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MoonPay announced the acquisition of Y Combinator-backed crypto deposit startup Glide via an all-stock transaction, with the specific deal size undisclosed. Founded in 2023, Glide primarily provides crypto asset deposit solutions across tokens, wallets, exchanges, and bank cards, supporting over 100 tokens and 30 blockchain networks, with an annualized trading volume exceeding $100 million.
Last year, U.S. President Donald Trump posted "very big and exciting news" on his Truth Social platform. This came just after computer chip manufacturing giant Nvidia (NVDA.O) announced plans to build AI supercomputers in the United States. In a post on April 15, 2025, Trump promised his over 9 million followers that "all necessary permits will be expedited and promptly delivered to Nvidia and similar companies."However, what Trump did not disclose at the time was that, just days earlier, he had purchased between $200,000 and $500,000 worth of the company's stock. An investigation by CNN found that Trump had promoted over 20 companies on his Truth Social account days after buying their stocks—sometimes announcing government actions that could benefit the very companies he had just invested in. The White House strongly denied that Trump had ever used his position for personal gain, stating that all his actions were intended to benefit the American public. White House officials said all of the president's stock trades were handled by external financial managers, and that Trump and his family had no control over specific transactions. (CNN)
AI infrastructure startup Fireworks AI has announced the completion of a $1.5 billion financing round, valuing the company at $17.5 billion. The company, previously backed by NVIDIA, primarily provides developers with cloud-based services for running open-source AI models, helping enterprises deploy AI applications at lower costs. This funding round was led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, with participation from NVIDIA, Evantic, and Lightspeed Venture Partners, among others. Currently, Fireworks processes approximately 40 trillion AI tokens daily. Its clients include companies such as Elastic, GitLab, and MongoDB. Previously, over half of its revenue came from the AI coding tool Cursor, but its client base has since become more diversified. (CNBC)
Bitcoin News announced on X platform that Fold digital gift cards are now available on TikTok Shop, allowing users to purchase Bitcoin with face values ranging from $25 to $500. These gift cards can be bought using almost all major payment methods, providing an additional mainstream on-ramp for Bitcoin buyers.
hardware wallet company Ledger has launched the open-source toolkit Ledger Agent Stack, enabling AI agents to interact with crypto wallets by reading balances, preparing transactions, and suggesting actions, with all transactions requiring user approval on a Ledger hardware device. Ledger stated that this release is the first step in its AI roadmap, aiming to introduce hardware-based security mechanisms into AI-driven crypto applications and prevent autonomous agents from transferring funds or accessing sensitive credentials without human approval.
: Fintech platform MoonPay has acquired crypto infrastructure startup Glide and will integrate its deposit and routing technology. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Glide was founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, both of whom were 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. Upon completion of the acquisition, 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 the sixth acquisition announced by MoonPay in 2026, following previous acquisitions of Sodot, Decent, DFlow, Entendre, and Dawn Labs. Its investors include Thrive Capital, Paradigm, Valhalla Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and Coatue.
Trump Media & Technology Group interim CEO Kevin McGurn stated that the company will launch a set of backend interfaces allowing financial services firms to pay for access to Truth Social’s real-time data. McGurn indicated that this marks the company's first expansion of its media business into the data licensing field. The newly launched Truth API will provide clients with real-time access to content published by the platform's top ten most popular accounts.McGurn added that clients willing to pay a higher fee in the future can obtain data access rights to more accounts. These accounts include key decision-makers who influence policy-making and geopolitical trends, such as U.S. President Donald Trump, the White House, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (Axios)
TON Strategy Company (TONX), a Nasdaq-listed digital asset reserve company, announced it has substantially completed the phase-out of its legacy social e-commerce and software businesses inherited from Verb Technology, and disclosed preliminary performance data for its June staking operations. TON Strategy stated that this adjustment aims to optimize its cost structure, allowing the company to focus its strategy more sharply on managing the Gram token reserve and supporting the development of the TON ecosystem. The current phase-out primarily involves:Legacy agency business and live-streaming shopping services from MARKET.live;Business related to the LyveCom social e-commerce software.TON Strategy expects this adjustment to reduce the company's annual cash operating expenses by approximately $4 million and further streamline its operational structure. The related financial impacts are expected to begin appearing in the financial reports for the second quarter of 2026, and to be fully reflected in subsequent quarters. (Globenewswire)
According to the official announcement, HTX launched KORU/USDT, FWDI/USDT, and AKE/USDT perpetual contracts on July 16, all with a maximum leverage of 10x.
Odaily报道, ForeGate, the next-generation event prediction trading platform globally endorsed by legendary footballer Michael Owen, has officially launched its EWC (Esports World Cup) themed zone. This zone covers all popular events of this year's EWC, offering real-time event tracking and AI-powered deep predictions.To coincide with the launch of the EWC zone, ForeGate has simultaneously initiated the "Esports Prediction Trading Competition" limited-time incentive event, with a total prize pool of up to 500,000 USDT. During the event, users can participate in trading to share the prize pool. The event runs from July 16, 14:00 to August 24, 16:00 (UTC+8). This move marks a further expansion of ForeGate's event prediction market ecosystem centered around high-frequency sports and esports. Currently, users can seamlessly access the platform directly through mainstream DApp wallets such as Binance Wallet and OKX Wallet.
According to BusinessWire, Alpaca announced the completion of $135 million in financing, led by Peak XV with participation from Elefund, and new and existing shareholders also include Opera Tech Ventures and Unbound under the BNP Paribas Group. The company stated that the new funds will be used to accelerate the development of its agent-oriented brokerage infrastructure and API-centric prime brokerage business to support the development and expansion of investment products for traditional and on-chain markets.
Ondo Finance and Japanese financial group SBI Group have announced a strategic partnership. The two parties will jointly promote the tokenization of Japanese stock assets and explore the use of yen stablecoins for on-chain settlement and collateral.Ondo stated that as one of the world's largest issuers of tokenized stocks, this collaboration will connect Japan's mature capital market with the global tokenized finance ecosystem, expand the on-chain accessibility of Japanese assets, and promote Ondo's tokenized products to Japanese investors through the SBI Group ecosystem. According to the cooperation plan, both parties will advance the following directions:Issuing tokenized Japanese assets through Ondo Global Markets (BVI) Limited, a subsidiary of Ondo;Utilizing SBI's JPYSC yen stablecoin to provide on-chain settlement and collateral support for Ondo's tokenized assets;Distributing Ondo's tokenized financial products through the SBI Group ecosystem.
crypto financial services firm Galaxy Digital (GLXY) has announced the launch of an institutional-grade vault management service, “Galaxy Curator.” Built on the decentralized lending protocol Morpho and made available through Fireblocks Earn to over 2,400 institutional clients, the service helps them generate stablecoin on-chain yields without the need to directly manage DeFi infrastructure.Galaxy stated that the product aims to address the issue of large sums of stablecoins held by institutions remaining idle for extended periods. Due to settlement, capital deployment, and operational requirements, large-scale stablecoin assets often sit in custody accounts, while direct participation in DeFi protocols presents high technical and risk barriers. (CoinDesk)
The Crypto Innovation Council (CCI) announced that Etherealize, Hyperliquid Policy Center, and Tools for Humanity (TFH) have officially joined. CCI stated that the new members will enhance its technical expertise in the fields of on-chain finance, institutional finance, and digital identity to better support policy making.
Binance will list multiple perpetual contracts sequentially starting from 11:00 on July 17, 2026, including MiniMax Perpetual Contract MINIMAXUSDT (11:00), Zhipu AI Perpetual Contract ZHIPUUSDT (11:05), Tencent Quantitative Perpetual Contract HK0700USDT (11:10), Xiaomi Quantitative Perpetual Contract HK1810USDT (11:15), and Tencent Perpetual Contract TENCENTUSDT (13:00). Among them, HK0700USDT and HK1810USDT are quantitative perpetual contracts, based on Hong Kong stock prices, settled directly in USDT, without involving foreign exchange conversion.
According to Odaily, market analysis indicates that the issuance price for CXMT is 8.66 yuan per share. A lottery share consists of 500 shares, requiring a payment of 4,330 yuan. Under conservative, neutral, optimistic, and highly optimistic valuation scenarios, CXMT's valuation is estimated at 1 trillion, 1.5 trillion, 2.3 trillion, and 4.25 trillion yuan, respectively. Based on this estimated market capitalization range of 1-4 trillion yuan, the corresponding first-day price increase post-listing is projected to fall within a 70%-600% range. Compared to the issuance price of 8.66 yuan, the profit potential per lottery share is approximately between 3,000 yuan and 26,000 yuan.Additionally, CXMT announced that the funds raised will be fully invested in three major domestic storage substitution projects: the upgrade and renovation of the 12-inch DRAM wafer production line, technological upgrades for HBM and automotive-grade storage, and research into next-generation storage forward-looking technologies. (Source: Sina Finance)
Odaily reports, Ondo Perps announced that since its public launch one week ago, total trading volume has exceeded $3 billion, while 24-hour trading volume has doubled to $200 million compared to the first day of launch.The platform has also added two new Korean stock tokenization targets: SK Hynix (SKHY) and Samsung Electronics (SMSN). Ondo Perps allows users to directly use tokenized stocks and ETF holdings as margin for perpetual contracts, offering non-U.S. users up to 20x leverage on assets such as Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, as well as gold and silver.The Ondo Perps team previously stated that using U.S. stocks as collateral is just the starting point, and future AI-driven trading flows will become a key focus area.
Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, has released its latest Proof of Reserves (PoR) report. The report shows that Reality's reserve ratio has reached 100%, and its issued tokenized stocks, rToken, are pegged 1:1 to the underlying US stock assets. This reserve data is updated daily and independently verified by the US auditing firm The Network Firm. The assets are custodied with Alpaca Securities LLC, a US securities broker registered with FINRA and protected by SIPC, and regulated under New York state law, forming a transparent tripartite independent structure of issuance, verification, and custody.The US stock tokens rToken issued by Reality have been deeply integrated into the Bitget ecosystem and can be used in core scenarios such as unified account margin and staking lending. Previous data shows that within one month of listing, the assets under management (AUM) of Bitget's stock token rToken surpassed $100 million.
Bybit today added MUUUSDT, RDWUSDT, BNCUSDT, AEHRUSDT, POETUSDT, APPSTOCKUSDT, SOXSUSDT, TZAUSDT, and FWDIUSDT, totaling 9 US Stock/ETF perpetual contracts, with up to 20x leverage.
CoinGecko released its Q2 2026 crypto industry report, noting that the total market capitalization of the crypto market in the second quarter decreased by 12.6% quarter-over-quarter to $2.1 trillion, dropping to the lowest level since September 2024, while average daily trading volume declined by 20.9% quarter-over-quarter to $93.1 billion.