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As the Bitcoin price trades nearly 49% below its all-time high, Strategy, the biggest corporate holder of Bitcoin led by Michael Saylor, has shared a stress test of its Bitcoin-focused capital structure, indicating the Bitcoin crash scenario where it will stay unaffected. In a recent X post, Strategy stated that at its current capital structure, Bitcoin could decline by 11.4% annually for 5.8 consecutive years, and it would still be able to fully fund its interest payments and preferred stock dividends while maintaining a 1.0x $BTC rating. At today’s capital structure, $BTC could fall 11.4% annually for 5.8 years, and…

General Updates BaneLabs shipped v0.6.2 of the Neo X go-ethereum client; upgrading from v0.6.1 is highly recommended, especially for MainNet node operators. The release’s headline addition is GovPaymaster, a system contract designed to improve the account abstraction experience on Neo X by enabling governance-controlled gas fee sponsorship. The update also introduces two behavior changes affecting validator policy and EVM execution, as well as three node improvements. Neo co-founder Erik Zhang published an article outlining a broader vision for OneGate, repositioning the Neo N3 wallet as a platform for decentralized identity, permissions, and digital rights rather than primarily a transaction tool.…

Robinhood Chain kept producing blocks through the outage reported on Friday. What stopped was its transaction data reaching Ethereum, for 14 minutes across two gaps. Posting those batches is what puts Robinhood Chain’s data where anyone can reconstruct the chain and check it, and what allows funds to leave for Ethereum. Robinhood Chain posts more of that data than any other network, so a delay in its batches is the largest single interruption the blob market can produce. Arbitrum said Ethereum’s blob market caused the delay. That fits the second gap, which began after the blob price rose past the…

Strategy says its current capital structure could withstand a prolonged Bitcoin decline while continuing to fund interest payments and preferred stock dividends. In a July 24 post on X, the company said Bitcoin could fall 11.4% each year for 5.8 consecutive years without pushing its company-defined $BTC Rating below 1.0x. At today’s capital structure, $BTC could fall 11.4% annually for 5.8 years, and Strategy could still fully fund interest and preferred dividends while maintaining a 1.0x $BTC Rating. $MSTR pic.twitter.com/NqL5ZTV9Gg — Strategy (@Strategy) July 25, 2026 The claim arrived as Bitcoin traded near $64,463 and Strategy shares closed at $91.67…

GoPlus Security’s native token, $GPS, gained over 50% in value during the day, drawing close attention to on-chain movements and the positions of large investors. In particular, a large-scale token transfer, reportedly linked to OKX Ventures, fueled speculation that selling pressure might follow the surge. According to on-chain data, OKX Ventures transferred 48.61 million $GPS to Binance about an hour ago, worth approximately $750,000. OKX Ventures is among the investors in GoPlus Security. It is stated that these tokens originated from key unlocks that occurred as part of the investment agreement. The fact that the transfer was made to Binance…

This article first appeared in Miner Weekly, a weekly newsletter by Blocksbridge Consulting curating the latest news in energy, compute, infrastructure, and data analysis from The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. Public miners analyzed by TheEnergyMag shed an estimated 56 EH/s of realized hashrate over the first half of 2026—a 15% contraction compared to the 10% drop across the Bitcoin network. Much of that power was not leaving compute altogether. It was being redirected toward the AI retrofit. The change has appeared in the income statement. Directly reported HPC and AI revenue among the comparable miners…

Chainlink reported over $340 billion in cumulative value of on-chain real-world assets as of September 4, 2026. An analysis by consulting firm McKinsey projects that the global tokenized asset market could reach between $2 trillion and $4 trillion by 2030. Records from the decentralized oracle network indicate prior technical collaborations and direct integrations with financial institutions such as J.P. Morgan and CME Group. Chainlink, the decentralized oracle network, confirmed this Friday that it has surpassed $340 billion in on-chain real-world assets. The network made the official announcement through a technical update across its institutional channels. This operational volume reflects the…

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says quantum computing does not pose an immediate threat to Bitcoin. However, he also stressed that the cryptocurrency industry must begin preparing now for a future in which sufficiently powerful quantum computers become a reality. In a post on X, Armstrong announced the launch of the Bitcoin Security Consortium, a new initiative backed by Coinbase alongside BlackRock, Fidelity Digital Assets, Block, Blockstream, Strategy and other major industry participants. The consortium aims to support the long-term security of the Bitcoin network and coordinate efforts to prepare the flagship cryptocurrency for the eventual arrival of quantum computers. The…

The Aug. 17 target date for starting Agave 4.2 mainnet feature activations arrived without a confirmed delivery update. Agave is Anza’s validator client for the Solana network. Anza’s v4.2 release schedule still shows Aug. 17 as the tentative start date but left the delivery field blank. The empty field does not prove a delay or rule out a later update. It means the target date alone cannot establish that a feature gate is live. Anza recommended Agave 4.2 for general mainnet adoption on Aug. 11. Its feature tracker separately continued to classify the first 4.2 slot-time gates as pending on…

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Climbs 1.31% At present, Bitcoin’s mining difficulty is 1.31% harder than it was before block 965664 and the two weeks that preceded that block. Difficulty today stands at 127.45 trillion, and the network has clocked a total of 18 distinct difficulty changes since January 2026. Essentially, Bitcoin’s difficulty system keeps block times steady, roughly around ten minutes per block, and rising and decreasing hashrate changes the setting. If blocks are mined too fast, due to increased hashrate, difficulty rises, and if the blocks are coming in too slow from less mining participation, then the difficulty will drop.…