s heartbeat. “Note that the Balancer hacker is now swapping the stolen assets for $ETH,” they intoned, like a prophet of doom. The total loot swelled to $116.6 million before the villain’s pace slowed, their targets: wrapped ETH and staked derivatives, the digital gold of the crypto age.
As the scrolls of ARK’s daily trade disclosures reveal, the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK) unfurled 164,214 shares, while the ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF) added their portions, each a brick in the edifice of financial ambition. 🧱📈
VIG casts a WIDE net, hoarding a treasure trove of hundreds of holdings, while the well-heeled NOBL rides the S&P 500 express, handpicking 40 equally-weighted stocks, replete with sector caps that, let’s be real, hold both promise and risk.
As reported by CNBC, Winters, at a Hong Kong FinTech Week panel, waxed lyrical about the future of finance and Hong Kong’s role in this digital utopia. “Our belief, which I think is shared by the leadership of Hong Kong,” he said, “is that pretty much all transactions will settle on blockchains eventually, and that all money will be digital.” Oh joyous day! 💸
The portfolio, a tapestry of 52 holdings, now carried the weight of this new conviction-3.28% of its $155.77 million soul devoted to a bank whose shares had danced 43.4% higher than the year before, outpacing even the S&P 500’s stately waltz. Yet among its top holdings stood giants with names like SEI and AOSL, their market values glinting like river coins: $7.31 million here, $6.74 million there-a mosaic of modern alchemy.
Oh, Solana’s price took a rather dramatic nosedive-about 6% to be precise-right in the middle of a broad market meltdown. It’s now dangling precariously around $175. But wait! Enter the whale (cue the dramatic music)-a Solana enthusiast who just went all-in with a $26 million long position. Yes, a long! The nerve! Talk about putting your money where your mouth is-someone’s feeling really confident about Solana’s future. 🐋💸
