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Cardano activated the Van Rossem hard fork on July 18, transitioning the network to protocol version 11 with zero downtime over the weekend. The upgrade represents the blockchain's first major protocol change ratified entirely through on-chain community governance, with no intervention from

UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham stated on local time on the 20th that "we will keep the fiscal rules," adding "what I'm talking about is the existing fiscal rules, and we will utilize all the flexibility clearly allowed within them." Burnham made these remarks while meeting with reporters in the

Galaxy Digital signed a 15-year, $75 million naming rights agreement with Texas Tech Athletics to rename the university's football stadium Galaxy Stadium, the school announced on July 17. The deal, which pays approximately $5 million annually, replaces AT&T's naming rights that expired in June

NEAR Protocol co-founder Illia Polosukhin stated Monday that AI-assisted hacking began last October and is now outpacing traditional code security reviews. Speaking in an interview on The Block's The Starting Block podcast, Polosukhin identified the Balancer incident as the first example of this

Binance co-CEO Richard Teng revealed that 70% of funds withdrawn by affected EU customers moved to self-hosted wallets following the exchange's exit from MiCA licensing, with the remaining 30% transferring to platforms licensed under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets regulation. Speaking at the

Strive, Inc. purchased 21 bitcoins between July 13 and July 17 at an average price of approximately $63,221 per coin, according to an 8-K filing submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 20. The acquisition increased the Dallas-based company's total holdings to 19,921 BTC. The purc

Onramp, a bitcoin-focused financial services firm, published its 'Back to Basics' report in July 2026, arguing for direct spot bitcoin ownership over paper claims such as ETF shares and exchange balances. The report arrives as bitcoin trades roughly 50% below its late-2025 peak while the S&P 500

SHOW Token, an entertainment ecosystem integrating blockchain and artificial intelligence, introduced a platform allowing public participation in film production from early stages. The initiative aims to shift the traditionally one-directional relationship between audiences and the film industry

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday a test indicating iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico carried the cyclospora parasite was a false positive, but the agency maintains its conclusion that shredded iceberg lettuce from central Mexico supplied by Taylor Farms caused an outbreak that

Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery received a temporary restraining order on Monday when California District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín signed off on a 14-day pause following a Friday hearing in Oakland. The order stems from an antitrust lawsuit

U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $75.7 million in net inflows for the week ending July 17, marking a second consecutive green week after eight straight weeks of outflows totaling more than $8.2 billion. The two-week recovery brought total net gains to $273.1 million across the 13 funds, according to

The Bank of Korea is launching the second phase of its central bank digital currency pilot in September, expanding real-world transaction testing to nine commercial banks as the country advances toward commercializing a digital won. The next stage of Project Hangang will shift from limited payment t

House committee leaders marked the one-year anniversary of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act's bipartisan passage, warning that regulation by enforcement is stifling American innovation. The bill remains stalled in the Senate since last year despite mounting industry pressure. Lawmakers

Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo joined the board of directors at crypto exchange OKX, the platform announced Monday. Cuomo appeared on Fox Business the same day to promote 24/7 tokenized stock trading, deepening his existing ties to the exchange. Last month, OKX and Intercontinental

Pump.fun's PUMP token surged more than 22% on July 20 to reach $0.00207 after prominent Solana trader Ansem disclosed a long position at approximately $0.001675. The rally pushed the token to its highest price since May 12 and drove 24-hour trading volume past $131 million, a jump of over 500%

Decentralized exchange ApeX launched perpetual contract trading for CASHCAT with leverage up to 50x, the platform announced in a weekly update on July 20. The listing runs fully on-chain and requires no know-your-customer verification, continuing ApeX's push to capture speculative meme coin volume t

Veteran trader Peter Brandt predicts Bitcoin will reach the bottom of its current market cycle on October 4, 2026, extending his view that the cryptocurrency has not completed its bear-market reset. Brandt

SpaceXAI announced on Monday the release of a Microsoft Excel add-in integrating its Grok AI assistant directly into the spreadsheet software. The tool enables users to perform data analysis, build formulas, and execute financial forecasting using plain English prompts without switching

Ethereum spot ETFs recorded $105M in net inflows during the week of July 13–17, the strongest weekly figure since April and an acceleration from the prior week's $84M, according to data from CoinGlass and Farside Investors. The two consecutive positive weeks ended an eight-week outflow streak,

Michael Saylor, co-founder of Strategy and the largest publicly listed corporate Bitcoin holder, publicly opposed BIP-110 on July 11, a proposed one-year soft fork that would restrict non-financial data storage on the Bitcoin blockchain. Saylor argues the proposal introduces more systemic risk