In a recent tweet on July 9, 2026, Cathie Wood of ARK Invest articulated her views on the importance of stablecoins like $USDT and $USDC in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. She emphasized that these stablecoins function as monetary networks whose effects compound over time, driven by trust, collateral utility, and integrations. Wood’s insights have gained traction,
The Bank of Korea is moving closer to live transaction testing of deposit tokens under the second phase of Project Hangang, its central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot program. According to a report from Yonhap News, the central bank and participating commercial banks are finalizing system preparations and participant recruitment. If development proceeds on schedule,
U.S. Central Command disclosed that Iran fired ballistic missiles and drones at Muwaffaq Al Salti Air Base in Jordan late on July 17. Two service members died, a third remains missing, and four others were hospitalized and later discharged. CENTCOM called the barrage retaliation for the ongoing U.S. bombing campaign, now in its eighth night
Moonshot AI is preparing to go public within six months, moving to tap capital markets days after its Kimi K3 model upended assumptions about how far behind China’s AI sector really is. The company has distributed a shareholder resolution seeking its backers’ approval for a Hong Kong listing, Bloomberg reported Monday, a step that signals
Crypto markets remained relatively flat over the weekend with low volatility and total capitalization hovering around $2.3 trillion. Nevertheless, military action in the Middle East has continued with the US Central Command reporting on Sunday that it was conducting a new wave of strikes against Iran for the ninth consecutive night. “The strikes will continue
Aurora, an Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) scalability network built on the $NEAR Protocol, has been offline since approximately 2:16 a.m. UTC on July 20, according to blockchain monitoring service Onchain Lens. The outage has halted transaction processing and smart contract execution on the layer-2 platform, leaving users unable to interact with decentralized applications (dApps) bridged
ATT Global, a renowned blockchain-driven advertisement network, has partnered with Noos, a decentralized economic settlement firm for AI agents. The partnership endeavors to link Web2 traffic that is created via physical advertising pathways with an on-chain network where AI agents get rewards for validated work. As per ATT, the merger of the strengths of both
Tokenized U.S. funds continue drawing institutional capital as regulated on-chain finance expands beyond early adoption. That pattern emerges because institutions still favor issuers with established liquidity and distribution channels. As a result of this preference, Arbitrum [ARB] leads with roughly 12,500 distinct holder wallets, largely through Theo. Solana [SOL] follows with about 8,200 wallets, supported
$BNB Chain has become the largest blockchain for assets tracked under Franklin Templeton’s Benji tokenization platform, with about $1.5 billion recorded on the network. The figure represents 61.71% of the platform’s distributed asset value, according to RWA.xyz data cited byBNB Chain. The milestone marks a sharp change in the platform’s network distribution. $BNB Chain holdings
A previously surfaced video featuring a key executive from SWIFT has revived interest in its collaboration with blockchain software specialist R3, and its potential implications for the use of cryptocurrency $XRP in global payment systems. How are SWIFT and R3 Working Together? The executive in question has outlined SWIFT’s efforts to evolve cross-border transactions through