When Arianna Simpson was 22 years old, she plowed her savings into Bitcoin. She had left her college job and traveled with a friend through Zimbabwe, witnessing firsthand the consequences of hyperinflation. When she returned, she became enamored with the idea of crypto as a potential salve. Aside from investing the contents of her bank account, Simpson started a blockchain lunch meetup at her next post, Facebook. She wrote a blog post on multisignature wallets that landed her a job at the infrastructure startup BitGo,
As the bull market looks to extend into year's end, thanks in part to increased liquidity and more enthusiasm to participate in the so-called AI boom (and the rise of agentic AI), some of the heated fintech firms may be worth consideration as they come in. At the time of writing, shares of HOOD have dipped over 6% while BULL shares are now in correction territory after experiencing an explosive upside surge during the early months of summer.