Crypto exchange OKX is taking a page from the playbook of the tech and finance industries by linking employee evaluations to proficiency in using artificial intelligence.
Bitcoin’s expected volatility has fallen to the lowest level in nine months, as subdued trading and a shift in speculative interest away from the largest cryptocurrency dampen demand for options protection.
An attendee photographs Bitcoin signage on the exhibition floor during the Plan B Forum Bitcoin conference in San Salvador, El Salvador.
The crypto hacks came a little over two weeks apart in April, netting the attackers almost $600 million in total while triggering an investor exodus from one major platform and causing another to fail.
Goldman Sachs said it pushed back expectations for the US Federal Reserve’s next two rate cuts by one quarter to December 2026 and March 2027 as inflation proves stickier than anticipated.
Shoppers on Olvera Street in Los Angeles. Photographer: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg
Singapore will postpone considering an independent panel’s recommendations on the salaries of political office holders until the economic impact of the Iran war becomes clearer, a government minister said.
Singapore will postpone considering an independent panel’s recommendations on the salaries of political office holders until the economic impact of the Iran war becomes clearer, a government minister said.
Bitcoin pared losses as investors grew hopeful for a diplomatic resolution to the Middle East conflict, even as President Donald Trump’s key ceasefire deadline approaches.
The Bitcoin logo at the Bithumb exchange office in Seoul, South Korea, on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026. The world's 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025, as booming markets in everything from equities to cryptocurrencies to precious metals sent the value of their holdings soaring, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Photographer: SeongJoon Cho/Bloomberg
A little-known prediction market platform with Asia roots burst onto the scene late last year, but already its fast start appears to be running out of steam.
The market value of the world’s largest stablecoin is heading for a notable pullback this month, after largely uninterrupted growth since the return of pro-crypto President Donald Trump to the White House.
Bitcoin traded near two-month lows after Donald Trump named Kevin Warsh as the next Federal Reserve chair — a choice that did little to lift sentiment in a market already under pressure from persistent ETF outflows.
The software firm behind a crypto-oriented social-media platform plans to repay venture capitalists the $180 million they had invested in the project, underscoring a period of consolidation for one of the more ambitious corners of the blockchain market.
An image of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency tokens.
Cryptocurrencies fell sharply as risk assets slipped and haven demand strengthened, after US President Donald Trump proposed new levies on eight European countries.
The unbridled optimism that permeated the crypto industry during Donald Trump’s first year back in power is giving way to angst, after a much-awaited digital-asset bill was delayed in the Senate amid frenzied debate over the treatment of stablecoins.
Standard Chartered Plc plans to set up a prime brokerage for crypto trading, people with knowledge of the matter said, as global banks step up efforts to compete in digital assets.
A Standard Chartered Plc logo at their headquarters in London, UK, on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023. First Abu Dhabi Bank PJSC is pressing ahead with a potential offer for Standard Chartered Plc, after a move to put earlier takeover plans on hold didn’t halt its ambitions to become a global financial powerhouse. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
Stablecoin transactions reached unprecedented heights last year, buoyed by favorable policy in the US under pro-crypto President Donald Trump.
The Circle website arranged on a laptop in New York, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. Circle Internet Financial Ltd.'s USDC stablecoin has gained back all of the market value it lost after the collapse in crypto prices following the failure of FTX.
Bitcoin rose to an more than one-month high and broke through a closely watched technical level as digital assets start to catch up with gains in stocks and precious metals.
Deep inside a Singaporean vault that’s been dubbed “Asia’s Fort Knox,” nestled alongside fine wines and priceless paintings, is a fully-formed, 69-million-year-old triceratops skeleton — one of only 24 known specimens.
Chaw Wei Yang, left, Yoann Turpin, center, and his wife Alice Jeon with the 69 million-year-old triceratops fossil at Freeport in Singapore. Photographer: Suvashree Ghosh/Bloomberg
Airwallex, the business banking and payments firm, raised $330 million in a funding round that valued it at $8 billion and drew investors including T. Rowe Price and Robinhood Ventures.