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The concentration gives both companies an unusually large influence over South Korea’s benchmark index. Price moves in the two chipmakers can affect index funds, derivatives, retirement portfolios and structured products linked to the Kospi. Overseas leverage has created another channel. The value of Hong Kong-listed leveraged exchange-traded products tied to Samsung and SK Hynix increased more than twentyfold during the first half of 2026, the Wall Street Journal reported. Such products use derivatives to multiply the daily return of an underlying stock. A two-times long fund seeks twice the daily gain, while an inverse product can rise when the referenced…

$QNT The Clearing House is now publicly explaining WHY it chose Quant and actively promoting the partnership itself. When one of the core operators of US banking infrastructure starts validating Quants technology in its own voice you should probably pay attention. https://t.co/hQLaGZa2mq — Juice 🧃 (@juicemanaboutit) October 2, 2026 The Clearing House (TCH) For context, The Clearing House was founded in 1853 by 38 New York banks and today runs three major payment networks: CHIPS — used for large-value U.S. dollar payments. EPN — processes ACH payments. RTP — handles real-time payments. Together, these systems process more than $2 trillion…

The UK designated Xeltox Enterprises Ltd, a company registered in British Columbia, Canada, for supporting Russia’s financial services sector through Cryptomus and activities linked to Heleket. Both brands appear under the same listing, alongside Certa Payments. TRM assessed with high confidence in April that Cryptomus and Heleket were operationally linked. Its findings included shared infrastructure, personnel, branding and liquidity sources. Heleket launched in January 2025, a month before Cryptomus introduced mandatory identity checks. TRM said Cryptomus’s monthly blockchain volume subsequently fell while Heleket’s rose. The report also identified substantial transactions with sanctioned counterparties. Cryptomus received more than $204 million from…

SWI Group (SWICH), which controls the former FTX-owned bitcoin BTC$84.155,39 miner Genesis Digital Assets, said it raised 800 million euros ($894 million) from institutional investors to expand its data center and artificial intelligence (AI) computing target=”_blank” rel=”noopener noreferrer”>values it at 6.1 billion euros. It announced the purchase of about 40% of Genesis Digital in June for $500 million, completing the acquisition in August with 70% of the voting rights and renaming the unit SWI Digital. The company’s strategy illustrates what has become a familiar trade for bitcoin-mining enterprises. Their most valuable asset is no longer their mining machines, but the…

Read top to bottom, the contracts show a fairly balanced market: Up: $90,000 at 59.5%, $92,500 at 41.5%, $95,000 at 26.5%, $100,000 at 10.5%, $105,000 at 5.25% Down: $82,500 at 71.5%, $80,000 at 49.5%, $75,000 at 21.5%, $70,000 at 8.5% Why the Upside Bettors Have a Case Bitcoin’s price is currently hovering near $85,500, up about 2.1% over 24 hours, as institutional money has come back. To elaborate, US spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) took in a net $102.7 million on Oct. 1. Blackrock’s IBIT pulled in $195.6 million while Fidelity’s FBTC lost $60.7 million. That reversed a rough end…

Specifically, the legendary ‘Big Short’ trader Michael Burry revealed the four reasons why he isn’t buying the narrative in an X post published late on Sunday, September 13. Why Michael Burry does not believe the AI extinction narrative According to the famous investor, large language models (LLMs) – the dominant form of contemporary generative AI – ‘are not AI and won’t be AGI.’ Thus, he concluded, ‘there is nothing AI to slow down.’ Michael Burry then pivoted to what appears to be the centerpiece of his thesis: the recent upsurge in competition from open-source and Chinese models has reduced the…

Zebra 7.0.0-rc.0 is here — NU7 arrives on Testnet 🦓 ⚡️ Blocks every 25 seconds instead of 75🛡️ New shielded limits protect wallets from spamActivates on Testnet at height 4,465,026 (~Oct 6). Testnet operators should upgrade before then 👇️ https://t.co/G2TV9hyvQd — Zcash Foundation 🛡️ (@ZcashFoundation) October 2, 2026 NU7 is expected to bring blocks every 25 seconds instead of every 75, a new network sustainability mechanism that recycles part of every transaction fee into future block rewards, and new shielded limits that protect wallets from spam. Currently, a Zcash user waits 75 seconds on average for a first confirmation, which…

It also pointed out that it has secured multiple partnerships with other professional sports leagues — including Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League — and that the NFL is standing apart. “All but the NFL have been willing to share data and collaborate to protect game integrity,” Diana said. The legal authorities underpinning sports wagers on prediction markets has come to a crossroads as one federal court has backed Kalshi’s argument that the CFTC should be its sole regulator and two others have sided with the states’ position that sport betting belongs under the authority of their own…

Those are averages, not Wednesday’s snapshot. The separate September 9 levels were about $3.037 trillion for reserves and $843.705 billion for Treasury cash. How US tax payments could affect Bitcoin liquidity The accounting mechanism is straightforward: tax payments move balances from commercial banks’ reserve accounts into the Treasury’s account. Treasury spending moves funds back to recipient banks. Other things equal, incoming taxes reduce reserves, while outgoing government payments replenish them. That can matter for short-term financing, including repo markets where cash is borrowed against securities. The New York Fed’s account of September 2019 describes how a temporary reserve decline, Treasury…

Data sourced by market intelligence platform Santiment confirms this. Notably, as of Sept. 20, amid the price recovery push, these $XRP whales held a cumulative balance of 12.32 billion tokens worth an excess of $17.3 billion at the time. Before then, their figure had ranged between 12.1 billion and 12.5 billion $XRP. $XRP Whales Accumulation | Source: Santiment However, an accumulation pattern emerged shortly after, with these whales increasingly adding to their balance. By Sept. 25, the figure had spiked to 13.74 billion $XRP, marking an increase of 1.42 billion $XRP or $2.21 billion within just five days. The campaign…