Payments
Ripple just scored two major institutional wins but XRP traders are bracing for a bigger move
Ripple’s institutional expansion is accelerating even as its flagship token trades at its weakest level since 2024.
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ETF
Bitcoin’s Q2 selloff split Wall Street as banks bought, hedge funds cut and sovereigns held
Q2 filings show banks expanding Bitcoin ETF positions, macro funds cutting exposure and sovereign holders staying put.
Regulation
SEC opens door to day-one crypto insider sales that Senate draft would block
The regulator imposes offering caps but no federal time-based lockup, while senators want some insiders held for 12 months before network decentralization.
Digital Asset Treasuries
This Solana treasury company may sell SOL as a DeFi loan ties up more than half its treasury
SOL Strategies says roughly C$22 million of digital assets remain unencumbered while it works through C$37.33 million of current liabilities.
Technology
Ethereum’s 12-GPU proving problem just got a 4-GPU answer
ZisK claimed 9.62-second p99 fits Ethereum's latency target, while workload, proof and whole-system power details remain undisclosed.
Mining
Canaan counted paused Ethiopia mining as nearly 35% of its July operating hashrate total
Canaan placed 4.96 EH/s in its operating column, while a footnote said Ethiopia mining was paused.
Research
Solana’s Alpenglow bug hunt charges researchers 0.5 SOL to report flaws
Anza’s 50,000 SOL pool unlocks by severity, while changing eligibility and duplicate rules leave researchers bearing the filing risk.
ETF
Bitcoin ETF flows jumped by $137 million, but it only recouped a third of recent losses
Farside’s reported $137.3 million inflow recovered just 35.6% of the prior five-session net outflow, leaving breadth unproven.
Research
Blockchains may finally break their hidden reliance on a ticking randomness clock to keep networks secure
Distributed samplers replace fresh public randomness while a common random string, DDH, LWE, and proof-of-work assumptions remain.
Digital Asset Treasuries
Strategy raised $334 million from MSTR shareholders last week — Bitcoin got none of it
Strategy has gone nearly two months without adding Bitcoin as the STRC preferred-stock support absorbs capital.
Analysis
Peter Todd reopens Bitcoin’s 21M cap debate because transaction fees make up just 0.5% of miner revenue
A viral clip sharpened the clash between fee-funded security and the credibility of a fixed supply.
Regulation
Polymarket’s 20% CLARITY Act odds sit on a market one $100K trade could radically reprice
An anonymous trader holds $415,000 against CLARITY ahead of a Senate test, dwarfing the market’s $160,000 in displayed liquidity.
