... Inflation Investing in real assets. Real estate, land, precious metals, and other tangible assets traditionally serve as a reliable hedge against inflation. Their value generally increases over time, aligning with the overall price growth. Inflation-indexed securities. In many countries, there are bonds whose returns are indexed to the level of inflation (e.g., OFZ-PD in Russia or Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities in the United States). These instruments help preserve real returns during price increases....

... low-income groups of the population require significant expenditures. These expenses, being important for ensuring social stability, constitute a significant part of the annual US budget. Defense spending: The United States spends heavily on national security and defense, maintaining a military presence in the international arena. Defense spending constitutes a large part of the budget and is a significant factor in increasing the debt burden. Infrastructure and economic support: Investments in roads,...

... placement of shares of Sovcomflot in 2020, where a consortium of underwriters also participated, including both international and Russian players, such as Gazprombank, Sberbank CIB, and VTB Capital. Thanks to working with the consortium, it was possible to secure significant interest from institutional and private investors, which contributed to the success of the IPO. Underwriters play a key role in organizing an IPO, ensuring a successful placement of shares, establishing a fair price and attracting investors....

... cryptographic aggregators, replacing them with a simplified finality rule. For instance, a "3-slot finalization" mechanism is proposed, which reduces the consensus specification to approximately 200 lines of code while maintaining a high level of security. At the same time, Buterin proposes to eliminate the EVM—a cumbersome 256-bit virtual machine—and replace it with a simpler VM, such as RISC-V. The RISC-V architecture, already utilized for ZK unifications within Ethereum, would allow smart ...

... launched a fund with a targeted size of ~12 billion rubles, while investment company Kama Flow initiated a fund of 10 billion rubles. Local startups are attracting capital and even preparing for IPOs: for example, the Krasnodar-based foodtech project Qummy secured 440 million rubles at an estimated valuation of ~2.4 billion rubles (the funding was provided by the Voskod fund alongside Alfa-Bank and Tinkoff, positioning the deal as a pre-IPO). New funds are also starting to make their first deals: recently,...