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Qatar child injured by shrapnel from Iranian missile interception as Gulf tensions rattle global risk calculus

Crypto July 18, 2026

Escalating military conflict in the Gulf region is forcing crypto investors to reassess geopolitical risk premiums, even as digital assets remain largely insulated from the violence so far. Three peo�...

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino reports 30 million new USDT wallets every quarter

Crypto July 18, 2026

The stablecoin giant's user base has ballooned to roughly 500 million wallets, with emerging markets driving most of the growth. Tether is adding new wallets at a pace that would make most fintech co�...

Xi Jinping’s first keynote at World AI Conference signals China’s tech priorities, and crypto isn’t one of them

Crypto July 18, 2026

The Chinese president used his landmark address to push AI governance and international cooperation, while digital assets remained conspicuously absent from the conversation. Chinese President Xi Jin�...

Solana Foundation and Google Cloud co-host AI hackathon in Korea to build autonomous payment agents

Crypto July 18, 2026

The partnership builds on the launch of Pay.sh, a system letting AI agents pay for cloud services with stablecoins on Solana Solana Foundation and Google Cloud are teaming up for a hackathon in Korea�...

Bloomberg’s top dollar-yen forecaster sees 170 level ahead, and crypto markets should pay attention

Crypto July 18, 2026

The most accurate USD/JPY analyst relies on charts over fundamentals, predicting a further 5% yen decline that could ripple across risk assets globally. The person Bloomberg ranks as the single most �...

Apathy attacks expose vulnerabilities in Compound and BonkDAO

Crypto July 18, 2026

Low voter turnout in token-weighted DAOs is becoming a weapon, and the BonkDAO exploit just proved it can drain $20 million in a single proposal Someone just walked into BonkDAO, spent roughly $4.4 m�...

Thomas Tuchel slams World Cup third-place playoff as crypto markets ride tournament volatility

Crypto July 17, 2026

England's manager calls the consolation match a fixture that 'should never be played,' while fan tokens and memecoins surge on elimination drama Hours after England’s semifinal loss to Argentina at ...

Keyrock completes acquisition of BlockFills’ trading operations for $3.25 million

Crypto July 17, 2026

The Brussels-based market maker scooped up a Chicago trading firm's assets out of bankruptcy court, paying pennies on the dollar for an institutional client base and proprietary tech stack. Keyrock, �...

TSMC posts record quarter as fund managers warn expectations are dangerously high

Crypto July 17, 2026

The chipmaker's AI-fueled results are impressive, but analysts caution the bar is now set almost impossibly high TSMC just delivered the kind of earnings report that makes CFOs at other companies qui�...

Iraq suspends crude oil flows after drone crashes into tanker, sending tokenized oil markets into overdrive

Crypto July 17, 2026

Iraqi oil output from Basra plunged roughly 60-70% as drone strikes forced terminal shutdowns, while Hyperliquid's tokenized oil contracts saw volumes blow past $1 billion. Iraq hit the emergency bra�...