⚡️🇺🇸🇪🇺 The European Union’s US trade deal is close to being implemented after the bloc’s lawmakers gave their final approval.

The European Parliament ratified the agreement on Tuesday, voting 440-151, with 50 abstentions. EU countries are now expected to give their final nod on June 26, the last step in a fitful, yearlong ratification process.

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⚡️🤑 Ripple Participates in Flutterwave’s Series E With Strategic Investment to Accelerate African Stablecoin Payments

Flutterwave, Africa’s leading payments infrastructure company, today announces a strategic investment from Ripple. This partnership marks the definitive next phase of Flutterwave’s long-term stablecoin strategy, seamlessly connecting its existing cross-border settlement capabilities with enterprise-grade digital liquidity. 🤝

❗️The investment is a part of Flutterwave’s Series E fundraising, which values the company at $3.2 billion.

“Flutterwave has built one of the most advanced payments networks in Africa, and as its infrastructure evolves, stablecoins are becoming central to that story,” — said Reece Merrick, Managing Director, MEA at Ripple.

🧱The partnership is built on three core pillars:
→ embedding RLUSD into Flutterwave’s payment rails and Send App remittance corridors as a primary settlement asset for high-volume channels;
→ leveraging the XRP Ledger (XRPL) for faster transaction clearing;
→ deploying a unified API to seamlessly bridge Flutterwave’s domestic network with Ripple Payments, Ripple’s global payments network.

By merging traditional fiat payment methods, including local cards, mobile wallets, and bank transfers, with Ripple’s enterprise blockchain technology, the partnership eliminates the historical friction points of African cross-border payments, such as multi-day delays and inflated FX margins.

⤴️Instead, businesses will experience guaranteed liquidity, predictable pricing, and real-time settlement. 🚀

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🇨🇳🇲🇲China’s President Xi Jinping pledged support for Myanmar during a visit to Beijing by Min Aung Hlaing.

"I am willing to continue strengthening our leadership (over our countries' bilateral ties), carry forward the brotherly friendship between our two peoples, deepen comprehensive strategic cooperation," — Xi told Min Aung Hlaing. 🤝

Beijing has invested in projects in Myanmar ​under its Belt and Road Initiative, including an oil ​and gas pipeline crossing the country and planned infrastructure including a deep-sea port, which are part ‌of the massive China-Myanmar Economic Corridor.

The 18 memorandums of ​cooperation were signed and covered ​areas including cross-border transportation in the Greater Mekong Subregion, free trade, disaster assistance, health, and media. Both countries, the Chinese leader added, must continue to “crack down hard” on telecom fraud, online gambling and drug trafficking.

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🤑 Anchorage Digital Supports Custody for Tokenized CETES, Etherfuse's Tokenized Mexican Government Debt on Stellar

Anchorage Digital, home to America's first federally regulated crypto bank, today announced custody support for CETES, tokenized Mexican government debt issued by Etherfuse on the Stellar blockchain. 🎉

❗️CETES are short-term Mexican Federal Treasury Certificates, among Mexico's most widely held government debt instruments.

The collaboration brings together three complementary roles across the tokenized asset lifecycle:
→ Etherfuse tokenizes the underlying government instrument;
→ Stellar provides the network for onchain movement;
→ Anchorage Digital provides institutional custody.

Together, the model demonstrates how tokenized real-world assets can move from issuance to network infrastructure to secure institutional custody. 🤝

Support for CETES expands the range of tokenized real-world assets institutions can hold at Anchorage Digital and deepens the company's commitment to Mexico and Latin America. As established financial instruments move onchain, institutions need secure, compliant infrastructure to hold them, and a single platform where global assets can sit alongside the rest of their holdings.

"Tokenized real-world assets are one of the clearest demonstrations of how blockchain can improve access to global markets. We're glad to see Anchorage Digital support CETES on Stellar as institutions look for secure ways to hold tokenized assets," — Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer at Stellar Development Foundation.

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🍎Apple Plans Camera AirPods Alongside Upgraded Foldable iPhone in 2027

Apple Inc.’s upcoming camera-equipped AirPods, a product meant to vault the company into the AI device market, is scheduled to launch in late 2027 as part of a flurry of new releases. The company aims to release the device around the same time as a next-generation foldable phone and a fresh iPhone model that will mark that product’s 20th anniversary.

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🤑Why The DTCC is tokenizing on Stellar, according to Tomer Weller during Stable Summit

→ Institutional track record
→ Uptime and the rails to handle TradFi
→ Trust built on years of collaboration 🤝

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🛰🇺🇦 Starlink Mobile is now providing data in Ukraine with Kyivstar and VEON

VEON Ltd. a global digital operator and the parent company of Kyivstar Group Ltd., today announced that Kyivstar customers in Ukraine can now access satellite-ready apps, even where there is no terrestrial coverage or during prolonged power outages. Starting with Viber, WhatsApp and Google Maps, Kyivstar customers with a compatible smartphone can now message and find their way with data connectivity from Starlink Mobile.

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❤️ Microsoft debuts Surface Pro and Surface Laptop with new jade green color and Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 chips

Microsoft has quietly updated its consumer-oriented Surface lineup with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X2 chips. These three systems are on sale from Microsoft's website today. All of the systems will have options between 10-core Snapdragon X2 Plus or 12-core Snapdragon X2 Elite processors, and range from 16GB to 64GB of RAM.

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🤑 Squid adds Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin for cross-chain swaps

Squid, a cross-chain infrastructure platform, has integrated Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin, allowing users to swap into and out of RLUSD across blockchains and digital assets "in a single transaction." 🎉

Squid said the integration connects RLUSD to more than 100 blockchains and over 20,000 supported tokens through its routing layer. Users can swap assets such as USDC, USDT, ETH, and XRP directly into RLUSD without manually bridging assets, wrapping tokens, or completing multiple transactions.

❗️Squid said its integration sits above those underlying transfer mechanisms, enabling users to swap into and out of RLUSD regardless of how the token is issued on a particular chain.

"We allow fast, cheap movement via intents and swaps to and from any coin across all supported chains," — Squid's pseudonymous co-founder Fig said. "We are also developing payment widgets and SDKs [software development kits] for payments and trading that will be used by Ripple developers and partners."

Squid said developers can also access RLUSD through its tools, enabling cross-chain payments, treasury management, and DeFi applications. 🚀

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⚡️🇷🇺Putin hosts leaders of Southeast Asia at Russia-ASEAN summit

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is hosting leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at a summit that opens Wednesday, seeking to bolster business and other ties with members of the regional bloc.

The two-day Russia-ASEAN summit, which is held in Kazan, is set to consider ways to expand Russia’s “strategic partnership” with ASEAN that includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, East Timor and Vietnam.

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⚡️🇨🇳China Plans Mechanism to Evaluate AI Impacts on Job Market

The nation will research the establishment of a survey system on the implications of AI on employment, conduct analysis on impacts, and continuously track how the technology is creating and replacing jobs over the next five years, according to an announcement from the State Council.

At the same time, Senior Chinese officials stressed Beijing’s plans to share AI globally and safely.

“China is accelerating the establishment of a global AI cooperation organization, and welcomes all parties to join,” — Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, said. He emphasized the tech should serve the needs of humans.

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