🤑 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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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 The U.S., Iran and the mediators are discussing holding the signing of the memorandum of understanding remotely as early as Wednesday, rather than in-person on Friday

❗️Trump: The Iran deal will be signed over the next 48 hours

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🚕 Uber will bring its premium robotaxi service to Houston in 2027

Uber plans to launch a premium robotaxi service in Houston by mid-2027, making it the second U.S. market under its partnership with EV maker Lucid and autonomous vehicle startup Nuro. Uber says it will eventually take the robotaxi program to “dozens of cities” in the coming years.

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🤖 Two Stanford grads raise $11M to build a noninvasive wearable for hormone tracking

Stanford graduates Jenny Duan and Abhinav Agarwal want to solve two hard problems: create a good-looking wearable and measure hormones to help women understand their health better. The pair is building a startup called Clair Health to track energy levels, hormonal fluctuations, and how to navigate those changes.

The company has raised $11.6 million in a funding round led by Khosla Ventures. Clair Health’s device has 10 biosensors, including a novel biomagnetic sensor for hormonal insights. It has trained its own AI to analyze voice-based biomarkers.

“What we found is that in women’s health and in the current state of apps, women can’t communicate a large amount of symptoms because the apps are built for only specific ones. With our voice stack, we are giving our users a way to communicate their own problems in their own way,” — Duan said.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 US-Iran Deal Takes Effect as Both Sides Say Memorandum Signed

US and Iranian officials signed an interim peace deal electronically on Wednesday evening, according to a US official and Iranian state media. The deal is now in effect, the US official said.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei confirms the US-Iran memorandum of understanding has been officially finalized and electronically signed by Presidents Pezeshkian and Trump, making the agreement fully formal and binding.

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🤖 US startup starts work on ‘first utility-scale quantum computer’ in Australia

American startup PsiQuantum has begun construction on a facility in Moreton Bay, Australia, where it plans to build and deploy what it calls the world’s first utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computer.

Unlike many quantum computing efforts that remain focused on laboratory-scale systems, PsiQuantum is pursuing a photonics-based approach designed to scale using existing semiconductor manufacturing processes and optical networking technologies.

“Building a quantum computer that solves real world problems is one of the great engineering challenges of our time. For decades, quantum computing has held the promise of transforming what humanity can achieve through computation, and today in Australia we are beginning to turn that promise into reality,” — said Victor Peng, CEO of PsiQuantum.

The company believes fault-tolerant quantum computers could eventually tackle problems beyond the reach of conventional computing systems. Potential applications include drug discovery, materials development, energy research, logistics, manufacturing, agriculture, and financial modeling.

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🤖 Chinese automaker Seres has unveiled its first humanoid robot Xiaosai for inspection and production roles.

The robot is designed with visual recognition, autonomous greeting, and voice interaction capabilities.

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