Ripple's XRPL AI Starter Kit adds x402 payments with XRP and RLUSD, testing whether agentic payments can move beyond USDC and Base.
Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines brings stablecoins into AI agent payments, with Coinbase, Stripe, Polygon, Solana, Ripple and OKX among early supporters.
Binance Wallet, Bybit and other crypto apps refunded tokenized SpaceX IPO users after an xStocks allocation shortfall exposed the limits of onchain IPO access.
SEC's Rule 611 proposal could loosen a key market-structure barrier for tokenized stocks and DeFi-style trading, but major compliance questions remain.
The Second Circuit upheld Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX fraud conviction, 25-year sentence and $11.02B forfeiture, rejecting his unfair-trial claims.
Tether froze 72.03 million USDT after ZachXBT linked a 120.2 million USDT Tron wallet to Monero buying, putting XMR liquidity and stablecoin freezes in focus.
Binance Wallet opened SPCXx tokenized SpaceX IPO subscriptions from 100 USDC as Binance Stocks added SPCX whole-share limit orders for eligible users.
Metaplanet agreed to buy Siiibo Securities for ¥2.1B, giving Japan's largest public Bitcoin holder a licensed path toward BTC-linked yield products.
Binance launched bStocks tokenized securities for Nvidia, Tesla, Circle, Micron and Sandisk, opening 24/7 USDT spot trading for eligible non-U.S. users.
Japan's lower house passed a crypto bill that moves digital assets toward stock-style rules, a 20% tax path and potential crypto ETFs.