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South Korea’s Jeonbuk Bank has partnered with blockchain payments company Ripple to deploy its cross-border payment system for business customers. On Tuesday, Ripple said its Ripple Payments platform would let the bank’s customers settle overseas transfers in seconds to minutes, with operations around the clock. The service targets businesses including import-export companies, technology startups and online content creators. Ripple said its system would provide the bank with faster, less expensive remittance capabilities than conventional transfers routed through intermediary banks via the SWIFT messaging network, which can take several days. The companies did not disclose whether the service is already available…

Interstice Digital has launched a cross-chain swap engine with FalconX connecting the Canton Network with Ethereum, Solana and Robinhood Chain. According to Tuesday’s announcement, the non-custodial engine allows assets to be swapped across the four networks without Interstice taking custody or executing transactions on users’ behalf. FalconX, a digital asset prime brokerage serving institutional investors, provides liquidity for the engine, which is designed to connect Canton’s institutional markets with assets and trading activity on public blockchains, giving users a route between tokenized assets on Canton and liquidity on networks such as Ethereum and Solana. Canton is a public blockchain built…

Block Inc. has increased its corporate Bitcoin treasury by 85 $BTC, taking its total holdings to 9,117 $BTC and moving the Jack Dorsey-led company to 15th place in the Bitcoin 100 corporate holdings ranking. According to Bitcoin Treasuries.NET, Block’s latest purchase raised its Bitcoin balance from 9,032 $BTC to 9,117 $BTC, placing the fintech company 15th among publicly tracked corporate Bitcoin holders. The update was shared on X and did not disclose when the purchase was completed or the price paid for the additional coins. JUST IN: Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc $XYZ buys an additional 85 #Bitcoin and now holds…

Chinese investment firm Longling Capital has transferred 1,800 Ether ($ETH), valued at approximately $3.67 million, to the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The transaction occurred as Ethereum’s price briefly surged above $2,100, according to data shared by the blockchain analytics platform AmberCN. Deposits to exchanges are typically interpreted as a signal that the holder intends to sell, and AmberCN’s analysis suggests the funds may have already been liquidated. Context and Market Impact The transfer comes amid a notable uptick in Ethereum’s price, which has been trading in a volatile range over the past week. The brief move above $2,100 marks a key…

On July 13, one of Japan’s largest financial conglomerates rewired its blockchain strategy in a single press release. SBI Holdings announced that the Solana Foundation will take an equity stake in SBI R3 Japan, the joint venture it shares with Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, and that the entity will be renamed SBI Solana Global. The new company’s mandate reads like a full-stack blueprint for moving Japanese finance onto a public blockchain: yen stablecoin issuance and distribution, tokenization of corporate bonds, commercial paper, funds, and real estate, cross-border settlement rails, institutional on-chain services, and payment infrastructure for AI agents. For Solana,…

The source also said SEC staff have become increasingly focused on the agency’s legal authority to issue such broad relief, including whether it has completed sufficient economic analysis and followed the procedural steps required to justify an exemption. Industry insiders have been instructed that this effort may need to wait for the outcome of the Clarity Act. Resistance came from traditional financial institutions as well. SIFMA, the Wall Street trade group whose members include major broker-dealers and investment banks, has emerged as one of the main groups halting the SEC’s initiative, according to an industry source familiar with the discussions.…

Worldwide search interest in prediction markets has returned to roughly where it sat before the 2026 World Cup, and the two venues that take almost all the category’s trading volume are moving apart as it does. Both peaks in Google’s data land on tournament dates. The decline since is a return to the pre-tournament baseline. What has changed underneath is the split between the leaders: Kalshi’s monthly volume is pacing roughly 15% below its July record, while Polymarket’s has halved since June. Polymarket still leads on social mindshare. On Google Trends’ worldwide weekly series for the search term “prediction market,”…

Kaito AI’s new Kaito Pulse browser extension has drawn scrutiny after a source-code review claimed the software can fingerprint devices, track detailed activity on X, and access account data from several third-party platforms during user-initiated verification. According to well-known analyst Ultra, who reviewed Kaito Pulse’s source code, found multiple forms of data collection, with the most extensive logging tied to how people use X. so i was looking at the source code of kaito pulse and found some interesting things:– it fingerprints your device. it hashes how your gpu renders an invisible image, your gpu model, and how your hardware…

A Bitcoin strategic reserve is a government-held stockpile of Bitcoin treated as a national asset alongside gold, oil, and foreign currency reserves. The United States signed an executive order creating one in March 2025, and at least a dozen other countries are now exploring the same idea. Every country holds reserves. The composition of those reserves has changed slowly over centuries, from silver to gold, from gold to dollars, from dollars to a basket of currencies and sovereign debt. The question that the Bitcoin strategic reserve forces into the open is whether digital scarcity belongs in that basket, and whether…

Two anonymous cryptocurrency whale wallets have opened significant short positions against Ethereum ($ETH) on the decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid, according to blockchain tracking firm Lookonchain. The combined positions total roughly $98 million, representing a notable bearish bet on the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization. Details of the Large Short Positions Lookonchain reported that the two wallets, identified by the prefixes 0x6de and 0xc63, hold short positions totaling 50,838 $ETH. The 0x6de wallet is short approximately 25,750 $ETH with 10x leverage, while the 0xc63 wallet holds a short of about 25,080 $ETH with 20x leverage. Their respective liquidation prices are…