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In a mid-year outlook titled “The Future of BNB Chain: An Outlook for the Rest of 2025 & 2026,” the team behind BNB Chain detailed its roadmap, accomplishments, and vision to push blockchain toward true mass adoption. BNB Chain plans to promote performance upgrades in 2025 and introduce native privacy and high-performance architecture in 2026. With ambitions to combine the speed of centralized exchanges with the freedom of decentralized blockchain, BNB Chain is entering a transition phase. BNB Chain’s Performance Struggling to balance performance, cost, and user control, BNB Chain is proving itself as one of the pioneering platforms driving…

Bitcoin has broken yet another new all-time high on the 15th anniversary of Bitcoin Pizza Day—when American Laszlo Hanyecz famously bought two pizzas using 10,000 BTC in 2010.  Back then, the price of the leading cryptocurrency stood at next to nothing, with the asset trading from $0.001 to a high of $0.29 at the end of the year, and was only available on a handful of niche exchanges.  Fast-forward 15 years, and BTC just hit a new high of $111,770 Thursday afternoon, according to CoinGecko. That record price means 10,000 BTC today is worth over $1.1 billion, or 2,726,000,000% more…

The race to accumulate Ether as a treasury asset is heating up with more than ten companies buying 550,000 ETH worth $1.65 billion in the last 30 days. Crypto entrepreneur Kyle Reidhead disclosed this on X. According to Reidhead, who is co-owner of crypto newsletter Milk Road, this highlights the massive demand for Ether as more companies continue to pivot to the ETH treasury playbook. The move to adopt ETH as a treasury asset is inspired by what Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) has done with Bitcoin. While over 100 companies have bought BTC for their treasury, others are turning to other…

Dubai’s New Flight Plan for Crypto On July 9, 2025, Emirates Airline officially signed a deal with Crypto.com to roll out crypto payments for flights and services. This major announcement signals a new chapter for Dubai, where crypto regulation, mainstream utility, and global visibility now work hand-in-hand. Bitcoin Adoption Takes Off Real-world use: Travellers will soon use Bitcoin to book flights, upgrades, and more. Mass exposure: With Emirates flying to over 150 global destinations, millions will be exposed to daily BTC use. Trust factor: A state-backed airline embracing crypto builds market confidence, especially for hesitant users and institutions. Can the…

China Merchants Bank’s (CMBI) brokerage arm has attained a virtual assets license from Hong Kong, becoming the first Mainland China broker to do so, South China Morning Post (SCMP) said. The license, which was issued on Monday by the Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, will allow the lender’s brokerage arm to offer crypto asset trading, custody and advisory services, the news outlet reported. However, though the license grants the company access to Hong Kong, CMBI will not be able to conduct crypto business in mainland China, a lawyer told SCMP. “By securing this license, CMBI gains regulated access to…

Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, has announced plans to offer custody services for Russian crypto assets in a bid to increase its influence in the country’s cryptocurrency space. With this step, the state-owned bank aims to take a leading role in Russia’s development of digital assets. Anatoly Pronin, Executive Director of the bank’s Alternative Payment Solutions Department, noted that cryptocurrency custody services are becoming increasingly widespread globally, and that Sberbank has submitted regulatory proposals to the Central Bank of Russia accordingly. Pronin argued that cryptocurrencies should be regulated similarly to traditional assets held in bank accounts and that the bank will…

Forty of the world’s top AI researchers just published a paper arguing that companies need to start reading their AI systems’ thoughts. Not their outputs—their actual step-by-step reasoning process, the internal monologue that happens before ChatGPT or Claude gives you an answer. The proposal, called Chain of Thought monitoring, aims to prevent misbehavior, even before the model comes up with an answer and can help companies to set up scores “in training and deployment decisions,” the researchers argue But there’s a catch that should make anyone who’s ever typed a private question into ChatGPT nervous: If companies can monitor AI’s…

On Monday, July 14th, the crypto market witnessed a slight slowdown in recovery momentum after a week of strong inflow. The top cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, show the mounting selling pressure with long-wick rejection candles in the daily chart. Despite the risk of a potential pullback, high-net-worth investors continue to accumulate ETH, signaling long-term conviction in this asset. Ethereum Whales Accumulation Counters Short-term Pullback Since last week, the Ethereum price has bounced from $2,464 to a recent high of $3,082, accounting for a 22% gain. This recovery is likely triggered by investors’ optimism toward the upcoming ‘Crypto Week,’…

Australia’s Central Bank is taking the next step in its digital currency journey. On Thursday, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced a new trial to explore how digital money could improve Australia’s wholesale tokenised asset markets. Project Acacia is a joint effort between the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre (DFCRC). It is also backed by ASIC, APRA, and the Australian Treasury. Project Acacia Enters Next Phase As part of the project, the RBA will test stablecoins, digital bank deposits, and a trial version of CBDCs. The project started last November with the…

The Senate Agriculture Committee leapt into Congress’ negotiation over crypto’s market structure legislation with a hearing on Tuesday, and its ranking Democrat, Senator Amy Klobuchar, outlined the significant changes she’d like to see before she’d embrace the effort to set up digital assets regulations. As the House potentially nears passage of its own market structure bill in the Digital Asset Markets Clarity Act (despite a procedural delay on Tuesday), Klobuchar’s committee will need to sign off on its own legislation. And any major changes she and other Democrats are willing to pursue as a party could stretch the legislative process…