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Two Texas brothers have pleaded guilty to federal robbery charges after prosecutors said they kidnapped a Minnesota family and forced the transfer of more than $8 million in cryptocurrency.
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Two Texas brothers pleaded guilty after prosecutors linked them to an $8 million crypto

Bittensor’s TAO token has fallen nearly 20% from its June 15 peak after governance concerns, derivatives liquidations, and a risk-off macro backdrop combined to erase much of last week’s rally.
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TAO has fallen nearly 20% from its June 15 high as governance concerns and liquidations hit

Oman has launched Omanhash, a national Bitcoin mining pool for licensed crypto mining companies operating in the country
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Oman launched Omanhash as the official pool for licensed Bitcoin miners under state oversight rules.
The pool is expected to consolidate about 10 EH/s in its first op

Japan’s Financial Services Agency has suspended part of moomoo Securities’ operations for three months and ordered the brokerage to strengthen its internal controls after regulators found compliance, customer protection, anti-money laundering, and cybersecurity failures.
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Japan’s Financial

Custodia Bank and Vantage Bank have unveiled a tokenized payments model that has combined bank deposits and stablecoins into a single asset, with plans to make the network available to banks and customers in the fourth quarter of 2026.
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Custodia and Vantage Bank have proposed a token that

Hsiao-Wei Wang has stepped down as co-executive director and board member of the Ethereum Foundation, effective immediately
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Wang said her sabbatical helped her decide to leave Ethereum Foundation leadership effective immediately.
Her exit follows Tomasz Stańczak’s February departure and

Former Ethereum Foundation contributor Trent Van Epps has warned that Ethereum could face a core development funding gap within the next three to nine months
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Van Epps says Ethereum core development may need about $30 million yearly to remain stable.
He links the pressure to EF

DGrid AI introduces a new Proof of Quality framework designed to evaluate AI outputs and improve reward distribution across decentralized networks.
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DGrid AI’s new PoQ research introduces reference-free scoring to reward AI nodes without needing correct answers.
DGrid trained

New Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh ended his first FOMC meeting without changing interest rates.
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Warsh held rates steady and avoided giving markets a clear timeline for future policy cuts.
Crypto markets watched the press conference as higher-for-longer policy kept pressure on

Cardano has moved closer to its next network upgrade after the van Rossem hard fork initiation governance action was submitted on mainnet.
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Cardano’s van Rossem hard fork action reached mainnet governance for Protocol Version 11 review now.
The intra-era upgrade adds features while

Andrew Tate was partially liquidated again after opening a new high-leverage Bitcoin long on Hyperliquid, according to blockchain tracker Lookonchain.
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Andrew Tate opened a 40x Bitcoin long worth about $3.76 million on Hyperliquid again.
Lookonchain said Tate was partially liquidated agai

David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus and one of the XRP Ledger’s original architects, moved his independent hub server to xrpld 3.2.0 as the network’s latest software release reached operators.
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David Schwartz moved his independent XRPL hub to 3.2.0 after a brief maintenance window

Solana has rallied more than 20% from its June low before retreating from a major resistance zone, as easing geopolitical tensions and rising activity in tokenized equities boosted risk appetite while traders turned cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve’s latest policy decision.
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Solana re