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🤑 Why does Ripple’s relationship with the BIS matter?

📝 This Fordham document says it plainly:

Only the BIS has the intellectual resources to study and solve international banking problems in a careful way.

Only the BIS output is being adopted in the world’s banking centers.

The BIS has even been proposed as a world senior financial regulator.

Ripple previously held a seat on the BIS payments taskforce that works on cross-border systems. 💸


❗️That placed Ripple inside the group whose standards central banks already follow.

🔜 There is a second, current connection.

Mojaloop Foundation, whose core software runs on Ripple’s Interledger Protocol, sits on the latest BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures list.

🎯 These connections indicate that one of the world’s most respected banking institutions is already familiar with Ripple’s technology.

As the BIS shapes the future of banking with new systems, they are more likely to draw on technology it already knows. 🚀

#Stellar

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⚡️🇲🇽🇺🇸 Mexico ‘Optimistic’ on US Trade Deal After Canada Talks Fail

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum expressed optimism she can reach a trade deal with Donald Trump as her chief negotiator leads talks in Washington, just after negotiations between the US and Canada collapsed.

“As President Trump said, we hope to reach an agreement with the US,” — she said. “I’m optimistic an agreement can be reached.”


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⚡️🖥 SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028

"From gigawatt AI factories to orbit. One NVIDIA architecture, everywhere," — Nvidia said. 🚀


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Aug 24: 🇮🇳 India to test blockchain settlement with tokenized REC bonds

India is preparing to test blockchain-based bond settlement with the launch of tokenized corporate bonds next month, Reuters reported Monday, citing three people familiar with the plans.

The pilot will be led by state-owned power financier REC and is expected to involve less than 5 billion rupees ($57 million) in bonds.

The offering could be announced at an annual fintech event in Mumbai and will be restricted to a select group of investors at launch. The move would mark an early test of distributed ledger technology for bond issuance and settlement in India, bringing it closer to markets such as Europe and Hong Kong that have already explored tokenized securities.

According to the report, investors will use India’s central bank digital currency to purchase the bonds, with the central bank and market regulator working together on the framework. Tokenization puts bond ownership, issuance, trading and settlement onto a blockchain or distributed ledger, potentially allowing transactions to settle almost immediately.

The pilot will require participants to hold both a wholesale CBDC wallet and a digital securities wallet. Indian depositories are developing a new securities wallet, called DEMAT 2.0, which will track bond holdings on a distributed ledger. Future trades will only be possible between participants holding compatible CBDC and securities wallets.
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🇪🇺 ECB Official Says Digital Euro Will Limit Transaction Data Access

European Central Bank Executive Board member Piero Cipollone said the digital euro’s design will limit the transaction information the central bank can access. The ECB system itself would not be able to identify the specific users sending or receiving payments, while only commercial banks handling the transactions could identify users for anti-money laundering purposes.

❗️If offline payments are used, only the payer and the recipient would be able to see the transaction details, and neither banks nor the central bank would have access.

The ECB has positioned the digital euro as a tool to reduce Europe’s dependence on non-European payment service providers. Digital euro legislation is now in negotiations in the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, and if approved, the digital euro could be issued as early as 2029.

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🔥 USDC is expanding its role across tokenized capital markets

Available through Dinari's platform, investors can access dShares for 724 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs, including the entire S&P 500. With this integration, Dinari is now live in the United States and across more than 85 jurisdictions worldwide, providing eligible investors with a new way to access U.S. equities using digital dollars.

Tokenized securities represent an important evolution in how investors can access and interact with capital markets.

As more assets move onchain, we’re excited to see USDC helping connect traditional markets with open, internet-native financial infrastructure,” — Claire Ching, Vice President, Global Capital Markets, Circle


USDC can now support the purchase of tokenized U.S. equities, the settlement of transactions, and the distribution of cash dividends. Together, these capabilities create a more seamless connection between digital dollars and regulated capital markets. 🚀

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⚡️🇺🇸 DOE and SBA Launch Initiative to Unleash Private Capital for American Innovation & Small Businesses

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) signed a Memorandum of Agreement establishing the Small Business Investment Company-Energy (SBIC-E) Initiative,🔣a new strategic partnership advancing President Trump’s commitment to supporting America’s small businesses, strengthening domestic manufacturing and supply chains, and ensuring the U.S leads in the technologies critical to our national and economic security.🏆

Through DOE’s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC), the Department will identify strategic technology priorities, provide technical and commercialization expertise, and help engage the investment community.

"President Trump is establishing American energy dominance, ending the Green New Scam, and putting our nations’ producers and innovators back in control at the dawn of a new era of energy reliability and abundance," — said SBA Administrator Kelly Loeffler.


❗️Initial investment priorities for the SBIC-E Initiative include technologies supporting:

🟠American energy production and energy security
🟠Critical minerals, advanced manufacturing, and advanced materials
🟠Artificial intelligence, quantum information science, semiconductors, and future computing
🟠Advanced communications, biotechnology, and other critical and emerging technologies

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⚡️✈️ France’s Telegram case turned two years old on Monday. Durov argues the case has weakened as evidence about Telegram’s moderation record has accumulated.

That investigation is still ongoing, although it makes less sense with each passing year.

Why?

Because we now have extensive evidence that Telegram was neither worse than other popular platforms at moderation, nor the worst at cooperating with authorities.

In the end, freedom and truth will prevail


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🇸🇬 Singapore offers parents $55,000 in effort to boost birth rates

Singapore has announced a new family support package that will provide almost S$70,000 (US$55,153) in direct assistance for every Singaporean child up to the age of 17. The move comes after the country’s total fertility rate fell to a record low of 0.87, despite years of government incentives to encourage parenthood.

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🇯🇵 Infleqtion helped launch Japan’s first operational full-stack neutral-atom quantum computer

Working with Professor Kenji Ohmori’s team at the Institute for Molecular Science, Infleqtion contributed the quantum processing unit for the “Shunkai” system. The system is expected to initially operate with approximately 50 qubits and scale to around 500 as development progresses.

As the only foreign quantum partner selected for Japan’s Quantum Moonshot program, Infleqtion is helping advance production-ready, scalable neutral-atom quantum systems internationally. The project’s next phase will focus on system integration, stability and scalability toward fault-tolerant quantum computing, with a goal of up to 10,000 physical qubits and quantum error detection and correction capabilities.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇮🇳 Putin Intends to Meet With Modi at Forum in Kyrgyzstan Next Week

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he aims to meet with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a regional forum next week, while calling for stepped-up trade cooperation between the two nations. Putin highlighted a recovery in trade turnover between Russia and India following a dip the prior year.

#BRICS

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🇵🇰 Pakistan kicks off crypto licensing regime with Sept. 5 registration deadline

The Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) notified its licensing regulations and opened its application portal, completing the framework established under the Virtual Assets Act, 2026. The regime covers 10 categories, including exchanges, custody, broker-dealer services, advisory, lending and borrowing, derivatives, asset management, transfers and settlement, token issuance and mining-related services.

The framework requires licensed providers to meet requirements covering governance, technology, cybersecurity, customer protection and anti-money laundering and counter-terror financing controls. Existing virtual-asset businesses must submit NOC applications by September 5, 2026, or cease operations.

For Pakistan, the licensing regime represents a significant shift from regulatory uncertainty toward formal supervision. But its success will depend on whether the country can build credible enforcement alongside the rules. 🤔

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🇸🇦🤖 Mistral and HUMAIN Announce Strategic Collaboration to Advance Sovereign AI in Saudi Arabia and Regionally

Mistral and HUMAIN announced a strategic collaboration spanning AI infrastructure, advanced model development, and the deployment of AI solutions in Saudi Arabia and across the region. Together, the companies will pursue the development and localization of advanced AI models, with initial areas of focus including cybersecurity and voice.

The companies also plan to develop frontier models that perform strongly in Arabic language to help support the broader region. Mistral will explore using HUMAIN’s data center infrastructure to support growing local compute needs. HUMAIN and Mistral also plan to develop a joint go-to-market strategy in Saudi Arabia focused on bringing advanced AI solutions to regulated industries.

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🤖 ORNL’s new supercomputer, Lux, is coming online this October!

The new system, powered by AMD and built by HPE, combines AI and high-performance computing to support the U.S. Department of Energy ’s Genesis Mission and help accelerate AI-enabled science. 🚀

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🚖 Uber hit with near-$1 billion fine after algorithms suspended drivers without human review

The Dutch Data Protection Authority has fined Uber €825 million ($966 ‌million) for deactivating driver accounts through automated systems without adequately informing them. The penalty would be the second-largest issued yet under Europe's General Data Protection Regulation. Uber said it would also appeal.

"Uber has committed ​serious infringements," in deactivating driver accounts without warning or human involvement, — the organisation's deputy chair Monique Verdier said.

"From one moment ​to the next they no longer had any income ... A computer should not make decisions on its own that have (such) major consequences."


Article 22 of the GDPR protects people from decisions based entirely on automated processing when the outcome has a significant legal or personal effect.

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💊 Too much or too little sleep may make your body age faster

Scientists are increasingly using aging clocks to estimate whether a person is aging biologically faster or slower than their chronological age. These tools rely on machine learning and biological information (e.g., proteins from a minimally invasive blood test) to calculate patterns associated with aging. To create the aging clocks, Wen used information from about half a million participants in the UK Biobank.

📝 The team compared sleep duration with biological age estimates from 23 aging clocks covering 17 organ systems. A clear U-shaped pattern appeared across the body. People reporting short sleep (fewer than 6 hours) and long sleep (greater than 8 hours) tended to show faster biological aging. The lowest levels of aging were seen among people who reported sleeping between 6.4 and 7.8 hours each day.

"The broad brain-body pattern is important because it tells us that sleep duration is a deeply embedded part of our entire physiology, with far-reaching implications across the body," — says study leader Junhao Wen. "This has a strong implication for future sleep management and future therapeutics."


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🤖 Meta Plans to Launch ‘Hatch’ AI Agent Platform in Coming Weeks

Meta Platforms plans to release its consumer AI agent platform called Hatch within the next several weeks, citing internal documents. The company is also working toward an October release for its newest AI model, named Watermelon.

Hatch represents the consumer version of Meta’s OpenClaw AI agent. The platform is part of Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg’s strategy to generate revenue from the company’s AI investments and reduce reliance on advertising income.

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📱 Nikita Bier Says X Trade Buttons Are Coming Soon

Nikita Bier said X trade buttons are coming soon, allowing users to trade tokens directly from their timelines.

"I literally built Cashtags, allowing people to add Solana and Ethereum charts directly into posts — with trade buttons coming soon.

You can even paste contract addresses for newly minted tokens. There wasn’t a single feature on X for crypto traders until I joined," — Bier said.


He also pointed to U.S. Treasury bond buybacks, not X, as a driver of the rally.

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