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A memecoin launched on the newly established Robinhood Chain has captured the attention of cryptocurrency traders, surging approximately 950% in value over the past 24 hours. The token, known as $CASHCAT, now commands a market capitalization of roughly $770 million, according to data from CoinMarketCap. What is $CASHCAT and the Robinhood Chain? $CASHCAT is a memecoin built on the Robinhood Chain, a Layer 2 network that went live earlier this month. The blockchain was developed by Robinhood (HOOD), the U.S. stock and crypto trading platform, and is built on Arbitrum (ARB) technology. The chain aims to provide faster and cheaper…

Brazil has approved new prudential rules that will require virtual asset service providers to meet capital, risk management, and disclosure standards from 2027. According to a local media report, Brazil’s Central Bank has approved a new set of prudential requirements for virtual asset service providers (SPSAVs), bringing them closer to the regulatory framework applied to securities brokers and distributors. The rules were approved on July 1 and will take effect on Jan. 1, 2027, as part of the country’s ongoing implementation of its cryptoasset legal framework. Once the rules come into force, companies offering cryptocurrency and other virtual asset services…

The context: Building AI data centers remains a multi-year effort with labor emerging as a key execution challenge. Prager said the Kentucky facility is expected to come online beginning in 2028 and that TeraWulf has hired Fluor to help construct the project. He said securing skilled labor and contractors is a bigger challenge than equipment procurement as hyperscale AI facilities become increasingly specialized. Prager said proximity to reliable power remains the most important requirement for AI customers. Reading between the lines: TeraWulf says Bitcoin mining is no longer part of its long-term strategy. Prager said the company originally entered Bitcoin…

Ava Labs and NEC Corporation signed a memorandum of understanding to explore on-chain services with biometric verification on the Avalanche network. The technical white paper proposes a two-layer architecture that settles stablecoin payments while verifying user identity without storing biometric data on-chain. The initial use case targets tourist payments in Japan, which welcomed 42.68 million visitors in 2025 and already has a legal framework for stablecoins. NEC Corporation, one of the world’s leading companies in biometric identity technology, signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Ava Labs to explore a new generation of on-chain services combining facial recognition with the multichain…

Strategy remains under pressure as Bitcoin hovers near $60,000, but recent capital moves have bought the company time, according to Jim Ferraioli, director of crypto research and strategy at the Schwab Center for Financial Research. Speaking on Morning Trade Live at the New York Stock Exchange, Ferraioli said the firm led by Michael Saylor faces scrutiny while the price of Bitcoin sits 50% below its peak. Strategy, the largest corporate holder of Bitcoin, has funded much of its buying through preferred equity, including its variable-rate Stretch preferred stock, known as STRC. That product fell near $70 from its $100 par…

Gondor introduced V1, a margin account that lets users borrow against their entire Polymarket portfolios and use the credit to purchase additional positions. Introducing Gondor v1, the first margin account for Polymarket Cross-margin your positions, borrow against the entire portfolio and use the credit to buy more shares 1/ pic.twitter.com/15HB9t7Mdo — Gondor (@gondorfi) July 13, 2026 The product will enter private access next week before launching publicly in September, according to an announcement Monday. Gondor said V1 uses a cross margin system that considers a trader’s full portfolio as collateral rather than evaluating each prediction market position separately. The platform…

The company’s ticker, SECZ, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on Thursday, July 2, after Securitize closed its business combination with Cantor Equity Partners II on July 1. Shares opened at $12.45, touched an intraday high of $13.70, and closed the session at $12.30, up 4.41% from the prior close of $11.78. After-hours trading pushed the stock to $12.60. Volume for the day reached 839,134 shares against an average of 853,500. The company’s market cap stood at $1.821 billion. Securitize did not just list on the NYSE. It tokenized its own common stock onchain the same day,…

The $ZEC token recorded an increase of over 12% during Tuesday’s session. Project Tachyon is leading the mathematical verification of the network’s upcoming shielded pool, named Ironwood. A previous flaw in the Orchard pool caused a 40% drop in the asset’s price in early June. This Tuesday, Zcash’s native token, $ZEC, recorded a surge of over 12% following progress reported by the developers of its shielded pool. Project Tachyon aims to eradicate counterfeiting vulnerabilities Those responsible for Project Tachyon presented new details regarding the technical verification efforts focused on Ironwood, the network’s upcoming shielded pool. In this regard, Zcash founder…

For the first time in the tournament’s near-century of history, a crypto exchange sits inside FIFA’s official partner ecosystem. Six billion viewers, sixteen host cities, one industry trying to prove it has outgrown the arena-naming era. Here is what the deal actually is, and what it has to survive. On June 9, 2026, two days before the biggest World Cup ever staged kicked off, FIFA announced something that would have sounded like satire during the last tournament: an official crypto exchange partner. Kraken, through its parent company Payward, became the Official Crypto Exchange Supporter of the FIFA World Cup 2026,…

Compound will deprecate its Polygon and Unichain Comets after a Gauntlet proposal cited low usage and unnecessary complexity. The plan would reduce collateral factors to zero, set supply caps to zero and prevent new supply or collateral use on those deployments. Existing users would need to withdraw or migrate positions as Compound redirects development and security resources toward primary markets, future innovations and more efficient protocol operations. Compound Finance is moving to deprecate its Polygon and Unichain Comets after a Gauntlet proposal argued that the deployments no longer justify their operational footprint. Discussed on the Compound Governance Forum on July…