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One-Hour Chart Shows Buyers Losing the Short-Term Fight The one-hour chart shows Bitcoin printing in the $62,040 to $62,065 range, with lower highs and weaker candles forming as volume thins out. Buyers have not reclaimed the $62,800 to $63,000 zone that would flip the short-term structure back toward bullish. $BTC/USD 1-hour chart via Bitstamp on July 8, 2026. A one-hour close above that band opens a path toward $63,800, then $64,200 to $64,650, with a stop below $62,200 keeping risk contained. A more aggressive entry near $61,700 to $62,000 depends on that zone holding and volume picking up, with $62,800…

Bitcoin miner TeraWulf, moving deeper into AI infrastructure, signed a 20-year data center lease with Anthropic expected to generate about $19 billion in contract revenue. The company also announced Monday that it is selling a majority stake in a separate AI data center joint venture to reinvest in wholly owned projects. The company’s shares rose about 12% in Monday morning trading following the announcement, extending a roughly 107% year-to-date gain, according to Yahoo Finance data at the time of writing. TeraWulf stock price. Source: Yahoo Finance Under the agreement, Anthropic will lease a purpose-built AI data center campus at TeraWulf’s…

New wallet creation on the $XRP Ledger reached its highest level since March during the final week of June. The increase adds to signs of rising network activity alongside growing institutional adoption and tokenized asset issuance. According to on-chain data shared by Evernorth, about 26,000 new $XRP wallets were created in the week ending June 29. That was up roughly 40% from around 18,400 the previous week. It marked the strongest weekly wallet growth since March and suggests renewed interest in the $XRP ecosystem. XRPL Network Activity Notably, new wallet creation trended higher throughout June. Weekly additions rose from 18,100…

The U.S. state of New Hampshire is considering new legislation to explicitly protect the use of cryptocurrency for payments and the right to self-custody digital assets. House Bill 639 (HB639), introduced in the state’s General Court, seeks to prohibit state and local government entities from restricting these activities, marking another step in the ongoing debate over digital asset regulation at the state level. What HB639 Proposes HB639 is a straightforward piece of legislation. Its core provision would prevent any state or municipal agency in New Hampshire from enacting laws, rules, or ordinances that limit or prohibit an individual’s ability to…

Blockchain Meets Mobile Money Financial services giant Visa, mobile money platform M-Pesa, and pan-African payments network Onafriq have launched a pilot program using stablecoins to settle cross-border mobile transactions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), according to industry reports. The initiative marks the latest push by major financial players to test whether blockchain-powered digital assets can make international money transfers faster and cheaper across Africa. For consumers using platforms like Safaricom’s M-Pesa, the integration of stablecoins is intended to streamline back-end operations. If successful, the pilot could lead to quicker wallet top-ups, smoother international business transactions, and lower remittance…

The adjustment landed at block height 957600. Difficulty moved from 133.87 trillion to 127.17 trillion, a decline of roughly 6.70 trillion. The change took effect at 4:09:11 p.m., based on the block timestamp. The prior epoch ran about 14 days, 18 hours, and 9 minutes, longer than Bitcoin’s 14-day target for 2,016 blocks. That pace works out to an average block time of 10 minutes, 32 seconds, about 5.1% slower than the protocol’s 10-minute target. The 5% cut brought the network back toward that target. A Year Defined by Wide Swings Eight of the 14 difficulty adjustments so far in…

This was quickly fixed and disclosed as ‘CVE-2026-34219′ with credit to the team. The broader concern, however, was separating the agents’ real bugs from the ones that were confidently masquerading as such. “The surprise was how little of the work went into finding them, and how much went into telling the real bugs from the ones that just looked real,” wrote Nikos Baxevanis, who authored the post. The difficulty started with what an agent produces. A fuzzer, the standard tool that hurls malformed data at software until something breaks, returned a crash and a record of where it happened, which…

The US Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control revoked General License X on July 7, cutting off the authorization that had allowed Iranian crude oil, petrochemical, and petroleum-product transactions through Aug. 21. Its replacement, General License X1, permits only wind-down transactions through 12:01 a.m. ET on July 17. Brent crude settled at $74.16 and WTI at $70.44 that day, then extended gains in post-settlement trade to about $76.03 and $72.20, putting both benchmarks over 5% above the prior session. Tanker attacks near the Strait of Hormuz drove that move, and maritime authorities raised transit risk through the strait to severe,…

$AVAX One Technology, the Nasdaq-listed digital infrastructure company that mines bitcoin and holds a strategic Avalanche treasury, said Chief Executive Jolie Kahn resigned effective July 3, with Chief Operating Officer Pete Wylie stepping in as interim CEO, according to an 8-K filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The company, which trades as AVX, said the departure came “by mutual agreement” and that there was no disagreement over the company’s operations, policies or practices, per the filing. The board has retained ZRG Partners, a global executive search firm, to find a permanent successor. Separation Terms Kahn will receive a $160,000…

Berachain is preparing a hard fork that will replace its dual-token incentive model with one centered on its main $BERA token. Set for Wednesday at 4 pm UTC, the hard fork will end Bera Governance Token (BGT) emissions and shift the network’s incentive system to Wrapped $BERA (WBERA), the Berachain Foundation announced in a Tuesday X post. Following the upgrade, the network will distribute fixed amounts of WBERA instead of BGT as block rewards. The change replaces Berachain’s previous dual-token model, which split the network’s functions between the transferable $BERA token and the non-transferable governance token BGT. Berachain said annual…