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Aave’s new Stable Vaults product lets wallets, exchanges and payment apps offer yields on stablecoin deposits

KOSA and Chat Control both retreated on their most-criticized measures this week, but both kept mandatory age verification, the quiet mechanism that turns anonymous browsing into identified browsing for all of us, argues Billions CEO Evin McMullen.

Migrations to Chainlink CCIP so far include Kelp and Lombard, both of which brought over $1 billion, as well as Solv Protocol, Virtuals, Re and Kraken’s tokenized assets.

Your day-ahead look for July 9, 2026

HSBC, UBS, Wells Fargo and Citi are among the 17 banks now preparing to pilot live transactions using tokenized digital assets on Swift’s new blockchain payments platform.

These options settle into underlying futures contracts rather than spot cryptoassets, involving no custody, transfer, or administration of tokens.

BTC rose 1.2% to $63,000 and Nasdaq futures jumped 2.6% with markets seemingly unconcerned by U.S. airstrikes on Iran. Bitcoin is now up 9% since the end of June.

The $400 billion wealth fund plans to expand AI holdings to 15% of its portfolio by 2031 from the current 6%.

A trader on Ostium has held a $1.14 million long position in EUR/USD perpetual futures for 400 days, applying a bitcoin-style HODLing strategy to forex.

The New York-based subsidiary, fully owned by Sony Bank, will be capitalized with $40 million to support its upcoming stablecoin business operations.

A wave of blockbuster AI listings is drawing billions of dollars from global investors, reinforcing a rotation away from crypto.

Santiment reported that bitcoin supply is at its lowest since 2017 and ether since 2015, adding that it doesn’t guarantee prices will move higher but helps set up crypto’s next bull cycle.

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs lost a net $84 million on Wednesday, ending a three-day inflow run that had pulled in roughly $509 million

Former BOJ official issues interest-rate warning as yen continues to slide against the dollar.

Robinhood’s blockchain went live on July 1 to move stocks onchain. Its first breakout hit is a memecoin named after the mascot the company abandoned.

XRP defended the $1.00-$1.05 support zone, but the near-term chart remains capped below resistance as analysts track larger wedge and channel patterns.

Oil climbed for a third day and gold fell for a fourth while bitcoin is up 1.6% on the week.

The prediction market’s head of U.S. operations says the business is taking steps to legitimize itself after years of legal scrutiny.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short, FalconX’s Gaspar Martin writes that BTC is reaching a market bottom and is poised for a turnaround.

The firm’s latest fund backs AI and robotics startups but leadership says it remains committed to crypto investing.

The move comes as firms race to build the infrastructure for blockchain-based stocks and debate how tokenized stocks should work.

BSTR and Cantor Equity Partners will not complete their merger under the original July 2025 agreement, with the shareholder postponed indefinitely.

The network aims to process over 100,000 transactions per second by streaming them directly, eliminating public queues to make trades faster and more secure.

After winning a 6 million-pound London arbitration award, Citadel dropped its U.S. trade secrets case, saying another judgment would likely go uncollected.

Onchain trackers found the newly public company shifted a tiny amount of bitcoin between its own addresses. Nothing reached an exchange.

Your day-ahead look for July 8, 2026

Bitcoin fell, altcoins slid after Trump said the ceasefire with Iran is “over” as U.S. and Iran traded airstrikes.

Indian regulators maintained a hawkish stance despite the growing embrace of digital assets and technology by governments worldwide.

The new software leads among the network’s validators, yet by node count it sits behind the older v3.1.3, and the security amendment bundled with it remains a separate, slower vote. The upgrade needs 80% of the trusted validator list to activate.

Hedge funds have turned the most bearish on the yen since 2007, boosting bets on further losses to nearly 138,000 contracts as of June 30.