The Australian dollar weakened broadly in the Asian session as renewed selling in regional stocks, disappointing Chinese data, and a hawkish Reserve Bank of Australia near-term outlook combined to dampen sentiment towards the currency. Meanwhile, higher oil prices continued to…
TThe dry bulk market for Kamsarmax and Panamax tankers finds a significant boost in the Brazilian soybean export trade. In its latest weekly report, shipbroker Intermodal said: “Brazilian soybean exports to China have recovered from an inspection interruption in March,…
US integrated gas and LNG company Caturus, controlled by energy-focused alternative investment manager Kimmeridge, has revealed the final investment decision (FID) for an LNG export project under development in Louisiana, US. providing liquefied natural gas to the Commonwealth; Source: Commonwealth…
Galaxy Digital was awarded a BitLicense contract from New York on May 18 to provide regulated crypto services to enterprises. summary Galaxy Digital’s subsidiary GalaxyOne Prime NY received a BitLicense and Money Transfer license from the NYDFS on May 18,…
Amid faltering negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Iran has increasingly turned to Bitcoin (Bitcoin) to evade US sanctions. On May 18, Iran unveiled a Bitcoin-backed insurance service called “Hormuz is safe“, according to documents of the country’s Ministry…
Ethereum lost the $2,150 level as selling pressure and market uncertainty combined to erase the recovery that had been building since the February lows. The decline is not gradual, but has the character of a market meeting supply that was…
short Lawyers in a federal layoff case have apologized after artificial intelligence-generated “fake citations” appeared in a court filing. Attorney Jason Graves said he used Anthropic’s Claude Console under “tight time constraints.” The filing arose from a dispute over a…
EMURGO, a co-founding entity of Cardano, is partnering with Slash Vision Labs to bring Cardano to Japanese consumers through SecondFi, the new self-custodial financing platform. The Cardano card will allow Japanese users to make cryptocurrency payments via the QR code…
May 18, 2026 – London, United Kingdom Quantitative laboratories announced the early access release of Lock.com, a hardware-free cryptocurrency wallet built on an air-tethered, isolated security approach. Lock.com is now available for Early Access users. The platform decouples private key…
Treating meme currency as an investment is distasteful, said David Schwartz, Ripple’s chief technology officer emeritus. The Ripple veteran ignored XRP holders who urged him to endorse the FUZZY token on the XRP Ledger. Schwartz, known on X as JoelKatz,…
