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Zcash Price Blasts to $979 as Mining Power Hits Peak Levels On Thursday, $ZEC’s price soared to a new zenith, reaching $979 and rising nearly 17% during the last day. Over the past two weeks, $ZEC has risen 64.7%, and 30-day stats show an 88.1% rise against the U.S. dollar. Stretch it back to six months, and zcash rose around 353% higher. This constant surge in dollar value has fueled the Zcash hashrate, and Bitcoin.com News reported on the network coasting along at 27.87 GSol/s. Zcash Hashrate Coasts Along Near All-Time Highs GSol/s stands for gigasolutions per second as $ZEC’s…

For crypto investors considering a move abroad, the UAE offers more than a favorable tax environment. Its regulated digital-asset infrastructure and growing financial ecosystem can also make it an attractive base for crypto activity. The broader economy also supports this growing ecosystem. In its first quarter of 2026, real GDP reached AED 485 billion, or $132.1 billion. That represented 3% annual growth, while non-oil GDP rose 4.8% and accounted for 79.4% of total output. For investors, that shift matters, given that finance, technology, digital assets, and related services increasingly operate inside a larger non-oil economy. Personal Investing and Business Activity…

Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade, known formally as NU6.3, on July 28, 2026, at block height 3,428,143. The upgrade replaced Orchard, the network’s main privacy pool, with a new pool called Ironwood after researchers found a bug that could have let someone mint counterfeit $ZEC without leaving a public trace. Since activation, more than 1.2 million $ZEC has already moved into Ironwood, and the new pool has overtaken both Orchard and Sapling to become the largest shielded pool on the network. This is not a routine software patch. It is a full replacement of the cryptographic machinery that keeps Zcash’s…

Current Status: Extended Detention The central defendant in one of the Czech Republic’s highest‑profile crypto‑laundering cases, Tomáš Jiříkovský, has for the first time indicated he may cooperate with authorities. The shift came after a custody hearing at the Brno Municipal Court, where Judge Ivana Otrubová ordered that he remain in detention as the case proceeds. Jiříkovský—a programmer linked to darknet operations and money laundering—had consistently refused to speak with investigators. Even after securing favorable procedural rulings from the Constitutional Court regarding his detention, he refused to cooperate. However, prosecutor Lucie Šlamová reported a change in the defendant’s stance after the…

The National Stock Exchange’s (NSE) upcoming IPO is one of the most closely watched events in India’s market sector. NSE has been preparing for a listing that could be worth around ₹1.5-1.8 lakh crore (roughly $15.67 billion to $18.81 billion), expected to move forward after SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India) gives the green light. It was anticipated that NSE shares would be listed on BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange), bringing a big new wave of trading to it. However, the latest report that NSE might use the PTT (Permitted to Trade) mechanism to trade its shares on its own…

Cango said on September 3 that its EcoHash subsidiary had started commercial GPU computing at the Bitcoin miner’s Georgia facility. According to the company’s announcement, EcoHash completed modifications for a dedicated artificial-intelligence compute section and powered on an initial batch of servers. The update marks an operating launch, although Cango did not identify the first customer or disclose revenue from the service. Georgia Site Adds a 3-Megawatt AI Section The dedicated section sits within Cango’s owned 50-megawatt facility in Georgia and currently supports up to 3 megawatts of AI-compute capacity. Cango said the layout leaves room for expansion, but it…

Robinhood Chain revenue from applications totaled between $2.66 million and $2.82 million over a rolling 24-hour window early on Sept. 1, creating an eye-catching measure of network activity with no disclosed bridge to Robinhood’s corporate accounts. DefiLlama tracks application revenue, chain revenue and chain fees as separate layers. Its dashboard showed $963,612 of chain revenue on $1.07 million of chain fees during the same period. Public records provide no formula that turns either revenue figure into a Robinhood GAAP revenue line. The recipients also show where the app total went. DefiLlama’s revenue table placed trading bot GMGN first at about…

Bitwise’s Solana staking ETF has received approval from a major bank for customers to borrow up to 25% of their shares’ value, adding a lending function to the U.S.-listed crypto fund. Bitwise co-founder and CEO Hunter Horsley disclosed the approval in an Aug. 11 X post, saying the unnamed bank would let its customers borrow against shares of the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF under a maximum 25% loan-to-value ratio. A large bank just enabled clients borrowing up to 25% LTV on the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF $BSOL Awesome to see the continued integration of crypto into the mainstream. — Hunter…

$XRP price traded near $1.00 on Aug. 19 as new Q2 data showed rapid stablecoin and tokenized asset growth on the $XRP Ledger alongside weaker trading and user activity. The Blockworks State of $XRP report said XRPL-native stablecoin supply rose 195.4% during Q2 to $825.5 million. Reported tokenized real-world asset value increased 102.5% to a record $4.46 billion. Those infrastructure gains did not translate into a higher $XRP price. $XRP ended Q2 at $1.04, down 19.9%, before slipping closer to $1 during August. $XRP price remains fragile around the $1 support level $XRP price traded between approximately $0.994 and $1.01…

Congress gave agencies one year to write stablecoin rules. They missed it by four months and counting. The OCC expects a final rule by November, Tether still lacks a reciprocity determination, and the effective date keeps sliding. Congress wrote a law. Regulators missed the deadline to implement it. Now they are writing the rules anyway, on their own timeline, with their own interpretations. The $GENIUS Act was supposed to create certainty for stablecoin issuers by July 2026. Instead it created a gap: a signed statute without implementing regulations, leaving every issuer in the United States operating under a law whose…