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OCC Decision 1385: World Liberty Trust is not a live USD1 bank yet
OCC Decision 1385 gives World Liberty Trust Co. preliminary approval only. BitGo remains USD1 issuer until final charter and the 18-month opening clock.
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Tether KPMG audit: 2025 books, not today’s USDT
Tether says KPMG U.S. gave an unqualified opinion on 2025 books, with a $6.814B surplus. That year-end print is not a live 2026 USDT reserve certificate.
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Harmony ONE mint: quorum bug beats freezes
Harmony's ~4B ONE mint and merged GitHub quorum patch show why exchange freezes alone cannot fix consensus forgery risk for ONE holders this week.
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MetaMask Agent Wallet: AI trading inside user rules
MetaMask Agent Wallet is live: AI agents trade inside spend limits and allowlists, with simulation, Blockaid scanning, and MEV protection in the signing path.
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EF funds WEBCAT to verify Ethereum wallet front ends
Ethereum Foundation’s Trillion Dollar Security grant backs Freedom of the Press Foundation’s WEBCAT so wallets can verify that browser code matches published manifests, not just HTTPS.
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Circle Arc: BlackRock to Visa join founding validators
Circle named BlackRock, Visa, DTCC, Mastercard and peers as Arc founding validators ahead of a September 16, 2026 public mainnet, with BUIDL and DTCC tokenization still on the…
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Wells Fargo tokenized deposits join the bank rails race
Wells Fargo will launch tokenized deposits this fall for select corporate USD-GBP flows, keeping commercial bank money on-chain as banks push back against stablecoin settlement rails.
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Mastercard closes BVNK: stablecoin rails go institutional
Mastercard completed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure firm BVNK on Aug. 3, 2026. The desk's read: treat the close as a rails story, not a finished volume story,…
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BlackRock BRSRV: tokenized cash for stablecoin reserves
BlackRock launched BRSRV and BSTBL OnChain Shares for stablecoin reserve managers under GENIUS. SEC prospectus details, Solana and Ethereum rails, and our falsifiable adoption claim.
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BIS Agorá settles real tokenized bank money
BIS Project Agorá completed July 2026 real-value testing with about CHF 800,000 in tokenized reserves and deposits across six currencies. Samira Okonkwo reads the bank-rails milestone against stablecoin…