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The Sandbox contained a cross-chain bridge security breach on August 22 that allowed attackers to mint enormous quantities of unbacked SAND on Base and BNB Smart Chain, prompting major cryptocurrency exchanges to restrict transfers. Initial on-chain alerts showed more than 500 million SAND had

The U.K. government announced on Aug. 18 that a London court had wound up Key Coin Assets Ltd. a week earlier. An investigation by the Insolvency Service found no evidence the company conducted any of the crypto trading it advertised, while nine investors who reported to Action Fraud paid the firm o

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced upcoming Iran sanctions via a Financial Times op-ed on the 23rd (local time), calling the measures an 'economic D-Day' aimed at cutting all economic lifelines sustaining the Iranian regime. Bessent stated the goal is to pressure Tehran into complete

Korean government bonds showed mixed performance on August 24 as foreign investors drove futures market gains while a bond auction produced split results. At 11:04 AM, the 3-year benchmark bond yield traded at 3.857%, up 0.2 basis points from the previous session's closing average, while the 10-year

At the beginning of this week, the energy market received a set of seemingly contradictory yet logically consistent signals: Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz surged nearly 400% within two weeks, while WTI and Brent crude oil prices fell by more than 1% in response. This price movement clearly shows that the market is pricing in a marginal easing of supply disruption risks. However, when we shift our focus from the headline figure of “400%” to the detailed traffic data released by the United

Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) supervised system is currently used on some US-made vehicles in South Korea. Expansion to China-made vehicles remains uncertain despite a legislative proposal. Last month, Democratic Party lawmaker Song Ki-heon introduced a bill addressing Driver Control Assistance

Decentralized lending protocol Term Finance lost an estimated $8.5 million after an attacker exploited governance control of its strategy vaults on Sunday, according to blockchain security firms PeckShield

Bitcoin (BTC) recorded its largest dollar-denominated weekly gain in history, gaining $14,264 to close the week at $77,387, representing a 22.7% gain in seven days. The rally was triggered by the U.S. Treasury Department's announcement last week of an expansion of its buyback program, which

US Stock Market News: Last Friday, U.S. stocks rebounded as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.98% to 53,277.01. The move came after the U.S. composite PMI for August rose to 56.0, a four-year high, easing concerns about an economic slowdown. Stock Market News Today also centered on Nvidia's earnings report and the Jackson Hole central bank symposium, after the S&P 500 and Nasdaq posted their first weekly losses in four weeks and the Dow fell for a second consecutive week.

Wildberries and Ozon will begin accepting the digital ruble in Russia in the coming weeks, representatives of the marketplaces told the RIA Novosti and Prime news agencies. Ozon will launch a test mode on September 1 alongside other payment methods, while Wildberries said it is acting in accordance with the requirements of the Bank of Russia and current regulations. The digital ruble system has been under development for several years: the first real transactions began in 2023, while its launch

Research by Vietnamese authors Pham Ngoc Toan, Le Tran Trung Hieu, and Nguyen Vu Trung Nguyen found a link between carbon pricing in the EU and Bitcoin mining in Russia. The authors attributed this to the lack of a carbon-pricing framework in Russia, which may make mining there more profitable. They analyzed daily emissions from the EU energy sector, the rest of the world, and Russia from 2019 to 2025 and compared them with Bitcoin’s daily closing price. Research linked EU carbon pricing to mini

Sellas Life Sciences stocks surged 15% on Friday, capping the biotech company's best week in nearly two months, after a German report claimed its Phase 3 Regal leukemia trial had reached 80 events — the threshold required to trigger final efficacy analysis. The unconfirmed AktienCheck article

The Bank of Russia has presented the first draft regulations intended to lay the foundation for launching a digital asset market and organized trading in the country. They set out the operating conditions for the new infrastructure: trading procedures will be established in exchange rules, while the platform will calculate market and weighted-average prices. This concerns organized trading in cryptocurrencies, digital currencies, and digital rights, as well as digital depositories and informatio

On August 21, 2026, scammers on Telegram began sending offers to buy HMSTR tokens from the Hamster Kombat game at inflated prices, tricking users into handing over their accounts and wallet access. According to Alexander Vurasko, Director of Business Development at Solar AURA, a center for monitoring external digital threats, the offers are being distributed in Telegram channels, chats, comments, and advertisements. Victims are directed to a bot, mini-app, fake crypto exchange, or wallet connect

Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, forecasted that US Treasury yields will continue their upward trajectory. On the 23rd, Zandi stated via X (formerly Twitter) that the 10-year US Treasury yield has approached its highest level since the global financial crisis, attributing the rise t

Walmart is planning to launch Scenario, a fashion brand with apparel and accessories priced below $25, targeting Gen Z and millennial shoppers as the retailer's stock heads for its fourth consecutive monthly decline. The move comes as Walmart reported weaker store traffic and faces growing

According to Euromonitor data, the global consumer credit market exceeded $21 trillion in 2025 and is expected to reach $25.5 trillion by 2030, while on-chain consumer credit remains at a very early stage. After the Pharos consumer lending vault launched this year, pre-deposits reached the $50 million cap within 48 hours, with approximately $35 million in committed deposits at the official launch. Three Structural Changes Brought by Putting Consumer Lending On-Chain Compared with traditional con

Hong Kong asset manager CSOP Southern Eastern’s leveraged product tracking SK Hynix stock was renamed on August 3 and adopted a flexible leverage structure ranging from 1.1x to 2x. However, it maintained the maximum 2x risk exposure for three consecutive weeks. The AUM of the CSOP SK Hynix Daily Max (2x) Leveraged Product has shrunk by nearly 71.5% to HKD 37.65 billion. Complete Loss Data for the CSOP SK Hynix Leveraged Product SK Hynix’s stock price rose 349.23% from the beginning of 2026 throu

U.S. stock futures traded mixed late Sunday night, with Dow futures up 0.04%, S&P 500 futures up 0.05%, and Nasdaq-100 futures down 0.07% at 10:31 PM EDT. The movements came as investors awaited a Monday announcement of Iran sanctions by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who posted over the

Former Hack VC Partner and Head of Platform Hsin-Ju (欣如) posted on X on Aug. 24, alleging that she was required to work intensely despite experiencing serious medical emergencies—including Graves' disease, hyperthyroidism, and severe insomnia—during her employment. She said the partners threatened to blacklist her in the industry to prevent her from resigning, repeatedly rejected her resignation requests, and ultimately drove her to attempt suicide. She plans to publicly release all relevant evi