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Stablecoin Card Issuer Rain Buys Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa
TradFi & Fintech

Stablecoin Card Issuer Rain Buys Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa

Ansa builds branded prepaid wallets that hold dollar balances for merchants, with no stablecoin leg. Founder Sophia Goldberg joins Rain as head of payments, and terms were not disclosed.
Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Securities Hub
TradFi & Fintech

Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Securities Hub

The FSRA permission covers arranging deals in investments and custody. Coinbase has not named a launch date, and the fine print limits which token holders can vote their shares.
MoneyGram Brings Cash-To-Crypto Ramps To Solana
TradFi & Fintech

MoneyGram Brings Cash-To-Crypto Ramps To Solana

MoneyGram Ramps is now native to Solana, ending its run as a Stellar-only product. Trading app Rift is the first Solana wallet to integrate it.
eToro to Buy US Brokerage TradeZero for Up to $231M as Crypto Revenue Shrinks
CeFi

eToro to Buy US Brokerage TradeZero for Up to $231M as Crypto Revenue Shrinks

The purchase, eToro's third acquisition signed this year, is not expected to close until the first half of 2027 and needs regulatory approvals for a broker-dealer whose chief executive settled SEC charges in 2022.
 Robinhood's Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days
Podcast

Robinhood's Head of Product Reveals How Robinhood Chain Hit 200M Transactions in 30 Days

Robinhood just launched its own blockchain — and the numbers are wild. Seong Lee, Head of Product for Robinhood Crypto, joins Chris Storaker to explain how Robinhood Chain went from zero to 200 million transactions in a month, why permissionless stock tokens can now be redeemed even if Robinhood disappears, and how everyday users are earning yield through a fully insured DeFi lending product. A must-watch conversation on the future of tokenized finance, meme coins, and real-world assets on chain.
Ether Products Lead $600M Crypto ETP Flow Rebound in July
TradFi & Fintech

Ether Products Lead $600M Crypto ETP Flow Rebound in July

Bitcoin products still took 78.5% of the $133.3 billion traded in global crypto ETPs during July, even as ether led the money coming in.
BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits
Blockchains

BIP-110 Bitcoin Fork Stalls at Two Blocks as Its Only Miner Quits

OCEAN will refund roughly 0.3 BTC to miners whose hashrate its Stratum templates sent to the breakaway chain for about 18 hours.
Lightning Nodes Drained As BTCPay Server Users Race To Patch
Hacks

Lightning Nodes Drained As BTCPay Server Users Race To Patch

Hardware wallet maker Foundation and the Bitcoin zine Citadel21 both said their nodes were swept, in some cases hours before the project's public alert. BTCPay says the flaw under attack is not the one disclosed in its changelog.
Tokyo Lawson Register Scans a Barcode for a 322-Yen JPYC Stablecoin Payment
TradFi & Fintech

Tokyo Lawson Register Scans a Barcode for a 322-Yen JPYC Stablecoin Payment

Store-side acceptance ran inside Lawson's existing register through HashPort Wallet for Biz and Canal Payment Service's PAYTREE gateway, with no dedicated stablecoin terminal added at the till.
Black Lake Launches Harbor Verify to Bring Verifiable Credit to Onchain Markets
TradFi & Fintech

Black Lake Launches Harbor Verify to Bring Verifiable Credit to Onchain Markets

Black Lake Digital Markets has launched Harbor Verify, a browser-based tool that lets investors, lenders, auditors, and rating agencies independently confirm that every loan in a tokenized pool belongs there and passed its published eligibility rules, without seeing private borrower data.