Moody's Ratings said it has affirmed Romania's long-term issuer and senior unsecured ratings at 'Baa3' with a 'negative' outlook, as the country avoided a downgrade to junk status thanks to recent fiscal consolidation measures.
Romania's industrial production decreased by 1.3% in January-July 2025 in unadjusted data compared with the same period of 2024 and was down 0.7% when adjusted for the number of working days and seasonality, data from the country's statistical office INS showed on Monday (Sept 15).
Polkadot said that under the old tokenomics model, the total supply of DOT could have swelled to more than 3.4 billion tokens by 2040. Polkadot’s decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) passed a referendum approving a hard cap on the network’s native token for the first time. The decision set the maximum supply at 2.1 billion Polkadot (DOT) tokens, a significant pivot from the previous tokenomics model, under which new tokens were indefinitely issued yearly. Under the old inflationary model, Polkadot minted about 120 million DOT tokens annually, with no limit on the token’s total supply. The project said the supply could have swelled to more than 3.4 billion tokens by 2040 under the old model. The new framework introduces a gradual issuance reduction every two years. At the time of writing, Polkadot had a total supply of about 1.5 billion tokens. Read more
Bitcoin braced for further gains toward $120,000 after finishing the week in the green above $115,000, new price analysis concluded. Key takeaways: Bitcoin’s weekly close above $115,000 signals bullish strength. BTC’s bull flag breakout could trigger a rally to $120,000. Read more
In the second quarter of 2025, the employment rate for the working-age population (15-64 years) was 63.3%, increasing by 0.6 percentage points (pp) compared to the level recorded in the first quarter of 2025, data from Romania's statistical office INS showed on Monday (Sept 15).