Will the strong growth trend continue throughout the entire Q2 earnings season? That remains to be seen.

We utilize the smartphone for all manner of connected activities like messaging, video calls, shopping, banking, and trading, and one of the long-promised utilities of this digital Swiss Army knife has been the consolidation of one’s wallet and keys.

The number of crypto users has doubled in four months, reaching around 221 million in June.

A first in the world of top-level financial institutions, JPMorgan has opened up retail access to Bitcoin, and not just for its largest institutional clients, but for any and all of the customers who use their platforms. 

Today is the last trading day of July and we are about halfway through the Q2 earnings season. Let’s step back for a bit and take stock of what we have learned from the earnings releases so far. It seems like two things are clear.