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Altura has announced that the account holding the cash that is meant for the last round of payouts from its stablecoin vault has been temporarily restricted by the bank. The DeFi yield protocol wrote, “The situation is entirely outside of our control, and there is no further action we can take until we receive an update from the bank,” which is a confirmation that the restriction is delaying a wind-down of its treasury that started in June. What did Altura say happened? Before the freeze, Altura had already lined up the final step, which was an over-the-counter (OTC) deal to…

Blockchain Moves Beyond the Crypto Hype Digital assets are moving from speculative markets into the infrastructure used to issue assets, transfer money, and settle financial transactions, according to CNBC and Statista’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2026, an annual survey of leading financial technology businesses across eight industry segments. Forty companies were recognized in the digital assets category, which highlights businesses developing blockchain infrastructure and related financial services. The category represented 8% of the companies included in this year’s list. Ripple celebrated the recognition in an X post on July 22, saying the achievement reflects years of building customer relationships and…

Crypto analyst and long-time Cardano supporter Dan Gambardello has revealed that he diversified part of his portfolio away from Cardano into altcoins like $SUI. His disclosure comes at a difficult moment for Cardano. $ADA recently plunged to a multi-year low below $0.16 amid the broader crypto market collapse, as tensions within the ecosystem continue to intensify. Key Points Dan Gambardello revealed that he diversified part of his crypto portfolio away from Cardano into altcoins like $SUI. Gambardello clarified that he still holds $ADA despite reallocating part of his portfolio. Cardano faces growing ecosystem pressure and internal tensions, with TapTools recently…

Aurora Labs has launched native cross-chain funding for Solflare wallets through Aurora Intents, allowing users to move assets from Bitcoin, Ethereum and other leading blockchains directly into Solana without interacting with traditional bridge interfaces. Aurora Intents is powered by $NEAR Intents, which settles more than $23 billion in total transaction volume and processes over $2.3 billion each month. The integration introduces permanent deposit addresses for each supported blockchain and token. According to the projects, users simply transfer assets to the assigned address, while Aurora Intents automatically manages cross-chain routing, liquidity sourcing and token conversion using $NEAR Intents infrastructure before delivering…

Strategy chairman Michael Saylor makes a passionate plea to the Bitcoin community as the cryptocurrency enters its next phase of global adoption. According to Saylor, there is significant cohesion in the Bitcoin community, with most agreeing on nearly everything: Bitcoin’s values and ethos, even its origin. Saylor noted that Bitcoin holders agree on the larger part that matters. “Bitcoiners agree on the 99% that matters,” Saylor wrote, but there is a nuance: the remaining 1% seems to be creating a divide. Bitcoiners agree on the 99% that matters. We shouldn’t let the 1% divide us while nearly all global capital…

Japan could launch its first Bitcoin exchange-traded fund as early as 2028 as regulators prepare rules that would allow investment trusts and ETFs to hold crypto assets directly. A July 23 Nikkei report said the Financial Services Agency plans to revise investment-fund rules after lawmakers approved amendments that bring crypto assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act framework. The change moves Japan toward treating crypto as a financial investment product rather than regulating it mainly as a payment asset. Meanwhile, the legal change does not mean a Bitcoin ETF can launch immediately. Japan still needs detailed rules and changes…

Cardano ($ADA), which was once viewed as one of the main Ethereum (ETH) competitors, has experienced a dramatic market sell-off. It has now plunged below the $0.16 mark for the first time since December 2020. This comes after founder Charles Hoskinson revealed that he was “taking a break” from the project while warning that the Cardano ecosystem could soon face a “wave of failures.” Hoskinson’s warning Hoskinson is concerned about a slew of project shutdowns as well as some funding challenges. According to blockchain analytics firm Santiment Intelligence, Hoskinson’s bombshell statement has transformed Cardano into one of the most widely…

The Cardano Foundation announced a partnership with Reef Data eG on July 28, backed by Hamburger Volksbank, ARIC, VALIO, and Disruptive Elements. Reef plans to pool members’ personal data, license it to businesses, and pay royalties back to contributors. Cardano’s Reeve system sits at the accounting layer, recording payment flows and royalty distributions, and the underlying data stays elsewhere. The European Commission Joint Research Centre identifies six models of data intermediary: personal-information management systems, data cooperatives, data trusts, data unions, data marketplaces and>a regulatory backbone, requiring recognized providers to register with national authorities and appear in a public list. That…

Bitcoin traded near $64,000 on Sunday after recovering part of Friday’s sell-off, but the rebound has not yet changed the wider range. According to crypto.news market data, Bitcoin traded around $64,008, up 0.87% over 24 hours. The page showed a 24-hour range between $63,188 and $64,462, with daily volume above $16.6 billion. Bitcoin’s seven-day move stayed slightly negative, showing that the weekend bounce only repaired part of the damage. The move kept traders focused on the $62,000 support area. A clear break below that zone could weaken short-term sentiment, while a move above $67,000 would give bulls a stronger relief…

Tokenized equities are moving from pilot programs into live trading, but the market infrastructure that makes equities coherent — corporate actions, entitlements, reference data and settlement — isn’t built for assets that trade continuously across multiple venues. Earlier this year, Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange received SEC approval to list tokenized versions of Russell 1000 stocks and major index ETFs, and DTCC has now begun limited production trades with a full commercial launch targeted for October. More than 50 firms participated in the trial, underscoring that the technology is ready — but the systems behind public markets may…