Spending on crypto payment cards jumped 19% to a monthly record, with RedotPay handling more than half the volume as flows into stablecoin neobanks crossed $1 billion for the first time.

The July count sits far below the 1,177 unique investors CryptoRank recorded at the March 2022 peak, pointing to a smaller, more selective pool of backers.

RL1 inherits SWIAT's production network, which processed more than €700 million in transactions over three years before ownership moved to the Luxembourg cooperative.

The announcement at Galaxy Unpacked in London came with no timeline, issuers, or markets — but would put stablecoins on hundreds of millions of phones.

The regulator cited money-laundering risk concerns in a rare rejection amid a wave of crypto charter approvals. Wise plans to refile under the GENIUS Act.

Ondo, Backed Finance, and Robinhood Chain all set all-time highs in tokenized equity holdings this week, while dYdX's new Arcus exchange posted record perps volume — signs the market for onchain stocks is scaling on multiple fronts at once.

The largest corporate ether holder slowed its buying to its smallest weekly pace since June 2025, redirecting capital to a share repurchase, and now holds 5.78 million ETH — 96% of the way to its "Alchemy of 5%" target.

The deal routes distribution through SBI's ecosystem and settles in the group's JPYSC yen stablecoin, connecting Japan's capital markets to onchain finance.

The company that settles most US stock trades is running its first production trades of tokenized real-world assets, with a full service launch set for October.

The unsolicited offer from Stripe and Advent International, if PayPal accepts, would consolidate two of the mainstream payments industry's stablecoin operations.