August 7, 2026
Bitcoin

Aave Launch Stablecoin Vaults as DeFi Prepares For USD Boom

Aave Labs has launched Stable Vaults, a plug-and-play smart contract infrastructure that lets neobanks, wallets, payment apps, and fintechs offer fixed-rate stablecoin yield to their users, no custom DeFi backend required. The product converts variable on-chain lending rates from Aave markets into predictable, advertised returns that any business can confidently publish to customers. We've built

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Crypto

Gondor unlocks leveraged Polymarket bets with portfolio-backed credit

Gondor has introduced a portfolio-backed margin account that allows Polymarket traders to borrow against their entire prediction market holdings instead of individual positions. Summary Gondor launches V1 with portfolio-backed borrowing for Polymarket traders. Cross-margin replaces isolated lending after a seven-month beta program. Private access begins next week, with a public launch planned for September. According

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Ethereum

Validated, staking on eth2: #6 – Perfect is the enemy of the good

T'was the day before genesis, when all was prepared, geth was in sync, my beacon node paired. Firewalls configured, VLANs galore, hours of preparation meant nothing ignored. Then all at once everything went awry, the SSD in my system decided to die. My configs were gone, chain data was history, nothing to do but trust

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Bitcoin

Binance.US CEO says exchange is rebuilding, eyes return to 20% U.S. market share

Latest developments: CEO Stephen Gregory said Binance.US is focused on growth after what he described as a two-year “hibernation” tied to regulatory issues surrounding the broader Binance brand. Gregory said Binance.US is a separate U.S.-only entity with its own governance structure, though it shares a common beneficial owner and brand name with Binance.com. He said

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Crypto

Aave adopts Chainlink CCIP as default engine for cross-chain actions

Aave has expanded its use of Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP), making it the default infrastructure for cross-chain activity across its ecosystem. Summary Aave has made Chainlink CCIP its default infrastructure for cross-chain operations. CCIP now powers deposits, withdrawals, Stable Vaults, GHO transfers, and governance. Chainlink continues expanding institutional adoption through Project Pangea and banking

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Ethereum

Ethereum.org Translation Program: Milestones and Updates

We hope that you are all excited for the upcoming year-end holidays. Today, we’ve got some exciting new changes to announce for Ethereum.org’s Translation Program and some milestones to celebrate. To start, we can’t thank you enough for all of your support this year. Thanks to you we’ve been able to update 16 languages in

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Bitcoin

CLARITY Act’s Path To Law Narrows As Senate Returns

The Senate returns to Washington on July 13, with the clock running down on the most consequential piece of crypto legislation in years. Lawmakers now have roughly four weeks to schedule, debate, and pass the CLARITY Act before the August recess.  President Trump weighed in directly on Monday, posting on Truth Social that “in honor of

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Crypto

Hyundai trials Tether-powered treasury payments across US and Mexico

Hyundai Motor’s U.S. and Mexican operations have completed a pilot cross-border treasury payment using Tether’s USDT stablecoin, settling a $20,000 transfer in about seven minutes over the Avalanche blockchain. Summary Hyundai completed a $20,000 USDT treasury transfer between the U.S. and Mexico in about seven minutes. The Avalanche-based pilot tested stablecoin settlement without changing existing

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Ethereum

Grantee Roundup December 2020 | Ethereum Foundation Blog

We’re here with our last hurrah before we head into 2021 – read on for the latest news on a few grantees! Gitcoin for CLR matching Gitcoin’s CLR grants were one of the first real-world uses of quadratic funding, with the number of unique contributors to a grant carrying greater weight than the dollar total

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Bitcoin

Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) Announces ETH Holdings Reach 5.77 Million Tokens, and Total Crypto and Total Cash Holdings of $11.3 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 12 months Bitmine was added to the Russell 1000 Large-cap index on June 26, 2026 Bitmine’s Series A Preferred Stock is trading on the NYSE under the symbol BMNP Bitmine

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