River Financial’s latest annual Lightning adoption report indicates the Lightning Network processed a record $1.17 billion in volume in November 2025. This figure is inevitably an estimate rather than an audited total due to the difficulty of observing network activity from the outside. Drawing on data aggregated from major node operators that account for over

The BNB crypto Chain has published its H2 2026 technical roadmap targeting 1 million TPS (transactions per second) and sub-150-millisecond finality, positioning itself as the infrastructure backbone for an emerging AI agent economy. The announcement lands as the BNB crypto price sits near 2024 lows, creating a sharp disconnect between on-chain momentum and market performance

Using that approach, the firm said Applied Digital (APLD), TeraWulf (WULF) and Cipher Mining (CIFR) appear to offer the largest disconnect between their contracted business and current valuations. In each case, Compass Point argues the market is assigning little, if any, value to additional AI capacity that has yet to be leased, despite the potential

The New Hampshire Executive Council rejected a plan on Wednesday to authorize a $100 million bond backed by Bitcoin, killing a proposal that state officials had cast as a first-in-the-nation bid to draw digital finance to the Granite State. The New Hampshire councilors voted 3-2 against it, according to reporting from The Boston Globe. The

Eightco treasury composition as of July 8, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $397 million Worldcoin token (WLD) now listed on Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), expanding access to millions OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself

UNDP expands Stellar-based blockchain payments into global operations after pilots cut Aleppo costs from 10% to 2%. UNDP Eurasia, UNDP AltFinLab, and the Stellar Development Foundation have signed a new blockchain payments agreement.  The deal moves Stellar-based payment tools closer to regular UNDP country office use. The agreement follows more than one year of testing

Since this weekend’s geopolitical turbulence, there has been a notable increase in spot market strength and we consider there to be a possibility of relief over the coming weeks and months should this trend follow through. There is notable aggression from spot market participants bidding BTC higher since 1 March. Aggregated across exchanges, a total

In crypto news today (July 8), Bitcoin has experienced a slight retracement, still sitting comfortably above $60,000, but down -1.1% over the past 24-hours and trading for around $62,600. Liquidations have slowed since yesterday, dropping from over $532M to $345M, with over $240M of that figure coming from long positions, highlighting that overly optimistic bulls

• Volume during that move reached 688,000 XRP, about 120% above the session average, before momentum faded. • Earlier selling took XRP to a session low near $1.0742 after volume rose to 80.2 million, about 83% above the 24-hour average. Technical Analysis • The key development is that XRP continues to defend the $1.00-$1.05 support

Bitcoin traded near $62,000 today, surrendering part of a rebound that had carried it to $64,000 from last week’s bear-market low of $57,700. The pullback holds the price above the $60,000 level that CryptoQuant treats as support, though it trims a recovery of some 11% off the bottom. The dip came as CryptoQuant’s Weekly Crypto