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The Bank of Korea will buy physical gold again after 13 years, marking a return to precious metal accumulation that ended in 2013. Gold traded near $4,086 an ounce on Tuesday, up 0.8%, sitting 27% below its January record while remaining up about 20% on the year. Jung Hee-sub, who runs the bank's

Anthropic has signed a $10 billion, six-year contract with Volta Infra Holdings, an Nvidia-backed cloud infrastructure startup, to secure computing capacity for its artificial intelligence products. Bloomberg identified Anthropic as the unnamed leading AI lab behind the arrangement, which marks

Singapore-based 1exchange and FOMO Pay received approval to operate as validators on Canton, a privacy-enabled public blockchain designed to support regulated capital markets and institutional financial activity. The approvals strengthen the companies' efforts to expand tokenized real-world asset se

Individual investors rapidly exited South Korea's KOSPI market last month amid extreme volatility concentrated in semiconductor stocks. Their trading volume ratio dropped to 31.23% last month, down 16.96 percentage points from 48.19% in January, according to Korea Exchange data released on the 4th.

Strategy sold 1,638 BTC for approximately $105 million last week, disclosed via an SEC filing dated August 3, 2026. This marks the firm's third discrete Bitcoin disposal of 2026 and its sixth consecutive week without a purchase. The average sale price for the latest tranche was roughly $64,000 per B

Securities firms increased downward target price reports last month, with adjustments concentrated on semiconductor representative stocks. According to FnGuide data released on the 4th, downward target price reports issued by domestic securities firms last month nearly doubled upward reports. The ad

Bitdeer signed a 16-year AI data center agreement on Tuesday morning expected to generate $4.7 billion in contracted revenue at its Norway campus. The Bitcoin mining and digital infrastructure company announced the deal with a leading AI lab, with Dell supplying the technology through NVIDIA Cloud

Samsung reclaimed the top position in the DRAM market with a 39% share of shipments in Q2, according to data published by Counterpoint Research, while Micron narrowed the gap for second place with a 25% share. Memory chip stocks including Micron Technology, SanDisk Corp., and SK Hynix advanced in

Commodity analysts at Sucden Financial expect gold to remain rangebound through the third quarter, consolidating within a $3,950-$4,300 per ounce range through late September, as resilient economic growth and higher real yields continue to pose downside risks. The forecast comes despite gold's

The tokenized U.S. Treasury market has expanded to $15.2 billion, driven by growing institutional and investor interest in bringing traditional government securities onto blockchain networks. Data from Token Terminal showed tokenized Treasury products distributed across 18 blockchain networks,

Shares of Backblaze Inc. (BLZE) soared nearly 50% in Tuesday's opening trade, hitting their highest levels in about 55 months after the cloud storage company reported second-quarter (Q2) earnings per share of $0.08 on revenue of $42.7

Blackrock launched two tokenized money market funds, BSTBL and BRSRV, designed to operate across traditional and digital markets. The funds target institutional investors and stablecoin issuers seeking liquidity, capital preservation, and income from short-term assets. Blackrock introduced the

Deutsche Bank reaffirmed its bullish outlook for gold, maintaining a fourth-quarter 2026 forecast of $4,600 per ounce while estimating the metal's fair value could reach $4,700 per ounce by year-end. The forecast comes as gold traded at $4,059 as of press time, having erased most of its 2026 gains w

Franklin Templeton, a global asset manager overseeing more than $1.5 trillion in assets, has joined the Canton Network as a super validator, expanding its involvement in blockchain infrastructure and reinforcing its broader strategy for tokenized financial products. The move follows the earlier

Apple capped the number of vulnerability reports a researcher can file simultaneously after its security team was overwhelmed by AI-generated submissions that reported nonexistent flaws, the Financial Times reported. The cap, implemented in June with a 30-day cool-off period, prevented Milan-based c

In July 2026, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime published An Interconnected Criminal Ecosystem: Transnational Organized Crime Threat Assessment for South-East Asia, its first regional assessment in seven years. The report concludes that Southeast Asia's criminal landscape has undergone a

XRP is trading at $1.0732, down 0.99% in the last 24 hours, while testing an 80-day falling channel after a 4% bounce off lows. On South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb, combined bids within 1% of spot price outweigh asks

Foreign buyers purchased 14% fewer U.S. residential properties by unit volume and 19% fewer by dollar volume during the 12 months from April 2025 through March 2026 compared with the prior year, according to the National Association of Realtors. The decline mirrors the drop in international