AI
Nvidia, once commanding nearly the entire Chinese AI accelerator market, has now been squeezed out of the world’s second-largest economy. Caught in the crossfire of an escalating U.S.–China tech rivalry, the world’s most valuable chipmaker faces a stark new reality: in today’s geopolitical zero-sum game,
Markets
Bitcoin is holding steady above the $100,000 mark after a turbulent week, with renewed institutional buying and signs of “whale” accumulation helping to lift sentiment across the crypto market. Analysts say these trends suggest confidence is quietly returning to the world’s largest cryptocurrency. According to data, Bitcoin was
Markets
U.S. spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw a strong rebound on Thursday, pulling in $240 million in net inflows and halting a six-day stretch of steady outflows that had weighed on the market. According to data from SoSoValue, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) led the surge with $112.
Politics
Australia’s top financial regulator has urged the nation to move quickly on tokenization or risk losing ground to global competitors reshaping financial markets through digital innovation. In a speech on Wednesday, Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Chair Joe Longo said tokenization—the process of converting real-world assets into
DeFi
Robot Ventures has announced a $5.2 million seed investment in Sprinter, a blockchain infrastructure startup pioneering what it calls “solving-as-a-service.” The round also drew backing from A Capital, Atka Capital, Bond St Ventures, Topology, and Uniswap Labs Ventures, alongside prominent angel investors such as Ameen Soleimani (0xbow), Eva Beylin
Finance
Google is expanding the way people access financial insights by integrating real-time data from leading prediction market platforms Polymarket and Kalshi into Google Finance search results. The update, set to roll out over the next few weeks, will initially be available to Google Labs users. Google Finance adds AI features
What Is Crypto Staking? Crypto staking is a way to earn passive income by locking up your digital assets to help run and secure a blockchain network. In return, you earn rewards—usually paid out in the same cryptocurrency you staked. It’s the backbone of Proof of Stake (PoS)
AI
Apple is preparing a sweeping upgrade to Siri, powered by Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence model — a move that could redefine how the iPhone’s voice assistant understands and responds to users. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple plans to pay Google roughly $1 billion annually
Finance
A group of major blockchain players — including Solana, Fireblocks, Polygon, Monad, and others — have come together to form the Blockchain Payments Consortium (BPC), an alliance dedicated to creating a unified framework for cross-chain payments. The initiative marks a significant step toward making blockchain-based transactions as seamless and reliable as traditional
DeFi
Decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Balancer has released a preliminary incident report confirming that a rounding error in its swap logic caused the Nov. 3 exploit that drained over $128 million from its liquidity pools across multiple blockchain networks. The attack targeted Balancer’s Composable Stable Pools (CSPs), affecting deployments on
DeFi
Monad is gearing up to launch its high-performance Layer-1 blockchain mainnet on November 24 at 9 a.m. ET, marking one of the most anticipated network debuts of the year. The rollout will coincide with the token generation event (TGE) for its native MON token, which is set to list
Markets
Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have posted net outflows for six consecutive trading days, signaling ongoing caution among investors despite Bitcoin’s modest rebound above $103,000. According to data from SoSoValue, roughly $137 million left Bitcoin ETFs on November 5, bringing total outflows during the current streak to over $2.