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NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock is drawing market attention. On Aug. 3, NVIDIA technical experts Jason Hardy and Ronil Prasad published a Vera CPU benchmark report on the official blog, revealing that Vera processors accelerate multiple storage performance areas compared with traditional x86 CPUs: CRC32C integrity checks are accelerated by 3.67x. CPU bottleneck for agentic AI storage In a report, NVIDIA explains that in agentic AI workloads, AI agents frequently and heavily retrieve enterprise knowl

Ripple announced strategic investments in Zilo and Licuido on Aug. 3, extending the XRP Ledger's institutional capital markets infrastructure with regulated transfer agency, token issuance, trading, settlement, and collateral capabilities. The investments target persistent capital markets

Palantir Technologies’ (NASDAQ: PLTR) stock surged during after-hours trading on August 3, rising 13.79% overnight and closing at $142.98. The company’s Q2 2026 adjusted earnings per share (EPS) were $0.41, beating Wall Street’s estimate of $0.35; Q2 revenue was $1.94 billion, above expectations of $1.8 billion. Palantir Q2 2026 Financial Highlights According to Palantir’s Q2 2026 earnings report, the key financial metrics are as follows: adjusted EPS was $0.41, above Wall Street’s estimate of $

Hanwha Asset Management listed the 'PLUS SK Hynix SanDisk Bond Hybrid 50' ETF on August 4, investing equally in SK Hynix and SanDisk while allocating half to Korean government bonds. The product targets retirement pension investors by combining memory semiconductor exposure with bond stability.

BlackRock (NYSE: BLK) shares are drawing market attention as the company launches two new tokenized money market funds: BSTBL (BlackRock Select U.S. Treasury Liquidity Fund) and BRSRV (BlackRock Daily Reinvestment Stablecoin Reserve Vehicle). BlackRock CFO Martin Small said during the 2026 Q2 earnings conference call that BlackRock currently manages $60 billion in reserves for Circle. BSTBL and BRSRV product framework The core framework for BlackRock’s two tokenized money market products is as f

Samsung Asset Management announced the launch of the 'KODEX US CPU Semiconductor TOP10' ETF on the 4th, targeting investment in global CPU companies including ARM, AMD, and Intel. The ETF allocates over 25% to each of these three leading CPU firms. The launch responds to growing CPU demand as the

Meme coin launchpad Pump.fun allegedly laid off employees before token unlocks for its employees $PUMP , affecting more than 40 people; the report mainly comes from internal recordings and documents obtained by the crypto media outlet “Sandmark.” UK Companies House records show that Pump.fun’s UK parent company, Baton Corporation, has not yet filed its financial statements as of Sep. 30, 2025—more than one month overdue. Pump.fun Layoff Timing: Before Token Unlock Based on internal recordings an

Bitcoin (BTC) gives back a small portion of the overnight gains, currently around $63,460 as of Aug. 4. Tyler Williams, a senior official in the U.S. Treasury overseeing digital asset policy, has left his post. He played a core role in advancing the Trump administration’s agenda of “making the U.S. the crypto capital of the world.” Hashdex will shut down its Hashdex Bitcoin ETF, with the last trading day on Aug. 17. Macroeconomic Events & Crypto Market Hotspots 1、According to Cointelegraph, Tyle

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) is set to report second-quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, with Wall Street analysts issuing multiple price target increases ahead of the chipmaker's results. Susquehanna lifted its price target to $500 from $450 and maintained a Positive rating, UBS

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent promoted the Foreign and International Monetary Authorities Repo Facility on '2일' (local time), calling it an 'important safety valve' and expressing hope for expansion in coming months. The statement followed joint US-Japan foreign exchange market intervention on

Shinhan Investment & Securities announced on August 4 that it will reduce its securities collateral loan rate to an annual 6.95% to ease customers' financial burden and improve transaction convenience. The revision simplifies the previously complex 24-tier rate structure into a single 6.95% annual r

Bitcoin non-custodial cross-chain bridge Boltz announced on X on August 4 that it will indefinitely suspend its exchange service until further notice. This suspension is not in response to a single security incident. Instead, over the past several months, the underlying infrastructure has continued to suffer AI-assisted automated probing. Although multiple exploit events have been contained, attackers’ iteration speed has exceeded the discovery and patching speed of a small development team, and

Strategy execution chairman Michael Saylor responded on X on Aug. 3 to criticism sparked by the company’s sale of Bitcoin. He said he has never sold my Bitcoin and emphasized that Strategy is a public company, not a private wallet. According to U.S. SEC filings, Strategy sold 1,638 Bitcoin last week, with a median cost of $63,957 per coin. Strategy sells 1,638 Bitcoin: details and current holdings According to a document Strategy filed with the U.S. SEC on Aug. 3, 2026, the company sold 1,638 Bi

Caleb & Brown, an Australian crypto brokerage owned by the Swyftx Group, has entered the UK market to serve wealthy investors. The expansion follows the firm's acquisition by Swyftx a year after in a deal worth more than $100 million. Swyftx Group co-CEO Andrea Yuen described the UK as an

JB Financial Group held its 2026 Second Management Strategy Meeting from the 30th of last month for two days at Jeongeup Aureum Campus. The meeting was attended by Chairman Kim Ki-hong, executives from all subsidiaries, and approximately 150 key department heads. Chairman Kim directed that AI

Bank of America raised its capital expenditure forecast for hyperscalers following last week's earnings reports from Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Meta, projecting spending will reach $860 billion this year and $1.2 trillion by 2027, according to Yahoo Finance. The investment bank forecasts

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Japan’s Ministry of Finance simultaneously announced joint foreign exchange action on Aug. 3 to curb disorderly fluctuations in the yen exchange rate. On Aug. 4, Bitcoin edged down to $63,440; a Glassnode report said Bitcoin had fallen to $62,600 before rebounding, as weak spot demand and ongoing net selloffs failed to hold above $66,000. U.S.-Japan Joint FX Action Mechanism: New York Fed Sells Euros to Buy Japanese Yen On Aug. 3, 2026, the two governmen

Jeong Jeom-sik, floor leader of South Korea's opposition People Power Party, criticized the government's real estate tax reform plan on the 4th, calling it a 'tax bomb declaration' that simultaneously strengthens both property holding taxes and transaction taxes. Jeong stated via Facebook that the g

KB Asset Management's RISE 200 High Dividend Covered Call ATM exchange-traded fund gained 19.8% in one month, achieving the highest return among domestic Korean ETFs excluding inverse and leveraged products during July. The performance occurred while the KOSPI index fell 22.2% to 6595.45 in the