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Bitcoin perpetual futures, one of the most popular derivatives contracts in crypto markets, are increasingly driving the largest digital token’s price.

Welcome to Social Buzz, a daily column looking at what’s trending on social media platforms. I’m Caitlin Fichtel, an editor on Bloomberg’s Breaking News team, which monitors everything from company statements to tweets from some of the most prominent people in the financial world. Here’s your daily look at what the internet is talking about.

Kenya’s government plans to introduce a 3% tax on digital assets for the coming budget year as other sources of funding prove expensive or inaccessible.

Vodafone Group Plc’s biggest shareholder said it’s considering increasing its stake to ensure it has influence over the British telecommunications company’s future.

Promises of a future when artificial intelligence drives a surge in sales for chipmakers are no longer cutting it in the stock market. These days, hard evidence of progress toward that is needed.

Apple Inc.’s shares rose in premarket trading after reporting a rebound in iPhone sales last quarter, helping the world’s most valuable company top earnings estimates and weather an industrywide downturn that has battered much of its product lineup.