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The US Treasury has sanctioned two Iranian maritime firms involved in an alleged Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-backed insurance network, saying one accepted Bitcoin (BTC) and other digital assets to bypass Western sanctions. On Wednesday, the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company and HormuzSafe Marine Services Authority were integral to what it described as an IRGC-backed insurance network that required commercial vessels to buy approved coverage before transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The firms were designated for operating in Iran’s financial sector.The action comes after earlier reports that Iran was considering a Bitcoin-based…

Peter Mintzberg filed a Form 144 on July 28 to sell 2,611 shares of the Grayscale XRP Trust ETF, the entire block he bought privately from the trust in October 2024. The notice puts the aggregate market value at $53,394.95, or $20.45 per share, with Cantor Fitzgerald handling the sale on NYSE Arca. Mintzberg acquired the shares on October 3, 2024, through a privately negotiated transaction with the issuer and paid cash. He reported no sales of the security in the previous three months. A Form 144 registers an intention to sell and does not confirm a completed trade. Third…

Policy report recommends interim licensing guidance, greater flexibility for stablecoin issuers and rules ahead of the Digital Asset Basic Act.

The Ethereum Foundation named Pascal Caversaccio, known as pc, to its board, becoming a fourth voice alongside founder Vitalik Buterin, president Aya Miyaguchi and Swiss counsel Patrick Storchenegger. pc brings years of security and privacy work to Ethereum’s leadership. He co-founded SEAL 911 and sat on the Foundation’s Silviculture Society before this appointment. Who Is Ethereum’s Newest Board Member pc has spent years building tools and auditing smart contracts across Ethereum’s ecosystem. He leads SEAL 911, a rapid-response unit that helps crypto protocols recover from hacks and exploits. The unit often steps in to contain live incidents and coordinate recovery…

The U.S. Senate formally set aside the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act on July 28, 2026, redirecting its floor schedule toward a Russia sanctions bill and federal nominations, effectively foreclosing a vote before the chamber’s August 7 recess begins – and with it, any near-term statutory path to cementing XRP commodity classification in federal law. This is not simply a scheduling casualty. It is a structural inflection point for an asset class whose institutional buildout, custody products, bank balance-sheet treatment, and spot XRP ETF inflows – depends on legislative permanence that agency-level rulings cannot reliably provide. EXPLORE: Best Meme Coins to…

New York City, United States, July 29th, 2026, Chainwire Self-custodial crypto platform rewards ambassadors and community members while expanding long-term earning opportunities Every crypto platform talks about community. Far fewer put meaningful value behind the word. Today, Tria, the leading self-custodial neofinance platform, announced it is distributing more than $600,000 to the ambassadors and community members who helped build its ecosystem, reinforcing the company’s belief that the value created by a platform should flow back to the people who create it. The distribution includes a $250,000 performance bonus pool for Tria’s Season One ambassadors and more than $350,000 in card-spend…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 29th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has launched the DCA Challenge, giving away up to 55,000 USDT in prizes to eligible Bybit Trading Bot users who auto-trade BTC, ETH and XAUT through its Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA) Bot feature. From now until August 17, 2026, the exclusive event offers for new and current users alike:  New DCA users stand to enjoy 20% cashback, capped at 50 USDT, based on their qualified cumulative BTC, ETH and XAUT DCA investment amount starting at $100. Cashback rewards are limited to the top 100…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 29th, 2026, Chainwire “In a rapidly maturing digital asset market, relying on fragmented risk data is a critical vulnerability. Building a resilient ecosystem demands institutional-grade intelligence.” MEXC, the world’s fastest-growing digital asset exchange and a pioneer of true zero-fee trading, has today announced a collaboration with LSEG Risk Intelligence.This partnership enables the integration of World-Check, equipping the platform with the same risk intelligence database used by financial institutions globally, setting a new benchmark for proactive security in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. Deploying an Institutional Grade Risk Architecture As institutional and retail adoption of digital assets accelerates, uncompromising security…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 29th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today announced a new collaboration with Finloop Finance Technology Holding Limited (“Finloop”), an AI-driven Web5 (Web2+Web3) wealth technology platform to offer the Finloop USD Instant Digital Liquidity (FUIDL), a tokenized USD liquidity product powered by Finloop and backed by an AAA-rated money market fund. Through this collaboration, Bybit will enable the share of FUIDL as collateral for trading on its platform. The product provides institutional and professional investors access to USD liquidity through blockchain technology, while maintaining the asset backing standards commonly associated…

New York, United States, July 28th, 2026, Chainwire BitSafe has released infrastructure for builders launching decentralized financial applications on Canton Network. Backed by a Canton Foundation Development Fund grant of over $1 million (8,500,000 $CC), BitSafe today opened the public beta of Decentralization Manager, an open-sourced framework allowing apps and institutions to build resilient products that distribute control across multiple independent operators. Canton Network has become critical infrastructure for institutions bringing real capital and operations on-chain. Meeting institutional application standards requires audit trails and distributed trust, but until now every team building on Canton has had to build threshold custody,…