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Circle expands USDC to OKX ecosystem with X Layer launch

Circle expands USDC to OKX ecosystem with X Layer launch

Circle has launched its USDC stablecoin on X Layer, OKX’s Ethereum layer-2 network, extending the stablecoin to an ecosystem connected to one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges by trading volume.Circle announced Friday that native USDC and its Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) are no…

KuCoin Pay Expands Stablecoin Utility With an Enterprise Gift Card Solution

KuCoin Pay Expands Stablecoin Utility With an Enterprise Gift Card Solution

PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands, Aug. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- KuCoin Pay, the cryptocurrency payment solution enabled by KuCoin, today announced the launch of KuCoin Gift Card, a scalable digital asset distribution solution that enables businesses to distribute USDT and USDC globally throug…

Raoul Pal Says Most People Think Crypto Is About Tokens Going Up and Down, but Today It Is About 'Owning' the Operating System of the Next Economy

Raoul Pal Says Most People Think Crypto Is About Tokens Going Up and Down, but Today It Is About 'Owning' the Operating System of the Next Economy

Macro investor Raoul Pal said on Wednesday that cryptocurrency’s real significance lies in enabling AI agentic finance, rather than token price moves.‘Exciting’ Unlock For Square SellersIn an X post, Pal argued that tokens going up and down is the “smallest part of what’s happening.”“Money is about …

edgeX: Trade to Earn goes live - 04 Aug 2026

edgeX: Trade to Earn goes live - 04 Aug 2026

The announcement states, "Trade to Earn is live on edgeX," with trading fees returned in USDC and EDGE.Returning trading fees gives traders a direct economic reason to use edgeX by reducing the effective cost of activity. Including EDGE in the reward mix also connects participation on the platform w…

Marex Now Takes USDC as Margin: How Stablecoin Collateral Actually Works, and the Letter It All Rests On

Marex Now Takes USDC as Margin: How Stablecoin Collateral Actually Works, and the Letter It All Rests On

A prop firm in Chicago just posted margin, and it wasn't dollars or Treasuries. Prime Trading delivered USDC to Marex as initial-margin collateral for CFTC-regulated cleared derivatives, the first transaction under a program Marex announced on July 16.The workflow has now run end to end inside the U…

Binance Earn Launches August Monthly Leaderboard for Dual Investment Users

Binance Earn Launches August Monthly Leaderboard for Dual Investment Users

According to the announcement from Binance, Binance Earn is opening the August Monthly Leaderboard for Dual Investment users, with rewards of up to 5,888 USDC available through Dual Investment subscriptions. The promotion period runs from 2026-08-03 06:00 (UTC) to 2026-08-31 23:59 (UTC), and eligibl…

Arbitrum: Shopify Payments supports USDC checkout - 30 Jul 2026

Arbitrum: Shopify Payments supports USDC checkout - 30 Jul 2026

Shopify Payments supports USDC payments on Arbitrum, allowing customers to pay from 480 supported wallets without FX or gas fees. Eligible merchants can receive payouts in local currency or USDC.The integration gives Arbitrum a direct route into stablecoin commerce through an established checkout sy…

Ostium blames off-chain breach for $24 million exploit, rules out smart contract flaw

Ostium blames off-chain breach for $24 million exploit, rules out smart contract flaw

Onchain perpetuals exchange Ostium said its July 15 exploit, which drained 23.75 million USDC from its OLP vault, stemmed from a compromise of its off-chain infrastructure rather than vulnerability in its smart contracts or protocol multisigs.In a post-mortem published Wednesday, Ostium wrote that t…

Meet the Strangest RWA on Solana Yet: A Dinosaur Skull

Meet the Strangest RWA on Solana Yet: A Dinosaur Skull

Jurassic Finance plans to tokenize Deaton, a Triceratops prorsus skull, on Solana in what the project calls the first tokenized dinosaur.The initiative comes as the tokenization market expands beyond traditional assets such as stocks and bonds, with issuers bringing collectibles, artifacts, and oth…

1inch launches Aqua to the public, introducing the first shared liquidity layer for DeFi

1inch launches Aqua to the public, introducing the first shared liquidity layer for DeFi

ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, July 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- 1inch, the leading DeFi ecosystem, announces the full public launch of Aqua, a self-custodial shared liquidity layer that enables liquidity providers to use the same wallet balance across multiple positions without locking assets in li…

USDC issuer Circle to acquire nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents

USDC issuer Circle to acquire nearly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents

Circle will acquire IBM’s blockchain patent portfolio, the USDC (USDC) issuer said on Monday.No financial details for the transaction were disclosed in Circle’s announcement. CRCL stock price was up more than 2% in premarket activity on Monday following the announcement, according to Yahoo Finance d…

WEMIX says attacker moved about $724,000 after contract breach

WEMIX says attacker moved about $724,000 after contract breach

Layer-1 blockchain network WEMIX said an attacker moved about 724,000 in USDC.e tokens after compromising ownership of a contract linked to its WEMIX$ stablecoin and issuing tokens without authorization.The abnormal transactions occurred on Sunday at 9:17 UTC, according to a preliminary incident upd…