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FTX’s recovery estate plans a roughly $900 million fifth creditor distribution, bringing total repayments since they began to nearly $10 billion.
SBI has completed a majority acquisition of Singapore’s Coinhako after MAS approval, positioning the exchange within its stated Asian digital-asset network.
ADA reportedly fell 1.39% to $0.1628 on July 16 as traders watched a reported Van Rossem hard-fork timeline, but the account remains uncorroborated.
A single crypto-media report places Cardano’s reported Van Rossem hard fork about two days after July 16, but no official epoch, node version, or scope is supplied.
Bitcoin fell below about $63,000 after reaching a monthly high, as a new US strike on Iran and a tech-equity sell-off renewed risk concerns.
Tether invested $20M in Argentine neobank Ualá as part of a $197M round valuing the fintech at $3.2B, adding to its Latin America expansion efforts.
Kevin Warsh said the Federal Reserve will not rescue failing crypto firms, signaling that the industry must bear its own risks as GENIUS Act rules are finalized.
The Senate unanimously backed a nonbinding resolution opposing clemency for Sam Bankman-Fried, while prediction-market odds of a July 31 Trump pardon remained below 1%.
US sanctions on four Iranian central bank crypto wallets, alongside a reported $131 million Tether freeze, highlight how compliance actions can extend into stablecoin infrastructure.
Morgan Stanley has opened spot Bitcoin, Ether and Solana trading for eligible E*TRADE retail clients through Zero Hash, expanding access through its brokerage platform.
T. Rowe Price began trading TKNZ, a multi-token crypto ETF that uses active management rather than passive exposure to Bitcoin and other digital assets.
Visa has reportedly unveiled a bank-facing stablecoin platform supporting Open USD, or OUSD, for payment and treasury integrations on its network.
Citadel Securities has taken a reported $400 million stake in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, marking the exchange's first institutional funding round.
A crypto-media outlet reports Charles Hoskinson rejected departure rumors and reaffirmed his Cardano role. The record provides no primary confirmation or governance action.
Hydra 2.3.0 groups several previously tracked resilience fixes into one tagged release, making the update a practical checkpoint for operators and integrators.
Hydra now signs the exact commit and decommit output sets in a snapshot, closing a route where a valid all-party signature could be reused to redirect value.
Hydra 2.3.0 changes how already-validated snapshot transactions are handled and adds HD-wallet signing keys. The reported throughput benefit remains a release-note claim.
A Hydra fix adds a version check to stop a pending deposit UTxO being spent again in each snapshot round before CommitFinalized.
Hydra patched a permissionless-fanout flaw by binding its canonical trusted setup on-chain. Operators should confirm their heads use the patched CRS-datum-bound validator.
Softer-than-expected CPI and PPI data lifted Bitcoin toward $65,000, but oil, Middle East tensions, and selling into strength capped the move.
Jesse Pollak said Base’s on-chain-social bet was wrong and is stepping back from Base App leadership as the network refocuses on trading, stablecoin payments and AI agents.
Ostium paused trading after reporting a compromised oracle signer key and an OLP vault drain, with losses estimated at roughly $18 million to $22 million.
OFAC reportedly sanctioned Tron wallets tied to Iran, while Tether locked the addresses, underscoring how centralized stablecoin issuers can enforce restrictions on-chain.
Stripe and Advent are reportedly offering $53 billion in cash for PayPal, a deal framed as potentially accelerating mainstream money onto stablecoin payment rails.
