Ghana is considering transferring control of Gold Fields Ltd.’s Tarkwa mine to local firms when its leases expire next April. According to Bloomberg, the move is part of a push to increase the country’s control of its gold industry and capture more proceeds from high bullion prices.

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said Lebanon’s “first line of defense” has been destroyed and that Israel is destroying all houses. According to Odaily, Katz said that even if U.S. President Donald Trump holds a different view, “no one can give us orders,” adding that Israel has already proven this. Katz also said residents would no longer be able to see their homes standing in front of them. He said that in Lebanon, 200,000 residents who had lived in a “security zone” would not return, adding that none of them would come back.

A Polymarket influencer known as Car disputed a recent Bloomberg report that alleged large-scale insider trading on Polymarket and said the reported profits were overstated. According to Foresight News, Bloomberg reported it had identified a wallet that profited $1.5 million through alleged “insider trading” in an Iran-related market. Car said the wallet belongs to a regular user he knows and is not an insider, adding that the actual profit was about $300,000 rather than $1.5 million. He said Bloomberg counted trading volume from frequent buying and selling within an 80% range as profit, which he argued significantly distorted the data. Car also said the account previously lost about $120,000 in a “peace agreement” related market, which he said Bloomberg did not mention. He added that Polysights data used in the report flagged thousands of normal trading accounts, including sports and crypto market traders, as “suspicious,” and said most of those accounts were not insider traders.

South Korea’s Kospi ended a six-day winning streak, falling 0.13% to close at 9,052 after setting a record close on Thursday. According to Ming Pao, the index briefly rose to an intraday high of 9,385 on Friday before reversing late in the session, at one point dropping below 9,000 to a low of 8,831, amid reports of Israeli attacks on Lebanon that raised uncertainty over whether a U.S.-Iran agreement can be effectively implemented.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz appeared to thin early on Friday after a burst of oil flows through the waterway a day earlier. According to Bloomberg, the slowdown came as shipowners erred on the side of safety even after the US and Iran vowed to lift a dual blockade.

Absa Group Ltd. plans to raise its stake in its Kenyan unit to 85% through a $238.7 million tender offer. According to Bloomberg, the move underscores the South African lender’s confidence in East Africa’s growth prospects.

Ireland has placed crypto assets firmly in the sights of its financial crime strategy, unveiling a sweeping anti-money laundering overhaul that identifies digital assets as an emerging threat alongside increasingly sophisticated fraud and cross-border criminal networks.

The shutdown of Mythos this week has made many AI entrepreneurs realize a problem that has been obscured by cost discussions: when the core capabilities of a product are built on external models and platforms, what does the company really own?

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A federal judge has cleared the way for prosecutors to pursue allegations that Michelle Bond (the wife of former FTX executive Ryan Salame) has illegally used FTX-linked funds to finance her congressional campaign, rejecting claims that former FTX executive Ryan Salame secured protection for her as part of his plea deal.

Kraken has added Solana DEX trading to its main app, giving users in more than 100 countries access to over 2,500 onchain tokens without using separate wallets or platforms.

As geopolitical risks ease, a window of opportunity opens, and funds are primarily used to buy back AI hardware that can generate returns.

How to assess asset value during a crypto market downturn? Grayscale Research, using Aave as an example, employs discounted cash flow and price-to-earnings ratio analysis to conclude that the current fair value of the AAVE token is $80-$100, while the market price of approximately $75 indicates undervaluation.

The CFTC has permanently banned Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky from trading in regulated US markets, closing its fraud case against him.

Musk compared himself to the 19th-century Union Pacific Railroad, but experts pointed out that the company was actually "corrupt and indebted," saying that the move "exploited the public's ignorance of history"; short sellers also said that his use of a negative example was "quite ironic."

Throughout the history of the internet, every attempt to embed a "buy" button has ended in failure.