Bitcoin Core Developer Warns Users to Pause BTC Transfers When BIP-110 Deadline Nears
Bitcoin core developer Jon Atack is telling users to hold off on transactions during the second week of August 2026,...
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Ondo Brings Blackrock IVV ETF and Micron Shares Onchain in US Regulatory First
Ondo Finance tokenized U.S. securities for the first time inside existing regulatory boundaries, using Blackrock’s Ishares Core S&P 500 exchange-traded...
Anchorage Digital Adds Lido Support, Opens Liquid Staking Access for Institutions
Anchorage Digital, the only federally chartered crypto bank in the United States, has integrated with Lido, the largest liquid staking...
Report: FBI Director Kash Patel Sat on $250K Strategy Stock Buy for 6 Months
FBI Director Kash Patel bought as much as $250,000 in Strategy stock last November and waited six months to tell...
UK payments blueprint outlines tokenized payments for ‘multi-money ecosystem’
UK regulators published an update to a national retail payments blueprint, calling for infrastructure support for tokenization and interoperability with...
The biggest blockchain upgrades still to come in 2026
From Ethereum’s Glamsterdam to Solana’s Alpenglow, 2026’s most important developments are protocol upgrades, not price charts.
Aave brings V3 lending and GHO stablecoin to Monad
Aave launched its V3 lending protocol on Monad with 12 supported assets as the network commits $15 million in first-year...
OFAC sanctions 134 ISIS-K crypto wallet addresses as Tether freezes funds
OFAC added 134 crypto wallet addresses linked to ISIS-K to its sanctions list, including 131 Tron addresses that received more...
Standard Chartered, Circle bring USDC minting onto banking rails
Standard Chartered and Circle launch bank-led USDC minting and redemption for institutions, starting in Dubai’s DIFC with planned global expansion.Standard...
Solana Foundation launches framework for protocol-level governance
The Solana Foundation launched a framework for protocol-level governance, enabling validators with at least 100,000 delegated SOL to publish new...
SBI Crypto shuts Bitcoin mining pool after 5-year run
SBI Crypto will shut down its Bitcoin mining pool on July 31 after more than five years, ranking 12th globally...
Yield-bearing stablecoin slowdown ends 3-year run for crypto-native products
Yield-bearing stablecoin supply fell 15% in Q2 as sUSDe and sUSDS contracted, while Treasury-backed products including BUIDL, USYC and USDY...
Crypto Lending Drops to $23.3 Billion as Tether Holds 68% of CeFi Loan Market in Q1
Centralized crypto lending loan books fell 6% in Q1 2026 to $23.3 billion, marking the sector’s first quarterly contraction since...
Crypto ETFs Split as Ether, HYPE and Solana Gain While Bitcoin Loses $295 Million
Crypto ETF flows remained uneven on Wednesday, July 1, as bitcoin funds posted a $294.62 million outflow, extending their redemption...
French Police Expand Crypto Security After 77 Kidnapping Cases Drive New Protection Push
French Minister of the Interior Laurent Nuñez announced a new security plan to protect cryptocurrency professionals following a sharp rise...
