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The integration is a showcase of the platform’s ongoing commitment to creating infrastructure for financial systems that anyone can access, by ensuring compliance and offering composable yield products. This also creates a path for further fusions of Liquid Yield Tokens (LYTs) into Etherlink’s ecosystem, offering various use cases that include collateralized lending, risk tranching, and portfolio management. Midas’ New Collaboration According to a press release shared with CryptoPotato, the institutional-grade asset tokenization platform is steadily developing on Etherlink. The focus is on creating secure, transparent, and efficient structures that allow investors to access the performance of select reference strategies through…

Bitcoin (BTC) project Roxom Global is building a BTC-denominated securities exchange and a 24/7 media network dedicated entirely to bitcoin. Roxom has raised $7.9 million in investment for its exchange from Draper Associates, Borderless Capital, ego death and Kingsway Capital and $10 million in a private funding round round for RoxomTV, according to an announcement shared with CoinDesk on Thursday. Its building a bitcoin-denominated exchange with futures, spot markets and synthetic instruments priced and settled in BTC. Roxom aims to “bring Bitcoin standards to global finance,” CEO Borja Martel Seward said in the announcement. The exchange is focused on Latin…

Hedge funds have been aggressively shorting ether (ETH) during the recent uptick to $3,000 as they attempt to harvest a yield by carrying out a basis trade. Hedge funds are shorting ether to the tune of $1.73 billion on the CME, a venue favored by institutional traders, according to data from the Block, which cites the CFTC. CME data also shows that ether leveraged net totals have skewed heavily to the short side, according to X account zerohedge. Ether leveraged shorts going all-in: biggest short on record pic.twitter.com/PYuDvJdMhW— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 13, 2025 A basis trade involves shorting an asset…

Trump calls on Jerome Powell to resign, accusing him of misleading lawmakers about the cost of expensive renovations at the Fed’s headquarters. US President considers new contenders for the positions of Fed. U.S. President Donald Trump has called for Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell to resign if the allegations against him prove to be true. Powell has been accused of misleading lawmakers about the cost of expensive renovations at the Fed’s headquarters and of failing to cut interest rates in recent months. Trump Urges Jerome Powell to Resign As Fed’s Chair On Tuesday, during a cabinet meeting, President Trump said…

Meta Pool has launched a targeted incentive program designed to safeguard validator profitability and ensure a smooth transition to community-led governance. Key takeaways Meta Pool has launched a new incentive program to support validators and delegators ahead of NEAR’s proposed inflation cut. The initiative introduces APY boosts, infrastructure subsidies, and discounted NEAR rewards to ease the impact of reduced staking emissions. The effort aligns with NEAR’s transition toward community-driven governance, with a validator vote on the inflation change expected in July. The announcement follows a proposal by HOT DAO to reduce staking reward emissions, an initiative currently under discussion in…

DeFi policy experts and industry leaders are coming out swinging against the House’s crypto market structure bill, dubbed the CLARITY Act, just hours before the landmark legislation is set to face a floor vote. After months of tongue biting, DeFi policy leaders from a spectrum of nonprofits, advocacy groups, and top industry firms—who requested anonymity to speak candidly—told Decrypt they believe the bill as written, while not explicitly hostile to DeFi, is deeply flawed. If signed into law, CLARITY could decimate the novel DeFi sector in America, they say. The CLARITY Act would “continue the trend of forc[ing] DeFi developers…

Binance has announced that it will support the planned network upgrade and hard fork for the THORChain (RUNE) network. Binance to Support THORChain (RUNE) Network Upgrade and Hard Fork To protect the user experience and ensure technical compatibility, deposits and withdrawals on the RUNE network will be temporarily suspended starting at 19:00 on 16-07-2025. Technical Details Upgrade Block: 21,984,000 Hard Fork Time: Approximately 16-07-2025 – 20:00 Transactions Affected: Only deposits and withdrawals will be temporarily suspended. Unaffected Transactions: Trading in RUNE trading pairs will continue uninterrupted. Technical Process: Binance will manage all technical details on behalf of users. Following the…

Decentralized AI data platform OORT has announced the listing of its user-generated Tools Dataset across several major enterprise data marketplaces. According to a July 16 press release shared with crypto.news, the dataset includes 100,000 data points contributed by users through OORT’s application. It is now live on Google Cloud Analytics Hub, Databricks Marketplace, Snowflake Marketplace, and Datarade, with a listing on SAP’s Datasphere Marketplace expected soon. Price per dataset ranges from $2,000 to $10,000, depending on the size and licensing terms. The listing is non-exclusive, making it more accessible to a wider range of buyers. The rollout marks the first…

The skalds of Bitcoin Twitter have sung of the historic moment, the “first real world purchase” with bitcoin, and pundits have etched the story into the internet’s memory with headlines about the infamous Bitcoin Pizza Purchase, now dearly valued at more than $1 billion. But what if I told you that Hanyecz spent nearly 10 times more bitcoin following the historic purchase? And, what if I told you that perhaps Hanyecz did so as ostensible penance for his much more consequential contribution to Bitcoin in its uncertain infancy? He was a Bitcoin technical pioneer The penumbra of Hanyecz’s Pizza Day…

Ethereum price has climbed back above the $3,000 threshold after a decisive breakout past multiple resistance zones. As of July 14, Ethereum price today is holding near $3,046, registering a 2.5% gain over the last 24 hours. The rally is underpinned by both structural bullish shifts and accelerating demand in derivatives markets. What’s Happening With Ethereum’s Price? ETH price dynamics (Source: TradingView) The daily chart shows Ethereum price breaking out of a multi-month accumulation range between $2,400 and $2,800, triggering a clean bullish structure shift. ETH price has now reclaimed the $2,970–$3,000 supply block that capped advances in June and…