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Semiconductor manufacturer and Nvidia partner TSMC reported its fourth quarter profit on Thursday, posting a 35% increase and setting a new record as demand for AI chips stayed strong. TSMC’s net income came in at NT$505.74 billion, beating the NT$478.37 billion expected by analysts tracked by LSEG

Toyota stock surges 4% to new record as it boosts buyout tender offer of parent company

Toyota shares jumped 4% on Thursday to hit a new all-time high right after the company raised its buyout offer for Toyota Industries to over $35 billion, a major increase from last year’s bid. Shares of Toyota Industries itself rallied by nearly 6% to 19,080 yen, going even higher than the new offer

Shiba Inu Price Prediction: Could Shiba Inu Do A 3x Rally Or Is Your Money Best Invested Elsewhere?!

Shiba Inu is once again being actively discussed as traders assess its next potential breakout. After months of consolidation, SHIB price action is flashing early bullish signals. Some believe a 3x rally is back on the table. Others argue capital is rotating toward utility-driven alternatives. This

China drafts bill to regulate local purchases of Nvidia’s H200 chip this month

China is drafting a new regulatory bill that will control how many advanced AI chips local companies can buy from foreign suppliers, specifically Nvidia, according to Nikkei Asia. This of course is part of Xi Jinping’s mission to support state-backed chipmakers over American ones since Trump started

Trump imposed a 25% tariff on select AI chips as part of a deal allowing Nvidia to export H200 processors to China

Trump imposed a 25% tariff on select AI chips as part of a deal allowing Nvidia to export H200 processors to China.

Cardano Price Prediction: Is ADA The Best Crypto To Hold This Year As Long-Term Sentiment Turns Bullish

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Cardano is again in a period of time when patience is being paid off. Following a long history of poor performance compared to quicker-moving altcoins, long-term ADA sentiment has begun to shift positively. This is changing because the wider crypto market is stabilizing and investors are re-evaluati

CleanSpark is acquiring 447 acres in Texas to construct AI and HPC data centers

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CleanSpark is acquiring 447 acres in Texas to construct AI and HPC data centers, rather than focusing solely on Bitcoin mining.

TD Cowen cuts Strategy Bitcoin price target to $440

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TD Cowen cut Strategy’s 12-month price target from $500 to $440 because issuing more shares will dilute Bitcoin per share.

Sui back online after nearly six-hour outage halts $1B in transactions

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The Sui team successfully restored the network's operations after nearly six hours of downtime.

Best Crypto to Buy With $450? Investors Rotate From BNB Into This New Altcoin

Big and established tokens are also sought by investors to gain stability and value in the long term. However, once that material gets into long periods of consolidation, a lot of traders will start to scan smaller projects with greater potential upside before landmark protocols. A single cheap cryp

JPMorgan says institutions will push crypto inflows higher after $130B record year

JPMorgan expects institutional investment in cryptocurrency to grow in 2026, aided by new regulations such as the Clarity Act.

Coinbase CEO says Senate Crypto Bill is worse than no law

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has withdrawn his support for the US Senate crypto market structure bill. He even called the latest draft worse than having no legislation at all. He mentioned that Coinbase could not support the bill after reviewing the Senate Banking Committee draft over the past 48 ho

Bitwise lists seven SEK-denominated crypto ETPs on Nasdaq Stockholm

Bitwise is expanding its presence in Europe with the launch of seven new crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs) in Sweden. The product lineup is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, the main Swedish stock exchange, which trades in Swedish krona (SEK). The company noted that the ETPs were accessible to a hea

Base App shifts to trading-first model to power the onchain economy

Base App is redesigning its consumer application around a trading-first business model, based on early user reaction. In an announcement by jesse.base.eth in an X post, the group indicated that the Base App is now going to make trading its main operation to bring demand and distribution to assets th

Local firms in China get notice to stop using US, Israeli cybersecurity software

China is weeding out American technology to fulfill its goal of technological self reliance. Local firms in China have now been instructed to stop using cybersecurity from certain companies in the U.S. and Israel citing concerns that Western technology is vulnerable to cyberattacks. Chinese authori

Blockchain groups lobby ahead of CLARITY Act key hearing in Senate

DeFi advocacy group DeFi Education Fund has highlighted some of the proposed amendments that have been submitted by some U.S. senators regarding the proposed crypto legislation known as the CLARITY Act, warning that those amendments are anti-DeFi. DeFi Education Fund found eight amendments whose de

Altman-backed startup Cerebras Systems closes billion-dollar deal with OpenAI

OpenAI has just entered into a major multi-billion partnership with Cerebras Systems, which is reportedly backed by Sam Altman. The partnership will see OpenAI purchase up to 750 megawatts of computing power over the next three years. Cerebras Systems is an AI chip startup building purpose-built AI

GeeFi’s (GEE) Upcoming Bonus System News Almost Sells Out Phase 3, Outpacing Avalanche’s (AVAX) Burn Strategy

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The cryptocurrency market is full of activity, with networks like Avalanche implementing token burns and exploring new applications for music royalties. In this dynamic setting, GeeFi is differentiating itself by focusing on practical utility and building a comprehensive, user-centric decentralized

Visa is settling stablecoin transactions at a $4.5 billion annualized rate

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Visa is now clearing stablecoin payments at a yearly rate of $4.5 billion, as demand picks up from companies offering crypto-linked cards. It’s still a tiny slice of the $14.2 trillion in payments Visa processed in 2025, but it’s growing month after month, according to Cuy Sheffield, Visa’s head of

Missed Solana (SOL) Under $50? Experts Say This $0.04 Altcoin Has 800% Upside

In the crypto markets, the big cryptos can provide consistent value and rarely provide explosive value gains off of current levels because of their size. In this case, some investors switch attention to smaller assets when they are close to major protocol milestones in hopes of gaining bigger growth

Nvidia stock is down 2.6% this year and has underperformed major AI peers

Jensen Huang’s Nvidia (the most valuable company on earth) has been getting slapped around on Wall Street for weeks, and it’s starting to get weird. The NVDA stock is down 2.6% in 2026 so far, and even though it’s still up 38% over the last year, it’s clearly lost its grip compared to the rest […]

SEC concludes its review of Zcash Network and doesn’t intend to take any enforcement action

The SEC has concluded its review of Zcash Network and doesn’t intend to take any enforcement action or other charges against the organization.

Governor Ron DeSantis is pushing for a state-level “AI Bill of Rights" to protect privacy and children

Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis, has challenged President Trump for enforcing AI deregulation, sharing his concern that AI could “displace human beings.” U.S. President Donald Trump is currently pushing for AI deregulation in order to maintain its lead in the technology competition with China. Fl

Bitnomial launches the first regulated futures contract for Aptos (APT)

On Wednesday, the Chicago-based crypto derivatives exchange Bitnomial launched the first regulated futures contract for the crypto Aptos (APT), coinciding with the network reporting record highs in daily fee and weekly fee generation in early 2026. “These are the first U.S. APT futures, and a regula

Solana (SOL) Grows 8.2% This Month, yet Analysts Predict 2900% ROI to GeeFi (GEE) as It Unveils Upcoming Features