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Cboe seeks SEC nod for first US 3x bitcoin and ether ETFs

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
LeverageShares debuted the world’s first 3x bitcoin and ether ETFs in Europe.Β These would be the first in the U.S., if approved.

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Binance to block transactions with HTX, 10 other exchanges under EU Russia sanctions

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
Binance said it will no longer process transactions from 16 exchanges, including five already blocked, citing regulatory compliance needs.

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Ether.fi adds tokenized stocks, metals and Aave-powered portfolio loans in latest β€˜neobank’ expansion

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
Etherfi noted its updated app is β€œless crypto-forward,” and aimed at attracting β€œa much broader audience.”
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SEC clears Franklin Templeton funds to use onchain BENJI system for cash management

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
Franklin Templeton received a no-action letter from the SEC enabling its traditional registered funds to invest in its BENJI/FOBXX fund.
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Polymarket taps ex-Uber and Bird exec Travis VanderZanden to boost growth

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
Polymarket has hired the Bird, Uber and Lyft blitzscaling veteran Travis VanderZanden as chief growth officer.
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SKALE launches Agent Pit to let builders train AI agents before taking them live on Polymarket

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
SKALE Labs launched Agent Pit, a Polymarket-inspired, paper-trading prediction market sandbox on its zero-gas blockchain.
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Attackers keep hitting the wrong house in rural France after crypto millionaire moved: report

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
A French couple in the Somme who bought a former crypto millionaires’ house have been targeted in three separate home invasions.
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Kalshi first prediction market to stream full order books via DoubleZero

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
The move gives institutional traders direct access to Level 1 and Level 2 data without having to reconstruct the book from APIs.
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ENS Foundation takes administrative control of $65 million Endowment following tokenholder vote

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
ENS tokenholders voted to transform the ENS Foundation into a fully operational organization with a five-member board and financial power.
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eToro agrees to buy TradeZero for up to $231 million as equities drive Q2 growth

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
Net contribution rose 9% year-over-year to $229 million, driven mainly by stronger equities trading, according to a statement.
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Grvt eyes $100 million USDY position in Ondo Finance tie-up

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
USDY is a tokenized secured note backed primarily by short-term U.S. Treasurys, Treasury-based ETF shares, and bank deposits.
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BTCPay Server supporters offer up to 3 BTC for recovery bounty after critical exploit

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
BTCPay said AI may have been used to exploit vulnerability, and credited Craig Raw and the Bitcoin Red Team fund for reporting the issue.
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Vitalik Buterin puts privacy and quantum resistance front and center in Ethereum’s latest roadmap

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”
Buterin previously said the upgrades included in Lean Ethereum will form the protocol's β€œthird major iteration.”
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BTCPay Server supporters offer up to 3 BTC for recovery bounty after critical exploit

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

BTCPay said AI may have been used to exploit vulnerability, and credited Craig Raw and the Bitcoin Red Team fund for reporting the issue.

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Vitalik Buterin puts privacy and quantum resistance front and center in Ethereum’s latest roadmap

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Buterin previously said the upgrades included in Lean Ethereum will form the protocol's β€œthird major iteration.”

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SharpLink CEO warns EIP-8363 could kill ETH’s biggest advantage over Bitcoin

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The "Tapered Issuance Burn" proposal would phase in a rising burn of consensus rewards to limit the amount of ETH staked.

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BTCPay warns of actively exploited vulnerability that could drain funds

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Makers of the open source bitcoin payment processor BTCPay urged users to update their servers to version 2.4.2.

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Wintermute registers as SEC broker-dealer to trade stocks, options and crypto ETFs

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Wintermute USA is a New York-based subsidiary that has registered as a broker-dealer with the SEC and FINRA.

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Bitcoin miners MARA and CleanSpark post double-digit revenue drops as AI infrastructure pivot continues

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

MARA's net loss widened to $611.3 million, or $1.60 per diluted share, while CleanSpark’s was $239.8 million, or $0.89 per basic share.

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Tokenized RWAs triple deposits to $7.4 billion as broader DeFi contracts 15%: CoinShares

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Deposits of tokenized RWAs into lending platforms and DEXs more than tripled from Q2 2025 to Q2 2026, from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion.

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World Chain becomes first production L2 to ship streaming Block Access Lists via Flashblocks

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The L2 will activate the feature on mainnet on Aug. 17 ahead of Ethereum's Glamsterdam upgrade planned for later this year.

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Visa expands stablecoin capabilities on Visa Direct with zerohash collaboration

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Visa Direct reportedly connects to more than 18 billion endpoints, including cards, bank accounts and digital wallets.

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Ethereum researchers propose burning validator rewards to cap staking at 50%

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

EIP-8361 would gradually burn a rising share of validator rewards as the staking ratio climbs.

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BitGo moves $7.4 billion Wrapped Bitcoins to Chainlink CCIP in latest LayerZero exodus

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The move pushes the total value migrating from LayerZero to Chainlink near $15 billion, with WBTC representing the largest shift yet.

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DCG’s Fortitude acquires 12.5 MW Nebraska facility for net $4.7 million, expanding Zcash mining portfolio

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Fortitude Mining completed the cash acquisition of a 12.5 MW mining facility for a net outlay of about $4.7 million after credits.

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Proof of Attendance Protocol is shutting down after 5+ years

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Some 46,210 issuers like Coinbase and American Express used POAP to create onchain mementos that users could mint.

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BlackRock launches two tokenized money market funds for stablecoin reserves

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

BRSRV joins a list of funds launched by the likes of Morgan Stanley, State Street, and Fidelity designed for stablecoin reserves.

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BitGo launches Link, connecting clients to Coinbase, Kraken, Crypto.com and more

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

BitGo Link provides a single interface for viewing and moving digital assets held both in BitGo custody and on centralized exchanges.

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β€˜Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto’ author joins Ethereum Foundation as fourth board member

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The SEAL 911 security firm co-founder, pcaversaccio, is known for his privacy advocacy and cypherpunk cultural commentary.

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Tether’s GENIUS-compliant USAT stablecoin launches on Celo, marking first expansion beyond Ethereum

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

USAT can be used to pay for gas on the blockchain, meaning users will not have to hold multiple tokens to make USAT transactions.

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Safe smart accounts process nearly 130 million transactions in record quarter

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Programmable smart wallet provider reported another quarter of user growth, ending Q2 2026 with over 63 million Safe accounts created.

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Zcash activates Ironwood upgrade, launching new shielded pool after Orchard vulnerability

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Ironwood represents something of a unified effort across Zcash’s developer ecosystem after Shielded Labs found a bug in Orchard.

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Galaxy Digital buys 500 acres in McGregor for second Texas AI data center campus

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The β€œprivately funded" Texas campus is expected to generate a minimum of $130 million for McGregor's local tax base, Galaxy said.

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NFL urges CFTC to strengthen rules on sports prediction markets: report

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The NFL responded to the CFTC’s recent draft rulemaking calling for stricter prediction markets oversight, including age restrictions.

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Securitize expands regulated platform with SEC adviser license

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

This will enable Securitize to work more closely with asset managers and institutional investors on tokenized investment strategies.

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Lido begins consolidating $16 billion worth of staked ETH as Curated Module v2 rolls out

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Ethereum staking protocol Lido has begun consolidating more than 8 million ETH onto Ethereum’s larger post-Pectra 0x02 validators.

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Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir and Anduril join US State Department’s Freedom Tech Excellence Program

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The Bitcoin Policy Institute, Palantir and Anduril are partners in the U.S. State Department's Freedom Tech Excellence Program.

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Wise plans to resubmit national trust bank application under GENIUS Act framework

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

The OCC has granted conditional approval to several stablecoin-focused entities since December.

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Robinhood CEO’s X account hacked to promote Vladhood memecoin flagged as β€˜scam’

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Robinhood Chain has seen cumulative DEX volume of about $9 billion, primarily driven by higher-risk memecoins, per Entropy Advisors.

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Coinbase calls AI payments its β€˜most high-conviction bet’ as businesses begin accepting agent payments

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Coinbase will enable businesses to accept payments from AI bots, powered by Coinbase Payments and the x402 standard.

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Flow Traders pilots Lombard’s new bitcoin-backed credit strategy for stablecoin borrowing

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Lombard Finance is launching its Bitcoin Onchain Credit Strategy with Flow Traders as the pilot partner.

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Kraken parent Payward partners with GTN to scale xStocks internationally, beyond US equities

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

xStocks is tokenizing equities from Hong Kong before expanding to the UK, Europe, South Korea, and other international markets.

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β€˜You will have a painful fall’: SEC’s Peirce warns crypto vault builders against twisting securities law

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Hester Peirce, aka "Crypto Mom", issued a statement clarifying that onchain vaults and lending may fall under the SEC's remit.

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Ousted founder’s $1.6 million claim tops Movement Labs’ bankruptcy filing

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

MVMT filed for bankruptcy earlier this month, reporting assets between $100,001 and $500,000 and liabilities of up to $10 million.

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Augustus raises $180 million Series B at $1 billion valuation to build the β€˜Global Dollar Bank’

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Augustus supports stablecoins alongside traditional payment rails including Swift, ACH, and SEPA, according to a press release.

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Coinbase says β€˜low-risk’ config change behind 50-minute July 14 outage impacting trading, card transactions

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Coinbase said user funds were never at risk, and user transactions that were stuck β€œin-flight” were completed once service was restored.

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Aztec upgrades to V5 in alpha, adding full private execution environment to decentralized Ethereum L2

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Aztec V5 focuses on supporting "client-side proving," enabling computation-heavy ZK proofs on simple devices like phones and laptops.Β 

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MegaETH sunsets Mega Mafia accelerator program, noting β€˜most’ of its successful apps left

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

MegaETH did not take equity or governance positions in the approximately 20 projects incubated in the Mega Mafia.

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Citadel Securities invests $400 million in Crypto.com at $20 billion valuation

By: Daniel Kuhn β€”

Crypto.com plans to use proceeds from its β€œfirst institutional funding round" to expand its tokenization and derivatives operations.

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