There are several ways to turn your home equity into cash. One of the most popular? That’d be a home equity line of credit, or HELOC. Despite their popularity, HELOCs aren’t like your average loan product. No lump sum of cash gets handed over, and you usually won’t owe huge…

The Department of Education agreed last week to restart processing student loan forgiveness under several federal programs as part of a joint resolution to an ongoing legal challenge. The agreement, which still must receive final approval from a federal district court judge, is intended to resolve a lawsuit brought by…

DeFi data aggregator DeFiLlama has quietly reinstated perpetual futures exchange Aster on its analytics platform, weeks after delisting it over concerns about unverifiable trading data. The relisting has reignited debate over transparency in decentralized markets and the growing influence of data platforms in shaping perceptions of legitimacy.Aster, a decentralized exchange…

The ongoing government shutdown in the United States “will probably end this week,” White House senior economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Monday.Speaking to CNBC, National Economic Council Director Hassett said that if the shutdown isn’t resolved by … Read the full article here

If you need access to cash and have gained a significant chunk of equity in your home, you’re in luck: You can use a home equity line of credit (HELOC) to tap your equity and use the money to pay for whatever you want, from home improvements to college courses.…

Even as Bitcoin (BTC) slipped to as low as $104,000 on Friday, the same can’t be said for its fastest Layer-2 project, Bitcoin Hyper (HYPER), which raised another $300,000 over the weekend to bring its total presale funding to $24.3 million.On Tuesday, the Federal Reserve is set to hold discussions…

Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange and still considered the most influential name in the management, added a new one to his rarely made market predictions today. CZ said he predicts that the total market capitalization of Bitcoin will surpass the total market capitalization…

Altcoin Season Index slipped to 24 over the weekend and has inched back to 26, indicating thin breadth and selective risk. That backdrop matters for portfolio choices in October, when liquidity concentrates in tokens with clear triggers, visible depth, and narratives investors can act on.Three moves stand out for different…

Ethereum treasury BitMine Immersion bought the dip, snapping up 203,826 ETH last week to bring its current holdings to over 3.2 million digital coins—worth more than $13 billion based on early Monday’s price.  The NYSE-listed firm said it now holds 3,236,014 ETH bought at an average price of $4,022 per…

The government shutdown, which began Oct. 1, has left many federal employees out of work — but not necessarily out of a job. Instead, more than 700,000 federal workers have been furloughed, meaning they’ve been put on temporary, unpaid leave due to a lack of government funding. Nearly the same…