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πŸ€‘ Two months in, Zebec Enterprise on Stellar is moving from launch to adoption

9 enterprise accounts are now running USDC payroll on Stellar, reaching an annualized payroll run-rate of ~$4M. And the infrastructure around that payroll continues to expand.

❗️Since its launch, additional ways for businesses and workers to access and use their funds have been introduced:

β†’ MoneyGram offramp for local cash access
β†’ Privy wallet infrastructure
β†’ Payroll-connected Tangem hardware wallets
β†’ Multi-currency fiat support

πŸ’ΈNext up: Zebec Cards support for onramping, treasury management and expanding MoneyGram offramp.πŸ”£Connecting stablecoins to the financial tools businesses and workers use every day.

More than moving stablecoins. It's about making onchain payroll accessible regardless of someone's crypto experience. πŸš€

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⚑️πŸŽ₯ TikTok Is Exploring Feature to Send Money Over Direct Messages

TikTok is exploring a feature that would allow users to send money to each other in direct messages, in a move that would extend the social media app’s push into financial services. The in-development feature, if launched, would use the TikTok Pay offering already available in Southeast Asia to handle the transactions.

Evidence of the addition was found inside of code hidden in the current version of TikTok’s US iPhone app.

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βš‘οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ CFTC Chairman Selig Signals Shift to Support Crypto and AI Innovation

"For years, anti-crypto armies, doomers, and decelerationists stifled innovation, regulating by enforcement and driving transformational technologies like blockchain, AI, and prediction markets overseas.

On August 20,
the CFTC is turning the page and charting a course for the new frontier of finance as innovators, builders, thinkers, and entrepreneurs descend upon Washington for the inaugural meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee," β€” Selig wrote on X.


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〰️ Comcast Launches Xfinity Shield, Redefining Intelligent Home Protection

Comcast has rolled out a new motion-sensing technology to its latest home routers, allowing homeowners to receive notifications about activity detected inside their house while they are away. The free feature, called Wi-Fi Motion, turns newer Xfinity gateways into motion sensors by detecting interruptions to the Wi-Fi signal of the wireless network and sends a notification through the Xfinity app.

"We believe the network should do more than connect devices. It should help protect the people, their personal information, and everything within their homes that depend on our most reliable WiFi every day," β€” Comcast said.


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βš‘οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ SEC Proposes New Regulation Crypto Assets

The SEC proposed a new regulatory framework for crypto assets, the first β€Œmajor step under U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to give the industry the tailored rules it has long pushed for.

❗️The SEC's proposal would exempt certain crypto companies and offerings from U.S. securities rules, which should make it easier for crypto companies to issue tokens and raise money.

"As the Crypto Capital of the World, the U.S. must and will lead. Regulation Crypto Assets will ensure that we do," β€” Paul Atkins said. πŸ†


🟠If finalized as drafted, ​the SEC's proposal would allow a one-time exemption for crypto companies to issue up to $5 million in crypto tokens during a four-year period. It would also allow ​offerings of up to $75 million during each 12-month period, though issuers would still have to provide financial statements and meet regular reporting requirements.

🟠Under both exemptions, β€Œtoken issuers ⁠would still need to disclose certain information to investors.

🟠The SEC's proposal also includes a safe harbor that would exclude a crypto asset from being deemed an investment contract, if certain conditions are met.

The SEC's ​plan is subject to public comment for 60 days after it is published in the U.S. Federal Register.

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πŸ“² Telegram Applies for .gram Domain to Offer Personal Web Addresses to 1 Billion Users

"If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains β€” yourname.gram.

Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram β€” with one prompt," β€” Pavel Durov said.


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βš‘οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ U.S. accounting-standards group proposes way to see stablecoins as 'cash equivalent'

The U.S. standard-setting organization accounting made an important proposal for stablecoin, answering uncertainties about whether stablecoins could be considered the same as cash under common accounting practices.

❗️Stablecoins that have liquid reserves (whose contents are disclosed each year) at least equal to the circulating tokens, which can be cashed in for dollars at will, can be considered "cash equivalents."

"The amendments in this proposed update would clarify, through illustrative examples, how the current definition of cash equivalents applies to certain digital assets," β€” the board said in its proposal.


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βš‘οΈπŸ€‘ Stellar just raised the performance ceiling for global payments

The latest benchmark puts StellarOrg 's theoretical max at 3,351 TPS. Following the review, Chainspect now reflects the new maximum, 65% above the previous one. πŸš€

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πŸ’Ž Quantum sensors made from diamond defects to let US scientists probe the universe

Researchers in the US have launched a USD 1 million project to develop quantum sensors by using the tiny defects in diamonds, to measure electromagnetic fields with extraordinary sensitivity. The effort is part of a new three-year project carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Illinois.

The researchers will create compact sensors that can precisely map electromagnetic fields. The devices could additionally be integrated into particle accelerators and other experiments. Understanding how electromagnetic forces affect particles is crucial for particle physics.

β€œThis is another front for the likely quantum revolution. Five or 10 years ago, this was kind of science fiction,” β€” Nazar Delegan, PhD, a researcher at ANL and project co-lead, highlighted.


If successful, the project could enable more precise measurements and new ways to study the universe using quantum defects in diamonds, with support from the DOE’s Quantum Information Science program. πŸš€

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πŸ”₯ Cash App's crypto support expands beyond bitcoin and USDC via MoonPay

Cash App’s cryptocurrency service is extending beyond BTC and stablecoin USDC for the first time by being added to crypto payments platform MoonPay.

❗️This means eligible U.S. Cash App users will be able to use their balances to purchase a host of other digital assets offered by MoonPay, including ether ETH , SOL, XRP and USDT.

Users will also be able to fund wallets on MoonPay through their Cash App balances, including Ledger, BitPay, Trust Wallet, MetaMask and Uniswap, among others.

Cash App, the mobile payment service developed by Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block (XYZ), is one of the premier mainstream gateways into cryptocurrency, given its customer base of over 50 million users. πŸš€

β€œWhile bitcoin remains at the core of our digital asset strategy, we want to give customers choice and flexibility however they choose to pay,” β€” Morgan Kuntze, Block’s global partnerships lead, said.


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βš‘οΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦Trump Pauses Canada Tariffs for Three Days Subject to a Deal

I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!


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🧠 Mysterious waves sweeping across your brain may help turn sensory chaos into what you see

Your brain and the ocean share an unexpected feature: waves. Electrical activity can move across the brain's surface in patterns known as traveling brain waves or neural traveling waves. Salk Institute researchers suggest these waves act as a computational engine in the visual cortex, helping the brain process visual information.

The researchers concentrated on the visual cortex and proposed 4 major functions for neural traveling waves. The waves may adjust perception from moment to moment, transform recent sensory information into an internal representation, produce short-term predictions about the surrounding world, and preserve and replay patterns associated with memories of events that unfold over time.

The connections responsible for generating the waves do more than transmit signals. They can alter their physiology ("synaptic weights") in ways that reflect information learned from the outside world.

The review was published
in Neuron on July 21, 2026.

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πŸ€‘ Introducing the Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator cohort

The Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator is built for startups ready to scale rapidly, focusing on technical execution, GTM support, and investor readiness. Designed for teams building solutions within DeFi, payments, and RWA.

❗️ The outlined program combines hands-on support for builders who are currently building on Stellar or plan to build on Stellar within or for EMEA. Eligible startups will receive personalized guidance every step of the way from a truly global team.

⬇️10 teams building payments, remittance, and financial infrastructure for emerging markets, all building on Stellar. Here's who's in:

1. Remi connects traditional financial infrastructure with digital assets, enabling faster, lower-cost financial services and greater economic inclusion in emerging markets.πŸ”£Live across the UAE, Egypt, Morocco, and Canada.

2. Yolat is the stablecoin neobank for emerging markets, letting people and businesses hold dollars, spend on cards, and send money across borders in minutes.πŸ”£Corridors include Nigeria, Canada, the UK, the EU, South Africa, and Kenya.

3. JoonaPay is payment infrastructure for Francophone Africa, helping businesses collect, reconcile, and move money across mobile money, bank, and stablecoin rails.

4. DeFa provides settlement liquidity to licensed cross-border payment operators, prefunding remittance volumes against verified receivables that settle in 1-7 days.

5. Sorted is a non-custodial digital wallet built to make digital dollars simple and accessible for people in Africa and South Asia.πŸ”£500,000+ downloads across 160 countries.

6. Crebit Pay is building the rate locking layer for stablecoin foreign exchange, making it usable for millions of businesses.πŸ”£Built by former Stanford and MIT students, moving money through local rails like PIX in Brazil and SPEI in Mexico.

7. Kutana is making B2B trade safe, easy, and cost-effective for SMEs across Africa, combining fast payments, digital escrow, and AI-driven credit scoring in one platform.

8. Janus is financial infrastructure for global trade, built for the freight forwarders who move goods, money, and information across borders.

9. Saleem is a stablecoin wallet on any SIM. No smartphone, no bank. Starting in Syria and the Levant, addressing 500M+ SIMs and 280M unbanked adults across MENA and South Asia.

10. Sly is unlocking the agentic economy for fintechs through identity, governance, and payments, giving AI agents a way to discover, transact, and settle across every protocol and border.

10 teams. One accelerator. Building on Stellar. πŸš€

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πŸ§ͺHow Claude is accelerating protein design and analytical chemistry

Anthropic has published new experiments showing Claude can handle parts of protein design and analytical chemistry that normally require specialized scientists and significant amounts of time.

πŸ”œ In the first experiment, Claude Mythos Preview and Opus 4.8 were asked to design new protein binders from scratch. Claude successfully produced binders for 14 of 15 tested targets. Between 22% and 35% of its individual designs bound successfully, depending on the setup, compared to the 10-15% that is typical in protein design campaigns today.

πŸ”œ The second experiment tested Claude Opus 5 on analytical chemistry. Researchers gave Claude raw NMR and LC-MS files β€” the data chemists use to determine what a compound is and how pure it is. Its purity measurement came out at 96.4%, compared with 96.33% from the contract laboratory, and its hydrogen counts closely matched the lab's results.

❗️Anthropic isn't claiming Claude can develop a drug end-to-end:

Importantly, protein binders are not drugs. Designing a high-affinity binder is just the first step in the process of developing a drug-like molecule.


Still, this feels like another important shift in AI-assisted science. πŸ‘

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πŸ‡¨πŸ‡³πŸš€China successfully launched the reusable Zhuque-3 on August 19, achieving its first successful land recovery of the rocket’s first stage. The milestone marks a major step forward for China’s reusable-rocket technology.

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πŸ€‘ Ripple Prime Closes $275 Million Senior Notes Offering

Ripple announced the successful closing of an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes issued by Ripple Prime, its non-bank prime brokerage, to support its ongoing and expanding U.S. business.

The notes offering attracted a diverse base of institutional investors in key financial markets. Proceeds from the offering will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes within a regulated entity, amid strong client demand for modern, multi-asset clearing, prime brokerage, and financing services.

β€œ With the completion of this offering, we have an additional source of capital to invest in our team and technology as we execute on our ambitious growth roadmap and bolster our position as one of the largest non-bank prime brokers globally,” β€” Noel Kimmel, President of Ripple Prime, said. πŸš€


The unsecured notes offering received an investment grade rating (BBB) from global credit rating agency KBRA. KBRA previously assigned an investment grade issuer rating (BBB) to Ripple Prime.


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πŸ€– Anthropic-Tied Data Center Inks $1.3 Billion Private Credit Loan

Eagle Point Credit Management LLC is providing a roughly $1.3 billion private credit loan for a sprawling AI data center in Texas tied to Anthropic PBC.

The debt is part of a larger $16 billion project-finance package for developer Nexus Data Centers, which will use the funds to complete construction of a 2,900-acre facility in Hubbard, a city in the Lone Star State. The campus will have its own gas-fired power plant, and Anthropic will be the primary tenant.

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🏦 HSBC, Standard Chartered execute first live banking transaction on Swift’s 24/7 ledger

HSBC and Standard Chartered completed the first live interbank transaction on Swift’s new blockchain-based ledger, using tokenized deposits for real-time cross-border settlement.

The pilot, involving 17 banks across six continents, aims to cut costs and speed up payments by using a shared ledger that nets and settles obligations while preserving existing regulatory oversight. Bank executives say tokenized deposits and stablecoins will coexist, with Swift’s vast network positioning it to drive adoption of blockchain-based settlement.

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πŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺ Venezuela Is Ready to Sign Oil Deals, Minister Tells Houston Investors

Venezuela is keen to sign production-sharing contracts and ramp up output from the world’s biggest crude reserves, Oil Minister Paula Henao told investors in Houston. There are 916 areas in Venezuela available for exploration and production. The country is known for its heavy oil but there are also opportunities in light and medium crudes as well as natural gas.

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πŸ€– LG Display Unveils FLiPP, Next-Generation OLED Technology

LG Display has successfully developed a dream OLED patterning method that is free from the conventional fine metal mask (FMM) process, using its own proprietary technology. Its groundbreaking FMM-less method delivers much greater flexibility in mass production as well as brighter panels with longer lifespan and lower power consumption.

One of FLiPP's greatest advantages is that it is free from panel size and resolution constraints. In theory, it can be used to produce displays ranging from 1 inch to 100 inches and can be applied not only to conventional panels but also to VR and AR displays, making it a virtually universal, "ultimate technology."

Starting with IT applications such as tablets and monitors, it will expand its range of FLiPP-manufactured panels to cover a range of products from 1-inch wearable devices to ultra-large TVs β€” tailoring products to customer needs.

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