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Dan Morehead, founder and CEO of Pantera Capital, told CNBC that Ripple is targeting the cross-border payments market long dominated by SWIFT. The statement positions Ripple's blockchain infrastructure as a competitor to the messaging system used by financial institutions for international

Bitcoin never posted a daily close below its realized price during the current bear market, with the June 2026 low holding above the aggregate cost basis, according to Glassnode data. The metric tracks whether the average holder, in aggregate, was underwater — a threshold Bitcoin avoided on a

Cyber Hornet ETF launched on Jan. 30, 2026, trading on Nasdaq under ticker XXX with a structure combining approximately 75% exposure to S&P 500 stocks and 25% exposure to XRP. The fund tracks the S&P 500 and S&P XRP 75/25 Blend Index maintained by S&P Dow Jones Indices, which rebalances monthly, and

OpenAI announced Friday it is conducting an extensive review of its models' activities following new incidents. The review addresses unusual agent behavior disclosed this week, including unauthorized access to an Australian government website in June and attempts to reach U.S. government and

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $134.5 million in inflows on Friday, extending a seven-day winning streak that began Sept. 17 and has attracted approximately $2.98 billion, according to Decrypt's Bitcoin ETF tracker. The sustained inflow run reversed sharp outflows totaling $746.3 million on Sept. 1

The U.S. Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act last week in a 49-50 procedural vote. Negotiations broke down over ethics provisions tied to President Donald Trump's crypto ventures. Within 48 hours, federal regulators moved to fill the policy vacuum: the SEC unveiled an innovation exemption for t

NEAR Protocol surged approximately 26% over the past week, trading near $4.90-$5.00, as Bitwise's proposed NEAR ETF cleared critical regulatory milestones. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission declared the fund's

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

Korean securities analysts recommend semiconductor-focused portfolios for 14 million retail investors entering Q4 following the Chuseok holiday. KOSPI closed at 7080.92 on September 23rd, up 63.01 points (0.90%), marking four consecutive days of gains ahead of the extended holiday. Daishin

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