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Emirates activated Crypto.com Pay for eligible UAE dirham flight bookings in 2026, following a partnership announced in July 2025. The payment service allows customers with Crypto.com accounts to complete transactions through the airline's website and mobile app, processed via Crypto.com's Dubai ent

Robinhood Chain launchpads generated $1.23 billion in trading volume over one week, narrowly surpassing PumpSwap's roughly $1.22 billion over the same period, according to data from analyst Adam_Tehc. The slim margin marks a notable milestone for the relatively new network, signaling rapid user

Jim Ferraioli, Head of Crypto Research at Charles Schwab, determined Bitcoin's fair value to be approximately $95,000 based on mining production economics. Ferraioli stated to Coindesk that this assessment derives from the cost structure of Bitcoin mining operations, where efficient miners produce o

Over 60 cryptocurrency projects shut down or filed for bankruptcy from January to July 2026, marking a wave of closures across exchanges, blockchains, DeFi protocols, wallets, and gaming platforms. The shutdowns followed bitcoin's retreat from its October 2025 all-time high, which triggered

AI investor and former HyperWrite CEO Matt Shumer posted a video of a fully playable first-person shooter game built entirely by Claude Opus 5 two days after the model shipped, using a three-paragraph prompt published on GitHub. The game, which Shumer said 'one-shotted' without external assets,

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers is renewing efforts to eliminate a tax break for cryptocurrency investors by extending wash sale rules to digital assets. The proposal targets a gap in the tax code that allows crypto investors to sell assets at a loss and immediately repurchase them while

Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade on Tuesday at block height 3,428,143, introducing a new shielded pool for the privacy blockchain. The upgrade follows concerns about the soundness of Zcash's earlier Orchard pool, which will now be restricted to support only withdrawals. Orchard was previously Zc

Spot gold and silver prices rose in late-afternoon U.S. trading Monday, with gold near $4,075.60 an ounce (up 0.59%) and silver at $58.290 (up 0.45%). Lower oil prices eased the inflation impulse from the U.S.-Iran conflict. Positioning remained cautious ahead of this week's Federal Reserve

The Joint Maritime Information Center (JMIC) reported on local time July 28 that no newly identified attacks on vessels within the Strait of Hormuz occurred in the past 48 hours. The multinational maritime surveillance organization, led by US Central Command, stated that traffic volume and

Nvidia (NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang on Tuesday met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, according to an Axios report. The meeting occurred while the Trump administration investigates potential violations involving Nvidia's AI chip exports to China. The Commerce Department is examining allegations

Korean retail investors accelerated their exit from domestic stock markets on Jan 28 as KOSPI breached the 6,000 level and KOSDAQ fell below 700 intraday, triggering massive losses. The sell-off followed a year of unprecedented volatility, with 42 sidecar triggers and 22 circuit breakers activated i

Lighter, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange, recently announced the official launch of a quarterly token burning program. Exchange founder Vladimir Novakovski stated on social media platform X that over 16 million LIT tokens have been repurchased to date. The token burning program aims to st

Antônia Souza, Visa's Director of Digital Currencies for Latin America and the Caribbean, stated on the Latam Desk podcast that stablecoins are not competing with Brazil's PIX instant payment system. Souza emphasized the two technologies serve distinct purposes: PIX handles real-time domestic paymen

PayPal reported stronger-than-expected second-quarter results on Tuesday, raising its 2026 adjusted earnings outlook and driving PYPL stock up more than 4%. The company posted Q2 revenue of $8.68 billion for the

Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss urged investors to rotate into Bitcoin (BTC) and Zcash (ZEC) on Tuesday, declaring the AI trade over. The call came as South Korea's Kospi index closed down 10.84% at 6,023.66, with Samsung Electronics falling 13.4% and SK Hynix dropping 14.7%. DeVere Group CEO

Security researchers at Accomplish AI demonstrated that Anthropic's Claude Cowork could escape its local virtual machine and access files on a host Mac, according to a report published on Thursday. The escape occurred by chaining architectural weaknesses with a Linux kernel privilege-escalation

The US Consumer Confidence Index fell to 90.8 in July, down 1.4 points from June's revised figure of 92.2, according to the Conference Board (CB) released on local time July 28. The decline reflects weakening consumer assessments of current business conditions and labor market perceptions. Dana

Kraken is offering retail investors access to the planned Jersey Mike's initial public offering through two mechanisms: eligible US customers can request allocations of book-entry shares at the IPO price, while users in more than 110 countries can request JMKEx, a tokenized version backed 1:1 by the

S&P Dow Jones Indices reported on July 28 local time that U.S. home prices in May rose 1.1% year-over-year according to the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller National Home Price Index, accelerating from April's 0.9% gain. The 10-city and 20-city composite indices posted annual increases of 2.4% and 1.6% re