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James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, lost access to 8,000 Bitcoin after an encrypted hard drive was mistakenly discarded in 2013 during a cleanup by his then-girlfriend and sent to Newport's Docksway landfill. UK courts rejected Howells' legal claims in 2025, with the High Court in Cardiff ruling

According to PANews, Aurora mainnet has resumed block production on July 20. The network had halted operations starting at 10:16:11 UTC+8.

James Howells, a Welsh IT engineer, lost access to 8,000 Bitcoin after accidentally discarding an encrypted hard drive containing the private keys in 2013. The drive was sent to a landfill in Newport, Wales. After years of negotiation and legal battles, UK courts rejected his claims on

AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, a major logistics services company in Japan, will adopt the JPYC stablecoin for payments to business partners. According to a report from Nikkei Asia, the company plans to use the stablecoin to pay fees and salaries to roughly 2,300 business partners and individual

According to PANews, Hyperliquid announced that HIP-4 will support permissionless market deployment on testnet first, followed by mainnet in future network upgrades. Deployers must stake 500,000 HYPE, with staking locked for 6 months. If markets are undefined, settlements fail to meet

The NFT project “Pudgy Penguins” announced on July 20 that its Pengu plush toy has officially arrived in the toy sections of all Target stores across the United States. Previously, on June 20, Pudgy Penguins’ trading card game Vibes Series 3 entered Target’s nationwide retail channels. Pengu plush toys go on sale at Target in the U.S. on July 20 (Source: Pudgy Penguins) According to Pudgy Penguins’ official announcement, the timeline for its 2026 U.S. physical retail expansion is as follows: Jun

According to Foresight News, on July 15, two developers at vladfun hardcoded their own token into the platform's frontend at launch, making it the only visible token while hiding other creators' tokens. The Robinhood Chain token platform discovered the malicious code within 2 hours, immediately

According to The Hong Kong Economic Times, Anchorpoint and Standard Chartered plan to announce the launch of HKDAP, a stablecoin pegged to the Hong Kong Dollar, by late July within two weeks. Anchorpoint, founded by Standard Chartered, was among the first two stablecoin issuers licensed by the Hong

According to PANews, Pudgy Penguins announced today (July 20) that Pengu plush toys are now available at all Target stores across the United States. This follows the launch of the project's TCG card game, Vibes Series 3, at Target stores last

Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, is expanding recruitment for its GASOK program to discover talented developers for the GIWA blockchain ecosystem, with applications open until the end of this month. The initiative aims to identify builders, developers, and entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who can c

According to ZODL founder Josh Swihart, zcashd, Zcash's original node software, stopped maintenance at block height 3,417,100 on July 19 after running for a decade. Zebra and Zakura, modern Rust node implementations, will continue operating the Zcash network, while Zallet wallet replaces zcashd's wa

Zcash's Ironwood hard fork, designated NU6.3, activates around July 28 at block height 3,428,143 to seal a soundness flaw in the Orchard shielded pool. Security researcher Taylor Hornby discovered the bug in late May while working with Shielded Labs, prompting developers to implement emergency

According to Bitcoin.com News, Zcash's Zakura node synchronizes the mainnet in approximately four hours and 20 minutes—over five times faster than the Zebra client's 20 hours and 46 minutes—ahead of the Ironwood (NU6.3) hard fork activation expected on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. Zakur

According to ChainCatcher, Cardano activated the Van Rossem hard fork on July 18 at 21:44:51 UTC, upgrading the network to protocol version 11 with no reported downtime. The upgrade, the first to be completed entirely through chain-based governance voting, aims to reduce Plutus smart contract

According to The Block, Michael Saylor, co-founder and executive chairman of MicroStrategy, published a 110-point essay on X on Saturday urging the Bitcoin network to reject BIP-110, a proposed anti-spam soft fork. The essay, titled "110 Reasons BIP 110 Is a Bad Idea," garnered over 840,000 views

Input Output announced Friday it will transfer control of Cardano's core blockchain infrastructure to outside specialist companies, starting in August and running through 2027. The handover covers the Haskell node, Plutus smart-contract platform, Daedalus wallet, and Hydra scaling technology.

According to Input Output's announcement on Friday, Cardano is handing control of its core blockchain infrastructure to outside specialist firms, beginning in August. The Haskell node, Plutus smart-contract platform, Daedalus wallet, and Hydra scaling technology will be transferred to Se7en Labs,

According to Michael Saylor's X post on Sunday, MicroStrategy's strategy executive chairman detailed his criticism of Bitcoin Improvement Proposal-110, a proposed protocol change to limit non-monetary transactions on the network. The roughly 3,700-word post, which outlines his concerns about the pro

According to The Block, Uniswap's community will hold two critical on-chain votes from July 19 to July 26. The first proposal enables protocol fees for v4 liquidity pools across seven chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, BNB Chain, Polygon, Optimism, and Robinhood Chain, covering three pool ty