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The financial regulator subscribed to a global flight database covering more than a billion tickets to monitor activity.

Wintermute USA is a New York-based subsidiary that has registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and FINRA.

Base is seeing growing demand across tokenization and payments, and Pollack called blockchain launches from Robinhood and Stripe "validation."

A volunteer group is pointing AI agents at Bitcoin project codebases and says 720 of the issues it has filed are high severity or critical.

Coinbase UK CEO Keith Grose said the launch is part of the exchange's broader push to bridge traditional and onchain finance.

A volunteer group running AI models against bitcoin codebases says it is averaging roughly one critical bug per hour per person, at about $10,000 a day in compute.

Eligible Visa Direct clients can now prefund accounts and send payouts in stablecoins, expanding Visa's latest push to bring blockchain-based payments into its global network.

Circle's USDC distribution deal with Coinbase has been renewed on existing terms, and Arc's testnet has processed half a billion transactions.

Trump Accounts will invest in mutual funds or ETFs that track the S&P 500 or another index of mainly U.S. equities.

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Executives at Coinbase, Visa and Mastercard said they plan to support multiple stablecoins, suggesting Open USD is another payments rail rather than a direct replacement for USDC.

Robinhood and Coinbase saw crypto trading activity slump alongside broader market conditions, but one managed to offset that weakness.

The Brazil-based crypto asset manager will liquidate its U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF later this month, ending a fund that entered the market in 2024.

The blockchain-based prediction markets platform is reportedly returning to investors months after a $15 billion funding round.

The move brings the custodial tokenization model to eligible U.S. investors as competition over blockchain-based equities intensifies.

The firm also offloaded a small amount of Solmate stock as it continues to rebalance its fund weightings amid market volatility.

BlackRock launched Ethereum-based tokenized share classes for select European money market funds using JPMorgan's Kinexys.

Some 46,210 issuers like Coinbase and American Express used POAP to create onchain mementos that users could mint.

The asset manager introduced two blockchain-based money market funds designed to qualify as stablecoin reserve assets under the US GENIUS Act.

Both funds intend to qualify as eligible reserve assets for permitted U.S. payment stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act.

BitGo Link provides a single interface for viewing and moving digital assets held both in BitGo custody and on centralized exchanges.

The persistent discount suggests US spot buyers have remained less aggressive than overseas traders even as US Bitcoin ETF inflows turned positive in July.

Dubai-based Shelbit processed over $4 billion since May 2024 through a network tied to Iranian gambling sites, the central bank, and the IRGC, per Reuters.

Wall Street lowered Coinbase targets after second-quarter earnings but remains split on the company's outlook.

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Most analysts blamed a weak crypto market for Coinbase's earnings miss, though opinions diverged on when trading activity will recover.

Shelbit allegedly sent hundreds of millions of dollars to major crypto exchanges, including Binance, as it linked gambling sites and sanctioned Iranian entities to global crypto markets.

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The exchange reported lower quarterly revenue and a net loss as crypto trading activity declined, while subscription, stablecoin, and lending businesses continued to grow.

Coinbase said 88% of its net revenue now comes from sources other than bitcoin spot trading, as its share of global crypto volume grows.