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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.
Blockchains
New Ethereum Proposal Would Burn Validator Rewards to Kill the Incentive to Stake More
EIP-8361 would deduct a rising share of every validator's rewards as the staking ratio climbs, cancelling consensus issuance outright at 50%. It landed two days before the deadline to propose EIPs for Hegotá, and the timing drew an objection within hours.
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.
Infrastructure
BitGo Names Chainlink CCIP Exclusive Cross-Chain Provider for $7.7 Billion WBTC
BitGo will move Wrapped Bitcoin and every future BitGo-issued asset onto Chainlink CCIP, dropping the provider it chose in September 2024. The announcement never uses the word LayerZero.

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.
NFTs & Web3
Fake World Assets Boosts Buybacks to 80% of Fees After Token Crashes to Record Low
TokenWorks reversed course twice in under 24 hours after FWA holders learned none of the roughly $3.2 million in launch-period revenue would fund buybacks, sending the token down more than 40%.

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.
DeFi
Bitcoin Bridge Boltz Halts Swaps Indefinitely, Citing AI-Assisted Attacks
The non-custodial swap service said attackers now iterate faster than its team can patch, leaving wallets including Aqua and Bull Bitcoin racing to restore Lightning and Liquid swaps.