Microsoft has announced an $18 billion investment in Australia to expand its Azure AI supercomputing capacity, but the Polymarket contract on whether NVIDIA will be the largest company by market cap on April 30 sits at 99.4% YES, unmoved by the news. The investment will position Australia as an Indo-Pacific hub for Microsoft’s AI infrastructure.
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XRP turns $1.4 into support. Can it break $1.6 next? Ripple (XRP) Price Predictions: Analysis Key support levels: $1.4 Key resistance levels: $1.6, $2 Key Support Reclaimed XRP had a good week after it managed to reclaim $1.4 and turn it into support. With this level secured, buyers can now look up to the next
World Liberty Financial co-founder Zach Witkoff has come under renewed scrutiny after body camera footage from a 2022 drug-related arrest resurfaced. Summary Body camera footage from Zach Witkoff’s 2022 arrest has resurfaced as World Liberty Financial faces a lawsuit from Justin Sun. Justin Sun has accused the DeFi project of freezing his WLFI tokens and
Pornhub is moving away from Tether (USDT) and adopting USD Coin (USDC) for creator and model payments, as shared by Gracie Hartie, a Singapore-based social media influencer and OnlyFans creator, in a statement. The switch gives content creators until June 1 to update their payment details or risk disruption to their earnings, according to Hartie’s
Strategy holds 780,897 BTC valued at over $59Bn. The BlackRock crypto IBIT fund holds 798,026 BTC. That gap, roughly 17,000 coins, could close this week. The detail most headlines are missing, though, is how the mechanics actually work: Strategy has been selling a financial instrument called STRC to raise cash, then deploying that cash directly
Bitcoin is trading around $78k, surging higher consistently as a combination of improving technical structure and renewed geopolitical optimism drives fresh buying. The extension of the US-Iran ceasefire has provided a meaningful risk-on catalyst, removing a key source of macro uncertainty that had been weighing on markets for weeks and giving buyers the fundamental backdrop
Binance.US has reduced its spot trading fees to 0% for makers and 0.02% for takers across all trading pairs. Summary Binance.US now charges 0% maker fees and 0.02% taker fees across all spot trading pairs. The exchange removed volume tiers and subscription rules, making near-zero spot fees available to every user. The move increases pressure
Zelensky warned that the ongoing Iran conflict could limit Ukraine’s access to US air defenses. The Russia-Ukraine ceasefire by May 31, 2026, market sits at 3.8% YES. Market reaction Traders pushed ceasefire odds down from 5% a week ago following Zelensky’s warning. The concern: US resources diverted to the Middle East leave Ukraine more militarily
Ripple has published a multi-phase roadmap to make the XRP Ledger resistant to quantum computing attacks, aiming to achieve full post-quantum readiness by 2028. The move comes after Google Quantum AI research confirmed that the cryptography underpinning most blockchains today can, in principle, be broken by sufficiently advanced quantum hardware. Assets are not at risk