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US employers are reducing uniform wage increases in favor of performance-based compensation for 2027, according to compensation research firm PayScale reported by Yahoo Finance on local time August 9. Only 32% of companies plan across-the-board raises in 2027, down from 36% in 2026, while the

Academy Securities Head of Macro Strategy Peter Tchir pointed out in his latest Bloomberg analysis that the core contradiction facing U.S. households may have shifted from “prices are still rising rapidly” to “the prices that rose previously have never come back down.” He compared the Truflation real-time inflation tracker with official CPI and core PCE data, finding that the real-time indicator is now significantly below traditional inflation indicators. The Reversal in the Crossover Between th

Japan's three major banks are securing foreign currency liquidity to prepare for a potential surge in corporate dollar funding demand as the US-Iran conflict prolongs. MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Mizuho Bank held a combined $1.25 trillion in foreign currency deposits and

The unit price of Shrike kamikaze drones produced by Ukrainian drone manufacturer SkyFall rose from $400 to $2,000 after the drones were equipped with an autonomous tracking system from U.S. company Auterion. The drones can independently lock onto and strike moving targets even when GPS is completely jammed and remote-control signals are interrupted. Since mid-July 2026, 50k such drones have been delivered to the Ukrainian front lines. Technical Principles of Auterion’s Autonomous Tracking Syste

Christopher Smith, CEO and co-founder of Quantus Network, warned that the first quantum computing attack on cryptocurrency will likely appear as unexplained wallet breaches. Smith told Cointelegraph these breaches would show no forensic trace of how attackers accessed funds. A sufficiently

Solana on-chain perpetual futures platform Flash.Trade announced on August 7 that it would gradually cease operations if it could not find an interested acquirer. In response to questions about whether “the Solana Foundation strongly supported Phoenix and killed Flash.Trade,” Solana co-founder toly said that the Foundation’s role was limited to publicizing and promoting products during the early stage after their launch, and nothing more. toly’s Original Response: The Scope and Limitations of th

ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood argues that open-weight AI models strengthen rather than weaken frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic. Wood's thesis inverts the conventional investment narrative that open-weight models threaten frontier labs by offering free alternatives. She contends that as o

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on Aug. 9 that it was imposing sanctions on digital asset exchanges Shelbit and Aban Tether, as well as their founder Siavash Kayvanpour, accusing the Iranian regime of secretly using these platforms to access the international financial system and support the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and terrorist organizations. OFAC Sanctioned Entities List: Kayvanpour and His Six Affiliated Companies According to

Kumho Petrochemical reported Q2 operating profit of 339 billion won on the 11th, a 420% increase compared to the previous year and 471% higher than the previous quarter, significantly exceeding market consensus of 147 billion won. The earnings surprise was driven by improved profitability in the

Bybit, a cryptocurrency exchange, has formally filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the North Korean government, North Korea’s Reconnaissance General Bureau (RGB), and the Lazarus Group, alleging that they were responsible for the theft of approximately $1.5 billion in crypto assets in February 2025. The court has issued a preliminary injunction freezing the relevant wallets and platform funds. Bybit filed the lawsuit confidentially in June 2026, and th

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk endorsed a Cloudflare study predicting that machine-generated internet traffic will surpass human traffic by 1,000 times within five years, while investor Michael Burry questioned the sustainability of AI investments in response. Cloudflare CFO Thomas Seifert stated th

PayProtocol, the virtual asset payment subsidiary of Danal, announced on the 10th the launch of an enterprise-focused open beta for PayChain. PayChain is an on-chain financial infrastructure designed to serve as the foundation for the PCI (PayCoin) ecosystem. The open beta will run until

Brazil’s central bank (BCB) announced on August 9 that it will require virtual asset service providers (VASPs) to impose preventive freezes of up to 24 hours on certain transfers to foreign platforms or self-custody wallets to prevent cryptocurrency scams. The new rules apply to transfers exceeding $10k per transaction, or when a customer’s total transactions for the day exceed $10k. The rules will take effect on January 1, 2027. Specific Applicability Conditions and Service Provider Obligations

A Reddit user posted on August 5 that he had sent in a 48GB DDR5 memory kit for repair under Crucial’s “lifetime warranty,” only to receive notice from Micron that replacement products would no longer be available as of that day. The only option was a refund of the original purchase price—$241.86—because Crucial had closed its consumer business earlier this year and its remaining inventory had sold out. How Crucial’s Lifetime Warranty Refund Is Calculated The user explained that purchasing a DDR

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun posted on X on August 9, stating bluntly that OCEAN mining pool co-founder and CTO Luke Dashjr is not only financially bankrupt but also reputationally bankrupt. The BIP-110 mandatory signaling period began at block 961,632 on August 7, with miner support at only 2.53%; only one block, 961,633, was mined after the fork. Stagnation Data for the BIP-110 Minority Chain According to data from the BIP-110 monitor, updated at 10:19 UTC, the latest block on the minority chai

The Bank of Korea announced on the 10th that it will extend the integration period for 1-year monetary stabilization bonds from 2 months to 3 months. The issuance dates will be adjusted from the 9th of January, March, May, July, September, and November to the 1st of March, June, September, and

US construction companies added 22,000 jobs in July despite overall employment decreasing by 23,000, driven by surging artificial intelligence infrastructure investment. The hiring concentrated in non-residential and infrastructure construction, which added 126,000 positions over the past year

Yuanta Securities economist Kim Ho-jeong forecasts a 93% probability that the USD-KRW exchange rate will touch 1,400 won by year-end, driven by improved forex market supply-demand dynamics. The projection stems from time-limited supply factors including SK Hynix currency conversion and South Korea's

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service released investor guidance on August 10 addressing major dispute cases involving overseas real estate public funds. The regulatory alert responds to recent incidents of total principal loss and a steady stream of related complaints from investors who

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper published an op-ed in the Financial Times on Aug. 8, stating that the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, but “also a national security bill that should be understood from that perspective and passed as soon as possible.” His three major national security arguments include that the bill could provide the United States with better tools to prevent North Korean actors, such as the Lazarus Group, from exploiting vulnerabilities in cryptoc