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HashKey Exchange Targets Global Retail Market With New Flagship Crypto Trading App

The race among licensed Asian exchanges to win retail traders is entering a new phase. HashKey Holdings, the Hong Kong-listed digital asset group, has unveiled a new flagship crypto trading app as part of what it calls a “landmark global product and brand strategy launch.” The move signals a direct attempt to broaden its footprint beyond institutional clients and deepen its presence in a market where user experience now dictates scale. According to the official announcement, the revamped platform is designed to unify the trading experience across geographies, though specific feature details remain thin.　　HashKey has long operated from a position of regulatory advantage. Early licensing in Hong Kong gave it access to a market that many global exchanges found difficult to penetrate after the city tightened its virtual asset service provider regime. But a license alone does not guarantee retail adoption. The new app suggests the group understands that onboarding everyday users in a jurisdiction where traditional finance is deeply embedded requires an interface that matches what neobanks and fintech apps have normalized. Speed, simplicity, and multi-asset support are now table stakes. The real question is whether HashKey can layer on enough differentiated features—such as staking, yield products, or direct

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Cyclospora outbreak may be worsened by food industry consolidation

Vegetables on display in a grocery store on August 15, 2025 in Delray Beach, Florida.　　Joe Raedle | Getty Images　　The cyclospora outbreak that has sickened thousands in the U.S. is drawing renewed attention to a decades long shift in how fresh food moves through the country.　　While investigators work to identify the original source of contamination, somefood safety experts say the industrys centralized sourcing and distribution networks after a wave of consolidation can help turn what once may have been an isolated contamination event into a multistate outbreak.　　“The general trends that have taken place in the food industry, the way in which food has been sourced, and then distributed has played some role here,” said Dr. David Relman, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University.　　With the cyclospora parasites long incubation period, the difficulty in tracking its path and what some experts have criticized as a bumpy federal response have all played a role in the widening outbreak, some experts say the structure of the food system has also contributed.Relman said consolidation has changed both how produce is processed and how widely it is distributed.　　“Its possible that as food sourcing and distribution becomes consolidated you get pooling and then redistribution of

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AI takes nothing away from crypto, says Coinbase CEO

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has pushed back against calls for crypto founders to pivot to AI.　　In a post on Sunday, Armstrong took aim directly at the years-old slogan “If youre in crypto, pivot to AI,” which seems to have become popular in recent months, amid the growth of AI.　　“Its zero sum, scarcity thinking,” he wrote, saying crypto is a general-purpose technology.　　“If youre in crypto, pivot to AI.”　　I used to hear versions of this, and it‘s the wrong way to think about the world. It’s zero sum, scarcity thinking.　　Crypto is a general purpose technology. Its infrastructure, the same way electricity or the internet is infrastructure. It…　　Coinbase CEO says crypto will power agentic payments　　Armstrong put crypto in the same category as electricity and the internet, saying it‘s an infrastructure that doesn’t compete with AI, but rather underpins it.　　“AI being a megatrend takes nothing away from crypto. If anything, it makes crypto more important,” said Coinbase CEO.　　He noted that the opportunity lies in crypto being a real-time programmable money, a new sector coined as “Agentic Finance (AiFi).”　　According to Armstrong, AI agents will eventually need their own financial infrastructure to trade, hold funds, and pay for items, among other things. He believes crypto will

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Proof of Personhood After Deepfakes: A Plain Guide

If you have even half an eye on the internet right now, youve seen it. People you know showing up in videos they never recorded. Fake cops knocking on inboxes. Bots swarming airdrops. The line between human and machine is blurry.　　This piece breaks down proof of personhood, the idea that a system can tell you are a real, unique human without demanding your whole identity. We‘ll look at how it works, why it’s suddenly center stage, whos shipping it, and how to judge the tradeoffs before you opt in.　　By the end, you‘ll know how PoP differs from KYC, what privacy tech actually helps, where it’s useful, and the red flags to avoid.　　Proof of personhood (PoP) is a way to verify that an account is controlled by a single real human, usually without revealing who that human is. It beats bot swarms and Sybil attacks by issuing a one-per-person credential you can reuse across apps. In 2026, PoP matters because AI-generated deepfakes are exploding and regulators are forcing clearer labels on synthetic media, so platforms need stronger signals that a human is behind an action.Goal: one human, one credential, minimal personal dataUsed for airdrop protection, spam control, voting, and reputationBuilt with

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Garden Finance takes app offline after independent solver database compromise

Garden Finance has temporarily taken its application offline after an attacker compromised the off-chain database of an independent solver, leading to the loss of solver-owned digital assets while leaving protocol contracts and user funds unaffected.　　SummaryGarden Finance temporarily took its app offline after an independent solvers off chain database was compromised, resulting in the loss of solver owned funds.The protocol said its smart contracts and user funds were not affected because the attack was limited to one solvers infrastructure.Blockaid estimated the attacker drained about $450,000 in USDT from HTLC contracts across multiple blockchains before the incident was contained.Garden has engaged zeroShadow, Quantstamp and Blockaid to trace the stolen assets and support recovery efforts.The incident follows a similar 2025 solver breach and comes as crypto security researchers continue tracking multiple exploits across the sector.　　Blockchain security firm Blockaid reported on Sunday that an attacker drained about $450,000 in USDT from Garden Finances hash time-locked contracts (HTLCs) deployed across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum and BNB Smart Chain, describing the exploit as active while publishing wallet addresses linked to the attacker and the affected contracts.　　Garden Finance later told Cointelegraph that the protocol itself had not been breached. Instead, the company said the incident originated from the

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South Korea's KB Kookmin Bank to launch cross-border payment service on JPMorgan's Kinexys: report

Quick TakeKB Kookmin Bank, the largest bank in South Korea, plans to launch a blockchain-based cross-border corporate payments service next month, according to Yonhap.The bank is set to roll out the service under a partnership with Kinexys by J.P. Morgan.　　KB Kookmin Bank, the largest bank in South Korea, plans to launch a blockchain-based cross-border corporate payments service using Kinexys by J.P. Morgan, according to local media reports.　　Yonhap News Agency reported Sunday that the bank is set to roll out the service next month under a partnership with Kinexys. It will become the first Korean financial institution to use Kinexys blockchain payment network for corporate import and export settlements, per the report.　　The service will be available through the banks domestic branches in South Korea and its Singapore branch. Initially, the bank plans to prioritize U.S. dollar transfers across 10 countries: South Korea, the U.S., Singapore, Saudi Arabia, India, Thailand, Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain and South Africa, according to the report.　　KB Kookmin has been expanding its presence in blockchain-based payments. In March, KB Kookmin Card, one of the countrys largest credit card companies, announced that it is building a hybrid stablecoin payment model with Avalanche.　　Kinexys is J.P. Morgans blockchain business unit that

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WEMIX says attacker moved about $724,000 after contract breach

Layer-1 blockchain network WEMIX said an attacker moved about 724,000 in USDC.e tokens after compromising ownership of a contract linked to its WEMIX$ stablecoin and issuing tokens without authorization.　　The abnormal transactions occurred on Sunday at 9:17 UTC, according to a preliminary incident update from WEMIX. The attacker issued about 5.23 million WEMIX$, which was converted into 30,736 WEMIX and 724,198.27 USDC.e. The USDC.e was then bridged to Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain before being exchanged for assets including Ether and Tethers USDT and distributed across multiple addresses.　　WEMIX said some of the funds were deposited into centralized exchanges. The company identified the attackers wallets and requested asset freezes and assistance from exchanges and stablecoin issuers, adding that some exchanges had already frozen addresses linked to the incident.　　The company temporarily suspended all bridges connected to its layer-1 network, WEMIX3.0, including Chainlink CCIP and the PLAY Bridge. It also suspended trading in affected liquidity pools, withdrew foundation-provided liquidity, and paused services including the WEMIX$ Module and PNIX decentralized exchange.　　WEMIX said the cause and full impact remain under investigation and warned that the preliminary figures could change.

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Japan Sets 2028 Bitcoin ETF Deadline As Asias Policy Engine Leaves The West Behind

The centre of gravity for crypto regulation isn‘t drifting eastward. It has moved. While Washington remains tangled in last‑minute lobbying over a landmark bill, several Asian governments are converting policy papers into infrastructure. The latest signal: Japan has formally elevated on‑chain finance to a national policy objective and is targeting Bitcoin exchange‑traded funds by 2028, according to the weekly roundup compiled by WuBlockchain. That target date isn’t a casual mention in a white paper; it gives market participants and institutions a hard deadline around which to plan products, custody, and liquidity.　　On the same day, news arrived that South Korea is moving to expand institutional crypto access even as domestic exchange volumes crater. The combination is telling. A regime does not typically widen the on‑ramp for professional traders while retail activity dries up unless it is preparing the ground for a different kind of market structure. The draft framework suggests a shift from the retail‑driven speculation that has defined Korean crypto for years toward something more institutionally durable. In isolation, each headline might read like a routine policy update. Together, they reveal a coordinated‑looking acceleration across Northeast Asia that carries implications for institutional capital flows, stablecoin usage, and even the geopolitical

07-26Industry

Fed Rate Decision Pits 104 Economists Against a 36% Hike Bet

The Federal Reserve (Fed) decides on interest rates this Wednesday. Almost every economist expects no change. Traders are far less sure.　　That gap matters. If the Fed surprises, stocks, bonds, oil and Bitcoin (BTC) all move fast. Bitcoin traded near $64,915 on Monday, up 0.7%.　　Bitcoin Price Performance. Source: BeInCryptoEconomists Say Hold, Traders Say Maybe Not　　The Feds main interest rate has sat between 3.50% and 3.75% for four meetings. The FactSet consensus says it stays there.　　Reuters asked 104 economists in mid-July. All 104 said hold. Fully 78 expected no change through December.　　Traders tell a different story. Fed funds futures put the chance of a rate rise at 13% a week ago. By Friday it had jumped to 38%. It now sits near 36%.　　Fed Rate Cut Probabilities. Source: CME FedWatch Tool　　“We are currently seeing the biggest indecision by the markets regarding the expected outcome for some time,” analyst The Martini Guy noted.　　Follow us on X to get the latest news as it happens　　The two camps are not really arguing. Economists name the single likeliest outcome. Futures price every outcome, including the unlikely ones.　　The panel is also shifting. Most of those same economists now rate the chance of a hike later in 2026 as

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Down 32% in 6 Months: What Binance Research Says About Bitcoins Next Move

Bitcoin has fallen more than 50% from its October 2025 record high near $126,000, remaining below that peak for 275 days.　　Bitcoin ended the first half of 2026 near $60,000 after falling about 32% since January, Binance Research reported. Its Half-Year 2026: Macro & Bitcoin report described the decline as a third consecutive quarterly loss across broader financial markets worldwide.　　The weak first-half performance also extended Bitcoins longer-term drawdown. According to the report, the asset has fallen more than 50% from its October 2025 record high near $126,000. It has also spent 275 days below that peak, underscoring the depth and persistence of the current market downturn.　　On-Chain Data Signals Market Stress　　On-chain data showed 10.83 million BTC ended the period in unrealized loss, while 9.22 million units remained profitable instead. Binance Research said this marked the first loss-over-profit crossover during the current market cycle, making conditions important for analysts.　　The researchers noted similar crossovers have historically appeared near major Bitcoin market bottoms before stronger recoveries eventually followed. However, they cautioned that historical patterns alone cannot confirm the current cycle will produce the same outcome.　　Beyond the on-chain signals, Binance attributed Bitcoins weak performance mainly to broader macroeconomic conditions rather than crypto-specific developments. The report said

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