Author: WebDesk

Key TakeawaysThe Federal Reserve held rates at 3.50% to 3.75% in a 9-3 vote on July 29, 2026.Hammack, Kashkari and Logan dissented, each preferring a 25 basis point rate hike.The New York Fed Desk will keep reinvesting proceeds to maintain 3.65% reserve rates. The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9 to 3 to keep the target range unchanged, citing solid economic growth alongside inflation that remains above the central bank’s 2% goal. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh presided over a meeting that ended with a rare split: the dissenters wanted higher rates, not lower ones. Three Officials Wanted a Hike Cleveland…

Your friend swears his new AI bot “prints” on alt pairs while he sleeps. The next morning he’s staring at a red PnL and a pile of taker fees. If you’ve been around crypto long enough, you’ve seen this movie. Smart code. Dumb market.AI trading agents are having a moment again. Demos look slick. Chat prompts spin up strategies in minutes. But when you push them into real markets with slippage, fees, and spiky liquidity, the story changes fast.So let’s strip it down. What these agents do well, where they break, and how to use them without torching your stack.AI…

Bipartisan work on the long-awaited Clarity Act continues after Democratic senator Catherine Cortez Masto said that she, along with two law enforcement groups, are feeling “good” about proposed changes to the bill, according to a news report.  Along with the National Association of Assistant U.S. Attorneys and the National District Attorneys Association, Cortez backed changes to the bill and said they felt positive about “the chance to resolve this issue once and for all,” according to a POLITICO report. The changes were sent to the White House. A number of lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act — which would set…

James Ding Jul 29, 2026 17:46 OFAC sanctions Hamas-linked operatives and freezes $38.6M in TRON wallets, highlighting regional OTC desks’ role in terror financing. The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned Zaid Issam Ahmed al-Jebouri and two associates for their roles in a Hamas-linked financial network. The action, announced on July 23, 2026, also designates seven TRON (TRX) cryptocurrency addresses that have received approximately $38.6 million in digital assets. Al-Jebouri, an Iraqi national operating out of Istanbul, allegedly ran the financial network through El-Kahira for General Trading, a…

Terrill Dicki Jul 29, 2026 17:38 Paxos’ Hoplites agent automates 15% of pull requests, reshaping software development with AI-driven workflows. Paxos has revealed that its Slack-native coding agent, Hoplites, now accounts for 15% of all merged pull requests across the company’s repositories. Since its launch earlier this year, Hoplites has generated over 2,000 pull requests, with more than half successfully merged, according to Paxos’ July 29 blog post. Hoplites stands out in the burgeoning AI-powered development tools sector. This agent operates as an autonomous layer on top of large language models (LLMs), performing…

OSL Digital Securities has opened XRP trading to retail investors in Hong Kong, creating a regulated fiat on-ramp as US lawmakers continue debating federal crypto market rules. Summary OSL became Hong Kong’s first SFC-licensed platform to offer direct retail spot access to XRP. Retail users can access XRP/USD through Flash Trade and XRP/USD and XRP/HKD through OTC trading. XRP joins Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana among assets available to OSL’s retail clients. The launch follows XRP’s December 2025 listing for professional investors on the same platform. OSL opens XRP trading to Hong Kong retail investors OSL Digital Securities launched retail XRP…

The CEO of the American Bankers Association, Rob Nichols, has said that the banking lobby wants the Clarity Act to succeed — but small edits to the bill still need to be made. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box show Wednesday, Nichols said that while there is a “lot of good” in the Clarity Act, the issue around stablecoins and local lending needs to be fixed.  JUST IN: 🇺🇸 American Bankers Association CEO tells CNBC “There’s a lot of good in the Clarity Act” 👀”I do think that the crypto and the banking sectors can coexist. I think we can be…

Robinhood memes are community-created memecoins launched on Robinhood Chain, the Layer-2 network the trading app giant switched on in July 2026. The chain was built for tokenized stocks and real-world assets. The traders, however, had other plans. Within weeks, memecoins were generating over 80% of all trading volume on the network, and a cat-themed token briefly became worth more than every tokenized stock on the chain combined.If you are new to this scene, start with our explainer on Robinhood memes for the full backstory, including the CEO account hack that pushed the whole topic into mainstream headlines. This post is…

Crypto investment firm Digital Currency Group is the latest big name to throw its weight behind the Clarity Act.  In a statement posted Wednesday, the conglomerate said that the current draft of the long-awaited bill “offers exactly the kind of certainty our industry needs to grow and thrive responsibly.” A number of lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act — which would set in stone crypto regulation in the U.S. — gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.  “The bill is the product of serious…

Hong Kong has expanded retail access to digital assets with the launch of XRP trading for everyday investors on OSL HK. This move makes OSL, the first Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) licensed exchange in the city to let regular people buy and sell XRP, all within a regulated framework. Up until now, only professional investors could access XRP trading on OSL, after support for that group rolled out back in December 2025. It is another step in Hong Kong’s ongoing effort to brand itself as a regulated, crypto friendly financial hub. Since the city rolled out its virtual asset…