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Digital Asset Raises $365M for Canton Blockchain With Shinhan, SC Ventures

Digital Asset expanded its funding round to $365 million after securing $10 million from Shinhan Financial Group and Sta...

Jul 22, 2026, 04:06 PM
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Cardano Activates Van Rossem Hard Fork to Protocol Version 11

Cardano completed the Van Rossem hard fork, advancing the blockchain to protocol version 11 through its governance frame...

Jul 22, 2026, 12:17 AM
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Cardano Network Advances Decentralization, Spurs Token Rally

Cardano has implemented new measures to advance network decentralization, prompting renewed buying interest in ADA. The ...

Jul 21, 2026, 05:07 AM
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Avalanche Faces $23M Token Unlock Amid 20-Fold Transaction Surge

Avalanche's daily transaction count grew to 6.2 million from 300,000 over the past year as network activity accelerated....

Jul 20, 2026, 06:11 PM
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Saylor Opposes Bitcoin BIP-110 Proposal Over Censorship Concerns

MicroStrategy chairman Michael Saylor publicly opposed Bitcoin improvement proposal BIP-110, citing concerns the change ...

Jul 20, 2026, 06:07 PM
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Tokenized Deposits: How Banks Are Moving Money to Blockchain

Tokenized deposits allow banks to issue digital representations of their customer balances directly on blockchain networ...

Jul 20, 2026, 03:07 PM
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LayerZero Token Slides 4% Ahead of 25.7M ZRO Unlock

LayerZero's ZRO token fell 3% Monday, extending a 9% weekly decline ahead of a 25.7 million token unlock representing 4....

Jul 20, 2026, 03:06 PM
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Michael Saylor Opposes BIP-110 Bitcoin Spam Cleanup Proposal

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor criticized proposal BIP-110, which would temporarily block spam data from the Bitcoin blo...

Jul 20, 2026, 02:06 AM
BitcoinMichael Saylor
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Zcash Schedules July 28 Hard Fork to Seal Orchard Pool

Zcash will execute a hard fork on July 28, called Ironwood, to seal the Orchard shielded pool and contain a potential co...

Jul 19, 2026, 01:10 PM
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a16z: Institutional Adoption Requires Different Blockchain Design Than DeFi

Andreessen Horowitz published research Friday arguing that blockchain adoption by traditional finance institutions requi...

Jul 19, 2026, 01:02 AM
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Ethereum's Transaction Burn Collapses as Activity Migrates to Layer 2s

Ethereum's daily transaction burn has declined sharply as user activity migrates to Layer 2 scaling solutions, undermini...

Jul 19, 2026, 12:01 AM
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Robinhood Chain DEX Activity Trails Solana by Wide Margin on Launch

Robinhood Chain launched and briefly ranked third among decentralized exchanges, but on-chain metrics show a substantial...

Jul 18, 2026, 09:02 PM
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