⚡️🤑 Securitize to Integrate with Stellar Network

Securitize, Inc., the leading platform for tokenized assets, today announced plans to integrate with the Stellar network, expanding the blockchain infrastructure available to institutional asset managers seeking to bring traditional financial products onchain.

👉 The integration will enable Securitize to support the issuance and management of tokenized financial assets on the Stellar network. The announcement was made in conjunction with Meridian 2026, the Stellar Development Foundation’s annual conference in Lisbon, Portugal.

👉 The planned integration reflects Securitize's continued commitment to providing institutional asset managers with flexible blockchain infrastructure while maintaining the regulatory and operational standards required for traditional financial products.

"Securitize has helped establish tokenization as a practical solution for major financial institutions,” — said Denelle Dixon, CEO and Executive Director of the SDF.

“We're excited to work together to expand the infrastructure available to asset managers and support the next generation of tokenized financial products on Stellar." 🚀

Additional details about assets supported through the integration will be announced as they become available.

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🇺🇸 Treasury's Bessent sees crypto as America's next tool for keeping the U.S. dollar on top

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said digital assets could help strengthen the U.S. dollar's global dominance as technology becomes an increasingly important source of American economic influence.🏆

Speaking Tuesday at Ripple's Swell conference with CEO Brad Garlinghouse, Bessent argued that the power behind the world's reserve currencies during history derived from military strength, but it’s increasingly shifting toward technological leadership.

"We will keep our military umbrella, but I think more and more it's becoming a technology umbrella," — Bessent said.

⚔️ He pointed to the growing divide between U.S. and Chinese technology ecosystems, where countries and companies face choices over whose AI systems and semiconductor technology to adopt. Bessent said he sees digital assets as part of that competition, with the financial infrastructure countries may choose influencing the U.S. dollar’s reach.

"I think that digital assets are going to be no different, and we are going to win in the digital asset stack, and that's gonna continue to fortify the [U.S.] dollar," — he said.

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⚡️Anthropic Said to Pick JPMorgan to Lead IPO’s US Retail Offering

Anthropic PBC has tapped JPMorgan Chase & Co. to lead US sales of shares to individual investors in its potentially record-setting initial public offering.

The company behind Claude has weighed a retail offering of about 15% to 20% of the shares available in the IPO overall. JPMorgan Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon is expected to take part in the Wall Street bank’s campaign.

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⚡️🤑 Tokenization Gave Private Assets Rails. Pontoro is Building the Liquidity Layer

Pontoro Inc. today announced the launch of the first Pontoro Automated Liquidity Pool (ALP), a single investment pool that pairs liquid money market assets with private market funds and uses rules-based pricing to manage liquidity between them, on the Stellar network.

❗️The Stellar Development Foundation (SDF), the non-profit foundation that supports the Stellar network, is collaborating with Pontoro on the ALP, along with Archax, and the tokens will be issued on the Stellar network.

➡️ Tokenized finance has been assembled one layer at a time. Blockchains supplied the rails. Tokenization supplied a digital form for assets. Stablecoins, which are digital currencies backed by dollars, and tokenized money market funds supplied on-chain cash. One layer remained open: liquidity for private assets.

➡️ Tokenization gives a private asset a faster, cleaner way to move. Liquidity is a different thing. It is capital standing ready to buy, a price that adjusts as conditions change, and incentives that draw in new capital as liquidity becomes scarce.

The ALP is designed to supply that missing liquidity layer, and to connect the pieces already in place into functioning market infrastructure. 🧩

"Private markets have engineered nearly every layer of their infrastructure except one: liquidity," — said Antonio Vitti, CEO and Co-Founder of Pontoro.

"Tokenization has given private assets better rails. A market also needs capital, a price, and a mechanism for managing that capital as conditions change. That is the missing layer the ALP is designed to provide. 🚀

With a group of institutions contributing across the investment and operating stack, we can now move that idea from architecture to a live pilot."

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🛰 Ukraine's Starlink woes spur Europe to look for non-Musk alternatives

European satellite companies are stepping up efforts to challenge Elon Musk’s dominance in military communications after Starlink restrictions disrupted Ukraine’s drone operations.

Finnish firms ICEYE and Nokia have partnered with Ukraine to develop independent satellite communications, with initial launches expected in 2028. France’s Eutelsat, which already operates in Ukraine, is also positioning itself as an alternative.

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⚡️🇷🇺 Putin: “Elon Musk Is a Genius, a Truly Brilliant Man”

Elon Musk is an industrial genius. He has more than 5,000 spacecraft in orbit. We are in close contact with our American partners, including Mr. Musk.

It is important to maintain discipline and order in orbit. Both we and our American partners value this, and despite political issues, we work closely together in this field.

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⚡️💸 Columbia Opens Claims for $16 Million Data Breach Settlement

Angeion Group, the law firm administering the $16.1 million class action settlement over the June 2025 cyberattack against Columbia, emailed University students on Tuesday with instructions on how to claim their share of the settlement. Claims are due Jan. 21, 2027.

In June 2025, a hacker stole the contact information, Social Security numbers, health data, and financial aid data of around 870,000 individuals, including Columbia applicants, affiliates, and nonaffiliated prospective students. The University created the $16.1 million fund to pay claimants as part of a deal to settle a class action lawsuit filed on behalf of individuals whose data was stolen.

Affected individuals can claim benefits of up to $8,500 in value by submitting a claim form on Angeion’s dedicated case website. 

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🤑 Archax announces €GOVY on the Stellar network, bringing its perpetual tokenised government bill product to the eurozone

Archax, the UK/EU/US regulated digital asset platform, today announced €GOVY, a euro-denominated version of its perpetual tokenised government bill product, on the Stellar network.

€GOVY is designed to give treasurers, asset managers and other eligible institutions 24/7 on-chain exposure to short-dated euro-area government debt through a single token. Because the maturing bills roll automatically, holders do not need to redeem or reinvest at each maturity date. It joins $GOVY, launched in June 2026 on Ethereum, Hedera and the Stellar network.

Graham Rodford, CEO and co-founder of Archax, comments:

“Institutions don’t run on one currency, and their collateral shouldn’t either. With the launch of €GOVY, a treasurer will be able to hold tokenised government exposure in dollars, sterling and euros – earning yield and ready to deploy at any hour of any day.

Launching on the Stellar network, at Meridian, also reflects how important the network has been to GOVY from day one.” 🚀

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⚡️🖥 Google unveils Gemini 4 Carbon with advanced cybersecurity features

Google introduced its latest AI model on Wednesday, called Gemini 4 Carbon, which the company describes as its most powerful model with enhanced cybersecurity capabilities and long-horizon task performance.

The new model achieved the top ranking on the updated v5.0 Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index with a score of 59. Carbon demonstrated improvements in coding and agentic tasks, reaching 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for vulnerability detection, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.

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🤑 Movantis Integrates with the Stellar Network to Expand Its Cross-Border Payments Infrastructure

Movantis, the unified financial infrastructure platform that enables businesses to move value across global markets, announced an integration with the Stellar network. 🤝

➡️ The collaboration adds the Stellar network as an additional digital settlement rail within Movantis's architecture.

➡️ The Stellar network accelerates the digital settlement leg, while Movantis leverages its connections to regulated local infrastructure and partners for liquidity, fiat conversion where needed, and last-mile payout.

➡️ The first planned use case will focus on movement of value from the United States to El Salvador. Through its regulated subsidiaries, Movantis plans to use USDC on the Stellar network as the settlement leg, with local partners supporting conversion and last-mile payout.

➡️ As a dollarized economy, El Salvador is a natural starting point: value settles in USDC and is paid out to recipients in US dollars, with no additional currency exposure along the way.

➡️ The integration is also designed to work in the other direction. Businesses operating on the Stellar network will be able to reach recipients in Latin America through Movantis, settling in stablecoins and paying out locally.

➡️ Remittance companies, fintechs and wallets will be able to access the corridor through the same Movantis integration they already use for other markets.

“Cross-border payments do not need one winning rail. They need infrastructure that can use the right rail for each leg of the transaction,” — said Robert Gatto, CEO of Movantis.

“Stellar gives us another efficient way to settle, and our job is making sure that speed turns into dollars a business or a family can actually use in El Salvador.”

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🕹 Google to preview crypto custody security system as AI threats grow

Google is set to showcase a new security system designed to help banks and other financial institutions safeguard and move cryptocurrencies and tokenized assets at its inaugural digital assets symposium in New York City on Wednesday.

❗️The product, officially named Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), is in private preview and is not yet generally available. Several design partners and major financial institutions are testing the technology. Alphabet, the parent company, has also begun using it to secure its own digital assets on the Ethereum and Solana blockchains.

Google did not identify the institutions testing the service or specify which digital assets Alphabet is securing. The company plans to make Google Multi-Party Compute commercially available in early 2027, but has not disclosed pricing.

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🤑 Ripple and Coinbase Partner to Expand Access to Ripple USD

Ripple and Coinbase, two of the the leading providers of blockchain solutions across traditional and digital finance, announced a partnership to bring Ripple USD (RLUSD) to Coinbase, significantly expanding market access and utility for the enterprise-grade stablecoin in the U.S.

Starting today, retail and institutional clients can trade and manage RLUSD through Coinbase Prime, Coinbase Exchange and the Coinbase Retail app, with 1:1 conversion from U.S. dollars and other supported USD-denominated stablecoins into RLUSD.

Availability for Coinbase Global Exchange customers, including leveraging RLUSD as collateral, will follow. 🚀

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🚫 California city weighs data center ban after staggering electricity demands revealed

San Diego officials are considering a temporary ban on new data centers amid growing concerns that the rapidly expanding industry could strain the city's electricity grid, drive up utility bills and worsen its housing shortage.

The move comes after a local developer floated plans for a massive 400-megawatt data center near Old Town that, if built, could become the largest facility of its kind in California. According to reporting by Voice of San Diego, the proposed facility could consume as much electricity as more than 320,000 homes.

Mayor Todd Gloria said the city needed to balance technological development with protecting residents from the potential consequences of large-scale data centers.

"San Diego is a city of innovation, and I want us to continue leading in the technologies and jobs of the future," — Gloria said. "But we cannot allow a rapidly expanding industry to get ahead of the rules needed to protect our residents."

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🤖 AI startup hacks Anthropic in 12 hours, gains access to employee details and internal messages

A cybersecurity startup called Cathedral gained access to sensitive internal systems at Anthropic in less than 12 hours, exposing employee information, salary details, job offers and internal messages discussing the company's advanced AI models. The incident was discovered during a security test conducted under Anthropic's programme for outside researchers to identify vulnerabilities.

According to a draft report, Cathedral used AI agents to find weaknesses in business software used by Anthropic for administrative and sales tasks. The researchers found ways to access internal data, including meeting transcripts and Slack messages, after running their agents for less than 12 hours.

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🚫 US Bans Chinese Genomics Companies BGI, MGI, Citing Forced Labor

The US placed an effective ban on imports from the Chinese genomics powerhouse BGI Group and two related entities, one of the most striking applications yet of a law seeking to block goods allegedly made by forced labor from entering the country.

The Department of Homeland Security added BGI Group, its publicly traded genomics-testing unit BGI Genomics Co., and the spin-off MGI Tech Co. to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Entity List, according to a Federal Register notice posted Wednesday.

The designation creates a presumption that the companies’ goods are made with forced labor and can’t enter the US unless importers prove otherwise.

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🇦🇪🇨🇦 UAE, Canada Space Firms in Alliance as Nations Seek Starlink Alternatives

Canada’s Terrestar Solutions Inc. agreed to work together with the UAE’s Space42 Plc and US-based Viasat Inc. on a global, open standard to share satellite infrastructure and improve connectivity for mobile devices.

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