What Robinhood really wants to create is not a public blockchain, but an onchain Nasdaq.

South Korean President Lee Jae-Myung said the government will guide support toward three priority projects: semiconductors, artificial intelligence data centers, and physical artificial intelligence. According to Odaily, Lee made the remarks in a statement outlining the government’s focus on these areas.

Guotai Haitong chief strategy analyst Fang Yi said Hong Kong stocks could enter a window of easing micro-level funding conditions from late July to mid-September. According to Jin10, Fang said the first reason is that Hong Kong IPO activity has temporarily entered a seasonal lull that is expected to last until the end of September. The second reason is that the early-July peak in share lock-up expirations has passed, and Hong Kong stocks are expected to face large-scale lock-up expirations totaling more than HK$30 billion going forward. Fang also said the likelihood is rising that expectations for overseas interest-rate hikes will be revised. He noted that since June, shipping volumes through the Strait of Hormuz have improved significantly and oil prices have retreated from elevated levels. He said this is expected to marginally reduce imported inflation pressure in the United States, creating room for a revision in rate-hike expectations over the next two months. However, Fang said several risks to overseas liquidity still warrant caution, including an unexpectedly strong U.S. dollar index, the Hong Kong dollar potentially hitting the weak-side convertibility undertaking and triggering Hong Kong Monetary Authority intervention that tightens liquidity, and lingering uncertainty around U.S.-Iran conflict developments.

Bitcoin lost ground in Asia on Monday. According to Bloomberg, the decline came as oil prices spiked after the US launched fresh attacks on Iran, reviving inflation fears.

Bitcoin held near $63,800 on Monday as gold, oil, equities and government bonds swung sharply after the U.S.'s fourth round of strikes on Iran in a week. The largest cryptocurrency was down 0.3% over 24 hours and up 2% on the week, according to CoinDesk, even as spot gold slid as much as 1.6% to near $4,050 an ounce and Brent crude jumped 4% to above $79 a barrel. Treasuries fell across the curve, with the two-year yield at its highest since February 2025, while ether held near $1,800 and Solana was about $76, down 5% over seven days.

Citi downgraded its rating on UK equities to underweight from overweight. According to Jin10, the bank made the change in its equity allocation view.

The market trend will most likely become clearer and more stable around the summer or even after summer.

Pakistan's top virtual-assets regulator has called for continued dialogue on digital assets after one of the country's most influential Islamic scholars backed a ruling declaring crypto purchases impermissible under Islamic law, creating fresh challenges for the country's efforts to build a regulated digital asset industry.

The Conti ransomware leaks handed researchers an unprecedented look inside a professional cybercrime empire — and what they found still has the cryptocurrency sector on edge.

Thailand is introducing tougher checks on large cash deposits and investigating high-value USDT trades to tackle money laundering. Anyone depositing 5 million baht (US$150,000) or more in cash may soon need to prove where the money came from.

Is Bernanke's involvement in the Anthropic Trust a genuine attempt to mitigate AI governance risks, or merely a carefully orchestrated performance of "credit endorsement"?

Realized Price is a classic on-chain indicator for Bitcoin, especially crucial during bear markets. This indicator represents the average holding cost of all Bitcoins on the network. Is it possible that we'll never see this price level again in this round of market movement?

Google has quietly cut staff across its top cybersecurity units — including the Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant — as the AI spending race forces Big Tech to make difficult trade-offs with its most specialised talent.

Global financial markets appear calm on the surface, but undercurrents are turbulent: Warsh's reduction in forward guidance has amplified policy uncertainty, and the yen's fall below the 162 level has triggered another carry trade margin call. If the high growth forecast of 24% for US stocks in the second quarter fails to materialize, it could trigger a sharp, exponential pullback.

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