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Latin Americans are moving salaries and business payments through digital-dollar stablecoin platforms totaling $31.5 billion in annualized withdrawals in 2026, according to BeInCrypto research published in 'The Exodus Economy' report. More than 99% of stablecoin volume withdrawn from

The Financial Conduct Authority scrapped the seven-day waiting period between IPO prospectus publication and connected research release on 5 August via policy statement PS26/16. The change aims to address UK competitiveness concerns as London IPO activity fell to £2.1

US private sector employment increased by 44,000 in July, significantly below market expectations of 70,000, according to the ADP National Employment Report released on August 5. The employment data firm Automatic Data Processing reported the monthly gain fell short of forecasts as hiring patterns v

Bank of America spends more than $250 million annually covering GLP-1 weight loss drugs for its employees, CEO Brian Moynihan told CNBC on Wednesday. The disclosure highlights the company's commitment to workforce health benefits despite rapidly rising pharmaceutical costs. Employers nationwide

Disney is exploring a free, ad-supported streaming product, CEO Josh D'Amaro said during an earnings call with investors on Wednesday. D'Amaro stated the initiative aims to expand reach to price-sensitive customers and leverage Disney's ad inventory to accelerate revenue growth. The company also

FORMS Syntron Information (HK), Chainlink, APEX Group, CSpro, and Blockchain Valley Cyberport launched the Tokenized Securities Framework in Hong Kong. The framework establishes institutional-grade infrastructure to support the issuance, distribution, and settlement of tokenized securities within th

Boltz, a non-custodial Bitcoin bridge connecting Bitcoin's main chain with the Lightning Network and Liquid sidechain, has suspended its swap services indefinitely. The suspension follows months of AI-assisted exploits that have outpaced the bootstrapped team's ability to develop and deploy

Xylo Holdings introduced Mochi, an AI-powered Web3 asset-management platform designed to reduce adoption barriers by placing blockchain technology in the background. The platform combines artificial intelligence algorithms with an intuitive user interface to support on-chain asset management

RippleX expects to ship xrpld 3.3.0 the week of August 1, 2026, packaging five amendments for validator consideration. The release includes rewritten versions of Batch and Permission Delegation, both previously blocked before mainnet activation after security researchers discovered separate

XRP may be completing its Elliott Wave 2 correction and nearing a potential Wave 3 breakout, according to market analyst EGRAG CRYPTO in his latest three-day technical analysis. The analysis identifies a developing bullish divergence between XRP's price and the Relative Strength Index (RSI): while X

Luxembourg's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) expanded its emergency financial alert system to include cryptocurrency exchanges on Aug. 8 under new anti-fraud legislation Bill 8722. The law was enacted to close a critical loophole that allowed fraudsters to move stolen funds into digital assets,

The Bank of Korea announced Monday it has started buying spot gold exchange-traded products, marking its first gold purchases since 2013. The central bank also established a framework to purchase domestically produced gold in the near future through a cooperative system involving the Korea

Goldman Sachs named two European stocks with projected 12-month upside above 100% in its August picks, with UK clean energy developer Ceres Power leading at 168% and German defense contractor Rheinmetall second at 102%. The forecasts arrive as the Stoxx 600 touched a record high on Tuesday. Goldman

Hashdex is shutting down its Bitcoin ETF (ticker: DEFI), marking the first closure of a US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund. Shares trade on NYSE Arca until August 17, with investors holding positions receiving cash distributions around August 28. The fund held $14.56 million in assets as of August

Western Union launched Stablecard on August 4, a digital wallet and Visa card for receiving transfers as USDPT stablecoin. Built with stablecoin platform Rain, the product went live across 37 markets, with the company targeting more than 60 by year-end. The launch followed Western Union's

Crypto gaming platform 1win launched a Web3 authentication system that allows users to create accounts, sign in, and deposit digital assets by connecting a cryptocurrency wallet. The system eliminates the need for email registration, usernames, passwords, and manual entry of wallet addresses,

Galaxy Digital reported an $85 million net loss for the second quarter of 2026 as cryptocurrency valuations declined during the period. The company posted a $0.09 loss per share on Wednesday, which Galaxy attributed to the depreciation of digital asset prices during the quarter. The total crypto

Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan on Wednesday called the recent near-collapse of AI hedge fund Situational Awareness a warning shot for financial markets fueled by elevated valuations and borrowed money. Last week, the fund led by Leopold Aschenbrenner was forced to offload most of its public

Ripple secured a Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) license from Luxembourg's financial regulator, the CSSF, enabling the company to offer regulated crypto payment services across all 30 countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) under a single compliance framework. The approval addresses regulatory uncertainty that has slowed digital asset adoption among European financial institutions. Europe is rapidly integrating blockchain into core payment and treasury