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Robinhood and Coinbase reported diverging second quarter 2026 results as crypto trading volumes declined across both platforms. Robinhood's crypto transaction revenue fell to $100 million, down 37.5% year-over-year, while the company posted record total transaction revenue of $776 million through

Jeff Bezos filed a Form 144 notice to sell 15 million Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) shares valued at approximately $4.07 billion, priced at Friday's closing price of $271.58 per share. Amazon fell more than 2% on Tuesday after closing at a record $284.02 on Monday and surpassing $3 trillion in market value

The S&P 500 reached a new intraday record on Tuesday, climbing above 7,700 for the first time as investors returned to risk assets. The benchmark index hit 7,716.62 during the session, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained more than 900 points and the Nasdaq advanced approximately 2%. The ra

Market analyst EGRAG CRYPTO has proposed that the XRP Ledger (XRPL) could become part of Japan's strategy to improve liquidity and strengthen the yen's efficiency without triggering a disruptive global asset sell-off. The proposal addresses Japan's inefficient liquidity management, which EGRAG

The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) has fined UBS Financial Services $125 million for willful Bank Secrecy Act violations. The penalty represents the largest civil sanction ever assessed against a broker-dealer for anti-money laundering rule

The US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the June Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey on August 4 local time, showing job openings at 7.359 million on a seasonally adjusted basis, nearly unchanged from the prior month. The figure came in slightly below the market expectation of 7.4 million

The US Department of Commerce reported on local time August 4 that the June trade deficit reached $73.3 billion. The figure exceeded the market forecast of $73 billion compiled by Yonhap Infomax, while the prior month's deficit was revised to $77.6 billion. The deficit occurred as both exports and i

MARA Holdings opened its Slipstream service to the public on August 3, 2026, removing the client code requirement that previously restricted access. The move came as bitcoin holders raced to move funds from Coldcard hardware wallets compromised by a firmware flaw dating to March 2021 that enabled ha

Ben Reitzes, Head of Technology Research at Melius Research, described the recent semiconductor stock selloff as the 'exclamation point' of the latest AI pullback and identified it as a compelling buying opportunity. The correction was fueled by concerns that open-source AI models could compress

Dinari announced Tuesday it has become the first company to allow eligible U.S. investors to trade over 700 tokenized stocks using USDC through self-custody wallets. The move follows a partnership with Circle that enables U.S. individuals and businesses to buy and sell every stock in the S&P 500

BitGo announced on Tuesday it is switching Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) — an asset with a $7.4 billion market cap — to Chainlink's CCIP cross-chain standard. The move follows the $292 million KelpDAO bridge exploit that occurred earlier this year and joins a broader industry shift away from LayerZero. The

Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake and five co-authors, led by researcher pintail, submitted draft proposal EIP-8361 to reduce ETH staking rewards by implementing a burn mechanism that would halt rewards once 50% of all ETH is staked. The proposal would lower annual staking rewards from the

SpaceX will release its first quarterly earnings report as a public company after the market closes on August 4, with the stock trading at $117 at press time, up 2.75% from the intra-day low but down approximately 15% from its $135 IPO price and more than 50% from its post-listing peak. The report f

Gold traded near $4,060 an ounce on Aug. 4 as geopolitical risk supported demand while expectations for higher U.S. interest rates limited the rebound. Spot gold rose 0.2% to $4,062.41 an ounce by 5:04 a.m. GMT, and U.S. gold futures gained 0.7% to $4,117.50, with traders balancing uncertainty

Silver traded close to $59 an ounce on Tuesday, Aug. 4, as geopolitical uncertainty and renewed precious-metal demand offset concerns about higher U.S. interest rates. Spot silver rose 1.2% to $58.88 by 6:50 a.m. GMT, outperforming gold's smaller gain. Markets were pricing a 65% probability of a

Hashdex, a Brazilian asset manager, is liquidating its DEFI spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund after August 17, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission reported by CoinDesk. The closure marks the first U.S. spot bitcoin ETF liquidation involving a fund that holds bitcoi

BNY, which holds $62.6 trillion in custody assets as of June 30, 2026, announced a collaboration with Galaxy Digital on Aug. 4, 2026, to integrate crypto staking into its Digital Asset Custody platform. The partnership addresses

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced on Tuesday that she is suing Amazon on antitrust grounds, alleging the online retailer abuses its power over third-party delivery contractors to suppress competition and harm workers. The lawsuit claims Amazon prevents delivery workers from un

Amazon joined the Nvidia-led Open Secure AI Alliance on Tuesday, bringing the group's membership to over 120 organizations. The alliance, in collaboration with the Linux Foundation, introduced the Shared AI Findings Exchange (SAFE), a framework designed to confidentially share agentic AI security in