August 7, 2026
Crypto

Tether targets $11T payroll market with major USAT expansion push

Tether has expanded its push into the US financial system by leading a $7 million funding round for Pact Labs to bring its USAT stablecoin into a payroll market that processes more than $11 trillion in annual payments. Summary Tether has led a $7 million Series A round in Pact Labs to expand USAT into

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Ethereum

Introducing the new ethereum.org developer portal

Hey Ethereum community! We last spoke August 5 – how you been? We’re here to talk about something fresh we’ve shipped. Maybe you’ve already noticed, but we’ve got a new Developers section. For a long time, this content was a wall of links to products you might find helpful when building a dapp. We provided

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Bitcoin

Some U.S. Senate Democrats come out against Clarity Act, calling it a ‘corrupt’ bill

The Clarity Act will need to be sold to a large number of Democrats in the coming days, if it’s going to advance from the Senate before Congress’ summer break and the focus on this fall’s midterm elections. Though a new and potentially final draft is set to emerge as soon as Tuesday, it’s still

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Crypto

Bitcoin rebounds towards $65K as cooling CPI slashes July Fed hike odds

Bitcoin has climbed back toward the $65,000 level after softer-than-expected U.S. inflation data sharply reduced market expectations of a Federal Reserve rate hike at the July policy meeting. Summary Bitcoin climbed toward $65K after June U.S. inflation came in below expectations. Cooling CPI data pushed July Fed rate hike odds sharply lower across major markets.

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Ethereum

Devcon 8 Tickets Are Live: Find Your Path to Mumbai

Devcon 8 tickets are live! 🇮🇳 This November, the Ethereum community will gather in Mumbai for a more focused and intimate Devcon. Devcon gathers minds from across Ethereum and beyond: builders, researchers, maintainers, organizers, and anyone curious about the future of open technology. Across four days, you can expect deep conversations, hands-on workshops, and plenty

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Bitcoin

CleanSpark Signs $6.6 Billion Data Center Lease As Bitcoin Miner Pivots To Compute

CleanSpark, the Nasdaq-listed bitcoin miner, said on July 14 that it has signed a 20-year infrastructure lease with an unnamed high-investment-grade global technology company at its campus in Sandersville, Georgia.  The deal marks the firm’s largest step from pure bitcoin mining toward high-performance computing for hyperscale clients. The lease covers data center infrastructure that will

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Crypto

Circle stock tumbles as US banks challenge CLARITY Act loophole

Circle Internet Group shares have dropped more than 2% in pre-market trading after US banking groups urged the Senate to tighten stablecoin provisions in the CLARITY Act, adding fresh pressure to the stock. Summary US banking groups urged the Senate to tighten the CLARITY Act, citing stablecoin yield loopholes. Circle shares fell in pre-market trading

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Ethereum

eth2 quick update no. 19

Contract deployment Genesis deposits Bootstrap consensus tl;dr v1.0 specs released 🚀 v1.0 spec release Today, we released v1.0 of the eth2 specs, including the mainnet deposit contract address — 0x00000000219ab540356cBB839Cbe05303d7705Fa. eth2 will have a MIN_GENESIS_TIME of 1606824000 (or for those of you who don’t think in unix time — December 1, 2020, 12pm UTC). To

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Bitcoin

EthSystems Launches to Build Privacy Solutions for Institutions on Ethereum

Founded by the team behind the Ethereum Foundation’s Institutional Privacy Task Force, EthSystems is building privacy and compliance technology for Ethereum Key backers include Bitmine, Sharplink and Joe Lubin NEW YORK, July 14, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — EthSystems, an engineering and research company (the “Company”), today announced its public launch with anchor funding from Bitmine Immersion

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Crypto

Why the July 17 hearing decides crypto’s 2026

The United States Senate returned from its holiday recess on July 13 with one piece of paper waiting on its desk that matters more to crypto markets than any price chart. The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, the market structure bill the industry has chased for the better part of two years, sits on the

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