AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, Amazon's Japanese logistics partner, will pay ~2,300 contractor drivers in JPYC yen-pegged stablecoin — Japan's first large-scale corporate stablecoin payroll.
Swiss cantonal bank BancaStato joins Sygnum's B2B platform, bringing regulated Bitcoin trading directly into its Avaloq-powered web and mobile banking apps.
The Trump White House has accused Beijing's Moonshot AI of covertly distilling Anthropic's Fable model to build Kimi K3, threatening sanctions over industrial-scale AI knowledge theft.
Nasdaq-listed Chinese insurtech Zhibao Technology (ZBAO) signs a non-binding term sheet to accept ~3,500 BTC (~$220M) in a proposed PIPE deal, joining the public-company bitcoin treasury wave.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as 'Crypto Mom,' warned on July 22 that DeFi vaults and onchain lending strategies could qualify as securities depending on their structure.
An attacker drained ~$24M in USDC from AFX's Arbitrum bridge in a targeted exploit. Arbitrum's native bridge was confirmed unaffected. USDC holds its peg.
