The United States and the United Kingdom have laid out a plan to make it easier for tokenized financial products to move between their markets, signaling that both governments want blockchain-based finance to become a bigger part of mainstream capital markets.
Both governments recognise the importance of promoting competition and innovation, protecting financial stability, safeguarding consumers, and maintaining public confidence in money, in a financial ecosystem that includes multiple forms of money.
1. The UK and United States affirm that stablecoins are an important vehicle for innovation in digital money.
2. The UK and United States intend to stimulate competition and innovation through policies that facilitate the coexistence and circulation of different forms of digital money solutions.
3. The UK and United States intend to advance a timely, clear, and consistent legal, regulatory, and supervisory pathway for digital financial innovation, including for stablecoins.
4. The UK and United States affirm that stablecoins held out as money should be fully backed, on at least a one-to-one basis, by high-quality, liquid assets.
5. The UK and United States affirm that reserve, liquidity, and other prudential requirements for stablecoins should seek to mitigate risks and avoid unnecessary fragmentation.
6. The UK and United States intend to advance regulatory approaches that promote innovation and resilience, without imposing burdensome constraints that undermine commercial viability, create barriers to entry, or hinder competition.
7. The UK and United States support the integration of well-regulated stablecoins into activities including payments, settlement, and tokenised financial markets.
8. The UK and United States intend to set high standards for the custody, segregation, and protection of stablecoin reserves.
9. The UK and United States support clarity, predictability, and cross-border coordination in the event of any potential failure of a stablecoin issuer.
10. The UK and United States affirm the importance of formal mechanisms to enable cross-border stablecoin activity as a feature of domestic regulatory and supervisory regimes.
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New York became the first state to halt data center construction after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed an executive order today that temporarily bars the state from approving new permits for large projects.
Hochulโs order applies to data centers 50 megawatts or larger, potentially affecting more than a dozen projects. The stateโs Department of Environmental Conservation will not issue any permits that havenโt already been completed.
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Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis called for the creation of a new regulatory body to oversee frontier model releases.
โInitially, Frontier Labs would voluntarily share models with the Standards Body for review up to 30 days before release,โ the post reads. โOnce the assessment protocol is shown to be effective and robust, formalisation could quickly follow, meaning that Frontier Models would be required to pass it to be deployed in the US market. Labs would also work with the Standards Body to address any critical post-release vulnerabilities.โ
The proposed system would build on the ad hoc reviews performed by the U.S. government on Anthropicโs Mythos and OpenAIโs Sol. Under Hassabisโ proposed regulator, those decisions could be handed off to a new organization, backed by the U.S. government but funded by the AI industry and operated independently.
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The DTCC, custodian of over $114 trillion in assets, initiated the soft launch of its tokenization platform targeting real-world assets including select stocks from the Russell 1000, major ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries.
Tokenization is moving beyond theory and into real-world application as clients begin leveraging live trading environments to demonstrate and transact tokenized assets.
Stay tuned for updates throughout the day.
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The U.K. plans to issue a digital sovereign bond by early 2027, becoming the first of the seven leading industrialized nations to place government debt on a distributed-ledger infrastructure.
The Treasury has not disclosed the bondโs size, maturity, coupon, investor eligibility or settlement asset. The initial sale will sit outside the governmentโs conventional gilt-financing program.
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โWeโre happy to announce the launch of curated vaults on the Stellar network. The vaults are accessible via Stellar DeFi Hub, a service operated by Ultrastellar, a longtime Stellar ecosystem participant. The vaults are also accessible via yield.xyz,โ โ Sentora wrote.
โStellar has the payment rails, tokenization tools, and DeFi primitives that make real-world financial products possible. Sentora adds to vaults on Stellar, increasing access for institutions and fintechs,โ โ said Raja Chakravorti, Chief Business Officer, Stellar Development Foundation.
โInstitutions and fintechs require more than onchain access. They need transparency, operational controls, and infrastructure for large-scale capital. Stellar is the network that provides that foundation, and these vaults make it accessible,โ โ said Anthony DeMartino, Co-Founder and CEO, Sentora
The roadmap includes additional vault strategies spanning DeFi and RWAs, with deeper integration across the Stellar DeFi ecosystem.
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Apple Intelligence, the iPhone makerโs generative AI offering, is coming to China. Chinaโs regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, approved Appleโs AI services in the country, on the back of a deal to integrate Alibabaโs Qwen AI model into Appleโs operating systems, including iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS.
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One of the biggest Driving Forces in the Future for Jobs, are Data Centers. They are big, strong, bold, and Money Machines for the State in which they are built.
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Japan's parliament passed and enacted key amendments to the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, formally classifying cryptocurrencies as financial products. The amendments were approved in the plenary session of the House of Councillors, completing their passage through both houses of the Diet.
The law is set to be promulgated in the near future and is scheduled to take effect within one year of promulgation, with detailed implementation rules to be finalized through cabinet ordinances and supervisory guidelines.
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ParaFi Capital-backed private credit and tokenization platform Tradable plans to bring $1 billion worth of private credit assets to Stellar, a first-generation blockchain that has been winning many big tokenization deals.
"Weโre excited to partner with institutionally oriented ecosystems like Stellar," Tradable CEO Alex Cordover said in a statement. "By bringing assets onto the Stellar blockchain network, Tradable is continuing to work toward its goal of building the next generation of alternative asset infrastructure."๐ค
"Stellar is the network regulated institutions choose to tokenize real-world assets, and Tradable's decision to bring up to $1 billion in private credit to the network is a clear signal that enterprises are choosing Stellar to bring financial assets onchain at scale," Denelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, said.๐
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Several senators will meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday afternoon to discuss progress on a sweeping cryptocurrency regulatory bill, Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) said.
โWeโll be talking about the entirety of the bill. I mean, obviously the presidentโs been very engaged in this bill,โ said Moreno, who has been involved in negotiations over the bill. โHeโs the one whoโs really driven the innovation that I think will pay dividends.โ
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Thinking Machines Lab, the AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, released Inkling. Unlike the flagship models from OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google, itโs open-weight, meaning outside developers and companies can download it and modify it directly.
Our mission is to build AI that extends human will and judgment. We have developed a platform that lets anyone customize models, previewed an AI system built for interactive collaboration.
Inkling is a mixture-of-experts system with 975 billion total parameters. It was trained on 45 trillion tokens of text, image, audio, and video, and reasons natively across all four. For now, its outputs are limited to text, including code, styled artifacts, and structured data.
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Bangladesh has launched an interoperable QR payment system, Bangla QR, aiming to reduce cash dependence and enhance financial inclusion. This system allows customers from various banks and mobile financial services to pay merchants by scanning a single QR code.
It addresses the incompatibilities of previous payment systems, promoting a cashless economy. The initiative is expected to increase tax revenue and formalize the country's large informal economy.
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"As America commemorates 250 years of independence, the United States Mint will begin striking this new $1 gold coin to honor the enduring legacy of liberty and a lasting symbol of patriotism. Featuring President Trump, it celebrates the strength of American values, and the promise of a nation dedicated to preserving freedom for all," โ Bessent wrote on X.
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Velocity, the stablecoin treasury and settlement platform bringing enterprises onchain, announced a $38 million Series A round led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with participation from Activant Capital, Capital One Ventures, QED Investors Coinbase Ventures, Wintermute Ventures and Ripple.
This funding round brings Velocityโs total capital raised to nearly $50 million since May 2025 and unites investors from across digital assets, enterprise software, payments, and traditional financial services.
"The most enduring technology companies are built around shifts that fundamentally change how industries operate," โ said Adam Nelson, Partner at FirstMark. "We believe stablecoins have the potential to transform the movement of money as profoundly as the internet transformed the movement of information."
The company plans to use the new funding to expand its global banking and payments network, accelerate product development, deepen regulatory capabilities, and support growing demand from enterprises and financial institutions adopting stablecoin-powered treasury and settlement infrastructure.
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Circle is the first digital assets firm in American history to attain a de novo federal trust bank license
On FoxBusiness, Circle President Heath Tarbert discussed what this milestone means for USDC, regulatory clarity, and the future of trusted stablecoin infrastructure.
Source: Circle on X, 15. 7. 2026.
On FoxBusiness, Circle President Heath Tarbert discussed what this milestone means for USDC, regulatory clarity, and the future of trusted stablecoin infrastructure.
Give us a sense right off the bat on how important a milestone this is?
Thank you so much for having me, Liz, and it's absolutely a really important milestone. In fact, it's historic. Circle was the very first digital assets company in American history to get a de novo federal trust charter. So what that basically means is it wasn't a conversion, but we literally built it from scratch. And what this allows us to do is essentially use the very gold standard for regulation around the world to, at some point, manage the USDC reserves, which is critically important because, as you know, USDC is the world's leading regulated stablecoin. Something like 70% of transactions involving dollar stablecoins involve USDC.
Circle, as I read, can open according to this designation on or after July 10th, which, of course, was last Friday. I mean, when does it actually open its doors?
We are open for business. Obviously, we have a business plan. We're moving forward. But we're going ahead. We're excited about the possibility of one of the things that we're going to be able to do is actually hold digital assets in custody. That's really important because folks that are out there that have their digital assets, they want to put them ultimately with a custodian that is subject to the highest quality regulation. So that's a service that we'll offer. And then in the long run, as I mentioned, this entity will oversee and manage the USDC reserves and as a result, will be subject to the Genius Act and making sure that we meet the highest standards that are here in the United States.
So give me your assessment of when the Clarity Act might really finally pass.
Well, we're hoping as soon as possible, because I think it's really important that people understand that this is more than just any old financial regulation. This whole area, starting with the Genius Act, is really an upgrade of the U.S. payment systems, and it allows us to win in the next generation of the Internet, which is the Internet of Value. And so in some ways, it's very important for economic and national security that the U.S. be able to lead. And right now, there are many financial institutions, traditional financial institutions, that really want to get into this space. They want to experiment. They want to be a part of it. They want to start moving value on chain. But the lack of legal certainty is holding them back. So it's a really important law.
Source: Circle on X, 15. 7. 2026.
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Karnataka has announced a major push to strengthen AI education and innovation in the state. Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said the government plans to introduce AI education from Class 6 and set up India's first government-led AI University in Bengaluru.
The government also plans to create a dedicated AI Hub to support research, innovation and collaboration between educational institutions, startups and industry.
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