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World Liberty Financial is seeking to launch World Liberty Trust Company, a stablecoin-focused national trust bank, it said Wednesday.

Although subsequent Senate committee votes may come, negotiations over the bill’s language have not yet met basic requests from Democrats.

Also: Starknet goes down, Vitalik Buterin’s targets for Ethereum and ETH staking queues cleared.

The BNB chain’s layer 2 network, opBNB, recently completed a major upgrade, the Fourier hard fork, which doubled transaction throughput.

The Senate Agriculture Committee previously released a debate draft of its market structure legislation.

In this week’s Crypto Long & Short Newsletter, Adeniyi Abiodun predicts that 2026 is the year Wall Street starts building on blockchain, not around it. Then Andy Baer’s first Vibe Check of the year, reviewing crypto’s quarterly mood swings in 2025 and the energetic start to 2026.

The Kinexys-led move aims to bring regulated digital cash to a privacy-enabled blockchain for real-time, interoperable finance.

The team said that 20% of the total supply has been set aside for users and developers who are eligible to receive tokens.

FXRP allows XRP to be traded on Hyperliquid’s onchain order book and can later be bridged back to the XRP Ledger.