💊 FDA Authorizes First Wearable Device That Continuously Monitors Both Ketone Levels and Blood Sugar

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the Libre Duo 10 Day Continuous Dual Glucose Ketone Monitoring System for people aged 2 years and older living with diabetes.

❗️The Libre Duo 10 Day is the first wearable device in the U.S. that continuously monitors ketone levels, and the first in the world to continuously monitor both ketones and blood sugar (glucose) together in a single device.

“Today’s authorization is a breakthrough for the safety of children and adults living with diabetes,” — said Michelle Tarver, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and Radiological Health.

“Knowing that ketone levels are rising, and having that information in real time, around the clock, can be the difference between early intervention and a life-threatening emergency."

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an estimated 40.1 million Americans are living with diabetes, a condition that requires careful monitoring of blood sugar levels.

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⚡️🧑‍⚖️ SEC Preps Overhaul of Crypto Custody Rules for Investment Firms

A proposal from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to change its rules governing how investment advisers hold digital assets was sent this week to the White House for review.

The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, a division of the Office of Management and Budget that reviews federal regulations before publication, is reviewing changes to the SEC’s custody rules. The SEC said it received questions from investment advisers about how they can hold crypto assets for clients while complying with its requirements.

"This rulemaking would clarify the framework for the custody of crypto assets for investment adviser and investment companies, as well as make other modernizations needed to remove burdens from certain outdated provisions that are no longer needed to provide investor protection given the evolution in the markets and security trading and holding practices," — the SEC said.

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🤑 The RWA Story Playing Out on Stellar

The real story, however, is hard to ignore. We've been building tokenized funds on Stellar for years, and the network's RWA numbers continue to drive conversations with retail and institutions alike.

Distributed RWA asset value on Stellar is now sitting at $3.5 billion, held by more than 19,000 holders, a sharp climb in a short window. There are 70 distinct RWA assets live on the network. The activity looks less like early adoption and more like a market that has found its footing.

🚀 Why the infrastructure moment matters

The first wave of RWA tokenization was mostly Treasury products. A short-duration, dollar-denominated, asset that was easy to explain made sense for the start of the RWA wave. It proved the concept: traditional financial instruments can live onchain, settle in real time, and be accessed without legacy brokerage infrastructure.

But a single asset class is not a portfolio. A real portfolio, one with genuine diversification across equities, fixed income, alternatives, and cash, is what onchain investors have never had access to until recently.

❗️The 70 assets active on Stellar today reflect that shift. Multiple issuers, multiple asset classes, real usage. The T-bill era proved tokenization could work. What's building now is proving it can be broad.

💸 T-bills were just the beginning

That's what makes what's happening on Stellar right now worth paying attention to. Dozens of distinct RWA assets live on one network, spanning multiple asset classes, from multiple issuers, with transfer volume to match. This isn't a showcase of what tokenization could eventually look like.

It's what it looks like today, on a network that was built to handle exactly this kind of activity. The T-bill era proved tokenization could work. Stellar is proving it can be the foundation for something much bigger. 💫

Today, WisdomTree has 15 SEC-registered tokenized funds live on Stellar, spanning money market, equity, fixed income, and alternatives, alongside a Gold token, BTC, and ETH. That's the diversified portfolio the earlier T-bill wave couldn't offer, live and tradable today.

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⚡️🕵🏼‍♂️ Fed, NASA and DOJ among victims of Chinese state-sponsored hacker group

The Justice Department and FBI announced court-authorized domain seizures today to deny malicious cyber actors access to two complementary hacking platforms known as “QScan” and “QTRouter,” used to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks.

📝 As described in court documents unsealed in the Southern District of California, a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored group known as “QTFY,” employed by China-based Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company), created and operated QScan and QTRouter.

❗️Among the victims of QTFY computer intrusion activity are the NASA, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Senate.

The department said that the seized internet domains were hard-coded into both the QScan and QTRouter malware. The seizures made the QScan and QTRouter inoperable, according to the DOJ.

“State-sponsored malicious hackers preying on America’s critical infrastructure will be stopped and prosecuted. We are here to ensure security for the American people and will use every tool we have to keep that promise,” — Attorney General Todd Blanche said.

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⚡️🍎 Apple to Hold Annual iPhone Event on September 9

The September 2026 iPhone event will see Apple announce the iPhone 18 Pro, the ‌iPhone 18 Pro‌ Max, and the foldable iPhone, which could be called the iPhone Ultra. All three new iPhones will use Apple's latest A20 Pro chip built on a 2nm process for speed and efficiency improvements.

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🛡 Ethereum developers propose first step to protect ETH staking from quantum attacks

Ethereum researchers proposed rebuilding the network’s validator deposit contract to support new cryptographic systems and eventually stop accepting deposits secured by existing BLS signatures. The change is intended to protect the blockchain from quantum attacks that could forge validator signatures, potentially threatening about 42.4 million staked ETH worth roughly $104 billion.

The proposal remains an early draft and requires additional protocol changes, with the Ethereum Foundation targeting around 2029 for core quantum-resistant upgrades. 🚀

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⚡️🇺🇸 Trump Signs Order to Ban Some Foreign Energy Equipment From Grid

President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an emergency order that aims to keep some foreign-made transformers and other critical energy equipment out of the nation’s electric grids on national security grounds.

The directive comes amid mounting bipartisan concern that Chinese-manufactured components in the US power system could contain vulnerabilities foreign adversaries can exploit. It also follows a series of cyberattacks on US water facilities that have underscored the extent to which the country’s critical infrastructure can be a target.

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🤘 Meta agrees to pay $18 billion to settle US lawsuits over children's social media addiction

Meta Platforms will pay up to $18 billion over the next decade and strictly limit how teenagers use Facebook and ​Instagram, under an agreement with nearly all U.S. states to resolve claims it designed those social media platforms to addict children. The settlements end a federal trial over allegations Meta's products harmed children and the ‌company misled the public about their safety.

“The focus of this case was to protect our kids," — Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser said. "The relief ​we are getting in this settlement is very meaningful and well beyond what any court has ordered or is likely to order."

It could provide a template for resolving thousands of other lawsuits against social media companies.

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⚡️🇬🇧Government Tells BOE to Boost Innovation in Digital Currencies

The UK government will give the Bank of England a new responsibility to bolster innovation in digital currencies and payments, amid criticism that the central bank has been too conservative in its approach to the emerging technologies.

The Treasury said that the goal would be secondary to the BoE’s primary mission of maintaining financial stability. Prime Minister Andy Burnham has put a priority on ensuring that London remains competitive in a rapidly evolving digital asset market.

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🤖 “The turbulent AI era is here. The choices we make now are critical.” Bill Gates sends a 6000-word warning on the dangers of AI

“AI will either be the greatest equalizer ever invented, or the worst source of injustice,” — he said.

Bill Gates warned that AI could prove “the worst source of injustice,” displacing workers across white- and blue-collar industries. But he added that technology could accelerate advances in clean energy, agriculture, health (such as breakthroughs in preventing and treating diseases) and combat other major global challenges.

💡There were a few genuinely new ideas:

🤖 Gates proposes a “robot tax”:

Right now, if you’re an employer and you hire someone, you pay payroll taxes on their earnings. But if you buy a robot, you can usually write it off right away as a business expense. The tax system nudges you toward replacing people with machines.

A tax would slow the rush away from human labor a little and raise money for retraining and a stronger safety net.

👩‍💻 He also proposes setting aside certain jobs as “Human Reserved,” essentially barring AI from being used in certain tasks:

We might set something aside as Human Reserved for economic reasons. For example, we may do it because allowing machines to take over a certain role will displace a large number of people who can’t easily change jobs. You can’t tell a 55-year-old who has worked in construction their whole career that they need to go work at an elder care facility and expect them to find it fulfilling.

Sometimes the decision to make something Human Reserved will be driven by other factors. In health, for example, imagine a robot giving you the awful news that you have an incurable disease. There’s no technical reason why it couldn’t. Yet it shouldn’t.

The Human Reserved domain will evolve over time — for example, we should consider setting aside some jobs now and phasing in AI slowly over years or decades with a commitment to preserve some jobs.

🤖 New national bodies and international institutions will ultimately be required to help coordinate and safeguard against evolving AI risks globally, according to Gates.

“The challenge is monumental. Even under the best circumstances, the transition to this new AI era will be one of the most turbulent times in human history,” — Gates said.

🇨🇳 Bill Gates is looking to meet with Xi Jinping later this year, eager to propose global efforts to mitigate the growing ‌risks posed by AI. He believes China might agree to restricting potentially dangerous AI model releases if the U.S. took initiative on that first.

"The whole world would go along with that," — said Gates, who met with Xi three years ago.

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⚡️🇧🇷 Brazil Seeks $97 Million From App Discord Over User Protections

Brazil’s government is seeking 500 million reais ($97.1 million) in damages from chat app Discord Inc. in a local lawsuit, while also demanding that the platform strengthen protections for children and women and comply with Brazilian law.

The Justice Ministry said that Discord continues to have shortcomings in its age-verification mechanisms and safeguards that pose serious risks to users, including those that culminated in the death of a teenager last July. Earlier this month, Brazilian regulators ordered the chat app to halt livestreaming in the country following the user’s death.

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🧠 With Neuralink, Audrey is creating art with her mind:

So this is what I've been working on, and this takes hours and hours. When I'm moving that cursor, that's me. That's part of my body. It's just hours of learning how to move the cursor. I just write my name over and over and over again just to see how many times I can get it right. Because I haven't been able to do it for 20 years.

Art helps me truly express what I'm feeling on the inside, and I can use colors that I like and be creative, but it makes me so happy. I'm a quadriplegic artist, and I create art with my mind.

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🤑 SEC Filing Says Ripple Could Unlock More XRP if CLARITY Act Passes

The sentence appears in the prospectus section on XRP supply concentration and affiliated-party risk.

📝 It states that the company has indicated that, if regulatory clarity is established via passage of the CLARITY Act, it may release additional XRP from escrow to support on-ledger liquidity in stablecoin and FX pairs.

❗️The document is a disclosure prepared by Cryptex Finance, LLC, sponsor of the proposed fund. The SEC has not approved the registration statement; the filing is Pre-Effective Amendment No. 3, and the prospectus is marked subject to completion.

XRP Ledger escrows are time-locked at the protocol level. The prospectus conditions the escrow statement on regulatory clarity being established. XRP already holds a digital commodity classification administratively, which raises the question of what additional clarity passage would supply — a question the filing does not address. 🤔

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🤖 Amazon to Buy 2 Million Nvidia Chips for Data Center Build-Out

Amazon would deploy some 2 million of Nvidia’s high-end chips, which are designed to train and run AI models, in 2027 and 2028. That’s in addition to the 1 million Nvidia chips Amazon in March said that it would be installing in Amazon Web Services data centers, beginning this year.

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🇰🇷 South Korea’s top financial conglomerate team up with Visa to test stablecoin issuance and B2B settlements

Shinhan Financial Group (55550), one of South Korea’s five largest financial conglomerates, plans to build stablecoin infrastructure and develop AI-powered payment models alongside Visa. Shinhan intends to use Visa’s stablecoin platform to verify core functions, including issuance, remittance and redemption, while jointly designing a Korea-specific business model.

❗️The deal marks the first time a South Korean top-tier financial group formally adopts Visa's enterprise stablecoin infrastructure, to test a full domestic settlement stack.

🔜 Visa and Shinhan also plan to run pilot projects covering stablecoin integration into bank card payment settlement and the expansion of business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-customer (B2C) payments.

"We will combine Shinhan's financial capabilities with Visa's global infrastructure to jointly design new future finance models," — said Jin Ok-dong, chairman of Shinhan Financial Group.

The deal comes as South Korea advances its Digital Asset Basic Act, a broad framework covering stablecoins, VASP licensing and crypto ETFs. 🚀

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