The No-Hype Guide to Bitcoin

Zcash developers are closing in on a July 21 mainnet launch for Ironwood, a network upgrade built to let any node operator verify the coin’s circulating supply on day one. The upgrade traces back to a discovery on May 29. Security researcher Taylor Hornby, working under contract for Shielded Labs, found a soundness flaw inside

A pseudonymous bitcoin holder has become the first named defendant to challenge New York’s closely watched lawsuit seeking ownership of roughly 3.8 million BTC, as another wallet named in the case moved 500 BTC on July 2, further undermining claims the coins were abandoned. Inside the $293 Billion Bitcoin Claim The lawsuit, filed March 11,

The U.S. money supply climbed to $23.05 trillion in May, the first time the Federal Reserve’s M2 gauge has ever crossed the $23 trillion mark. The record lands as critics have accused the Fed of quietly restarting stimulus. Inside the Federal Reserve’s Latest Numbers The Federal Reserve’s H.6 money stock release, published yesterday, put seasonally

Crypto trader Ansem’s portfolio has gained more than $193 million in a single week on the back of his namesake ANSEM meme coin, per Lookonchain. The same firm flagged an airdrop recipient who left $2.38 million on the table by selling early. A Namesake Token Mints a Nine-Figure Week Lookonchain, a firm that traces wallet

Robinhood deepened its onchain push with the launch of Robinhood Chain, while Metaplanet expanded its bitcoin treasury to 43,000 BTC. Grayscale then outlined two possible paths out of bitcoin’s bear market as key catalysts approach, and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tied crypto more directly to America’s debt and monetary problems. Metamask also entered the yield-and-payments

Real-world asset tokenization has moved beyond the question of whether assets can be brought onchain. According to RWA Inc founder and CEO Kevin Yunai, the next challenge is turning those assets into liquid, compliant, and productive financial instruments. Tokenized Assets Must Become Tradable to Unlock Real Value The real-world asset ( RWA) sector has spent

THEA has raised $8 million in strategic funding to expand its behavioral AI infrastructure and develop Thea Network. The project aims to create a trust-minimized settlement layer for AI services, using off-chain compute, Solana anchoring and zero-knowledge proofs. Maven 11 and Spartan Back THEA’s $8 Million Push Into AI Settlement Infrastructure THEA has closed an

Binance is reentering the Philippines through an SEC-approved regulatory sandbox operated by Blockshoals Technologies Inc. The supervised framework begins with a 90-day systems integration, allowing Binance to provide crypto-asset services through a locally regulated partner after testing is completed. Binance’s Philippine Entry Begins Through an SEC-Approved Sandbox Crypto exchange Binance announced its entry into the

In a Brazilian Congress hearing, Fábio Araújo, consultant for the Financial System Regulation Department (Denor), stressed that, unlike other crypto assets, stablecoins have specific traits that would be better regulated if they were classified as monetary instruments instead of as digital assets. Central Bank of Brazil pushes for electronic money regulation for stablecoins The debate

AI agents may soon begin transacting on their own, but the real tension lies in whether existing payment systems can handle machines that need programmable, always-on rails. Why Payment Infrastructure Is Becoming the Main Question AI and crypto payments are moving into the same discussion because autonomous agents may need more than intelligence to operate