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Blockchain

AFX Trade Loses $24.15M After Five of Seven Keys Fall

An attacker with five of seven validator keys took $24.15M in USDC from AFX Trade's Arbitrum bridge. AFX offered to let the attacker keep 30% if 70% comes back.

· 22 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Solana's Validator Admission Ticket Goes Live on Mainnet

Solana now drops validators without a registered BLS key from the leader schedule. About 3.87% of stake was still unregistered at epoch 1004.

· 22 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Hits a One-Month High Above $66,000

Bitcoin cleared $66,000 for the first time in a month, though two CoinDesk accounts of the day give different highs. Bitfinex put the next test at $68,000.

· 21 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Augustus Raises $180M to Build a Stablecoin Clearing Bank

Augustus raised $180 million led by Tiger Global at a $1 billion valuation to build a clearing bank for stablecoin settlement. It issues no token, only rails.

· 21 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

XRPL v3.2.0 Passes 66% of Nodes as a Fix Heads to a Vote

Version 3.2.0 reached 66% of the XRP Ledger's trusted validators, while the fixCleanup3_2_0 amendment held 85.71% support ahead of a July 29 activation.

· 21 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

Two Weeks of ETF Inflows Add Up to $273M

Spot bitcoin ETFs drew $273 million over two weeks, barely more than the mildest week of the $8 billion outflow run before it. CoinDesk called it statistical noise.

· 20 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

News

A Washington Court Enjoins Kalshi Over State Gambling Law

A King County judge barred Kalshi from offering event contracts to Washington residents, holding that federal commodities law does not displace state gambling law.

· 20 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Wanchain's Cardano Bridge Loses 515.2M NIGHT

A signature-encoding flaw let an attacker drain 515.2 million NIGHT from Wanchain's Cardano bridge in nine minutes. Dollar estimates run from $500K to about $10M.

· 20 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Market

A Quiet Sunday Tape With Shorts Taking 93.9% of Liquidations

Bitcoin drifted higher on thin weekend volume, and the day's forced liquidations fell almost entirely on shorts — a read on positioning, not direction.

· 19 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Bitcoin

Saylor Publishes a 110-Point Case Against BIP-110

Michael Saylor set out 110 points against BIP-110, a one-year soft fork that would restrict data in bitcoin transactions and cut the signalling threshold to 55%.

· 19 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

DeFi

Allbridge Core Loses $1.65M to an Account-Aliasing Flaw

Allbridge Core lost $1.65 million after its swap instruction accepted one pool account in two roles, letting a single address play both sides of a trade.

· 19 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read

Blockchain

Cardano's Van Rossem Fork Is Its First Fully On-Chain Upgrade

Cardano moved to protocol version 11 with no downtime, in the first upgrade its own token holders authorized by on-chain vote rather than a foundation.

· 18 Jul 2026· 🕐 3 min read