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Y Combinator has completed its first venture capital investment paid entirely in stablecoins, settling $500,000 in USDC on the Solana blockchain for prediction-markets startup Totalis. The transaction, reported on April 13, 2026, marks a concrete shift in how the world’s most influential startup
South Korea's Fair Trade Commission released its 2025 franchise business status report on April 15, revealing a significant structural gap in the coffee franchise market: the brand with the most stores does not generate the highest average sales per location. Mega Coffee leads with 3,325
Renault plans to reduce its global engineering workforce by up to 20% over the next two years, affecting approximately 2,200 positions from its total of more than 11,000 engineers worldwide. The move reflects intensifying competition from Chinese automakers in Europe and a broader strategic shift to
Samsung SDI and LG Energy Solution are internally reviewing mass production plans for sodium-ion batteries, marking a strategic pivot by South Korean battery manufacturers to compete with Chinese lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery dominance. At the NGBS 2026 seminar held in Seoul on
Susquehanna Investment Research raised Intel's price target to $80 per share on April 23, ahead of the company's Q1 2026 earnings release, citing strong server CPU demand driven by agentic artificial intelligence workloads. The new target represents a 25% upside from Intel's Tuesday close of $63.81
Key Takeaways:
Foundry Digital created a Zcash mining pool which soon had a hashrate of about 30% of the network
Institutional miners are accelerating the compliant, purpose built ZEC infrastructure adoption
A new block explorer, Zcashinfo.com offers real-time information on network activity
Google Korea's three operating units paid 28.3 billion won (approximately US$19.2 million) in corporate tax last year, representing an 18% year-on-year increase, according to audit reports cited by The Korea Herald. The three units—Google Korea, Google Cloud Korea, and Google Payment
Bittensor (TAO) experienced a sharp 25% price decline following Covenant AI's governance exit and a significant token dump by the project's founder. According to analyst Michaël van de Poppe, the primary trigger was Covenant's founder selling 37,000 TAO tokens, which sparked panic selling and
The Seoul Administrative Court's 5th Division, presided over by Judge Lee Jung-won, ruled on the 9th in favor of Dunamu in an administrative lawsuit challenging a three-month business suspension order issued by the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Following the judgment, the FIU announced plans
Uber has committed more than US$10 billion to purchase thousands of autonomous vehicles, according to reporting by the Financial Times, as the company pursues a robotaxi rollout strategy across multiple markets. The company plans to deploy robotaxi services in at least 28 cities by 2028, subject to
Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise, published an analysis on April 13 arguing that geopolitical instability—driven by the Ukraine conflict and recent US-Israeli tensions with Iran—is creating conditions for Bitcoin to reach over $1 million per coin. Hougan's thesis centers on the