The breach on Saturday morning is the fourth time in the last two weeks that a YouTube channel run by the South Korean government was hacked.
Japan’s annual budget requests for next fiscal year hit 110 trln yen – MOF
Japan's annual budget requests for the next fiscal year hit $784 billion as an expected increase in military outlays added to already rising debt-servicing and welfare costs, the Ministry of Finance ...
Japan’s Nikkei falls for fourth session on Wall Street weakness
Japan's Nikkei share average fell for a fourth straight session on Monday, tracking Wall Street's weak performance last week, amid absence of market-moving cues due to a U.S. market holiday. The ...
Crypto Could Be The ‘Linux of Finance’ By 2040, Says Vitalik Buterin
Ethereum co-founder and crypto rockstar Vitalik Buterin has a bright forecast for the cryptocurrency market volatility and said crypto could be the "Linux of Finance" by 2040. The Canadian programmer ...
Nikkei hits roughly 7-week low in morning on global economic concerns
Japan's key Nikkei index briefly hit a roughly seven-week low on Monday morning, as the increased possibility of interest rate hikes in the United States made some investors concerned about the future ...
Japanese banks offer advice on disaster-risk mitigation
Major Japanese banks are helping corporate clients prepare for the threat of natural disasters. That's as global warming accelerates the frequency of climate-related events.
Why the Yen Is So Weak and What That Means for Japan
The yen has weakened beyond 140 per dollar for the first time in almost a quarter century, mainly because Japan’s central bank is keeping interest rates at rock-bottom levels while the Federal Reserve ...
Cracks are appearing in DeFi, crypto’s ‘Wild West’
Watch the video to learn more about DeFi, how it works, and what’s next for the industry as regulators seek to clean it up.
UK forces crypto exchanges to report suspected sanction breaches
New rules in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine cover all notionally valuable digital assets ...
Congress’ leading crypto skeptic is a Southern California congressman
Sherman, who chairs a House subcommittee on investor protection, may be the leading crypto skeptic on Capitol Hill. A growing movement in Congress wants to bring more regulation to the nearly ...
‘Blockchain is bunk’: Crypto critics find their voice
John Stark, founding chief of the SEC’s Office of Internet Enforcement, is joining other experts in a major gathering of crypto skeptics.
Here’s the 10-slide pitch deck that Web3 startup Reveel used to raise $1.3 million in pre-seed funding from crypto giants like Binance Labs
Backed by Binance's investment arm, Reveel landed $1.3 million in funding to build out a Web3 protocol that reports on-chain income for creators.
Japan resumes its wooing of Africa, a counter to China’s efforts
Japan, which began developmental programmes in the 1990s, has been eclipsed in recent years by China, now Africa's leading trade partner Pledge to invest US$30 billion on the continent includes a ...
Crypto Week at a Glance: What moved markets
Users of Instagram and Facebook can now display their NFTs on the platform, according to a recent announcement from Meta.The Digital Financial Assets Law, also known as California's "BitLicense," is ...
Brazil’s SEC wants broader oversight over the crypto market
Brazil's Securities and Exchange Commission is planning to introduce changes to the country's cryptocurrency regulatory framework.
Money, The State And The Global South: Alternative Roles For Bitcoin
Bitcoin has various use cases and applications that shouldn’t be ignored for narratives that obscure more than educate.