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Kakao Pay Taps Nasdaq's Siebert to Bring Tokenized Korean Stocks to Wall Street

ExchangesAug 4

The companies announced the partnership on Monday under the name K-Stock Global Gateway. It combines Siebert’s U.S. brokerage infrastructure with Kakao Pay Securities’ reach inside South Korea, where the firm holds roughly 9 million stock accounts. Tokenization Takes Aim at the Clock The core problem the partnership targets is time. South Korean and U.S. markets sit on opposite sides of the globe, so a trader in New York cannot buy or sell Korean shares during the Korean trading session. Siebert and Kakao Pay Securities plan to explore tokenizing South Korean equities to work around that gap. A tokenized share can…

Tim Draper Admits 'Ouch' Moment After Passing on Coinbase — His Son Saw a Crypto Fortune in the Making

RegulationAug 4

Tim Draper Saw Coinbase’s Potential — But Misjudged When Crypto Would Arrive Tim Draper, the veteran venture capitalist behind Draper Associates, says his early Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) decision came down to timing rather than conviction in Brian Armstrong, the crypto exchange’s co-founder and CEO. The venture capitalist had already invested in Coinlab, an early Bitcoin company focused on building infrastructure around the emerging cryptocurrency industry, when Armstrong presented Coinbase as a simpler path for consumers to access digital assets. “I loved Brian Armstrong from the moment he walked into my office, but I had already invested in Coinlab, so I…

Bittensor AI innovations put a 2.8 trillion-parameter model on 80 GPUs

AltcoinsAug 4

A fresh wave of Bittensor AI innovations is emerging from the network’s decentralized subnets, and this week’s roundup shows just how far the ecosystem has stretched beyond crypto mining into genomics, drug discovery, market forecasting and enterprise sales. Between July 27 and August 2, 2026, teams building on Bittensor published new research, launched a massive training run spanning three continents, and moved real enterprise workloads through decentralized infrastructure for the first time. Key takeaways Minos co-authored a paper with OpenAI on scientific computing in the age of agentic AI, spotlighting the HelixForge GPU engine as a core case study. HelixForge…

DAXA prepares South Korean crypto exchanges for October fraud refund law implementation

LegalAug 4

South Korea’s digital asset exchanges are moving to align with a revised law set to take effect Oct. 1 that expands refund eligibility for victims of voice phishing scams to include losses in virtual assets. The Digital Asset Exchange Association, or DAXA, held a practical briefing on July 28 at Dreamplus Gangnam in Seoul’s Gangnam district, specifically for non-won exchanges that support only crypto-to-crypto trading. Scope of the legal revision The core change under the revised law extends refund protections previously limited to fiat currency losses. Starting in October, victims of telecom fraud — commonly known as voice phishing —…

Ads3 Partners with GXT Exchange to Drive AI-Powered Web3 Growth

ExchangesAug 4

Ads3, an AI-driven growth entity to broaden Web3 networks, has partnered with GXT Exchange, a cutting-edge crypto trading entity. The partnership aims to fortify user acquisition and expand the trading of digital assets via next-gen AI-led marketing strategies. As per Ads3, the partnership endeavors to improve the worldwide accessibility of blockchain-powered financial services. Hence, the development underscores AI’s rising significance in pushing forward the crypto network development as well as consumer engagement. 🤝Ads3 x GXT Exchange Ads3 @ads3_ai — the AI-powered growth platform accelerating Web3 ecosystem expansion. GXT Exchange @GXTExchange — a next-generation crypto trading platform offering Spot, Futures, and…

Trump-linked American Bitcoin president Matt Prusak departs for Giga Energy

MiningAug 4

Matt Prusak, president and interim chief financial officer of Trump-linked bitcoin miner American Bitcoin (ABTC), is leaving the company to join AI and energy infrastructure developer Giga Energy, marking another senior executive move toward the power sector that is increasingly underpinning both bitcoin $BTC$63,637.81 mining and artificial intelligence. Prusak said he will step down from American Bitcoin effective Aug. 4 and join Giga Energy as chief business officer and interim CFO. He said in emailed comments that after "years building bitcoin businesses," he was shifting "upstream to the power infrastructure now constraining both mining and AI compute." The departure reflects…

Tether invests $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá as it expands Latin America push

RegulationAug 4

Leading stablecoin issuer Tether invested $20 million in Argentine neobank Ualá, taking an equity stake in a financial platform with more than 11 million customers across Argentina, Mexico and Colombia. The investment was part of Ualá’s $197 million funding round announced in March, led by Allianz X at a $3.2 billion post-money valuation. Tether was initially mentioned in Ualá’s announcement, and only later on unveiled the $20 million investment figure. Given the headline valuation, the investment should represent a rough 0.6% stake in the neobank’s post-money equity though the terms may differ. Ualá offers accounts, cards, lending and investments to…

Fetch.ai Unveils Integration with Skyfire for AI-Driven Transactions

AltcoinsAug 4

Fetch.ai is set to transform digital economies through autonomous agents capable of discovering and transacting independently. Their recent collaboration with Skyfire aims to establish a seamless payment infrastructure, crucial for the functioning of these agents in real-world scenarios. This integration promises enhanced security, making AI agents active participants in economic activities rather than mere assistants. For more details, see the official announcement here. Breaking It Down Fetch.ai’s mission is to create a decentralized digital economy where intelligent agents autonomously discover, connect, and transact on behalf of users and organizations. The integration with Skyfire introduces a robust payment protocol that allows…

Why the BitMEX and BitMart closures won’t mirror the FTX collapse

ExchangesAug 4

It was reported as the end of an era in crypto. The centralized exchange Arthur Hayes helped found in 2014, BitMEX, officially announced that it will be shutting down after 11 years of operation. The exchange pioneered the 100x-leverage perpetual swap, and perpetual markets eventually became the dominant crypto derivatives product. BitMart, another centralized exchange that had been in the top 10 exchanges but fell lower down the pecking order, also announced the closure of its trading platform. The last time a major CEX closed was during the FTX implosion in November 2022. Instead of leading to a deeper crypto…

Solo Bitcoin Miner Hits Jackpot, Scoring $200K BTC Reward

MiningAug 4

In brief A solo miner solved Bitcoin block 960,804 overnight, taking a reward worth close to $200,000. The payout was 3.16 $BTC, the 3.125 $BTC subsidy plus 0.03 $BTC in fees from 4,243 transactions. It was the 317th solo block found through CKPool. A solo Bitcoin miner solved block 960,804 at 02:11 UTC on Monday, netting a reward worth about $200,000. The block paid 3.15689830 $BTC, made up of the 3.125 $BTC subsidy and 0.032 $BTC in fees from the 4,243 transactions it carried. It was the 317th solo block found through CKPool, the pseudonymous developer known as Dr -ck…