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Nebius Group announced plans Wednesday to raise $4.5 billion through convertible senior notes to fund its AI infrastructure expansion. NBIS stock fell 7.6% to approximately $248.43 following the announcement, with shares trading as low as $226 during the session. The financing reflects the capital-i

Meta Platforms shares fell approximately 4.5% to close at $543.67 on Tuesday as a child-safety trial opened in federal court in Oakland. The case involves 29 states led by California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey before U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers. States accuse Meta of using fe

Marvell Technology disclosed on Wednesday morning, August 19, a formal commercial agreement with Google parent Alphabet that grants Google a warrant to purchase up to 58.97 million Marvell shares at $206.58 each, representing roughly 7% of the company and valued at approximately $12.2 billion. The a

Samyang Foods purchased Samsung Electronics shares on March 6 and recorded a 77.5% valuation gain by June 30, according to Financial Supervisory Service disclosures. The Korean instant noodle maker invested 599.95 million won in 3,188 Samsung Electronics shares, which reached a book value of 1.064 b

COCA, a self-custodial banking application available in more than 75 countries, integrated Aurora Intents to enable stablecoin deposits across multiple blockchain networks. The integration, built by Aurora Labs and powered by NEAR Intents, allows users to deposit supported stablecoins from

Ethena and FalconX launched a $1 billion USDe secured warehouse facility in mid-August, channeling assets backing the USDe stablecoin into overcollateralized institutional loans. The partnership aims to diversify Ethena's return sources beyond perpetual-futures funding rates by deploying reserve ass

Zhibao Technology, a Nasdaq-listed Chinese insurance-technology firm, closed a $154.7 million private placement on Monday funded entirely in Bitcoin. Investors contributed 2,380 BTC directly to a company wallet, with the coins valued at $65,000 each based on market levels as of July 30. Director

President Donald Trump is set to meet crypto executives, Wall Street firms and top U.S. regulators at the White House on Wednesday as the administration pushes ahead with digital-asset policy while Congress remains stuck on broader legislation. Expected participants include SEC Chair Paul Atkins,

A newly created cryptocurrency wallet transferred approximately 9.3 million KTA tokens valued at about $685,000 and 2 billion GALA tokens worth roughly $3 million through cross-chain bridges, then sold the combined holdings for about 1,902 ETH valued at approximately $3.64 million. The large-scale s

WhiteFiber (WYFI) announced details of its upsized $270 million convertible note offering on August 18, triggering a 22% crash in pre-market trading. The AI infrastructure company increased the offering from an initially planned $250 million as it prepares to expand data center capacity. The

Samsung Electronics faces renewed pressure over its capital allocation strategy on the 19th after SK Hynix announced a 40 trillion won share buyback and cancellation program. ACT Corporate Governance Research Institute recommended Samsung prioritize share buybacks over special dividends, citing

Scott Shay, founder of Signature Bank and creator of its Signet payments network, warned at Wyoming Blockchain Symposium 2026 that large U.S. banks could use blockchain-based payment rails to gain market share from mid-sized and smaller banks as digital assets move into mainstream finance. Shay

Pump.fun's native token PUMP surged on August 18, 2026, driven by record protocol revenue and automated buyback mechanisms. The token outpaced major altcoins as the cryptocurrency market rallied, with Pump.fun generating $11.52 million in seven-day revenue according to DeFiLlama data, ranking

Datavault AI (DVLT) shares plunged in pre-market trade Wednesday after the company reported second-quarter revenue that tripled year-over-year but fell short of Wall Street estimates. The stock dropped as much as 17% following an earnings per share

Telegram applied to operate the .gram top-level domain during ICANN's 2026 expansion round, founder Pavel Durov announced. The application could enable more than one billion Telegram users to obtain personal web addresses tied to their usernames, such as yourname.gram. This marks the first new

The Wyoming Stable Token Commission migrated its state-backed Frontier Stable Token (FRNT) from Layerzero to Chainlink's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) on August 18, 2026. The Commission initiated the upgrade to maintain high standards of security, governance, and operational

Behavox expanded its Polaris trading surveillance platform to cover Prediction Markets, adding them as the tenth asset class in the company's compliance framework. The company stated that Prediction Markets coverage is now available in beta for existing Polaris clients, with general availability exp

Moderna (MRNA) and Merck (MRK) announced Wednesday that their experimental melanoma therapy met the primary goal in a Phase 3 trial, with Moderna stocks nearly doubling in pre-market trading. The combination of Intismeran Autogene and Merck's Keytruda produced statistically significant

US equity markets declined on Tuesday, with the S&P 500 falling 0.69% to 7,691.76 and the Nasdaq Composite losing 1.33%, driven by a sharp selloff in technology and semiconductor shares as the 30-year Treasury yield climbed to 5.327%, its highest level since 2007. The Philadelphia Semiconductor

Sweden-listed H100 Group reported a pre-tax loss of 98 million Swedish kronor for the second quarter of 2026 and 253 million kronor for the first half of 2026. The losses were driven by a non-cash write-down attributed to Bitcoin's price decline during the period, according to the company's