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South Korea’s KOSPI Index extended its sharp decline, falling more than 10% in the latest session and triggering its ninth circuit breaker of 2026. The benchmark has now dropped 41% in just 40 days, compared with a 57% …
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The Bitcoin miner and AI infrastructure company closed at $62.90, giving it a market capitalization of about $2.8 billion after its direct listing.
Decentralized perpetuals exchange Trade.xyz said it will reimburse traders liquidated when its SK Hynix perpetual futures contract crashed 19% late on Monday, a loss the company attributes to a single executed trade on …
South Korea FSC plans to merge 10 pending crypto and stablecoin bills into one framework.
The FSC reportedly plans a government-backed digital asset bill covering stablecoins and exchanges, while opposition lawmakers seek to scrap a 22% crypto tax due in 2027.
Zcash researchers published more than 2,700 machine-checked theorems designed to rule out undetectable counterfeiting bugs in Ironwood.
Hayden Adams said critics misunderstood Uniswap’s newly approved v4 protocol fees, rejecting claims the change reduces liquidity providers’ earnings.
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Myanmar lawmakers approved an anti-online scam bill whose draft proposed prison terms of 10 years to life for crypto scams and operating scam centers.
Visa said it is investing across the stablecoin stack, highlighting OpenUSD, tokenized deposits and AI-powered commerce during the company’s third-quarter earnings call.
TORONTO — Coinbase wants to bring more of the crypto products available to its U.S. customers, including derivatives, decentralized finance services and tokenized assets, to Canada, but Eric Richmond, the exchange's new…
HBO host John Oliver devoted a major segment of Last Week Tonight to Donald Trumpâs expanding crypto business. He argued that the presidentâs growing presence in digital assets has blurred the line between politics …
Anthropic today said an unreleased version of its most powerful AI model found two previously unknown attacks on cryptographic algorithms, one of them against a scheme currently competing to become a U.S. federal standa…
RL1 began operations as a member-owned blockchain cooperative backed by 10 European financial institutions, including ABN AMRO, DekaBank and Natixis CIB.
Apple is the world’s most valuable company again. Will it stay that way before the end of July?
Morgan Stanley Investment Management has launched Ether and Solana exchange-traded products, expanding its fund lineup beyond Bitcoin.
The United States seems to have announced a ceasefire yesterday on its offensive actions against Iran. But prediction markets are not too optimistic about how long that peace will last.
A Kansas high school physics teacher was arrested and carried out of a city commission meeting after expressing support for opponents of a proposed AI data center, according to a report by local broadcaster KWCH.
The proposed cryptographic scheme aims to protect existing Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana wallets from future quantum attacks without requiring users to move funds or change wallet addresses.
Just a week after OpenAI disclosed that two frontier AI models escaped a sandboxed testing environment and breached Hugging Face, researchers have demonstrated a similar containment failure involving Anthropic's Claude …
Just two days after Claude Opus 5 shipped, AI investor and former HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer posted a video of a fully playable first-person shooter the model had built entirely on its own.
Dubbed Ondo Network, the system marks a shift from the company's February 2025 vision for Ondo Chain, a blockchain for institutional finance and tokenized real-world assets. After building its new perpetual futures plat…
Crypto companies continued to expand their physical footprint in Texas, with Galaxy Digital and MARA Holdings announcing separate land acquisitions tied to AI, high-performance computing (HPC) and Bitcoin mining infrast…