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XRP is trading around $1.00 as of the current session, maintaining a price level it has defended since November 2024. The token faces bearish technical signals on its daily chart, while its weekly chart shows converging moving averages that traders interpret as a potential trend reversal warning. Th

The Korean stock market's KOSPI 200 volatility index fell 36% from July 30 to the 14th, closing at 55.31, following financial authorities' leverage regulations on single-stock leveraged products. The decline occurred as the KOSPI index rose 719.17 points over five trading days to close at 6977.94 on

Glassnode, a leading on-chain analysis platform, stated that Bitcoin is not benefiting from current capital rotation as weak US consumer confidence drives investors toward equities and AI-related assets. According to Glassnode, consumer confidence in the US has fallen to a record low while stocks co

Thomas Mazloum, chairman of Disney Experiences, announced the repair of the Expedition Everest yeti animatronic and multiple park updates to 12,000 fans at Disney's D23 Expo in Anaheim, California on Saturday night. The announcements are part of Disney's strategy to focus on superfans as the

Paramount Skydance filed Monday to require state attorneys general blocking its Warner Bros. Discovery merger to post a $1.88 billion bond covering delay-related costs. The bond request stems from a July lawsuit filed by 12 state AGs led by California's Rob Bonta challenging the proposed $110 billio

Zcash (ZEC) surged past $500 on Monday, reaching $518 after ZODL founder Josh Swihart announced key protocol upgrades. The privacy coin rebounded from an Aug. 11 slump below $470, falling from under $495 on Sunday afternoon to a 24-hour low of $484 before recovering to $490 just before midnight.

Big Tech firms issued approximately $200 billion in corporate bonds to fund AI infrastructure investments, representing 25% of the US Treasury's mid-to-long-term net bond issuance that private investors must absorb, according to Nomura Securities. Total US investment-grade corporate bond issuance re

BitMart's official Chinese-language X account on Monday demanded that founder Sheldon Xia disclose company assets and provide a repayment plan less than two weeks before trading is scheduled to end on Aug. 26. The account alleged that some customers remained unable to withdraw assets and that some f

Solana-based PUMP token posted an 8.26% gain in today's trading session, making it the top performer among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap. The token touched $0.003000 intraday before settling at $0.002933, nearly doubling from its July bottom of $0.001491. Protocol revenue on the

Amazon is destroying rare books at an AI training facility in Las Vegas after purchasing them in bulk orders, according to an investigation published Monday by 404 Media. Booksellers have suspected for the past year that AI firms were buying rare books and destroying them after scanning for AI train

The Federal Reserve, US Treasury, and Bank of Japan have driven the US Dollar Index (DXY) below its 200-day Exponential Moving Average near 99.50 following a collapse in market expectations for a September interest rate increase, the expiration of a 60-day diplomatic framework for the Strait of

Ethereum Foundation researchers proposed prioritizing Frame Transactions and Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists (FOCIL) for the Hegotá upgrade scheduled for 2027, according to a post on X by Protocol Architecture team researcher Toni Wahrstätter on Monday. The proposals aim to enable privacy

The EURJPY currency pair broke through a key resistance zone at the intersection of the 184.00 level and the 61.8% Fibonacci correction of the previous downward impulse wave from the end of July. The breakout accelerated the active intermediate impulse wave (3) within the primary impulse wave 1

Mark Cuban declared over the weekend that 'chips as an asset class will be the new crypto.' The Dallas Mavericks owner and Cost Plus Drugs founder referred to high-end semiconductor chips, particularly the GPUs powering artificial intelligence systems, which have become critical infrastructure for t

Wolfspeed, STMicroelectronics, and onsemi surged on Monday as Nvidia's Vera Rubin platform entered full production ramp, signaling increased demand for advanced power semiconductors. The rally followed Nvidia's May 31 announcement that Vera Rubin, the successor to the Blackwell architecture, began r

S&P 500 options markets are signaling heightened volatility expectations for the August 26-29 window, driven by two major events landing within 72 hours: Nvidia's Q2 FY2027 earnings release scheduled after market close on August 26, and the Federal Reserve's annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy

MIT and Harvard researchers introduced Role Anchor, a technique to combat role drift in compound AI systems, in a paper published on arXiv on July 7, 2026. The paper, titled 'Do Modules Stay in Their Lane? Role Drift in Compound LLM Systems,' addresses a phenomenon where individual components of AI

NEAR AI shipped IronClaw 1.2 on August 13, marking its second major release in under three weeks. The update transforms the open-source Agent OS framework from a solo-user security tool into a collaborative AI agent layer, enabling teams to share conversations across Slack and Telegram while

Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov called Pump.fun 'a casino of scams called memecoins' in an Aug. 16 post on X, targeting the Solana-based memecoin launchpad and criticizing Phantom wallet's hardware integration. The remarks triggered a public exchange with Solana ecosystem builders including

HIVE Digital Technologies posted $79.1 million in total revenue for its fiscal first quarter ending June 30, 2026, representing 73.5% year-over-year growth and a 10.2% sequential increase from the prior quarter. The revenue surge was driven by the company's digital currency mining segment, which