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Musinsa is pursuing an IPO targeting a 10 trillion won corporate valuation, but Redeemable Convertible Preferred Shares (RCPS) issued during past fundraising rounds are pressuring net income and financial structure. In 2024, the company recorded operating profit of 140.5 billion won but net profit o

A Bitcoin quantum security proposal published in April by Jameson Lopp and five co-authors has gained a potential recovery mechanism through zero-knowledge proof technology. BIP-361 proposes freezing bitcoin held in quantum-vulnerable addresses after a multi-year timeline, targeting more than 34% of

Corporate insiders sold $77.6 billion in stocks during the first half of the year, marking a 20% increase from the same period in 2025, according to The Kobeissi Letter. The selling was driven by concerns over valuations, geopolitical factors, and the sustainability of massive AI spending. This

Kenya's government is investigating a cyberattack that disabled President William Ruto's official website on July 18, with hackers defacing the homepage and demanding 5 bitcoins to prevent a threatened data leak. The attackers replaced standard content on president.go.ke with derogatory messages and

U.S. regulators missed the July 18 one-year rulemaking deadline for the GENIUS Act without issuing final regulations needed to implement the federal stablecoin framework, leaving core rule packages unfinished less than six months before the law takes effect Jan. 18, 2027. The Treasury Department,

XRP reached an all-time high of $3.65 on July 18, one year ago, before entering a prolonged correction that has tested investor conviction. Market analyst ChartNerd stated that this pullback follows XRP's historical pattern of suffering more than 70% corrections after previous market tops, which

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix stocks became global indicators for AI and semiconductor equities as the 60-day correlation between KOSPI and the NASDAQ100 index reached 0.46, approaching a two-year high. Bloomberg reported on the 19th (local time) that the Korean stock market now guides

Warren Buffett disclosed for the first time Berkshire Hathaway's investment background in Alphabet (Google's parent company) during a CNBC interview on the 18th (local time). Buffett reaffirmed that not investing in Google earlier was a 'mistake' because it was an 'asset-light' business, and

Bolivia's government is studying the integration of USDT into its financial system, Minister Jose Gabriel Espinoza stated on Friday. Venezuela's Binance peer-to-peer market recorded USDT 1.389 billion in volumes between June 11 and July 13, according to estimates by economic consulting firm

Astoria Portfolio Advisors launched the ROE ETF (Astoria US Equal Weight Quality Kings ETF) focusing on high Return on Equity stocks amid growing demand for quality investments driven by extreme volatility in AI-related stocks. The ETF selects the top 100 US large- and mid-cap stocks based on qualit

SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won recently advised shareholders to hold SK Hynix stocks long-term rather than trading them, describing the global memory semiconductor shortage as 'pandemonium' due to intense demand. Chey stated the company faces enormous lobbying and pressure from customers

Trump Media & Technology Group has discussed charging Wall Street traders and investment firms as much as $100,000 a month for faster access to posts on Truth Social, according to people familiar with the matter. The company has also pitched a discounted plan of $60,000 a month for firms that sign u

South Korea's Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) sent an inspection opinion letter to Dunamu, the operator of crypto exchange Upbit, regarding the $36 million hack from November 2025, local news outlet Yonhap News reported Sunday. The letter marks the formal start of a sanctions procedure by the

Senator Bill Hagerty delivered an endorsement of the CLARITY Act, declaring 'We will get it done because we have to get it done,' generating optimism across the XRP community. Hagerty identified timing as the primary challenge facing the legislation, not a lack of political support. The statement

Kim Sung-yeol, Director of Industrial Growth at the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, was appointed as Economic Security Secretary at the Blue House. Kim started official duties on the 19th by attending a weekly meeting chaired by Presidential Chief of Staff Kang Hoon-sik. The appointment

Presidential Office policy director Kim Yong-beom rejected calls to delist single-stock leveraged exchange-traded funds (ETFs) during an appearance on KBS1's '일요진단 라이브' program on the 19th, stating such a move is 'hard to imagine' given the market's scale has exceeded 10 trillion won with existing i

South Korea's National Growth Fund completed the selection of fund managers for rounds 1 and 2 this year, with 18 private equity firms securing anchor investor status in a 200 trillion won policy fund over five years. Round 1 allocated 3.9 trillion won to 11 general partners from 81

Foundry Digital, AntPool, ViaBTC, and F2Pool held over 70% of Bitcoin hashrate on June 23, 2026, per miningpoolstats.stream data. The concentration is driving what coverage describes as a two-tier market, with the largest pools increasingly optimized for institutional clients while independent and m

Korean activist funds shifted their focus to independent board governance on the 19th, moving beyond dividend and share buyback demands. Align Partners requested independent board systems from JB Financial Group and BNK Financial Group on the

Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) CEO Jason Oxman indicated that members of his organization might start recognizing Bitcoin's disruptive potential, suggesting this might lead to more partnerships between traditional electronic payment providers and Bitcoin startups. On August 6, the ETA