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ESMA has included 14 new cryptocurrency companies, including Ripple Payments Europe, in its MiCA registration list, bringing the total number of licensed cryptocurrency service providers to 294.

SBI Holdings announced that it has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in the Singapore cryptocurrency platform Coinhako on July 16 and will include it within its consolidated subsidiaries.The transaction has received the necessary approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.

Michael Saylor posted on the X platform, stating that fiat currency is the problem, and strengthening companies, institutions, securities, and technologies related to Bitcoin is part of the solution. People can discuss viewpoints, and allies should not be mistaken for enemies.

According to CoinPost, the Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company Bitcoin Japan (Old Horita Maru Masashi: 8105) announced the issuance of unsecured convertible bonds with stock subscription rights and the second round of stock subscription rights through the Cayman Islands investment fund EVO FUND, with an estimated total amount of approximately 9.657 billion yen.This marks the first time the company has allocated funds to Bitcoin since its name change, with an amount of 662 million yen, accounting for about 7% of the total financing. The remaining funds are primarily used for undisclosed equity investments (3.756 billion yen), investments in South African rare earth mines (3.503 billion yen), and investments in RaaS business (1.446 billion yen).

AI Agent Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced that its payment network has connected to Egypt's four major mainstream mobile wallets: Vodafone Cash, Orange Cash, e& money, and WE Pay. Users can complete payments using cryptocurrency, while merchants receive payments in Egyptian pounds (EGP).Through this integration, AEON further enhances and expands the local payment settlement network in Africa and the Middle East, providing infrastructure support for the future localization of AI Agent's payments and settlements in real commercial scenarios.

According to "AI Technology Review," China's leading large model company Zhipu has invested hundreds of millions of yuan to acquire the AI heterogeneous computing power software infrastructure company Zhongke Jiahe. This move aims to completely address Zhipu's shortcomings in underlying engineering and compiler capabilities for large models, in response to the structural shortage of computing power and high-concurrency inference challenges brought about by the explosive growth in user numbers.Zhongke Jiahe's technology originates from the Compiler Laboratory of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded by Dr. Cui Huimin. Its core team has been deeply involved in the development of compilers for several domestic chips, including Loongson, Sunway, Cambrian, and Huawei Ascend. Zhongke Jiahe's core advantage lies in its virtual instruction set technology, which can unify different brands and models of chip ecosystems through middleware software, assembling scattered domestic chips into a unified ultra-large-scale cluster, thereby significantly improving overall computing power utilization; its SigInfer inference engine is officially claimed to reduce large model inference latency by up to 74 times.Recently, Zhipu's Coding Agent business has experienced explosive growth. The newly released GLM-5.2 large model saw an average daily Token call volume surge 27 times in the first week of its launch on the aggregation platform, leading to the exposure of systemic engineering bottlenecks in its inference infrastructure under high concurrency and long context scenarios. After being placed on the U.S. Entity List, Zhipu has actively promoted domestic alternatives and has now completed inference adaptation for eight major domestic computing power platforms, including Huawei Ascend, PingTouGe, and Moore Threads. The acquisition of Zhongke Jiahe will not only directly improve Zhipu's unit Token inference cost and output quality but will also provide core underlying compiler technology support for its previously rumored self-developed custom AI inference chip plan.

According to CoinDesk, Grant Cardone, CEO of the real estate investment company Cardone Capital, stated that Cardone Capital has increased its holdings by 10.5 bitcoins through cash flow, and its real estate-bitcoin hybrid strategy now holds over 2,700 BTC.

Cryptocurrency payment company BitPay announced that it has obtained approval from the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets to acquire a cryptocurrency asset service provider license, allowing it to operate in EU member states under the regulatory framework for cryptocurrency markets. BitPay stated that this license will support the company's expansion of cryptocurrency payment and stablecoin payment services in Europe.According to relevant requirements, starting from July 1, all entities providing cryptocurrency-related services must be regulated. BitPay's European head, Jonathan Arler, stated that Europe is one of the most important regions for the future development of payments. Previously, Ripple announced that it had obtained a cryptocurrency asset service provider license issued by the Luxembourg financial regulator.

Anton Bukov, co-founder of 1inch, stated on the X platform that he has ceased participation in the company's operations in late November 2025 due to strategic direction and leadership disagreements, and will no longer be involved in any work related to product architecture or security, nor will he supervise either of these areas. He mentioned that he is still a co-founder and a 50% shareholder. Anton Bukov co-founded 1inch in May 2019 and was responsible for designing the core architecture of 1inch Router, Fusion, and cross-chain Swap.

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) announced an investment in AI Agent security startup Runta, which aims to help businesses manage and constrain AI agents like "raising children." The specific investment amount has not been disclosed.Runta founder Guanlan Dai previously worked on the technical team at Cloudflare and was a founding engineer at API connection startup Kong. He stated that AI agents share similarities with growing children: they have the ability to perform tasks autonomously but also require boundaries, supervision, and permission management. Dai believes that just as parents provide home safety protection for children and limit their access to credit cards, businesses also need to restrict the important documents that AI agents can access, the range of operations they are allowed to perform, and the amount of disposable funds available at one time.Runta is developing a set of "AI Agent guardianship" infrastructure to help businesses manage AI agents' permissions, security risks, and behavioral boundaries, preventing autonomous AI systems from causing data leaks, erroneous operations, or financial losses during task execution. As businesses increasingly deploy AI agents with autonomous decision-making capabilities, establishing a trustworthy and secure agent management system is becoming a new infrastructure requirement. Runta aims to become the "parental control layer" of the AI Agent era, providing capabilities such as agent identity management, permission control, risk limitation, and operational supervision for businesses. Industry insiders believe that as AI agents evolve from simple assistants to autonomous entities capable of operating business systems, handling transactions, and executing complex tasks, the infrastructure market surrounding agent security, governance, and compliance may experience rapid growth.

Polygon CEO Marc Boiron stated on the X platform that the company is in the final stages of completing the acquisition of Coinme, and will subsequently integrate the relevant teams into Polygon Labs. As part of achieving the profitability goal for 2027, the company has initiated layoffs and is advancing broader mergers and organizational adjustments.Marc Boiron mentioned that Polygon Labs is transitioning from a blockchain foundation-type organization to a blockchain payment company, with the relevant adjustments primarily focusing on organizational structure and talent needs. He also stated that the company's current revenue performance is strong, with stablecoin business volume continuously breaking records, and that compensation and support will be provided to affected employees.

According to Cointelegraph, the fintech platform MoonPay has acquired the crypto infrastructure startup Glide and will integrate its deposit and routing technology, with the financial terms of the transaction undisclosed.Glide was founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, who were both part of the Robinhood Wallet team. Glide supports over 100 tokens across 30 blockchain networks, helping applications receive deposits from various tokens, wallets, exchanges, and payment sources.After the acquisition is completed, Glide's technology will be integrated into MoonPay Deposits, a product already used by applications such as Wallet in Telegram, Moonshot, and Paysafe. MoonPay stated that this transaction is part of its efforts to expand its digital asset infrastructure capabilities. This is MoonPay's sixth acquisition announced in 2026, with previous targets including Sodot, Decent, DFlow, Entendre, and Dawn Labs. Its investors include Thrive Capital, Paradigm, Valhalla Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and Coatue.

According to official news, OneBullEx has launched U-based stock and index-related contracts such as QQQUSDT, NVDAUSDT, TSLAUSDT, AAPLUSDT, MUUSDT, WDCUSDT, and SPCXUSDT. The related products support both full margin and isolated margin models.This round of new products covers multiple key tracks in the global innovation industry. QQQ provides an overall perspective on large technology and growth sectors, with Nvidia, Micron Technology, and Western Digital corresponding to AI computing power, memory, and data storage infrastructure. Apple and Tesla cover smart terminals, automation, and energy technology, while the addition of SPCXUSDT extends the platform's global asset coverage to commercial aerospace, satellite connectivity, and space infrastructure.This new launch allows OneBullEx to increase its offerings of global technology companies and index-related products beyond cryptocurrency assets. OneBullEx stated that it will continue to expand global asset coverage around the development direction of AI-native financial exchanges and explore the long-term application of AI intelligent trading capabilities in more asset and market scenarios.

Digital asset prime broker FalconX will acquire blockchain infrastructure company bloXroute.By combining bloXroute's network technology with FalconX's institutional trading platform, FalconX will accelerate the development of new trading, financing, and prime brokerage capabilities.

According to official news, the closed-end investment company RoboStrategy, focused on robotics and physical AI, announced the completion of a series of private equity issuances, issuing 450,684 shares at a weighted average price of approximately $35.5, raising about $16 million.Among them, RoboStrategy CEO Andrew Kang subscribed to 272,405 shares at a price of $36.71 million, investing approximately $10 million.

According to Bloomberg, Tether invested $20 million in the Argentine digital bank Ualá as part of Ualá's announced $197 million financing round in March. Ualá plans to use this funding to accelerate its expansion in Argentina, Mexico, and Colombia.Ualá founder and CEO Pierpaolo Barbieri stated that due to the regulatory environment in Argentina and Mexico, USDT stablecoin will not be integrated into the platform in the short term, and Tether is only participating as a financial investor. Ualá has 11 million customers, and after this financing round, it is valued at $3.2 billion, planning to accelerate expansion in Mexico.

SBI Group, DigiFT, and Startale Group have completed a joint proof of concept, demonstrating the full lifecycle of tokenized securities using the Japanese yen stablecoin JPYSC in an Ethereum testnet environment, including instant settlement for fund subscriptions and automatic on-chain dividend distribution.SBI Group and DigiFT are advancing the tokenization of the SBI Japan High Dividend Equity Fund, which is managed by SBI Asset Management with an asset management scale of approximately $1.3 billion, making it one of Japan's major public equity strategies. The three parties completed two tests, one demonstrating the near-instant settlement of fund subscriptions using JPYSC, and the other automatically calculating and distributing dividends to eligible token holders' wallets via smart contracts after the allocation registration is completed.The three companies plan to explore the integration of tokenized Japanese stocks with institutional DeFi platforms and consider testing use cases such as collateralized lending and on-chain asset management with ecosystem partners like Morpho and Gauntlet.