Day: July 13, 2026

Blackrock now manages $2.93 billion in tokenized assets onchain, with Ethereum leading the pack ahead of Avalanche, Solana, and BNB Chain. A Multichain Footprint Anchored by BUIDL The bulk of Blackrock’s onchain assets sit in the Blackrock USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund (BUIDL), the tokenized money market fund it launched with issuance platform Securitize in […]

Attackers seized the official X accounts of SpaceXAI and Starlink on Sunday to promote a memecoin called Scam Altman (SCATMAN), which briefly touched a $32 million market cap on Robinhood Chain. Lookonchain noted the hacker minted 10 trillion tokens and dumped them for about $135,000 in ether. A Verified-Account Playbook Strikes Elon Musk’s Companies The […]

Bitcoin is trading around $63,000, down 2% over the last 24 hours, as the United States launched a third round of strikes on Iran and Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed “until further notice.” Brent crude surged 4.5% as weekend futures trading opened. Strikes Resume as the Ceasefire Collapses U.S. Central Command said its […]

The report stresses that “The Merge,” a foundational change in Ethereum’s consensus mechanism, reduced energy demand by 3.5 orders of magnitude, scaling down a network that required energy equivalent to a small nation-state like Iceland before the new proof-of-stake consensus change. Cambridge Center Highlights Ethereum Post-Merge Achievements in New Report Analysts are still scrutinizing the […]

South African mayor recently joined the metro police in a targeted night operation to impound luxury vehicles driven by self-proclaimed cryptocurrency and forex “traders” operating with fake or missing registrations. Luxury Seizures and Social Media Lures A crackdown on unregistered luxury vehicles in South Africa’s Cape Town has spotlighted the city’s growing battle against fraudulent […]

U.S. gross national debt crossed $39 trillion in mid-March, and debt held by the public stood at over $31 trillion. With the Congressional Budget Office projecting a $1.9 trillion deficit in fiscal 2026 and public debt rising to $56 trillion by 2036, Sen. Cynthia Lummis is pitching the proposed BITCOIN Act to have the Treasury […]

The institution announced that this measure targets the country’s shadow economy, which accounted for nearly 41% of its GDP by 2015. The Bank of Thailand is already applying the proposed checks on large cash transactions and on gold bullion movements, reducing volumes considerably. Bank of Thailand Targets Stablecoins Transactions in Gray Economy Crackdown The Bank […]

A hobbyist running a single Bitaxe device just won Bitcoin’s biggest lottery. On July 9, 2026, at approximately 03:30 UTC, a solo miner using a palm-sized Bitaxe device mined block 957382 through Public Pool, claiming the full 3.1382 BTC block reward. That includes the 3.125 BTC subsidy plus roughly 0.0132 BTC in transaction fees, worth […]