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X Money has begun rolling out to Premium and Premium+ subscribers in the United States, adding deposit accounts, instant transfers, and a Visa debit card directly to the social media platform. X Money brings banking tools inside the social platform X Money combines peer-to-peer payments with financial services commonly offered by banks and digital payment applications. Users can send funds instantly to other X accounts without paying a transfer fee. The service also includes interest-bearing deposit accounts with annual percentage yields of up to 6%. Eligible purchases made through the X Card, a Visa debit card connected to the account,…

Bridging the Gap in Digital Capital Markets SBI Group, DigiFT, and Startale Group announced a joint initiative demonstrating how JPYSC, a trust-based Japanese yen stablecoin, can support the complete lifecycle of tokenized securities. The successful proof-of-concept (PoC) trials, conducted on an Ethereum testnet environment, showcased instant settlement for tokenized fund subscriptions and automated, on-chain dividend distributions. The joint initiative aims to solve a persistent bottleneck in the digital asset space. While tokenized real-world assets ( RWAs) have grown rapidly, the actual cash settlements and dividend payouts for these assets typically still rely on traditional, slower banking infrastructure. By integrating JPYSC…

$NEAR Protocol has launched the Nearcore 2.13 release, which introduces significant upgrades to bolster the network’s cryptographic durability and capacity. Notably, the integration of NIST-approved FIPS-204 signing enhances security against potential quantum attacks. Additionally, dynamic resharding simplifies capacity management, promising improved scalability for $NEAR’s ecosystem. This advancement could attract more users and developers to the platform as it prepares for future challenges. Breaking It Down The broader cryptocurrency market is witnessing mixed signals, with $NEAR Protocol making a notable move in this environment. The recent Nearcore 2.13 release focuses on crucial capacity and security upgrades, particularly with the implementation of…

Jay Clayton, the former chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) whose tenure was defined in the crypto industry by the agency’s lawsuit against Ripple Labs, has been confirmed as the ninth Director of National Intelligence (DNI). The U.S. Senate approved Clayton’s nomination in a 51-47 party-line vote on Tuesday, elevating the former Wall Street lawyer, SEC chairman and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York to oversee the nation’s intelligence community. Narrow Senate vote Clayton’s confirmation reflected the deep partisan divide surrounding President Donald Trump’s latest cabinet appointments. The Senate voted 51-47, with Republicans backing…

The companies announced the partnership on Monday under the name K-Stock Global Gateway. It combines Siebert’s U.S. brokerage infrastructure with Kakao Pay Securities’ reach inside South Korea, where the firm holds roughly 9 million stock accounts. Tokenization Takes Aim at the Clock The core problem the partnership targets is time. South Korean and U.S. markets sit on opposite sides of the globe, so a trader in New York cannot buy or sell Korean shares during the Korean trading session. Siebert and Kakao Pay Securities plan to explore tokenizing South Korean equities to work around that gap. A tokenized share can…

Tim Draper Saw Coinbase’s Potential — But Misjudged When Crypto Would Arrive Tim Draper, the veteran venture capitalist behind Draper Associates, says his early Coinbase (Nasdaq: COIN) decision came down to timing rather than conviction in Brian Armstrong, the crypto exchange’s co-founder and CEO. The venture capitalist had already invested in Coinlab, an early Bitcoin company focused on building infrastructure around the emerging cryptocurrency industry, when Armstrong presented Coinbase as a simpler path for consumers to access digital assets. “I loved Brian Armstrong from the moment he walked into my office, but I had already invested in Coinlab, so I…

A fresh wave of Bittensor AI innovations is emerging from the network’s decentralized subnets, and this week’s roundup shows just how far the ecosystem has stretched beyond crypto mining into genomics, drug discovery, market forecasting and enterprise sales. Between July 27 and August 2, 2026, teams building on Bittensor published new research, launched a massive training run spanning three continents, and moved real enterprise workloads through decentralized infrastructure for the first time. Key takeaways Minos co-authored a paper with OpenAI on scientific computing in the age of agentic AI, spotlighting the HelixForge GPU engine as a core case study. HelixForge…

South Korea’s digital asset exchanges are moving to align with a revised law set to take effect Oct. 1 that expands refund eligibility for victims of voice phishing scams to include losses in virtual assets. The Digital Asset Exchange Association, or DAXA, held a practical briefing on July 28 at Dreamplus Gangnam in Seoul’s Gangnam district, specifically for non-won exchanges that support only crypto-to-crypto trading. Scope of the legal revision The core change under the revised law extends refund protections previously limited to fiat currency losses. Starting in October, victims of telecom fraud — commonly known as voice phishing —…

Ads3, an AI-driven growth entity to broaden Web3 networks, has partnered with GXT Exchange, a cutting-edge crypto trading entity. The partnership aims to fortify user acquisition and expand the trading of digital assets via next-gen AI-led marketing strategies. As per Ads3, the partnership endeavors to improve the worldwide accessibility of blockchain-powered financial services. Hence, the development underscores AI’s rising significance in pushing forward the crypto network development as well as consumer engagement. 🤝Ads3 x GXT Exchange Ads3 @ads3_ai — the AI-powered growth platform accelerating Web3 ecosystem expansion.GXT Exchange @GXTExchange — a next-generation crypto trading platform offering Spot, Futures, and Earn…

Matt Prusak, president and interim chief financial officer of Trump-linked bitcoin miner American Bitcoin (ABTC), is leaving the company to join AI and energy infrastructure developer Giga Energy, marking another senior executive move toward the power sector that is increasingly underpinning both bitcoin $BTC$63,637.81 mining and artificial intelligence. Prusak said he will step down from American Bitcoin effective Aug. 4 and join Giga Energy as chief business officer and interim CFO. He said in emailed comments that after “years building bitcoin businesses,” he was shifting “upstream to the power infrastructure now constraining both mining and AI compute.” The departure reflects…