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Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han has backed a human-led approach to crypto trading as millions of digital assets and tens of thousands of decentralized applications make Web3 increasingly difficult for users to navigate. In the latest episode of the Gatecast podcast, Dr. Han argued that artificial intelligence could help traders gather information, study market signals, and make decisions without removing the need for human judgment. 🎙️ #GateCast 新一期上线｜Gate 创始人 @Han_Gate 坦白局！ 🤔 合规能不能换来更强的用户信任？它会不会拖慢创新速度？拿到 #MiCA 牌照，究竟是紧箍咒，还是通往更大市场的入场券？ 猜来猜去还是不明白，不如点开精彩片段康一康 👇 pic.twitter.com/coTFHML1zD — Gate 华语 (@Gate_zh) July 23, 2026 According to the Gate CEO, the combination of AI tools and human intelligence could…

Ripple software engineer Mayukha Vadari hints at incoming XRPL improvements as the protocol prepares for a major software release. According to the XRPL operations X handle, which provides information about $XRP Ledger infrastructure and software updates, the $XRP Ledger is anticipating a major software release that includes key changes and its software rebrand. The tweet made it known that the $XRP Ledger version 3.2.0 was coming soon. Also, the core software powering the XRPL will be rebranded from rippled to xrpld. It was noted that the transition might require some updates for infrastructure operators. In this regard, a detailed playbook…

President Donald Trump has failed to unlock the stalled CLARITY Act after meeting Senate Republicans, with no revised text released and Polymarket traders cutting its 2026 passage odds to 32%. Journalist Eleanor Terrett reported on X that the updated bill remained unavailable after Thursday’s White House meeting, where Trump and Republican senators discussed ethics rules tied to the legislation. Industry leaders now expect the text to arrive next week, according to Terrett, extending a delay around one of Washington’s most closely watched crypto bills. The @FinancialCmte will hold a field hearing at 10 AM ET in New York examining how…

Kalshi’s crypto event contracts saw the largest single day volume record this week on July 15. Data from Artemis shows that on Wednesday, the prediction market platform notched up $217.98 million within this category. Volume across the crypto contracts on the platform have been on a steady climb ever since May and if you go back to the start of the year, the growth has been astronomical. From around $5 million in daily volume on Jan 1 to where we are at today, that represents a volume increase of roughly 44x in around seven months. This is happening at a…

Bitcoin peaked at over $126,000 last October, which now appears to be a lifetime ago since it trades below $65,000, representing a near 50% decline. Although this sounds pretty painful, and it is, especially for those who entered at $120,000+, the reality might be more positive. Here’s why. Is $BTC Doing Better? While most analysts are still focused on determining whether the cryptocurrency has bottomed yet or there’s another leg down in the cards, Michaël van de Poppe noted that the asset holds the 200-Week Moving Average and “refuses to drop deeper.” Moreover, he believes there’s not enough sell pressure…

Blackstone saw higher earnings than were expected on Wall Street in the second quarter, as gains from its AI holdings and record client inflows lifted the company’s assets under management to about $1.35 trillion. Blackstone says nine of its ten best-appreciating positions are tied to AI. Quarterly earnings beat consensus by wide margin The firm’s distributable earnings reached $1.52 a share, up from $1.21 in Q2 2025. Analysts polled by LSEG had penciled in $1.35, so the actual figures cleared consensus comfortably. Total revenue increased by 36% to $5.04 billion, while fee-related earnings at $1.43 a share equaled $1.78 billion.…

Cypherpunk Technologies (CYPH), a Nasdaq-listed Zcash treasury company, saw its shares fall more than 40% on Friday as investors reacted to the disclosure of a critical bug that was recently patched in the privacy-focused cryptocurrency. The ($ZEC) token itself also fell more than 50% during the selloff. The decline followed the disclosure of a counterfeiting vulnerability in Orchard, Zcash’s shielded pool. The bug could have been exploited to undetectably create an unlimited amount of counterfeit $ZEC tokens within Orchard, according to a post by Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn, Zcash co-founder and Shielded Labs head, alongside researchers Jason McGee and Taylor Hornby. The…

Addressing Regulatory Gaps Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has signed an executive order aimed at regulating virtual assets and cracking down on unregistered operators, the government announced on July 17. The order establishes a new oversight framework to harmonize a regulatory environment described by officials as increasingly fragmented. The measure takes effect immediately. Government officials said the order is designed to protect citizens from fraud, curb money laundering and prevent terrorism financing without adding unnecessary bureaucratic layers or dissolving the independent authority of existing financial bodies. “With relevant agencies operating in silos, overlapping in some areas and leaving gaps in others,…

Tether’s $USDT stablecoin continues to expand at a fast pace, with the company adding more than 30 million new wallets every quarter, according to CEO Paolo Ardoino. The steady growth rate has taken the platform’s total number of wallets to about 500 million. The growth has accelerated over the past year. In the third quarter of 2024, Tether recorded a 9% increase in new wallets, reaching 36.25 million additions during the period. Ardoino later revealed that by November 2025, the total number of $USDT wallets had climbed to around 500 million, with the majority of users located in developing countries.…

Bitcoin price traded near $64,000 on Monday, even as Asian equities and technology shares rose after fresh progress in U.S.-Iran talks. According to crypto.news data, Bitcoin traded at $64,188 at press time, with a 24-hour range between $63,232 and $64,543. The move left Bitcoin down about 2% on the week and still below the levels it held at the start of June. The price action looked stable, but not strong. Buyers defended the lower end of the range, yet $BTC failed to match the risk-on move seen across parts of Asia. Bitcoin fails to rally despite macro relief The macro…