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Ripple has launched Ripple Mint, a platform that gives institutions a single place to access, mint, redeem, and manage its RLUSD stablecoin across the XRP Ledger and Ethereum. The company announced the product on July 23, 2026, and said it is available to existing RLUSD customers immediately.
A Wanchain bridge exploit drained roughly $13 million worth of NIGHT tokens, according to early reports circulating on X from blockchain security monitors and the project team behind the affected token.
The move follows a reported tie-up between OKX and the New York Stock Exchange. According to CoinDesk reporting , OKX and NYSE agreed to a joint venture intended to bridge traditional finance and crypto markets, with the effort led by Cuomo.
Senator Elizabeth Warren is pressing President Donald Trump for additional financial disclosures covering his crypto-related income, following a 2025 annual filing that reportedly valued his holdings at roughly $1. 4 billion.
Franklin Templeton ranks as the leading tokenized treasury issuer in 2026, with roughly $1.
Ardoino described the quarterly wallet growth in public remarks about Tether's scale, pointing to it as evidence of how widely USDT is being used across the crypto economy. The figure was shared directly by the Tether chief on his X account .
SBI Group has partnered with Ondo Finance to expand tokenized finance, a move that pairs one of Japan's largest financial conglomerates with a leading real-world asset protocol. The partnership deepens SBI's push into blockchain-based markets and signals continued institutional interest in tokenized assets.
SBI's broader tokenization roadmap has been laid out in its own corporate materials, including SBI Group's investor presentation , which situates on-chain capital markets within the group's strategy. The launch follows SBI's earlier work to build an on-chain financial market in Japan with the Solana Foundation .
Telegram Wallet has reportedly begun offering tokenized SK Hynix shares to users through xStocks, expanding access to traditional equity exposure within a crypto-native messaging environment.
Robinhood has signaled that it is opening its platform to AI agents, sparking reports that US users may soon be able to trade crypto through automated, agent-driven tools on the app.
The launch was announced via Reserve Protocol's official X account , confirming the deployment of five new index DTFs focused on AI-related equities. DTFs, or Decentralized Token Funds, are Reserve Protocol's mechanism for creating tokenized baskets of assets that trade as a single on-chain token.
ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood has raised doubts about the prospects of OUSD, a Ripple-backed stablecoin, suggesting it may struggle to compete with established market leaders USDT and USDC.