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The Bank of Korea established a dedicated 'Asset Tokenization Team' under its Digital Currency Office last month with a staff of three, according to documents submitted to National Assembly member Lee Jong-wook on the 26th. The team will plan tokenization of financial assets including government

Microsoft stock rose 3.7% on Friday after the company unveiled a major Copilot overhaul, even as the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield briefly climbed to 5.23%, its highest level since 2007. The rally occurred despite high Treasury yields normally

Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform delivered benchmark results in the latest MLPerf Inference v6.1 tests, showing up to 3.7x throughput improvement over the company's GB300 NVL72 on the Qwen3-VL benchmark and up to 2.5x improvement on DeepSeek-R1. The performance gains create financial pressure for AI

StarkWare announced the estimated cost of building a quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction fell from approximately $320 to roughly $67 in GPU compute over a single week, as developers and AI models competed in its Quantum-Safe Bitcoin Optimization Challenge. The cost reduction resulted from

Costco received $184 million in tariff refunds during its fiscal fourth quarter, consisting of approximately $174 million in refunded tariffs and $10 million in interest, and the warehouse retailer is using most of the windfall to lower prices rather than retain it as profit. CEO Ron Vachris

Strategy, the software company turned bitcoin treasury giant, confirmed it is asking shareholders to approve daily dividend payments on four preferred stocks: STRF, STRC, STRK, and STRD. The shareholder vote is scheduled for October 28. Strategy says the change would reduce reinvestment lag,

Russian military forces struck multiple data centers across Ukraine, including a facility in Kyiv's central business district that killed four people, according to the BBC. President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that Moscow seeks to maximize disruption for ordinary citizens, saying 'for Russia, all ord

Swift and Wells Fargo joined LF Decentralized Trust alongside 13 other organizations. The organization also launched Panarus, a tokenization infrastructure project, and CLPR, a cross-ledger protocol research lab. The additions bring traditional financial institutions into open-source blockchain infr

SpaceX's Starlink Connectivity segment generated $4.29 billion in second-quarter revenue, a 66% increase from a year earlier, while operating income rose 79% to $1.66 billion. Subscriber counts doubled year-over-year from 6 million to 12 million, driving the revenue surge despite average revenue per

When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at video-generation startup Synthesia, sent a link this summer to an interactive virtual avatar of himself trained to answer press questions, it marked a new frontier in AI-powered public relations. The avatar represented what one journalist called "th

Data center construction is driving a blue-collar job boom across the US, with mean minimum salaries for data center roles spiking 125.1% year-over-year to nearly $208,000, according to ZipRecruiter labor economist Nicole Bachaud. The surge stems from AI infrastructure buildout by companies

Crypto analyst Ali Martinez has outlined a potential path for XRP to reach $60, based on a long-running ascending triangle pattern on the cryptocurrency's monthly chart. Martinez, who shared the analysis on X, states that XRP must first achieve a monthly close above $3.66 before the larger

Payward Services, the operator of Kraken, has opened non-binding indications of interest for Ōura's expected initial public offering through the xStocks ecosystem. Eligible Kraken users and customers of xStocks Alliance partners in more than 110 countries can register interest before the planned

ARK Invest, founded by Cathie Wood, partnered with Securitize to tokenize the ARK Venture Fund on Ethereum blockchain, providing eligible investors blockchain-based access to a portfolio spanning private and public companies. The fund, identified as ARKVX, invests in companies associated with

Prediction market Kalshi lost its appeal on Friday when the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Ohio and Tennessee can regulate sports-event contracts under state gambling laws. The three-judge panel unanimously found that Kalshi failed to demonstrate its sports-event contracts qualify as

Shiba Inu is trading near $0.00000590, holding most of a rebound that lifted the meme coin from approximately $0.000005 earlier this month. SHIB reached an intraday high near $0.00000602 today before pulling back, positioning the token directly below a resistance zone around $0.0000060-$0.0000061.

U.S. prosecutors charged Vietnamese national Trung Nguyen Van, 37, with two counts of money laundering in a criminal complaint filed in the Western District of Missouri and unsealed Friday after his initial federal court appearance in Los Angeles. The charges stem from an alleged cryptocurrency

Solana is expanding its blockchain infrastructure through new tokenized asset applications and technical upgrades. Phygitals launched a tokenized One Piece magazine on the network, demonstrating blockchain-based digital collectibles use cases. Concurrently, Solana's Alpenglow Testnet targets

Google launched free 1080p AI video generation in Google Vids on September 23, making high-definition video creation accessible to anyone with a Google or Workspace account at vids.new. The feature runs on Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash and includes scene extension, exact clip duration control, and HD