Iran was first reported to be demanding cryptocurrency payments from ships seeking to pass through the Strait of Hormuz in April, with Iranian officials saying tankers could be charged about $1 per barrel and asked to pay in...
Changpeng Zhao (CZ), the founder of Binance, questioned why banks should be afraid of blockchain or need protection from the technology. He argued that blockchain offers a faster, cheaper and easier-to-verify way to transfer value, while remaining an...
Singapore's electronics exports surged at an unprecedented pace in August as the global AI boom continued to drive demand for computing hardware. Electronics exports jumped 131.8% from a year earlier, while shipments of personal computers, which include servers...
Yesterday, Bitcoin entered the Federal Reserve meeting with investors largely expecting a 25-basis-point rate hike. The market questioned whether Chair Kevin Warsh would signal that tighter policy was temporary or the start of a longer period of higher...
In 2025, the Chinese technology giant was already testing the Ascend 910D, a high-end AI chip designed to compete with Nvidia's processors. Huawei planned to send samples to Chinese technology companies for testing, although the chip was still...
Just yesterday, AI-linked stocks fell sharply across Asia after executives at leading U.S. AI companies called for a slower pace of development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that increasingly capable AI agents could cause hundreds of billions of...
Just 2 weeks ago, US Technology Adviser Michael Kratsios gathered top US Technology executives at a 2-day meeting in North Carolina to promote what was called the “Carolina Principles” a call to advocate that ‘new AI rules should...
Singapore Exchange has secured authorization from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission to give eligible U.S. institutional investors direct access to its Bitcoin and Ether perpetual futures. American trading firms can access the contracts through SGX clearing members,...
Consensys Software Inc. is splitting into two independent companies, separating its MetaMask consumer business from its protocols and institutional infrastructure operations. Under the plan announced on September 9, the existing company will become MetaMask, with Joe Lubin as...
Germany is preparing a 25% flat tax on cryptocurrency gains from 2028, potentially ending the country’s long-standing exemption for Bitcoin and other digital assets held for more than one year. The Federal Ministry of Finance has drafted legislation...
