Crypto

Operating profits at South Korean cryptocurrency exchanges fell 78% in the first half of 2026 as trading activity, market values and customer deposits declined.

USDT is expected to return to Bitcoin this month through Utexo, a Tether-backed project licensed to issue the stablecoin there.

Amazon Web Services' Strands Labs has released Strands Decider 2B, an open source decision model that refuses to write prose entirely.

Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, the first models trained by its Workers AI team, as open-weight models for structured decisions.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed relaxing digital-asset custody rules so advisers may hold clients’ crypto when no qualified custodian is available.