Janet Harrison

Janet Harrison has over 16 years experience in the financial services industry giving her a vast understanding of how news affects the financial markets, and an early adopter of blockchain technology and digital currencies. Janet is an active holder and trader spending the majority of her time analyzing blockchain projects, reports and watching new and upcoming projects and other initiatives in the industry. She has a Masters Degree in Economics with previous roles counting Investment Banking.

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Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

OPay hires Citigroup JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank as it targets a $4 billion US IPO later this year

OPay, the Nigeria-focused mobile payments platform, is preparing for a potential US IPO with Citigroup, JPMorgan, and Deutsche Bank hired as advisers, targeting a valuation of approximately $4 billion. The listing would be one of the largest African fintech offerings in US public markets and a test of whether international investors will price emerging market payment infrastructure at a global premium. Bloomberg reported the development on May 1, 2026, with timing and final terms still undisclos

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

Huawei expects its AI chip revenue to hit $12 billion in 2026 and the number tells you how fast China's domestic AI stack is forming

Huawei expects its AI chip revenue to rise at least 60% in 2026 to approximately $12 billion, up from $7.5 billion in 2025, as Chinese companies accelerate their shift to domestic processors following US export controls that have effectively blocked Nvidia's most advanced chips from the Chinese market. The Ascend 950PR entered mass production in March and is driving most of the year's orders, with an upgraded 950DT version planned for the fourth quarter. The figures reflect not just Huawei's gro

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

Blue Owl's tenfold return on SpaceX tells you more about private market pricing than any valuation estimate could

Blue Owl sold roughly half its SpaceX stake at a $1.25 trillion implied valuation, Reuters reported on April 30, generating approximately a tenfold return on the $27 million it invested in 2021 while retaining the remaining position. The secondary transaction provides one of the clearest market signals yet on how institutional investors are pricing SpaceX's combination of launch infrastructure, Starlink's recurring broadband revenue, and long-term optionality ahead of any potential IPO. For late

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

Solana's quantum readiness plan is serious work built on assumptions that may not hold

The Solana Foundation's quantum readiness update shows Anza and Firedancer's Jump Crypto independently converging on Falcon, a NIST-standardized lattice-based signature scheme, as the network's post-quantum migration path. The technical alignment is encouraging, but the deeper concern is that quantum computing is advancing faster than the planning assumptions underlying the migration timeline. If cryptographically relevant quantum computers arrive sooner than expected, the gap between where the

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

X Just Brought the Trading Terminal Into Your Social Feed

X's Cashtags hit the web on April 30, completing a rollout that drove $1 billion in trading volume within two days of its iPhone launch. Real-time charts, asset-specific posts, and brokerage integrations now sit inside the same platform where traders already talk.

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

Cardano Academy wants businesses to understand digital identity before they need it

Cardano Foundation has launched a free course on KERI and its open-source Veridian identity platform through Cardano Academy. The course targets developers and business leaders looking to get ahead of decentralized identity infrastructure. With the vLEI ecosystem and eIDAS 2.0 creating real enterprise demand, digital identity may be blockchain's most credible business use case yet.

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

Spotify's New Verification Badge Is the Music Industry's First Real Answer to the AI Content Flood and Artists Should Pay Attention

Spotify launched a 'Verified by Spotify' badge on April 30 that explicitly excludes AI-generated music personas from eligibility, using a light green checkmark and a multi-signal verification process to distinguish authentic artist profiles in search results and on profile pages. The move reframes the AI music debate as a commercial infrastructure problem, with implications for streaming royalty pools, algorithmic discovery, and the licensing relationships between Spotify and major labels.

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

NFTs Are Not Dead But the Market You Remember Is Gone

NFT daily trading volumes have crashed to $5-8 million, top platforms have shut down, and 96% of collections are functionally dead. But blue-chip floors hold, utility projects grow, and Polymarket gives 65% odds on a comeback.

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

The Trump Administration's Strait of Hormuz Plan Could Trigger the Oil Market Shock That Global Economies Are Least Prepared For

The Trump administration is reportedly floating options around reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a move that introduces escalation risk into an already complex Gulf security environment and carries direct consequences for global oil markets, Asian energy supply chains, and Gulf state economies that depend on uninterrupted crude exports and stable investor perceptions to fund their diversification programs.

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

Elon Musk Admitted Under Oath That xAI May Have Trained on OpenAI's Models and Then Called It Standard Practice

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026

Pokémon Cards Are Beating Crypto and Stocks and Investors Are Paying Attention

Pokémon card values have grown 3,821% since 2004, outpacing the S&P 500 and Bitcoin. Investors are taking notice, but risks like counterfeits and market saturation make this a market that rewards the informed.

Janet Harrison · Apr 30, 2026

Z.ai fixes GLM-5 inference bugs and gives the fix back to the open source community

Janet Harrison · Apr 30, 2026

Tether has become too large and too politically connected to keep operating like a private club

Democratic senators have formally requested documents about a Tether loan to a trust benefiting Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's children, with Lutnick's former firm Cantor Fitzgerald simultaneously tied to Tether's reserve operations. The inquiry arrives as stablecoin legislation advances in Congress and exposes how deeply the sector's largest issuer remains embedded in politically sensitive financial relationships it has never fully disclosed.

Janet Harrison · Apr 30, 2026

OpenAI's goblin problem reveals that model personality is now a serious operational risk

OpenAI's 'Where the goblins came from' blog post details how a small linguistic quirk, amplified by a retired personality configuration, survived multiple training cycles and resurfaced in GPT-4.5. The real story is what it reveals about model personality as a hidden operational risk for every AI company promising consistent tone, brand voice, or agent behavior at scale.

Janet Harrison · Apr 30, 2026

Kosovo's tech sector just turned a brain drain crisis into a startup story

Kosovo's youth unemployment fell from 61% to 10% in a decade as its IT and BPO sector boomed, producing the country's first potential unicorn in SPEEEX and offering a model for how smaller economies can turn a young workforce into a tech export story.

Janet Harrison · Apr 30, 2026

Samsung just showed where the AI money is really landing

Samsung's 48-fold chip profit jump shows AI demand flowing directly into memory and server-chip earnings, turning high-bandwidth memory into one of the most powerful toll booths in the AI stack and pressuring SK Hynix, Micron and AI startups alike.