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Korea's biggest financial group plans to tokenize traditional assets

South Korea's Mirae Asset has launched its MAPS platform in Hong Kong and plans to introduce tokenized stocks and bonds within three years, using the city as its testbed for real-world asset tokenization.
CFTC chair says crypto's market-structure bill is "so close"

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig is pressing the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before the August 7 recess, warning that a failure to act could delay crypto market-structure reform for years.
Trump family's crypto firm looks to sell its payments business

World Liberty Financial's payments arm, AI Financial, is in talks to sell its core business to Perpetuals.com for up to $15 million, per the Wall Street Journal, even as Trump-linked entities reportedly netted over $500 million from WLFI token sales.
France's new crypto tax-reporting rules just drew their first court challenge

Bull Bitcoin has filed a legal challenge at France's top administrative court seeking to annul the decree implementing DAC8, the EU crypto tax-reporting directive, citing physical safety risks for holders amid a surge in kidnappings and wrench attacks.
A record wall of USDT just left exchanges

Tether on Ethereum logged its largest ever daily exchange outflow of $5.03B in USDT, surpassing the June 2022 record, while a $2.5B supply burn and renewed Iran risk add complexity to the move.
XRP: fewer wallets moving it, more wallets holding it

XRP slid to an intraday low of around $1.01 after six straight months of declines, yet the XRP Ledger added roughly 501,000 new wallets in H1 2026, nearing 8 million all-time. The divergence between a complicated active-address picture and surging total wallets raises a key question: quiet accumulation, or a network waiting for its next catalyst?
BNB Chain wants to double its mainnet again, and build a new chain for AI

BNB Chain's H2 2026 roadmap targets another doubling of BSC throughput and introduces a new high-performance Layer 1 built for AI agents and high-frequency trading, powered by $BNB, with testnet planned for late 2026.
Crypto's biggest VC just raised $1.2 billion, for AI

Paradigm, one of crypto's most influential venture firms, has closed a $1.2 billion fund targeting AI and robotics. The move signals a strategic broadening beyond digital assets, with early bets already placed on drone delivery and space defense.
Canton's CEO defends a token that won't budge

Canton Network's $CC token trades near $0.13 despite processing roughly $9 trillion in monthly volume and capturing 42% of all tracked blockchain fee revenue in Q1 2026. Co-founder Yuval Rooz calls the price 'painful' but stands by the network's utility-first tokenomics.
Polkadot Restructures Staking Parameters to Enhance Network Security and Liquidity

Polkadot has activated Referenda 1909 and 1910, overhauling its staking system with a 10,000 DOT validator self-stake requirement, 0% commission, nominator slashing removal, and a 28-day to 48-hour unbonding period reduction.


