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 2, 2026 · 10:28 AM

Sam Altman has changed his mind about universal basic income and the reasoning matters more than the headline

Sam Altman has reversed his long-held support for universal basic income as the correct policy response to AI-driven displacement, signaling a shift toward ownership and compute-access models as alternatives to government cash transfers. The position change is intellectually coherent but arrives at a moment when OpenAI faces mounting scrutiny, raising legitimate questions about whether this is genuine policy evolution or a narrative realignment that happens to serve the commercial interests of t

Janet Harrison · May 2, 2026 · 9:56 AM

Monero Is Ranked 14th in Crypto and the Privacy Debate It Ignites Has Never Been More Relevant

Monero hit a new all-time high in January 2026 and sits at 14th in global crypto rankings with a $7 billion market cap, despite 70 exchange delistings. Its architecture and community have built something that survives regulatory hostility, and the privacy debate it forces is more relevant than ever.

Janet Harrison · May 2, 2026 · 6:54 AM

Replit CEO Amjad Masad says AI coding is becoming company-building infrastructure and he wants to own that layer

Replit CEO Amjad Masad argues that his platform is not competing for the same users as Cursor and other developer-focused AI coding tools, but instead targeting a much larger market of non-technical users who want to build software without writing code. In a fresh TechCrunch interview, Masad made the case for staying independent and owning the AI-native creation layer before larger platforms absorb it.

Janet Harrison · May 2, 2026 · 1:55 AM

Reuters investigation reveals how Iran's largest crypto exchange became a financial lifeline for sanctioned entities

A Reuters investigation found that Nobitex, Iran's largest crypto exchange with more than 11 million users and up to $11 billion in processed transactions, handled flows that blockchain analytics firms have linked to sanctioned Iranian entities including the central bank and the IRGC. The exchange was founded by the Kharrazi brothers, members of one of Iran's most politically connected families, adding a layer of institutional complexity to its denials of government ties. The case illustrates ho

Janet Harrison · May 2, 2026 · 12:51 AM

The Trump Crypto Empire Is Starting to Show Its Cracks

Eric Trump has been removed from Alt5 Sigma's leadership page as its CEO was suspended, a Rwandan subsidiary faces criminal conviction, and Justin Sun sues World Liberty Financial for alleged extortion. The Trump crypto empire is accumulating problems it cannot easily ignore.

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026 · 9:41 PM

PFlash claims a 10x prefill speedup over llama.cpp and it points to where local AI inference is heading

PFlash, a new open-source project published on May 1, 2026, claims a 10x prefill speedup over llama.cpp at 128K context on an RTX 3090 by using a speculative prefill technique where a smaller drafter model scores token importance before the larger 27B target model processes only the relevant spans. The approach, built entirely in C++ and CUDA, targets one of the most underappreciated bottlenecks in long-context local inference, the time required to process a full prompt before any output is gene

Janet Harrison · May 1, 2026 · 7:00 PM

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 · 12:53 PM

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 · 10:12 AM

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 · 7:54 AM

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 · 6:58 AM

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 · 5:35 AM

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 · 2:32 AM

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 · 2:04 AM

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 · 1:19 AM

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 · 1:03 AM

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