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Tether announced that its gold-backed digital asset XAU₮ has received Sharia compliance certification from Amanah Advisors, an institution led by Mufti Faraz Adam. The certification confirms that XAU₮ adheres to the core principles of Islamic finance. XAU₮ is issued by TG Commodities, S.A. de C.V., with each full token representing direct ownership of physical gold stored in Swiss vaults. Certification requirements include genuine ownership of physical gold, clear and verifiable asset backing, no interest (riba), no leverage or speculative derivatives, and transparent reserve structures. Tether stated that XAU₮ can be used for integrating digital gold products into Islamic banking, takaful and halal savings products, long-term wealth preservation strategies, as well as tokenized trade finance and collateral applications. Amanah Advisors will continue to work with Tether to develop practical guidelines and governance frameworks to support the adoption of XAU₮ in a Sharia-compliant manner.
on July 22 that Binance has officially launched the HK0700 USDT (Tencent) and HK1810 USDT (Xiaomi) Hong Kong stock trading pairs on its Quanto perpetual contracts.Binance Quanto perpetual contracts allow users to trade non-USD-denominated stocks using local currencies without the need for foreign exchange conversion, lowering the barrier to entry while enhancing trading convenience. Binance TradFi products now support 140 trading pairs, and the trading volume of its TradFi perpetual contracts over the past week has approached $100 billion, continuously expanding users' one-stop experience in trading traditional financial assets.
according to official sources, Gate has now launched KIMIUSDT (Moonshot AI) pre-market perpetual contract trading (USDT settlement), supporting 1-10x leverage.Moonshot AI is an AGI unicorn independently developing general-purpose large models, ranking among the top tier of AI startups in China in terms of financing scale and technical performance.
Odaily Odaily: Argentine digital bank Ualá has completed a $197 million funding round, led by Allianz X, the strategic investment arm of the Allianz Group, with a $20 million investment from Tether. The round was announced in March, valuing Ualá at $3.2 billion. Ualá has over 11 million users, with operations spanning Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia. The company will use the funds to expand across Latin America, with Mexico as a key market. Ualá founder and CEO Pierpaolo Barbieri stated that this investment does not include the integration of stablecoins on the platform. Ualá operates as a licensed bank in relevant markets, and regulatory rules restrict it from conducting such integrations.
Pact Labs, a stablecoin payment infrastructure provider, has announced a $7 million Series A funding round, led by Tether, with participation from Blockchange Ventures and Lasagna. The new funds will be used to accelerate infrastructure development, enabling USAT to provide payroll services, wage withdrawals, credit, and payment solutions for millions of American workers. USAT is a USD stablecoin issued by Tether in partnership with Anchorage Digital Bank. (Prnewswire)
Pact Labs has announced the completion of a $7 million Series A funding round, led by Tether, with participation from Blockchange Ventures and Lasagna. The project's primary business is to provide core infrastructure for USA₮ in scenarios such as payroll, earned wage access, credit, and everyday payments. (Tether News).
despite the continued downturn in the crypto market, Coinbase Ventures led the venture capital rankings in the first half of 2026 by completing 30 investments.Animoca Brands followed closely with 19 investments, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) completed 18 investments, and stablecoin issuer Tether participated in 15 deals.Over the past 12 months, Coinbase Ventures has completed 75 investments, continuing to lead the industry. Animoca Brands, YZi Labs, GSR, and a16z have completed 40, 39, 31, and 30 investments, respectively.However, the overall crypto fundraising market remains in a bear market cycle. In June, the total amount raised by crypto companies fell to $1.4 billion, a 63% decrease from $3.8 billion in April. The number of funding rounds also decreased from 89 in May to 61. In comparison, fundraising in April this year was only $698 million, hitting a new low in nearly two years.So far in July, the crypto industry has completed 12 financing rounds, totaling approximately $456 million.In terms of investment focus, Coinbase Ventures has primarily invested in payment protocols, DeFi, and infrastructure over the past six months. This includes participation in seven funding rounds for payment projects, four rounds for DeFi, and three rounds for infrastructure and Real World Asset (RWA) tokenization projects.By sector, the areas that attracted the most capital over the past year were DeFi, payments, and AI. DeFi projects completed 216 funding rounds, the payment sector completed 131 rounds, AI and crypto combination projects completed 128 rounds, and infrastructure projects secured 110 rounds.It is worth noting that while top institutions remain active, the overall number of market participants is decreasing. The number of independent investment institutions in June dropped to 242, nearly halved from 452 in October 2025, reflecting a concentration of capital in the bear market environment. (Cointelegraph)
: Digital asset trading platform Gate has announced that it will open subscriptions for the second phase of its Pre-IPOs project, OpenAI (OPENAI), from July 15, 2026, 15:00 to July 17, 2026, 15:00 (UTC+8), supporting participation with both USDT and GUSD. The total subscription value for the project is approximately $20 million, with 27,700 OPENAI asset certificates issued at a price of 1 OPENAI = $722. The minimum investment is 100 USDT or 100 GUSD, with implicit handling fees and custody costs waived. OpenAI, driven by products like ChatGPT, is advancing generative AI development and has received investments from Microsoft and others, with an implied market valuation of approximately $895 billion.The OPENAI asset certificate is a pre-IPO mirror note for OpenAI, designed to reflect the company's value before and after its public listing. Gate will hedge its exposure by acquiring the corresponding stocks and will offer pathways including pre-market trading, long-term holding, and future conversion into underlying stock assets, stock tokens, or USDT. Allocations are calculated based on the "average hourly locked amount"; the earlier the participation and the longer the lock-up period, the higher the weight. The certificates will be unlocked in three phases on July 17, August 17, and September 17, with pre-market trading opening on July 20. Concurrently, Gate is launching VIP/Super Agent airdrops, GT rewards, and a 3.8% annualized GUSD minting yield. Furthermore, Gate has already introduced Pre-IPOs, IPO Access, Gate Stocks, and gStocks, covering US, Hong Kong, and Korean stocks, encompassing over 12,500 stocks and ETFs, and will continuously expand its global asset ecosystem, including ETFs and RWAs. Gate will continue to bridge traditional finance with on-chain assets, providing global users with a more open, efficient, and one-stop investment service.
the Bank of Thailand is strengthening stablecoin regulation to combat money laundering, illegal financing, and "grey capital" in the country. The central bank is collaborating with the Securities and Exchange Commission to review high-value stablecoin transactions, focusing on USDt (USDT), cash transactions, and foreign exchange dealings to identify and prevent illicit fund flows. Thailand will also expand the compliance responsibilities of commercial banks in areas such as cash networks, foreign exchange services, gold trading, and suspicious stablecoin transactions. In 2025, Thailand suffered losses of 115 billion Thai baht (approximately $3.4 billion) due to scams, recording about 173 million fraudulent calls and text messages. Cash deposits exceeding 5 million Thai baht will also require full disclosure. Bitkub, Thailand's largest exchange, processes a daily trading volume of approximately $26 million, nearly 40% of which is foreign exchange trading, with the USDT/THB trading pair being the most popular. In 2025, Thailand's banking sector froze 3 million bank accounts as part of efforts to crack down on nominee accounts, grey capital, and suspicious activities. (Cointelegraph).
Mercado Bitcoin has announced the completion of a $20 million strategic growth funding round, with participation from Tether. SoftBank also joined this funding round. The company's primary business focuses on financial services in Brazil, covering payment infrastructure, tokenized investment products, and on-chain capital markets. (Bitcoin.com News).
According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will sequentially list a total of 7 USDT perpetual contracts based on traditional financial assets on July 9, 2026, including BOTUSDT, WENUSDT, INTWUSDT, SNXXUSDT, XBIUSDT, BNCUSDT, and FWDIUSDT. The underlying assets cover US individual stocks and ETFs, with maximum leverage of 25x, funding rates settled every 8 hours, and support for 24/7 trading.
According to the official announcement, Bybit Spot listed GROVE (GROVE/USDT) on the spot market at 15:00 UTC on July 7. Meanwhile, GROVE has joined the Bybit Token Splash Trading Competition, where eligible users have the chance to participate and share a GROVE prize pool of 4 million. Grove is unlocking the potential of the stablecoin economy. Through institutional-grade asset allocation, financing, and liquidity services, Grove brings real-world assets (RWA) and real-world application scenarios on-chain, helping build the next-generation global financial market.
stablecoin issuer Tether has announced a $20 million strategic investment in the Latin American on-chain financial services platform Mercado Bitcoin to support its growth in asset tokenization, payments, credit, capital markets, and compliant digital financial services.Founded in 2013, Mercado Bitcoin has evolved from a digital asset trading platform into a comprehensive on-chain financial infrastructure platform, covering services such as trading, tokenized investment products, lending, stablecoin payments, banking infrastructure, and cross-border financial services. This funding will primarily be used to expand payment infrastructure, scale tokenized products for institutional and retail investors, develop credit businesses, advance on-chain capital market construction, seek strategic partnership opportunities, and drive international expansion.
Bybit officially launches Bank Triparty, providing institutional clients with lending services backed by bank-custodied collateral assets. Eligible institutions can deposit collateral assets independently with partner banks and obtain financing limits without altering existing trading strategy infrastructure.
Gate’s Hong Kong stock trading targets have further expanded to over 1,500 stocks, building on the original base of more than 1,000 to continuously enrich the coverage of assets listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, aiming to improve access to global stock markets. Users can directly trade stocks listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange through the stock entry point, participate in pre-market and after-hours trading sessions, and conveniently invest in Hong Kong stocks using USDT, without needing to open a traditional brokerage account or perform Hong Kong dollar conversion, significantly lowering the entry barrier for global investors. Gate’s Hong Kong stock trading service now offers comprehensive coverage across both the App and Web platforms, with the Gate App requiring an update to version 8.23.5 or higher.This expansion of trading targets covers high-quality listed companies with larger market capitalizations and better liquidity on the Main Board and GEM, thereby improving the structure of Hong Kong stock assets. Simultaneously, Gate has established a multi-tiered product system encompassing Pre-IPOs, IPO Access, and secondary stock market trading. IPO Access provides users with a new channel to participate in the subscription of globally popular companies going public. Furthermore, Gate Stocks supports users in trading over 10,000 US mainstream market stocks and ETFs using USDT, covering major US securities trading markets and liquidity networks such as NYSE, Nasdaq, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, and BATS. It also supports fractional share trading with a minimum investment of 0.01 shares. In the future, the platform will continuously expand its coverage of global stocks and traditional financial assets, optimizing asset allocation efficiency and the trading experience.
Neura Robotics has announced the completion of a $1.4 billion funding round, led by Tether Investments, with participation from Nvidia, Qualcomm, Amazon, and others. The company's primary business is developing AI-driven general-purpose humanoid robots. Neura Robotics plans to produce 5 million AI-driven humanoid robots by 2030, equipping each with a Tether-linked digital wallet, enabling them to autonomously accept compensation for work and conduct electronic payments. (Coindesk)
the Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto officially announced that it generated approximately $48 million in net proceeds by selling about 600 BTC and related derivative positions, thereby repaying approximately $45 million in outstanding debt to Kraken. This move is expected to reduce annual financing costs by approximately $4 million.Following the transaction, the company signed a new loan term sheet with Kraken for the remaining 165 million USDT, with a principal of 105 million USDT deferred to June 30, 2027, and an annual interest rate that can be reduced to 7.75% upon meeting the Bitwise custodied wallet collateral threshold. Additionally, the company’s board of directors has authorized a share repurchase program of up to $25 million. Currently, the company still holds approximately 4,467 BTC on its balance sheet. Furthermore, according to a notice from Nasdaq, the company has regained compliance with listing requirements.
digital asset platform Gate has released its May 2026 transparency report. The report indicates that multi-asset trading and prediction markets are becoming key growth engines for the platform. As of the end of May, Gate had listed 605 CFD trading assets, covering multiple categories including stocks, indices, forex, metals, and commodities, ranking among the top globally among crypto trading platforms in terms of asset count. Additionally, Gate Stocks allows users to trade over 10,000 US stocks and ETFs from major U.S. markets using USDT, covering the main U.S. securities trading markets and liquidity networks. The platform's direct IPO first-phase project, SpaceX, saw意向 subscription amounts exceed $100 million.Meanwhile, the platform continues to deepen its presence in the prediction market sector. Gate has deeply integrated Polymarket, launching features such as smart money tracking, wallet monitoring, top holdings, profit/loss statistics, and AI analysis. As the first CEX platform to integrate Polymarket, Gate continues to strengthen its advantage as a prediction market gateway, maintaining a leading position in user participation scale, market activity, and ecosystem influence.Furthermore, Gate's flagship event, WCTC S8, successfully concluded in May, attracting over 80,000 participants and 9,500 registered teams. The cumulative total weighted trading volume for the event exceeded $50 billion, with the CFD segment alone accounting for a cumulative trading volume of over $140 billion, reflecting the strong growth momentum of traditional financial assets within crypto trading scenarios. As stablecoins, RWA, asset tokenization, and prediction markets emerge as new growth engines for the industry, Gate will continue to expand its business layout in stocks, forex, and IPOs, aiming to build a comprehensive one-stop global digital financial services platform.
Tether 领投德国机器人公司 NEURA Robotics 高达 14 亿美元的融资轮，后者估值约 70 亿美元。双方计划集成钱包和 AI 技术，使机器人具备自主支付与设备端计算能力。
: Tether Investments, a subsidiary of Tether, announced that it is leading the Series C funding round for humanoid robotics company NEURA Robotics. The total size of this funding round could reach up to $1.4 billion, setting a new record for private fundraising in the robotics and physical AI sector.NEURA Robotics is a multi-form cognitive robotics company, with products encompassing humanoid robots, precision robotic arms, automated guided vehicles / autonomous mobile robots (AGVs/AMRs), and service robots. The company has established a stable pipeline of enterprise clients and has formed strategic partnerships with top global industry partners, some of whom are also participating in this investment round. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated: "As robots move towards true autonomy, the underlying infrastructure must also be upgraded. WDK and QVAC will provide machines with a dual layer of finance and intelligence, enabling them to independently execute tasks and complete transactions."