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Iran and Oman are close to finalizing a deal to manage commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, a waterway that handles roughly 20 million barrels of oil per day, representing about 20% of global oil supply. Negotiations began in late July 2026, following an April 2026 draft protocol that p

Crypto user @cprkrn recovered 5 BTC worth approximately $400,000 after being locked out for over a decade, with the breakthrough occurring around May 13-14, 2026. The recovery was enabled by Anthropic's Claude AI, which identified a critical bug in btcrecover, an open-source password recovery tool t

BNB Chain surpassed Solana in 24-hour decentralized exchange volume, recording $1.473 billion compared to Solana's $1.301 billion, according to DefiLlama data. The approximately 13% gap marks a shift in DEX activity rankings. Solana had reached $4.15 billion in daily DEX volume in mid-July 2026,

Bitcoin self-custody rates dropped to approximately 49% of total supply, down from around 78% in late 2022, according to Glassnode data cited by Bitcoin Magazine. The decline marks the first sustained reversal in Bitcoin's history of individual wallet holdings. Spot Bitcoin ETFs and

Bitkey, the self-custody Bitcoin wallet built by Jack Dorsey's Block, Inc., is accelerating development of a coin control feature in response to user feedback. The feature will allow users to label individual UTXOs and manually select which coins to include in transactions. Bitkey launched

Researchers at the People's Public Security University of China built an AI system that identifies illicit Bitcoin transactions with 89.4% overall accuracy, according to findings published in May in the Journal of Intelligence and reported by the South China Morning Post. The framework combines

Chris Giancarlo, who chaired the Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2017 to 2019, stated in a recent interview that the crypto industry should stop treating the CLARITY Act as essential legislation. The bill has remained in the Senate without a floor vote for 80 days after the

Bitcoin fell to $62,236 on July 31, reducing its market capitalization to $1.26 trillion after starting the day above $65,000. The nearly $3,000 decline occurred during a week when the Federal Open Market Committee voted to keep interest rates unchanged. Total cryptocurrency market capitalization

Korean retail investors accounted for an average 58.4% of daily trading volume in the KOSPI market from January through July, according to Korea Exchange data. The concentration peaked on April 6 when retail trading reached 69% of total market volume, with the single largest trading day occurring on

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix drove KOSPI's record single-day point gain on May 31, when the index rose 1001.89 points (17.91%) to 6595.45 - the largest point increase in KOSPI history. The two semiconductor stocks contributed 68.4% of that day's gains, rising 26.81% and 29.95% respectively. The

KOSPI experienced unprecedented volatility over four trading days from July 28 to July 31, with absolute daily index movements totaling 2164.08 points — a level of turbulence typically seen only during wars or pandemics. The index plunged 1162 points from its July 27 closing level through July 30, t

The won-dollar exchange rate fell 125.4 won in July to close at 1424.0 won on July 31, down from 1549.4 won at the end of June, marking the largest monthly decline since March 2009 during the global financial crisis, according to MPDoctor. The drop occurred despite the KOSPI falling over 22% during

Kim Jun-seok, senior research fellow at the Capital Market Institute, published two reports in January and May analyzing analyst optimism bias in Korean brokerage research. The studies examined approximately 700,000 equity research reports published from 2000 to 2024, concluding that investment

The Korean stock market experienced extreme volatility driven by a triple concentration phenomenon, with the KOSPI volatility index reaching 84.35 by July 31. The index surged 192.37% from 28.85 one year prior, according to Korea Exchange data released on the 3rd. The volatility spike occurred as th

SpaceX reports its first earnings as a public company on Tuesday, August 4, following its June 11 initial public offering that raised $75 billion at $135 per share. The IPO generated approximately $100 million in fees for Morgan Stanley and other underwriting banks. Morgan Stanley's wealth

South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) is pursuing amendments to the Capital Markets Act to introduce emergency intervention powers targeting single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to financial authorities on August 2. The regulatory initiative aims to enable the F

Ethereum outperformed Bitcoin in July, gaining 19% compared to Bitcoin's 8% rise over the same period, according to data from CryptoSlate. The shift was driven by stronger Ethereum ETF inflows, renewed corporate buying, and a widening price gap that pushed the ETH/BTC ratio above 0.030 for the

Korean financial authorities are reviewing the 2010-2011 ELW (Equity-Linked Warrants) regulatory case as they develop additional measures for single-stock leveraged ETFs, with second supplementary policies announced last month on the 29th. The government determined that initial measures announced on