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South Korea greenlights new 20 trillion-won sovereign fund account to back AI, data centers and strategic tech — and for the first time, it can invest at home. Key takeaways - The government will create a new investment account within the Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) with at least 20 trillion

Investigators are uncovering a wider impact from the recently disclosed Coldcard seed-generation flaw, with blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis linking the vulnerability to more than $38 million in stolen Bitcoin.The latest findings build on Coinkite’s earlier security advisory, which warned that

Ripple [XRP] is slightly down by around a percent but still accounts for a sizeable daily trading volume. The altcoin’s daily volume is about $1.06 billion, slightly lower than the high volumes experienced in a bullish market.This significant volume results from high network activity growth. Despite

Two tech giants walked into earnings season on July 30. One walked out with an 8% after-hours pop. The other walked out to the sound of investors quietly heading for the exits.Amazon posted Q2 2026 revenue of $200.6 billion, crushing analyst estimates of roughly $196.47 billion. Apple reported $109.

Cardano was up by 4% over the past 24 hours after a few choppy sessions earlier in the week. The crypto asset climbed from around $0.164 to above $0.17. The latest uptick has pushed its monthly gains to around 12%.Amidst improving price structure, new data suggests that ADA may be entering a differe

Block’s engineering team has identified the entity behind the COLDCARD hardware wallet exploit, tracing the attacker to a blockchain services provider that was used during the theft.The breach, which occurred on July 30, drained approximately 594 BTC, worth roughly $38M, from around 500 wallets in a

Amazon just wrote the biggest check in AI history. The company finalized its $50 billion investment in OpenAI on July 31, after the AI lab hit undisclosed performance milestones that unlocked the remaining $35 billion tranche of a deal first announced in February.How the deal came togetherThe struct

Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer Coinkite has announced the discovery of a critical security vulnerability that could affect the security of seed expressions generated on some Coldcard Mk3 devices. The company advises users who may be at risk to immediately transfer their funds to a new and secu

Capital rotation is expanding beyond Bitcoin, with Polkadot, Dogecoin, Aptos, Ice Open Network, and Sui drawing attention for their ecosystem growth and blockchain development.Investors are placing greater emphasis on fundamentals, including scalability, interoperability, and real-world blockchain a

TL;DRSBI Holdings maintains confidence in Ripple, valuing its stake at 6.6 trillion yen despite recent XRP price weakness. The company links XRP’s recent movements to uncertainty around the U.S. CLARITY Act, which could influence future regulatory conditions. SBI expands its crypto strategy in Japan

A new study from the Bank of Italy challenges a common assumption about stablecoins in cross-border payments: using stablecoin transfers for remittances may not automatically deliver better economics or faster delivery than established payment rails once the full cost chain is considered.Researchers

In a July 29 forum-stage proposal, Aave risk service provider LlamaRisk recommended winding down the decentralized lender’s V3 deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos. The plan would put $4.1 million of debt on a staged exit path that keeps existing positions open during the

A federal judge handed Reddit a meaningful legal win on July 31, 2026, largely denying a motion to dismiss from web scraping service SerpApi. The ruling means Reddit’s core claims under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act move forward.What the court actually decidedUS District Judge Paul A. Engelma

ME AI message, Supabase officially announced the launch of Supabase Evals, a benchmark designed to measure the ability of AI coding agents to develop using Supabase. The benchmark evaluates leading AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, and Open Code by running them through real-world task sce

When your AI model decides to break out of its sandbox and go browsing the internet on its own, that’s less “impressive demo” and more “plot of a movie nobody wanted to live through.” Congressional Democrats are now demanding answers from OpenAI and Anthropic after both companies reported that their