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Zimbabwe’s securities regulator has admitted seven financial technology projects to its regulatory sandbox, with tokenization accounting for most of the latest group. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe (SECZ) listed Zimbabwe Entrepreneurship Exchange, Ndarama Standard, Questview Brokers, Crowdaxe Capital, Procode Platforms, Financial Securities Exchange, or FINSEC, and Colmin Resources Zimbabwe as approved participants. The projects cover blockchain-based capital raising, crowdfunding, synthetic trading and the tokenization of assets, securities and infrastructure, with four of the seven directly focused on tokenization. According to SECZ’s Regulatory Sandbox Guidelines, admission to the sandbox allows projects to undergo controlled testing under regulatory supervision, but…

South Korea’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges, Upbit and Bithumb, have announced they will list the $GEOD token on their platforms. According to official statements, Upbit will offer $GEOD with trading pairs against the South Korean won (KRW), Bitcoin ($BTC), and Tether ($USDT). Bithumb, on the other hand, will initially list the token only with the KRW trading pair. According to the announcements, $GEOD trading on Bithumb is scheduled to begin at 18:00. Upbit will also open trading for the token in three different trading pairs on the same day, offering investors a wider range of trading options. Following the listing decision,…

Wells Fargo (WFC) will offer tokenized deposits for select corporate and commercial clients later this year, starting with enabling round-the-clock U.S. dollar-to-British pound transactions on its proprietary blockchain. The bank frames round-the-clock settlement, programmable payments and parity with its existing deposit protections as future enhancements, saying the system will let clients move, program and settle funds 24/7/365 “when fully deployed.” The limited initial rollout will expand to more clients, countries and currencies throughout 2027. Its system will automatically route eligible payments through tokenized deposits when doing so improves speed or flexibility, without changing how clients interact with the bank. Tokenized…

The preliminary agreement announced over the weekend between the US and Iran has boosted risk appetite in global markets, but the cryptocurrency market has not seen a similarly strong sense of relief. In particular, expectations of a possible reopening of the Strait of Hormuz led to rapid price fluctuations in energy markets. While oil prices experienced a sharp decline, a more optimistic atmosphere emerged in Asian and US stock markets. From a global markets perspective, this development means that one of the biggest uncertainties regarding energy supply has been reduced. The decline in oil prices has strengthened expectations that inflationary…

The tokenization sector is gaining pace, with the UK government being the latest to announce its entry. The UK has released a tokenized finance roadmap with the first government bond issuance set for the first quarter (Q1) of 2027. They projected $44.15 billion in annual economic output by 2035. In line with this roadmap, about 54 firms, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Coinbase, Ripple, and Circle, have joined the UK government’s tokenization task force to develop live use cases. However, Barclays and PwC were cautious, projecting about $29.45 billion for the same period. This is assuming the…

The Avalanche Foundation’s agenda aims to measure ecosystem output, capture protocol-level value, and distribute it in ways that strengthen $AVAX economics and security. Research will examine protocol revenue, validator incentives, staking sustainability, burns, revenue sharing, and capital allocation as issuance declines over time across the network. Findings will appear through the public Economics of Blockchain series, with the agenda remaining open to revision as evidence develops and Avalanche evolves further. The Avalanche Foundation has published an economic research agenda designed to explain how activity across the network can translate into value for $AVAX. The framework starts from a deceptively simple…

Armstrong Urges Senate to Advance the CLARITY Act Crypto exchange Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) CEO Brian Armstrong urged lawmakers in an X post on July 27 to advance the CLARITY Act, arguing that the bipartisan proposal would strengthen consumer protections, expand law enforcement tools, and deliver regulatory clarity for the cryptocurrency industry. Calling for an immediate vote, the Coinbase executive maintained that lawmakers had spent thousands of hours developing the compromise and should complete the legislative process without further delays. Coinbase CEO Says the CLARITY Act Is Near the Finish Line The X post also included a clip from Armstrong’s July…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is pushing back against calls for crypto to pivot to artificial intelligence, arguing AI agents will instead stoke demand for crypto-based financial services. Armstrong took to X on Sunday to tout agentic finance (AiFi), highlighting Coinbase’s Base network, $USDC and x402 as the infrastructure for autonomous machine-to-machine payments. “AI being a megatrend takes nothing away from crypto,” Armstrong wrote, because AI agents will need programmable money rather than traditional banking rails. “If anything, it makes crypto more important,” he added. His comments come as crypto companies increasingly position blockchain networks as payment infrastructure for AI agents,…

Enterprises are moving quickly toward agentic AI, but deploying autonomous software safely inside existing business systems remains one of the industry’s biggest challenges. The Hashgraph Group (THG) believes the next opportunity isn’t just building AI agents. It’s helping companies integrate them into real-world operations. The Swiss engineering company, which develops Web3 and AI infrastructure on Hedera, has launched the Hashgraph Partner Alliance (HPA), a global programme designed to help consulting firms, system integrators and software companies deliver enterprise-grade Web3 and agentic AI solutions to clients. Rather than building products from scratch, partners can generate revenue by referring customers, implementing THG’s…

The leading cryptocurrency, Bitcoin ($BTC), surged above $66,000 following news of a potential agreement between the US and Iran. While talk of a bottom for $BTC, which has recovered for the second time from $60,000, is increasing, Wintermute notes that it’s still too early to say Bitcoin has hit the bottom. Wintermute, a leading market maker in the crypto world, has analyzed the recent surge and says that $BTC could still fall to $50,000. Wintermute analysts stated in their latest weekly report that it is still too early to determine whether the market has reached its bottom. Analysts stated that…