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Firedancer v1.1.0 Reaches Testnet as the Agave 4.3 Branch Opens

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.

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Visa Launches a Stablecoin Platform, Starting With Open USD

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

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Citadel Securities Takes a $400M Stake in Crypto.com at $20B

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.

· 16 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Ostium Loses $23.75M After Its Price Feed Key Is Compromised

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.

· 15 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Japan's Diet Passes the FIEA Amendments on Crypto

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.

· 15 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Coinbase Goes Down for 50 Minutes Over a Name Collision

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.

· 14 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Glamsterdam Devnet-7 Tests a 300M Gas Limit

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.

· 14 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Jito Votes to Burn All DAO Exchange Revenue in JTO

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.

· 13 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Hyundai Settles a Cross-Border Treasury Payment in Seven Minutes

Hyundai moved $20,000 between its US and Mexican units as USDT on Avalanche in about seven minutes, against three to four hours by the conventional route.

· 13 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Cambridge Puts Ethereum's Power Draw at 0.90 Megawatts

Cambridge measured Ethereum at 7.87 gigawatt-hours a year and 0.90 megawatts of continuous demand, more than 99.9% below its pre-Merge level.

· 12 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

BlackRock's BUIDL Doubles on Avalanche to $900M in a Week

BlackRock's tokenized fund BUIDL went from about $464 million to over $900 million on Avalanche in seven days, close to a third of its $2.87 billion total.

· 12 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read