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⚡️🔥 DTCC Begins Soft Launch of Tokenization Service

The DTCC, custodian of over $114 trillion in assets, initiated the soft launch of its tokenization platform targeting real-world assets including select stocks from the Russell 1000, major ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries.

Tokenization is moving beyond theory and into real-world application as clients begin leveraging live trading environments to demonstrate and transact tokenized assets.

❗️Today marks a significant milestone in the evolution of capital markets, turning tokenization from a future concept into a tangible, operational reality.

Stay tuned for updates throughout the day. 🚀

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🇬🇧UK plans first G7 digital sovereign bond by early 2027

The U.K. plans to issue a digital sovereign bond by early 2027, becoming the first of the seven leading industrialized nations to place government debt on a distributed-ledger infrastructure.

🔜 Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced the timeline in her annual Mansion House speech to industry leaders. The government plans further issuance after the initial sale.

🟠The Digital Gilt Instrument, known as DIGIT, will be a sterling-denominated government security issued on HSBC’s Orion platform and will operate inside the Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority’s Digital Securities Sandbox.

🟠Speaking at the same event, Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey said the central bank will work to make DIGIT eligible as collateral in its market operations.🔣That could support tokenized repo and allow banks to use the bond in central bank funding transactions.

The Treasury has not disclosed the bond’s size, maturity, coupon, investor eligibility or settlement asset. The initial sale will sit outside the government’s conventional gilt-financing program.

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⚡️🤑 Sentora Launches Vaults on the Stellar Network, Accessible via Stellar DeFi Hub

“We’re happy to announce the launch of curated vaults on the Stellar network. The vaults are accessible via Stellar DeFi Hub, a service operated by Ultrastellar, a longtime Stellar ecosystem participant. The vaults are also accessible via yield.xyz,“ — Sentora wrote.


➡️ The launch marks Sentora’s first integration with the Stellar network, bringing institutional-grade vaults to one of the industry’s most active payments and asset-tokenization platforms.

“Stellar has the payment rails, tokenization tools, and DeFi primitives that make real-world financial products possible. Sentora adds to vaults on Stellar, increasing access for institutions and fintechs,” — said Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer, Stellar Development Foundation.


➡️ Sentora’s platform provides vault curation, risk management, deployment parameters, and institutional-grade policy enforcement.

“Institutions and fintechs require more than onchain access. They need transparency, operational controls, and infrastructure for large-scale capital. Stellar is the network that provides that foundation, and these vaults make it accessible,” — said Anthony DeMartino, Co-Founder and CEO, Sentora


The roadmap includes additional vault strategies spanning DeFi and RWAs, with deeper integration across the Stellar DeFi ecosystem. 🚀

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🍏 Apple Intelligence approved for launch in China with Alibaba’s Qwen AI

Apple Intelligence, the iPhone maker’s generative AI offering, is coming to China. China’s regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Apple’s AI services in the country, on the back of a deal to integrate Alibaba’s Qwen AI model into Apple’s operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.

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🇺🇸New York State halts construction of all new data centers New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects.…
⚡️🇺🇸Trump on Hochul’s Order Halting Construction of All New Data Centers in New York

One of the biggest Driving Forces in the Future for Jobs, are Data Centers. They are big, strong, bold, and Money Machines for the State in which they are built.


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🇯🇵 Japan passes key bill recognizing crypto as financial product, lowering tax rate

Japan's parliament passed and enacted key amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, formally classifying cryptocurrencies as financial products. The amendments were approved in the plenary session of the House of Councillors, completing their passage through both houses of the Diet.

❗️The bill redefines crypto assets as a distinct category of financial products that is similar to stocks and bonds.

🟠The amendments establish the basis for separate crypto taxation at an effective rate of approximately 20%, along with three-year loss carry-forward deductions. Japan currently taxes crypto gains as miscellaneous income, with rates reaching up to 55%. The tax reforms are expected to take effect in January 2028, given that enforcement begins in the fiscal year of 2027.

🟠Furthermore, the bill also lays the groundwork for the domestic issuance of spot cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds. The Japan Exchange Group (JPX) is eyeing the first listings of crypto ETFs as early as 2027, with traditional institutions expected to serve as issuers. However, domestic approval of bitcoin ETFs is not yet confirmed.

The law is set to be promulgated in the near future and is scheduled to take effect within one year of promulgation, with detailed implementation rules to be finalized through cabinet ordinances and supervisory guidelines. 🚀

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🤑 Tokenization startup Tradable plans to bring $1 billion worth of private credit assets to Stellar

ParaFi Capital-backed private credit and tokenization platform Tradable plans to bring $1 billion worth of private credit assets to Stellar, a first-generation blockchain that has been winning many big tokenization deals. 🎉

➡️ Founded in 2024, Tradable is designed to support full deal lifecycle management, compliance controls, investor onboarding, and ongoing operations using blockchain-based smart contracts. Private credit, in traditional finance, is a multi-trillion-dollar industry often described as illiquid and opaque.

"We’re excited to partner with institutionally oriented ecosystems like Stellar," Tradable CEO Alex Cordover said in a statement. "By bringing assets onto the Stellar blockchain network, Tradable is continuing to work toward its goal of building the next generation of alternative asset infrastructure." 🤝


➡️ The move marks a significant step in Tradable’s broader effort to connect traditional asset managers with blockchain infrastructure, enabling tokenized versions of institutional-grade investment opportunities in high-quality private credit.

"Stellar is the network regulated institutions choose to tokenize real-world assets, and Tradable's decision to bring up to $1 billion in private credit to the network is a clear signal that enterprises are choosing Stellar to bring financial assets onchain at scale," Denelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, said. 🚀


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⚡️🇺🇸President Trump expected to meet with senators to work on ethics concerns in crypto bill

Several senators will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday afternoon to discuss progress on a sweeping cryptocurrency regulatory bill, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said.

“We’ll be talking about the entirety of the bill. I mean, obviously the president’s been very engaged in this bill,” said Moreno, who has been involved in negotiations over the bill. “He’s the one who’s really driven the innovation that I think will pay dividends.”


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⚡️🤖 Thinking Machines releases Inkling, its first open-weight foundation model

Thinking Machines Lab,
the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling. Unlike the flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, it’s open-weight, meaning outside developers and companies can download it and modify it directly.

Our mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We have developed a platform that lets anyone customize models, previewed an AI system built for interactive collaboration.


Inkling is a mixture-of-experts system with 975 billion total parameters. It was trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, image, audio, and video, and reasons natively across all four. For now, its outputs are limited to text, including code, styled artifacts, and structured data.

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🇧🇩 Bangladesh unifies QR payments to reduce cash dependence

Bangladesh has launched an interoperable QR payment system, Bangla QR, aiming to reduce cash dependence and enhance financial inclusion. This system allows customers from various banks and mobile financial services to pay merchants by scanning a single QR code.

It addresses the incompatibilities of previous payment systems, promoting a cashless economy. The initiative is expected to increase tax revenue and formalize the country's large informal economy.

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🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent released a rendering of a new coin featuring President Donald Trump

"As America commemorates 250 years of independence, the United States Mint will begin striking this new $1 gold coin to honor the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism. Featuring President Trump, it celebrates the strength of American values, and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all," — Bessent wrote on X.


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🤑 Dragonfly, FirstMark lead $38 million Series A for stablecoin startup Velocity with support from Coinbase, Ripple and more

Velocity, the stablecoin treasury and settlement platform bringing enterprises onchain, announced a $38 million Series A round led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with participation from Activant Capital, Capital One Ventures, QED Investors Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures and Ripple. 🎉

🔜 Founded in 2025, Velocity works with global merchants, payment providers, fintechs, and financial institutions looking to modernise treasury operations, reduce settlement times, eliminate prefunding requirements, and move capital more efficiently across borders.

🔜 Velocity’s platform combines stablecoin infrastructure with local banking rails, compliance, custody, liquidity management, and settlement orchestration, allowing businesses and financial institutions to access the benefits of stablecoins without changing their core treasury operations.

This funding round brings Velocity’s total capital raised to nearly $50 million since May 2025 and unites investors from across digital assets, enterprise software, payments, and traditional financial services.

❗️Their backing reflects a growing conviction that stablecoins are becoming a foundational layer of global financial infrastructure.

"The most enduring technology companies are built around shifts that fundamentally change how industries operate," — said Adam Nelson, Partner at FirstMark. "We believe stablecoins have the potential to transform the movement of money as profoundly as the internet transformed the movement of information."


The company plans to use the new funding to expand its global banking and payments network, accelerate product development, deepen regulatory capabilities, and support growing demand from enterprises and financial institutions adopting stablecoin-powered treasury and settlement infrastructure. 🚀

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Circle is the first digital assets firm in American history to attain a de novo federal trust bank license

On FoxBusiness, Circle President Heath Tarbert discussed what this milestone means for USDC, regulatory clarity, and the future of trusted stablecoin infrastructure.
 
Give us a sense right off the bat on how important a milestone this is?

Thank you so much for having me, Liz, and it's absolutely a really important milestone. In fact, it's historic. Circle was the very first digital assets company in American history to get a de novo federal trust charter. So what that basically means is it wasn't a conversion, but we literally built it from scratch. And what this allows us to do is essentially use the very gold standard for regulation around the world to, at some point, manage the USDC reserves, which is critically important because, as you know, USDC is the world's leading regulated stablecoin. Something like 70% of transactions involving dollar stablecoins involve USDC.

Circle, as I read, can open according to this designation on or after July 10th, which, of course, was last Friday. I mean, when does it actually open its doors?
 
We are open for business. Obviously, we have a business plan. We're moving forward. But we're going ahead. We're excited about the possibility of one of the things that we're going to be able to do is actually hold digital assets in custody. That's really important because folks that are out there that have their digital assets, they want to put them ultimately with a custodian that is subject to the highest quality regulation. So that's a service that we'll offer. And then in the long run, as I mentioned, this entity will oversee and manage the USDC reserves and as a result, will be subject to the Genius Act and making sure that we meet the highest standards that are here in the United States.

 
So give me your assessment of when the Clarity Act might really finally pass.
 
Well, we're hoping as soon as possible, because I think it's really important that people understand that this is more than just any old financial regulation. This whole area, starting with the Genius Act, is really an upgrade of the U.S. payment systems, and it allows us to win in the next generation of the Internet, which is the Internet of Value. And so in some ways, it's very important for economic and national security that the U.S. be able to lead. And right now, there are many financial institutions, traditional financial institutions, that really want to get into this space. They want to experiment. They want to be a part of it. They want to start moving value on chain. But the lack of legal certainty is holding them back. So it's a really important law.


Source: Circle on X, 15. 7. 2026.
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🇮🇳 India's first government-led AI university to come up in Karnataka

Karnataka has announced a major push to strengthen AI education and innovation in the state. Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said the government plans to introduce AI education from Class 6 and set up India's first government-led AI University in Bengaluru.

The government also plans to create a dedicated AI Hub to support research, innovation and collaboration between educational institutions, startups and industry.

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🤑 MoneyGram, Figure Markets, and Range to Help Secure the Stellar Network by joining as Tier 1 Validators

The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF) announced that MoneyGram, Figure Markets, and Range will operate Tier 1 validators on the Stellar network. The addition of these three organizations, spanning capital markets, global money movement, and blockchain security infrastructure, marks a significant step in expanding the decentralization and resilience of the network’s core infrastructure. 🎉

❗️Tier 1 validators are the backbone of the Stellar network. These organizations run multiple geographically distributed full validators that participate in the Stellar Consensus Protocol, a consensus model in which each validator chooses which others it trusts — its quorum set — to agree on the state of the ledger.

They are publicly identifiable and maintain the highest standards of uptime, running this infrastructure not for financial return but to safeguard the safety and liveness of the entire network.

"Adding world-class institutions and community members like MoneyGram, Figure Markets and Range as validators makes Stellar an even better network for regulated finance to run on," said Jose Fernandez da Ponte, President & Chief Growth Officer at the SDF.


➡️ Expanding the set of Tier 1 organizations increases the network’s fault tolerance, meaning the network can continue operating seamlessly even if multiple organizations experience simultaneous outages.

➡️ Each new Tier 1 organization also broadens the diversity of industries, geographies, and infrastructures underpinning consensus.

The validators are expected to be fully integrated into the network’s quorum configuration by mid-August. 🚀


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⚔️ Chinese AI start-up Moonshot to launch model challenging Anthropic’s lead

The company’s upcoming release, called Kimi K3, is said to take this one step further to close the gap with closed-source models from the likes of OpenAI and Anthropic. Kimi K3 is expected to be the largest open-weight AI model from China, with a parameter count between 2 trillion and 3 trillion, and will be released “in the coming days.”

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🤑 Stellar Constellations: How XLM’s Visual Mapping Works

Lumen Loop Labs has launched Stellar Constellations, an ambitious visualization project that turns the entire Stellar ecosystem into an interactive cosmic map. Instead of scattered lists or spreadsheets, projects on Stellar are now visualized as stars in a living graph.

📚What Are Stellar Constellations?

The project creates a dynamic, graph-based visualization of the Stellar network. Each project appears as a star, while articles, videos, events, DAO proposals, and Stellar Community Fund (SCF) grants orbit around it like planets and moons. Tags, categories, and regions help connect related elements across the ecosystem.

⬇️ Users can:

🟠 Explore a project’s “neighborhood” to see what’s connected to it
🟠Watch how the Stellar ecosystem has grown over the past decade
🟠Identify areas that have received funding but still lack visibility or content

⚡️Why This Matters For Stellar?

This kind of tool can significantly improve:

⚫️Discoverability → New users and developers can easily find relevant projects
⚫️Transparency → It becomes clearer which projects received SCF funding and what they’ve delivered
⚫️Narrative building → Visual storytelling makes the ecosystem feel more alive and interconnected

❗️Stellar Constellations isn’t a protocol upgrade or a new DeFi primitive — it’s infrastructure for ecosystem intelligence. It could help turn Stellar’s fragmented activity into a more coherent, explorable story.

The constellation is still forming, but the direction looks promising. 🚀

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🇺🇸 Gillibrand and Boozman roll out new bipartisan paid leave bill

U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) introduced the More Paid Leave for More Americans Act, legislation to expand access to paid leave through an innovative state-driven, public-private partnership model while creating a national framework that empowers employers to administer this benefit efficiently across state lines.

The bill would authorize a three-year pilot program through the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to help states, in partnership with private employers, offer paid family, caregiving or medical leave. It would also establish the Interstate Paid Leave Action Network (I-PLAN) — a working group of participating states to foster collaboration, reduce compliance burdens and create a standardized system for processing interstate claims.

“No American should have to choose between earning a paycheck and caring for a new baby, a sick parent, or their own health,” said Gillibrand. “The More Paid Leave for More Americans Act is a commonsense, bipartisan step toward solving a challenge facing millions of hardworking families.”


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🔥 $1.9 trillion asset manager T. Rowe Price launches first actively managed multi-token crypto ETF

T.Rowe Price has brought what it said is the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF to the market. The T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (TKNZ) began trading on Thursday, giving investors exposure to a portfolio of crypto assets rather than a single token.

The launch marks a milestone for the Baltimore-based asset manager, which oversees $1.9 trillion in assets, as it expands its product lineup into digital assets. TKNZ is designed to hold a diversified basket of cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, ether, BNB, XRP, XLM, solana (SOL) and Hyperliquid (HYPE), among other digital assets.

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🇦🇺 Industry welcomes Australia's new National Office of AI

The Australian Government has announced the creation of a National Office of AI, following the Prime Minister's pledge to place "AI in Australia's interests" at the centre of technology policy. The office will lead national AI standards, governance and industry engagement across portfolios and signalling a more assertive approach to digital oversight.

"The focus must now extend beyond standards-setting to the real-world control of AI agents as they become embedded in business processes," — said Ian Dempsey, Regional Director, Public Sector, UiPath Australia.


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