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RISEx Hits $3B in Beta Volume, Opens Ignite Season 1

Thailand SEC Files Criminal Complaint Against Bitkub Over $50M Hack Cover-Up

Brazil's B3 Registers First Tokenized Livestock Loan, Backed by 10 Dairy Cows Worth $19,600

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India Orders GitHub to Pull Jack Dorsey's Bitchat App Amid Student Protests
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World Network Raises $52.5M for Deepfake Detection; Grayscale Files WLD ETF
World Network closed a $52.5 million funding round to expand AI deepfake detection capabilities, announcing partnerships with Zoom, DocuSign, and Tinder. Grayscale's WLD ETF filing signals institutional interest in the project.

World Foundation Raises $53M in Pantera-Led WLD Token Sale
Pantera Capital and co-investors including Bain Capital Crypto committed $53 million to World Foundation through a locked WLD token sale. The first close of an ongoing raise, proceeds will expand World ID's biometric identity verification infrastructure amid rising demand for human verification...

DADDY Meme Coin Crashes 40% After Andrew Tate's Miami Arrest
DADDY meme coin shed 40% of its value after Andrew Tate's arrest in Miami on July 19. The token was already down 97% from its all-time high, illustrating the structural fragility of celebrity-backed tokens.

Brazil's B3 Registers First Tokenized Livestock Loan, Backed by 10 Dairy Cows Worth $19,600
Ten dairy cows just became blockchain collateral on one of Latin America's largest exchanges. Brazil's B3 exchange registered its first tokenized livestock-backed loan on July 24, with AI-powered sensor collars feeding real-time health and location data onto a distributed ledger.
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Wise Resubmits National Trust Bank Application Under GENIUS Act After OCC Denial
Wise plans to resubmit its national trust bank charter application using the GENIUS Act as its regulatory foundation, after the OCC previously denied its original bid over anti-money laundering compliance deficiencies.

Thailand SEC Files Criminal Complaint Against Bitkub Over $50M Hack Cover-Up
Thailand's Securities and Exchange Commission filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub and two former directors, alleging the exchange concealed a $50 million cyberattack from regulators for years. The charges mark an escalation to criminal liability for material non-disclosure.

India Orders GitHub to Pull Jack Dorsey's Bitchat App Amid Student Protests
India's cybercrime agency issued a takedown order targeting three GitHub repositories for Bitchat, Jack Dorsey's open-source Bluetooth mesh messaging application, demanding removal within three hours as NEET 2026 student protests continued in New Delhi.

Clarity Act Delayed Past Summer Recess, Leadership Confirms
Congressional leadership confirmed the Clarity Act will not reach a floor vote before Congress departs for summer recess, pushing legislative action to fall at the earliest. The bill currently carries 36.5% YES support.
DeFi

RISEx Hits $3B in Beta Volume, Opens Ignite Season 1
$3 billion in trading volume before a public launch. RISEx, a fully on-chain perpetuals exchange built on RISE Chain, officially opened Ignite: Season 1, its core loyalty and points program, moving beyond invite-only early access.

Lombard Finance Launches Bitcoin-Backed Credit Strategy with Flow Traders
Lombard Finance launched its Bitcoin Onchain Credit Strategy on Thursday, naming Flow Traders as the pilot partner for a product designed to let institutional investors borrow stablecoins against Bitcoin collateral entirely onchain.

Balance Coin Crashes 99% After $912K Oracle Exploit Drains 42DAO Vaults
Balance Coin (BLC) collapsed 99% on Wednesday after attackers exploited a Bitcoin oracle vulnerability on BNB Chain to drain approximately $912,000 to $1 million from 42DAO's bitcoin vaults in a single transaction.

Morpho Launches Midnight: Fixed-Rate DeFi Lending on Base
Morpho has launched Morpho Midnight, a fixed-rate, fixed-term lending protocol on Base. The new platform complements Morpho's $11B variable-rate Morpho Blue protocol, introducing defined maturities and predictable interest rates to DeFi with initial cbBTC/USDC markets.
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Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown
Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.

Quantinuum Surges 13% on Nasdaq IPO Debut, Raising $1.68B
Quantinuum's shares opened at $68 on their first day of trading on Nasdaq, a 13% jump from the $60 IPO price, raising $1.68 billion in total proceeds and valuing the quantum computing company at approximately $17.63 billion market capitalization.

Starkware Cuts Jobs as Starknet Revenue Collapses 98%
StarkWare Cuts Staff as Starknet Fee Revenue Drops 98% From Peak StarkWare, the Israeli company behind the Starknet Ethereum Layer 2 network, has laid off a portion of its workforce as on-chain rev
Kraken Refuses Extortion Demand After Insider Data Breach Exposes 2,000 Accounts
Kraken Refuses Extortion Demand After Insider Data Breach Exposes 2,000 Accounts Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has declined to pay an extortion demand following a data breach that exposed personal
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