Rain, the enterprise-grade infrastructure for stablecoin-powered payments, announced the launch of the Agentic Payments Alliance (APA), a coalition of organizations working together to help guide the development of agentic commerce. Founding members include Visa, Mastercard, Fiserv, Circle, Solana, and Remitly.
The Alliance itself is a working coalition, run collectively by its founding members. Early work is expected to include shared research and frameworks, testing emerging standards for agent identity and authorization, and advocacy on the regulatory questions agentic commerce raises.
26 founding members across payments, stablecoins, and AI, working together to shape how agent-driven commerce gets built.
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French Budget Minister David Amiel said his government will hire "sovereign" AI providers, such as Mistral. The government would use AI tools to identify its services' vulnerabilities to cyberattacks after the government disclosed Thursday the tax agency was victim of a cyberattack.
The data of about 700,000 taxpayers were stolen in the cyberattack. The chief of the French tax agency, Amelie Verdier, said her services detected another data breach on Monday. That attack is still being evaluated.
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9 enterprise accounts are now running USDC payroll on Stellar, reaching an annualized payroll run-rate of ~$4M. And the infrastructure around that payroll continues to expand.
→ MoneyGram offramp for local cash access
→ Privy wallet infrastructure
→ Payroll-connected Tangem hardware wallets
→ Multi-currency fiat support
More than moving stablecoins. It's about making onchain payroll accessible regardless of someone's crypto experience.
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TikTok is exploring a feature that would allow users to send money to each other in direct messages, in a move that would extend the social media app’s push into financial services. The in-development feature, if launched, would use the TikTok Pay offering already available in Southeast Asia to handle the transactions.
Evidence of the addition was found inside of code hidden in the current version of TikTok’s US iPhone app.
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"For years, anti-crypto armies, doomers, and decelerationists stifled innovation, regulating by enforcement and driving transformational technologies like blockchain, AI, and prediction markets overseas.
On August 20, the CFTC is turning the page and charting a course for the new frontier of finance as innovators, builders, thinkers, and entrepreneurs descend upon Washington for the inaugural meeting of the Innovation Advisory Committee," — Selig wrote on X.
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Comcast has rolled out a new motion-sensing technology to its latest home routers, allowing homeowners to receive notifications about activity detected inside their house while they are away. The free feature, called Wi-Fi Motion, turns newer Xfinity gateways into motion sensors by detecting interruptions to the Wi-Fi signal of the wireless network and sends a notification through the Xfinity app.
"We believe the network should do more than connect devices. It should help protect the people, their personal information, and everything within their homes that depend on our most reliable WiFi every day," — Comcast said.
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The SEC proposed a new regulatory framework for crypto assets, the first major step under U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to give the industry the tailored rules it has long pushed for.
"As the Crypto Capital of the World, the U.S. must and will lead. Regulation Crypto Assets will ensure that we do," — Paul Atkins said.🏆
The SEC's plan is subject to public comment for 60 days after it is published in the U.S. Federal Register.
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"If the application is approved by ICANN, a billion Telegram users could get their own second-level domains — yourname.gram.
Users would be able to set up their interactive websites hosted by Telegram — with one prompt," — Pavel Durov said.
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The U.S. standard-setting organization accounting made an important proposal for stablecoin, answering uncertainties about whether stablecoins could be considered the same as cash under common accounting practices.
"The amendments in this proposed update would clarify, through illustrative examples, how the current definition of cash equivalents applies to certain digital assets," — the board said in its proposal.
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Researchers in the US have launched a USD 1 million project to develop quantum sensors by using the tiny defects in diamonds, to measure electromagnetic fields with extraordinary sensitivity. The effort is part of a new three-year project carried out at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) in Illinois.
The researchers will create compact sensors that can precisely map electromagnetic fields. The devices could additionally be integrated into particle accelerators and other experiments. Understanding how electromagnetic forces affect particles is crucial for particle physics.
“This is another front for the likely quantum revolution. Five or 10 years ago, this was kind of science fiction,” — Nazar Delegan, PhD, a researcher at ANL and project co-lead, highlighted.
If successful, the project could enable more precise measurements and new ways to study the universe using quantum defects in diamonds, with support from the DOE’s Quantum Information Science program.
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Cash App’s cryptocurrency service is extending beyond BTC and stablecoin USDC for the first time by being added to crypto payments platform MoonPay.
Users will also be able to fund wallets on MoonPay through their Cash App balances, including Ledger, BitPay, Trust Wallet, MetaMask and Uniswap, among others.
Cash App, the mobile payment service developed by Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block (XYZ), is one of the premier mainstream gateways into cryptocurrency, given its customer base of over 50 million users.
“While bitcoin remains at the core of our digital asset strategy, we want to give customers choice and flexibility however they choose to pay,” — Morgan Kuntze, Block’s global partnerships lead, said.
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I have paused the 50% Tariffs against Canada, that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three day period, based on the fact that Canada and the U.S.A., subject to the finalization of documents, have a DEAL!
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Your brain and the ocean share an unexpected feature: waves. Electrical activity can move across the brain's surface in patterns known as traveling brain waves or neural traveling waves. Salk Institute researchers suggest these waves act as a computational engine in the visual cortex, helping the brain process visual information.
The researchers concentrated on the visual cortex and proposed 4 major functions for neural traveling waves. The waves may adjust perception from moment to moment, transform recent sensory information into an internal representation, produce short-term predictions about the surrounding world, and preserve and replay patterns associated with memories of events that unfold over time.
The connections responsible for generating the waves do more than transmit signals. They can alter their physiology ("synaptic weights") in ways that reflect information learned from the outside world.
The review was published in Neuron on July 21, 2026.
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The Stellar x CV Labs Accelerator is built for startups ready to scale rapidly, focusing on technical execution, GTM support, and investor readiness. Designed for teams building solutions within DeFi, payments, and RWA.
1. Remi connects traditional financial infrastructure with digital assets, enabling faster, lower-cost financial services and greater economic inclusion in emerging markets.
2. Yolat is the stablecoin neobank for emerging markets, letting people and businesses hold dollars, spend on cards, and send money across borders in minutes.
3. JoonaPay is payment infrastructure for Francophone Africa, helping businesses collect, reconcile, and move money across mobile money, bank, and stablecoin rails.
4. DeFa provides settlement liquidity to licensed cross-border payment operators, prefunding remittance volumes against verified receivables that settle in 1-7 days.
5. Sorted is a non-custodial digital wallet built to make digital dollars simple and accessible for people in Africa and South Asia.
6. Crebit Pay is building the rate locking layer for stablecoin foreign exchange, making it usable for millions of businesses.
7. Kutana is making B2B trade safe, easy, and cost-effective for SMEs across Africa, combining fast payments, digital escrow, and AI-driven credit scoring in one platform.
8. Janus is financial infrastructure for global trade, built for the freight forwarders who move goods, money, and information across borders.
9. Saleem is a stablecoin wallet on any SIM. No smartphone, no bank. Starting in Syria and the Levant, addressing 500M+ SIMs and 280M unbanked adults across MENA and South Asia.
10. Sly is unlocking the agentic economy for fintechs through identity, governance, and payments, giving AI agents a way to discover, transact, and settle across every protocol and border.
10 teams. One accelerator. Building on Stellar.
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Anthropic has published new experiments showing Claude can handle parts of protein design and analytical chemistry that normally require specialized scientists and significant amounts of time.
Importantly, protein binders are not drugs. Designing a high-affinity binder is just the first step in the process of developing a drug-like molecule.
Still, this feels like another important shift in AI-assisted science.
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Ripple announced the successful closing of an upsized $275 million private placement of senior unsecured notes issued by Ripple Prime, its non-bank prime brokerage, to support its ongoing and expanding U.S. business.
The notes offering attracted a diverse base of institutional investors in key financial markets. Proceeds from the offering will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes within a regulated entity, amid strong client demand for modern, multi-asset clearing, prime brokerage, and financing services.
“ With the completion of this offering, we have an additional source of capital to invest in our team and technology as we execute on our ambitious growth roadmap and bolster our position as one of the largest non-bank prime brokers globally,” — Noel Kimmel, President of Ripple Prime, said.🚀
The unsecured notes offering received an investment grade rating (BBB) from global credit rating agency KBRA. KBRA previously assigned an investment grade issuer rating (BBB) to Ripple Prime.
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Eagle Point Credit Management LLC is providing a roughly $1.3 billion private credit loan for a sprawling AI data center in Texas tied to Anthropic PBC.
The debt is part of a larger $16 billion project-finance package for developer Nexus Data Centers, which will use the funds to complete construction of a 2,900-acre facility in Hubbard, a city in the Lone Star State. The campus will have its own gas-fired power plant, and Anthropic will be the primary tenant.
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