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AFX Trade loses $24m USDC after five validator keys are compromised

ESMA says the EU binary-options ban already covers event contracts

Funding Pips review: static drawdown and the 15% consistency catch

USD/NOK to 9.20 by Q4 2026: the Nordic-divergence case

Nubank buys Banco Porto Real to keep ‘bank’ in its name

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Day: July 25, 2026

AFX Trade loses $24m USDC after five validator keys are compromised

AFX Trade loses $24m USDC after five validator…

Digital AssetsJuly 25, 2026

AFX Trade lost roughly $24.15 million in USD Coin (USDC) on July 22, 2026 after an attacker obtained the validator signing keys controlling the perpetuals exchange's cross-chain bridge. No contract was exploited. Five separate validator…

ESMA says the EU binary-options ban already covers event contracts

ESMA says the EU binary-options ban already covers…

Regulation

The European Securities and Markets Authority told firms on July 3, 2026 that event contracts meeting the definition of a financial instrument are binary options, and are therefore already prohibited from sale to retail clients…

Funding Pips review: static drawdown and the 15% consistency catch

Funding Pips review: static drawdown and the 15%…

Prop Firms

Verdict. Funding Pips suits traders who want a drawdown that does not chase them: every plan except one uses a static maximum loss, so the equity floor stays where it started no matter how far…

USD/NOK to 9.20 by Q4 2026: the Nordic-divergence case

USD/NOK to 9.20 by Q4 2026: the Nordic-divergence…

FOREXMarket News

USD/NOK reaches 9.20 by December 31, 2026 in the base case, 8.95 in the bear case and 9.90 in the bull case, driven by a Norges Bank hiking cycle that has decoupled the Norwegian krone…

Nubank buys Banco Porto Real to keep bank in its name

Nubank buys Banco Porto Real to keep ‘bank’…

Fintech

Nubank has agreed to buy 100% of Banco Porto Real de Investimentos, a wholesale lender founded in 1992 in Rio de Janeiro, and the strategic logic has almost nothing to do with wholesale lending. Latin…

MyFundedFutures review: $123m paid and the payout-ban complaints

MyFundedFutures review: $123m paid and the payout-ban complaints

Prop Firms

Verdict. MyFundedFutures has the strongest published payout record in the futures prop sector — $123m across 55,733 payouts, $74m of it in a single 90-day window — and it removed the daily loss limit from…

Alpha Futures review: payout terms after the Premium collapse

Alpha Futures review: payout terms after the Premium…

Prop Firms

Verdict. Alpha Futures runs one of the more trader-favourable rule sets in futures prop trading — end-of-day trailing drawdown on every plan, a 90% split on most tiers, and a $15,000 per-request payout cap that…

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