PANews reported on December 8th that Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero announced on social media that the project focuses on creating a wallet to attract more users. After a four-and-a-half-year trial of a social-first strategy that failed, and with the wallet business consistently growing, they decided to increase investment in this area. This means new features and product positioning will be centered around the wallet. Romero emphasized, "We have transformed; the product now focuses on wallet users. And the most important function of our wallet is trading. That's the core. People are free to use the product without using the wallet. But we focus on the wallet/trading."

Robinhood acquired an Indonesian brokerage and digital asset trading firm to access a market with 17 million crypto investors. Crypto and stock trading platform Robinhood is set to tap into Indonesia’s burgeoning cryptocurrency trading market after an agreement to acquire two local fintech companies.In an announcement on Sunday, Robinhood said it has entered into agreements to acquire Buana Capital, an Indonesian brokerage, and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto, a licensed Indonesian digital financial asset trader, “marking our entry into one of Southeast Asia’s fastest-growing markets.”It said that Indonesia has more than 19 million capital market investors and 17 million crypto investors, making it a “compelling market for equities and crypto trading.”Read more

