South Korea Super-App Toss to Run Won Stablecoin Pilot on OP Stack
Optimism says Toss is the fourth regulated financial institution in a year to pick the OP Stack, after Bitpanda, Kraken and Mitsui.
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Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal to Step Down
Molly Abraham is set to take over as general counsel as Grewal shifts to a three-month advisory role through October.
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Circle Wins Final OCC Approval for National Trust Bank
The stablecoin issuer received a charter for First National Digital Currency Bank, allowing it to custody digital assets and, eventually, hold USDC reserves under direct federal supervision. Shares rose more than 10%.
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HSBC Issues First Digitally Native Structured Product in Hong Kong
The bank placed USD-denominated notes issued directly on a blockchain, with Marketnode acting as tokenization agent and digital paying agent.
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Hyperliquid, Phantom Ask CFTC to Exempt DeFi From Broker Rules
The joint filing asks regulators to turn Phantom's March no-action relief into a formal rule covering all non-custodial wallet providers.
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Privy Launches Global Fiat Onramps With Stripe in US, EU
Privy pairs Stripe's Crypto Onramp for the US and EU with its own aggregator covering more than 100 other countries, all funneling into a single wallet.
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Gauntlet Raises $125M Series C From SBI Holdings
SBI Holdings was the sole investor in the round, which Gauntlet says will fund expansion into stablecoins, tokenization and traditional capital markets infrastructure.
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Interpol Ties $122.5M Crypto Wallet to Romance Scam Ring
Thai police made two arrests as Interpol's 97-country sweep logged 5,811 arrests and $293 million in intercepted assets.
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Summer.fi Hacker Moves $1.35M Into Tornado Cash
Summer.fi's own post-mortem confirms the attacker began laundering the $6M haul through the mixer, calling it a sign of "limited intent to return the funds voluntarily."
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Arbitrum to Capture 10% of Fees From Robinhood Chain
Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder says every Arbitrum-based Layer 2, not just Arbitrum One, will now route a fee cut back to the ARB treasury.
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Aave Labs Launches Stable Vaults for Fintech Stablecoin Yield
The vaults convert Aave's variable lending rates into fixed yields that wallets, exchanges and payment apps can offer their own users.
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PayPal's PYUSD Goes Native on Polygon, Joins Open Money Stack
Paxos, the OCC-regulated issuer of PYUSD, said the stablecoin will now settle directly on Polygon rather than moving there as a bridged token.
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MARA Buys Texas Site From HIF in $600M Bitcoin, AI Deal
The 1,200-acre Matagorda County site was previously slated for a $7 billion HIF Global e-fuels plant backed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott before HIF pivoted to power computing instead.
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Zapper to Shut Down Aug. 3 After Nearly Seven Years
The DeFi portfolio tracker once handled $13 billion in transaction volume and 2 million monthly users before deciding an orderly wind-down was its best option.
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Robinhood Chain Metrics Surge as the Network Leans Into Memecoins
Pump.fun added trading for Robinhood Chain tokens and prediction market World said it will migrate from Solana, as CEO Vlad Tenev reversed course to call the RWA-focused chain 'great for memes.' The biggest jump in value locked, though, came from an Ethena stablecoin deposit.
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Paradigm Raises $1.2 Billion for Fourth Venture Fund
The new pool targets crypto, AI and robotics, widening the firm's bet beyond pure digital-asset investing.
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Dinari, tZERO Partner on Tokenized US Stock Framework
Dinari, an issuer of tokenized U.S. equities, and tZERO Group, a blockchain-based financial infrastructure provider, said Wednesday they are partnering to build an operating framework that would let broker-dealers offer tokenized U.S. stocks.
The Defiant•The Defiant Team8 JulStrike Launches Bitcoin Loans With No Price Liquidations
Strike, the bitcoin financial services firm run by CEO Jack Mallers, launched a bitcoin-backed loan product on July 7 that removes price-triggered liquidations for the life of the loan, according to Strike's own FAQ. The product, called "volatility-proof loans," strips out the 65% LTV warning, 70%…
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AscendEX Halts Operations, Freezes Automated Withdrawals
Crypto exchange AscendEX ceased operations effective July 1, 2026, and moved all withdrawal requests to manual review starting July 6, according to a notice posted on its website addressed to retail account holders.
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Pump.fun Adds Trading for Robinhood Chain Tokens as CASHCAT Meme Coin Frenzy Builds
The Solana launchpad says its app now routes "crosschain" trades into Robinhood-linked tokens with no bridging, a day after CEO Vlad Tenev called his company's new blockchain "great for memes too."
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