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Global oil benchmarks continued their downward trajectory on Thursday, completely erasing the geopolitical risk premiums built up during the recent conflict in the Middle East. Brent crude futures slipped more than 1% to slide just under $71 per barrel, marking their lowest level since late February, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell toward $67 per barrel. Brent crude fell to around $70.80 per barrel, hitting its lowest...
Robinhood Launches Robinhood Chain Mainnet, Blurring Lines Between TradFi and DeFi With Stock Tokens and Onchain Products
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Robinhood Chain mainnet is now live, an Arbitrum-based Layer 2 designed for tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), financial services, and DeFi primitives with fast block times and Ethereum security.
Day-one integrations include Uniswap for liquidity, Chainlink oracles, Alchemy, and BitGo custody; new Stock Tokens enable 24/7 trading and DeFi composability in over 120 countries.
Additional products: Robinhood Earn (USDG lending at ~7%...
Samsung and SK Hynix Shares Post Massive Year-to-Date Gains on Sustained AI Memory Boom
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The global artificial intelligence infrastructure buildout has triggered a major market rally for South Korea’s premier semiconductor manufacturers. Driven by an acute shortage of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, both technology giants have posted massive triple-digit gains over the first half of the year, significantly impacting traditional equity indices and capturing the attention of institutional digital asset and equity macro...
U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETFs Record Worst Month Ever With $4.5 Billion in Outflows
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U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $4.5 billion in net outflows in June 2026, the worst month since their January 2024 launch.
BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for the bulk of redemptions, with assets under management across products falling sharply from early-month levels.
The outflows coincided with Bitcoin’s roughly 20% decline in June, pushing prices near $58,000 amid broader market pressures.
U.S. spot Bitcoin...
UK Finalizes Landmark Crypto Framework as US CLARITY Act Faces Narrowing Window
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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has finalized a comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto trading platforms, custodians, stablecoin issuers, and staking entities, taking full effect on Oct. 25, 2027.
The new rules ease key constraints following industry pushback, including reducing capital coefficients for stablecoin issuers from 2% to 1% to balance consumer safety with market innovation.
In contrast, the U.S. Digital Asset...



