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Tesla starts production at Megafactory in Shanghai

February 13, 2025
Tesla has started production at its new Megafactory in Shanghai, its second such factory, and it is starting to ship to its first customer. Energy storage has been Tesla’s silver lining over the last few quarters. While its main business, the automotive business, has been shrinking in both revenue and margins, its energy storage business has been growing at an impressive pace. That’s mainly…
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RLUSD Adoption Builds as Ripple’s Stablecoin Exceeds $100M in Circulation

February 13, 2025
Metrics reveal Ripple’s newly minted stablecoin, RLUSD, has eclipsed the $100 million threshold mere weeks after its mid-December 2024 debut. RLUSD Supply Climbs to 108M As of Feb. 12, 2025, the broader stablecoin arena boasts a valuation of $224.367 billion. While RLUSD’s slice of this financial pie remains extremely modest, its trajectory shows steady momentum, now claiming 108.66 million…
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Rivian will now sell its commercial van to any fleet, starting at $79,900

February 12, 2025
Rumors leaked last week, and now it’s official: the Rivian Commercial Van is now available to order for fleets of any size, even down to a single van – but still only for businesses, not individuals. Rivian first announced it would make electric delivery vans in 2019, as part of a partnership with Amazon, who ordered 100,000 of the vehicles. The company has delivered around 20,000 of the vans…
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Litecoin ETF Approval Odds at 90%, Analysts Say

February 12, 2025
Bloomberg ETF analysts Eric Balchunas and James Seyffart have compiled a list of crypto ETF applications that they believe will have shot at being approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC) this year, and assigned a probability of approval to each filing.
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Ripple Expands in Europe—Its Payments Solution Hits Portugal for the First Time

February 12, 2025
Ripple expands in Europe, bringing instant, low-cost blockchain payments to Portugal and revolutionizing transfers on the Portugal-Brazil corridor. Ripple’s European Footprint Grows—First Ever Launch of Its Payments Solution in Portugal Ripple announced a partnership with Unicâmbio, a Portuguese currency exchange provider, on Feb. 10 “to support instant cross-border payments between…
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