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DeFi
Sentora Opens A Lending Vault Against Wellington's First Native Onchain Credit Strategy
The Morpho vault holds $9.6 million of PayPal's stablecoin and lends against mWIN, a Luxembourg-issued token whose bond portfolio Wellington Management runs. Of the 8.31% headline yield, 7.61 percentage points come from a PYUSD reward stream.

TradFi & Fintech
Dinari Opens 724 Tokenized US Stocks to Eligible US Investors
Dividends on Dinari's dShares now pay out natively in USDC, while 24/7 trading and T+0 settlement remain future capabilities the company says depend on regulatory requirements.

Blockchains
Circle Names BlackRock, Visa, ICE and DTCC Among 11 Founding Arc Validators
Circle's own disclaimer says Arc will be "operated by a permissioned validator set" and has not been reviewed by the New York State Department of Financial Services or any other regulator.
DeFi
Nomura’s Laser Digital Backs ZIGChain’s Emerging-Market Private Credit Push
Laser Digital bought ZIG tokens and will structure and risk-govern a pipeline of vault products with ZIG Markets, which says it has originated more than $50 million with no defaults so far. The investment size was not disclosed.
TradFi & Fintech
Mastercard Extends Crypto Credential to Cross-Border Stablecoin Payments in Borderless.xyz Pilot
The pilot, whose first participants are Infinia, Walapay and Koywe, will test whether compliance checks performed once at origination can be relied on across Borderless.xyz's network of stablecoin payment providers.
DeFi
Cloudflare Launches Stablecoin Wallets for AI Agents, Opens cloudflare.pay Handles
Account owners hold stablecoins and issue capped Virtual Wallets to their agents. Handle reservations open Tuesday; funding, onramps and agent spending arrive “in the coming months.”
TradFi & Fintech
Western Union and Rain Launch Stablecoin Card in 37 Markets
Stablecard holds remittances as USDPT, the Anchorage-issued Solana token Western Union launched in May, and spends the balance anywhere Visa is accepted. The stablecoin behind it has $7.4 million in circulation.
TradFi & Fintech
Wells Fargo to Launch Tokenized Deposits for Corporate Clients This Fall
The bank will start with a limited U.S. dollar-to-British pound corridor and widen it through 2027. It names neither the blockchain it is using nor whether the ledger is permissioned.

TradFi & Fintech
BitMine Buys 10,399 More ETH but Reported Holdings Fall to $11.3B
Cash and marketable securities dropped to $173 million from $268 million after BitMine repurchased another 4.5 million shares, lifting buybacks since July 1 to 16.1 million.

TradFi & Fintech
Robinhood's Second Venture Fund Targets Y Combinator Startups in $200 Million IPO
Retail investors can request RVII shares at an expected $25 apiece through Aug. 12, ahead of an NYSE listing set for Aug. 13 — five months after Robinhood's first venture fund raised $658.4 million to buy into companies like OpenAI and Stripe.




