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The race to scale public blockchains has moved well beyond the era of speculative whitepapers. While Bitcoin remains the world’s leading digital monetary asset and a preferred institutional store of value, its ecosystem is gradually expanding beyond simple value transfer. A growing number of Layer 2 (L2) projects aim to unlock Bitcoin liquidity by enabling smart contracts, decentralized finance (DeFi), and new financial applications without altering Bitcoin’s core role.At the same time, Ethereum continues strengthening its position as the leading programmable blockchain through an increasingly sophisticated rollup ecosystem. Recent advances in rollup architecture, interoperability, and zero-knowledge technology are improving scalability…
Zimbabwe’s securities regulator listed seven fintech projects as approved regulatory sandbox participants on July 24, with tokenization accounting for four of the projects. Summary Seven fintech projects received SECZ approval for supervised testing, with four focused directly on tokenization. Sandbox admission allows live trials but does not guarantee commercial registration after testing concludes successfully. Approved projects span blockchain fundraising, crowdfunding, synthetic trading, asset tokenization, securities, and infrastructure markets locally. The Securities and Exchange Commission of Zimbabwe named Zimbabwe Entrepreneurship Exchange, Ndarama Standard, Questview Brokers, Crowdaxe Capital, Procode Platforms, Financial Securities Exchange and Colmin Resources Zimbabwe. 据 Bitcoin News 报道，津巴布韦证券交易委员会批准 7…
Ventuals is winding down. The platform that brought 24/7 private market exposure to pre-IPO technology companies on Hyperliquid has announced it is shutting down operations and merging its team into another project building within the Hyperliquid ecosystem. The details of that next chapter are coming soon, but the Ventuals chapter is closing now. The announcement landed with a tone that was reflective rather than defeated. The team acknowledged the end of one leg of the journey while framing what comes next as a continuation rather than a conclusion. For a platform that raised over 500,000 HYPE, traded over $650 million…
The CLARITY Act appears unlikely to move through the Senate before the August recess, slowing the crypto market structure push at a moment when the industry had hoped for faster progress. The bill, formally listed on Congress.gov as H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act of 2025, is designed to create clearer rules for digital asset markets. Reported comments from Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicate the bill is unlikely to get a vote before lawmakers leave for the August break. That does not mean the bill is dead. It does mean the timeline has slipped, with unresolved disputes…
In brief Elon Musk predicts AI will surpass the combined intelligence of humanity within about five years. He says humans are unlikely to remain in control of AI within the next decade, even as the technology creates unprecedented abundance. Musk wants leading AI developers to regularly review each other’s frontier models for safety risks before release. Artificial intelligence could surpass the combined intelligence of humanity within about five years, and humans are unlikely to remain in control of the technology within a decade, according to Elon Musk.Speaking with The Economist editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes on Thursday, the xAI founder said…
A North Korean hacking crew screens crypto wallets before it strikes. The group tricks victims into fake Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls. UK security firm JUMPSEC released the source code analysis this week. BlueNoroff’s operation targets the people who hold private keys. It just needs one person to click the wrong prompt. BlueNoroff screens crypto wallets before choosing who to infect JUMPSEC was able to retrieve the kit’s true source code after its operators left JavaScript source maps exposed on live infrastructure. The files describe a workflow that scans a target’s browser as soon as they land on the fake…
The XRP monthly relative strength index has fallen to 41.64, the lowest reading the indicator has ever recorded for the token — lower even than the 43.75 it hit in March 2020, when XRP bottomed out at $0.11 during one of crypto’s worst bear markets. Related Reading A Signal With A Caveat The current reading edges out that 2020 low, but it is not yet final. June is still open, and data shows that if XRP recovers to above $1.30 before the month ends, the RSI could close well above its current level, which would undercut the significance of the…
SpaceX just dropped another bombshell. Days after closing the largest IPO in history, the company has exercised its option to acquire Cursor, the world’s fastest growing AI coding tool, in an all-stock transaction valued at $60 billion. The deal is the largest software acquisition ever recorded, and it lands at a moment when SpaceX is already rewriting records in almost every direction it turns. The acquisition was announced via an official filing and confirmed by the SpaceX team, with the stated goal of building the world’s most useful AI models. Cursor, developed by Anysphere, has over one million paying customers,…
OKX Wallet’s Trader Mode was supposed to be just another false promise, so I went digging for the inevitable catch. Having tested countess “self-custodial trading” pitches, only to find custody quietly moved somewhere it shouldn’t be, I expected to expose this one just as fast.The moment that changed my mind was realizing my key never actually left a hardware enclave OKX itself claims it can’t read, even while the wallet was placing limit orders and running stop-losses on my behalf. That’s not a small engineering detail. That’s the entire promise of self-custody being tested against the one feature that usually…
KB Kookmin Bank will launch a blockchain-based cross-border payment service for import and export companies in August 2026. Summary KB Kookmin will initially launch Kinexys-based U.S. dollar payments across ten countries during August 2026. The service links blockchain settlement with SWIFT while supporting corporate transfers beyond normal banking hours. KB becomes South Korea’s first financial institution using Kinexys for corporate import and export payments. The South Korean lender will use Kinexys by J.P. Morgan to support U.S. dollar payments across 10 countries. The service will connect Kinexys with existing SWIFT payment rails. It will support near-real-time transfers and foreign exchange…