Circle signed separate partnerships with Kakao Group and Toss Bank to explore stablecoin payments, cross-border transfers and blockchain-based financial services in South Korea.

HSBC has become the first financial institution approved by the Bank of England to operate a live digital securities platform, marking a major step in the United Kingdom’s push to bring government debt and capital markets onto blockchain infrastructure.

As an export-oriented country, Germany places even greater emphasis on its relationship with China in the context of rapid global technological development and an increasingly complex geopolitical situation.

Sony Bank has won conditional US approval to set up a national trust bank and launch a dollar-backed stablecoin by 2027. The project still needs final regulatory approval before it can begin.

Russia's largest private lender, Alfa-Bank, has begun testing cryptocurrency trading as the country's biggest banks position themselves for the launch of a regulated digital asset market.

Kraken is seeking a full European banking licence in Lithuania, which would make it the first crypto exchange to hold one if approved. The move would allow the company to expand beyond crypto trading into banking services across Europe.

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BNK Busan Bank and its partners successfully tested a blockchain-based digital currency system in a real banking environment. The trial recorded a 100% transaction success rate and supports South Korea's growing won-backed stablecoin efforts.

Many people have a misunderstanding about Hong Kong's Web3 policy: Hong Kong supports the development of virtual assets, so buying and selling cryptocurrencies, doing OTC business, and doing stablecoin business in Hong Kong are all legal and safe.

On July 2, AI and semiconductor stocks experienced a concentrated sell-off, and the memory sector was also caught in the crossfire.