Cardano hands core development to outside teams in decentralization push
Input Output will transfer control of the Haskell node, Plutus, Hydra and other components as founder Charles Hoskinson says the network must change and start growing again.
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Live markets: Bitcoin tops $64,000 as selling pressure on Coinbase eases
Spot bitcoin funds lost about $95 million on Thursday and ether funds roughly $52 million, ending the one bright spot in crypto’s institutional flows even as prices rallied.
Ethereum’s newest nonprofit wants to become Wall Street’s guide to crypto
In this week’s edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re digging into Ethereum Institutional, a new nonprofit aimed at educating financial institutions and banks about Ethereum.
‘CASHCAT’ trader turns $800 into over $1 million on Robinhood’s brand new blockchain
Robinhood’s blockchain went live on July 1 to move stocks onchain. Its first breakout hit is a memecoin named after the mascot the company abandoned.
XRP Ledger’s new upgrade is here. But not everyone’s on board yet
The new software leads among the network’s validators, yet by node count it sits behind the older v3.1.3, and the security amendment bundled with it remains a separate, slower vote. The upgrade needs 80% of the trusted validator list to activate.
Live markets: Bitcoin drops as yen, Iran ceasefire collapse
Hedge funds have turned the most bearish on the yen since 2007, boosting bets on further losses to nearly 138,000 contracts as of June 30.
Live markets: Bitcoin and ether ETFs drew inflows on Monday
Spot bitcoin ETFs still lost a net $526.6 million over the shortened holiday week, an eighth straight week of negative flows.
Vitalik Buterin says Ethereum is preparing its ‘biggest rebuild’ since the Merge
A revised roadmap details how the multi-year overhaul would replace nearly every major part of Ethereum’s protocol, with quantum resistance and privacy moving up the priority list. It lands as ether rallies more than 12% in the past seven days.
Live markets: Bitcoin pops to $63,900, then reverses, as week begins
Bitcoin touched $63,882 overnight before retreating to around $62,900, per CoinDesk data. Sunday’s high held briefly before sellers pushed it back down.
Americans traded $571 million on Polymarket politic bets despite U.S. ban
U.S.-linked wallets traded $571 million in political contracts over the past year, more than any other country, even though the platform legally cannot serve them. The money leans toward the foreign-conflict markets U.S. venues do not list.