TOKYO—At 3:47 a.m. local time, while the rest of the city pretended to sleep off another salary-man sake bender, 27-year-old Hoshino Yui refreshed her phone and watched Dogecoin tick up 11 percent. Halfway around the world, in a São Paulo favela where the power flickers more often than a Tinder date, 19-year-old Lucas was doing…
Solana Price: The Global Mood-Ring Nobody Asked For By our correspondent in transit between time zones and tax shelters Singapore, 3 a.m. local time—while the rest of the city-state pretends to sleep, three screens glow in a co-working pod that smells faintly of Tiger beer and existential dread. On them: Solana flickering at $142.78, up…
COPENHAGEN—Somewhere between the hygge glow of a Danish bodega and the neon anxiety of a 24-hour Bloomberg terminal, NBIS stock (Nordic Blockchain Infrastructure Services A/S) has become the world’s favorite new punch line about how we never actually learn. The Copenhagen-based firm, whose logo looks suspiciously like a QR code having a mid-life crisis, claims…
Dodgers: The Art of Slipping Away, From Tokyo Tax Shelters to Mediterranean Deck Chairs By Our Correspondent, Still Counting the Empty Seats GENEVA—The word “dodger” once evoked muddy Brooklyn baseball and the crack of post-war innocence. Today it is a cosmopolitan chameleon, changing its accent in every time zone. In Hong Kong it answers to…
Marvel Tokon Beta: When the World’s Favorite Superhero Franchise Decides to Issue Its Own Currency (and Nobody Tells the IMF) By the time most of you woke up this morning, some kid in Lagos had already flipped a pixelated Captain America shield NFT for enough Marvel Tokon Beta (MTB) to buy three weeks of actual…
