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SK Hynix stocks fell below the 200,000 KRW threshold on the 13th as South Korea's KOSPI index dropped approximately 9%, closing at 6806.93. The decline reflected broader market turmoil, with SK Hynix recording a 15% drop and Samsung Electronics falling over 10%. The sharp downturn transformed

Strategy Inc. (Nasdaq: MSTR) launched the Bitcoin Banking Adoption Index on X on July 13, assigning an overall score of 32% to institutional bitcoin adoption across major financial firms. The index evaluates approximately 30 institutions across trading, custody, products, margin activity, and

South Korea's Financial Services Commission held a closed-door meeting on July 14 with major securities firms and asset management companies to discuss regulatory measures for single-stock leveraged ETFs. The meeting followed a 31% single-day plunge in the SK Hynix single-stock leveraged ETF on

KOSPI closed at 6806.93 on July 13, down 669.01 points or 8.95% from the previous trading day, as the Korean stock market recorded its steepest decline for a comparable period since 2000. The index fell 19.7% in July's first nine trading days, driven by extreme volatility in semiconductor stocks

Five major South Korean securities firms — Mirae Asset, NH Investment, Samsung, Kiwoom Securities, and Korea Financial Group — are expanding overseas operations as part of a strategic shift to reduce reliance on traditional brokerage revenue, according to data released on the 13th by financial

New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte signed HB 639 into law last week, introducing the Blockchain Basics Law to protect cryptocurrency innovation and user rights in the state. The legislation establishes legal protections for blockchain developers, miners, validators, and businesses while creating a

AI crypto projects require rigorous pre-launch evaluation as roughly 98.6 percent of tokens launched on AI agent platforms fail, according to research cited in industry analysis. Electric Capital reported a 55 percent year-over-year increase in developers actively building within AI crypto projects,

FX and CFD brokers are using AI to predict client value, engagement, and churn as rising acquisition costs and regulatory pressure push the industry away from volume-based onboarding toward behavior-based client qualification. Prakash Bhudia, Chief Growth Officer at Deriv, and Ivan Kunyankin, Data

Anthropic published research on Monday analyzing how its AI assistant Claude expresses different values depending on the model version users select and the language they communicate in. The company examined 309,815 anonymized user conversations involving subjective tasks like giving advice or

PI, the native token of the Pi Network, dropped 17% on Monday, briefly reaching a new all-time low of $0.0785 amid reports that the project's pioneers are selling the digital asset. The decline was attributed to sustained selling pressure from early participants. The token's downturn reflects

SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics drove KOSPI below 6,800 on July 13 as the index suffered its steepest intraday decline in two months. SK Hynix recorded a 15.37% drop, its largest single-day decline since listing in December 1996, shortly after successfully listing American Depositary Receipts

Webull's European unit secured authorization under the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, giving the online brokerage regulatory approval to launch crypto custody services from the Netherlands. The approval came shortly after July 1, 2026, the final deadline for transitional

US-Iran tensions around the Strait of Hormuz escalated this week as Iran demanded all vessels use the northern corridor under its supervision, while commercial traffic continues through the southern corridor protected by the US Navy. The conflict emerged as a trigger for renewed strikes between the

ARK Invest issued a prediction on the newly launched Open USD (OUSD) stablecoin on July 8, with director of digital assets Lorenzo Valente dismissing the notion that OUSD threatens the dominance of Circle's USDC and Tether's USDT. Valente wrote a post on X stating the industry is vastly

El Salvador holds approximately 7,706 BTC valued at $474 million as of July 2026, ranking fifth among sovereign Bitcoin holders globally. The country secured a $1.4 billion IMF Extended Fund Facility in December 2024, agreeing to confine public-sector Bitcoin purchases and make merchant acceptance v

Polymarket-based DeFi startup Gondor unveiled v1, the first margin account for Polymarket, announced via X on Monday. The product enables users to cross-margin their Polymarket positions to borrow against their entire portfolio and use the credit to buy more shares. This advancement addresses

Chinese prosecutors published arguments on the Supreme People's Procuratorate website calling for more proactive cryptocurrency money laundering investigations, stating that digital asset technology has moved faster than the country's current legal and investigative framework. The prosecutors