Visa is now clearing stablecoin payments at a yearly rate of $4.5 billion, as demand picks up from companies offering crypto-linked cards. It’s still a tiny slice of the $14.2 trillion in payments Vis...
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Inside the Patos Token Presale That Could Turn $500 into $175,000
Crypto Projects The cryptocurrency market is bracing for a seismic shift as the Patos Token ($PATOS) presale rapidly accelerates toward the psychological six-figure milestone of US$100,000, a feat it ...
With earnings only a month away, Nvidia’s stock is deep in the red. What’s going on?
Jensen Huang’s Nvidia (the most valuable company on earth) has been getting slapped around on Wall Street for weeks, and it’s starting to get weird. The NVDA stock is down 2.6% in 2026 so far, and eve...
‘Primal’ Creator Genndy Tartakovsky Talks Zombified Season 3
A zombified Spear appears in Season 3 of Adult Swim’s ‘Primal.’ Courtesy of Adult Swim Genndy Tartakovsky is no stranger to taking dinosaur-sized creative swings. This is the guy who...
XAG/USD surges to $93.50 record, $100 in sight
Silver prices skyrocketed to a new record high on Wednesday after bouncing off a daily low of $86.91, hitting a new all-time high at $93.52, and it seems poised to clear the $100.00 barrier in the nea...
Zcash Foundation cleared as SEC drops enforcement threat
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission concluded its review of the Zcash Foundation on Wednesday. The agency also informed the public charity that it doesn’t intend to take any enforcement action...
U.S. Might Strike Iran Within 24 Hours, Report Says (Live Updates)
Topline President Donald Trump said Iran had stopped “the killing” as well as its plans to execute protesters, as anti-government demonstrations continue and the U.S. reportedly considers military int...
U.S. Visa Freeze May Hit 3 Of The Top 20 Overseas Source Markets
U.S. immigrant visa will pause on January 21, 2026. getty The U.S. State Department is preparing to pause immigrant visa processing for roughly 75 countries on January 21, a move first reported by Fox...
‘Department Of War’ Name Change Could Cost Up To $125 Million, CBO Says
Topline The Trump administration’s renaming of the Department of Defense to the “Department of War” could cost as much as $125 million, the Congressional Budget Office said in a Wednesday report, prov...
Middle East Set For A High Rate Of Renewable Energy Growth By 2040
An Emirati man walks beneath photovoltaic panels at al-Dhafra solar power project south of the UAE capital Abu Dhabi. (Photo: Karim Sahib) AFP via Getty Images The Middle East is on track for high ren...
‘God Of War’ Game Actor Cast As TV Show Kratos: No, Not That One
It was always hard to imagine what large man in Hollywood was going to end up playing Kratos, an incredibly difficult role to cast for Amazon’s upcoming God of War series. Now things have ended in the...
Florida Governor DeSantis challenges President Trump’s AI deregulation push
Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, has challenged President Trump for enforcing AI deregulation, sharing his concern that AI could “displace human beings.” U.S. President Donald Trump is currently pus...
Why None of Them Replace the Others
Fintech As governments, banks, and crypto firms race to modernize money, a common question keeps surfacing: which digital currency model will win? Central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins,...
Aptos app revenue breaks $1M single-day record amid Bitnomial futures launch
On Wednesday, the Chicago-based crypto derivatives exchange Bitnomial launched the first regulated futures contract for the crypto Aptos (APT), coinciding with the network reporting record highs in da...
Solana (SOL) Grows 8.2% This Month, yet Analysts Predict 2900% ROI to GeeFi (GEE) as It Unveils Upcoming Features
GeeFi, a decentralized cryptocurrency wallet focused on delivering a user-friendly, all-in-one app experience, has announced significant updates as its token presale crosses key funding thresholds. Wh...
Helium Mobile ends early access plans, sparks subscriber backlash
Helium Mobile has announced that it will permanently halt the early adopter pricing plan, which costs $5 per month. The news caused frustration among early adopters, who took to social media to expres...
IPO Genie ($IPO) Sets a New Standard
Crypto Projects Learn how IPO Genie ($IPO) delivers transparent pre-IPO access with staking, tiers, and AI-powered insights, beyond short-term crypto buzz. Is IPO Genie $IPO actually one of the most c...
2026 is the ‘year of execution’ amid turnaround plan
Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa speaks during an event in Turin, Italy, November 25, 2025. Daniele Mascolo | Reuters DETROIT — Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa views 2026 as an execution year for the embat...
Gold rallies above $4,600 amid US Dollar weakness and Iran tensions
Gold (XAU/USD) makes a U-turn and registers solid gains on Wednesday, sponsored by broad US Dollar weakness, even though the latest inflation data cemented the case for the Federal Reserve (Fed) to ho...
Banks wager they can fend off price controls
Mark Mason, then CEO of Citi Private Bank, speaks during the Global Wealth Management Summit in New York, June 17, 2014. Shannon Stapleton | Reuters The biggest U.S. banks show no sign of capitulating...
How Pepeto Could Mirror Dogecoin’s 2021 Wealth Creation Phase
Crypto Projects Dogecoin 2021 run created more millionaires than most people realize. Early investors who only invested in downturns saw small investments become life changing fortunes. The pattern wa...
Sui Network Halts As Second Major Outage Disrupts Transactions
The Sui blockchain is facing a major operational challenge after the network abruptly halted, leaving transactions unprocessed for more than an hour. The development has raised concerns across its eco...
Oracle stock slide 5% as bondholders sue Larry El and his Wall Street lenders over AI debt
Oracle shares fell 5% in afternoon trading on the New York Stock Exchange after bondholders filed a lawsuit against Larry Ellison, several senior executives, and a long list of underwriting banks over...
Solana And Starknet Clash On X As Meme War Escalates Into Infrastructure Debate
Solana and Starknet are trading blows online in what has quickly escalated from a sarcastic post into a full-scale meme war. What started as a jab about daily active users has spiraled into a wider de...
Deribit launches USDC-settled options trading for AVAX and TRX
Deribit has added to its derivatives offering with the introduction of USDC-settled options trading for Avalanche and Tron. According to Deribit, the new contracts are accessible to users from eligibl...
Wall Street blasts Trump’s 10% cap as “devastating” for lenders and borrowers
Wall Street erupted after Donald Trump said he wants a one‑year 10% cap on credit card interest rates. Big U.S. banks warned the plan would hit a major source of income and make it harder to lend to m...
Powell briefed bipartisan senators on Fed’s $2.5B headquarters project after June hearing
Chairman Jerome Powell sent a detailed letter to bipartisan senators in July laying out the facts behind the Federal Reserve’s $2.5 billion headquarters renovation, according to a document reviewed by...
Avalanche Made Early Buyers Fortunes. Now, Zero Knowledge Proof Has Opened the Door to 250x ROI Along with Fair Access!
Crypto Projects Discover how Avalanche rewarded early buyers early, and how Zero Knowledge Proof is now doing the same, offering a live presale auction with open access and daily pricing for public bu...
Fed’s Beige Book: Outlooks were mildly optimistic
This report was prepared at the Federal Reserve (Fed) Bank of Richmond based on information collected on or before january 5, 2026. Key takeaways Overall economic activity increased at a slight to mod...
Slush, SuiScan non-responsive as Sui Network goes down
The Sui Network is experiencing what the team described as a major mainnet disruption. According to the Sui status page, the issue was caused by an ongoing consensus outage initially reported around 0...
Midnight Dropped -5.05% in Last Month and is Predicted to Drop to $0.050746 By Jan 18, 2026
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Focus remains on US data, Fedspeak, and UK GDP figures
In quite an erratic week, the US Dollar (USD) reversed Tuesday’s marked advance and shifted its attention to the opposite direction on the back of jitters surrounding the Fed’s independence as well as...