Cardano activates van Rossem hard fork, paving way for Leios

The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs while laying the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade expected later this year.

The upgrade reduces smart contract execution costs while laying the groundwork for Ouroboros Leios, a major scalability upgrade expected later this year.
Five people have pleaded guilty to helping North Koreans defraud U.S. companies by posing as remote IT workers, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Friday. The five people are accused of working as “facilitators” who helped North Koreans get jobs by providing their own real identities, or false and stolen identities of more…
Bitcoin approached $65,000 on July 14 as a sharper-than-expected slowdown in US inflation weakened the case for another near-term Federal Reserve interest rate increase. Data from CryptoSlate showed that BTC rose as high as $64,832 once the report landed, gaining about 4% from its intraday low and coming within $200 of a threshold it has…
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of Nigeria has moved to address what his office called the fragmentation of digital asset regulation. The Nigerian president’s special adviser Bayo Onanuga said that an executive order signed on Friday would “harmonize the regulation of virtual assets, strengthen cooperation among the nation’s financial, revenue and capital markets agencies, protect citizens…
A family in Oklahoma is unable to access $50,000 after a cashier’s check they mailed through the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) disappeared before reaching its intended recipient. Jamie Oaks says the check was sent but never arrived, leaving the funds tied up as they navigate the USPS process, reports Oklahoma News 4. She says the…
Breez has partnered with Turnkey to let developers add non-custodial bitcoin to applications that run wallets from their own servers, the companies announced. The partnership addresses a structural problem. Many mainstream apps operate from the backend, with a single service handling millions of users. Adding bitcoin under that design has meant holding user keys on…
Solana’s growth story is often told through speed, fees, and developer momentum. Address growth adds another layer, but it needs to be read carefully. A higher wallet count can be encouraging, yet it does not automatically prove that a network has deeper economic activity. That is the right way to look at the current Solana…