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$NEAR governance has voted to remove the network’s 30% developer gas rebate program, redirecting all execution fees toward a protocol-level burn once the change is implemented through the nearcore v2.14 upgrade. The proposal, listed as HSP-027 on House of Stake, passed as part of a broader tokenomics adjustment. The change is expected to take effect with nearcore v2.14 in August 2026. That timing matters because the rebate is not gone from mainnet until the upgrade happens. Still, the decision is notable. $NEAR’s gas rebate model was originally designed to reward developers when their applications generated activity. The logic was simple:…

Traditional finance is moving bonds, funds and collateral onto blockchain networks as real-world asset adoption accelerates. RWA deposits reached $7.4 billion in Q2 2026, more than triple their year-earlier level despite a wider DeFi contraction. Beyond deposits, CoinShares and Token Terminal said distributed tokenized funds, stocks and commodities had surpassed $40 billion by Q1 2026. In a narrower market category, RWA.xyz listed $16.18 billion in tokenized U.S. Treasury products on Aug. 7. How RWA Tokens Work and Which Products Lead the Market Issuers use RWA tokens to represent legal or economic interests in traditional assets. These assets include government debt,…

According to Lookonchain, a Bitcoin [$BTC] whale recently withdrew 2,341 $BTC worth $144.68 million from OKX. This outflow from a centralized exchange might not have been an isolated incident though. Exchange reserves have been shrinking lately, with flow data pointing to persistent accumulation. And yet, on the other hand, demand conditions have been “deeply unfavorable,” too, according to a crypto on-chain analyst. For instance – The 200-week moving average and the 200WMA quantile metric revealed that Bitcoin may be nearing the depths of the current bear market, despite the accumulation. A comparison of the press time price action with that…

An Ethereum whale with a history dating back to the 2015 initial coin offering (ICO) has abruptly resumed activity, shifting a portion of a position that had been idle for about seven years. The address is especially noteworthy because it is one of the network’s oldest identifiable holders, having initially amassed 40,000 $ETH during Ethereum’s early stages. Ethereum balance isn’t stabilizing But rather than the whale’s $ETH balance, the most recent move concerns its Maker (MKR) holdings. The investor amassed 7,020.84 MKR between September 2018 and May 2019 at an average acquisition price of roughly $828.92, according to the on-chain…

Cardano activated the Van Rossum Hard Fork and upgraded its mainnet to Version 11, introducing improvements to Plutus smart contracts while keeping the user experience unchanged for $ADA holders. The upgrade became the first protocol change fully approved through Cardano’s on-chain governance, with Delegated Representatives, the Constitutional Committee, and stake pool operators voting under the Voltaire framework. Version 11 prepares Cardano for the future Ouroboros Leios scalability upgrade, which aims to increase network throughput while preserving the security of its proof-of-stake consensus. Cardano Van Rossum Hard Fork officially moved the network to Version 11, marking one of the most significant…

In brief Robinhood Chain reached almost $800 million in total value locked after one month. The network has processed more than 200 million transactions. Robinhood wants to reach people who have never used crypto rather than compete for existing users. Robinhood Chain wants to be a financial hub for the suits just as much as for the degens. That’s essentially the meaning behind Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s “two wolves” post on X, which the company’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, says sums up what Robinhood is going for with the launch of its own Ethereum layer-2 network: a balance between…

As more attention lands on Bitcoin treasury firms, Strategy’s business model is once again in the spotlight. A recent analysis says Strategy’s core software business is now worth almost nothing compared to the company’s total market value. Its software business brought in mere $124.3 million in revenue in Q1 2026, while the company holds $53 billion worth of Bitcoin. Basically, the firm’s valuation has become largely tied to its Bitcoin treasury strategy, which raises concerns about how it would hold up if crypto goes into another prolonged downturn. How Strategy Got Here Since 2020, Strategy has evolved from a business…

Roughnecks Pulls the Plug as the Fork Freezes The group announced the decision shortly before 4 a.m. UTC on Aug. 9, following a team meeting around 3:40 a.m. Roughnecks stressed that the move was difficult but insisted it did not view the retreat as a defeat for BIP-110, instead calling it an “escalation to the next step.” It also advised anyone still mining the BIP-110 chain under Bitcoin’s current proof-of-work (PoW) algorithm to stop until further notice. The timing leaves little ambiguity about the pressure behind the decision. Roughnecks had mined BIP-110 blocks 961632 and 961633 after Bitcoin fractured at…

The official $BNB Chain X account reported higher throughput on the $BNB Smart Chain (BSC) testnet as BEP-675 testing gained momentum. BEP-675 lets block builders submit a fully executed block instead of a bid, so validators skip re-executing it before sealing. The benchmark was conducted on QANet, an internal testnet designed to mirror BSC’s cross-region validator topology. 88% higher throughput on BSC Testnet.BEP-675 increased throughput from 1,237 to 2,324 TPS by removing redundant block execution, with no change to the 450ms block interval or finality lag.Read the breakdown 👇https://t.co/lildc02W1f — $BNB Chain (@BNBCHAIN) August 7, 2026 Throughput increased by 88%…

Historical data surrounding how Bitcoin reacted before and after the Coinbase IPO suggests the S&P 500 could pull back after the SpaceX IPO. As investors look ahead to the SpaceX IPO, market analyst Ali Martinez has called attention to Bitcoin’s performance around the Coinbase public listing in 2021 as a hint to what could happen next in the stock market. According to Martinez, the strong gains recorded by the S&P 500 over the past year could be followed by a period of cooling off after SpaceX goes public. If this happens, some of the money leaving stocks could find its…