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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.…

$XRP Branding Arrives at Florida Field Florida Athletics, the University of Florida’s intercollegiate sports program known as the Florida Gators, announced the multiyear sponsorship on Sept. 4, bringing Ripple’s $XRP branding to Ben Hill Griffin Stadium beginning with the 2026 football season. The agreement also covers Florida Athletics’ digital properties and event signage while extending financial and technology education to student-athletes and the broader campus community. University of Florida Athletic Director Scott Stricklin stated: “This partnership brings together two organizations that think boldly about the future, and we look forward to introducing $XRP to our fans.” An Associated Press report…

The past seven days followed a familiar pattern. Buyers stepped in after last month’s drop to $57,700, driving bitcoin from $64,700 on July 19 to a high of $66,910 on July 21. Sellers then took over, pulling the price back into the low $64,000s by July 25. Bitcoin’s market capitalization held near $1.28 trillion to $1.3 trillion throughout most of the week. The net move stayed close to flat, with bitcoin down about 1% on some weekly readings, even as the broader July recovery from the year’s low remains in double digits. A Week of Failed Breakouts Daily trading data…