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Crypto IPO Surge, Project Agorá Live & India's Seed Funding Gap
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Digital asset public listings are tipping toward a trillion-dollar market, Project Agorá moves from prototype to live fund testing, and India's fintech seed funding collapses 65% as late-stage capital surges. Six stories shaping global fintech and banking today.
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India's fintech sector just posted its sharpest deal count drop in years, and the headline number is striking. Forty-five funding rounds in Q1 twenty twenty-six.
Four of the five largest deals this quarter came from Mumbai firms. Weaver alone pulled in a hundred and fifty-six million dollars.
Shifting to a global trend that's been building quietly. Jefferies is now formally predicting a surge in digital asset public listings over the next two years, with the market for crypto-adjacent public companies potentially reaching one trillion dollars.
On the central bank side, Project Agorá has moved from proof-of-concept to live fund testing. That matters because the BIS-backed platform isn't a whitepaper anymore.
Tether's partnership with Georgia introduces a category worth tracking carefully. The GEL₾ is pegged to the Georgian Lari and built under a purpose-designed regulatory framework that's structured to align with the US GENIUS Act.
One data point cuts across all of these stories. Amsterdam-based Remote surpassed three hundred million in annual recurring revenue and turned cash-flow positive with a headcount model reshaped by AI.
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