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AZ-COM Maruwa to pay partners in JPYC stablecoin
Tokyo-listed logistics firm AZ-COM Maruwa plans to pay about 2,300 partners, including truck drivers, in JPYC, Japan’s …
Stablecoins
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USTR's 25% Brazil tariff cites Pix payments
USTR set a 25% Section 301 tariff on certain Brazilian goods from July 22, after a probe that flagged preferential Pix-style …
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Visa Stablecoin Platform beta opens with Open USD
Visa opened beta on its Visa Stablecoin Platform, an enterprise hub for banks and fintechs to mint, hold, and move Open USD (OUSD) …
Projects
Takenos: Solana payroll rails for LatAm freelancers
Argentine fintech Takenos settles LatAm freelancer payroll on Solana, with TakeCard spend rails via Rain and a company-reported …
News
Ostium pauses trading after ~$18M OLP vault exploit
Ostium halted trading July 15 after an attacker abused a registered PriceUpKeep component and future-dated oracle reports to pull …
Policy
Brazil BCB Resolution 580: VASPs as Type 3
Resolução BCB nº 580 (1 July 2026) puts virtual-asset service providers in Type 3 prudential supervision, bars the simplified S5 …
News
Galaxy launches GOFR institutional DeFi credit rate
Galaxy Digital launched GOFR on July 14: a managed onchain financing program with up to $100M first-loss capital, blending Aave, …
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Bonzo Lend loses $9M in Supra oracle exploit
A zeroed BLS signature on Supra’s Hedera verifier let an attacker turn 250 SAUCE into about $9.05M of borrowed USDC and wrapped …
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Circle wins OCC approval for national trust bank
Circle received final OCC approval on July 10 to establish Circle National Trust, a federally supervised national trust bank for …
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Hyundai Card moves $20k USDT US→Mexico in 7 minutes
Hyundai Card settled a live $20,000 intercompany payment from Hyundai Motor America to Hyundai Motor Mexico via USDT on Avalanche …
Projects
Mercado Bitcoin draws Tether's $20M for on-chain finance
Tether put $20M into Mercado Bitcoin, Brazil’s 4.5M-user exchange turned regulated on-chain stack for tokenization, …
Policy
GENIUS Act July 18 deadline: dollar stablecoin rules
July 18 is the one-year mark for GENIUS Act stablecoin rulemaking. Agencies have floated proposals; few final rules are out. …