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Inside Cardano's 'Van Rossum' hard fork, and what it means for users

The Van Rossem hard fork moved Cardano to version 11 on Saturday. And for the first time, Cardano's community voted in the upgrade, not the company that built it.

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Finance

Exodus to cut 25% of global workforce in payments shift

This restructuring is part of a strategy to build a full-stack payments platform following the company's acquisitions of Monavate and Baanx.

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Finance

AI compute stocks bounce as Hut 8, IREN land billions in new contracts

The deals sparked a rebound in AI compute stocks after investors questioned demand for new data center capacity.

Hut 8 Beacon Point Data Center: Rendering. (Hut 8/Press)

Finance

Tom Lee's Bitmine slowed ether purchases as it bought back $86 million in stock

The company added just 7,430 ETH, worth about $14 million, last week as it nears its goal to corner 5% of Ethereum's supply.

Tom Lee on the Mainstage at Consensus Miami 2026
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Finance

Saylor's Strategy raises cash reserves to $3.2 billion, leaving bitcoin holdings unchanged

For the second consecutive week, the firm kept bitcoin holdings steady, choosing to use the raised capital to boost cash for paying dividends on its preferred stock.

Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor standing. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk))

Policy

Brazil’s securities regulator sets up task force with 60-day deadline for tokenization proposal

The framework will address critical issues like official ownership records, private key custody, transaction reversibility and system liability.

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Finance

Bank of Korea prepares for live CBDC transactions with 9 banks in September

Major banking heavyweights join a massive blockchain network test that will allow retail consumers to trade tokenized won freely across commercial lines.

Bank of Korea in Seoul (Sean Young/Wikimedia Commons)
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Markets

Crypto market slips even as equities advance. Pump surges on social-media chatter

With a Fear and Greed index pointing solidly at "fear," crypto prices drifted lower even as stock index futures rose. PUMP's 20% surge was the only real headline in an otherwise quiet session.

Bitcoin price (CoinDesk Data)

Finance

Hyperliquid plans to add decentralized prediction markets in upgrade to HIP-4

Permissionless prediction markets will become available first on testnet and later on mainnet, Hyperliquid said.

Hyperliquid founder Jeff Yan

Finance

Cross-chain protocol Allbridge halts after $1.65 million flash loan exploit

The attacker used a $1.12 million flash loan from Kamino to manipulate pool ratios, enabling them to withdraw assets at favorable rates before bridging funds.

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Markets

U.S. regulatory developments and earnings, ECB rate decision: Crypto Week Ahead

Your look at what's coming in the week starting July 20.

CFTC's Mike Selig participates in a panel discussion during Consensus Miami 2026
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Finance

Amazon Japan supplier AZ-Com Maruwa to adopt yen stablecoin JPYC for payments

The Japanese logistics firm plans to pay 2,300 partners, including truck drivers, using JPYC in Japan’s first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout.

Men in yellow shirts delivering boxes in Tokyo. (Iban Lopez Luna/Pexels)

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Live updates: Bitcoin rises to one-month high of $65,700 before pulling back with stocks

Equity markets await second-quarter earnings reports from key tech firms, which begin this week.

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Tech

Moonshot AI IPO push follows Kimi, Alibaba AI releases that shook bitcoin

Days after Kimi K3 rattled chip stocks, Moonshot is moving toward a Hong Kong listing at a $30 billion-plus valuation while Alibaba's Qwen goes open-weight.

Moonshot AI IPO push follows Kimi, Alibaba AI releases that shook bitcoin. (Pixabay)

Markets

Bitcoin ETFs see new money again, but inflows remain ‘peanuts’ relative to the recent exodus

Bitcoin ETFs have attracted $273 million in new inflows in two weeks, but the total is barely enough to cover a single "slow" week of recent selling.

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