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Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) aren’t just for adults; they’re for the youth, too!

According to The Advocate, NFTs came to Mya Parker’s rescue as she started creating them while recovering from a torn ACL. What was initially a newfound hobby that focused on her interests in art and investing has transformed the 15-year-old into a full-blown businesswoman. The outlet reports that Parker has made more than $10,000 from selling her NFTs.

“I would never have had the time to do all this before I...

Ethereum scaling solution Optimism has raised $150 million in a Series B funding round co-led by top crypto investors Paradigm and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) at a $1.65 billion valuation. The funding will largely go toward hiring, according to a Medium post from the company.

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It's hard to ignore the sky-high inflation that has rocked the U.S. economy. Last month, consumer prices skyrocketed 7.9% to their highest level since the early eighties. If you haven't experienced sticker shock when going to fill up your tank at the local gas station, chances are it's just a matter of time before energy inflation hits your city, too.

During these uncertain times, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk feels the inflationary heat at his two companies - Tesla and SpaceX. The Tesla ...

On Wednesday, Dogecoin co-creator Billy Markus retweeted a meme, first posted by @TeslaAIBot that appeared to recirculate a rumor that McDonald's Corp (NYSE: MCD) may begin to accept the meme-crypto as payment.

In January, McDonald's teased at the idea on Twitter Inc (NYSE: TWTR), bant...

Over the past five years, perhaps the best investment you could've owned was Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). The world's first programmable blockchain has seen the price of ETH, its native token, skyrocket more than 13,000% (as of March 7, 2022) since March of 2017. The S&P 500's 94% total return during the same time period doesn't even come close. 

While the future might not exactly resemble the past, there are some promising digital assets out there that could produce monster returns in the years ah...

Hamza El Hassani, who traded dividends in the New York-based bank’s equities division, will be departing after transactions he oversaw went awry, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The losses tied to him were less than $50 million, one of the people said.

El Hassani didn’t respond to a message seeking...

The largest cryptocurrency declined as much as 5.9% to $39,432 on Thursday, falling for the first time in three days. Ether dropped as much as 4.4% to $2,589. Most of the top cryptocurrencies were down at least slightly in the past 24 hours to 1:15 p.m. Hong Kong time, according to pricing from CoinGeck...

President Joe Biden is set to sign an executive order this week that will outline the U.S. government’s strategy for cryptocurrencies, according to people familiar with the administration’s plans.

The order will direct federal agencies to examine potential regulatory changes, as well as the national security and economic impact of digital assets, said the people, who asked not to be named discussing the deliberations. The White House’s approach to crypto has attracted fresh attention in ...

Every week, Benzinga conducts a survey to collect sentiment on what traders are most excited, interested in or thinking about as they manage and build their personal portfolios.

© Provided by BenzingaIf You Had $1,000 Right Now, Would You Buy The Dip In Bitcoin, Dogecoin, Palantir Or Nvidia?

This week, we posed the following question to more than 1,000 Benzinga visitors: If you had $1,000 right now, would you buy the dip in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC), Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE), Palantir Technologies ...

Sundial Growers Inc. (NASDAQ: SNDL)

Sundial is a Canadian company that makes cannabis products for recreational consumption.

A large number of U.S. states have legalized marijuana, as have many countries around the world.

It seems a question of when, not if, the U.S. will legalize marijuana on a national level. 

Sundial has several subsidiary brands, which it will use to appeal to different sectors of the cannabis market.

The company currently has its eye on Alcanna, Canada’s premier wine, spiri...

It took 179 years after the New York Stock Exchange was established in 1792 for a Black investment firm to take a seat.

And while there were already Black financiers and businessmen such as America’s first Black millionaire, Jeremiah G. Hamilton, who died in 1875, there are others who set the groundwork for today’s generation of Black Wall Street brokers and financiers.

Here are 11 who were among the first to break through on Wall Street.

Thorvald McGregor and Lawrence Lewis: Each of these m...