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Citadel Securities has invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation — the exchange’s first institutional round — with proceeds earmarked for tokenized securities, derivatives and RWA products.
Visa has launched an enterprise Stablecoin Platform that lets its 15,000 financial institution partners issue and settle digital dollars, debuting with Open USD and putting fresh competitive pressure on Circle.
The House Financial Services Committee convened a July 17 field hearing in New York on the CLARITY Act as the crypto market structure bill stalls in the Senate ahead of the August recess.
The UAE Central Bank has cleared the DDSC dirham stablecoin for VARA-regulated exchanges, moving the IHC and FAB-backed token from institutional pilots to retail.
DTCC has begun live production trading of tokenized securities, bringing Russell 1000 stocks, ETFs and US Treasuries on-chain with over 50 firms participating.
Uniswap governance is extending the fee switch to v4 pools and Robinhood Chain, deepening the UNI burn mechanism activated by the UNIfication proposal.
We tracked 50 DexScreener boosted tokens for 12 hours: 12 rug pulls, one liquidity trap that sprang four times, and why the most-promoted coins died first.
Japan’s Upper House has approved legislation reclassifying crypto as financial instruments under the FIEA – cutting the top tax rate from 55% to a flat 20%, banning insider trading, and clearing the runway for spot Bitcoin ETFs on the Tokyo Stock Exchange as early as 2027.
The UK will become the first G7 nation to place sovereign debt on a distributed ledger, with its Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) set to launch on HSBC’s Orion platform by early 2027 – a landmark for real-world asset tokenization.
Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority has granted Revolut in-principle approval for broker-dealer, exchange, and management and investment services, moving the 75-million-customer fintech one step from a full UAE crypto launch.