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France's gambling regulator escalated a nearly two-year dispute with the decentralized prediction market on July 16 and 17, 2026, ordering internet providers to cut off access. Polymarket says it will challenge the decision in court.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has settled a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Coinbase, ending a three-year transparency campaign that exposed a significant records failure at the agency's highest levels.

A United Nations report released July 21, 2026 in Bangkok puts total fraud losses across East Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand at between $88.3 billion and $114.1 billion for 2025, more than tripling the $18 to $37 billion recorded just two years earlier.

China's state-owned Bank of China completed two record-setting cross-border transactions on the mBridge multi-currency CBDC platform in June and July 2026, pushing the platform's cumulative settlement volume past 600 billion yuan (roughly US$88.6 billion) and raising fresh questions, according to analysts, about the future of dollar-centred correspondent banking.

SEOUL | July 22, 2026

Nigel Farage resigned as MP for Clacton on July 21, 2026, after reports surfaced that he accepted an undeclared £5 million personal gift from Christopher Harborne (also known by his Thai name, Chakrit Sakunkrit), a British-Thai crypto billionaire who also donated roughly £25 million to Farage's Reform UK party. The National Crime Agency is now investigating transactions linked to senior Reform UK figures, and the scandal has opened a wider debate about crypto money in British politics.