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According to Foresight News , citing Cointelegraph, Australian cryptocurrency exchange Swyftx has obtained an Australian financial services license, indicating its intention to explore opportunities in the cryptocurrency payments sector. The license allows Swyftx to offer derivatives such as cryptocurrency options or futures to retail customers and authorizes it to provide non-cash payment services, enabling the fintech company to offer payment services to both business and retail clients. Swyftx interim co-CEO Andrea Yuen stated that after obtaining a license to provide payment services, the company "will no longer be a pure cryptocurrency spot exchange." Swyftx does not currently hold an AFSL license for spot cryptocurrency trading.
Securitize raises $400 million in funding to expand its institutional tokenization business through acquisitions.
PANews reported on July 6th that, according to CoinDesk, NYSE-listed Securitize (SECZ) plans to use over $400 million to expand its institutional tokenization platform through acquisitions of complementary businesses, rather than acquiring competitors. Securitize previously merged with Cantor's SPAC, retaining approximately 70% of the trust funds, raising over $400 million in total. Since its founding in 2017, the company has issued approximately $4.4 billion in tokenized assets, including BlackRock's $2.2 billion U.S. Treasury money market fund BUIDL and nearly $300 million in Securitize's own tokenized shares, making it one of the largest issuers of tokenized assets.
The Qianwen Intelligent Agent function and services will be officially discontinued on July 15th.
PANews reported on July 6th that Doubao recently announced its AI agent function will be taken offline on July 15th. At the same time, Qianwen (Tongyi Qianwen) also sent users a "Qianwen AI Agent Service Offline Reminder," stating that the Qianwen AI agent function and service will be officially taken offline on July 15, 2026. After the offline date, users will no longer be able to access related AI agent configurations and historical dialogue records. On June 26th, the Shanghai Municipal Cyberspace Administration announced the first phase results of the "Clean Up and Rectify the Chaos in AI Applications" special campaign, with over 14,000 illegal AI agents removed. Among them, MiniMax continued to remove illegal AI agents such as "one-click stripping" and gambling apps, becoming one of the key targets of the rectification. It is understood that the "Interim Measures for the Management of Humanized Interactive Services of Artificial Intelligence," which will officially come into effect on July 15, 2026, is in the preparation stage.
Video | Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev: AI-powered agent trading will empower ordinary investors with institutional-level trading capabilities
On July 2nd, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated in an interview with CNBC that AI-powered trading will be a completely new category. For the past few decades, automated trading, high-frequency trading, and complex AI-driven strategies have been almost entirely controlled by institutional investors and Wall Street, making them difficult for ordinary people to access. In the future, AI agents may be able to help ordinary people participate in the market, just like professional traders, further lowering the barriers to financial investment.
China Securities Regulatory Commission: Establish a shelf registration system for refinancing and private placements.
Odaily Odaily reports that the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is soliciting public opinions on improving rules for listed companies' refinancing. The draft proposes establishing a shelf registration system for private placements. Listed companies with high levels of information disclosure compliance applying for competitive private placements can adopt a one-time registration, multiple issuance approach to better adapt to the characteristics of a two-sided market, facilitate listed companies in quickly seizing market opportunities for financing, guide them towards rational and orderly financing, and reduce the market disruption caused by large-scale one-time financing. (Jinshi)
BNB Chain Releases 2026 Second Half Technology Roadmap: BSC Throughput Target to Double
Odaily Odaily reports that BNB Chain has released its technology roadmap for the second half of 2026, announcing that it will continue to optimize speed, throughput, and protocol stability, and plans to double the throughput of the BSC mainnet again, while developing a new generation of Layer 1 architecture for the next decade. BNB Chain stated that in the first half of 2026, BSC completed several performance upgrades, including reducing the block interval from 750 milliseconds to 450 milliseconds, decreasing the memory finality time from 1125 milliseconds to 650 milliseconds, and increasing the baseline throughput from approximately 2800 TPS to approximately 5200 TPS. At the middleware level, BNB Chain also advanced the construction of AI agents and payment infrastructure, including launching BNB Agent Studio and BNB Agent SDK to support the deployment of self-governed on-chain AI agents; it also continued to improve the Middleware Payment Protocol (MPP) SDK and explored institutional-grade privacy frameworks. For the second half of 2026, BNB Chain has proposed three core objectives: Double the throughput: Through BEP-675, BAL integration and EVM execution optimization, the BSC mainnet performance is further improved, with the long-term goal of achieving a 10x performance increase for the entire BNB Chain; Reduce the impact of network congestion: Improve stability during peak periods through resource isolation, dedicated transaction channels, and a transaction inclusion mechanism based on the FOCIL concept; Lowering the barrier to entry: Optimizing gas fee structures for different industries to reduce the cost for enterprises to enter Web2 and Web3 application scenarios.