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In a recent update, Intersect, a member-based organization in the Cardano ecosystem, pointed out that the last week has brought progress in protocol development, governance, community tooling, and technical delivery. With attention turning from the van Rossem to the Dijkstra era, a new parameter update action has opened for voting, the Constitutional Committee election is on-chain, and the Constitutional Amendment Portal has opened for community alpha testing. Intersect Weekly update #122 is out 🗞️Inside:🔹 Dijkstra era planning🔹 New minPoolCost and Plutus memory action🔹 Audited CC election results🔹 CAP Portal alpha launch🔹 Eryx ZK Bridge completion🔹 Rare Evo, Tweag and moreCatch…

The CEO of the American Bankers Association, Rob Nichols, has said that the banking lobby wants the Clarity Act to succeed — but small edits to the bill still need to be made. Speaking on CNBC’s Squawk Box show Wednesday, Nichols said that while there is a “lot of good” in the Clarity Act, the issue around stablecoins and local lending needs to be fixed. JUST IN: American Bankers Association CEO tells CNBC “There’s a lot of good in the Clarity Act” “I do think that the crypto and the banking sectors can coexist. I think we can be the…

The South Korea crypto app ban claimed another brief casualty this week — and then gave one back. OKX’s Android app quietly disappeared from the Korean Google Play Store on July 24, only to reappear four days later on July 28, making it the first of the recently blocked overseas exchanges to recover access on the platform. The restoration, confirmed by Digital Asset at 8:00 a.m. local time, lets South Korean users once again install or update the OKX: Trade Bitcoin & Crypto app through Google Play. Key takeaways OKX’s app returned to South Korea’s Google Play Store on July…

Since holding the $60k support a week ago, Bitcoin has shown some strength, with bullish pressure intensifying. The upside momentum pushed $BTC to $67k before a slight pullback. At press time, $BTC traded at $65,695, down 1.14% on the daily charts. Prior to this slip, the crypto had been on a strong upward trajectory, rising 7% on weekly charts. Despite the price slip, traders on the daily charts have remained bullish and strategically positioned for further gains. Bitcoin trader opens a $68 million long With Bitcoin [$BTC] showing relative strength, traders on the derivatives market have turned bullish. As a…

“The name on the front of the wallet means far less than whose infrastructure clears the payment behind it,” Torab Torabi, CEO of stablecoin infrastructure firm Movement Labs, told CoinDesk. Stripe has been active in expanding its provision for stablecoin infrastructure in recent years, first through the acquisition of Bridge for $1.1 billion in 2024 and, more recently, the introduction of its own blockchain network Tempo last year. It is also one of many major firms to join the stablecoin consortium Open USD last month. The digital dollar project, which also involves Coinbase (COIN), Mastercard (MA), Visa (V) and BlackRock…

Notable selling activity has occurred in the ASTEROID token, reportedly launched by a former $BNB Chain employee. According to the on-chain analytics platform Lookonchain, the token’s developer made a profit of approximately $628,000 by selling a significant portion of their holdings. According to shared data, a former $BNB Chain employee purchased ASTEROID tokens through four newly opened wallets after creating the token. These wallets bought a total of 796.7 million ASTEROID tokens for $10,000. The amount purchased represented 79.67% of ASTEROID’s total supply. The developer, who controlled the majority of the token supply, subsequently sold 718.8 million ASTEROID on the…

Recent comments by U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Commissioner Hester Peirce regarding crypto vaults and on-chain lending are being interpreted by industry legal experts as a constructive signal that the agency is moving toward formalizing decentralized finance (DeFi) regulation, rather than imposing stricter enforcement. Michael Bassett, chief legal officer at institutional DeFi platform Sentora, said the remarks indicate that discussions about bringing DeFi into the regulatory fold are gaining momentum. Peirce’s Remarks and Their Context Speaking publicly, Peirce reiterated the SEC’s longstanding position that activity executed on a blockchain does not automatically exempt it from federal securities laws. However,…

Every guide tells you a perp DEX is a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures. Almost none tells you that the label covers three incompatible designs, that who takes the other side of your trade differs completely between them, and that the difference only becomes visible during the hour you most need to understand it. JUST IN: CFTC approves BTCPERP as its first regulated perpetual futures contract. The approval relies on precedent that futurity does not require a fixed final delivery date pic.twitter.com/c7LXxNVNlC — crypto.news (@cryptodotnews) June 16, 2026 The definition of a perpetual decentralized exchange takes one sentence and explains…

Bitcoin’s recovery has slowed after reaching a key resistance cluster, with the asset now consolidating beneath an important supply zone. The latest price action suggests that bulls are attempting to maintain momentum, but the market remains at a critical level where the next breakout or rejection could determine the short-term trend. Bitcoin Price Analysis: The Daily Chart On the daily timeframe, $BTC is trading around $65K after rebounding from the $60K support region earlier this month. The recovery has brought the price directly into the first major supply zone between $65K and $67K, where sellers have started to emerge. The…

Roughly 2.9 million American businesses are owned by people 55 or older, supporting 32.1 million workers and generating $6.5 trillion in annual revenue, according to research from Project Equity and Harvard Business School. Only about 20% to 30% of businesses that go up for sale find a buyer at all, per the Exit Planning Institute. Orange Juice Holdings Inc. wants to become one of those buyers, with the additional plan to acquire cash-flowing businesses generating $1 million to $10 million a year, hold them permanently, pay sellers partly in Orange Juice stock, and put some of the retained earnings toward…