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NH Investment & Securities researcher Kim Byung-yeon stated on July 20 that the KOSPI index is unlikely to fall below the 6,000-point level even when accounting for all currently discussed negative factors in the Korean stock market. Speaking at a press conference held at the Korea Exchange in

AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, a major logistics services company in Japan, will adopt the JPYC stablecoin for payments to business partners. According to a report from Nikkei Asia, the company plans to use the stablecoin to pay fees and salaries to roughly 2,300 business partners and individual

The Bank of Korea's Monetary Policy Committee raised the base rate to 2.75% on the 16th and indicated the current level falls within the neutral rate range, sparking debate over the terminal rate target. The policy statement declared a need to 'continue the rate hike stance,' a phrase previously

OCBC released a second-half global economic outlook report on local time July 19, identifying persistent geopolitical risks as a major market misjudgment in the first half of the year. The US-Iran military conflict escalated beyond initial market expectations of a short-term event, with the

Economist Nouriel Roubini, known as the “Doctore of Doom,” said in a Bloomberg Television interview on July 18 that within the next 20 to 25 years, as AI and robotics technology advances, large portions of the population could be replaced by machines. A trust fund that the U.S. uses to pay retirement benefits is expected to run out around 2032. Roubini said that a universal basic income (UBI) will ultimately be unavoidable. Roubini: Raising the retirement age cannot address the AI employment sho

An independent SOLO miner recently used the open-source Bitaxe micro-miner (priced at about $60 to $150) and, after connecting to a Public Pool mining pool service, it ran for only 8 hours, with an average hashrate of 995 GH/s (about 1 TH/s). The miner successfully mined Bitcoin block number 957,382, claiming the full block reward of 3.1382 BTC, which is about $200,000 at current market prices. Bitaxe roughly $150 micro-miner specifications Bitaxe is an open-source ASIC miner with a size about t

The NFT project “Pudgy Penguins” announced on July 20 that its Pengu plush toy has officially arrived in the toy sections of all Target stores across the United States. Previously, on June 20, Pudgy Penguins’ trading card game Vibes Series 3 entered Target’s nationwide retail channels. Pengu plush toys go on sale at Target in the U.S. on July 20 (Source: Pudgy Penguins) According to Pudgy Penguins’ official announcement, the timeline for its 2026 U.S. physical retail expansion is as follows: Jun

On-chain sleuth ZachXBT recently criticized all hardware wallets in the community as “completely garbage,” saying they shouldn’t be used to sign important transactions or store assets. He suggested replacing hardware wallets with a dedicated old iPhone (fully disconnected from everyday web browsing and app downloads) as a cold wallet. ZachXBT’s criticism isn’t just about private-key storage security—it also highlights the risk that users can be tricked into authorizing malicious content in compl

Robert Kiyosaki stated on July 17 that the recent gold and silver correction presents a buying opportunity, echoing a bullish long-term outlook he attributed to veteran investor Jim Rogers. Kiyosaki said Rogers expects gold and silver prices to go to the moon while warning that severe retracements c

Micron, SanDisk, Western Digital, CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN stocks rose in overnight trading on Sunday following a brutal week for AI-linked equities. Micron stock gained 2.5%, while SanDisk and Western Digital shares rose about 1% each, and CoreWeave, Nebius, and IREN advanced between 1% and 1.2%

US stock futures climbed higher in the overnight session late Sunday ahead of a key earnings week. Nasdaq-100 futures rose 0.45%, Dow futures gained 0.04%, and S&P 500 futures advanced 0.14% at 9:11 PM EDT. The gains came as tensions in the Middle East escalated over the weekend, with the US

Netflix Inc. (NFLX), Oracle Corp. (ORCL), and SpaceX (SPCX) stocks fell to 52-week lows last week amid investor concerns about future growth, mounting debt, and post-IPO profit-taking. NFLX stock declined more than 7% at close as investors reacted negatively to the company's latest earnings

Sellas Life Sciences (SLS) stock jumped 3% overnight late Monday as retail traders speculated that the company's upcoming acute myeloid leukemia (AML) trial readout could attract Big Pharma attention following CEO Angelos Stergiou's scheduled Fox appearance. The speculation centers on the Phase 3

Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) stock rose 0.3% overnight late Sunday after the company announced plans to significantly increase production at its German factory, while Morningstar raised its fair value estimate and forecast a 10% delivery rebound in 2026. The electric vehicle maker's shares had fallen 3% on

Taiwan workplace information platform “Interviewing Fun” and “Salary Comparison” founder Chen Zhihong (Max) recently shared on Threads that he used Claude Code to independently build the nationwide early childhood education park review website “Parenting Fun” over 56 hours, completing 216 code submissions. Based on Max’s past product experience over the past decade, a website of the same scale usually requires a 7-person team and takes about half a year. Parenting Fun website scale: Information

South Korea's ruling party and government held a policy meeting on the 20th where Financial Services Commission (FSC) Chairman Lee Eok-won and National Policy Committee members discussed the urgent need for Digital Asset Basic Act legislation. Rep. Park Sang-hyuk, the ruling party whip on the Nation

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China announced, at a news briefing held by the State Council Information Office on July 20, 2026, an overview of industrial and information-technology development in the first half of 2026. MIIT spokesperson and head of the Department of Information and Communications Development, Xie Cun, said that over the past two years, more than 70 “computing power” high-capacity corridors have been built around the co-construction of national computin

Bitcoin’s community is embroiled in heated controversy over a temporary soft-fork proposal, BIP-110. One of the most controversial provisions in the proposal is to slash the miner-approval threshold for upgrading the Bitcoin protocol from the current 95% down to 55%. The proposal uses a miner-signaling activation mechanism, setting approximately August 7 as the start of the mandatory signaling period, approximately September 1 as the rule effective date, and also providing a user-activated soft

According to RootData statistics, from March to May, within just two months, a total of 62 crypto projects were recorded as entering a shutdown list, equivalent to an average of one project shutting down per day. The shutdown projects include early ZK-Rollup protocol Loopring, as well as well-funded projects like Yupp, an AI+Crypto infrastructure project led by a16z. RootData data: 62 projects shut down as of 2026, shutdown timeline and funding scale Based on RootData’s records, the following ar

Korean banks are tightening lending standards in the third quarter, primarily in the household sector, according to a Bank of Korea survey released on the 20th. The composite lending attitude index fell to -7 in Q3 from -2 in Q2, indicating stricter lending conditions. Banks cited rising credit