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DeFi Development Corp. dropped its third quarter results this week, reporting that its Solana holdings per share climbed more than twenty percent between mid-August and the end of September, with net asset value per share more than quadrupling over that same stretch — a striking signal of how crypto treasury strategies are gaining traction among public companies.
Shifting to the payments space, Velera's Scott Young is making the case that credit unions don't need to go it alone on digital assets. Writing in a new industry eBook, Young argues that collaborative frameworks between credit unions and their partners are the right way to navigate stablecoins and the broader digital money landscape as it matures into twenty twenty-six.
And on the small business front, new PYMNTS Intelligence data shows that sixty percent of small businesses using artificial intelligence are taking on more work without expanding their headcount. The more telling finding may be this — AI's staffing impact is less about layoffs and more about jobs that simply never got posted in the first place.
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