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President Donald Trump and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Michael Selig are expected to attend a White House meeting Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. ET with executives from the cryptocurrency and prediction market industries, according to two people familiar with the plans who spoke to

President Trump is expected to attend a meeting at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on August 19 with chief executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Gemini, Robinhood, Polymarket, Kalshi, and Kraken, according to a Bloomberg report. The gathering functions as a precursor to the Commodity Futures Tr

Meta Platforms Technologies filed a patent for a camera system that uses facial recognition to identify people by name and automatically generates video clips of their detected actions. The patent, a continuation of a 2022 parent application, describes an assistant-driven system that serves

Anthropic reported preliminary revenue of more than $11.5 billion for the second quarter, according to documents viewed by Bloomberg News. The figure represents a more than 14-fold increase from $787 million in the same period a year earlier and marks growth from $4.73 billion in the first quarter o

Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust reported $371.1 million in gross share contributions during its first 85 days of trading, even as the fund posted a $66.8 million decrease in net assets from operations, according to a regulatory filing covering the period from April 7 through June 30. The gap between in

Bank Leumi, Israel's largest and oldest commercial bank, announced this week a partnership with Nasdaq-listed Galaxy Digital Inc. to launch cryptocurrency trading services targeting an early 2027 rollout. The service would allow customers to buy, hold, and sell bitcoin, ethereum, and solana

US stocks posted mixed results last week as the S&P 500 and Nasdaq secured their third consecutive winning weeks while the Dow fell nearly 0.6%. The S&P 500 rose above 7,800 during Thursday's session for the first time ever and closed at a record, driven by cooler-than-expected inflation data and

The S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted their third consecutive winning weeks last week, with the S&P 500 rising above 7,800 during Thursday's session for the first time and closing at a record. The gains were driven by cooler-than-expected inflation data—the consumer price index showed a 0.1% increase in

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino on Saturday denied the company is building a Tether blockchain, rejecting a CoinMarketCap analysis that grouped the stablecoin issuer in a $1 billion stablechain development race. The denial came one day after CoinMarketCap published research claiming Tether, Stripe, and

South African professionals are increasingly being hired by United Kingdom employers for remote work, with salaries paid in pounds sterling and spent in rands domestically. Pnet's July 2026 Job Market Trends Report recorded remote job advertising in South Africa at record levels, coinciding with

JPMorgan severed its banking relationship with prediction market platform Polymarket in October, citing regulatory concerns over unregistered derivatives trading, according to Financial Times reports. The debanking occurred after Polymarket faced a Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)

AquaChain is developing a Web3 infrastructure framework aimed at connecting measurable liquid-cooling performance with digital incentives across artificial intelligence data centers and semiconductor facilities, as its AQUA digital asset moves toward a planned exchange listing. The initiative

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency granted preliminary conditional approval on Thursday for World Liberty Trust Company, a national trust bank tied to World Liberty Financial, the crypto venture backed by President Donald Trump and his family. The approval clears a major hurdle for the fi

SanDisk (SNDK) closed at $1,641.11 on August 14, 2026, gaining 7.39% in a session where the entire memory complex moved together, having traded at $46.68 twelve months earlier — a 3,415.7% rise. The stock also sits 30.3% below its 52-week high of $2,354.39 set on June 22, 2026. The company

AMD stock closed at $514.39 on August 14, 2026, up 6.5% on the session, marking a 184.3% gain from $180.95 twelve months earlier on August 14, 2025. The rally was driven by the company's Data Center segment, which generated $6.7 billion in Q2 2026 revenue—a 107% year-over-year increase—and

SK Hynix's US NAND flash subsidiary Solidim is pursuing a 5-10 trillion won pre-IPO and eventual Nasdaq listing, according to reports published on Aug 5. The news triggered a 10.37% stock price decline on Aug 6, with SK Hynix stocks falling from a June 24 all-time high of 2.987 million won to 1.645

The Ethereum Foundation announced it is abandoning the Poseidon hash function for Layer 1 in favor of SHA or BLAKE, according to Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake. Drake described the decision as ending an '8-year, 8-figure rabbit hole' in post-quantum research. The shift follows

Crypto derivatives markets experienced the largest forced liquidation event on record when $19 billion in leveraged positions were wiped out on Oct. 10, 2025, affecting over 1.6 million traders. The cascade began after President Trump announced a 100% tariff on Chinese imports, triggering

Jump Crypto transferred 286.83 BTC, worth approximately $18.01 million, to Binance exchange in a single transaction. The transfer is part of a larger pattern: the firm deposited a total of 1,560 BTC, valued at around $99.2 million, to Binance over the past seven days. On-chain analytics firm

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, is severing financial ties with 16 crypto platforms including HTX (formerly Huobi) in a phased transaction ban running from August 7 through August 23, 2026. The restrictions target entities tied to Russia, Iran, and money-laundering allegations,