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South Korean fintech giant KakaoPay is gearing up for the next stage in digital finance, unveiling plans to develop a “super wallet” that would allow users to store both stablecoins and tokenized assets. At the Digital Asset Investment Insights Forum 2026 in Seoul, CEO Shin Won keun emphasized that on-chain finance has become one of the most significant transformations in global markets. KakaoPay aims to integrate blockchain into everyday finance Shin Won keun explained that KakaoPay’s upcoming wallet will connect money transfers, payments, and a range of financial services through stablecoins. The approach is designed to make blockchain-based services accessible…

Latest on-chain data for Bitcoin suggests the leading crypto may not have reached its cycle bottom despite the current massive drawdowns. This is because key historical indicators have yet to flash the signals that marked previous bear market lows. At the time of writing, Bitcoin traded at $63,150, up 0.5% over the past 24 hours and 6.75% over the last seven days. Despite the recovery, the asset remains down 28% year-to-date and nearly 50% below its 2025 all-time high. NUPL Indicator Has Yet to Confirm a Market Bottom CryptoQuant author thechessONCHAIN highlighted Bitcoin’s Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL) as one of…

Aave rolled out a new product on July 9, 2026, designed to make Aave stablecoin yield accessible to fintech companies without forcing them to build their own DeFi infrastructure from the ground up. The product, called Stable Vaults, lets apps, wallets, and exchanges offer fixed-rate returns on stablecoins — including $USDC, $USDT, and $GHO — through a single integration point. But it enters a market where rival protocol Morpho already has hundreds of millions in real deposits and major platform partnerships to show for it. Key takeaways Aave Stable Vaults launched on July 9, 2026, offering fixed-rate yield on $USDC,…

On June 30, more than 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Google, and Circle’s most important ally, Coinbase, unveiled a stablecoin designed to give away the exact revenue stream Circle lives on. CRCL cratered 17% in a day and is down nearly 40% on the month. This is the story of how a moat made of partnerships gets drained by the partners. The most dangerous sentence in Circle’s business model was always hiding in plain sight, in its own filings: nearly all of the company’s revenue comes from interest earned on the reserves backing $USDC. Not fees. Not technology.…

While Bitcoin and the altcoin market in general continue to trade with high volatility, some on-chain data suggests that cryptocurrency whales are quietly accumulating. At this point, the cryptocurrency analysis platform Santiment noted an explosion in whale activity in two altcoins. According to Santiment, the altcoins Lighter ($LIT) and Mantle (MNT) have seen their highest whale transactions exceeding $100,000 in the last six months. This indicates that large investors are becoming increasingly active despite the uncertain market environment. According to the data, $LIT is giving a strong signal with 86 trades above $100,000, while Mantle is showing a strong signal…

The central bank of Kazakhstan has issued its first license for crypto exchange operations under the country’s recently updated legislation for digital assets. The permit will allow the authorized company to buy, sell and store cryptocurrency outside the narrow legal framework of the financial hub in the nation’s capital, Astana. Kazakhstan starts licensing cryptocurrency exchanges The National Bank of Kazakhstan (NBK) has granted the first license for crypto exchange services to a local company called Pax Finance. The Astana-based entity will now be able to trade, keep and swap digital currencies for fiat, open branches and install Bitcoin ATMs across…

Artificial intelligence is becoming the new interface for the internet. MoonPay believes buying crypto should be as simple as asking an AI assistant. With the launch of its crypto onramp inside Claude, the company is now live across ChatGPT, Claude, Grok and Perplexity, becoming the first crypto onramp available across all four major AI assistants. The expansion gives MoonPay access to platforms that collectively reach an estimated one billion users. “The general population will never download an exchange app for crypto, but a billion of them already talk to an AI every day,” said Efren Plasencia, GTM Lead at MoonPay…

Bitcoin $BTC$62,666.58 and the broader cryptocurrency market came under pressure Tuesday after the US and Iran exchanged aerial strikes, sending the dollar higher. $BTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, slipped to $62,657 in Asian trading hours, down nearly 1% since midnight UTC, according to CoinDesk data. Ether (ETH), $XRP ($XRP), and solana (SOL) fell between 1% and 2.3%. WTI crude futures jumped more than 2% to $72.27, while the Dollar Index held steady above 101.00, maintaining Tuesday’s gains. The U.S. said it launched “powerful strikes” against Iran following attacks on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, including Qatari…

In an opinion shared on X today, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino warned that Big Tech’s efforts to build AI data centers depend on subsidized computing and hardware that lose value within three to five years. He believes four structural mismatches are putting the sector at risk. This warning comes as hyperscalers invest record amounts in infrastructure despite not seeing any clear returns on investment. The four issues that must be fixed Ardoino said that AI companies are subsidizing computing to attract more users and are investing heavily in infrastructure that only lasts three to five years. He listed four main…

Zcash developers are using formal verification for the upcoming Ironwood network upgrade and shielded pool to rule out undetectable counterfeiting bugs after a recently disclosed vulnerability in Orchard exposed the limitations of relying on conventional code audits, as explained by developer and crypto researcher Sean Bowe in a Tuesday blog post. Ironwood is designed to address an accounting flaw discovered in the Orchard shielded pool and restore confidence in the cryptocurrency’s supply integrity. The flaw was discovered by Shielded Labs researcher Taylor Hornby and patched before any known exploitation. According to the developers, undetectable counterfeiting can only arise from flaws…