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South Korea's largest bank, KB Kookmin Bank, is moving to launch a cross-border payment service built on JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain network, extending the country's biggest lender into always-on, blockchain-based settlement rails.
A rumor that Ripple could burn 32 billion XRP held in escrow has resurfaced across crypto social channels, prompting a crypto commentator to push back and separate the speculation from what is actually possible.
The scheduled event releases a fresh batch of PI into circulating supply rather than marking a general project update. Pi Network's issuance and migration mechanics are laid out in its mainnet migrations, roadmap and tokenomics documentation.
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.
Ripple has made a strategic investment in Notabene and plans to integrate Ripple USD (RLUSD) into the compliance firm's Notabene Flow product, a deal aimed at compliant institutional stablecoin payments.
Sui has launched the Hashi testnet, opening a live test environment for Bitcoin-backed lending flows and giving the market an early look at how the network aims to support BTC-based DeFi activity.
Movement Labs, the company that originally built the MOVE blockchain, has filed for bankruptcy, according to reporting that ties the filing to a court docket for MVMT Labs, Inc. The move puts a spotlight on who continues to steward the MOVE network and its ecosystem going forward.
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.
Details tied to the release have circulated through the project's own channels, including a Pi Network blog post on the v25 menu redesign . Beyond the scheduled date and the upgrade label itself, the available evidence remains limited, so the story stays centered on the token move and the fixed event window.
The wallets tied to the BONK treasury attack reportedly sent another 400 billion BONK to Coinbase, lifting the total moved to centralized exchanges to 1. 626 trillion tokens, according to a report circulated via Telegram.
The partnership, announced on July 13, 2026 , pairs SBI Holdings, one of Japan's largest financial conglomerates, with the Solana Foundation to build an on-chain financial market targeting the Japanese market. For related coverage, see SBI VC Trade Launches Solana Trading, Custody, and Asset Management Services .
In a recent video appearance , Garlinghouse described how the SEC's enforcement action pushed Ripple to the brink of closure. The claim frames the lawsuit not as a manageable legal dispute but as a direct threat to the company's survival.