Solana surpasses all L1 and L2 chains in tokenized stock trading volume for 50th week

Solana has now led every other blockchain, Layer 1 and Layer 2 combined, in tokenized stock trading volume for 50 consecutive weeks. The chain’s dominance in tokenized stocks is, for all practical... Read more »

Samsung Electronics and union hold last-ditch talks to avert strike threatening global supply chains

Samsung Electronics and its largest labor union are sitting across the table from each other in a dispute with global consequences. The stakes: a potential 18-day general strike starting May 21 that... Read more »

Citadel reportedly invests $1.7M in XRP ETFs as Ripple draws deeper institutional ties

Reports are circulating that Citadel has taken positions worth $1.7 million in XRP-linked exchange-traded funds, a move that would mark one of the more notable institutional entries into the XRP ecosystem. The... Read more »

India’s stock market risks dropping out of top five as AI rallies boost Taiwan and Korea

India spent years climbing the global equity rankings, reaching the fourth-largest stock market in the world with a market capitalization of roughly $4.3 trillion in early 2024. Now that position is under... Read more »

Goldman Sachs explores risk transfer deal tied to private market loans

Goldman Sachs is gauging investor appetite for a risk transfer transaction connected to its portfolio of loans to private market funds. The deal, if completed, would let Goldman move credit risk off... Read more »

Former Binance director Vladimir Smerkis sentenced to five years for fraud

Vladimir Smerkis, who once ran Binance’s operations across Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States, has been sentenced to five years in prison by a Moscow court. The charge: large-scale fraud under... Read more »

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago president warns of inflation risks in US economy

Austan Goolsbee, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, is sounding the alarm on inflation. His message is blunt: the numbers look bad, and they’re coming from places that make them... Read more »

KOSPI falls 2.3% as fears of AI taxes weigh on South Korean stocks

South Korea’s KOSPI index closed down roughly 2.3% after a policy aide floated the idea of taxing AI-sector profits and redistributing the proceeds to citizens. At its worst, the index had plunged... Read more »

Ordinals explorer Ord.io to shut down on June 1 due to financial challenges

Ord.io, one of the most widely used Bitcoin Ordinals explorers, is pulling the plug. The platform and its companion trading app Zap will shut down on June 1, 2026, citing financial difficulties... Read more »

Michael Burry warns of bubble signs, advises cutting tech exposure

Michael Burry, the hedge fund manager who made a fortune betting against the housing market before it imploded in 2008, is sounding the alarm again. This time, his target is the AI-fueled... Read more »