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The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped more than 600 points Wednesday morning as selling accelerated across Wall Street, with the S&P 500 falling about 0.4% and the Nasdaq Composite moving roughly 0.8% lower. The move was much sharper than the opening suggested, as the Dow began the session

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady at 3.5%–3.75% on Wednesday, meeting near-universal market expectations. Bitcoin dipped around 1% to $63,890 following the announcement while Ethereum fell by about 1%, trading just above $1,900. The hold reflects persistent inflation above the Fed's 2%

A CryptoQuant analyst suggests Bitcoin's bear market may be nearing its end, with an ultimate bottom expected at the $51,336 level. Bitcoin reached an all-time high of $126,000 in October 2025 before entering a bear market and falling more than 50%, reaching levels as low as $57,000. The analyst

K33 Research and analyst Michaël van de Poppe stated ahead of the FED meeting in July that the upcoming interest rate decision may have a limited impact on Bitcoin. K33 Research head Vetle Lunde noted Bitcoin's correlation with Nasdaq has approached

The stablecoin market capitalization fell 4.3% from its May peak of $322.41 billion to $308.5 billion, with June recording a $7.7 billion monthly decline—the largest drop since the Terra collapse in May 2022. Adjusted stablecoin transaction volume reached a record $1.83 trillion in June, 60%

xAI filed a complaint Monday against Minnesota's enforcement of a ban on nudification technology, seeking to block a law set to take effect August 1 that threatens fines up to $500,000 per harmful output. The lawsuit follows arrests of Grok users accused of creating child sex abuse materials and

Citadel Securities, a US financial giant managing $67 billion in assets, argues the Fed will surprise markets by raising interest rates by 25 basis points ahead of the Fed's interest rate decision. Frank Flight, Head of Macro Strategy at Citadel Securities, stated that Federal Reserve Chairman

Anthropic scanned millions of used books to train its AI model Claude by purchasing physical copies, removing covers, and digitizing every page before destroying the originals. In June 2025, Judge William Alsup ruled this practice legal under the first-sale doctrine in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, d

eole, an AI data center company listed on the Japanese stock exchange, announced an investment in HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The company initially acquired HYPE for 10 million yen

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg announced during a Tuesday earnings call that the redesign of Starliner spacecraft deficiencies is "going quite well," following NASA's February classification of the vehicle's 2024 crewed flight as a Type A mishap. The deficiencies stem from propulsion system failures that

The Ethereum Foundation appointed Pascal Caversaccio, known as pcaversaccio, to its board as the fourth member, according to an announcement on Wednesday. Caversaccio, co-founder of SEAL 911 and recognized for technical security expertise and philosophical commentary on cypherpunk culture, joins

Federally chartered national bank Anchorage Digital filed a comment letter this week opposing the Federal Reserve's proposed payment account structure for crypto companies. The bank stated the proposed account lacks FedACH access, imposes overnight balance limits, offers no intraday liquidity, and p

Google is reportedly developing a server chip called Frozen v2 designed specifically for Gemini inference, with deployment targeted for as early as 2028. Engineers working on the project project the chip could serve six to 10 times more tokens per unit of power than Google's newest tensor

Ether exchange-traded funds recorded $14.53 million in net inflows on July 28 while bitcoin ETFs posted $49.75 million in outflows. Blackrock's ETHB led ether products with $5.91 million, and Morgan Stanley's newly launched staking-enabled MSSE attracted $5.15 million on its debut. Institutional

Ethereum fell 1.53% to $1,890 on Wednesday, retreating from a session high of $1,926 as traders awaited the Federal Reserve's rate decision. The decline occurred amid a broader crypto market holding pattern, with Bitcoin hovering near $64,000 and the Fear & Greed Index at 29 in fear territory. The F

Fundstrat Managing Partner Tom Lee stated that AI infrastructure stocks such as Micron Technology Inc. could find support after Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy decision, arguing that excessive investor pessimism has driven recent declines. Lee said 'a lot of fear is baked into the prices' of AI '

The Bank of Russia published draft regulations for digital currency trading on Monday. The central bank released changes to its organized trading rules, incorporating the term digital currency throughout. The new rules require organizations like crypto exchanges to report digital assets into their e