
France Orders ISPs to Block Polymarket
France's gambling regulator ordered providers to block Polymarket outright on 17 July, citing 578,751 French visits in June despite a 2024 payments ban.
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France's gambling regulator ordered providers to block Polymarket outright on 17 July, citing 578,751 French visits in June despite a 2024 payments ban.

Solana's independent validator client hit testnet at v1.1.0 on July 16, the same week Agave opened its 4.3 branch, the release set to carry Alpenglow.

Visa opened a managed platform for institutions to mint, hold and move stablecoins into its settlement network, starting with the consortium token Open USD.

Citadel Securities is investing $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional funding round in about a decade.

Bitcoin touched $65,200 and settled at $63,669.13, up 3%, as $357M of liquidations landed 81% on shorts — a reversal after weeks of long-side flushes.

An attacker who controlled Ostium's price-oracle key traded against fake bitcoin prices and drained the protocol's liquidity vault. The contracts never broke.

Japan's upper house cleared the bill on 15 July, moving crypto from the Payment Services Act to the FIEA, with a flat 20% tax from January 2028.

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A routine config update collided with the name of Coinbase's ingress gateway on July 14, degrading withdrawals, card payments and swaps for about 50 minutes.

Ethereum's final Glamsterdam devnet went live on July 14 testing a 300 million block gas limit, five times mainnet, with state access repriced to match.

Strategy has not bought bitcoin since June 22 and has raised its dollar reserve to about $3 billion, roughly 20 months of preferred dividends and debt interest.

Jito's JIP-38 would route 100 percent of the DAO's share of JTX revenue into open-market JTO buybacks and burns for at least a year, through Q4 2027.