Hyundai Card settled a $20,000 intercompany transfer between U.S. and Mexico affiliates in about seven minutes using USDT on Avalanche, with a European pilot involving Visa and Circle scheduled for late July 2026.

Brazil’s B3 exchange launched options on Bitcoin, Ether and Solana futures on July 6, adding regulated crypto volatility products to the country’s domestic derivatives market.

Russia's largest bank Sberbank plans to launch a crypto wallet and digital custody service inside its Sber and SberInvestments apps by early December 2026, following the expected implementation of the country's new crypto law on September 1.

Kalshi is no longer just a platform for predicting election outcomes or hurricane paths. In a recent interview on The Journeyman, CEO Tarek Mansour revealed that crypto has become the exchange's fastest-growing vertical, exploding 25x in volume since the start of the year.

Standard Chartered has integrated stablecoin access directly into its banking infrastructure through a partnership with Circle, announced on July 2, 2026.

Fundstrat's Tom Lee has a specific analogy for where crypto sits right now, and it's worth unpacking.

Ripple's dollar-backed stablecoin, RLUSD, is now legally available in Japan, approved by the country's Financial Services Agency and distributed through SBI VC Trade's VCTRADE platform to both institutional and retail users.

Hyperliquid's core perpetuals business has roughly halved since its peak. But underneath that cooldown, a different kind of trading is quietly growing on the very same infrastructure.

Bitget is trying to remove the wall between crypto wallets and the US stock market, and the way it is doing so is the part worth examining.

Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin believes crypto's real wave of adoption hasn't started yet, and that traditional finance and AI agents are about to drive it together.

Tether is winding down Alloy by Tether and its gold-collateralized aUSD₮ asset, disabling new positions immediately and giving existing users three months to redeem before a firm September 17 cutoff.

Coinbase unveiled 1:1 backed tokenized US stocks with on-chain dividends and a USDC-secured credit card on June 16, pushing its "everything exchange" ambition, each with a notable catch.