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Bitcoin’s [$BTC] long-term holders (LTH) are beginning to change their behavior. This comes after accumulating at record levels, signaling a possible shift in the current cycle. LTH supply recently turned lower after climbing toward 16 million $BTC, while short-term holder supply remained comparatively subdued. This trend is similar to previous cycles of LTH supply curves, which reflect how early on experienced investors sell part of their portfolios when prices rise. That said, this cycle has developed differently. The first major price run-up was about 31 months long, compared to 8, 17, and 16 months from previous cycles. Source: CryptoQuant Continued…

Ethereum [$ETH] is reconsidering how it scales as the growing amount of network data makes running a full node increasingly demanding. As accounts and smart contracts expand, full execution nodes now require roughly 0.9 to 1.3 TB of storage. Moreover, baseline state growth can approach 100 GB annually, meaning higher throughput could make running nodes progressively more demanding. This explains why Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin is looking beyond simply processing more transactions and towards reducing what nodes must retain. Source: X On a post on X, he credited Bitcoin developers for Utreexo, a system that lets nodes store far less data.…

Something snapped in global markets on Tuesday, and AI fears were right at the center of it. Bitcoin dropped 2.7% to around $63,200 after the U.S. market close, dragged lower as a wave of selling swept through Asian tech stocks on concerns about whether the world’s massive bet on artificial intelligence infrastructure can actually hold up. The sell-off wasn’t just a crypto story — it hit semiconductors, futures, and chipmakers from Seoul to Amsterdam. Key takeaways Bitcoin fell 2.7% to around $63,200 after the U.S. market close; Ether, $XRP, and Solana also declined. South Korea’s Kospi plunged over 10%, with…

General Updates Neo released Neo-CLI v3.10.1, a patch update that sets the Gorgon hard fork activation heights, targeting TestNet on approximately July 24 and MainNet on Aug. 1. The release also fixes an RPC wallet bug that was breaking ordinary transfers since v3.10.0 was deployed to MainNet on June 26. BitGo integrated the Neo X network, making institutional-grade custody and wallet services available for the EVM-compatible sidechain. Neo Global Development announced the integration on July 7. Through the integration, institutional clients can now custody and manage Neo X assets using BitGo’s multi-signature wallet infrastructure. NGD stated the integration is aimed…

The CFTC is putting prediction market operators on notice: too many of them are filing incentive programs that don’t hold up to scrutiny, and some of those programs could be quietly encouraging the exact kind of trading behavior regulators are supposed to catch. In fresh guidance issued Wednesday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission warned that cftc prediction markets oversight is running into a growing pile of paperwork that’s either incomplete or built around risky trading incentives. CFTC Enhances Guidance on Prediction Market Compliance The core message from the regulator is simple: firms trying to juice trading volume through rewards…

Changxin Memory Technology (CXMT) is set to expand its influence for crypto traders, as Binance prepares to launch a contract based on the A-list stock. After an $8.6B IPO, CXMT trading heated up on Hyperliquid. Changxin Memory Technology will start trading on Binance from August 18 onward, with a contract settled in USDT. CXMT is the most prominent stock contract from the latest wave of equity offers on Binance Futures. The listing of CXMT follows the earlier expansion of contracts, where Binance Futures also added SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics. In August, Binance Futures accelerated the listing of equities contracts,…

Fortitude Mining, Digital Currency Group’s Zcash-focused miner, bought a 9.4% stake in Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences for about $1 million, giving its proposed merger partner cash for operating expenses while shareholder approval remains pending. The Aug. 12 private placement covered 411,522 HeartSciences common shares at $2.43 each. A beneficial ownership filing put Fortitude’s exact cash outlay at $999,998.46 and its post-purchase stake at approximately 9.4%. HeartSciences said the price represented a 22% premium to its closing share price on the purchase date. The target said it would use the net proceeds for operating expenses before the proposed combination closes, making the transaction…

Cryptocurrency asset management company Hashdex announced its decision to close and liquidate the Hashdex Bitcoin ETF (NYSE Arca: DEFI), which was traded in the US. With the completion of this decision, DEFI will be the first spot Bitcoin ETF to be shut down in the US. According to documents the company filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the value of assets under management by the fund was approximately $14.7 million as of July 30, 2026. Hashdex’s total assets managed in other products offered to U.S. investors exceed $200 million. Hashdex announced that the decision to liquidate was…

The digital assets sector isn’t receiving much interest from wealthy asset holders across Asia. While high-net-worth clients in Malaysia and Singapore are still holding onto crypto assets in their portfolios, they are directing new funds towards gold, bank deposits, or alternative financial investments. Cryptocurrency investment funds have suffered their highest outflows of 2026 at the same time when gold registered its best quarter ever, which could point to investors behaving much more defensively than before. Instead of selling digital assets completely, they seem to be opting for postponing purchasing cryptocurrencies in favor of more traditional safe havens. Where the fresh…

R3E Network released v2.1.0 of NeoRust, a production-hardening update to the Rust SDK for Neo N3 and Neo X that focuses on making failures explicit and recoverable. The update, published on July 10, arrives less than a month after the breaking v2.0.0 release on June 17, which introduced unified error types and builder patterns. NeoRust is maintained by Jimmy Liao, Neo core developer and R3E Network founder. The SDK, distributed as the neo3 crate on crates.io, provides a high-level API for building applications on Neo N3 and Neo X, covering wallet management, smart contract interaction, NEP-17 token operations, and transaction…