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The US Treasury bought Japanese yen on Friday for the first time in 28 years, joining Japan's currency intervention as the yen approached a 40-year low of 163.99 per dollar last week. The New York Fed executed the purchase using Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, with Treasury Secretary Scott

An anonymous investor claimed on the 30th of last month to have lost over 2.2 billion KRW investing in a SK Hynix leveraged ETF product, according to a post circulating on the workplace community platform Blind. The investor, identified as 'A', stated they lost their entire life savings

DoorDash, the largest US food delivery platform, faces congressional investigation after two House committees sent a letter on July 31 demanding disclosure of all Chinese AI models used in company systems. House China Select Committee

Crypto investors lost $939.86 million across 135 verified exploits between January and June of the first half of 2026, averaging $6.96 million per incident, according to security research firm ack3. Of the funds stolen from

Tether disclosed Q2 2026 financial results on an unspecified date, reporting a $1.5 billion net operating profit alongside a comprehensive financial result that reveals significant underlying losses. The stablecoin issuer's excess reserves fell from $8.23 billion at the end of Q1 to $4.11 billion

Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, revealed on a Thursday episode of the Diary of a CEO podcast that Bitcoin comprises only 1% of his investment portfolio, with gold remaining his preferred asset. Dalio cited concerns about quantum computing vulnerabilities, government monitoring

Coinbase Chief Policy Officer Faryar Shirzad stated that the Clarity Act will likely pass despite opposition from some older Democrats, describing cryptocurrency as 'maybe the most bipartisan issue in Washington' during an appearance on The Hill's Rising show Friday. Shirzad attributed resistance to

Vida Global (NYSE American: VIDA), a publicly traded AI operating system, announced Thursday it has started paying employees in Bitcoin using the Lightning Network through a partnership with Bitcoin infrastructure company Voltage. The Austin, Texas-based company initiated the payment method after a

Coinkite announced yesterday a critical security vulnerability affecting Coldcard hardware wallet models MK2, MK3, MK4, MK5, and Q, with wallets actively being drained through exploitation of the flaw. The vulnerability allows attackers to derive seed phrases through brute force methods without

Banco Santander, Spain's largest bank, revealed a $4.3 million investment in Bitcoin through an SEC filing, purchasing 129,615 shares of BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust. The Madrid-based bank's disclosure, highlighted in a July 30, 2026 social media post, represents the latest example of a

The Major Cities Chiefs Association endorsed the Clarity Act on Thursday, stating the bill adequately addresses financial crime involving digital assets. The nonprofit organization of police chiefs from major U.S. cities issued a letter supporting the legislation's most recent changes,

HIVE Digital Technologies' AI GPU infrastructure generates roughly $2.90 per GPU-hour compared to approximately $0.12 per hour from the company's bitcoin mining rigs, executive Frank Holmes stated during the Roundtable 100 series earlier this week. The revenue gap of more than 20 times by this

Coldcard hardware wallet users lost $70 million in Bitcoin after thieves exploited a firmware bug to calculate private keys and empty 1,196 wallets in 41 minutes on July 30, according to research from Galaxy and Block. The flaw stemmed from a coding error introduced in March 2021 that caused the

South Korean retail investors purchased $1.045 billion of a US semiconductor leveraged ETF between January 23 and January 30, according to Korea Securities Depository. The aggressive buying occurred as the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 8.43% during the same period, with investors betting on

Apple reported quarterly results on local time 30th that exceeded or met market expectations, with iPhone sales up 22% year-over-year and MacBook sales up 29%, yet Apple stocks fell 6.3% in after-hours trading. Samsung Securities analyst Kim Kyung-bin stated in a report issued on local time 31st tha

A retired US colonel McAllister recently called on House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Mast to add RISC-V to export control lists, warning the open-source chip architecture gives China an autonomous development route around US semiconductor restrictions. McAllister stated that RISC-V's open

Celo integrated Ripio wFIAT on July 31, 2026, adding six Latin American currency stablecoins to its payment network. The integration enables payment providers, remittance services, and decentralized finance applications to price transactions and complete settlements directly in regional currencies w

The XRP Ledger is preparing to release xrpld 3.3.0 next week, according to Jazzi Cooper, head of product at RippleX. The upgrade includes five proposed changes, with Sponsored Fees and Reserves allowing banks and platforms to cover network costs for users. Currently, every XRP Ledger account