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MSCI revives proposal to remove Strategy and Metaplanet from index
Corporate Bitcoin holders, Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) and Metaplanet (TYO:3350) are back on the MSCI exclusion watchlist after the index revived a proposal that would remove both firms from its stock benchmarks. The consultations starting this month revive 2025 headaches for Strategy and Metaplanet, who could face forced selling from index-tracking funds if MSCI somehow resolves...
Fri, Aug 14
JPMorgan cuts Polymarket ties after Dimon floated prediction bets
JPMorgan Chase has reportedly closed Polymarket’s bank account over regulatory concerns. This comes months after chief executive Jamie Dimon said the bank might one day sell prediction-market products of its own. This contrast points to an emerging issue for Wall Street. Banks recognize that they can make money with the prediction market, where individuals invest...
Fri, Aug 14
TradFi trading accelerates, HIP-3 reveals focus on memory stocks
TradFi trading remains one of the key growth drivers for on-chain activity. Centralized markets are also boosting the share of equities, metals, and securities in their trading mix.
Fri, Aug 14
Apple builds a China-only AI model as the US-China AI gap closes
Apple is working on an AI model aimed at China’s market, creating a localized version of its AI model that complies with the rules and regulations of the country. The move comes reportedly with support from Alibaba as US and Chinese AI models increasingly close the capability gap. Apple’s decision to develop a China-specific model...
Fri, Aug 14
Kalshi’s Daily Perp Open Interest Hits Record $17.98 Million
Kalshi’s perpetual futures product went live on June 3 with BTCPERP becoming the first perp contract cleared by the CFTC for US traders. Ether went live on June 4, XRP on June 10 and the roster now covers 13 crypto assets. This week, on August 12, daily perpetual futures open interest closed at $17.98 million,...
Fri, Aug 14
Bitcoin Red Team, BPI and 40+ firms join forces to close the AI security Gap
More than forty crypto companies are urging top AI labs to allow approved Bitcoin security experts to use the cutting-edge models already in the hands of hackers. This request is coordinated by the Bitcoin Policy Institute (BPI) and explains that access to technologies, including those from OpenAI and Anthropic as a defensive imperative for software...
Fri, Aug 14
Kalshi ruling puts crypto prediction market boom under pressure
A Washington court has ordered Kalshi to stop offering most of its event contracts in the state, as prediction markets become one of crypto’s busiest trading arenas. According to Pew Research data, the period between July 2024 and the first five months of 2026 saw cryptocurrency contracts contributing to approximately 20% of Polymarket’s trade volume...
Fri, Aug 14
Trump slaps up to 100% tariffs on drones in fresh crackdown on Chinese tech
President Donald Trump imposed a huge 100% tariff on imported drones to challenge China’s market grip. The White House has so far framed the decision as a national security measure, slapping a 100% duty on certain unmanned aircraft systems, including those exceeding 25 kilograms and those with specialized security capabilities, while smaller drone models are...
Fri, Aug 14
Gemini posts $108 million loss as crypto slump drains exchange volumes
Gemini reported a second-quarter net loss of $107.7 million on August 13 and its shares fell by over 7% in after-hours trading. This is the clearest sign so far that a crypto downturn in the marketplace is now damaging exchanges that continue to generate revenue from trading fees. The damage was primarily to Gemini’s business...
Fri, Aug 14
Google ships Gemini 3.7 Flash while its flagship 3.5 Pro stays delayed
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) has launched Gemini 3.7 Flash on Thursday, August 13. This is its second low-cost coding model in a matter of three weeks, despite delaying the Gemini 3.5 Pro it promised developers as far back as May. For individuals and enterprise users banking on Google’s AI stack, they might be a bit disappointed,...
Thu, Aug 13
KPMG signs off on Tether's 2025 books with an unqualified opinion
Tether said on Thursday that KPMG U.S. completed a full audit of its 2025 financial statements and issued an unqualified opinion. The audit in question is the first full one the company has experienced, despite USDT being the world’s largest stablecoin with more than $180 billion in circulation. What did KPMG’s audit of Tether reveal?...
Thu, Aug 13
Shipping partner breach exposes data of 14,000 Trezor customers
Nearly 14,000 Trezor buyers had their names and contact details stolen after ShipMonk, the hardware wallet maker’s shipping partner, was hacked. The people affected now face a heightened risk of phishing and, in some cases, theft at their home addresses, as French users have experienced. What details were exposed in the Trezor leak? Trezor reported...
Thu, Aug 13
Trump-backed World Liberty Financial taps former Coinbase exec as business lead
World Liberty Financial, the crypto firm with links to the Trump family, has announced the hiring of Ryan Ballantyne as chief business officer. The new man is an experienced Wall Street executive and recently served as an executive at Coinbase. The announcement comes as the crypto venture seeks to go into tokenized real estate and...
Thu, Aug 13
Token buybacks keep growing, but the price floor keeps failing
Hyperliquid has burned $1.3 billion of HYPE since November 2024, and Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says the market has not priced in what revenue now returns to tokens.
Thu, Aug 13
Google ties the Uber Freight hackers to a $10.6 million vishing operation
The Helix extortion group says it took about a million files from Uber Freight, which confirms a data security incident but won't say if it paid a ransom.
Thu, Aug 13
AMD to raise $4 to $5 billion in debt offering
Chip manufacturing giant AMD is preparing a debt offering of about $4 billion to $5 billion in what would be its largest investment-grade bond sale ever. The chipmaker aims to acquire fresh cash for its AI expansion from this sale, while adding to the increasing pile of debt in the tech sector. Sale in four...
Thu, Aug 13
BubbleMaps flags XST as a rug risk after 99% wipeout warning
On-chain analytics firm BubbleMaps has warned that XST, a memecoin spreading fast through TikTok, has roughly 74% of its supply bundled in a small cluster of wallets. BubbleMaps, which is popular for giving warnings right before some brutal crashes, has told buyers to skip the token. Is it safe to invest in the TikTok-viral XST?...
Thu, Aug 13
Michael Saylor defines digital assets along monetary spectrum
Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) chairman Michael Saylor has mapped Bitcoin, two of his company’s yield products, and Tether onto a single monetary scale. Observers are saying Saylor is trying to tell investors which digital assets to hold for growth and which to hold for stability; however, he did not confirm it. Four labels, one sliding scale...
Thu, Aug 13
SK Hynix workers launch unified union due to stalled wages
SK Hynix workers launched a fourth labor union on Wednesday, merging production and office staff from multiple worker regions into a single body that will speak for a majority of the chipmaker’s about 35,000 employees. The union aims to work towards rescinding a proposed plan to pay workers’ bonuses in restricted company stock instead of...
Thu, Aug 13
NullReceiver ditches the burn address that made EtherHiding easy to spot
Six npm packages pull their command server addresses from an attacker's Ethereum wallet, and three of them were trusted libraries whose accounts got taken over.
Thu, Aug 13
