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Ethereum Name Service co-founder Nick Johnson blocked the renewal of the ENS DAO Security Council with approximately 80% of votes cast in an executable onchain vote that closes July 5 at 8:59 PM. Johnson voted against the measure despite an earlier Snapshot vote passing, citing concerns that

Chainlink wallet address count reached 892,800 non-empty addresses, driven by CCIP integration expansion and approaching the 900,000 milestone. The growth is attributed to the Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol integration expansion across the network. This wallet growth metric provides insight i

Nike (NKE) reported fourth-quarter earnings of $0.72 per share on Tuesday, exceeding analyst estimates of $0.13 per share, but shares fell 2% in after-hours trading as a 12% decline in China sales overshadowed the earnings beat. The company's China revenue dropped to $1.3 billion from $1.5 billion i

Goldman Sachs has disclosed exposure to XRP through regulated trust-style investment vehicles, according to SEC filings available via the bank's EDGAR page. The filings show the Wall Street firm held positions in XRP trust products, including Grayscale-style vehicles, before

U.S. stock indexes posted strong gains in the second quarter, with the Russell 2000 small-cap index climbing 21% to mark its best first half since 1991 according to Bespoke Investment Group. The rally was driven by robust corporate earnings throughout the first half and declining oil prices after

Xbox, the gaming unit of Microsoft Corp, has ended its deal to fund and publish IO Interactive's upcoming game Project Fantasy, as the company re-evaluates its investment decisions. Xbox said it is 'taking a fresh look at where we invest so we're focusing on our highest priorities,' according to a s

Micron, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices gained about $2 trillion in combined market cap in the second quarter as investors widened their artificial intelligence portfolios. Micron rose over 240% during the quarter, Intel jumped 216%, and AMD's stock price nearly tripled. The rally occurred as inves

Bitcoin fell toward $58,000 on June 30, pushing its year-to-date losses to 34% and marking a double-digit decline for June. The cryptocurrency tumbled from over $60,000 on Monday evening to just over $58,200 before a relief rally, then plunged to $58,017 in a subsequent sell-off wave that erased Mon

Bank of America agreed to pay $7.5 million to settle Securities and Exchange Commission allegations that its Merrill Lynch brokerage failed to properly file all required suspicious activity reports between April 2020 and September 2024. The settlement centers on gaps in Merrill's anti-money

Nasdaq selected Pyth Network (PYTH) to distribute its market data, making Pyth the first on-chain network to distribute Nasdaq's market information. The collaboration will bring Nasdaq's TotalView depth ledger and order imbalance data to the onchain ecosystem, institutional users, and modern data di

Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike recorded their best quarter on record between April and June, with stock rallies of 113% and 95% respectively. The surge was driven by heightened demand for cybersecurity defenses as new artificial intelligence tools, particularly Mythos-class models capable of

Anthropic announced an internal drug discovery program at an event in San Francisco on Tuesday, with the AI company's life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams stating the initiative will focus on treatments for neglected diseases. The program is designed to develop artificial intelligence tools for d

Global asset manager Fidelity and Franklin Templeton executives published contrasting analyses on Bitcoin's market outlook amid ongoing price declines. Fidelity, which manages over $5 trillion in assets and issues a spot Bitcoin ETF, stated in its latest analysis that no one can be certain when or i

The Cardano Foundation issued a warning to Stake Pool Operators (SPOs) regarding passive governance participation through automated abstention. The Foundation stated that SPOs defaulting to 'auto-abstaining' creates an accountability gap that weakens Voltaire era governance. The warning addresses a

BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes has questioned whether Cardano and XRP possess sufficient real-world utility to justify their communities' confidence. Hayes argued that both assets rely heavily on community loyalty and wealth effects while challenging their leaders to demonstrate clearer evidence

Wintermute, one of the largest market makers in the cryptocurrency market, released an analysis suggesting Bitcoin's decline may continue further, with a true bottom potentially not arriving until September or October. Bitcoin has fallen from $126,000 in October to $58,000. Wintermute attributes the

U.S. lawmakers are working through competing versions of the Clarity Act as digital asset markets face renewed policy uncertainty, with roughly 20 session days remaining before the August recess. The crypto market structure bill, which passed the Senate Banking Committee in a bipartisan 15-9 vote, s

Blockchain platform Flare scheduled a community governance vote from July 6 to July 13 to deploy Flare Confidential Compute on its Songbird canary network, following a notice period that began June 29. The deployment represents the first live implementation of the Flare 2.0 architecture outlined in

The U.S. labor market showed persistent resilience in May, with job openings unchanged at 7.59 million, according to the Labor Department's Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey (JOLTS), surpassing economist forecasts of 7.29 million. The data pressures gold prices as a healthy labor market