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๐Ÿค– ByteDance Chooses Brazil for Its Largest Data Center Outside China

ByteDance is dropping roughly $39 billion on a data center campus in northeastern Brazil, a bet so large it would rank among the most expensive single-site infrastructure projects in Latin American history. The facility, located at the Pecรฉm port complex in the state of Cearรก, will start with approximately 200 MW of IT capacity and is designed to scale toward nearly 1 gigawatt.

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๐Ÿค‘ USST, powered by STBL, is now live on Stellar

โ€œThe launch of USST on Stellar adds another example of how open blockchain infrastructure can support institutional asset workflows and expand utility across the tokenized asset ecosystem,โ€ - said Raja Chakravorti, the CBO at the Stellar Development Foundation.


๐ŸŽ‰ USST is now live on Stellar, marking another step in the growth of tokenized real-world asset infrastructure on the network.

Using STBLโ€™s technical architecture, eligible users can deposit supported tokenized assets, beginning with USDY, to mint USST for settlement and other institutional asset workflows.

โ—๏ธThrough strategic ecosystem integrations, USST is expected to support expanded onchain utility across eligible venues and institutional use cases, including liquidity, settlement, and collateral mobility.

By enabling multiple pathways for liquidity and settlement, USST is designed to support utility within the Stellar networkโ€™s growing RWA ecosystem, including for eligible holders of tokenized treasuries and money market funds. ๐Ÿš€

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๐Ÿ›’ Sony to end physical PlayStation game disc production in 2028

Sony announced that it will stop producing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting in January 2028, marking a move into an all-digital future. After that, every new release will be sold digitally through the PlayStation Store and other retailers. Games released before the cutoff will continue to be available on disc.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธThe United States Will Use Stablecoins to Reinforce the Dollar

This is the federal strategy to combat global de-dollarization efforts. Stablecoins are the Trojan horse for U.S. dollar dominance.

โ€œFinally, the Trump administration sees its embrace of cryptocurrency as a tool for entrenching U.S. financial power.โ€


โ€œTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent has written about making the United States a โ€˜crypto superpowerโ€™ and has argued that a strong American crypto sector including U.S. dollar-linked โ€˜stablecoinsโ€™ can reinforce the U.S. dollar's status as the global reserve currency."


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๐Ÿ Apple Seeks to Buy Chinese-Made Memory Chips

Apple Inc.
is in negotiations to purchase chips from two Chinese semiconductor makers on a Pentagon blacklist to help reduce the impact of a global memory shortage thatโ€™s forced the company to raise prices across its product line.

The iPhone maker is seeking to buy memory components from ChangXin Memory Technologies Inc. and Yangtze Memory Technologies Co. for use in devices sold in China. Talks between Apple and the companies are ongoing, and nothing is final yet.

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๐Ÿค– Honda starts AI data center battery production in US after EV pivot

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has begun producing batteries for AI data centers at a U.S. plant where it planned to make electric vehicle batteries. The milestone makes Honda the latest car company to dive into the red-hot energy market.

The automakerโ€™s shift toward energy storage comes three months after Honda canceled its EV programs in the U.S. Batteries for the EVs were slated to be made at a factory in Ohio, which Honda operates under a joint venture with LG Energy Solution. Now, those cells are headed to data centers instead of driveways.

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2 July 2026
Organised fraud forces banks and insurers to pool intelligence
AI alone won't stop it, OCBC warns as criminal networks grow in scale.


Financial institutions can no longer fight fraud alone, with industry leaders saying collaboration across banks, insurers, regulators, and law enforcement has become critical as organised criminal networks become more sophisticated.

"We can compete with each other on innovation, products, margins, revenues, but when it comes to fraud, crime prevention, we have to collaborate together," said Nauman Bashir, managing director and global head of Digital Sales at Standard Chartered Bank.


Soon cited OCBC's Anti-Scam Unit, which works with the Singapore Police Force to freeze suspicious accounts and trace stolen funds. The bank has also stationed staff at the police's Anti-Scam Command to speed up investigations.

Beyond bilateral partnerships, Soon said banks are increasingly working through industry groups to develop common anti-scam strategies.

The next phase of collaboration will involve broader intelligence sharing. Soon highlighted an upcoming initiative led by the police and the Monetary Authority of Singapore that will allow participating banks to review past transactions and identify customers who may have transferred funds to known scam accounts through a shared portal.

The panellists also stressed that technology alone cannot solve the problem. Whilst artificial intelligence has strengthened fraud detection, they said human judgement and accountability remain essential.

"AI alone is not everything. Human judgment is needed, accountability. Human accountability is still needed," Soon said.


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๐Ÿค– Alibaba, Payment Firm Will Pay $600 Million to Resolve US Probe

Chinese tech giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and its US digital payment processor agreed to pay $600 million to resolve a federal investigation into whether they failed to prevent the sale and importation of illegal pharmaceuticals and controlled substances, the Justice Department said.

Alibaba entered into a non-prosecution agreement released Wednesday to end a probe of alleged violations of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, or FDCA, between 2016 and 2024, the US said. The investigation was led by the Justice Department and the US Attorneyโ€™s Office in Rhode Island.

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Stellar Bank joins Prosperity Bank

We are excited to share that we officially merged with Prosperity Bank on July 1, 2026, becoming one of the largest banks by assets headquartered in Texas.

Read the full press release here:

https://www . prosperitybankusa . com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Press-Release-Stellar-Closing-v2.pdf?utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8bcQLGefKYAZZqxoEEJ4k5zmlo42B9X7uq4VJk5Gdo15vRRFWVnasQiZuQ8KEj1quitK8JaUAZX1qR4DPFuWdxSMKeXg&_hsmi=32240958&utm_content=32240958&utm_source=hs_email
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๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡บ Europeโ€™s MiCA regime is now up for review, known colloquially as โ€œMiCA 2.0,โ€ through a consultation that closes around September

Itโ€™s been six years since Europeโ€™s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) was first mooted and three years since it was enacted. A lot has changed in the meantime, not the least the growing interest from businesses and individuals in stablecoins for international payments.

โžก๏ธMiCA was designed for spot crypto, but that categorization has become too narrow, given the extent of stablecoin and tokenization adoption in institutional and wholesale finance.

The European Central Bank has repeatedly said the strength of dollar-pegged stablecoins could damage its control over monetary conditions in the 21-nation eurozone, though its preferred solution is a central bank digital currency (CBDC), not euro stablecoins.

โ€œIf you listen to European Central Bank officials, you'll notice their opinions change depending on the individual,โ€ John Orchard, chairman of the Digital Monetary Institute at OMFIF, said. โ€œBut they are now willing to tolerate stablecoins on bank balance sheets and perhaps as a remittance tool, but they don't want stablecoins for wholesale settlement, which the U.S. is prepared to experiment with.โ€


โ—๏ธOne major difference between stablecoins in the U.S. and those in Europe is the MiCA requirement to send stablecoin deposits back into the banking system while under GENIUS reserves can be held in U.S. government debt. A key drawback for the EU is the lack of a unified treasury bond market such as exists in the U.S.

โ€œThe Commission is said to be toying with the idea of reviewing the reserve requirements so that a GENIUS-Act-like model could exist, where the stablecoin operator might buy money market instruments from European governments instead of routing the money back into the banking system,โ€ Orchard said.


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โค๏ธ Microsoft launches its own AI deployment company with $2.5 billion commitment

Microsoft announced a new operating business called Microsoft Frontier company, focused on delivering successful enterprise AI deployments with Microsoftโ€™s existing AI tools. The project will be backed by a $2.5 billion investment from Microsoft, as well as 6,000 industry and engineering experts.

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Friendly reminder for Sunday, July 5 call:

Itโ€™s not just for facilitators and moderators of healing sessions, ๐Ÿ” ๐Ÿ” ๐Ÿ” ๐Ÿ” ๐Ÿ” ๐Ÿ”  can join the stream on QSI global & chat to listen in

It will be super useful for anyone who is ready to take their healing to the next level bc it will give you a sense of what we are looking for in terms of how self-reflection looks, finding binary vs trinary lessons, weasling and squirreling, etc

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๐Ÿค‘ THANK YOU, XRP is officially live ๐ŸŽ‰

For years, the XRP community has been defined by headlines. This independent documentary celebrates the people, relationships, and conviction that kept an entire community moving forward.

Featuring exclusive interviews, historic keynote presentations, and rare archival footage spanning the XRP journey.

๐Ÿ“ฑ Watch the full video on YouTube

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ตIndiaโ€™s Modi and Japanโ€™s Takaichi expand defense and economic security ties

India and Japan will collaborate on naval radio antenna systems, and adopted a joint road map on economic security. Tthe leaders also agreed to strengthen cooperation in AI, shipbuilding, biogas, semiconductors and critical technologies. ๐Ÿค

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๐Ÿ˜บ OpenAI has begun preliminary discussions about giving the US government a 5% stake in the ChatGPT-developer

Sam Altman and other executives proposed that move as part of a broader arrangement under which Washington would hold 5% of each of the leading US AI developers. That might include Anthropic PBC and listed sector leaders Google and Meta Platforms Inc., though itโ€™s unclear if those other firms would agree with the proposal.

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๐Ÿค‘ Stellar Adoption Surges! DTCC Tokenization, MoneyGramโ€™s Stablecoin & Bermuda Onchain! with Denelle Dixon

๐Ÿš€ Topics:

โ†’ DTCC picked Stellar as the first public blockchain to connect to its upcoming tokenized securities settlement platform
โ†’ MoneyGram launches MGUSD, a U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin on Stellar
โ†’ Bermuda Taps Stellar Network to Build the Worldโ€™s First Fully Onchain National Economy
โ†’ Cryptoโ€™s impact on Web Monetization

๐Ÿ“ฑ Watch the full video on YouTube

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๐Ÿค–TESLA Optimus has just arrived at home with Elon Musk

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โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธDonald Trump on crypto and AI: "I want to be number one in, and weโ€™re number one in crypto, and weโ€™re also number one in AI."

Well, I was here before, I was there before I was in office, but the way I view cryptoโ€™s a little differently, we have to be at the top, otherwise Chinaโ€™s going to take it over.


Like, for instance, AI, weโ€™re leading substantially in AI over China and everybody else. I mean, weโ€™re leading.


President Xi three weeks ago greeted me: โ€œWow, youโ€™ve really done a great job. Youโ€™ve really.โ€ Now we have the hottest country in the world.


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๐Ÿค‘๐Ÿค‘The IMF's new research named the Stellar and XRP Ledger as two of the networks banks have chosen to use for issuing stablecoins

Regulated financial institutions are leveraging the flexibility of permissionless networks, which allow them to incorporate permission controls such as whitelisting to govern who can hold and transact tokens, creating what could be called hybrid governance models.


In addition, some banks appear interested in issuing stablecoins on permissionless blockchains, such as Sociรฉtรฉ Gรฉnรฉraleโ€™s EUR denominated stablecoin CoinVertible issued on Ethereum, Solana, Stellar, and the XRP Ledger.


โžก๏ธThe IMF didn't just mention Stellar and XRPL, it pointed to a specific institutional use case.

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