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The US has bumped tariffs on Brazilian imports from 11% to 17.7%, adding fresh strain to one of the Western Hemisphere’s most important trade relationships. And things are about to get considerably worse: a 25% tariff on most Brazilian goods is set to take effect on July 22, 2026, following a yearlo

Arival Bank announced the launch of stablecoin payment and treasury capabilities on July 3, 2026, with services expected to go live by mid-July. The offering supports USDC for all eligible clients and USDT for non-US entities, with conversion fees starting at just 0.05% for businesses moving into US

Major technology companies have intensified efforts to shape U.S. artificial intelligence policy by urging lawmakers to support open AI models instead of imposing broad restrictions. Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, and several other organizations jointly argued that open development encourages competi

BNB Chain has emerged as the largest on-chain host for Franklin Templeton’s Benji tokenized money market fund, giving the network a notable foothold in the growing real-world assets (RWA) market. Key figures - Benji total assets under management: $2.44 billion - Assets on BNB Chain: ~$1.5 billion

Hashi has opened a testnet on Sui that gives developers a sandbox to experiment with Bitcoin-backed lending using native BTC as collateral — and a fresh security model intended to reduce some of the usual cross-chain risks. What Hashi built - Native BTC collateral on Sui: rather than relying on wra

Headline: TRON’s gasless USDT transfers top $3 billion in a week, underscoring demand for frictionless stablecoin payments TRON’s gasless USDT transfer volume hit roughly $3 billion over a seven-day period, highlighting strong appetite for stablecoin rails that remove the need for users to hold a n

The XRP Ledger’s core server has a new name—and it matters. Version 3.2.0 of the core software ships a symbolic but meaningful change: the server binary moves from “rippled” to “xrpld” (per XLS-0095). On the surface it’s a simple rename. In practice it signals a longer-running shift: the XRPL ecosys

ME News reports that, as of July 25 (UTC+8), prediction market data shows that the event "LoL: EDward Gaming vs Bilibili Gaming (BO3) - LPL Group Ascend" achieved a 24-hour trading volume of $2.2M, with significantly increased market participation.

When one of the world’s largest hedge funds tells its clients it blew it, you pay attention. Viking Global Investors, the $53 billion firm founded by Andreas Halvorsen, used a July client letter to describe its conservative positioning on AI stocks as a “missed opportunity.”The firm’s flagship fund

The Financial Action Task Force says more jurisdictions are putting crypto rules into law, but enforcement remains the weak point.In its Seventh Targeted Update on the implementation of FATF standards for virtual assets and virtual asset service providers, the global watchdog reported that 83% of su

TL;DR:Raydium implemented permissioned AMMs on July 23 to enable trading of regulated assets on Solana.Superstate integrated as the first partner to trade native tokenized stocks through the Opening Bell platform.Ark Invest projects that the global tokenized asset market could reach $11 trillion by

Billions Network [BILL] surged by more than 25% in the past 24 hours. BILL’s daily trading volume surged by 163% to around $217 million, which was larger than its market cap by 2.67x.The spike in trading activity that drove the altcoin higher was due to the Robinhood listing of the BILL token. This

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to announce significant long-term memory chip supply contracts with US technology companies on July 24, during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to San Francisco. A senior presidential official described the expected contract values as “very

Nobody expected DEXE price to revisit a demand zone so early that has held since 2021. Yet that’s exactly what happened after one of the sharpest collapses the token has seen, sending it from elevated levels back to the long-standing $1.86-$3.35 support area and leaving investors scrambling for answ

The four largest AI spenders in tech now plan to pour more than $700 billion into capital expenditures in 2026. Investors are starting to wonder if anyone ran the numbers on a napkin first.Alphabet kicked off the anxiety spiral on July 22 when it raised its 2026 capex guidance to a range of $195 bil