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On July 28, Zcash activated the Ironwood upgrade at block height 3,428,143, sealing its Orchard shielded pool to new payments and forcing migration of approximately 3.6 million ZEC worth roughly $1.8 billion. The NU6.3 hard fork introduced a separate Ironwood pool with a new transaction format and a

According to TheStreet, 1inch announced the full public launch of Aqua on July 28, a self-custodial shared liquidity layer that allows providers to use the same wallet balance across multiple positions without locking assets in a pool. Aqua goes live on 13 EVM chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum,

Ankr launched a rewards platform called Forge on July 15, introducing a revenue-based incentive model that diverges from traditional token emission structures. The platform funds rewards through revenue generated by Ankr's existing blockchain infrastructure operations rather than minting new $ANKR t

On July 15, Ankr launched Forge, a rewards platform that ties incentives to actual infrastructure revenue rather than token emissions. Users convert $ANKR holdings and complete on-chain missions to earn Forge Points, which determine allocations in periodic Forge Drops and unlock eligibility for toke

Evernorth argues that XRP could serve as a settlement rail for modern finance, enabling institutions to move value across borders faster and more efficiently. The company describes XRP's real purpose as providing infrastructure for real-time finance, allowing liquidity to move seamlessly between

According to Evernorth, XRP is designed to serve as a settlement rail for modern finance, enabling institutions to move value across borders faster and more efficiently. Evernorth Chief Business Officer Sagar explained that XRP functions as infrastructure for real-time transactions, allowing

According to Michael Saylor, Strategy executive chairman, Bitcoin's consensus rules constitute an immutable "constitution" that must not be rewritten. In a nine-post thread on X on Tuesday, Saylor argued that any protocol modification—whether BIP-110 (which restricts non-financial data like

Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade on Tuesday at block height 3,428,143, introducing a new shielded pool for the privacy blockchain. The upgrade follows concerns about the soundness of Zcash's earlier Orchard pool, which will now be restricted to support only withdrawals. Orchard was previously Zc

According to The Block, Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade on Tuesday, introducing a new shielded pool following concerns about the security of its earlier Orchard pool. The activation occurred at block height 3,428,143 as part of the NU6.3 network upgrade. Orchard, which previously accounted

t54 Labs, an AI agent infrastructure development company, launched the XRPL AI Hub on the 28th (Korean time), a unified platform connecting the AI ecosystem operating on Ripple's XRP Ledger (XRPL) blockchain network. The platform integrates AI agents, applications, payment services, and developer in

According to t54 Labs, the company launched the XRPL AI Hub on July 28, a unified platform connecting AI agents, applications, payment services, and developer infrastructure operating on Ripple's XRP Ledger. The hub enables developers to track AI agent payment activity, view available services, and

According to former Secret Network Foundation head Lisa Loud, the Secret Network community is proposing a one-time token issuance to restructure the network's tokenomics following Secret Labs' exit. The proposal aims to dilute existing token supply to 20% of its current level while maintaining the c

Lido has launched its Core 2.0 protocol upgrade on July 28, introducing native 0x02 validator support and triggering a validator consolidation that will reduce Ethereum's beacon chain by approximately 29%. The Curated Module v2 (CMv2) enables migration of over 265,000 existing validators from

Cobo, a provider of digital asset custody and wallet infrastructure, launched the Settlement Network (SN) on July 28, 2026. The network is a bilateral clearing and settlement infrastructure designed for institutional stablecoin transactions, enabling two institutions that have independently

Fireblocks, a digital asset infrastructure provider valued at $8 billion in 2022, announced a suite of new enterprise tools during its Pulse Masterclass webinar. The products are designed to help organizations expand digital asset operations while maintaining security and operational efficiency. The

Cobo, a digital asset custody and wallet infrastructure provider, officially launched the Settlement Network today (July 28) to enable bilateral clearing and automated settlement of institutional stablecoin transactions. The system allows trading counterparties to verify, lock, and execute fiat and

According to Fireblocks, the digital asset infrastructure provider introduced a new suite of enterprise tools on July 27 to strengthen security, simplify asset management, and enable scalable blockchain operations. The platform, valued at $8 billion in 2022 and processing more than $6 trillion in di

According to 1Inch's announcement on Tuesday, the DEX aggregator deployed Aqua, a protocol designed to unify liquidity pools across the decentralized finance ecosystem. Aqua enables liquidity providers to manage positions against a single wallet without depositing to specific pools—assets remain in