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Antônia Souza, Visa's Director of Digital Currencies for Latin America and the Caribbean, stated on the Latam Desk podcast that stablecoins are not competing with Brazil's PIX instant payment system. Souza emphasized the two technologies serve distinct purposes: PIX handles real-time domestic paymen

PayPal reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter results on Tuesday, raising its 2026 adjusted earnings outlook and driving PYPL stock up more than 4%. The company posted Q2 revenue of $8.68 billion for the

Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss urged investors to rotate into Bitcoin (BTC) and Zcash (ZEC) on Tuesday, declaring the AI trade over. The call came as South Korea's Kospi index closed down 10.84% at 6,023.66, with Samsung Electronics falling 13.4% and SK Hynix dropping 14.7%. DeVere Group CEO

Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic's Claude Cowork could escape its local virtual machine and access files on a host Mac, according to a report published on Thursday. The escape occurred by chaining architectural weaknesses with a Linux kernel privilege-escalation

The US Consumer Confidence Index fell to 90.8 in July, down 1.4 points from June's revised figure of 92.2, according to the Conference Board (CB) released on local time July 28. The decline reflects weakening consumer assessments of current business conditions and labor market perceptions. Dana

Kraken is offering retail investors access to the planned Jersey Mike's initial public offering through two mechanisms: eligible US customers can request allocations of book-entry shares at the IPO price, while users in more than 110 countries can request JMKEx, a tokenized version backed 1:1 by the

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.