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Ripple partners with South Korea's Jeonbuk Bank, which becomes the first regional bank in South Korea to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border remittances. The partnership aims to replace the traditional SWIFT multi-intermediary process with near real-time settlement (seconds to minutes) and support 7×24-hour operations.
According to Russian crypto media Bits.media, Maria Patrikeyeva, Managing Director of the Derivatives Market at Moscow Exchange, stated that the exchange plans to launch Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures contracts for professional investors and plans to gradually expand the tradable cryptocurrency varieties to 10. Perpetual futures are contracts with no fixed expiration date that are automatically rolled over daily, offering greater flexibility compared to traditional quarterly/monthly contracts. Currently, Moscow Exchange has already launched quarterly and monthly futures for five cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Ripple, and Tron, in the summer of 2025. In addition, the Russian Central Bank has recently included BTC, ETH, and USDT in the list of crypto assets allowed for trading by non-professional investors. It is worth noting that Moscow Exchange is currently on the U.S. sanctions list, with restricted access to international settlement infrastructure, and the exchange is also preparing to establish a digital settlement depository system independent of the National Settlement Depository.
Odaily News: The cross-chain bridge connecting XRP Ledger and Coreum was attacked on August 9. The attacker exploited a validation logic vulnerability to steal approximately 199,900 XRP, reducing the bridge's asset balance from roughly 200,400 XRP to 493.5 XRP. The attack did not involve private key leaks and did not target the XRP Ledger protocol itself. The attacker forged deposit operations, causing the bridge system to recognize them as legitimate deposits and triggering the bridge wallet on the other end to send real XRP. On-chain data shows that the attacker completed the fund transfer through 94 multi-signature authorization transactions within 97 minutes. These transactions required signatures from 17 of the 28 relay node keys, allowing the attacker to bypass the bridge's validation mechanism. As of August 11, the Coreum cross-chain bridge remains suspended, and the Coreum Development Foundation has not yet released an official incident report. The XRP mainnet and user private keys remain unaffected and secure.
According to CoinDesk, Robinhood announced the launch of a new all-in-one investment app in the UK, providing UK users with zero-fee trading services for over 50 cryptocurrencies, including BTC, ETH, XRP, and Hyperliquid (HYPE), among others. Crypto asset trading is accessed through Bitstamp, an exchange acquired by Robinhood in 2025. In addition to crypto assets, the app simultaneously opens trading for traditional financial products such as stocks, Stocks ISA, options, and futures. The platform also launched an AI feature, "Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto," which analyzes breaking news, market data, and technical indicators in real-time, and interprets the drivers behind price fluctuations of various crypto assets in plain language.
Odaily News: The latest software version 3.3.0 of XRP Ledger (XRPL) introduces several upgrade proposals, including Confidential Transfers. This feature is designed for institutional users, supporting encrypted token balances and transfer amounts while preserving the visibility of accounts and token types. It is primarily applied to Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPT) on XRPL, including tokenized financial assets such as funds and bonds. Through cryptographic technologies like zero-knowledge proofs, the network can verify transaction validity without disclosing specific amounts. XRPL currently holds approximately $1.38 billion in on-chain real-world assets (RWA), including about $845.7 million in RLUSD. In addition to RLUSD, there are over $530 million in tokenized assets on XRPL, involving issuers such as Ondo, VERT Capital, Archax, and Societe Generale. XRPL 3.3.0 also includes five proposals—Batch, Sponsor, Permission Delegation, and Dynamic MPT—addressing institutional needs such as batch transactions, fee sponsorship, permission management, and dynamic adjustments to token attributes. The aforementioned upgrades have not yet been officially launched and will only be activated after receiving support from more than 80% of XRPL's trusted validator nodes for two consecutive weeks.
Odaily News Nasdaq-listed financial services firm Marex Group has made an investment in institutional-grade crypto infrastructure provider Digital Prime Technologies, with the amount undisclosed. The investment will support Tokenet, a digital asset lending platform developed by Digital Prime in collaboration with EquiLend, and will be used by Marex to expand its institutional digital asset business. Digital Prime disclosed last week that lending inventory from Tokenet's launch partners has surpassed $1 billion, with borrowing demand exceeding $1 billion. The data refers to the scale of digital assets available for lending on the platform and the borrowing intentions expressed by participating institutions, not completed loans. Tokenet's launch partners include Galaxy Digital and Ripple Prime, among others. Marex's investment is part of its broader initiative to expand its digital asset business through investments in crypto market infrastructure.
Odaily News: Michigan State Representative Donavan McKinney defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Shri Thanedar in the Democratic primary for Michigan's 13th Congressional District. As of Wednesday, McKinney held 51.9% of the vote, compared to Thanedar's 48.1%. In this primary, Protect Progress, a crypto-backed political action committee, spent over $2 million on media expenditures to support Thanedar's re-election and oppose McKinney. Protect Progress is affiliated with Fairshake, which is primarily backed by crypto companies Coinbase and Ripple. Thanedar previously voted in the House in favor of bills such as the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act. McKinney will face Republican candidate Taras Nykoriak in the November election.
Ripple announced strategic investments in UK fund technology company ZILO and FCA-regulated tokenized trading platform Licuido, integrating regulated digital transfer agency, asset issuance, and collateral liquidity capabilities into the XRP Ledger. Ripple stated that the relevant infrastructure will support tokenized funds as collateral from the issuance stage and enable atomic settlement via XRPL, while RLUSD can serve as the regulated cash leg in delivery versus payment transactions. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Odaily News: Jazzi Cooper, RippleX Product Lead, announced on X that the next version of XRP Ledger, xrpld 3.3.0, is set to launch next week. Upon release, it will introduce five new features to validators: confidential MPT, batch transactions, delegated permissions, fee sponsorship and reserves, and dynamic MPT. Among these, the amendments for batch transactions and delegated permissions were previously urgently withdrawn after security researchers discovered severe vulnerabilities. She noted that XRP Ledger already has the capacity to support tokenized assets at scale, and this upgrade will further drive the adoption of these assets in global transfers, trading, collateralization, and settlement scenarios.
: Japanese game developer Gumi announced it will launch a 3 billion yen (approximately $18.3 million) crypto asset fund this Saturday in partnership with SBI Financial Services, with support from Daiwa Securities Group and other investors. The fund will be operated by SBI Crypto Fund, a joint venture in which SBI Financial Services holds a 51% stake and Gumi's subsidiary gC Labs holds the remaining 49%. The fund will primarily invest in Bitcoin and major altcoins, employing strategies such as staking, portfolio rebalancing, and hedging. Gumi stated that the fund aims to bridge Japan's corporate sector with the crypto market and establish an operational track record ahead of a potential future lifting of the ban on crypto ETFs in Japan. Gumi's crypto business also includes managing its own crypto assets centered around XRP, offering portfolio management services through Hinode Technologies, and operating a crypto investment fund. According to Gumi's latest annual report, as of April 30, 2026, the company held 14.13 billion yen in crypto assets, nearly double the 7.58 billion yen recorded a year earlier.
the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated the provisional MiCA registry on Friday, adding 15 licensed crypto asset service providers (CASPs), bringing the total number to 309. The newly added institutions include BNY SA/NV, the Belgian subsidiary of US banking giant BNY Mellon. This latest batch includes four banking institutions, three of which are from Germany, alongside digital asset platforms such as BitPay, Coinify, and Bleap. Germany and Denmark each added three CASPs, Bulgaria and Latvia each added two, while Belgium, Cyprus, Liechtenstein, and the Netherlands each added one. ESMA stated that this update did not alter other MiCA-related registries, including those for asset-referenced tokens (ARTs), e-money tokens (EMTs), authorized issuers of crypto assets, and the list of non-compliant entities. Following the previous transitional deadline on July 1, ESMA’s second update had added 14 CASPs, including Ripple Payments Europe.
According to official news, Ripple announced the launch of Ripple Mint, a unified platform designed for institutional users to access, mint, redeem, and manage RLUSD. The platform provides both User Interface and API access methods, supporting institutional automated stablecoin operations, integrating RLUSD into existing systems, and enabling cross-chain digital dollar liquidity management. Currently, the service is open to existing RLUSD users.
MoonPay announces a partnership with Discover Network, enabling US Discover credit cardholders to now purchase thousands of supported crypto assets via MoonPay, including BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, TRX, HYPE, and ZEC. This partnership integrates Discover card payment channels into MoonPay's crypto asset purchase service, providing US users with a new fiat on-ramp method.
According to PRNewswire, stablecoin operator Notabene announced it has received strategic investment from Ripple; the specific investment amount has not been disclosed yet. The two parties will collaborate on enterprise-level stablecoin payments, including integrating Ripple's USD stablecoin RLUSD into the Notabene Flow B2B stablecoin payment platform. Both parties also plan to further expand the application of RLUSD in institutional payment networks to accelerate the adoption of compliant stablecoin infrastructure by banks, payment institutions, and fintech companies.
Odaily报道，据官方消息，OKX将于2026年7月21日上线RLUSD持仓收益活动。用户持有RLUSD无需申购、赎回或锁仓，即可自动获得持仓收益；其中，持仓用户前2,000 RLUSD立享10%年化收益。此外，VIP用户年化收益最高可达4.1%，且持仓不设上限，普通用户可享3.5%年化收益。奖励将支持选择以RLUSD或XRP形式发放。用户可在OKX账户"赚币"—"RLUSD Rewards"参与并查看持仓及收益情况。据悉，RLUSD是一种锚定美元的稳定币，由Ripple子公司Standard Custody & Trust Company发行。
It is reported that Bybit has officially launched the RLUSD holdings interest campaign. Holding a minimum of 1 RLUSD earns a fixed 7% APY, with no subscription required and no locking period. RLUSD is a USD-backed stablecoin issued by Ripple, natively issued on blockchains such as XRP Ledger and Ethereum. It is fully backed by independently custodied cash and cash equivalent reserves and can be redeemed for USD at a 1:1 ratio. Campaign Highlights: • No threshold to participate, earn simply by holding, and enjoy exclusive hidden benefits for long-term holdings • 7% fixed APY, automatically distributed daily • 50,000 RLUSD Trading Competition launched simultaneously: Participate in the ranking by trading with RLUSD as UTA margin This campaign stacks holding yields + trading competition prize pool + long-term benefits, enabling users to enjoy triple benefits simultaneously. Trading Competition: https://www.bybit.com/promo/campaign/RLUSD_Trading_Competition
: Crypto payment company BitPay announced that it has received approval from the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets to obtain a crypto asset service provider license, allowing it to operate within EU member states under the Markets in Crypto-Assets regulatory framework. BitPay stated that this license will support the company in expanding services such as crypto payments and stablecoin payments across Europe. According to relevant requirements, starting July 1, all entities providing crypto-related services must be subject to regulation. Jonathan Arler, BitPay's Head of Europe, stated that Europe is one of the most important regions for the future development of payments. Previously, Ripple announced that it had obtained a crypto asset service provider license from the Luxembourg financial regulator.
: Ripple’s Global Head of Public Policy and Government Affairs, Lauren Belive, stated that opposing the CLARITY Act is not opposition to the crypto industry, but rather opposition to consumers, and would continue exposing crypto holders to bad actors who exploit regulatory arbitrage. Belive noted that while a digital asset market already exists in the United States, federal rules protecting consumers have not kept pace. She pointed out that the regulatory gaps that led to the collapse of FTX and the loss of customer funds still persist. Belive indicated that the CLARITY Act would grant the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clear joint jurisdiction over the digital asset market, requiring tokens to undergo regulatory oversight before entering the market. Stuart Alderoty, Chief Legal Officer of Ripple and Chairman of the National Cryptocurrency Association, stated that opposing the CLARITY Act would allow the current unregulated status quo to continue and be exploited by bad actors.
Odaily News on July 14, Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of $181 million, and Ethereum ETFs recorded net inflows of $58.34 million. No outflows were observed for either Bitcoin or Ethereum ETFs on that day. BlackRock's IBIT saw net inflows of $139 million, Fidelity's FBTC posted net inflows of $21.07 million; all net inflows into Ethereum ETFs came from BlackRock's ETHA. HYPE, XRP, and Solana ETFs had no trading activity on the day. Morgan Stanley submitted a proposed amended filing for spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, with the document covering service providers such as Coinbase Custody and staking provisions. Japanese policymakers are advancing reforms aimed at classifying crypto assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
Ripple announced on July 14, 2026, that it has joined the x402 Foundation under the Linux Foundation as a Premier Member, participating in the technical and governance development of the protocol. The x402 Foundation, initiated by 40 member organizations, aims to develop an open payment standard based on HTTP for AI agents, APIs, and applications. Coinbase has contributed x402 to the Linux Foundation, supporting AI agents, APIs, and applications in sending and receiving payments directly during network interactions. Ripple stated that the XRP Ledger already supports agent payments via x402, including transactions using XRP and the Ripple USD stablecoin RLUSD. (Bitcoin.com News).