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Meta expands Louisiana data center to 5 gigawatts, investment rises to $50 billion
Meta announced today that it will expand its Richland Parish, Louisiana data center to 5 gigawatts of computing power, and the tech giant has also raised its committed investment into the site past the $50 billion mark. The expansion of the planned data center, termed “Hyperion” by Meta, will support more than 1,000 jobs once...
Mon, Jul 13
Progmat completes move of ¥452 billion in tokenized securities to Avalanche
Progmat, a former Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking venture, announced the migration of all live projects to Avalanche Layer 1 without any disruption in the operations of the financial institutions using it. The company moved over ¥452 billion (over $3 billion) of regulated real estate and live bond tokens to public-chain rails. Japanese giant has...
Mon, Jul 13
Russia holds its first humanoid robot wedding in a Moscow library
Russia's first robot wedding was a staged demonstration intended to raise awareness of the nation's humanoid robotics efforts.
Mon, Jul 13
Tether's USDT to gain more prominence in Bolivia as government mulls recognition
Bolivia is considering adding Tether’s USDT stablecoin to its official payments system. Economy Minister José Gabriel Espinoza confirmed today that the government is looking into whether USDT could be approved as a payment option, along with the boliviano and the US dollar. Speaking at a recent press conference, Espinoza shared that the proposal covering banks,...
Mon, Jul 13
Intel commits more than $5 billion to Ireland as Trump presses chipmakers to invest in America
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has started a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) upgrade of its Irish campus outside Dublin, the U.S. chipmaker announced Monday.
Mon, Jul 13
Trump is channeling his crypto earnings into traditional financial markets instead of Bitcoin
Trump brought in more than $1.4 billion from crypto ventures linked to his family during 2025, but his latest wealth report shows a far bigger sum parked in stocks and bonds. While Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump promoted digital asset projects to investors, many retail buyers later took painful losses. Meanwhile, the president’s...
Mon, Jul 13
Circle, Ripple, Coinbase join BlackRock and Morgan Stanley in UK tokenization task force
The UK government has named a 54-firm industry task force to move tokenization into the country’s wholesale financial markets, seating crypto companies Circle, Ripple and Coinbase alongside BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley. The task force was announced with the first report from Chris Woolard, HM Treasury’s Wholesale Digital Markets Champion, published July...
Mon, Jul 13
Anthropic hires Monzo co-founder Tom Blomfield for compute team
Tom Blomfield, the co-founder of British digital bank Monzo, is taking a leave of absence to join Anthropic’s compute team. Anthropic is in the middle of an intense industry contest for AI talent. The company is paying some technical staff base salaries above $1 million and heading toward a possible IPO this fall. Who is...
Mon, Jul 13
Strategy raises cash, leaves its Bitcoin stack untouched
Michael Saylor’s Strategy (NASDAQ: MSTR) extended its recent conservative streak of managing its billion-dollar BTC reserve as the firm directed the roughly $467 million it raised last week to its dollar reserve instead of buying Bitcoins, according to a Monday SEC filing. The decision, which pushed the firm’s USD Reserve up to $3 billion, could...
Mon, Jul 13
Bitget Stocks 2.0: How crypto users can now own real U.S. Stocks without leaving the exchange
Historically, crypto users who wanted U.S. stocks had to exit the digital-asset ecosystem. Access involved local brokers, bank transfers, and jurisdiction-specific requirements that raised entry barriers and costs. Bitget Stocks 2.0 changes that narrative by allowing eligible users to seamlessly trade 10,000+ U.S. stocks and ETFs using stablecoins directly within a single unified account What...
Mon, Jul 13
Lawson to test JPYC yen stablecoin payments at Tokyo store
Lawson, Japan’s third-largest convenience store chain, has announced that it will test out accepting the yen stablecoin JPYC at one of its Tokyo outlets from early August. The pilot runs at Lawson’s Takanawa Gateway City location in Minato Ward, according to a Monday report from the Nihon Keizai Shimbun, which is also known as The...
Mon, Jul 13
SBI Holdings partners with Solana to build Japan's crypto financial market
SBI Holdings has announced in a press statement on July 13 that the Solana Foundation will buy into SBI R3 Japan. This joint venture will be renamed SBI Solana Global and used to move Japanese stablecoins, digital assets, and cross-border payments onto the Solana blockchain. Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG), one of Japan’s largest banking...
Mon, Jul 13
Deon Markets Company Introduces Its Approach to Digital Financial Services
Deon Markets has developed a digital platform that provides users with access to a structured online environment for managing their financial activities. The company’s approach focuses on combining technology, accessibility, and practical platform features to create an organised user experience. As digital solutions continue to influence the financial sector, companies are increasingly focused on creating...
Mon, Jul 13
Bank of Thailand targets large stablecoin transactions in new audit
Thailand’s foremost bank has started scrutinizing large stablecoin transfers made in the country, and is now working with the country’s SEC to flag USDT movements that may be hiding illicit money from the authorities. Bank of Thailand Governor Vitai Ratanakorn said the central bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission are running analyses over high-volume...
Mon, Jul 13
Are South Korean traders returning to crypto after the KOSPI crash?
The South Korean KOSPI crashed by 8.95%, causing the seventh circuit breaker event in 2026. The index crash may affect other equity markets, undermine the AI semiconductor narrative, and lead to worse crypto sentiment.
Mon, Jul 13
South Korea plans record $531 billion budget on AI chip tax boom
South Korea is preparing a record 800 trillion won ($531 billion) budget for 2027, raising spending more than 10% above this year. President Lee Jae-myung’s government said that the budget hike is funded by an increase in tax revenue from South Korea’s booming AI chip industry. South Korea to increase its spending budget by 10%...
Mon, Jul 13
TSMC shares gain as June revenue jumps 67.9% on the year
TSMC (TWSE: 2330, NYSE: TSM) gained on Monday after traders got a much stronger June sales figure before the company’s second-quarter report. Revenue for the month came to NT$442.68 billion, up 6.2% from May and 67.9% from June 2025. It was the magnitude of the year-on-year growth that really spurred the stock along. Investors now...
Mon, Jul 13
Seed phrase leak pumps memecoin to $14M, Exposing crypto’s copy-trade risk
An exposed recovery phrase of a Robinhood co-founder made it possible for a hacker to convince thousands of traders to join one memecoin instantly, proving that herd mentality can rapidly change the crypto market. The incident did not affect Bitcoin or Ether, but it revealed a weakness across the entire crypto market: traders on any...
Mon, Jul 13
Samsung fast-tracks AI chip Fab to 2029 as SK Hynix rides Nasdaq debut
Samsung is accelerating the rollout of its next-generation chip production, bringing forward the opening of its massive Yongin semiconductor plant to 2029—one to two years earlier than originally planned. And it also follows the South Korean government’s push to fast-track strategic semiconductor projects and speed up construction at the site. The tech giant had expected...
Mon, Jul 13
Tom Lee bets Ethereum’s comeback on the rise of AI
According to Tom Lee, the co-founder of Fundstrat, smart contract blockchains could prove to be the best defense for society as artificial intelligence assumes a larger share in the global economy. During his speech at the WebX 2026 conference, Lee explained that Ethereum is all set to move into a new phase of growth after...
Mon, Jul 13
