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Visa unveiled the Visa Stablecoin Platform (VSP), a new product that lets banks, fintechs and crypto firms mint, move and manage stablecoins inside a single Visa-managed environment, the company said in an official announcement. Visa expects the launch to expand stablecoin use across its network of roughly 15,000 financial institutions and more than 200 million merchants, which already settles about $15 trillion in payments each year.

Aave has launched its V4 lending protocol on Avalanche, the first time the platform has expanded its latest infrastructure beyond Ethereum. The launch is built around dedicated credit markets for tokenized real-world assets and institutional finance. The move gives institutions a second network, alongside Ethereum, to access Aave’s newest lending infrastructure for tokenized collateral.

HoodTracker is a platform that tracks campaigns on Robinhood Chain. It watches X activity, wallet holdings, staking, and referrals, then rewards new token projects for the community activity they build. Its first big campaign, Genesis, gives $HDTX holders a share of tokens set aside from the project’s dev wallet.

Shaw Walters is the co-creator of ElizaOS and Eliza Labs, an open-source framework for building AI agents that has become one of the more widely used tools in the crypto AI agent sector. He is known for arguing that agent infrastructure should stay open, auditable, and forkable rather than controlled by a small number of companies, and for building Babylon, a simulated environment where AI agents trade, deceive, and build reputation to generate training data for more trustworthy models.

Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron announced layoffs on Thursday as the company moves to complete its acquisition of crypto exchange Coinme. Boiron confirmed the cuts in a post on X, calling the decision “difficult, but necessary” as Polygon Labs works toward profitability by 2027. The layoffs mark the latest step in a broader restructuring that began earlier this year.

Ostium, a decentralized perpetuals exchange for real-world assets built on Arbitrum, lost as much as $18 million in USDC on July 15 after an attacker compromised the private key of one of its oracle signers. Blockaid, the security firm that first reported the incident, said the attacker used that access to submit falsified price data and drain a large share of the protocol’s main liquidity vault within hours.

Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, July 16th, 2026, Chainwire Cryptocurrency exchange Bitunix has launched the Bitunix Card, a Visa-powered payment solution that allows users to spend their funds on everyday purchases, and earn yield on idle balances. The launch reflects a growing demand for practical crypto products that connect digital assets with everyday spending. Instead of moving funds between multiple platforms, Bitunix users can now manage payments, and earnings from one place.

Q2 2026 Highlights: TradFi Stocks Surge: Daily trading volume across BingX TradFi Stocks jumped more than 700% in five days. Cumulative stock trading volume surpassing $2.7 billion, and stock index trading volume exceeded $8 billion over the past two months. EventX Expands Market Opportunities: BingX introduced EventX, enabling users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events and broadening its multi-asset offering beyond traditional financial markets.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said Bitcoin has grown considerably more stable as leveraged positions wash out of the market, and repeated that he is very bullish on markets over the next 12 months. Fink made the comments in a CNBC interview on July 15, 2026, the same day BlackRock posted record second-quarter earnings even as its digital assets business shrank.

More than $11 billion disappeared from American crypto users through scams alone in 2025, and the average victim lost over $62,000 in a single scheme. Most of that money vanished not through a hack, but because someone trusted the wrong website, message, or stranger. Buying Bitcoin safely in 2026 comes down to a few habits: a regulated exchange, careful address checks, and a wallet only you control.