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Avalanche seals $11B Bridgetower deal as tokenized RWA value surges past $2.1B Avalanche has crossed a major threshold in the real‑world asset (RWA) race, with the value of tokenized assets distributed on the network climbing to roughly $2.1 billion after a 60.47% jump over the past month. The surge was propelled by an $11 billion…

Robinhood’s new Layer 2 blockchain is rapidly emerging as a serious rival to Coinbase’s Base, with transaction activity exploding just days after launch and raising questions about how durable this growth will be once incentives fade. On July 11, only 11 days after its July 1 mainnet debut, Robinhood Chain handled around 7.6 million transactions…

Bitcoin pushed back above the $63,000 mark as cooling oil prices and softer U.S. bond yields helped revive demand for risk assets, even while sentiment across the crypto market remains deeply cautious. Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin has advanced roughly 2%, trading near $63,250 on Thursday. The move comes in tandem with a broader…

What are liquid staking tokens? stETH, depegs, and the real risks behind them —————————————————————————– Staking in proof‑of‑stake networks like Ethereum used to involve a hard trade‑off: lock your coins to secure the network and earn rewards, and accept that those coins are unusable for anything else while they are staked. Liquid staking tears up that…

Morning Minute: Crypto Markets Roar Back Over the Holiday Weekend While traditional U.S. markets took a breather for the July 4 holiday, digital assets did anything but rest. Major cryptocurrencies surged through the long weekend, flipping weekly performance charts firmly into the green and reigniting talk that a cyclical bottom may be forming. Bitcoin once…

The $6 trillion showdown: why stablecoin interest has Washington stuck The fiercest battle in U.S. finance right now is not about Bitcoin, Wall Street bonuses, or bank capital rules. It’s about one seemingly technical question buried in legislative text: Should dollar stablecoins be allowed to pay their holders interest? On one side, the banks warn…

Perplexity AI and Databricks co-founder Andy Konwinski argues that the current wave of “AI safety” rhetoric is being weaponized to entrench power at the very top of the industry rather than to protect the public. In his view, a small cluster of well-funded frontier labs is trying to position itself as the gatekeeper of who…

Zcash Ironwood network upgrade is edging closer to launch, with developers reporting that extensive security testing has so far revealed no new critical issues. The planned upgrade-set to hit testnet first-marks a crucial attempt to rebuild trust in the privacy coin after a severe loss of confidence and a steep ZEC price drop following the…

Treasury Department Blocks Over 130 ISIS-Linked Crypto Wallets on Tron The U.S. Treasury Department has moved to disrupt a key financial channel for the Islamic State’s regional affiliate in Central Asia, sanctioning more than 130 cryptocurrency wallets-almost all of them running on the Tron blockchain. The Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) added 134…