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Cash Dubai crude crossed $170 per barrel for the first time in history this week, delivering a clear signal that the physical oil market is under severe strain amid escalating Middle East disruptions. Physical Oil Tightness Sends Dubai Crude Into Uncharted Territory The price move did not come from paper trading or speculative futures. It … Read more
Markets are leaning heavily toward a Federal Reserve pause following this week’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision, with traders signaling little belief that policymakers will pivot under pressure at the April 29, 2026, meeting. Markets Show Little Faith in Fed Rate Cuts After March While Fed Chair Jerome Powell sits in office, until his … Read more
The way money moves is starting to change and it’s not happening slowly anymore. What used to feel like early-stage experimentation in crypto is now turning into a serious race among major financial players to shape the future of payments. At the center of it all are stablecoins and the infrastructure behind them. These “rails” … Read more
Ondo Global Markets just leveled up its onchain presence again, rolling out over 60 new tokenized stocks and bumping its list of available assets past the 250 mark. With this move, Ondo tightens its grip as the biggest player in tokenized stocks by total value locked and it’s not just about scale. The real story … Read more
This week saw the artificial intelligence (AI) industry rocked by a potential Microsoft-OpenAI legal dispute over a $50 billion Amazon cloud partnership, Nvidia announcing $1 trillion in chip orders at its GTC developer conference, and new federal warnings that surging AI data center demand is destabilizing the U.S. power grid. Microsoft Eyes Legal Action Microsoft … Read more
Morgan Stanley inches closer to launching its own spot bitcoin ETF, signaling Wall Street’s appetite for direct exposure isn’t fading anytime soon. Morgan Stanley Expands Crypto Push With Spot Bitcoin ETF Filing Morgan Stanley Investment Management has filed an updated S-1 registration statement for the Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust, or MSBT, advancing the proposed spot … Read more
South Korean lawmakers are once again tearing up the script on crypto taxation, this time with a proposal to scrap the levy altogether before it ever sees daylight. South Korea Crypto Policy Shift Could Remove Tax Burden Entirely According to the regional news publication Digital Asset, South Korea’s opposition party has introduced legislation to fully … Read more
Prediction market platform Polymarket is making another move to deepen its crypto roots, announcing the acquisition of DeFi startup Brahma in a deal aimed at improving its underlying infrastructure. The company didn’t disclose how much it paid for the acquisition, but the intention is pretty clear, Polymarket wants to make its platform smoother, faster, and … Read more
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has introduced a new idea that could quietly change how people experience the network day to day. It’s called the Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), and the goal is pretty simple: make transactions feel “final” much faster than they do today. Right now, users often wait longer to be sure a transaction … Read more
Tempo’s mainnet is officially live, and from today, developers can start building directly on the platform using public RPC endpoints. This is a major step forward in making payments faster, cheaper, and more seamless, especially as more transactions are handled by machines rather than humans. Alongside the mainnet, Tempo has launched the Machine Payments Protocol … Read more