The only real security for Bitcoin is people running nodes.

Crypto venture funding has reached $1.2 billion in July even as DeFi investment has fallen to its lowest quarterly level since late 2023. Summary Crypto startups have raised $1.2 billion in July despite a sharp decline in deal activity. Coinbase Ventures led investor activity as exchanges, prediction markets, payments and AI attracted major funding. DeFi…

The SWIFT integration rumor  No adoption? There is a rather perennial debate regarding the real-world utility of the Ripple-linked XRP token, and it has just been reignited by a prominent community of a rival altcoin.  Zach Rynes, who is known as the Chainlink community lead, publicly declared that there is “no tangible adoption or meaningful…

Local residents walk past burning garages outside a residential building following a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on July 6, 2026, amid the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Genya Savilov | Afp | Getty Images The long-running Russia-Ukraine war appears to have entered a new phase after major developments over the weekend…

Robinhood Chain adopts USDG stablecoin to share reserve yields with users, not issuers.  Pluang

In a move with distinctly 2021 energy, the estate of the abstract artist Piet Mondrian has collaborated with a web3 entertainment company to drop a batch of digital collectibles, on-chain tokens the world once called NFTs. The company in question is Doodles, the outfit whose 10,000-strong lineup of mildly quirky pastel-colored avatars once ranked among…

Agentic Commerce is everywhere. It’s all about how are AI Agents going to contribute to the economy by buying and selling services. When you create an agent to do lead generation research, and it has to pay for an API call OR pay for information it gets from a research platform, how is that going…