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Harmony has proposed sunsetting its layer-1 blockchain and migrating the ONE token to Ethereum, weeks after a damaging exploit forced plans to discard 109,000 transactions.…
DBS and Citi completed a landmark cross-border US dollar payment using tokenised deposits on 5 September 2026, settling in minutes via the Swift Digital Ledger.…
House Republicans cancel two weeks of September voting sessions, stripping eight legislative days and threatening to derail crypto regulation before year's end.…
From China's $54bn state bank injection to Moody's AI dependency warning, five converging stories reveal the fault lines running through global finance this autumn.…
Bitcoin's Liquid sidechain has paused after purported white-hat actors withdrew 4,000 BTC exploiting an Elements vulnerability, pledging to return most funds post-patch.…
A $320 million extraction from Liquid Network has sparked fierce debate after attackers claimed white hat status — a label Ledger's CTO is openly skeptical of.…
Japan is offloading foreign securities, including US Treasuries, to defend the yen — a move that risks rattling global bond markets and exposing deep currency vulnerabilities.…
Japan's foreign exchange reserves have dropped below $1 trillion for the first time in recent memory following record yen intervention, raising concerns over US bond yields and global market stability.…
Purported white hat hackers extracted 4,000 BTC from the Liquid sidechain in a major breach, even as Bitcoin ETFs recorded their strongest three-week inflow streak of 2026.…
Nine in ten U.S. health providers now require or encourage patients to prepay for medical procedures, up sharply from 81% in 2025, reshaping the economics of care delivery.…
ByteDance secures a $29.6 billion loan from nearly 30 banks, ranking as Asia's second-largest financing deal of 2026, as lenders race to back the AI ambitions of the TikTok owner.…
The ECB's latest findings confirm cash remains the most widely accepted payment method across the euro area, defying digital payment momentum.…