XPeng Chairman He Xiaopeng tells Bloomberg exclusively about talks with overseas automakers to expand its driver-assistance tech globally. He also discusses the EV maker's latest sales, international production plans, and a potential flying car IPO.
Sarah Yerkes, the Senior Fellow at the Middle East Program at the Carnegie Endowment, says the US-Iran conflict may continue to play out over several months, while the fundamental strategic goals of the Trump administration remain unclear.
Shares of Figure Technology Solutions fell more than 9% on Thursday, retreating to the mid-$32 range amid renewed volatility in crypto-linked equities.
Decentralised finance markets rapidly repriced risk within 48 hours following the Kelp DAO exploit, which exposed structural weaknesses in lending protocols like Aave.
For the better part of a decade, the gilded youth of the financial world — the "crypto-native" generation — dismissed gold as a "boomer rock."
To them, the heavy, yellow metal was an analog relic, a petrous souvenir of an era before the lightning-fast efficiency of the blockchain.
For decades, the Strait of Hormuz has existed in the global consciousness as a geopolitical abstraction — a narrow, jagged ribbon of blue on a map that experts warned was the "jugular vein" of the modern world.
But as the closure of the Strait enters its second month, that abstraction has curdled into a cold, suffocating reality.
For a fleeting moment last autumn, it appeared that the long-running friction between the frantic world of cryptocurrency and the buttoned-down halls of global finance had finally reached a grand synthesis.
With the debut of spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and Bitcoin scaling heights near $126,000, the industry’s boosters declared that "digital gold" had finally arrived as a permanent fixture of the modern portfolio.
Bitcoin has vaporised more than US$800 billion in its latest crash and sucked US$1 trillion out of the broader crypto market.
With nearly US$2 trillion in market value and rising allocations from Wall Street firms, ETFs, pension funds, and insurers, Bitcoin is increasingly woven into traditional finance.
PwC reports that crypto adoption is advancing unevenly across regions despite growing institutional involvement.
Trump used his Davos speech to tout US economic dominance, promote crypto, and revive his push for Greenland.
Bitcoin is holding above $92,000, but weak ETF flows and macro uncertainty are testing traders’ confidence in a market bottom.
December’s CPI landed exactly at 2.7%, with a slightly cooler core print giving markets mild relief but no big Fed pivot.
Ethereum opened at $2,375.12 on 23 April 2026, rising roughly 2% from the previous session as Bitcoin pushed above $78,000 before both assets pared gains.
A US Army soldier has been charged with federal crimes after allegedly using classified intelligence to place bets on Polymarket tied to the removal of Nicolás Maduro, generating more than $400,000 in profit.
Benjamin Pasternak, founder of the Solana-based token launchpad Believe, has been arrested and charged with assault and strangulation following a March 31 incident in New York.
Global crypto adoption declined in the first quarter as retail activity dropped 11% year-on-year to $979 billion amid macroeconomic and geopolitical pressures, according to TRM Labs.
Tether has frozen more than $344 million worth of its USDT stablecoin across two wallet addresses at the request of US law enforcement authorities.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control has sanctioned Cambodian senator Kok An and 28 others over alleged involvement in crypto-linked scam centres operating across Cambodia.
The crypto-aligned Fellowship PAC has spent $1.75 million supporting Ken Paxton in Texas’ upcoming Senate runoff race.
MicroStrategy has amassed 815,061 Bitcoin, overtaking BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust to become the largest single holder of the cryptocurrency.
The Arbitrum Security Council intervened to freeze more than 30,000 ETH, worth about $71 million, linked to the KelpDAO exploit.
An economist at Circle has proposed raising borrowing rates on Aave to as high as 50% to address a liquidity crisis trapping user funds.
