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According to Coinbase Vice Chair Ryan VanGrack in a Monday CNBC interview, Democratic lawmakers added consumer protection rules to the CLARITY Act during final negotiations in the Senate. VanGrack said the Democrats used the opportunity to give the legislation "more teeth" and ensure that

According to Bloomberg, the correlation between South Korea's KOSPI index and the Nasdaq 100 has surged to 0.46 over the past 60 days, nearly triple the five-year average of 0.16, as the Korean tech-heavy index increasingly serves as a leading indicator for global AI trading. International

According to The Block, Kalshi and Polymarket combined open interest fell 20% to around $1.5 billion by the week ending July 19, following the conclusion of the World Cup on July 19. From a peak of approximately $2 billion at the beginning of July, the decline reflects the end of the tournament

Tether Gold (XAUT) has been recognized as an Accepted Spot Commodity in Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) on July 20, allowing regulated firms in the international financial center to offer services involving the tokenized gold asset if they hold required regulatory permissions. The recognition

According to Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs priced $2.5 billion in perpetual preferred stock on Monday, with a 6.5% yield and a first call date in five years. The reset spread was set at 215 basis points above the 5-year U.S. Treasury yield. The timing came days after a key risk metric for such

Kuwait's military reported its air defense systems are currently intercepting Iranian missiles and drones, according to a statement from the country's armed forces.

According to Kalshi and Polymarket's settled event pages, the Spain-Argentina World Cup final on Sunday drove $1.977 billion in combined trading volume. Kalshi's Spain-Argentina event closed with $1.893 billion, while Polymarket recorded $83.75 million across its final-specific markets. Spain

According to Brave's July 2026 announcement, the company introduced BAT Roadmap 4.0 featuring agentic payments to automate micro-transactions, a unified Brave Wallet, the BravePay stablecoin protocol, and a Creator Contribution Protocol for automated compensation in the attention economy.
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According to Coinbase's July 30, 2025 announcement, JPMorgan Chase and Coinbase launched a strategic partnership enabling Chase customers to link bank accounts directly to Coinbase wallets and redeem Ultimate Rewards points for USDC, the USD-pegged stablecoin on Coinbase's Base network, beginning in

On Monday close (July 20), U.S. equity index futures all moved lower. S&P 500 futures fell 0.18%, Dow futures declined 0.46%, Nasdaq-100 futures dropped 0.01%, and Russell 2000 futures fell 0.60%.

According to Iran's Mehr News Agency, explosions were heard in Isfahan, a city in central Iran, today (July 20).

According to Yonhap News Agency, the Bank of Korea will expand its CBDC pilot (Project Hangang) to nine banks and up to 500,000 users starting in September. The expansion includes two new banks—Gyeongnam Bank and iM Bank—joining the original seven participants. Phase 1, which ran from April to

The White House announced today (July 20) that the U.S. will impose additional tariffs on select goods to counter what it describes as discriminatory trade practices by Canada in the dairy and automotive sectors. The move aims to address longstanding trade barriers affecting American businesses in t

The United States will impose 50% tariffs on many Canadian goods within 30 days, including items covered under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), with exemptions for energy, fertilizers, and critical minerals.
Canadian stock markets fell 0.86% on Monday. President Trump recently threatened a

According to the White House, the U.S. will impose 50% additional tariffs on certain Canadian products, effective on August 19, 2026, at 12:01 a.m. Eastern Time.

On Monday, Hut 8 signed a second 15-year lease agreement worth $9.8 billion with an investment-grade customer to fully commercialize its 1-gigawatt Beacon Point campus in Texas. The deal covers 352 megawatts of IT capacity and doubles the tenant's contracted footprint at the site to 704 MW. The

According to Jordan's state news agency Petra, Jordan's military intercepted three missiles fired from Iran on July 20 (local time) that had entered Jordanian airspace and targeted Jordanian territory. No casualties or property damage were

According to Jayati Bharadwaj, head of foreign exchange strategy at TD Securities, the US dollar is likely to remain near current levels ahead of November midterms, given risks of a full-scale conflict between the US and Iran after the elections. Bharadwaj stated that a complete escalation of

According to Bloomberg Law, a federal court has approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with writers, one of the largest collective copyright litigation settlements in U.S. history. Court-approved attorney fees and costs totaling $122 million will be distributed to the writers.

According to Bloomberg, U.S. House leaders plan to vote on a temporary funding bill on Tuesday that would provide government funding through December, followed by a Republican budget resolution vote on Wednesday. The move comes ahead of the September 30 fiscal year deadline to ensure continued gover