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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says his Japan ties give him insight into the BOJ, daring traders to bet against the yen.

HONG KONG, September 8th, 2026 — Liquidity Arena 2026, an AI quantitative trading competition organized by global institutional prime broker LTP, will enter its dual-track main competition on September 9, bringing together AI developers, research teams, hedge funds, proprietary trading firms, high-frequency trading

VVV has rocketed the most over the past 24 hours, jumping by more than 50%. LIT, ATOM, and DOT follow suit.

An Anthropic researcher, Jacob Coxon, said he resigned from the company, alleging that Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with human lives. The researcher said he spent the last three years on pre-training work at both companies. He made the claims in a series of posts

Bitcoin is spending less time near extreme capitulation levels, suggesting the market may be maturing compared with earlier cycles.

Dan Held explains why falling launch costs could push SpaceX to a $100 trillion valuation within two decades.

Hedge funds are stacking bets that the Japanese yen keeps climbing, with options positioning pointing to a dollar-yen rate below 150 by year-end and, in some longer-dated trades, as low as 140. That positioning reaches well past currency desks. Cheap yen borrowing has bankrolled years of leverage across global risk

OFAC labels Iran's crypto sector sanctionable, citing Bitcoin and USDT-driven sanctions evasion to prop up the rial.

Hunter Biden confirmed the launch of his LAPTOP meme coin and outlined how much of the supply goes to community wallets, including people who lost money on the Official Trump (TRUMP) token.

UN Trade and Development says disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz could push small firms out of global value chains, even after trade volumes recover. The agency calls the danger an exclusion effect. It argues that Hormuz risk lands hardest on companies that cannot spread costs across multiple suppliers, markets, and