Ripple Payments Europe joined ESMA's MiCA register alongside 13 other crypto firms on July 17, 2026, lifting the EU's total licensed providers to 294.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/ripple-payments-europe-mica-license-eu-register-294-providers-july-2026/

Citadel Securities invested $400M in Crypto.com, lifting the exchange to a $20B valuation in its first institutional funding round as Wall Street market makers move deeper into crypto.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/crypto-com-20b-valuation-citadel-securities-400m-july-2026/

An Argentine judge froze 25 crypto accounts and ordered six exchanges to identify the holders, a sharp escalation in how the country polices onchain money.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/argentina-judge-freezes-25-crypto-accounts-exchanges-identify-users-july-2026/

Injective has filed for SEC transfer agent registration, aiming to keep securities ownership records for tokenized assets and RWAs directly onchain.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/injective-sec-transfer-agent-registration-onchain-securities-july-2026/

Fintech platform Tradable plans to tokenize up to $1 billion in private credit assets on Stellar, one of the larger single commitments of real-world credit to a public chain.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/tradable-1b-private-credit-assets-stellar-july-2026/

T. Rowe Price debuts TKNZ, an actively managed multi-token crypto fund, marking the $1.6T asset manager's first hands-on crypto product as of July 2026.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/t-rowe-price-tknz-active-multi-token-crypto-fund-july-2026/

A WuBlockchain report says stablecoin trading in Venezuela over a month rivaled the value of the nation's oil exports, a sign of dollar demand in a broken economy.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/venezuela-usdt-trading-rivals-oil-exports-july-2026/

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev says the firm's new Robinhood Chain exists to make real-world assets programmable, globally portable, and always available. Here is what it means.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/robinhood-chain-tenev-tokenize-real-world-assets-july-2026/

SBI Holdings is partnering with Ondo Finance to tokenize Japanese equities on Ondo Global Markets, using SBI's JPYSC stablecoin for settlement and collateral.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/sbi-holdings-ondo-finance-tokenize-japanese-equities-july-2026/

Bitget says its Cash Plus stablecoin product crossed $50M in AUM five days after launch, a demand signal for yield on idle USDT and USDC that card users park on exchanges.

Read the full article: https://www.spendnode.io/blog/bitget-cash-plus-50m-aum-five-days-stablecoin-yield-july-2026/