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Zcash core developer announced that the Zcash testnet will be updated for the Ironwood upgrade tomorrow. Shielded Labs also confirmed that Zcash’s Ironwood upgrade is moving as per the plan, as security is its “primary concern.” Ironwood upgrade will introduce a new shielded pool in order to fix a major counterfeiting bug found inside the Orchard shielded pool. In the latest post shared on X (formerly Twitter), core Zcash developer Dev has revealed that the Zcash testnet is being updated for the Ironwood upgrade tomorrow. According to a post shared on X, the update has two independently developed consensus implementations,…

President Donald Trump has strengthened support for a new UK-US stablecoin framework as the Senate races to advance the CLARITY Act despite growing opposition from banking groups over its stablecoin provisions. According to a joint statement released through the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future, the United Kingdom and the United States have agreed that properly regulated stablecoins can improve cross-border payments, financial market infrastructure, and competition while providing businesses with more consistent regulatory treatment across both jurisdictions. UK and US have aligned on core stablecoin standards Created in September 2025, the Transatlantic Taskforce for Markets of the Future…

Binance is not the first to bring up the idea of a super app. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said his platform envisioned eventually becoming a “super app” in 2023, like Chinese tech giant Tencent’s WeChat, currently the largest in such app the world with 1.4 billion users. In 2025, Armstrong reiterated Coinbase’s long-term goal to be a financial super app, offering crypto alongside many other financial services. Jan’s comments come as banks and payment firms increasingly embrace stablecoins as settlement infrastructure rather than simply a crypto trading tool and financial institutions expand their digital asset strategies. Binance, Jan said, has…

Cronos, an EVM-compatible L1 chain, launched $EURC, $USDC, and the Cross-Chain Transfer Protocol (CCTP) of the U.S.-based fintech entity Circle. The rollout denotes a notable landmark for the network as it readies for the Cronos app’s upcoming debut. As Cronos disclosed in its official announcement, it is the earliest blockchain ecosystem to unveil all 3 Circle-backed products at the same time. The respective integration is poised to deliver consumers, institutions, and developers with seamless access to fully compliant stablecoin infrastructure. Native $USDC is live on @CronosNetworkRegulated. Backed 1:1.The foundation the Cronos app runs on, so deposits just work.https://t.co/Gb0kwNYEO4 — Cronos…

Cryptocurrency options trading platform BIT (formerly Matrixport) has projected that Bitcoin’s implied volatility (IV) could decline below the 30% threshold this summer, a development that historically has favored sellers of options contracts. The forecast, shared by the platform’s research team, draws on observed patterns from the summers of 2023 and 2025, when BTC implied volatility similarly dipped below that level. Historical Patterns and Market Mechanics Implied volatility is a key metric in options pricing, reflecting the market’s expectation of future price fluctuations. When IV falls, options premiums—the price buyers pay for contracts—also tend to decrease. BIT’s analysis indicates that if…

Uniswap has officially submitted three governance proposals for protocol fee activation across several chains and different versions of the DEX. The first fee proposal will be for versions 2 (V2) and 3 (V3) on the Robinhood chain. The new Ethereum L2 debuted this month, attracting several DEXes, including Uniswap. About 10 days after launch, Uniswap crossed $1B in trading volume – ultimately showing its growing traction. Similarly, the project seeks to activate fees on V4 across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Robinhood, BNB Chain, Polygon and Optimism. Hayden Adams, Uniswap’s CEO, added that a third fee proposal for remaining V4 chains will…

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi wants you to know two things: his company is absolutely going public, and it’s absolutely not happening this year. The distinction matters when you’re sitting on a $134 billion valuation and watching a flood of tech companies elbow each other for investor attention. Ghodsi made the announcement on June 4, calling 2026 a “terrible year to go public” due to an oversaturated IPO market. The company, which builds data and AI infrastructure for enterprises, has been teasing a public listing for months. A company that doesn’t need the money Here’s the thing about Databricks: it doesn’t…

Alaskans who were scammed by Bitcoin Depot kiosks have until July 21, 2026, to ask for a share of the company’s bankruptcy estate. The Alaska Department of Law made a note of the deadline. Cash-to-crypto kiosks were operated nationwide and in Alaska by Bitcoin Depot Operating LLC. The business filed for bankruptcy at the Southern District of Texas U.S. Bankruptcy Court. Anyone deceived by the machines is advised by Alaska’s Consumer Protection Unit to verify their eligibility before the court deadline, which is currently approaching. For a state the size of Alaska, the losses are severe. Last year, the FBI’s…

Traders on Hyperliquid, the onchain exchange that settles the largest share of crypto perpetual futures volume, are trading more money through builder-deployed markets for stocks, commodities and indices than through the platform’s native crypto contracts. Those builder markets, deployed under Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 framework, generated $5.41 billion in notional volume, or 51.8% of the $10.44 billion traded across the exchange, according to data from Hyperliquid’s API queried by The Defiant on Tuesday. Native crypto perps, led by Bitcoin at $2.69 billion and Ether at $1.27 billion, accounted for the other $5.03 billion. Builder markets first outtraded native crypto over a full…

No. There is no official Robinhood Chain token, there is no airdrop, and there is no snapshot. Every token currently claiming that association is either a joke that admits it or a trap that does not. Ask the internet whether Robinhood Chain has a token and you will get a hundred confident answers, most of them wrong and several of them designed to be. The correct answer is short: no. Robinhood launched its blockchain on July 1, 2026 and did not issue a native token with it. What exists instead is a chain that runs on ether, a company stock…