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Bank of Japan Insider Claims Alarm Financial Circles On Yen Carry Trade Unwinding Allegations of an anonymous financial commentator about the Bank of Japan’s future actions and their implications on financial markets are flooding social media on Sunday. Yuto Kanzaki, a financial commentator and alleged Bank of Japan insider who claims to be “anonymous for security,” has revealed information that, if true, hints at a possible unwind of the yen carry trade, which would bring a large liquidity crunch to stock and crypto markets. “Japan’s wealth is returning to its homeland. By any means necessary. The Bank of Japan has…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson lashed out at the network’s governance after TapTools said it would wind down within two weeks. The Hosky community followed with its own closure notice, though satirical. Hoskinson predicted more failures in the second half of 2026, citing JX Door’s earlier collapse as a warning sign. Cardano ($ADA) fell 6.5% to roughly $0.215 in the past 24 hours. Cardano ($ADA) Price Performance. Source: Coingecko TapTools and ‘Hosky’ Mark a Wider Shutdown Wave TapTools served more than one million users and supported hundreds of projects through its API across four years. Earlier in 2026, two cofounders (the…

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) reiterated on Thursday that President Donald Trump is profiting from his time in office, pointing to a survey in which people expressed disapproval of his cryptocurrency-related income. Strong Disapproval by 44% of Respondents Warren cited a survey by Echelon Insights showing that 55% of voters disapproved of Trump’s $1.4 billion in earnings from cryptocurrency ventures. Roughly 44% of those surveyed “strongly” disapproved of Trump’s cryptocurrency earnings, while 11% “somewhat” disapproved. Warn said that while many Americans are struggling to “afford the basics,” Trump is “using the presidency” to boost his family’s cryptocurrency business. “The sample was…

Web3 security firm CertiK has officially expanded into Japan during the WebX conference in Tokyo, unveiling CertiK Surveillance, an AI-driven, real-time risk-profiling platform designed for institutional crypto markets. Co-unveiled with OKCoin Japan (OKJ), this launch signals a strategic shift from one-time audits to active, real-time monitoring of crypto assets. CertiK Officially Enters Japan, Unveils Surveillance Platform On July 29, 2026, during a fireside chat hosted by Yuki Kamimoto (CEO of NADA News) with CertiK Co-founder and CEO Ronghui Gu and Shusaku Fujino, Chief Compliance Officer of OKJ, CertiK announced its official entry into the Japanese market. In addition to the…

Institutional alliance: The project brings together more than 140 companies from the financial and technology sectors, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, BNY, and Coinbase. Operating model: Open USD enables fee-free, unlimited volume issuance and redemption for participating companies. Deployment network: The stablecoin will debut directly on the Ethereum network, an infrastructure that holds the largest share of tokenized real-world assets. The Ethereum Institutional initiative confirmed the launch of Open USD, a new stablecoin targeted at the institutional sector and backed by a global consortium of more than 140 companies. The digital asset was designed to operate natively on the Ethereum…

South Korea’s benchmark stock index, the KOSPI, experienced a sharp decline of more than 5% during trading on [Date], prompting the Korea Exchange (KRX) to activate a sell-side sidecar. This is the first such activation in months and underscores the heightened volatility gripping Asian markets. What Is a Sell-Side Sidecar? A sell-side sidecar is a temporary trading halt mechanism designed to cool down rapid, panic-driven selling. When triggered, program trading on the KOSPI is suspended for five minutes, giving human traders and algorithms time to reassess market conditions. The sidecar activates when the KOSPI futures fall more than 5% from…

Grayscale Investments has announced that its Grayscale Hyperliquid Staking ETF (HYPG) will begin trading on U.S. exchanges on June 3. The product provides investors with simultaneous exposure to the spot price of Hyperliquid ($HYPE) and staking rewards generated by the underlying asset. HYPG: A Staking ETF for Hyperliquid The HYPG ETF is designed to track $HYPE’s market price while also capturing staking yield, a structure that differentiates it from simple spot-based exchange-traded products. According to Grayscale, HYPG carries the lowest gross management fee among all $HYPE-based exchange-traded products currently listed in the United States. This fee advantage could appeal to…

Markets · Regulation · Long Read Summary Senate Republicans released updated CLARITY Act text on July 22, 2026, merging the Banking and Agriculture committee drafts into a single 616-page bill with more than 70 pages of new language, including a government ethics title negotiated with the White House. The bill divides digital assets into three statutory categories: digital commodities overseen by the CFTC, investment contract assets under the SEC, and permitted payment stablecoins governed by the $GENIUS Act, with a maturity certification process that lets tokens graduate from securities treatment as their networks decentralize. An ETP grandfather clause permanently classifies…

Robinhood (HOOD) topped Wall Street’s second-quarter expectations, but shares fell about 4% in after-hours trading, adding to their 3.1% decline during Wednesday’s session. The online brokerage reported adjusted earnings per share of $0.62, well ahead of analysts’ $0.43 estimate, while revenue climbed 32% from a year earlier to a record $1.31 billion, narrowly topping the $1.29 billion consensus forecast. The results reflected strength across Robinhood’s expanding product lineup, even as crypto trading cooled. Crypto revenue fell 38% year over year to $100 million from $160 million, while transaction revenue was lifted by surging options, equities and prediction markets activity. “Whether…

Crypto forensics and compliance company AMLBot has launched its AI Tracer, described as a self-service blockchain analysis tool that maps visible fund movements from a transaction hash across blockchain networks. AMLBot said the tool aims to address the current need for specialist software and knowledge to trace transactions. The company said the tool also traces through bridges that move assets cross-chain or when the assets are split among multiple wallets. “The process is automatic: the AI traverses the transaction graph, follows the movement of funds from the starting address through intermediate wallets toward whatever endpoint the money reached, and matches…