NFT & Metaverse

Oil just broke $90. Brent crude climbed more than 3% on Monday to its highest level since mid-June, as the US-Iran war chokes shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The US hit Iran for …

In brief ECB board member Cipollone warned Friday that stablecoin growth could strip European banks of retail deposits, on top of the fees and transaction data they’re already losing to mobile payment platforms. Two-thirds …

Securitize and Cantor Fitzgerald have partnered to support blockchain-based initial public offerings (IPOs) and follow-on equity offerings for listed companies, a move that could further expand the use of tokenized securities in traditional capital …

Bonzo Lend, a lending protocol on the Hedera mainnet, has paused operations following an oracle exploit on July 11, 2026, resulting in an estimated loss of $9 million. Bonzo stated that the incident stemmed …

In brief Perplexity released a research preview of a post-trained GLM 5.2 version, built to act as an orchestrator inside its Computer harness and escalate to Claude Opus 4.8 only when needed. The system …

Tax authorities, meanwhile, are concerned about widespread underreporting. In the financial year ended March 2023, fewer than a quarter of the 645,000 individuals who transacted in crypto actually declared those gains on their tax …