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capital through convertible bonds offering for the second time in less than 10 days to further increase its exposure to booming bitcoin. The software firm said after markets closed on Wednesday that it was offering $500 million in convertible notes due in 2031 to institutional investors. The company had announced a $600 million private offering in convertible notes on March 5.

Apple, Tesla and Ford Motor are among companies contributing the most to recently lowered estimates for the quarter, along with some insurers, whose projections have been hurt by fires in California early this year, according to Tajinder Dhillon, senior research analyst at LSEG. S&P 500 forecasts for the first quarter of 2025 have fallen by 4.5 percentage points since January 1, the largest downward revision since the fourth quarter of 2023, he said. Earnings growth for S&P 500 companies is now seen at 7.7% year-over-year, which would be the lowest since 2023's third quarter and a big decline from 17.1% in the fourth quarter of 2024, based on Friday's LSEG data. While a handful of companies have already reported on the quarter, the unofficial start of the first-quarter season is still weeks away.

It’s taking bumper corporate earnings and profit forecasts to impress investors this season, after a record first-quarter rally left stocks looking expensive.

After the indexes enjoyed a solid rally on Friday, the market turned its focus on Monday to Consumer Price Index (CPI) data, due out Tuesday morning. Economists expect a headline increase of 3.3% for October, easing from 3.7% in September.

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Pocket Network said that its native token $POKT will be listed on decentralized exchange KuCoin. $POKT trading will be enabled on KuCoin on October 19th, with a trading competition also taking place through October 26, 2022. $POKT is also listed on a number of other global exchanges, including Huobi, Gate.io, Okcoin, MEXC, BTCEX, Btok, Bybit, ZB, Bitget, and Bitrue. The utility token claims to enable a two-sided, permissionless marketplace where app developers can access blockchain data via Pocket Network by staking $POKT tokens.

web3.0 infrastructure protocol Pocket Network has announced an upgrade to its Pocket Portal service, which would enable web3.0 developers to create accounts, mint remote procedure call (RPC) endpoints for their dapps. This will also give access to blockchain information across any of the several blockchains supported by Pocket. ‘Pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) and ‘Always Free’ tiers are part of the recently customised Pocket Portal service plans. Developers can receive up to 2,50,000 daily data relays for their dapps under the ‘Always Free’ tier. If a dapp’s traffic requirements are higher, developers may choose a simplified PAYG plan or may seek a unique plan from the Pocket network team.Ability to create an endless number of endpoints With the PAYG approach, developers can avoid paying a large amount of money upfront for relay traffic that they might not utilise by only paying for the data relays that their dapps actually use each month.

Pocket Network has partnered with open source liquidity market and lending platform Aave, which will enable it to utilise Pocket’s distributed network of more than 44,000 nodes to access on-chain data from multiple blockchains. The partnership also benefits developers building Aave-powered dApps, allowing them to access reliable blockchain data from Pocket Network on demand. This agreement was funded through Aave Grants DAO, which approved a Grant for the acquisition of the necessary POKT for Aave’s frontend traffic.

Aave (AAVE), an open source decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol, is teaming up with decentralized Web3 infrastructure provider Pocket Network to offer developers increased scalability and ease of use when building decentralized applications (DApps) on the Aave Protocol.

Pocket Network, a web3 infrastructure project, announced a community initiative named 'TriForce' to support growth and strengthen blockchain community ties. It allows community members to launch, maintain and grow blockchain traffic for their respective ecosystems while empowering them to be a part of Pocket Network’s growth trajectory. Developed together by Pocket Network Inc, Pocket Network Foundation, and Pocket DAO, the TriForce program is open to community members of all blockchains that Pocket currently supports or will add support for soon.

Pocket Network (POKT), a relay infrastructure middleware protocol, announced a service integration to improve the network bandwidth of NEAR blockchain while enabling faster deployment times for Web3 developers.

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Fantom Blockchain, a highly scalable blockchain platform for DeFi, crypto dApps, and enterprise applications. Pocket Network provides limitless blockchain bandwidth from a globally distributed network of more than 44,000 full nodes to applications in Web3 across 45 blockchains, including Ethereum, Polygon, Solana, Fuse, Avalanche, and Harmony. Pocket Network enables developers to mint Fantom RPC endpoints for their applications directly from the Pocket Portal.

Pocket Network provides abundant blockchain bandwidth from a globally-distributed network of more than 40,000 full nodes to applications in Web3 across 37 blockchains. The number of relays have doubled over the last few weeks and the average is about a billion relays a day, which is ten times higher than the daily average in November 2021. In just the last week alone, Pocket has had more relays than the whole December. «Robust blockchains require robust decentralized infrastructure, and we are glad for being able to serve the demands of growing blockchain ecosystems,» said Michael O'Rourke, CEO and Founder at Pocket Network.

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