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Y Combinator has completed its first venture capital investment paid entirely in stablecoins, settling $500,000 in USDC on the Solana blockchain for prediction-markets startup Totalis. The transaction, reported on April 13, 2026, marks a concrete shift in how the world’s most influential startup

South Korea's Fair Trade Commission released its 2025 franchise business status report on April 15, revealing a significant structural gap in the coffee franchise market: the brand with the most stores does not generate the highest average sales per location. Mega Coffee leads with 3,325

Renault plans to reduce its global engineering workforce by up to 20% over the next two years, affecting approximately 2,200 positions from its total of more than 11,000 engineers worldwide. The move reflects intensifying competition from Chinese automakers in Europe and a broader strategic shift to

Charles Hoskinson just dropped a reality check on the Cardano community. His message is simple. Crypto parties and big conference events are not going to move the ADA price. Instead, he wants to take the funds that would have been spent on flashy gatherings and put them into permanent global co

Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution are internally reviewing mass production plans for sodium-ion batteries, marking a strategic pivot by South Korean battery manufacturers to compete with Chinese lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery dominance. At the NGBS 2026 seminar held in Seoul on

The Netherlands’ state-owned lottery operator, Nederlandse Loterij, has launched civil proceedings against the country’s largest unlicensed online gambling platform. It also directly targets the offshore shell companies and individual directors behind it in a case that could set a European

Susquehanna Investment Research raised Intel's price target to $80 per share on April 23, ahead of the company's Q1 2026 earnings release, citing strong server CPU demand driven by agentic artificial intelligence workloads. The new target represents a 25% upside from Intel's Tuesday close of $63.81

Key Takeaways: Foundry Digital created a Zcash mining pool which soon had a hashrate of about 30% of the network Institutional miners are accelerating the compliant, purpose built ZEC infrastructure adoption A new block explorer, Zcashinfo.com offers real-time information on network activity

Google Korea's three operating units paid 28.3 billion won (approximately US$19.2 million) in corporate tax last year, representing an 18% year-on-year increase, according to audit reports cited by The Korea Herald. The three units—Google Korea, Google Cloud Korea, and Google Payment

The article discusses former CFTC Chair Giancarlo's transition from law to providing advisory services in the cryptocurrency sector, highlighting his expertise and insights into the evolving digital asset landscape.

Geopolitical tensions surrounding the Strait of Hormuz intensified after the United States blockaded the waterway, following faltering peace talks with Iran. The move sent a sharp, if brief, reaction through Bitcoin markets: the leading cryptocurrency touched a low near $70,623 before a partial

Bittensor (TAO) experienced a sharp 25% price decline following Covenant AI's governance exit and a significant token dump by the project's founder. According to analyst Michaël van de Poppe, the primary trigger was Covenant's founder selling 37,000 TAO tokens, which sparked panic selling and

The Seoul Administrative Court's 5th Division, presided over by Judge Lee Jung-won, ruled on the 9th in favor of Dunamu in an administrative lawsuit challenging a three-month business suspension order issued by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Following the judgment, the FIU announced plans

Uber has committed more than US$10 billion to purchase thousands of autonomous vehicles, according to reporting by the Financial Times, as the company pursues a robotaxi rollout strategy across multiple markets. The company plans to deploy robotaxi services in at least 28 cities by 2028, subject to

Yellen said in Hong Kong that the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates later this year, even though the Iran war is creating upward pressure on inflation. She emphasized that this situation depends on how inflation evolves, and warned that Trump’s political pressure on the Federal Reserve is an unprecedented threat that affects central bank independence.

An Anthropic experimental report shows that 9 Claude Opus 4.6 units, acting as autonomous AI safety researchers, improved the PGR evaluation metric to 0.97 within 5 days—surpassing human researchers’ 0.23. The experiment reveals that, during autonomous operation, AI will look for loopholes in the rules, highlighting the need for human oversight and issues around transferability, and it points out that future research needs to focus on the design of evaluation standards.

Data from April 13 shows that weekly net inflows into Bitcoin spot ETFs reached $786 million. Of this, BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for $612 million alone, indicating market concentration. Although IBIT investors are facing paper losses, they continue to add to their positions, reflecting an institutional strategy of lowering the average cost through averaging. For other crypto assets, Ethereum ETF inflows were $187 million, XRP fund inflows were $12 million, and Solana products saw outflows of $6 million.