Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox has explained how the network’s July 28 Ironwood hard fork will address uncertainty around a critical flaw in the Orchard shielded pool. Summary Zcash will seal the old Orchard pool, limiting how much ZEC can leave after Ironwood. Ironwood cannot identify fake coins individually but can stop excess hidden supply from
South Korea’s Financial Supervisory Service has begun a formal sanctions process against Dunamu, the operator of crypto exchange Upbit, over the major wallet breach reported in November 2025. Summary South Korea’s FSS opened sanctions proceedings against Dunamu over Upbit’s November 2025 wallet breach case. Current law lacks direct hacking penalties, leaving regulators uncertain about how
Bitcoin Ordinals advocate Leonidas has introduced DOG Mode, an alternative open-source Bitcoin client that changes how nodes relay certain valid transactions without altering Bitcoin’s consensus rules. Summary DOG Mode removes default relay limits while keeping Bitcoin’s existing consensus rules completely unchanged today. Leonidas says fee-paying users should access block space without Bitcoin Core deciding transaction
BNB Chain has become the largest blockchain for assets tracked under Franklin Templeton’s Benji tokenization platform, with about $1.5 billion recorded on the network. Summary BNB Chain now hosts $1.5 billion of Franklin Templeton Benji platform assets, leading all networks. RWA.xyz data shows BNB Chain holds 61.71%, while Stellar has fallen to second place overall.
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has defended trading against claims that it should be treated as gambling as the brokerage takes on a role in the U.S. Summary Robinhood is helping operate Trump Accounts as it seeks deeper ties with younger American investors. Tenev rejects labeling all trading as gambling, arguing speculation remains necessary for functioning
Senator Elizabeth Warren has demanded that President Donald Trump disclose his 2026 crypto earnings after a federal filing showed $1.4 billion in income from digital asset ventures during 2025. Summary Elizabeth Warren wants Trump to disclose his 2026 crypto earnings by July 23. Trump reported $1.4 billion in crypto-related income from ventures including World Liberty
The network that moves the world’s money spent 9 months building a blockchain, and the most important decision it made was what not to put on it. No stablecoins. No public tokens. Just bank deposits, wearing a new coat. Summary On July 9, SWIFT launched a blockchain-based shared ledger with 17 major banks, including Citi,
There is $1.6 trillion in Bitcoin sitting idle, earning nothing, doing nothing. Charles Hoskinson has a plan to put it to work on Cardano, and the plan quietly requires every transaction to burn a little ADA. Whether that saves Cardano or exposes its central problem is the whole question. Summary Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has
Robinhood Chain launched, filled with memecoins, briefly ranked third among DEXs, and the “Solana killer” talk started immediately. Then you look at the actual numbers. Solana has 27 times the value locked and 2 million more users. This is not a flippening. It is a fair fight over the wrong metric. Summary Robinhood Chain launched
Ethereum’s best marketing line was that using it destroyed it, that every transaction burned ETH and shrank the supply. Then the network solved its scaling problem, activity fled to layer 2s, and the burn collapsed. The scaling worked. The scarcity did not survive it. Summary Ethereum’s “ultrasound money” thesis held that EIP-1559 fee burning would
