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Alejandro Silva Ramírez5h ago

New Hampshire's $100M Bitcoin Bond Fails Final Vote

New Hampshire's proposal to issue a $100 million bitcoin-backed bond collapsed in a final legislative vote on July 10, marking a significant setback for state-level cryptocurrency integration efforts.

Blockchain Academics8h ago

Metaplanet Launches Bitcoin-Backed Credit System in Japan with JPYC

Metaplanet, Japan's largest Bitcoin treasury firm, has unveiled a digital credit system using Bitcoin and JPYC stablecoin as backing for lending products, marking the country's first major institutional attempt to integrate Bitcoin into regulated financial infrastructure.

HSBC Issues First Digitally Native Structured Product on Blockchain

HSBC issued its first digitally native structured product directly on blockchain infrastructure on July 10, with Marketnode serving as tokenization and digital paying agent. The move represents a significant milestone in traditional finance and blockchain convergence.

Hadi Ghadban11h ago

Bitcoin's Currency Paradox: Strong Against USD, Weakening Against JPY

Bitcoin is flashing a split personality in currency markets, outperforming against the US dollar while lagging the Japanese yen. This divergence reveals how cryptocurrency valuations are increasingly tethered to central bank policy and forex dynamics rather than existing as a truly independent...

Ibrahim Rajab11h ago

Regulation

Circle Wins OCC Approval for National Trust Bank Charter

Circle, the issuer of USDC stablecoin, received final approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on July 10, 2026 to operate as a national trust bank. The bank, called First National Digital Currency Bank, marks the first time a crypto stablecoin company has secured such a...

Hadi Ghadban5h ago

Avalanche Treasury Firm AVAX One Regains NASDAQ Compliance After Reverse Stock Split

AVAX One, the publicly-traded treasury firm managing the native AVAX token for the Avalanche blockchain, has restored its NASDAQ listing compliance through a reverse stock split.

Hadi Ghadban19h ago

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal Steps Down After Six Years

Paul Grewal is stepping down as Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer effective July 31, 2026, concluding a six-year tenure. Molly Abraham will assume the role of General Counsel, while Grewal transitions to an advisory position.

Hadi Ghadban19h ago

Alejandro Silva Ramírez21h ago

Senate Pushes New Clarity Act Draft as July Window Narrows

Senate negotiators are preparing a fresh draft of the Clarity Act, legislation aimed at establishing clearer regulatory boundaries for cryptocurrency market structure, with sources indicating the new version could arrive as soon as the week of July 14.

DeFi

Alejandro Silva RamírezYesterday

Aave Labs Launches Stable Vaults for Institutional Stablecoin Yield

Aave Labs launched Stable Vaults today, automating stablecoin yield strategies across Aave V3 and V4 markets. The product targets institutional investors and mainstream users seeking consistent returns without manual portfolio management, but faces risks around centralization, yield...

Ondo Finance Launches Equity Perps Platform With 20x Leverage on Tokenized Stocks

Ondo Finance deployed a perpetual futures trading platform today enabling users to take leveraged positions backed by tokenized U.S. stocks and ETFs. The protocol offers up to 20x leverage with 24/7 onchain trading access and is seeding the launch with up to $3 million in rewards for early...

Hadi GhadbanJul 7, 2026

Alejandro Silva RamírezJul 4, 2026

Aave's Monad Market Hits $100M in Deposits Within 48 Hours

Aave deployed a new lending market on Monad and accumulated $100 million in deposits within two days, while V4 reached $250 million in total deposits, marking an all-time high for that protocol version.

Alejandro Silva RamírezJul 2, 2026

eToro Leads $12.5M Round in Extended as Brokers Push Into Onchain Derivatives

eToro has led a $12.5 million strategic funding round for Extended, an onchain perpetual futures platform, signaling a broader shift toward decentralized derivatives infrastructure among traditional brokers. The investment includes integration into eToro's Zengo wallet.

Technology

Alejandro Silva RamírezJun 21, 2026

Technology

Inception Labs' Mercury 2 Outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma in AI Showdown

Inception Labs released Mercury 2, an AI model that outperforms Google's DiffusionGemma while preserving model intelligence during the shift from sequential to parallel processing. The development marks a significant architectural transition in the post-autoregressive era.