August 4, 2026
Ethereum

Ethereum in practice part 3: how to build your own transparent bank on the blockchain

This is the third and final post on a series on how to use the Ethereum Wallet to create your own autonomous organisations. On the first post we detailed how to create a token, and on the second we shown how to generate a digital democracy controlled by these tokens. Now we will do the

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Bitcoin

Republicans Hope For Democratic Support On Clarity Act

Lawmakers are hoping to push through the crypto market structure bill this week but the Democrats are holding things back, according to Senator Dave McCormick. Speaking to Fox Business on Friday, the Republican senator said that a vote needs to happen now.  “The Democrats are starting to think, ‘We don’t want to give it a

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Crypto

Binance co-founder CZ pushes ASEAN crypto passport

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

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Ethereum

Understanding Serenity, Part I: Abstraction

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

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Bitcoin

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) Announces ETH Holdings Reach 5.79 Million Tokens, and Total Crypto and Total Cash Holdings of $11.8 Billion

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

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Crypto

Zimbabwe approves 7 fintech projects for sandbox

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

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Ethereum

Understanding Serenity, Part 2: Casper

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

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Bitcoin

GardenFi Exploit Drains $450K Across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain

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

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Crypto

Metaplanet plans Bitcoin-backed bonds yielding up to 6%

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

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Ethereum

Ethereum Foundation Internal Update | Ethereum Foundation Blog

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,

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