SEC charges Georgia’s First Liberty Building & Loan and owner in $140M Ponzi scheme

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed civil charges and sought an emergency asset freeze against First Liberty Building & Loan, LLC, a lending institution based in Newnan, Georgia, and... Read more »

Tether to sunset USDT redemptions on 5 ‘legacy’ networks including Bitcoin Cash, Algorand

Tether announced it will discontinue support for its USDT stablecoin on five “legacy” blockchains, including Omni Layer, Bitcoin Cash SLP, Kusama, EOS, and Algorand. According to the July 11 announcement, the move... Read more »

Ethereum price tops $3k amid current Bitcoin market rally

Ethereum has surged past the $3,000 mark for the first time since February, riding on the renewed momentum sweeping across the broader crypto market. According to CryptoSlate data, ETH’s price peaked at... Read more »

Shareholders push back against high pay for public Bitcoin miner execs after record equity grants

Shareholders trimmed support for executive pay packages at leading US Bitcoin (BTC) miners to an average of 64% in this year’s proxy season, far below the over 90% approval norm across the... Read more »

Jack Dorsey endorses privacy-focused chat app White Noise amid own app launch plan

Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, has thrown his support behind a new messaging application called White Noise. His endorsement follows the recent release of his white paper... Read more »

Ethereum regains $2,700 amid lowest long/short ratio in two years and ETF cash floods

Ethereum (ETH) reclaimed the $2,700 threshold one day after spot exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed in the US tracking the asset surpassed $4.5 billion in cumulative net inflows on July 8, according to... Read more »

Polygon surges 10% ahead of Heimdall v2 upgrade

Polygon’s Proof-of-Stake (PoS) network will undergo a major consensus upgrade with the rollout of Heimdall v2 on July 10. Sandeep Nailwal, Polygon’s co-founder, described it as the most technically advanced hard fork... Read more »

Survey finds gaps in mainstream Bitcoin coverage, leaving institutional investors exposed

A second-quarter survey of 18 mainstream news outlets logged 1,116 Bitcoin (BTC) stories and measured sentiment at 31% positive, 41% neutral, and 28% negative, according to Bitcoin analysis firm Perception. The data... Read more »

Pump.fun eyes EVM expansion amid Bonk.fun rivalry

Pump.fun, a Solana-based token launchpad platform, is reportedly set to roll out a range of updates, with a possible expansion into the Ethereum ecosystem. This move comes as the platform faces mounting... Read more »

Solana’s tokenized stock market more than triples in two weeks to hit $48M

Solana’s tokenized stock market hit $48.53 million on July 4, up more than threefold from $15.28 million on June 20, according to on-chain data tracked by rwa.xyz. Solana’s tokenized stocks capitalization expanded... Read more »
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