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Gold prices shot to session highs after the New York Federal Reserve reported on Wednesday that its Empire State manufacturing survey improved to 15.6 in July, up from 5.7 in June and far exceeding consensus expectations of 6.2. The surge in manufacturing activity, driven by strong increases in

Researchers at Stanford University and Singapore Management University found that Polymarket's five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets create incentives for traders to manipulate spot prices around settlement. The study examined contracts introduced in July 2024 in which traders bet on whether Bitcoi

Korean stocks rallied sharply on the 15th, with KOSPI surging 6.24% to close at 7284.41 and KOSDAQ gaining 5.80% to 829.43, reclaiming the 7000 and 800 thresholds respectively. The recovery followed a two-day rebound after the 13th's 8.95% plunge, driven by foreign investors' net purchase of

United Airlines reported second-quarter earnings that exceeded Wall Street estimates on Wednesday, with adjusted earnings per share of $1.99 versus the expected $1.88 and revenue of $17.67 billion versus the expected $17.61 billion for the quarter ended June 30. The carrier cited nearly $6 billion i

PrismML released Bonsai 27B earlier this week, a 27-billion-parameter AI model compressed to 3.9 GB that runs on an iPhone 17 Pro Max at 11 tokens per second. The ternary variant retains 94.6% of full-precision benchmark performance while fitting within smartphone memory constraints, marking the

Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110) has triggered a major governance debate within the Bitcoin community over proposed changes to the network's consensus rules. The proposal would temporarily restrict several methods used to embed non-financial data in Bitcoin transactions, with a mandatory s

President Trump signed an executive order on March 6, 2025, establishing the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, directing the Treasury Department to hold Bitcoin seized through federal law enforcement as a permanent sovereign reserve asset. The order mandated that Bitcoin deposited into the reserve cannot b

Crypto arbitrage platforms in 2026 offer tools ranging from free mobile calculators to automated multi-exchange bot systems, with ArbitrageScanner covering over 75 centralized exchanges and more than 25 decentralized exchanges without requiring API access, while Pionex provides free built-in arbitra

The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), under the U.S. Treasury Department, added cryptocurrency wallet addresses to its sanctions list as part of sanctions against Cuba. The wallets are associated with foundation funds and digital asset accounts considered linked to the Cuban government.

Korean regulators and the financial industry are preparing supplementary measures for single-stock leveraged ETFs. The Korea Financial Investment Association convened an emergency meeting with securities executives, while the F4 regulatory meeting—comprising the Finance Ministry, Financial

Bitcoin surged past $65,000 on July 15, reaching an intraday peak of $65,518 after U.S. producer price index data showed an unexpected 0.3% month-over-month deflation. The price movement followed the previous day's consumer price index release and triggered over $209 million in short position

Citi issued a research note on Wednesday raising its adoption estimates for Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant and forecasting strong performance for the company's fiscal 2026 fourth quarter. The analysts expect momentum to build into fiscal 2027 from Copilot and Azure cloud, with the improving

Dave Brown, a senior vice president at Amazon Web Services, is departing the company after nearly 19 years, AWS announced Wednesday. Brown plans to leave at the end of this month for a new role outside of the company, according to a memo from AWS CEO Matt Garman to staff. Dave Treadwell, a top

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou published a 12,000-word investigation in The New York Times on April 8, 2026, claiming Blockstream CEO Adam Back is Bitcoin's pseudonymous creator Satoshi Nakamoto, stating 99.5% to 100% certainty. The investigation used stylometric analysis

The Czech Republic implemented the Digital Finance Act (Act No. 31/2025 Coll.) on February 15, 2025, designating the Czech National Bank (CNB) as the competent authority for supervising crypto-asset service providers under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Regulation. The legislation

South Korea's Ministry of Economy and Finance announced plans to revise the 1950 National Property Act to classify virtual currencies and intellectual property as national assets, with legal amendments taking effect February 4, 2027. The revision forms part of an economic policy roadmap that will re

Acting US Attorney General Todd Blanche faced Senate Judiciary Committee scrutiny Wednesday over the Justice Department's crypto enforcement actions as lawmakers examined his nomination to lead the agency. Senator Dick Durbin criticized Blanche for dismantling the DoJ's crypto enforcement unit in