According to India Ratings, sugar situation is still likely to remain tight. Lower-than-expected production, exports, and ethanol diversion are likely to have reduced opening sugar inventory for sugar season 2027 to below 4 million tonnes, a decadal low and well below the normative requirement of around 5.5 million tonnes

Cotton prices spike in Tamil Nadu as costs rise for over 1,500 mills amid supply concerns and potential import duty impacts.

ChainCatcher reported that CoinDCX has clarified onchain activity tied to the TQKJQ wallet. After the July 2025 security incident, the exchange deactivated the affected wallet addresses. Some users continued sending funds to the old addresses. A routine fund aggregation process was temporarily offline, and CoinDCX identified the issue this morning. The platform will absorb the resulting operational losses. CoinDCX said accounts of users who deposited to deactivated addresses were credited. Customer assets remain secure in separate cold wallets. Active wallets and user addresses are unaffected, and trading operations continue normally. The exchange urged users to confirm the latest deposit addresses only through its official app or website to avoid sending funds to deactivated addresses. Previously, onchain detective ZachXBT questioned why deposit address TQKJQ remained in use for about 10 months after the security incident, with roughly $15.8 million in user deposits unaccounted for.

Ethereum researchers proposed cutting finality from about 16 minutes to four in a draft filed Wednesday by Ben Edgington and four co-authors. A transfer service fronting $1 million an hour would hold roughly $67,000 waiting on settlement instead of about $267,000. The design gives validators separate votes so block lock-in runs on a faster clock. Voting timings and penalties remain unresolved.

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Bitcoin fell below $82,000 after a failed push toward $85,000, reversing Wednesday's rally. The decline coincided with weaker global risk assets. Derivatives volume rose 19% to $226.6 billion, while open interest fell 2.46% and liquidations climbed 52%. Altcoins fell harder, with Ether dropping toward $2,400. A later reading placed Bitcoin near $82,800, but the rejection near $85,000 remains key.

CreditAccess Grameen posted a net profit of ₹501.57 crore for the second quarter of FY27, a 298% year-on-year surge that topped market expectations. Revenue climbed 26.2%, with asset quality also improving.

Shares of Meta Platforms fell about 3% in premarket trading on Thursday, as investors weighed the benefits of the company's fast-growing AI agent business against the mounting costs of funding its ambitious AI expansion.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy forecasted that it would taper STRC buybacks as the price rose, but then spent a record amount of cash on buybacks.