MUFG Tests Real-Time JGB Repo Settlement Without Replacing Legal Ownership Rails
MUFG will test delivery-versus-payment and automated repo workflows for Japanese government bonds on Canton while preserving the existing book-entry register.
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Figure's Blockchain Lending Marketplace Reaches $4.3 Billion as Revenue Doubles
Figure reported $226 million in quarterly revenue and $4.3 billion of consumer-loan marketplace volume, offering a rare public view of tokenized credit at scale.
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Tame US Inflation Resets the September Rate Debate
July consumer prices rose 0.1%, easing immediate pressure on the Federal Reserve and lifting global risk assets, though energy and fiscal risks still cloud the path ahead.
• Markets
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X Pulse: Federal Power, DeFi Credit Demand and a Weak Housing Tape
Three widely discussed posts captured the day's most useful signals: a federal defense of prediction markets, record Morpho interest and softer U.S. home sales.
• Markets
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Harmony Investigates an Unauthorized 4 Billion ONE Mint and Weighs a Rollback
The network is trying to freeze funds and prepare a patch after an apparent exploit created tokens equal to roughly a quarter of supply, sending ONE to a record low.
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Robinhood Chain Reaches 11.6 Million Daily Transactions as USDe Concentrates Liquidity
Activity rose 30% in a week and total value locked reached $473 million, but a much smaller gain in active accounts shows how incentives and a few assets are shaping the network.
• Blockchain
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CFTC Uses Emergency Power to Keep Kalshi Open in a $36 Billion Jurisdiction Fight
A federal derivatives regulator has ordered Kalshi to keep operating, escalating its confrontation with New York over whether event contracts are swaps or gambling.
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Nasdaq Buys LeveL Markets to Build an Institutional Bridge to Always-On Trading
The exchange operator will acquire a major U.S. alternative trading system and place it inside a new digital-liquidity unit focused on programmable, extended-hours markets.
• Markets
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Itaú Joins Brazil's Industry Pilot for Tokenized Bonds and Investment Funds
Latin America's largest bank will work with OpenAssets inside ANBIMA's pilot to test issuance, trading, settlement and compliance for tokenized capital-market instruments.
• RWA
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eToro Pays Up to $231 Million for TradeZero as Equities Offset a Crypto Slowdown
The retail-investing platform is buying U.S. brokerage infrastructure after quarterly profit rose, even as crypto activity weakened and investors questioned near-term spending.
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SEC Puts a Tailored Crypto Offering Regime on Its Rulemaking Agenda
The regulator will consider opening its first formal rulemaking for a dedicated digital-asset issuance pathway, days after Congress postponed market-structure legislation.
• Blockchain
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X Pulse: Ethereum's Roadmap, AI's Financing Machine and Bitcoin Security
Three consequential posts shifted attention from short-term prices to infrastructure: Ethereum's design priorities, institutional AI funding and BTCPay's breach response.
• Markets
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Broadridge's Tokenized Repo Platform Processes $8 Trillion in July
Distributed Ledger Repo averaged $365 billion a day, up 28% from a year earlier, as tokenized settlement moves deeper into institutional funding markets.
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Riot Shares Jump on Reported $9.1 Billion Anthropic Compute Deal
A reported 20-year agreement would turn 191 megawatts at Riot's Texas campus into AI capacity, but neither company has confirmed the terms.
• Markets
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BTCPay Offers Recovery Bounty After Critical Wallet-Credential Exploit
Supporters will pay 10% of recovered funds, capped at three bitcoin, as the open-source processor shifts resources from features to security.
• Blockchain
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Nvidia and Wall Street Target $500 Billion for AI Compute Financing
Six large financial institutions will build independent funding platforms for AI infrastructure, with Nvidia able to backstop as much as $125 billion.
• Markets
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U.S. Crypto Market Bill Slips to September With a Narrow Path to Passage
The Senate left for a five-week recess without voting on the Clarity Act, compressing an already difficult bipartisan timetable.
• Blockchain
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Shein’s Hong Kong IPO Pitch Falls Below $30 Billion as Growth Economics Reset
Advisers are discussing a valuation in the mid-to-high $20 billions, roughly 70% below Shein’s 2022 private-market peak, the FT reports.
• Markets
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Rouble Stablecoin Network Claims $140 Billion in Sanctions-Era Turnover
Russia’s PSB says the A7A5 settlement network is handling up to 2,000 business payments a day, mostly for Asian trade.
• Blockchain
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Strategy Sells Bitcoin Again as Treasury Policy Turns to Capital Defence
The company sold 1,690 bitcoin to repurchase preferred shares while issuing $653 million of common stock to deepen its cash reserve.
• Blockchain