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Core Scientific reported strong second-quarter revenue growth as AI colocation became its largest business, though a non-cash accounting charge resulted in a $1.15 billion net loss.
EthSystems, which spun out of the Ethereum Foundation earlier this month, is focused on building privacy infrastructure for banks and other financial institutions.
The central bank's draft rules require digital asset platforms to hold up to $2.8 million in liquid capital as a sweeping regulatory framework looms.
Hyperliquid is capitalizing on the volume and depth of its order book by giving firms the option to compose with the platform’s shared liquidity, rather than fragmenting it.
The upgrade retires Orchard, where a counterfeiting bug sat undetected for four years. Every coin inside now has to leave through a gate that caps withdrawals at verified deposits.
The asset manager is offering low-cost ETH and SOL exchange-traded products after its bitcoin fund topped $381 million in assets.

DeFi projects that survived the fallout from the Terra and FTX collapses in 2022 are dying out in 2026. But analysts say it’s not a case of industry consolidation — but the opposite.

Analysis warned of a repeat of the 2024 yen carry-trade unwind that pressured crypto markets ahead of the next Bank of Japan interest-rate meeting.

Blockaid found Ethereum remained the hardest-hit blockchain in H1 2026, while Solana replaced Arbitrum as the network with the second-highest losses, driven largely by key compromises.
The agreement accelerates Core Scientific’s pivot from bitcoin mining toward AI data centers, following the termination of its ASIC agreement with Block.
The New York Times says a quiet change to Binance's compliance rules is forcing international law enforcement to navigate slow-moving government treaties to get user data.

PayPal highlighted growth of stablecoins and AI-driven payment tools in Q2 while reporting $8.68 billion in revenue and an $81 million crypto-related earnings adjustment.

PayPal highlighted growth of stablecoins and AI-driven payment tools in Q2 while reporting $8.68 billion in revenue and an $81 million crypto-related earnings adjustment.
A lawsuit alleges Apple kept a fake bitcoin wallet app on its store after one user reported an $875,000 theft, leading to another user having roughly $840,000 stolen.
Your day-ahead look for July 28, 2026
BTC shed 2% as South Korea's Kospi plunged 11% and the U.S. Senate shelved the Clarity Act, leaving the market facing a pivotal Fed decision on Wednesday.

Decentralized exchange aggregator 1Inch announced the launch of its Aqua protocol allowing users to provide liquidity to many protocols at once.
Liquidity providers can keep assets in their own wallets, using one balance to back multiple positions without splitting capital across different pools.