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Mirae Asset Consulting has acquired majority control of Korbit, increasing its stake to 97.15%, with a total transaction value of approximately KRW 141.4 billion, equivalent to $950 million to $1.02 billion. The transaction was approved by the Korea Fair Trade Commission on July 9, 2026. Korbit has

Cardano [ADA] ranked among the weakest-performing crypto tokens in the market, losing significant ground since its launch. ADA plunged to around $0.16 at press time, down from an all-time high near $3.10.ADA slipped 2.14% over the past 24 hours, while trading volume plummeted 23% to $177.3 million.

Barcelona has given Marc-André ter Stegen the green light to join Ajax on loan, but the deal is stuck in the kind of bureaucratic limbo that makes accountants sweat. The holdup: tax complications and a disagreement over who foots the salary bill.## What’s actually happening with the dealBarcelona an

Prediction market operator Kalshi sent Netflix a cease and desist letter on July 24, 2026, accusing the streaming company of defamation over the trailer for its upcoming documentary “Instadocs: The Prediction Games.” The document didn’t stay under wraps for long. CNN and The Hollywood Reporter were

Odaily Planet Daily reports that prediction market operator Kalshi sent a cease-and-desist letter to Netflix on July 24, accusing its new documentary trailer, “Instadocs: The Prediction Games,” of defamation, and demanding the trailer be removed and a public correction issued before the film’s premi

Key Insights:World Foundation sold $52 million worth of WLD tokens.The proceeds will go towards scaling the World infrastructure as the project marks the third year of launch.WLD fell 10% after the sales, even though Worldcoin just saw an application for an ETF product.World Foundation, the nonprofi

Silicon Valley is splitting into two camps over the future of AI, and the fault line runs right through the concept of openness. On one side, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia are doubling down on open-weights models that anyone can download, modify, and deploy. On the other side, Anthropic and Op

ChainCatcher report: Mirae Asset Consulting has acquired majority control of Korbit, South Korea’s earliest cryptocurrency exchange, increasing its stake to 97.15% in a transaction valued at approximately KRW 141.4 billion, equivalent to about $95 million to $102 million USD. The Korea Fair Trade Co

Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest quietly boosted its crypto-linked exposure last Friday, adding roughly $251,500 across BitMine Immersion Technologies and the 3iQ Solana Staking ETF, filings show. Key buys - ARK Innovation (ARKK) picked up 5,264 shares of BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNR), a purchase w

Tether is quietly funding both sides of a self-made chain war — and it makes more sense than it first appears. The problem: roughly $2.9 billion a year in USDT-related network fees leaves Tether’s ecosystem and flows to the blockchains where USDT lives — mostly Ethereum validators and, above all, T

Optimism quietly averted a major security incident in its pre-Lagoon codebase, disclosing a critical vulnerability that was patched before any production exploitation and with no funds lost. In a post on the Optimism governance forum, the team detailed a flaw in the SDM “verify” path that could hav

ETHGas [GWEI] staged a sharp recovery days after it slipped below its Coinbase listing price of $0.039. Heavy selling over the past two weeks had pushed the token down to near $0.019.Buyers stepped back in instead of extending the decline. GWEI gained 38% to near $0.0275 over the past 24 hours, acco

Mirae Asset Consulting has taken majority control of Korbit, South Korea’s oldest cryptocurrency exchange, marking the first time an affiliate of a major Korean financial group has run a domestic crypto platform.Key TakeawaysMirae Asset Consulting raised its Korbit stake to 97.15% in a deal worth ab

The honeymoon is officially over for spot Bitcoin ETFs. After a record-breaking debut in January 2024 and two years of near-uninterrupted capital inflows, the products have hit a wall in 2026, with net flows turning negative for the majority of the year so far.The numbers tell an uncomfortable story

Jensen Huang thinks the semiconductor industry is way too small. Not a little too small. Five to ten times too small.The Nvidia CEO laid out his case in an Axios interview on July 24, arguing that the current scale of global chip production simply cannot support where AI and robotics are heading. It