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Keeta, a blockchain network for payments and digital asset transfers, has opened its ecosystem to third-party anchor providers. Qualified fintech companies, banks, developers, and infrastructure providers can now apply to make their services available through the Keeta network. Previously, only services operated by Globetrot Financial Services, Keeta’s financial services subsidiary, could be accessed through the platform. Now, approved providers will be able to offer services such as bank deposits and withdrawals, foreign exchange, stablecoin transfers, tokenized real-world assets, lending, and other financial products. Every anchor provider will complete a compliance review before joining the ecosystem and will remain under ongoing…

Adam Back’s Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company and Cantor Equity Partners I are revising their planned SPAC merger after abandoning the original deal structure agreed last year. The companies said they will not complete the transaction under the terms of the July 2025 business combination agreement and are now discussing a revised structure that better reflects current market conditions. BSTR was expected to go public with more than 30,000 Bitcoin on its balance sheet, making it one of the largest publicly traded corporate Bitcoin holders at launch. The planned private placement financing tied to the transaction will no longer be required…

The total stablecoin market cap sits at $311.311 billion, down 0.61% over the past seven days, a drop of $1.911 billion, according to Defillama data. As of this weekend, Tether’s $USDT now accounts for 59.14% of that total. The top 15 stablecoins span a wide range of issuers, from established players like Tether and Circle to newer entrants. Their combined performance over the last seven days shows a market moving in small steps rather than sharp swings. Tether and $USDC Lead by Size $USDT dropped a modest 0.43% over the week but remains the third largest crypto asset by market…

A memecoin launched on the newly established Robinhood Chain has captured the attention of cryptocurrency traders, surging approximately 950% in value over the past 24 hours. The token, known as $CASHCAT, now commands a market capitalization of roughly $770 million, according to data from CoinMarketCap. What is $CASHCAT and the Robinhood Chain? $CASHCAT is a memecoin built on the Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 network that went live earlier this month. The blockchain was developed by Robinhood (HOOD), the U.S. stock and crypto trading platform, and is built on Arbitrum (ARB) technology. The chain aims to provide faster and cheaper…

Brazil has approved new prudential rules that will require virtual asset service providers to meet capital, risk management, and disclosure standards from 2027. According to a local media report, Brazil’s Central Bank has approved a new set of prudential requirements for virtual asset service providers (SPSAVs), bringing them closer to the regulatory framework applied to securities brokers and distributors. The rules were approved on July 1 and will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, as part of the country’s ongoing implementation of its cryptoasset legal framework. Once the rules come into force, companies offering cryptocurrency and other virtual asset services…

The context: Building AI data centers remains a multi-year effort with labor emerging as a key execution challenge. Prager said the Kentucky facility is expected to come online beginning in 2028 and that TeraWulf has hired Fluor to help construct the project. He said securing skilled labor and contractors is a bigger challenge than equipment procurement as hyperscale AI facilities become increasingly specialized. Prager said proximity to reliable power remains the most important requirement for AI customers. Reading between the lines: TeraWulf says Bitcoin mining is no longer part of its long-term strategy. Prager said the company originally entered Bitcoin…

Ava Labs and NEC Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding to explore on-chain services with biometric verification on the Avalanche network. The technical white paper proposes a two-layer architecture that settles stablecoin payments while verifying user identity without storing biometric data on-chain. The initial use case targets tourist payments in Japan, which welcomed 42.68 million visitors in 2025 and already has a legal framework for stablecoins. NEC Corporation, one of the world’s leading companies in biometric identity technology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ava Labs to explore a new generation of on-chain services combining facial recognition with the multichain…

Strategy remains under pressure as Bitcoin hovers near $60,000, but recent capital moves have bought the company time, according to Jim Ferraioli, director of crypto research and strategy at the Schwab Center for Financial Research. Speaking on Morning Trade Live at the New York Stock Exchange, Ferraioli said the firm led by Michael Saylor faces scrutiny while the price of Bitcoin sits 50% below its peak. Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, has funded much of its buying through preferred equity, including its variable-rate Stretch preferred stock, known as STRC. That product fell near $70 from its $100 par…

Gondor introduced V1, a margin account that lets users borrow against their entire Polymarket portfolios and use the credit to purchase additional positions. Introducing Gondor v1, the first margin account for Polymarket Cross-margin your positions, borrow against the entire portfolio and use the credit to buy more shares 1/ pic.twitter.com/15HB9t7Mdo — Gondor (@gondorfi) July 13, 2026 The product will enter private access next week before launching publicly in September, according to an announcement Monday. Gondor said V1 uses a cross margin system that considers a trader’s full portfolio as collateral rather than evaluating each prediction market position separately. The platform…

The company’s ticker, SECZ, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, July 2, after Securitize closed its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II on July 1. Shares opened at $12.45, touched an intraday high of $13.70, and closed the session at $12.30, up 4.41% from the prior close of $11.78. After-hours trading pushed the stock to $12.60. Volume for the day reached 839,134 shares against an average of 853,500. The company’s market cap stood at $1.821 billion. Securitize did not just list on the NYSE. It tokenized its own common stock onchain the same day,…