Michael Saylor has entered Bitcoin’s BIP-110 fight with a 110-point case in opposition to a short lived gentle fork that might limit sure arbitrary-data and script makes use of. His intervention lands whereas reside monitoring exhibits 0.89% signaling and the present issue interval is already mathematically unable to attain the proposal’s early-lock threshold. Editor’s Note:…
As MiCA’s last enforcement deadline arrived on July 1, 2026, the numbers informed a hanging story: solely round 210 crypto corporations out of an estimated 3,000 that had beforehand operated throughout the EU had secured full authorization. At the identical time, spot crypto ETF buying and selling quantity crossed $2 trillion in early 2026, and…
OKX Europe has launched a deposit and conversion mechanism for Tether’s USDT, enabling holders throughout the European Economic Area to switch the non-compliant stablecoin onto its licensed platform and convert it to USD Coin. The function is structured as a one-way circulation, which means customers might deposit USDT and trade it for USDC at their…
Powerloom, a blockchain community constructed for decentralized knowledge infrastructure, is scheduled to halt completely at 6:00 AM UTC on July 21. Users with POWER or different transferable belongings nonetheless held on the community have beneath 24 hours to transfer them to Ethereum as of press time. Currently, Powerloom’s official wind-down page lists the bridge as…
Businesses are not simply utilizing AI chatbots to ask and reply questions. These days, it’s all about autonomous AI agents being unleashed inside company programs, studying by means of information and directories, making alterations to them, automating workflows by means of APIs and executing stay code. Agents are automating the whole lot, and so they’re evolving as…
Hugging Face disclosed on July 16, 2026, that its manufacturing infrastructure had been compromised by an autonomous AI agent system — a improvement the corporate described as not like any intrusion it had beforehand encountered. The assault originated within the platform’s data-processing pipeline, the place a malicious dataset exploited two code-execution vulnerabilities: a remote-code dataset…
Cross-chain cryptocurrency utility Infinex introduced the launch of Infinex Confidential, a privacy-oriented function constructed upon NEAR Protocol’s Confidential Intents framework. The function allows depositing property from any supported chain in any denomination, executing swaps inside a non-public atmosphere, and withdrawing funds to self-selected locations with out exposing transaction particulars to public blockchain explorers. The technical…
Grayscale desires to show staking rewards from its Ethereum and Solana funds into cash payouts a minimum of as soon as a quarter, beginning round Aug. 7. That would give buyers a simple option to examine what every fund truly delivers. In July 17 SEC filings for the Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF and Grayscale Solana…
A contractor introduced in by way of a third-party supplier labored on MetaMask code from March 9 till Consensys minimize off entry in April. Consensys later described the individual as linked to North Korea. Consensys mentioned its investigation discovered no misappropriation of belongings or information, no malicious code deployment and no affect to person security…
For 20 years, the American investor basically obtained a free insurance coverage coverage. When equities fell, Treasuries rallied, and the loss on one aspect of the portfolio was partly lined by the acquire on the different. That relationship grew to become so dependable that a whole trade constructed merchandise on it, and a whole technology…