🤑 Bermuda to launch first onchain merchant for event tickets on Stellar in Q2 2027

Bermuda plans to launch its first onchain merchant, Premier Tickets (PTIX), on the Stellar blockchain in the second quarter of 2027. This move is part of Bermuda's broader goal to become the world's first fully onchain national economy, aiming to reduce high card processing fees for local merchants.

The initiative uses WalletConnect Pay on Stellar, which was selected as Bermuda's payment settlement rail earlier in 2026. The success of PTIX could pave the way for more merchants and government services to adopt onchain payments, signaling a significant shift in how the island's economy operates digitally.

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🤑 Arcane and Predicate Introduce Enterprise Privacy Stack on the Stellar Network

Arcane Finance and Predicate announced the Enterprise Privacy Stack on the Stellar network, an infrastructure solution that combines transaction screening, confidential payments, and controlled access to data for investigations. 🤝

❗️The solution enables banks, fintech companies, and asset issuers to build confidential financial products with integrated compliance workflows.

💸 According to the Stellar Development Foundation’s Q2 2026 report, stablecoin transfer volume reached $11.4 billion during the quarter, while the value of tokenized RWAs on the network reached $3 billion in June.

As payments, settlement, and asset transactions move on-chain, the need to protect sensitive financial information is growing. Banks, fintech companies, and asset issuers must keep balances, transaction amounts, and counterparty information confidential while enforcing their own compliance policies.🔐

Meeting these needs requires infrastructure that brings together confidential transactions, screening, risk controls, and controlled access to data for investigations.

Tomer Weller, Chief Product Officer of the SDF:

"The Stellar network was built for real-world finance, and privacy with built-in accountability is what institutions need next. The Enterprise Privacy Stack shows what the Stellar ecosystem can deliver when companies like Arcane and Predicate combine their strengths to develop tools to meet financial institutions where they are."

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💻 Apple Unveils Touch-Screen MacBook Pro, Reversing Jobs’ Stance

After two decades of spurning the idea, Apple Inc. unveiled an overhauled MacBook Pro that includes a touch screen, giving its flagship laptop a feature that has become a must-have in the personal computer industry.

The thinner and lighter machine, which comes in 14- and 16-inch sizes, is also the first Mac with OLED — short for organic light-emitting diode — a display technology used on recent iPhones, iPads and other Apple devices. It’s also the first Mac with a Dynamic Island, the screen element familiar to iPhone users.

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🤑 Taurus Expands Stellar Integration with Smart Contract Support across Custody and Tokenization

Taurus, a global leader in digital asset infrastructure, announced live support for smart contract-based assets on the Stellar network through Taurus-PROTECT, its institutional custody platform, and Taurus-CAPITAL, its tokenization platform.

❗️Banks and financial institutions can now custody, issue, and manage smart contract based assets through both Taurus user interfaces and APIs, with the corresponding capabilities available to Taurus clients for Ethereum-based assets.

➡️ With Taurus-PROTECT, clients can custody and manage smart contract based tokens on the Stellar network, including wallet support and the governance and operational controls available across the Taurus platform.

➡️ With Taurus-CAPITAL, clients can issue and manage smart contract-based assets on the Stellar network throughout their lifecycle.

The platform supports token issuance, smart contract function calls, and parameter handling across key Stellar network token models and standards, including SEP-41 contract tokens, Stellar Asset Contracts (SAC), OpenZeppelin contracts, and ERC-3643-based assets designed for regulated use cases on the Stellar network, also known as SEP-57.

➡️ Taurus-CAPITAL can also support issuer-specific ERC-3643-derived contracts and other custom real-world asset structures, giving institutions flexibility in how they structure tokenized securities, funds, and other financial instruments on the Stellar network.

For banks and financial institutions, this expands the range of assets and structures they can support on the Stellar network, from standardized token models to custom smart contracts designed around specific asset, regulatory, or operational requirements. 🚀

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🤖 “No human at the helm”: Delaware plan would let AI agents run entire businesses

Delaware is developing a legal structure that would allow an AI agent to run a company with no routine human supervision. Delaware's draft would create an entirely new corporate category, the Artificial Intelligence Company, built for autonomous operation from the ground up.

🟠Under the proposal, an AI agent would direct a company's day-to-day business with no requirement for routine human decision-making. The entity would have one member, either a person or an organization, responsible for keeping it adequately funded.

🟠That member would hold broad liability protection from actions taken by the company or by anyone operating at the AIC's direction. The AIC itself could own property, enter contracts, and sue or be sued, and it could pursue any lawful purpose except banking.

❗️None of this is law yet. Delaware's Artificial Intelligence Commission developed the framework following a resolution Gov. Meyer signed in July 2025 to test agentic AI in corporate governance.

Legislation could be introduced as early as 2027, and Meyer's office said it is reviewing Comer's letter.

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⚡️🧠 Neuralink's 72-Hour Hackathon: Your Questions Answered

Neuralink engineers spent 72 hours with one of their speech restoration study participants, rapidly prototyping a cluster of new features designed to make thought-based communication more natural, more mobile, and more integrated into everyday life. The results offer the clearest window yet into where the VOICE trial is headed.

The VOICE trial is Neuralink's clinical program specifically targeting speech restoration — not cursor control or typing, but the ability to communicate verbally through thought alone. Participants are individuals who have lost the ability to speak, typically due to conditions like ALS or spinal cord injury.

According to previous Neuralink reporting, the trial began implanting participants in 2026, and by September of this year one participant had already spoken using a voice decoded directly from his brain signals. The hackathon was conducted with one of these active study participants, giving engineers real-world feedback that lab simulations simply cannot replicate.

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🇧🇲🤑 WalletConnect Expands Stellar Network Support and Partnership with Penrose Partners to Bring Walletconnect Pay to Bermuda in Support of the Government’s Onchain Economy Vision

WalletConnect today announced expanded support for the Stellar network and a partnership with Penrose Partners to bring WalletConnect Pay to merchants in Bermuda. This initiative is meant to support the Government of Bermuda’s plan to become the world’s first fully onchain economy.

➡️ Stellar support lets apps and wallets in the Stellar ecosystem connect to the WalletConnect Network, which reaches 900 million end users, thousands of institutions and 700+ wallets. Wallets and custodians supporting the integration of launch partners including Fireblocks, Utila, LOBSTR and Arculus.

➡️ WalletConnect Pay now supports payments on Stellar, so customers can pay merchants directly from their Stellar wallets. LOBSTR, the Stellar wallet built by Ultra Stellar, is the first wallet live with WalletConnect Pay on Stellar, available from today. 🚀

Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer of the SDF, commented:

“Bermuda’s work to make digital assets part of everyday commerce is exactly the kind of real-world use Stellar was built for. WalletConnect Pay brings that experience to the point of sale for users who already hold assets in Stellar wallets."

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🤑 Airtm and BVNK partner to expand wallet-native payments to emerging markets

Airtm, the trusted last-mile financial network for the Global South, and stablecoin infrastructure provider BVNK, a Mastercard company, today announced a partnership that brings wallet-native payments to emerging markets. 🤝

The announcement comes as Airtm launches Airtm Connect, which allows digital asset companies around the world, including BVNK, to build wallet connections with Airtm's global user base. Through the integration, Airtm users will be able to use funds held in their wallets to pay participating retailers enabled by BVNK, while also creating new ways to fund and receive money.

This partnership strengthens Airtm's position as the financial rails for underserved global markets by enabling Airtm users to pay participating retailers directly from their wallets, removing friction that has long plagued the Global South's path to mainstream commerce. This means real access to global commerce.

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🤖 Man granted first-of-its-kind religious exemption against mandatory AI use at work

David Durman, a research administrator at the University of Kentucky (UK), has successfully argued that using AI violates his beliefs as a humanist and has received Title VII religious accommodation from university officials not to use the technology.

According to the Religion News Service (RNS), Durman believes in "the human part of life," which includes making his own decisions.

❗️However, he says that when the UK asked its employees to use AI, he felt that doing so would mean outsourcing his thinking to tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, thus violating his deeply held beliefs.

“The process and work involved in thinking through situations, through my work, through my ethics, through the way I handle other people, is a key component in being able to develop myself as a moral person,” Durman said.

“And offloading that labor, regardless of whether it’s taxing or not, is undercutting my ability to be a moral actor.”

Because of this, the research administrator was granted a Title VII exemption under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, whichWhile humanism is often a non- prohibited employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin. While humanism is often a non-religious philosophy or a worldview, federal courts have ruled that it qualifies as a religion.

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🤑 MetaMask makes Stellar a default network, bringing global payments into the Open Money platform

MetaMask, the world's largest self-custodial financial platform, today announced that Stellar, the blockchain network purpose-built for global payments, is now a default network within MetaMask Mobile and Extension.

MetaMask is the first major self-custodial platform to make Stellar a default network. Until now, MetaMask users who wanted to transact on Stellar needed a separate wallet. Every MetaMask account now includes a Stellar address, derived from the recovery phrase users already have. Existing Stellar users can import SRP from other wallets.

Users can hold and manage XLM, trustline assets and Soroban tokens alongside assets on other networks, send and receive them, and swap between Stellar and other supported networks.

🤝 Stellar joins MetaMask as the platform expands beyond Ethereum-based networks toward Open Money: one account for holding, sending, spending and trading money in both crypto and traditional forms.

"For most of the world, where you're born still decides what money you can hold, where you can send it, and what it costs to move," — said Gal Eldar, Chief Product Officer at MetaMask.

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