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The Broker Back Office Becomes One Data Layer
Key Facts The constraint on most brokerages is not strategy but infrastructure that cannot pass data between functions. PLUGIT's YOONIT is a connected operational ecosystem for MT4 and MT5 forex and CFD brokers. Six modules:…
Google Play blocks 29 offshore crypto apps in Korea, FIU flagged 14
Google's Korean Play Store now blocks more offshore crypto venues than South Korea's own financial regulator has formally referred to prosecutors — and that gap, not the block itself, is the story. At least 29…
Circle’s 11 Arc validators are the settlement establishment
Circle named the founding validator cohort for Arc on August 5, and the list reads less like a blockchain genesis set than a roll call of the plumbing that already clears global markets: BlackRock, The…
OFAC sanctions Shelbit and Aban Tether over IRGC crypto flows
When OFAC sanctions landed on four Iranian exchanges on June 2, 2026, they captured most of the country's on-chain economy but not all of it. TRM Labs attributed $7.7 billion of 2025 volume to Nobitex,…
Yellow Card takes $40m from the bank its rails disintermediate
The most striking thing about Yellow Card's $40 million raise is not that Standard Chartered's venture arm led it. It is what Yellow Card's chief executive said about where this all ends. "The very near…
Tether takes Hadron to Saudi Arabia, nine rivals already live
Tether has taken Hadron, its tokenisation platform, into Saudi Arabia through a collaboration with First Data and BKN301 to issue institutional-grade real estate on-chain. The framing is first-mover expansion into a Vision 2030 market. The…
ICE bids for the ETF custody mandate Coinbase already holds
The most concentrated position in digital assets is not a whale wallet — it is a custody account. Roughly 84% of United States spot Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund assets sit with Coinbase, and the parent…
BNY Mellon adds staking to custody as Galaxy runs validators
BNY said on August 4, 2026 that it will add staking to its digital asset custody platform, with Galaxy supplying the validator infrastructure and acting as design partner. The detail worth pausing on is the…
Robinhood agentic trading nears 100,000 accounts, crypto next
The most API-native asset class on Robinhood is the one its trading robots still cannot touch. Robinhood Markets launched Agentic Trading in May 2026 for equities and options only, and by the end of the…
Partior PoC settles stablecoins against tokenised deposits
Partior, the blockchain settlement network built by JP Morgan, DBS Bank, Standard Chartered and Temasek, has completed a proof of concept with tokenisation infrastructure firm OpenAssets demonstrating atomic delivery-versus-payment between digital assets, regulated stablecoins and…