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U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs turned negative at the end of last week, ending a nine-day inflow streak that brought in $2.8 billion. Robert Mitchnick, BlackRock's head of digital assets, said the CLARITY Act is less critical for Bitcoin than for altcoins and DeFi, where the regulatory picture remains

XRP is trading around $1.37 during its second week of consolidation after August's rally lost momentum. The token remains up 31% for August despite an 8% weekly decline, pressured by heavy Binance sell-side volume and hawkish Jackson Hole commentary. Crypto sentiment remains choppy heading into

More Markets, a decentralized finance vault infrastructure protocol, had a lending reserve drained of approximately $9.3 million in digital assets on Flow EVM, according to Web3 security platform Blockaid. The attacker extracted about 15.5 million Wrapped Flow (WFLOW) tokens from the mFlowWFLOW lend

South Korean stocks showed mixed results on August 31, with the KOSPI closing at 6820.02, up 0.46%, while the KOSDAQ fell 0.49% to 834.29. The decline in growth-stock-heavy KOSDAQ reflected sensitivity to US interest rate concerns following Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish remarks at the Jackson

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix experienced divergent stock performance over the past month, with LS Securities adjusting target prices on August 31 to reflect changing HBM competitiveness. LS Securities raised Samsung Electronics' target price from 400,000 won to 450,000 won while lowering SK Hyni

The USD/KRW exchange rate fell to 1,368.60 won as of 3:30 PM on August 31st in the Seoul foreign exchange market, down 3.90 won from the previous session. This marked the lowest closing level since July 24 last year, a 13-month low. The decline occurred despite hawkish remarks from US Federal

An unnamed trader liquidated 31,862 SOL tokens for $3.25 million, incurring a loss of $2.2 million amid extended market pressures. The move reflects ongoing volatility within the Solana ecosystem, prompting holders to reassess positions as price action remains under pressure despite high

Private equity funds increased their presence in Korean stocks as individual and foreign investors reduced trading activity. Through August 28, private investment funds' daily average trading volume ratio in KOSPI reached 1.89% in August, according to Korea Exchange data. Individual investors' daily

Japanese stock indices showed mixed performance on August 31, with the Nikkei 225 declining 0.14% while the Topix rose 0.23%, as semiconductor and AI-related stocks rallied after initial weakness triggered by U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh's hawkish speech at the Jackson Hole conference on t

Elon Musk confirmed over the weekend that long-promised projects across SpaceX and Tesla are taking physical form. ARK Invest analysis suggested Terafab's eventual cost could surpass the entire U.S. Interstate Highway System, with ARK estimating eventual capacity could require $1 trillion versus the

South Korean asset management firms are launching ETF products with near-identical portfolio compositions and investment strategies, according to Korea Exchange data. The number of domestic listed ETFs reached 1,163, nearly doubling from 533 in 2021, with approximately 120 new products introduced th

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino defended stablecoins after Bank for International Settlements (BIS) General Manager Pablo Hernandez de Cos claimed tokenized bank deposits are better fiat substitutes than stablecoins. De Cos stated stablecoins face poor redeemability, supply issues, interoperability

Nexttrade (NXT), South Korea's pre-market trading platform, will implement enhanced volatility interruption (VI) mechanisms starting September 14 to prevent abnormal price fluctuations caused by small-volume orders, following incidents where SK Hynix stocks opened at lower circuit limits. The new st

Jack Yi, founder of Liquid Capital, projects Bitcoin will rebound following a retracement to $75,500, as the cryptocurrency traded at approximately $78,196 on August 31, 2026, with an intraday range of $77,320 to $79,340. Yi, who entered Bitcoin mining in 2015 and captured gains from the 2017 bull c

Samsung Biologics decided on a 3 trillion won rights offering at a board meeting on May 28, issuing 2.27 million common shares at 1.322 million won per share. The company will allocate 2.7 trillion won to acquire Swiss peptide CDMO firm PolyPeptide Group (PPG) and approximately 295 billion won to

Bank of Korea's removal of 'rate hike stance maintenance' language from its monetary policy statement signals a slower pace of future rate increases, according to DB Securities researcher Moon Hong-chul on the 31st. Moon issued a report titled 'If claims are inconsistent and contradictory,

Kalshi is under increased regulatory scrutiny now that the Ninth Circuit has denied its bid to stop Nevada from enforcing its sports contract regulations. The decision will bolster Nevada’s hand as it battles a contrary opinion from the Third Circuit. The legal tussle involving Kalshi against

Barry Sternlicht, Chairman of Starwood Capital, stated that global real estate markets have passed the bottom despite high-interest-rate concerns. Starwood Capital recently raised a $100 billion fund (approximately 14 trillion KRW) targeting residential real estate, AI data centers, and logistics

SK Hynix survived a penny stock period as Hyundai Electronics that would trigger current KOSDAQ delisting rules strengthened in July. The company traded below 1000 won from April 29, 2002 to April 11, 2003, hitting 135 won on March 26, 2003, amid semiconductor downturn and financial burdens. The sur

South Korea's Supreme Court on May 28 upheld a lower court ruling that Korea Zinc illegally restricted Youngpoong's voting rights at an extraordinary shareholders' meeting held in January of last year. The restriction occurred after Korea Zinc's subsidiary Sun Metal Corporation (SMC) acquired more t