Binance co-founder Changpeng “CZ” Zhao backed crypto license passporting across ASEAN on July 28 during a fireside discussion at the ASEAN Tech Summit Manila 2026. Summary CZ backed simplified ASEAN crypto licensing, allowing regulated firms to avoid full repeat applications regionally. ASEAN currently has no bloc-wide crypto passport, leaving approvals and supervision with national regulators
Special thanks to Gavin Wood for prompting my interest into abstraction improvements, and Martin Becze, Vlad Zamfir and Dominic Williams for ongoing discussions. For a long time we have been public about our plans to continue improving the Ethereum protocol over time and our long development roadmap, learning from our mistakes that we either did
Bitmine owns 4.8% of the total ETH coin supply of 120.7 million Bitmine is 96% of the way to the ‘Alchemy of 5%’ in just 13 months Bitmine repurchased 6.1 million common stock in the past week, authorized under the previously announced $4 billion share repurchase program Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap
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
Special thanks to Vlad Zamfir for introducing the idea of by-block consensus and convincing me of its merits, alongside many of the other core ideas of Casper, and to Vlad Zamfir and Greg Meredith for their continued work on the protocol In the last post in this series, we discussed one of the two flagship
GardenFi HTLC exploit drains about $450K USDT across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain, according to Blockaid. GardenFi is facing an active security incident after Blockaid detected an exploit tied to its HTLC component. The security firm said about $450,000 in USDT had been drained so far. The affected networks include Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and
Metaplanet plans to use its newly acquired Japanese brokerage to develop Bitcoin-backed bonds offering yields of roughly 4% to 6%, according to Benchmark. Summary Metaplanet envisions issuing Bitcoin-backed bonds yielding between 4% and 6%. Its JPY 2.1 billion Siiibo Securities acquisition provided a regulated Japanese securities platform. Future Bitbonds could move onchain with stablecoin settlement
Now that Ethereum has launched and is rapidly nearing its Homestead phase, over the last few months we at the Ethereum Foundation have finally had the chance to have some breathing room and plan our strategies with a more long-term view. From a development perspective, we have now started in earnest the development of Serenity,
In XRP news today, with today’s XRP price of $1.10, hitting a $1M retirement target requires roughly 900,000 coins, a figure that immediately exposes the central problem with crypto retirement math. The real question isn’t what XRP costs now; it’s how many coins you need to buy today based on where the price could be
New York Attorney General Letitia James has urged Congress to revise the CLARITY Act, warning that the crypto market structure bill could restrict states from prosecuting fraud and enforcing investor protection laws. Summary James said the bill could preempt state investor protection laws and weaken local enforcement. State and local authorities account for about 98.8%
