The Roundhill Meme Stock ETF has climbed about 35% this year, helped by gains in AST SpaceMobile, Terawulf, and Lumentum Holdings, as renewed enthusiasm around artificial intelligence lifted speculative corners of the stock market. The fund also rose...
Twenty-seven companies, including OKX, MetaMask, and Matter Labs, have launched the Internet Court, a dispute resolution protocol designed for transactions carried out by AI agents. Developed by the GenLayer Foundation, the system is intended to handle disagreements that...
Global equity funds attracted $49.23 billion in net inflows during the week ending July 8, their strongest weekly performance in three weeks, as investor confidence improved on continued demand for artificial intelligence technologies and easing expectations of further...
Stripe has filed trademark applications in South Korea for OpenStandard and OpenUSD, adding another step to its stablecoin plans as competition for digital payments gains pace. According to the Korean Intellectual Property Office's Intellectual Property Information Search Service,...
Coinbase has expanded its wealth management offering in Europe, giving family offices, ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and professional advisors access to institutional crypto services through its Luxembourg-based entity. The company said Coinbase Luxembourg, which operates under the European Union’s Markets...
Kaia has signed a memorandum of understanding with Pinetree, the Singapore subsidiary of Hanwha Investment & Securities, and real-world asset tokenization firm Galactica to bring ship financing onto the blockchain. The partnership will begin with ship financing projects...
Metaplanet Inc. has launched a joint study with Metaplanet Securities, JPYC, and Progmat to examine how Bitcoin, stablecoins, and security tokens can be used to build digital credit products in Japan. The companies said the initiative will cover...
Binance says it remains committed to operating in the European Union despite withdrawing its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) license application in Greece, while also pursuing new regulatory approvals across Asia. Speaking at the Reuters NEXT Asia conference in...
South Korea's central bank has renewed its call for a legal framework for won-backed stablecoins, with Bank of Korea Governor Shin Hyun-song urging lawmakers to move quickly while insisting that banks should play the leading role in issuing...
Russia's largest private lender, Alfa-Bank, plans to offer cryptocurrency services once the country's new digital asset law takes effect, another step toward regulated crypto adoption in the country. According to the bank's Chief Operating Officer, Dmitry Vitman, Alfa-Bank...
