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Mining

Bitcoin's Difficulty Drops 5% in the Month's Second Big Cut

Bitcoin's mining difficulty fell 5.00% to 127.17 trillion on July 11, the second large downward move in a month, lifting hashprice 12.5% to $31.1.

· 11 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Backpack Opens 24/7 Trading in Real US Equities

Backpack began trading actual US shares every day of the year, starting with SpaceX, Micron and SanDisk, convertible 1:1 into tokenized versions on Solana.

· 10 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

A $150 Miner Solves a Block Alone for 3.1382 BTC

A hobbyist's $150 Bitaxe solved block 957382 solo on July 9, taking the full 3.1382 BTC reward against odds of one block per 16,000 years.

· 9 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Swift's Blockchain Ledger Goes Live With 17 Banks

Swift declared its shared blockchain ledger ready for initial use, with 17 banks including First Abu Dhabi Bank and Mashreq set to move tokenized deposits on it.

· 9 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Base Activates B20, the Token Standard Its June Outage Delayed

Base switched on B20, a token standard built into its node software rather than deployed as a contract, two weeks after June's outages pushed it out of Beryl.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Injective's npm SDK Was Backdoored to Steal Seed Phrases

A poisoned release of Injective's TypeScript SDK hid a fake telemetry function that captured seed phrases and private keys from wallet calls.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Bitcoin Core 31.1 Fixes a Disk-Thrashing Chainstate Bug

The maintenance release stops the chainstate database from rewriting itself repeatedly, closes a PrivateBroadcast clearnet leak, and credits 20 contributors.

· 8 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

EDX Markets Raises $76M in a Round Led by SBI Holdings

The non-custodial exchange raised $76 million led by SBI Holdings, with no valuation disclosed, and said it will apply for a US national trust bank charter.

· 7 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Bitcoin Suisse Wins Full ADGM Authorisation in Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi's FSRA granted Bitcoin Suisse's BTCS (Middle East) unit a full Financial Services Permission covering spot trading, custody and derivatives.

· 7 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

Coinbase Wins an FCA Licence for UK Equities and Perps

The FCA has authorised Coinbase as a MiFID investment firm, bringing UK retail equities trading and USDC-settled perpetual futures onto the exchange.

· 7 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

A Malicious Proposal Drains About $20M From BonkDAO's Treasury

An attacker bought 1.01% of BONK supply for about $4.4M, passed a treasury transfer with seven yes votes on 2.9% turnout, and moved roughly $20M.

· 6 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Buterin Argues for an Extremely Lean Ethereum Base Layer

Vitalik Buterin's July 6 post would cut on-chain validator state to about 6 bytes using daily ZK-STARK proofs. Researchers back it, but call 3-4 years slow.

· 6 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read