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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…

Arc is the new Layer-1 blockchain from Circle, the company behind USDC. It runs on stablecoin gas, settles in under a second, and has quietly become one of the most-watched chains ahead of its mainnet launch. Naturally, the first question everyone asks after learning about it is the practical one: how do you actually get funds onto Arc?This guide walks you through bridging to Arc step by step. We cover the testnet process you can complete today, the tools involved, and what will change once mainnet goes live. If you are farming the Arc Network testnet, bridging is one of…

Uniswap price extended its gains on Wednesday, rising nearly 6% as improving sentiment across the DeFi sector coincided with fresh on-chain activity involving crypto market maker Wintermute. The rally has pushed UNI back into a key resistance zone after months of range-bound trading, with traders now assessing whether the token has enough momentum to confirm a broader trend reversal. As liquidity gradually returns to decentralised finance, Uniswap is once again emerging as one of the leading large-cap DeFi tokens attracting renewed market interest.What’s Driving the Uniswap Price Rally?The latest move appears to be supported by a combination of improving sector…

There is a difference between owning bitcoin and owning a claim on bitcoin, and most people who think they hold it, are holding the claim. Their coins sit with an exchange, a broker or a fund. What they actually have is an entry in someone else’s ledger and a promise that they can get to it. Most of the time that promise holds. The trouble is what happens on the days it does not, and how little say you have when that day comes. We saw a version of this across Europe over the summer. When the EU’s new crypto…