Bitcoin’s temporary soft-fork proposal, BIP-110, has struggled to attract broad support, but its significance extends beyond whether it is ultimately implemented. Supporters see the proposal as a principled defence of Bitcoin’s monetary purity against growing non-payment data use, while critics see a risky intervention that could threaten chain continuity, neutrality and economic coordination. For institutions,

Robinhood Chain crossed $100 million in total value locked, TVL, the aggregate capital deposited into a network’s smart contracts, within its first seven days of mainnet operation, and the composition of that capital is more interesting than the headline number. According to Tron Weekly, approximately $90 million of that TVL sits inside Morpho, the on-chain

A group of crypto and Web3 firms that includes OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs and Genlayer have formed the “Internet Court” to reach dispute resolutions between AI agents. These days, AI agents negotiate and pay one another without humans in the loop, but as with human-to-human transactions, agent-to-agent transactions will run into contractual disagreements. The problem

Public companies kept stacking Bitcoin in June, but the month’s real story played out in a corner of the market that did not exist a couple of years ago: the preferred shares that treasury firms now use to fund their coin purchases.  A new report from BitcoinTreasuries.net calls June the first true stress test for

Victoria, Seychelles, July 10, 2026 – MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the launch of its VVIP Futures Loss Coverage Program 2.0 from July 10 to July 30, 2026 (UTC), an upgraded initiative offering enhanced trading protection and a 1,000,000 USDT prize pool for futures users to share. The Loss Coverage Program

Bitcoin’s early March rally lost momentum with a brief break to $74,047, before reversing and sending price back toward the monthly open near $67,000. The move underscores how firmly the $62,500–$72,000 range continues to define market structure following February’s capitulation.  On-chain and order-flow data suggest the market is stabilising rather than deteriorating. Realised losses have

Sony Bank has secured conditional approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), the US federal regulator that charters and supervises national banks, to establish a wholly owned US national trust bank subsidiary called Connectia Trust, with a $40M capitalization. The subsidiary’s mandate is to issue and manage a dollar-backed stablecoin, with

At the last moment, New Hampshire has turned its back on a groundbreaking effort to establish what was expected to be the first rated, bitcoin-backed bond issued under a state’s authority, with a governmental body there canceling the project. Just a few months after Moody’s Ratings gave the bond a Ba2 rating, the New Hampshire

Strategy’s recent bitcoin sales and its formal monetization program have rattled investors, but JPMorgan analysts see a bigger danger to bitcoin: blockchain adoption that routes around public networks and the tokens that ride on them. In a report led by managing director Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou and reported by The Block, the bank argued that Strategy is

White House says it requested SEC and CFTC nominee names as Clarity Act talks raise pressure over vacant seats. The White House has rejected Senate Democrats’ claims over vacant minority seats at the SEC and CFTC.  In a letter to Senate leaders, it said Democratic recommendations were requested but not received. The dispute comes as