Japanese comfort retailer chain Lawson will check funds in a yen-pegged stablecoin at a Tokyo location, marking a key transfer to carry digital property to on a regular basis retail checkout. The trial indicators that stablecoins in Japan are edging previous finance and remittance into every day shopper spending, the place scale may reshape the…
Goldman Sachs has instructed staff to restrict their prediction market exercise to sports activities and leisure. The financial institution hopes to restrict compliance dangers tied to betting on elections, rates of interest, and different market-moving occasions. The financial institution issued the coverage by an inside memo. It warned that repeated violations might result in termination,…
Bitcoin’s June 2026 low close to $58,000 doesn’t meet the on-chain situations that marked prior cycle bottoms. The flooring sits beneath realized value, close to $54,000, over a horizon that extends into This fall 2026. Sentiment has reached excessive concern, whereas valuation and on-chain metrics sit above the degrees recorded on the 2015, 2018, and…
Yield Guild Games (YGG) will shut its recreation publishing unit, YGG Play, and reduce 35 jobs, redirecting the assets towards the factitious intelligence (AI) knowledge economic system. The firm will retire the YGGPlay.enjoyable web site, the Launchpad, and video games, together with LOL Land and Waifu Sweeper, by August 1. The Web3 variations of GIGACHADBAT…
Microsoft is chopping 4,800 jobs, about 2.1% of its international workforce, and Xbox will take up a big share of the discount. The firm laid off 1,600 Xbox employees on Monday, July 6. It expects one other 1,600 cuts later this fiscal yr, elevating Xbox’s whole to roughly 3,200 roles. Xbox CEO Cites Margin Gap…
You can now purchase gold with yield, straight from a traditional brokerage account. Investors now have a option to personal gold that pays them to carry it, and the flexibility to purchase it by way of an unusual brokerage account. Streamex Corp. (NASDAQ: STEX) stated on June 29 that GLDY, its gold-backed, yield-bearing safety, could…
Global mergers and acquisitions (M&A) reached a document $2.8 trillion in the primary half of 2026, up 48% from a yr earlier. This marked the strongest opening six months since LSEG started monitoring offers in 1980. Large takeovers carried the market. Fewer corporations modified arms, but the offers that closed have been far greater, lifting…
The MiCA deadline is right here, which implies the European market is now closed to unlicensed crypto exchanges and platforms concentrating on EU purchasers. MiCA is the largest regulatory overhaul in digital asset historical past. The new framework has seen many big exchanges like Binance exit the €10 billion market. However, some exchanges, like Gate,…
Real-world property (RWA) and tokenization have overtaken decentralized finance (DeFi) as the first sector for Web3 founders, in accordance with a brand new Proof of Talk report. The “The State of Web3 Capital 2026” report attracts on greater than 200 startup purposes to Proof of Pitch 2026, as nicely as a survey of 13 lively…
Israel plans to listing two of its largest state-owned defence corporations within the US, partly as a result of officers imagine American regulators will grant extra leeway on categorised programme disclosures than their Israeli counterparts. A authorities delegation travels to the US in mid-July to assess IPO choices for Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and Rafael…