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The Glamsterdam upgrade is planned for the second half of 2026. In an X post, $SSV Network said developers are working toward Q4, although Ethereum has not confirmed a mainnet date. The planned changes could reshape block production, prepare parallel processing and update network costs. Ethereum’s official roadmap uses the broader H2 2026 window. Final specifications, client readiness, security reviews and public-testnet results would determine when the upgrade reaches mainnet. Ethereum’s next upgrade has a practical constraint:Fit more work into a 12-second slot without pushing home operators out.It is called Glamsterdam.Gloas covers the consensus side while Amsterdam covers the execution…

Something shifted in markets on Wednesday morning — and it wasn’t just a routine pullback. Wall Street futures declined ahead of one of the most closely watched earnings days of the season, with Alphabet and Tesla both set to report after the closing bell. The technology sector’s strong momentum from the prior session stalled almost instantly, raising a pointed question: was Tuesday’s rally a genuine recovery, or simply borrowed time before the numbers arrive? Key takeaways Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.8%, S&P 500 futures dropped 0.3%, and Dow Jones contracts edged down 0.2% in early Wednesday trading. Alphabet’s earnings are…

Coinbase Ventures (@cbventures) bought $ENA, the governance token of the synthetic-dollar protocol Ethena (@ethena), directly on the open market on June 2, marking its first disclosed investment of this kind in the project. The purchase landed alongside a partnership that will push Ethena’s onchain savings products to Coinbase’s 100 million plus users, with the first product launching the week of June 8. For a venture arm built almost entirely on private early-stage rounds, buying a live token on the secondary market is unusual, and it is worth examining what Coinbase is buying and why. What Coinbase Actually Bought Coinbase Ventures…

TL;DR:$IOTA is now connected to Pyth Pro, Pyth’s institutional-grade price feed infrastructure, with lower latency, 3,000+ feeds. Part of a network-wide shift by Pyth, not $IOTA-specific. Developers on Pyth Core must migrate by August 18 or feeds stop working. A major upgrade in the price feed infrastructure of Pyth, the decentralized oracle network, is arriving for $IOTA users. $IOTA L1 is now connected to Pyth Pro, the next generation of Pyth’s price feed infrastructure, bringing lower latency, higher reliability, and a broader range of institutional-grade data to developers building on $IOTA. What’s changing Pyth has already been powering real-time price…

A Cash-Flow Problem, Not a Crypto Problem In a podcast with journalist Laura Shin, Grayscale’s head of research (who posts on X as LowBeta) argued that Strategy’s preferred-equity obligations are best understood “as a cash flow issue, not a crypto issue,” adding: “ Bitcoin produces no yield. If the price doesn’t go up, there are only two ways to pay the coupon, and neither is clean.” His distinction is important to note, given Strategy has marketed itself as a pure bitcoin proxy. But the bills it now owes are denominated in dollars and due on a schedule, regardless of where…

The Ethereum price is showing signs of strength after defending a key support zone near $1,850. Currently, $ETH is trading around $1,912, remaining within an ascending channel that has guided price action throughout the second half of July. While the recent rejection near $1,970 temporarily halted bullish momentum, Ethereum has avoided a deeper correction by maintaining higher lows. The coming sessions could prove decisive as price approaches a confluence of trendline resistance and horizontal supply. Ethereum Maintains Bullish Market Structure Despite Recent Pullback Since rebounding from the mid-July lows, $ETH has continued to respect an ascending channel, consistently forming higher…

“I don’t have any real political insights, but I expect that there is sufficient momentum behind this,” said Paul via WhatsApp. “And I believe that since this is now in the remit of the HM Treasury, Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority, it doesn’t require much political intervention to proceed. If anything, I think this might support increased demand for U.K. debt at a convenient time for the U.K. government.” Changing capital flows Paul said moving sovereign debt onchain changes how capital flows through the financial system, making it more than a back-office adjustment. Natively digital bonds allow…

Buried deep within Ripple’s developer documentation sits a page that, until recently, drew little attention outside engineering and payments compliance circles. The page lists bank identifiers, featuring short numeric codes used to route international payments, organized by country and, in some cases, by individual financial institutions. Before now, the document served a narrow purpose. Notably, it helps payment operators configure beneficiary details correctly when sending cross-border transactions. Then the $XRP community discovered it. Soon after, screenshots spread rapidly across social media. Commentators pointed to the sheer size of the list as evidence of something much larger. WOW! 💥 RIPPLE has…

Rand Hindi, CEO of the fully homomorphic encryption firm Zama, said the company reached 1,000 confidential transfers per second on GPUs, a self-reported benchmark he described as a milestone for the privacy technology. Fully homomorphic encryption, or FHE, lets computations run on encrypted data without decrypting it, a method Zama applies to confidential token transfers on public blockchains. Hindi posted the figures on X on Monday. Zama has not activated the performance on any live network. Hindi said the 1,000 tps figure is up from 0.2 tps when the company first demoed an FHE smart contract at ETHcc in 2022,…

Daily Chart The bounce off $59,000 produced a string of higher lows on the daily chart, and the price now consolidates between $63,000 and $64,000. Trading volume spiked during the capitulation phase and has since pulled back, a pattern that often points to fading panic selling rather than fresh distribution. On the daily timeframe, resistance sits at $64,500 and again near $66,500, with major resistance layered at $67,000 to $68,000. $BTC/USD daily chart via Bitstamp on June 20, 2026. Support holds at $62,000 to $63,000, with major support at $59,000 to $60,000. The recovery structure stays intact as long as…