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According to Circle's (@circle) official announcement, Circle Agent Stack is now open source, enabling developers to add wallets, USDC payments, and on-chain operation capabilities to AI agents. It currently supports the following mainstream frameworks: OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude AI Agent SDK, LangChain, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK, and Google AI ADK. Developers can directly clone the example code to get started quickly, and the project is hosted on GitHub. This move is regarded by the industry as a significant advancement in AI agent payment layer infrastructure, expected to accelerate the large-scale adoption of Agentic AI.
Odaily Odaily reports, according to official announcement, Bitget Margin Lending has now added support for stock tokens (rToken) as collateral assets. The first batch includes 26 popular US stock and ETF tokens such as rNVDA, rAAPL, rGOOGL, and rQQQ, covering sectors including technology, semiconductors, and index funds.Users holding these stock tokens can now use them as collateral to borrow mainstream assets like USDT and USDC, thereby unlocking capital liquidity without selling their holdings. The web version of this feature is now live, and the app version will be available next week. For specific collateral parameters and more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.It is reported that rTokens, identified by the letter "r" followed by the stock ticker (e.g., rNVDA for NVIDIA), are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget. Through a partnership with compliant broker Alpaca, they are directly connected to global liquidity pools such as Nasdaq and NYSE. Their features include: 1:1 reserve of underlying assets custodied by a licensed custodian; stock dividends distributed 1:1 in token form; support for synchronous reflection of corporate actions (such as stock splits and reverse splits); and the ability to serve as joint margin for unified accounts and USDT-margined futures contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage their capital while holding global stock assets.
Cathie Wood posted on X, stating that in ARK Invest's view, stablecoins are monetary networks. Relying on trust, collateral utility, and integration, their network effects compound over time. The network effects of USDT and USDC have always been strong. LorenzoARK explained why OUSD is unlikely to replace them.
According to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), stablecoin issuer Circle has been criminally charged by Wisconsin prosecutors for refusing to comply with a court order to assist in recovering funds for fraud victims. A victim in Wisconsin was defrauded of approximately 381,000 USDC. Last December, the court issued an order requiring Circle to transfer the frozen assets to a law enforcement wallet, but Circle refused to comply, citing "technical inability to burn and reissue tokens." Previously, New York prosecutors also wrote to the U.S. Senate, accusing Circle of repeatedly refusing requests to freeze assets without a court order and questioning its profit motive—Circle currently holds at least 119 million frozen USDC, from which it can continue to earn interest income. In response, Circle denied the allegations, stating that the Wisconsin court lacks jurisdiction, and indicated that it has reached a preliminary agreement with federal prosecutors regarding a victim compensation mechanism. Cryptocurrency tracking experts pointed out that Circle could achieve token burning and reissuance by updating code, casting doubt on its claim of technical inability.
Odaily Odaily Odaily Odaily Official News: According to official sources, Gate Launchpool will launch its 365th GUSD dual-pool event from 20:00 on July 9 to 20:00 on July 16 (UTC+8). During the event, users staking GUSD will share a 15 XAUT airdrop. The annualized yield for holding Gate GUSD is 3.8%. Combined with the Launchpool mining rewards, the comprehensive annualized yield can reach up to 6.38%.GUSD is a high-quality yield-generating asset launched by Gate, backed by Treasury RWA (Real World Assets) and stablecoins. Users can mint GUSD using USDT, USDC, or USD1 at a 1:1 ratio and earn daily rewards by holding it. Furthermore, Gate is offering a limited-time bonus for new users of on-chain yield products who mint GUSD, with an annualized yield of up to 100%. When combined with Launchpool rewards for new users, the comprehensive annualized yield can reach up to 132.2%.
According to official sources, Summer.fi released a post-mortem stating that on July 6, the attacker manipulated the share prices of two Lazy Summer USDC vaults by injecting overvalued Silo tokens into an offline Ark still included in the NAV, and extracted approximately $6.04 million in a single atomic transaction.
Odaily, July 7 – Binance announced the launch of its new advanced financial product, BTC Yield. BTC Yield is a BTC-denominated, open-ended yield strategy product designed for long-term holders looking to explore potential returns on Bitcoin without the need for frequent trading.BTC Yield is currently one of the industry's first Bitcoin covered call option yield products offered by a major cryptocurrency exchange to both retail and institutional users, further reflecting Binance's continuous expansion from a trading platform into a broader financial super app.Shunyet Jan, Head of Binance Exchange and Trading Business, stated: "BTC Yield further enriches the product options available to our users, allowing them to leverage their digital assets in more ways. The covered call option strategy is well-established in traditional financial markets, but direct participation for ordinary investors often comes with high barriers. BTC Yield simplifies this strategy, making it more accessible for Bitcoin holders who wish to seek potential returns without needing to trade the market frequently."To celebrate the launch of BTC Yield, Binance Earn is introducing a limited-time event. Eligible users who subscribe to BTC Yield will have the chance to share a 100,000 USDC prize pool.
Kraken has begun allowing eligible users to use select tokenized stocks and ETFs as collateral for futures and margin trading, enabling them to open leveraged positions without selling their existing holdings.The initial offering includes 10 tokenized stocks and ETFs, featuring Apple, Nvidia, Tesla, Strategy, SPDR S&P 500 ETF, and Invesco QQQ Trust. This feature is currently only available to eligible users outside the United States.Kraken has also set collateral limits for different assets, with a maximum collateral value of $1 million for large-cap ETFs, $250,000 for most individual stocks, and $100,000 for tokenized gold and Circle stock. The platform stated that collateral limits and haircut rates will be reviewed periodically and may be adjusted based on market conditions. (Cointelegraph)
Coinbase released a monthly review on July 1, stating that in the first half of the year, it advanced its product layout around the strategy of "every asset, every market, one platform," covering tokenized stocks, pre-IPO perpetual contracts, stock options, crypto options, stock index perpetual futures, AI tools, payments, stablecoins, and on-chain infrastructure. Coinbase stated that the tokenized stocks are 1:1 backed shares of US companies, expected to include dividends, on-chain trading, holding, and redemption functions, and are not available to US persons. Coinbase also noted that its pre-IPO perpetual contracts will start with SpaceX and then expand to OpenAI and Anthropic, and will offer crypto options through integration with Deribit. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on July 3 that Coinbase is one of the companies with the highest level of AI application globally. Coinbase also stated that it has launched a direct INR on-ramp in India, become the official deployer of the USDC treasury wallet for Hyperliquid, partnered with Ethena across over $50 billion in assets, and mentioned transferring approximately $4.4 billion USDC to the Hyperliquid deployer. (Bitcoin.com News).
According to CoinDesk, researchers at blockchain security company Hexens discovered an "expired cache" type confusion vulnerability in the Aptos blockchain Move virtual machine. Attackers require only about $3,000 in server costs to launch attacks in a simulated environment with a success rate of nearly 90%, without needing validator privileges or internal knowledge. Researchers ran approximately 20 attacks in simulated tests, succeeding 17-18 times, and verified the potential ability to control management permissions of cross-chain protocols such as LayerZero, Wormhole, and USDC CCTP. Hexens assessed that the vulnerability directly threatens protocols on the Aptos chain such as DeFi, stablecoins, and liquid staking, involving assets in the low single-digit billions of dollars; if spread through paths such as cross-chain bridges, stablecoin minting, and centralized exchanges, the systemic risk exposure could reach up to $70 billion. The Aptos team completed the fix and deployed it to the mainnet within hours after receiving the vulnerability report on February 25, and currently no user funds have been compromised.
decentralized privacy protocol hinkal has released an update on a security incident, confirming that an attacker extracted approximately 797,000 USDC from its Ethereum contract through a series of transactions and exchanged it for about 454 ETH. Of this, roughly 410 ETH was subsequently transferred to Tornado Cash, while the remaining approximately 44.67 ETH was bridged to the Bitcoin network via THORChain. hinkal is currently collaborating with an external security team to trace the flow of funds.hinkal stated that the impact of this security incident is limited to the relevant fund pools on the Ethereum chain, and contracts on other chains remain unaffected. However, all contracts have been temporarily suspended for fixes and security verification. All affected users will be fully compensated at a 1:1 ratio, with specific compensation procedures and timelines to be announced in a subsequent update.
Sui posted on X platform, stating that this week's highlights include ensuring data privacy, expanding decentralized capital markets, and welcoming new teams into the network development pipeline. LoquaApp has launched a privacy-first AI agent messaging app on Sui, supporting users in sending messages, interacting with AI agents, and conducting peer-to-peer token transfers within chats; RipStationxyz has deployed a graded Pokémon card platform on Sui for on-chain trading and physical redemption; suidevelopers held a technical meeting, where kostascrypto and abhinavg6 analyzed the cryptography behind protocol-level confidential transfers; 0xfluid has chosen Hashi to build an institutional-grade Bitcoin credit market, enabling native BTC to be used as collateral through formally verified contracts on Sui; realtbook has partnered with paga to create a compliant financial bridge, offering tokenized real-world assets to African consumers and businesses; six early-stage development teams, including AssetoFinance, audricai, gendotpro, kash_bot, predikt_gg, and transact_sh, have completed the third cohort of the Sui Hydropower Fellowship; tradeonhudi announced the upcoming launch of 7×24 hour leveraged perpetual contracts on Asia-Pacific stocks, targeting markets in Korea, Japan, and Hong Kong; Turbos_finance released its Q2 2026 report, having launched its CLMM and once became the highest-volume AMM DEX with a single-day SUI-USDC trading volume exceeding $17 million. The upcoming Sui Tunnels experiment will be opened for system testing of the network's TPS limit under load.
Open Standard, the consortium behind Open USD, has been accused of listing companies such as Samsung Electronics as supporters of the OUSD stablecoin project without their consent.Tony Chung, Head of Blockmedia’s BD division, stated that Samsung Electronics said no formal discussions had taken place and that it was unclear what role it would play in the project.Shinhan, Dunamu, and K Bank stated that Open Standard had inquired about their interest in participating, and they merely indicated they would "consider" it, only to later find their names listed as consortium members.Tether advisor Gabor Gurbacs noted that some of the listed partners claimed they had never signed or agreed to anything.Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire commented, "Integrity matters." OUSD is expected to launch later this year. (Bitcoin.com News).
DeSci protocol Bio Protocol has announced the launch of OpenLabs, positioning it as a coordination layer for human-agent collaboration in scientific research, aimed at transforming scientific ideas into funded execution projects. OpenLabs comprises five interconnected layers: Posts & Discovery, Projects, Agent Collaboration, Web3 Incentive Layer, and a Bounty System. Regarding incentives, OpenLabs plans to adopt a USDC yield-based funding mechanism to finance agent reasoning and tool usage. Users can deposit USDC and select projects to support; funds are allocated to audited yield vaults such as Morpho and Aave. The generated yield flows to projects for computation, queries, and simulations, while the principal assumes no risk. When a project reaches the stage requiring real capital, it can issue tokens via the Bio launchpad or pursue private fundraising and follow the traditional biotech path.
Decentralized privacy protocol Hinkal Protocol announced that it has detected abnormal activity involving USDC on the Ethereum network within its system. Currently, only the Ethereum blockchain is affected, while other chains remain unaffected. As a precautionary measure, the affected smart contracts have been paused, and a comprehensive investigation and analysis of relevant on-chain transactions and activities is currently underway. The investigation is still ongoing, and updates will be released once information is confirmed.
according to an official announcement, Binance CrossMargin, PortfolioMargin, and PortfolioMargin Pro have added 15 new bStocks tokens as qualified collateral assets, including Circle (CRCLB), Micron (MUB), NVIDIA (NVDAB), Sandisk (SNDKB), Tesla (TSLAB), SpaceX (SPCXB), Advanced Micro Devices (AMDB), iShares MSCI South Korea ETF (EWYB), Intel (INTCB), Strategy (MSTRB), Lumentum (LITEB), Meta (METAB), Microsoft (MSFTB), Palantir (PLTRB), and Invesco QQQ Trust (QQQB). The corresponding trading pairs are now available for margin trading. This feature is only available to VIP3 and above users in eligible regions, and loans are not currently supported.
Aave founder Stani announced on the X platform that the Aave V3 lending protocol has been deployed on Monad. It is reported that the initial market supports 12 assets including USDT0, USDC, Aave stablecoin GHO, USDe, mUSD, AUSD, WETH, cbBTC, wstETH, weETH, syrupUSDC, and sUSDe.
According to official news, Standard Chartered Bank announced a partnership with Circle to launch USDC minting and redemption access capabilities for institutional clients, becoming the first global systemically important bank to offer such integrated services. Eligible institutional clients can use USDC through a single onboarding and service process without needing to open a Circle account directly. The service will initially be provided through Standard Chartered's business in the Dubai International Financial Centre, supporting scenarios such as on-chain settlement, treasury management, and liquidity management, with plans to expand to more markets subsequently upon obtaining regulatory approval.
据 dYdX 基金会官方声明，dYdX Trading Inc. 宣布与 Robinhood 合作，基于 Robinhood Chain 推出全新去中心化交易所 Arcus，但该产品为独立基础设施，与 dYdX Chain 无关。dYdX Chain 交易、存款、取款、质押及治理等功能均正常运行，DYDX 代币的治理与质押机制保持不变，质押奖励继续以 USDC 形式发放。dYdX 基金会强调，其支持 dYdX 协议及社区治理的职责不变。
: Lorenzo Valente, ARK Invest's Director of Digital Asset Research, has questioned the stablecoin consortium project OpenUSD, expressing high skepticism about whether such consortium-style stablecoin initiatives can achieve scale. He believes that similar alliances have emerged multiple times before, including Diem and Global Dollar, but ultimately failed to form dominant network effects. Currently, the stablecoin market remains dominated by Tether and Circle, whose core advantages lie in strong network effects and instant liquidity. OpenUSD, however, may face a "cold start" problem, as its joint governance structure will severely slow down decision-making efficiency, making it prone to coordination failures under decentralized governance—resembling the governance dilemmas of DAO experiments: high collaboration costs, slow execution, and difficulty deploying capital efficiently.Furthermore, OpenUSD's economic model appears unsustainable for long-term operations. If it relies on a low-fee split mechanism, it will be unable to cover the costs of infrastructure, incentives, and market expansion.Lorenzo Valente concluded that OpenUSD resembles more of a "collection of letters of intent" than a unified product system with strong execution capabilities. He argued that in the long run, the more likely winners are single operators capable of rapid iteration and independent decision-making, rather than joint governance structures requiring multi-party consensus.