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HoodDomains Launches .hood on Robinhood Chain

July 21, 20269 min

HoodDomains brings on-chain identity, x402 payments, and autonomous agents together under a single .hood domain. HoodDomains, the naming protocol built for Robinhood Chain, has officially launched .hood domains permanent, self-custodied on-chain identities designed to replace the 42-character wallet address with something a human can actually read, remember, and act through. Where earlier naming systems solved the readability problem, HoodDomains is aiming at something bigger: turning a name into a full identity stack. A single .hood...

by GlobeNewswire

Platforms

AFX to Unveil On-Chain Market Vision at Japan Blockchain Week

July 17, 20263 min

AFX, a high-performance sovereign Layer 1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, joined Japan Blockchain Week Summit 2026, where it shared its vision for the future of on-chain trading following the platform’s recent milestone of surpassing $1.1 billion in cumulative trading volume. During the summit, AFX Head of Growth Ken C joined the panel “Redefining Value Preservation and the Operations Layer After ETF-ization,” discussing how institutional adoption is reshaping expectations around market infrastructure, liquidity, execution, and risk management. “ETFs...

by PRNewswire

Payments

Spreedly Announced the Launch of Standalone Payment Vault

July 16, 20266 min

An independent vault lets merchants keep control of their payment credentials today, running a single provider per region, and add orchestration on their own timeline

by GlobeNewswire

Banking

Halo Fund Invests $70M into AI-Native Private Banking Platform Flex

July 15, 202610 min

The pre-emptive $70 million equity funding comes just six months after the last round as Flex expands its AI-native private banking platform to 100+ countries on stablecoin rails, banking and moving owners’ money globally in minutes, not days.

by BusinessWire

Blockchain

Unit21, TRM Labs Bring Blockchain Intelligence to AI Financial Crime Ops

July 15, 20267 min

Unit21, TRM Labs Bring Blockchain Intelligence to AI Financial Crime Ops

by PRNewswire

Compliance & Scoring

Quantifind Named Celent Luminary for Adverse Media Screening Technology

July 9, 20267 min

Highest recognition highlights Quantifind's AI-native approach to KYC, adverse media screening, and next-generation financial crime compliance

by GlobeNewswire

Platforms

KOR Protocol Raises $7.5 Mn Series A to Build Creative Asset Clearinghouse

July 9, 20268 min

Backed by 1kx, Blockchain Capital, and others, KOR is building the platform that connects emerging talent with the labels, agencies, brands, and platforms that can scale them

by FTB News Desk

Interview

FinTech Interview with Arjun Sirrah, Founder & CEO of Titan

July 7, 202628 min

by PRNewswire

API/Connectivity

AEON Announced its Expansion to Zambia

July 4, 20263 min

AEON, the settlement layer for the agentic economy, has expanded AEON Pay into Zambia, integrating local wallets Airtel Money and MTN Mobile Money. Zambian users can now spend digital assets seamlessly while merchants receive instant settlement in Zambian Kwacha (ZMW). This development bridges the gap between decentralized retail financing and established localized payment behaviors, while providing a crucial real-world terminal layer for autonomous AI agents. Connecting to Africa’s Mobile Money Infrastructure This move responds to...

by PRNewswire

Insurance

Vertafore AI Speeds Carrier Reconciliation, Outlook Workflows

July 1, 20269 min

New Vertafore Velocity AI agents eliminate long-standing sources of distribution drag in core agency operations

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