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The app that runs South Korea's money is testing a won stablecoin
South Korea's Toss, a fintech super-app used by roughly 60% of the population, has signed an MOU with Optimism to run a three-month proof of concept for a Korean won-backed stablecoin on the OP Stack.
Over $2.5 trillion in stablecoins has moved across BNB Chain
BNB Chain has processed over $2.5 trillion in cumulative stablecoin volume, with 2025 alone nearing $1 trillion. USDT still dominates at 67%, but newer entrants like Circle's USYC and World Liberty Financial's USD1 are climbing fast.
Korea's biggest financial group plans to tokenize traditional assets
South Korea's Mirae Asset has launched its MAPS platform in Hong Kong and plans to introduce tokenized stocks and bonds within three years, using the city as its testbed for real-world asset tokenization.
CFTC chair says crypto's market-structure bill is "so close"
CFTC Chairman Michael Selig is pressing the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before the August 7 recess, warning that a failure to act could delay crypto market-structure reform for years.
Trump family's crypto firm looks to sell its payments business
World Liberty Financial's payments arm, AI Financial, is in talks to sell its core business to Perpetuals.com for up to $15 million, per the Wall Street Journal, even as Trump-linked entities reportedly netted over $500 million from WLFI token sales.
France's new crypto tax-reporting rules just drew their first court challenge
Bull Bitcoin has filed a legal challenge at France's top administrative court seeking to annul the decree implementing DAC8, the EU crypto tax-reporting directive, citing physical safety risks for holders amid a surge in kidnappings and wrench attacks.
A record wall of USDT just left exchanges
Tether on Ethereum logged its largest ever daily exchange outflow of $5.03B in USDT, surpassing the June 2022 record, while a $2.5B supply burn and renewed Iran risk add complexity to the move.
XRP: fewer wallets moving it, more wallets holding it
XRP slid to an intraday low of around $1.01 after six straight months of declines, yet the XRP Ledger added roughly 501,000 new wallets in H1 2026, nearing 8 million all-time. The divergence between a complicated active-address picture and surging total wallets raises a key question: quiet accumulation, or a network waiting for its next catalyst?
BNB Chain wants to double its mainnet again, and build a new chain for AI
BNB Chain's H2 2026 roadmap targets another doubling of BSC throughput and introduces a new high-performance Layer 1 built for AI agents and high-frequency trading, powered by $BNB, with testnet planned for late 2026.
Crypto's biggest VC just raised $1.2 billion, for AI
Paradigm, one of crypto's most influential venture firms, has closed a $1.2 billion fund targeting AI and robotics. The move signals a strategic broadening beyond digital assets, with early bets already placed on drone delivery and space defense.
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