Stellar joins the x402 Foundation as a premier member
What x402 does The Linux Foundation has announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation, a new open-governance body formed to steward the x402 protocol, the open standard for internet
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Europe's digital euro pilot gets its 36 firms
Who made the cut The @ecb has named 36 payment service providers to participate in its digital euro pilot, the central bank announced on Tuesday. The selection followed a call for expressions
Lummis says CLARITY text lands in days
Senate Targets Late July Floor Vote on Landmark Crypto Bill Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) told Fox Business that final Senate text for the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act)
Laid off Meta staff launch lawsuit over medical discrimination in AI cuts
Meta (NASDAQ: META) is being sued by twenty-six of its current and former employees. They sued the company on Monday, July 13, 2026. They claim Meta’s layoff process was driven by an AI syste
Ripple (XRP) Announces Its Entry Into UK Economy. Here’s the Latest
The UK government has published a landmark strategy to scale tokenized wholesale financial markets, and Ripple is publicly backing it. The blockchain payments company posted its support for H
Anchorage Digital Expands TRON Support with Native TRX Staking and TRC-20 Assets
San Francisco, July 14, 2026 — Anchorage Digital, home to America’s first federally chartered crypto bank, today announced expanded support for the TRON Network with native TRX staking and cu
UK Delays Capital Gains Tax Rules for Some Crypto Using “No Gain, No Loss”
The UK tax authority has announced plans to change how cryptocurrency lending and liquidity pool arrangements are taxed, moving toward a “no gain, no loss” treatment for certain disposals. Th
Japan’s JCB to Test USDC Use for Cross-Border Settlement
Why Is JCB Testing USDC for Cross-Border Payments? Japan’s largest domestic payment network, JCB, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Circle to explore the use of USDC for cross-bor
Chinese prosecutors float treating mixer use as laundering intent
A research article published in the official newspaper of China's Supreme People's Procuratorate has proposed that courts presume money laundering intent when suspects use crypto mixers or pr
CLARITY Act Wins Key Law Enforcement Backing
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, widely known as the CLARITY Act, has picked up its second major law enforcement endorsement in as many weeks, a development that removes one of the most
More use-case for $XRP...
@doppler_fi and SBI Ripple Asia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop $XRP-based yield infrastructure and explore real-world asset (RWA) tokenization on the XRP Ledger. T
Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis) confirms Clarity ACT bill text will be introduced in the next few days.
Lummis Signals Imminent Release of CLARITY Act Senate Text Senator Cynthia Lummis (@SenLummis), the Wyoming Republican who chairs the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets, has confir