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BitPay announced Thursday that it secured a license from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets. The approval enables the company to operate as a crypto-asset service provider (CASP) across European Union member states under the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) framework. The licensing

CMC Markets is expanding 24-hour trading access to more than 5,000 US-listed shares and exchange-traded funds five days a week across its leveraged trading products and CMC Invest platform. The expansion extends the available US trading day from 6.5 hours to as much as 16 hours and marks a

Bitcoin dropped 1% on Thursday, retreating below its $1.3 trillion market cap after failing to hold the $65,000 level. The cryptocurrency's decline followed a shift in Federal Reserve rate expectations and ongoing geopolitical tensions in the Middle East. Fed policy and geopolitical risks have

Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, according to an announcement on Thursday. The funding will accelerate Crypto.com's expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives as blockchain technology disrupts traditional finance. This marks Crypto.com's

Dutch cryptocurrency platform Knaken has been declared bankrupt by a Rotterdam court after prosecutors said approximately €7 million ($8.1 million) in customer funds could not be accounted for. The ruling issued Thursday also placed Stichting Knaken Payments, the foundation established to

Thinking Machines Lab released Inkling on July 15—a 975-billion-parameter multimodal AI model with full weights available under an Apache 2.0 license on Hugging Face. The company was founded by Mira Murati, former OpenAI CTO who left in September 2024. Inkling scores 74.1% on MCP Atlas—nearly 30

Arthur Hayes, founder of BitMEX, purchased 1,293 Ethereum approximately two hours ago, according to on-chain data platform Lookonchain. The transaction, valued at approximately $2.48 million at current market prices, was executed through a wallet address believed to belong to Hayes. Ethereum

Morgan Stanley's ETRADE platform launched spot cryptocurrency trading for Bitcoin, Ether, and Solana through Zero Hash partnership. The pilot began in May before expanding to eligible clients across 8.6 million households holding $1.56 trillion in client assets as of March 31. The service charges a

The dollar-pegged stablecoin market reached approximately $316 billion in total capitalization by June 2026, with Tether USDT at $187 billion and Circle USDC at $75 billion controlling 83% of supply, according to DefiLlama on-chain data. The GENIUS Act, signed into law on July 18, 2025,

Gold prices fell to session lows on Thursday morning after the Philadelphia Federal Reserve's manufacturing business outlook survey for July rose to 41.4, far exceeding the expected reading of 13.0 and June's 10.3. The better-than-expected

Intel (INTC) shares dropped over 6% in midday trade on Thursday to a two-month low, despite announcing an expanded AI partnership with Google Cloud (GOOGL) and receiving a price target increase from Susquehanna. The stock's decline came amid broader weakness in technology shares, with the

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) reported on the 16th local time that US pending home sales for June declined 5.4% month-over-month and 0.3% year-over-year, significantly underperforming market expectations of a 0.5% monthly decline. The drop was attributed to mortgage rates reaching

South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance and Financial Services Commission announced on the 16th that they will raise the basic deposit requirement for purchasing single-stock leveraged ETFs from 10 million won to 30 million won starting next month 5th. From next month 19th, investors must

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) announced on July 16 local time that the US Housing Market Index (HMI) fell 2 points to 34 in July, missing the market expectation of 35. The decline reflects persistent affordability challenges driven by high mortgage rates, expensive land, rising ma