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Uniswap management is preparing to vote on a proposal that would enable protocol fees for the first time in select Uniswap v4 liquidity pools. Separately, a proposal plans to extend the fee mechanism implemented in Uniswap v2 and v3 to Robinhood Chain. The final on-chain voting process has begun for both proposals. Voting opens on Sunday and will continue until July 26th. Uniswap founder Hayden Adams said they expect the proposals to have a significant impact on the $UNI burning mechanism, particularly highlighting the current trading volumes on Robinhood Chain. The Uniswap v4 proposal calls for enabling protocol fees in…

Alex Sacerdote, founder and CEO of Whale Rock Capital Management, thinks Anthropic is on track to hit half a billion users before it goes public. That’s not a typo. Five hundred million, with a B-shaped shadow looming behind it. Sacerdote made the projection at the Sohn Montreal investment conference on June 4, one day after Anthropic filed a confidential IPO registration with the SEC. The timing was not subtle. From 2 million to 14 million, and counting According to Sacerdote, Claude’s user count surged from 2 million to 14 million in a relatively short window. That’s a 7x jump, and…

Ripple has ramped up mint activity around its proprietary stablecoin $RLUSD in July, deploying over $200 million on the XRPL within two days. A few days after rebalancing $RLUSD supply between the $XRP Ledger and Ethereum, the two native networks supporting the stablecoin, Ripple has started increasing issuance more aggressively on the $XRP Ledger as July begins. In just the first two days of July, Ripple minted a total of $291.6 million worth of $RLUSD across the $XRP Ledger and Ethereum. Of this amount, about $225.8 million, which represents roughly 77%, was issued on the $XRP Ledger, according to data…

Another European door closes as Gibraltar’s opens The Czech Finance Ministry added Polymarket to its List of Unauthorized Internet Games on Monday, according to the country’s Institute for Gambling Regulation, which flagged the listing on Tuesday. Internet service providers now have 15 days to block access to the platform. The ministry, which maintains the list, already has several thousand websites on it. The Czech rationale echoes the position regulators across Europe have taken: that whatever prediction markets call themselves, they function as gambling. The ministry considers Polymarket insufficiently supervised and therefore a risk. Jan Řehola, director of the Institute for…

Speaking at Binance’s ninth anniversary celebrations, company founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) made noteworthy assessments regarding the next decade of the cryptocurrency sector. CZ stated that AI-powered payments, tokenization of real-world assets, and the growth potential of blockchain-based finance will shape the new era of the sector. CZ, who founded Binance in 2017, stated that cryptocurrency exchanges had serious shortcomings in terms of user experience, security, transaction infrastructure, and customer service, and explained that the company set out with the goal of improving these areas. CZ stated that while most major exchanges at the time focused solely on Bitcoin transactions, Binance…

DB Securities has officially signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Optimism to build security token offering (STO) and real-world asset (RWA) infrastructure in Jeju, South Korea. This collaboration aims to leverage the OP Stack framework to advance blockchain capabilities in the region, as detailed in their recent announcement. Inside the Move The broader crypto market is currently navigating mixed signals, with assets displaying varying momentum. Against this backdrop, the partnership between DB Securities and Optimism stands out as a significant development. The MOU signals a commitment to build advanced financial infrastructure on the OP Stack, which is gaining traction…

Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr has shut down demands to withdraw a highly controversial network upgrade proposal known as BIP-110. The BIP-110 controversy and Dashjr’s stance BIP-110, whose purpose is to introduce data regulation, was introduced as a temporary consensus adjustment to fight against spam from the likes of Ordinals and Runes. Supporters argue that embedding non-financial data congests the network, thus inflating data storage requirements. Dashjr, a key proponent of the soft fork and maintainer of the Bitcoin Knots software, has dismissed the idea of backpedalling on the proposal. “Saylor didn’t say anything about BIP110,” Dashjr clarified. “And no, it’s…

Ramp just closed a $750 million Series F round that values the company at $44 billion. To put that in perspective, that’s roughly the market cap of some S&P 500 companies, and Ramp is still private. The round, announced on June 4, 2026, was led by ICONIQ, GIC, and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan. Goldman Sachs Alternatives, D.E. Shaw & Co., and Morgan Stanley Investment Management also joined as new investors. Total equity raised by the company now exceeds $3 billion. From corporate cards to a $44B financial operations platform Here’s the thing about Ramp’s trajectory: in November 2025, the…

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson has pushed back against criticism surrounding Midnight City, rejecting claims that the initiative does not contribute to ecosystem user adoption. His response followed remarks from prominent Cardano content creator Big Pey, who questioned the project’s commercial relevance and value proposition. Big Pey Questions Midnight City’s Impact on Adoption In a recent post on X, Big Pey pointed to Midnight City as an example of wasteful spending within the Cardano ecosystem. According to him, the Cardano team invested millions of dollars into a project that would not directly attract new users or drive adoption. He characterized the…

An Argentine judge’s order to freeze crypto wallets connected to the LIBRA memecoin scandal has exposed just how difficult it is to actually stop funds once they start moving on-chain. The case now hinges on whether major exchanges will cooperate — and whether the money is even still there to freeze. Key takeaways Federal judge Marcelo Martínez de Giorgi ordered the identification and freezing of 25 cryptocurrency wallets linked to the LIBRA memecoin case. The wallets are held across Binance, Bybit, OKX, and Bitfinex, and the judge has requested KYC records, IP addresses, and transaction histories from all four platforms.…