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Citadel Securities commits $400M to Crypto.com at $10B valuation
Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in the crypto exchange platform, Crypto.com. This is the first time the crypto exchange has raised outside money in a decade. This deal places the crypto platform at a $20 billion valuation. The deal was announced on Thursday, July 16, 2026, and it represents a strategic investment by one...
Thu, Jul 16
Polygon Labs announces layoffs as Coinme acquisition enters final stages
Polygon Labs has cut jobs as it moves to complete its acquisition of crypto payments firm Coinme, its CEO, Marc Boiron, stated on X on Thursday, July 16. Boiron wrote that the company is “in the final stages of completing the Coinme acquisition,” which folds Coinme’s team into Polygon Labs, and cast the acquisition as...
Thu, Jul 16
Japan's 27,500-chip Nvidia deal challenges China's grip on robotics
Japan has bought its way into the advanced models and chip industry after a year of the United States dominating the space, with China pouring subsidies into the machines that use them. Japan is directly challenging China’s lead in robotics, using the same Nvidia hardware that Chinese robot makers themselves depend on. Why is Japan...
Thu, Jul 16
TSMC posted a 77.4% year-on-year profit jump in Q2
Taiwan’s largest chipmaker, TSMC, reported another blockbuster quarter on Thursday as strong demand for AI chips continued to drive growth. The company said its net profit jumped 77.4% from a year earlier and rose 23.4% from the previous quarter, marking its fifth consecutive record quarter. Revenue increased 36% year over year to NT$1.27 trillion (about...
Thu, Jul 16
CNN investigation finds Trump promoted over 20 companies days after buying their stock.
President Donald Trump promoted over 20 companies on Truth Social merely days after buying their stock. This was found in a CNN investigation published on Thursday. In some cases, the President flagged government moves that could benefit companies he invested in. Caey Tolan and Isabelle Chapman were the brains behind the investigation. And the reporting...
Thu, Jul 16
Micron signs deal with Qualcomm and other tech partners over AI-powered automobile chip components
Micron Technology locked in long-term supply deals with Qualcomm and six other automotive suppliers on Thursday, moving to secure memory and storage capacity for an automobile industry that is starting to consume chips at a scale rivaling data centers. The company said the Strategic Customer Agreements cover seven Tier 1 suppliers, which include Qualcomm, Visteon,...
Thu, Jul 16
Ondo Finance partners with SBI Holdings to tokenize Japanese equities
Ondo Finance has partnered with Japan’s SBI Group to bring Japanese equities onto the blockchain and settle trades using SBI’s yen-backed stablecoin, in a deal aimed at giving SBI’s customers a way to buy Japanese stocks via the blockchain. The partnership pairs a US-based tokenization firm with one of Japan’s largest financial firms, moving a...
Thu, Jul 16
1inch co-founder has announced his exit from the project
Co-founder of 1inch, Anton Bukov, has left the project after six years and is starting a new venture. In a post on Thursday, Bukov said he was fired from the 1inch team in late November 2025, though he keeps his co-founder title and a 50% ownership stake. The DEX aggregator confirmed the exit on X,...
Thu, Jul 16
U.S. Senate has passed a resolution to oppose a pardon for Sam Bankman-Fried
The U.S. Senate has moved to oppose any pardon for disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried from the White House. A resolution, S. Res. 772, cleared the chamber by unanimous consent on Wednesday, establishing the Senate’s resolve that “under no circumstances” should SBF receive executive clemency, whether a pardon or commutation. The nonbinding resolution carries no...
Thu, Jul 16
Ukraine cracks down on Russia’s crypto flows in step with new EU sanctions
Ukraine is now targeting Russia’s ability to evade financial restrictions using modern technology, including cryptocurrencies and stablecoins. The move brings Kyiv’s sanctions regime in line with the EU’s most recent packages of measures against Moscow and goes beyond them in certain areas. Zelenskyy slaps Russia with new crypto sanctions Ukrainian authorities are expanding restrictions for...
Thu, Jul 16
Morpho returns online after AWS outage takes down services
Morpho has confirmed that its web app and API came back online following a partial outage that it blamed on an Amazon CloudFront failure. The Amazon downtime took out the second-largest onchain lending network, behind only Aave, for several hours, during which borrowers and lenders could not reach the app.morpho.org and api.morpho.org portals. Morpho is...
Thu, Jul 16
India's ED seizes crypto worth ₹3.35 crore in fraud-linked laundering raids
India’s Enforcement Directorate seized cryptocurrency worth roughly ₹3.35 crore (about $390,000) and froze bank balances tied to an online investment fraud and a work-from-home scam. This seizure of illicit funds is the most recent move Indian authorities have taken in the fight against crypto-related crime and money laundering. How did the ED track money from...
Thu, Jul 16
Nvidia deepens Japan robotics push while cutting Asian chip distributors
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has announced that ten of Japan’s largest industrial names, including FANUC, Fujitsu, Sony Group and SoftBank Corp., plan to build robots and factory systems on its physical AI software. This announcement comes in spite of the fact that Nvidia is halving its approved distributor list across Asia to keep advanced GPUs out...
Thu, Jul 16
Users were warned before Polychain-backed Cascade suffers $1.3M exploit
Cascade, a Polychain-backed perpetuals platform, has informed users in its Discord that its main vault has been drained of over $1.3 million in USDC. It wrote, “Cascade detected a security exploit affecting our CLS vault, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.3M in user funds. We immediately paused all trading and withdrawals while we investigate.”...
Thu, Jul 16
TikTok fights to maintain reputation amid Ofcom investigation, AI content avalanche
TikTok is under formal investigation by the UK’s internet watchdog over how children are tricking the age filters on the platform. Ofcom says that TikTok’s approach to age verification is not enough, as it uses “age inference” to estimate age through the behavior on the app. The regulator says it lacks what the law requires. Kate...
Thu, Jul 16
Hyperion DeFi backs Skew with 500K HYPE on Hyperliquid
On Wednesday, Hyperion DeFi (NASDAQ: HYPD) announced that it will lend 500,000 staked HYPE tokens worth about $33.6 million to Skew Technologies with the purpose of putting up the collateral that Hyperliquid needs to open new institutional futures markets. The deal underlines the potential of public crypto treasury companies to start making money from rented...
Thu, Jul 16
Researchers say traders may have been manipulating Polymarket’s five-minute BTC bets
A new study suggests traders may be manipulating Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin bets to swing wagers their way. Researchers at Stanford University and Singapore Management University said they examined roughly 16,000 of Polymarket’s five-minute Bitcoin contracts for two months, finding signs that traders may have been manipulating spot price on Binance. “In the final seconds before...
Thu, Jul 16
Paymonade secures MiCAR license to continue fiat settlement business in Euro Area market
Paymonade has secured a MiCAR license from the Liechtenstein Financial Service Authority, gaining access to 30 countries in the Euro Area with no restrictions on trading, as well as crypto and fiat operations.
Thu, Jul 16
Hyundai to take full control of Boston Dynamics
Hyundai Motor Group is planning to take full control of Boston Dynamics by acquiring the remaining stake held by SoftBank. The group said Thursday that SoftBank exercised a put option to offload its remaining stake in Boston Dynamics under an existing agreement between the two companies, Korea Times reported. Hyundai first bought into the U.S....
Thu, Jul 16
After over $156 trillion in trades nine years, Binance turns the spotlight on its users
Binance is currently celebrating its ninth anniversary, and the largest crypto exchange by market cap chose the occasion to publicize that its registered users have now crossed 323 million, which it calculates as roughly 43% of everyone in the world who owns cryptocurrency.To mark the occasion, Binance is running a campaign called “Built by You”...
Thu, Jul 16
