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Spot gold and spot silver prices were little changed to weaker in early U.S. trading Thursday, with gold near $4,588.50 an ounce (down 0.10%) and silver at $67.950 (down 0.06%). A firmer rates backdrop offset bargain hunting following Wednesday's post-PCE pullback. Gold moved off the lower end of it

UAE National Security Advisor Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan and his co-investors control a 49% stake in the Trump family's planned crypto bank holding company, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The

Gap Inc. announced Michael Francis as the new CEO of its Old Navy banner effective Nov. 2, following sluggish second-quarter sales performance at the brand. Francis, who was appointed Old Navy's chief customer officer in May, will replace Haio Barbeito, who has held the CEO position since 2022 and w

Decentralized lending protocol Moonwell restricted borrowing across all Core Markets on the Base network following a security incident in which attackers manipulated MAMO token oracle prices to drain about $8.7 million in digital assets. The attack targeted Moonwell's MAMO Core Market by

Bitfinex Securities completed a $50 million tokenized capital raise for metals company Alkemya, marking the platform's largest transaction to date as it expands its offering of tokenized real-world assets. The financing was conducted through ALKN, a tokenized security representing limited

About 81,700 Bitcoin options contracts worth $6.44 billion are set to expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday, split between 44,639 calls and 37,061 puts for a put-to-call ratio of 0.83. The expiry occurs as Bitcoin trades near $79,000, with Deribit's max pain level sitting between $68,000 and $70,000

Public Citizen reported that US President Donald Trump left investors with an estimated $4.7 billion in losses since 2022 through his family's digital asset ventures. The nonprofit consumer advocacy organization attributed the losses to the Trump family World Liberty Financial governance token,

21Shares changed the pricing benchmark for its U.S. XRP exchange-traded fund TOXR to the FTSE XRP Index, effective from Aug. 27. The fund, which held approximately $149.7 million in assets as of Aug. 26, will calculate net asset value using the FTSE benchmark instead of the CME CF XRP-Dollar

SpaceX shares moved higher on Aug. 27 as investors looked ahead to a G20 technology meeting scheduled for Sept. 1-2 that will bring Elon Musk together with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and White House technology adviser David Sacks. SPCX was trading around $140, up roughly 0.9% on

J.R. Global REIT secured evidence suggesting improper influence over the appraisal process for Finance Tower, a Brussels office building, after the original appraiser Knight Frank was replaced with JLL following lender pressure. Knight Frank initially valued the property at €1.071 billion, but

South Korean financial group Mirae Asset plans to build a 150 trillion won ($109 billion) digital asset business around Digital X, the crypto exchange formerly known as Korbit, according to The Korea Times. The expansion follows Mirae Asset Consulting's acquisition of a 97.15% stake in Korbit in

Australian Federal Police searched the Sydney offices of stockbroker Evolution Capital and homes linked to senior executives on August 26 as part of an Australian Securities and Investments Commission investigation. The searches included Evolution's Sydney headquarters and the Bondi home of

The Bank of Canada will announce its interest rate decision on September 2, 2026 at 9:45 a.m. ET, with the overnight rate currently held at 2.25% since October 2025. The rate remains unchanged following July's announcement, after dropping from 2.50% in October 2025. Jamie David, Vice President of

Polish Olympic Committee President Radosław Piesiewicz was detained Thursday as part of an investigation into digital asset platform Zondacrypto, according to the country's attorney general. Piesiewicz was accused of accepting bribes in exchange for sponsorship deals, with reports indicating Zondacr

Cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Ledger disputed claims of a security breach after rival wallet maker OneKey reproduced a transaction-replacement vulnerability using an outdated version of Ledger's Ethereum app. On Thursday, OneKey founder and CEO Yishi Wang stated that the company's

Anthropic announced on Thursday a new interface called the Model Hardware Standard (MHS) designed to simplify how AI agents operate and communicate with machinery. The standard works with any device that has a programmable interface, including those used in scientific research and advanced

Oxialink has released a full line of crypto payment gateway plugins enabling merchants to accept USDT, Bitcoin, Ethereum, TON and ten additional digital assets across seven major e-commerce platforms without writing code. The plugins support WooCommerce, Magento 2, OpenCart, PrestaShop, WHMCS,

Ethena Foundation, which supports the synthetic dollar protocol behind USDe, announced four ecosystem changes aimed at addressing concerns over investor token unlocks and protocol value allocation. The updates include buying out certain early investors, ending monthly investor unlocks, assigning pro

Gold completed a three-river evening star candlestick pattern and traded $3 below its 200-day simple moving average, testing a key technical support level. The decline followed July's Personal Consumption Expenditures report, which showed the PCE price index rose 0.2% versus the 0.1% consensus

Salesforce and Anthropic announced Claudeforce, an expanded strategic partnership integrating Claude's AI reasoning capabilities with Salesforce's enterprise infrastructure. The partnership launches with Salesforce in Claude, a plugin featuring 37 prebuilt sales skills that enable sellers and