Tether Gold's XAUT has received a Shariah compliance certification, putting its one-ounce physical-gold backing at the center of a new Islamic-finance distribution push.
Mento Protocol has launched a USDm/EURm liquidity pool on Polygon, bringing oracle-priced onchain foreign exchange to a network handling more than $11.1 billion in non-dollar stablecoin transfers.
WEMIX suspended bridges, affected liquidity pools and parts of its gaming ecosystem after a compromised WEMIX$ contract led to unauthorized issuance and about $724,000 in USDC.e transfers.
Coinbase said it is building quantum-safe custody tools and will co-host an August working session with Stanford and Bitcoin developers as the industry prepares for a future cryptography transition.
Lido has begun moving more than 8 million ETH into post-Pectra validators through CMv2, a $16 billion migration designed to shrink Ethereum's validator count and add operator bonds.
KB Kookmin Bank plans to use JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain network for corporate USD payments across 10 countries in August, putting a major South Korean lender on 24/7 institutional settlement rails.
Circle acquired IBM blockchain patent assets spanning more than 680 families and nearly 1,000 issued patents, adding an IP layer to USDC, Arc and its payments network.
HashKey has combined its Exchange and Global apps into one portal for Hong Kong, Singapore, the Middle East and Bermuda while keeping regional compliance controls separate.
Stacks will activate its mandatory 4.0.1 hard fork at Bitcoin block 960,230 on July 29, bringing Clarity 6 and Bitcoin Stacking as exchanges prepare temporary STX transfer pauses.
LayerZero and Keeta plan to make tokenized commercial bank deposits transferable across Ethereum, Solana, Base and Keeta in nine fiat currencies.