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S&P Dow Jones Indices reported on July 28 local time that U.S. home prices in May rose 1.1% year-over-year according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, accelerating from April's 0.9% gain. The 10-city and 20-city composite indices posted annual increases of 2.4% and 1.6% re

Arthur Hayes, chief investment officer of family office Maelstrom and co-founder of BitMEX, purchased 3,298 ETH for $6.39 million in a transaction flagged by onchain tracker Lookonchain within hours of execution. The buy brings Hayes' total accumulation since July 15 to 7,213 ETH valued at $13.87 mi

Robinhood Chain has accumulated approximately $325 million in total value locked (TVL) in less than a month since its mainnet launch, maintaining continuous deposit growth without a single down day. Despite the steady TVL increase, key throughput metrics including decentralized exchange (DEX)

Alex Svanevik, CEO of onchain analytics firm Nansen, stated on The Block's daily show The Starting Block that AI trading agents will overtake human traders within roughly two years. The company has processed over $500 million in trading volume since launching its direct trading feature and is

Galaxy Digital acquired approximately 500 acres in McGregor, Texas, for its second major AI and high-performance computing data center campus, the company announced Tuesday. The project follows Galaxy's existing Helios facility in West Texas and aims to meet growing demand for AI compute

Shein disclosed that its U.S. business is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission in documents filed with the entity that operates the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The Chinese-founded fast fashion company did not specify what the FTC is investigating, but the disclosure appears to be the fi

eBay and several former executives agreed to pay nearly $56 million to settle a civil case with Massachusetts couple Ina and David Steiner, who were victims of a 2019 harassment and stalking campaign. The settlement resolves a 2021 lawsuit stemming from what attorneys described as a 'terror campaign

Real World Asset (RWA) tokens posted a median return of +10.7% in July 2026, marking the strongest performance among major crypto narratives according to CryptoRank data. Layer-2 networks and Decentralized Finance protocols also advanced with gains of 7.6% and 6.3% respectively, while Meme coins,

US President Donald Trump threatened on May 28 (local time) that he could destroy Iran's power plants and bridges if the country does not reach an agreement. In a Fox News interview, Trump warned that major bridges could disappear in under two hours and power plants could be removed within a day if

Raoul Pal, founder of Real Vision and former Goldman Sachs hedge fund manager, stated via a post on X that Bitcoin holds an 87% correlation to global liquidity, while the Nasdaq maintains a 97% correlation. Pal argued that these assets track the amount of money in the system rather than trading on e

Visa, which operates the world's largest payments network, plans to cut approximately 7% of its workforce as CEO Ryan McInerney moves to streamline the company and invest in growth areas, according to a memo confirmed by CNBC. The cuts will eliminate roughly 2,600 positions, primarily in

Morgan Stanley launched spot Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded funds on Tuesday, both charging a 0.14% sponsor fee that represents the lowest rate in the market. The Ethereum fund (MSSE) and Solana fund (MSOL) trade on the New York Stock Exchange, undercutting Grayscale's Mini Ethereum Trust at 0.

Flare released Smart Accounts version 1.3 on July 28, 2026, enabling XRP holders to mint FXRP and deposit assets into yield-generating vaults using a single signature from their existing XRPL wallet. The update eliminates the need for XRP holders to create additional wallets, bridge assets across ne

Veteran trader Dave Weisberger stated on Monday that buying Bitcoin today resembles buying Amazon before its historic rise, emphasizing that the critical factor is investor entry timing rather than the asset's ultimate success. Speaking on The Wolf Of All Streets podcast, Weisberger explained the

Berkshire Hathaway holds $397.4 billion in cash and Treasuries as of Q1 2026, Greg Abel's first quarter as CEO. The cash pile grew from $373 billion at the end of 2025 to $397.4 billion in March, large enough to acquire 476 companies in the S&P 500 outright according to data shared by Barchart. The

Flipster FZE, a global cryptocurrency trading platform, received a full operational Exchange licence from Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) under Licence No. VL/26/07/002. The approval upgrades Flipster's earlier in-principle status and authorizes the company to offer regulated

Teamshares (Nasdaq: TMS), a tech-enabled acquiror of small and medium-sized enterprises, began trading publicly on Nasdaq on June 23, 2026. The company went public to secure additional financing options for expanding its business acquisition model. Teamshares positions itself as the market-leading a

In July 2026, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell to the lowest point in two and a half months. The strategic waterway carries about a quarter of global seaborne oil trade and roughly a fifth of liquefied natural gas shipments, and it is currently in its most severe shipping crisis since the Iran-Iraq War. Gate prediction market data show that, as of July 28, 2026, the probability that the Strait of Hormuz will return to normal operations by Aug. 15 is only 3%, and the probability by Aug.