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X has introduced stricter measures to combat content theft and engagement farming within its Creator Revenue Sharing program. Using an upgraded version of Grok AI, the platform can now detect duplicated content three times more effectively than before.

According to X, creators who repost stolen content, even with edits such as watermarks, intros, or overlays, will no longer receive monetization, with eligible revenue instead being redirected to the original creator. The system also applies to copied viral text posts.

X says it detected 1.5 million stolen posts in its latest review cycle, with over $1 million in creator payouts being reassigned to original authors. Users who repeatedly engage in content theft or engagement bait risk being removed from the Creator Program and may face account suspension.

At around 5:30 AM UTC today, Across reported an attack on Solana. The team says no users were affected, all bridge transactions have been completed, and user funds are safe.

Solana deposits have been disabled for now, while the protocol remains otherwise unaffected. The only funds potentially lost belong to the relayer operated by Risk Labs, the foundation supporting Across.

Refunds will process automatically. For support, users are asked to submit a ticket directly on the official website and ignore any phishing links on the timeline.

Bybit has gone live in Indonesia with a locally licensed exchange, regulated by the country’s Financial Services Authority (OJK), after taking a majority stake in local platform PT Enkripsi Teknologi Handal (formerly NOBI).

The exchange opens with 500+ trading pairs alongside institutional-grade liquidity, market surveillance and risk controls, and Bybit plans to add more products in phases as compliance allows. A local team will run operations and regulatory engagement, backed by localized Bybit Learn education — deepening Bybit’s push into Southeast Asia’s biggest crypto market.

From August 1, Trump Media will sell Wall Street firms a real-time feed of Truth Social’s top 10 accounts — Trump’s included — delivering their market-moving posts within milliseconds of publication.

Trading desks run algorithms that fire on such signals, so even a few milliseconds’ head start can mean big profits. “Markets already move on Truth Social posts,” the company said — and it is now selling privileged access.

The glaring conflict: Trump owns roughly 41% of Trump Media, meaning a sitting president would profit from selling faster access to his own market-moving words. Pricing wasn’t disclosed.

MegaETH is sunsetting Mega Mafia, the accelerator that helped bootstrap its ecosystem, telling founders that “most” of its most successful apps have already left the program.

Mega Mafia incubated roughly 20 projects — from DeFi to consumer apps — but MegaETH never took equity or governance stakes, leaving graduating teams fully independent from day one. The wind-down closes a signature chapter for the real-time L2 behind the $MEGA token, with MegaETH now betting on its MegaForge builder program and MegaUSD stablecoin to carry things forward.

Solana influencer Ansem laid out a plan to turn his ANSEM memecoin — “The Black Bull” — into a tokenized social network, fusing retail speculation with a more sustainable creator economy to onboard new users to crypto.

ANSEM already runs a “Bull Index” staking system that pays holders a cut of harvested trading fees. Ansem has airdropped ~$7M of the token via his BullpenFi platform, aiming for a holder base of 1 million wallets.

Context: ANSEM is a high-volatility Solana memecoin that ran ~20,000% in late June to a $60M+ cap. This is Ansem’s stated vision, not a shipped product — not financial advice.

Citadel Securities has made a $400M strategic investment in Crypto.com at a $20B valuation — the exchange’s first institutional funding round in its decade-long history.

The capital will accelerate Crypto.com’s expansion into all asset classes — tokenized securities and derivatives — bridging digital assets with mainstream finance. “Crypto increasingly becomes the rails for finance,” said CEO Kris Marszalek. For Wall Street market-making giant Citadel Securities, it’s another deep step into crypto as TradFi and digital-asset rails converge.

This week was all about institutional adoption accelerating from every angle: tokenization kept moving into traditional finance, regulators pushed crypto further into the financial system, major brokers expanded access, and the race to build onchain capital markets and payment infrastructure continued.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

— DTCC launched tokenized stocks, ETFs & Treasuries infrastructure.

— Japan cleared the path for spot Bitcoin ETFs.

— SBI partnered with Solana to build onchain financial markets.

— Interactive Brokers expanded crypto trading and stablecoin withdrawals.

— BlackRock surpassed $15.3T in assets under management.

— Coinbase opened registration for mainland China users.

— ECB selected providers for the digital euro pilot.

— LayerZero executor wallets compromised, $2.4M drained.

Visa is rolling out the Visa Stablecoin Platform, an internal system letting banks and fintechs handle stablecoins within their existing Visa payment and treasury workflows.

The platform will launch with OUSD (Open Standard USD), the new stablecoin backed by 140+ companies including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock, and Coinbase, widely seen as a potential rival to Circle's USDC. Businesses will be able to mint and redeem OUSD without fees or volume limits.

Visa already supports Circle's USDC and Paxos' USDG, and the new platform will serve as an umbrella for all of Visa's stablecoin services going forward.

Mastercard has also introduced stablecoin settlement for card transactions, starting with six regulated dollar-backed assets, and both Mastercard and American Express have joined the Open Standard consortium behind OUSD.