Asian equities sank in Wednesday’s buying and selling as renewed US airstrikes on Iran pushed oil costs greater and triggered a world bond selloff that spilled into the area. The MSCI Asia-Pacific Index, a broad gauge of shares exterior Japan, fell 1.5%, whereas South Korea’s KOSPI dropped greater than 3% and the Nikkei 225 slid…
Elon Musk mentioned Grok 4.7 can be launched to the general public in 10 days and that the mannequin will surpass each AI mannequin presently out there. The launch follows Grok 4.6, which SpaceXAI shipped on August 12. It additionally comes as OpenAI introduced that its new Astra mannequin can be launched quickly. Follow us…
Cryptocurrency-based prediction platform Polymarket now offers Democrats better-than-even odds of sweeping each chambers of Congress in November. Trump’s approval rankings are sliding, and fuel costs simply hit a contemporary file. The odds have moved quick. A Democratic sweep sat at simply 26% a yr in the past and 45% one month in the past. Democrats…
Bitcoin’s hashrate has spent 316 days under its report as miners redirect energy towards AI. The seven-day community common stood close to 914 exahashes per second on Aug. 31, about 20.6% under its October 2025 peak of 1,151.6 EH/s. The stretch with no new high is the longest in a decade, exceeding the earlier 252-day…
Goldman Sachs, Jane Street Group, and Millennium Management had been the three largest reported holders of spot XRP ETFs in second-quarter 13F filings, based on Bloomberg Intelligence knowledge shared by James Seyffart on August 31. The filings present that institutional publicity has grown alongside a pointy enhance in XRP ETF inflows, at the same time…
Donald Trump Jr. is deepening his ties to Polymarket by a brand new $300 million funding from 1789 Capital, his enterprise agency. He additionally holds a paid advisory position, and fairness, at rival Kalshi, giving him a stake in whichever platform wins. 1789 Capital is contributing $300 million to Polymarket’s $1 billion spherical, valuing the…
Pantera Capital founder Dan Morehead calls the US Treasury’s expanded bond buyback plan a bluff that backfired. He ties Bitcoin’s 26% August rally on to it. Speaking on Bloomberg Crypto, Morehead argued buyers noticed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s transfer virtually instantly. The Buyback That Backfired On August 19, Bessent doubled the Treasury’s bond buybacks…
Robinhood Chain revenue from functions totaled between $2.66 million and $2.82 million over a rolling 24-hour window early on Sept. 1, creating an attention grabbing measure of community exercise with no disclosed bridge to Robinhood’s corporate accounts. DefiLlama tracks application revenue, chain revenue and chain fees as separate layers. Its dashboard confirmed $963,612 of chain…
MoonPay has launched PayBox, a cost software designed to let crypto transactions occur instantly inside Grok AI chatbot workflows. It is a neat little glimpse of the place client crypto could also be heading. Not one other standalone pockets app. Not one other checkout web page buried three clicks away. The concept is far less…
The Pocket Bitcoin breach uncovered greater than e mail addresses and help conversations for 291 clients, the corporate mentioned. Some copied records linked real-world identities to public Bitcoin activity. The discovering expands the scope described within the Swiss non-custodial Bitcoin service’s Aug. 21 disclosure. In an Aug. 31 update, Pocket Bitcoin mentioned correspondence with associate…