
France Orders ISPs to Block Polymarket
France's gambling regulator ordered providers to block Polymarket outright on 17 July, citing 578,751 French visits in June despite a 2024 payments ban.
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France's gambling regulator ordered providers to block Polymarket outright on 17 July, citing 578,751 French visits in June despite a 2024 payments ban.

Visa opened a managed platform for institutions to mint, hold and move stablecoins into its settlement network, starting with the consortium token Open USD.

Citadel Securities is investing $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional funding round in about a decade.

An attacker who controlled Ostium's price-oracle key traded against fake bitcoin prices and drained the protocol's liquidity vault. The contracts never broke.

Japan's upper house cleared the bill on 15 July, moving crypto from the Payment Services Act to the FIEA, with a flat 20% tax from January 2028.

A routine config update collided with the name of Coinbase's ingress gateway on July 14, degrading withdrawals, card payments and swaps for about 50 minutes.

Hyundai moved $20,000 between its US and Mexican units as USDT on Avalanche in about seven minutes, against three to four hours by the conventional route.

BlackRock's tokenized fund BUIDL went from about $464 million to over $900 million on Avalanche in seven days, close to a third of its $2.87 billion total.

An attacker deposited 250 SAUCE tokens, inflated their reported price through a flawed Supra oracle contract, and borrowed $9.05M against them.

Backpack began trading actual US shares every day of the year, starting with SpaceX, Micron and SanDisk, convertible 1:1 into tokenized versions on Solana.

A hobbyist's $150 Bitaxe solved block 957382 solo on July 9, taking the full 3.1382 BTC reward against odds of one block per 16,000 years.

The non-custodial exchange raised $76 million led by SBI Holdings, with no valuation disclosed, and said it will apply for a US national trust bank charter.