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Galaxy Digital has launched a planned $3.5 billion high-yield bond sale to help finance the expansion of its Helios data center campus in West Texas. According to a Bloomberg report, the digital assets and AI infrastructure company intends to use the proceeds from its first junk bond offering to finance part of the Helios Data Center Campus in Dickens County, Texas, while also funding debt service reserves tied to the project. The planned issuance adds Galaxy to a growing list of infrastructure developers using the U.S. high-yield debt market to fund large artificial intelligence projects. Bloomberg data shows developers have…

XRPL Foundation community lead Vet seized the market initiative by presenting a teaser for amendment XLS-0096, which brings native privacy to the $XRP Ledger. The teaser came against the backdrop of a massive collapse in the privacy-centered network Zcash, triggered by the discovery of a critical bug in the Orchard pool, which had existed unnoticed since May 2022. After the news broke, the price of $ZEC plunged 46% in just one day as the risk of hidden inflation triggered a full capitulation by major investors, including Arthur Hayes, who completely liquidated his $ZEC position. How $XRP’s latest amendment could solve…

Taiwan has sentenced the alleged mastermind behind the BitShine crypto exchange to 22 years in prison after finding he led a fraud and money laundering operation that prosecutors said caused more than NT$1.27 billion ($39 million) in losses to over 1,500 victims. Taiwan’s semi-official Central News Agency (CNA) reported that the Shilin District Court convicted the defendant, identified by the surname Shih, of illegally operating virtual asset services while orchestrating fraud and money laundering through the BitShine platform. Court findings said Shih led a criminal organization that used BitShine, a crypto exchange previously registered with Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC),…

J.P. Morgan’s JLTXX tokenized money market fund recently recorded the largest increase in market cap among tokenized U.S. Treasury funds over the past 30 days. This announcement comes from a tweet by Token Terminal, which underscores the growing interest in blockchain applications within traditional finance. For more details, see the original tweet here. The Key Development The broader crypto market is currently exhibiting mixed signals, with various assets showing differing momentum. However, the recent news regarding J.P. Morgan’s JLTXX fund highlights a significant trend in the tokenized asset space. The fund’s notable growth in market capitalization reflects increasing investor interest…

Bitway ($BTW) has emerged as one of the strongest-performing cryptocurrencies today after its price surged more than 233% in 24 hours, pushing the token to a new all-time high and drawing significant attention from traders. The rally saw $BTW climb from a 24-hour low of $0.01196 to as high as $0.04572 before pulling back slightly. At press time, the token was trading around $0.0399, still holding onto most of its gains despite the slight pullback. The sharp price increase was accompanied by a major jump in trading activity. Daily trading volume reached nearly $44.9 million, an unusually high figure for…

In one week of July 2025, the House passed three crypto bills. One is law. One is law by accident and the President will not sign it. The third has not had a Senate vote in 365 days, and it was supposed to be the important one. Washington called it Crypto Week. In a handful of days in July 2025, the House of Representatives passed three digital asset bills in succession, and the industry treated the sequence as the moment its lobbying decade finally paid. The CLARITY Act cleared 294-134 on July 17. The $GENIUS Act cleared 308-122 the same…

Introduction If you’re asking whether NFTs are dead, the honest answer is: much smaller than they were, but not zero. Monthly $NFT sales have fallen from over $1 billion at the 2021–22 peak to roughly $300 million as of early 2026 — a real and lasting contraction, not a rumor. At the same time, a genuine (if much smaller) market of collectors is still buying, selling, and holding digital art and collectibles. Whether NFTs are “dead,” “still a thing,” or somewhere in between mostly comes down to which part of that story you’re looking at. So, Are NFTs Dead? Not…

The privacy coin Zcash ($ZEC) has plummeted by 60% after the disclosure of a critical vulnerability. The bug could have allowed attackers to mint an infinite amount of counterfeit coins. The flaw, which sat undetected in the Orchard pool since May 2022, was recently exposed by a security researcher utilizing Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 AI model. Claude’s powerful model On May 29, security engineer Taylor Hornby discovered the critical counterfeiting vulnerability in Zcash’s Orchard pool during a targeted review using the newly released Opus 4.8 model. The vulnerability involved an under-constrained element of the Orchard circuit, allowing arbitrary false inputs…

The lack of an ethics provision remains one of the biggest sticking points. Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), one of two Democrats who voted to advance the bill out of the Senate Banking Committee, has repeatedly said he will not support the legislation on the Senate floor without a bipartisan ethics provision. Other Democrats have raised similar concerns over conflicts of interest involving public officials and digital assets. As of Friday, there had been no public readout from Thursday’s White House meeting, and no bipartisan ethics language had emerged, leaving one of the bill’s largest obstacles unresolved. If passed, the Clarity…

Although the landscape is quietly and slowly improving, the spot exchange-traded funds tracking bitcoin’s performance ended the week once again in the red. Ethereum’s negative trend was also extended, as the funds behind the two largest cryptocurrencies haven’t seen a single week in the green in a month and a half. Bitcoin ETFs in Red (Again) Even Monday recorded substantial net outflows, with $64.09 million leaving the $BTC ETFs. This was somewhat surprising since the cryptocurrency’s price actually rose past $67,000 on that date, fueled by optimism from the deal announced by US President Trump between his country and Iran.…