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      <title><![CDATA[Yield-Bearing Crypto ETFs Just Got a 15% Buffer From the SEC]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The three-exchange rule change removes the requirement that commodity-based trusts track an index and lets them run active strategies, opening the door to covered-call and premium-income products.]]></description>
      <author>Sarah Blake</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[KSNET Signed 330,000 Korean Merchants Onto Solana Pay]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The MOU covers a payment network moving $4 billion a month and includes a proof-of-concept for x402, the HTTP standard that lets AI agents settle transactions on their own.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Six Months of CME Futures Put Cardano in the SEC's 75-Day ETF Lane]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[CME launched ADA futures on 9 February; the six-month observation period closes on 9 August. Grayscale, Bitwise and four other filers can then activate spot Cardano ETF applications with an October decision deadline.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[BitGo's CEO Put 100 Bitcoin in a Public Wallet and Dared Claude to Take It]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The wallet has held exactly 100 BTC since 31 July. Mike Belshe posted the address as a rebuttal to Anthropic's disclosure that three Claude models slipped their test environments and reached real production systems.]]></description>
      <author>Jessica Miles</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Zhibao Signed Over Board Control for a 2,380-Bitcoin PIPE]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Ten investor entities each committing 238 BTC would take four of five board seats and pick the new CEO if Zhibao can find another 41 million shares to authorise.]]></description>
      <author>Aubrey Swanson</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Aave Proposes Cutting Six Chains and 50 Reserves in $98M Cleanup]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The V3 deployments listed for wind-down (Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium and Aptos) each earn Aave under $5,000 a quarter, and the same governance recommendation would erase $98.1 million of supplied assets from the books.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[IREN Raised Its AI Cloud Target to $4 Billion After Selling Out]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The bitcoin miner signed $2.8 billion in cloud contracts across three weeks, from Microsoft to Figure AI, and the chief executive now says even 480 megawatts by year-end will not cover the pipeline.]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Treasury Blocked Iran's Bitcoin-Priced Hormuz Insurance Scheme]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Two IRGC-linked entities and eight shadow-fleet tankers were designated on 29 July, cutting the digital rail Tehran opened in May to charge Strait of Hormuz tolls in bitcoin and USDT.]]></description>
      <author>Jessica Miles</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Warsh Wants Fewer FOMC Meetings and a Decision Before September]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Fed chair asked officials to submit written views on shrinking a calendar that has held eight meetings a year since Paul Volcker set it in 1981. Six is the number circulating in Washington.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Galaxy Flags Third Coldcard Wave as Losses Climb to 1,367 Bitcoin]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The third sweep, spanning Friday to Saturday, split roughly 208 BTC across 293 separate P2WSH vaults — a shape change that made it far harder to trace than the first two.]]></description>
      <author>Oliver Bradford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shopify Made Arbitrum Its Fifth Chain for USDC Checkout]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Merchants can settle in USDC or local currency; buyers pay from 480 supported wallets with no gas fees. The chain roster is still EVM-only, with Base at the centre.]]></description>
      <author>Sarah Blake</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Uniswap's v4 Fee Switch Is Live on Seven Chains at $325K a Day]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Proposal 100 takes roughly one-sixth of every swap fee and routes it into UNI burns. Liquidity providers keep their yields intact.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Strategy Now Holds 846,000 Bitcoin After an $8.2 Billion Q2 Loss]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The unrealised loss reflects the gap between Strategy's $75,578 average cost and quarter-end bitcoin prices near $58,700. STRC preferred grew to $10.5 billion notional.]]></description>
      <author>Oliver Bradford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Morgan Stanley Priced Ether and Solana ETPs at 0.14 Per Cent]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[MSSE and MSOL match Morgan Stanley's bitcoin trust on fee. Both funds will stake a portion of their tokens and route the rewards back to investors.]]></description>
      <author>William Dale</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Institutional Desks Are Buying More Crypto and Trading Fewer Tokens]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Wintermute's mid-year report shows institutional counterparties handled 72 per cent of its spot OTC volume in H1 2026. The universe of tokens they touched grew only 24 per cent in two years against 76 per cent for retail.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Bitcoin Spot ETFs Are on Pace for Their Weakest Month on Record]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The July total sits at $205 million in net inflows, less than Ether funds have pulled in the same weeks. BlackRock's new staked ETH product drew $100 million on day one.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[MiCA Already Treats DeFi Vault Curators as Fund Managers]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce says onchain vaults may fall inside US securities law. Europe wrote that answer a year ago: curators making allocation calls over pooled deposits are asset managers, and MiCA already says so.]]></description>
      <author>Oliver Bradford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[594 Bitcoin Left 500 Coldcard Wallets in a 25-Minute Sweep]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[A 2021 firmware bug quietly gutted seed entropy on Mk3 devices, and an attacker who noticed swept the lot before dawn. Coinkite says Mk4, Q and Mk5 look safe on early analysis.]]></description>
      <author>William Dale</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[MoonPay's PayBox Gives ChatGPT and Claude a Non-Custodial Wallet]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The vault runs on Sodot's MPC key infrastructure, the Israeli firm MoonPay bought for roughly $100 million in April, and settles through the x402 payment standard that Coinbase built and gave away to the Linux Foundation.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hungary Voted 143 to 46 to Kill Its Own Crypto Validator Regime]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The National Bank of Hungary handed Budapest-based CoinCash the country's first MiCA authorisation the same week, letting a market the previous government had almost emptied begin to reopen.]]></description>
      <author>Sarah Blake</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Three Bridges Lost $35 Million in Six Hours and AFX Trade Took the Worst]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Attackers hit three cross-chain systems in a six-hour window. AFX Trade lost $24 million from a compromised USDC custody bridge; Verus and B² Network gave up another $11.4 million between them.]]></description>
      <author>Oliver Bradford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[BitMEX Is Closing the Exchange That Invented the Perpetual Swap]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[HDR Global Trading told users the exchange will sunset on 23 September, and any KYC-verified balances left on the platform after that pay $50 a month or 1% of the balance a year, whichever bites harder.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Galaxy Put Up to $5 Million Behind Bitcoin's Quantum Defence]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The Nasdaq-listed firm's programme funds migration tooling, post-quantum signature work and formal audits, with an advisory council of academics from Calgary, MIT and Boston University. Applications open immediately.]]></description>
      <author>Tom Chen</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vietnam Set Crypto Fines Up to $3,800 for Trading Off Licensed Rails]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Decree 284/2026 puts individual penalties on retail investors for the first time and takes effect on 1 September, hardening a pilot regime that until now had no consequences attached.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Tether's Three-Way Bitcoin Merger Died and Mallers Went Back to Strike]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Twenty One Capital lost around 14% on Tuesday and its co-founder handed the CEO seat to Raphael Zagury, a Wall Street operator whose message to investors sounds nothing like Mallers'.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[XXI Shares Fell 18% After Mallers Quit and Strike Left the Merger]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The three-way bitcoin combination Tether spent months engineering has been cut down to a possible Twenty One-Elektron Energy pairing, and Twenty One's $2.9 billion BTC treasury is now run by Raphael Zagury.]]></description>
      <author>James Gray</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ostium's Oracle Signed Off on $18 Million of Manufactured Profit]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The attacker held a registered price-feed forwarder and pushed future-dated reports through the vault. Roughly 10,540 ETH has since gone through Tornado Cash.]]></description>
      <author>Aubrey Swanson</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Citadel Securities Put $400 Million Into Crypto.com at a $20 Billion Mark]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The first institutional round Crypto.com has taken in ten years, and the cash is earmarked for tokenised securities and derivatives, the parts of the exchange most exposed to Wall Street's arrival.]]></description>
      <author>Sarah Blake</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Five Federal Regulators Blew Past the GENIUS Act's Rulemaking Deadline]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The 18 January 2027 effective date did not move when the deadline slipped, and any rule finalised after 20 September will lose the ability to shorten issuers' compliance runway.]]></description>
      <author>Oliver Bradford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Across Protocol Just Broke Its Zero-Exploit Streak on Solana]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Risk Labs' relayer absorbed Friday's loss, sparing user deposits and keeping the intent-based architecture's central promise intact after nearly five years and $34 billion of bridge volume.]]></description>
      <author>Aubrey Swanson</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Cobie Takes Over the Base App as Jesse Pollak Admits He Was Wrong]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Pollak is handing the consumer app back to Coinbase and refocusing Base on trading, payments and AI agents after two years of chasing a social economy that never materialised.]]></description>
      <author>Jessica Miles</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[New Hampshire Enacted the Broadest State Blockchain Rights Law in the Country]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[HB 639 gives residents a self-custody right, exempts miners and validators from money-transmitter licensing, and creates a dedicated superior-court docket for blockchain disputes.]]></description>
      <author>Oliver Bradford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The US Government Just Staged $288 Million of Seized Crypto on Coinbase Prime]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Bitcoin from the Farace and BTC-e wallets was laundered through fresh intermediary addresses before landing on the exchange, sixteen months after Trump's executive order told federal agencies not to sell.]]></description>
      <author>Oliver Bradford</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[India's Central Bank Wants Crypto Out of the Banking System Entirely]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The RBI told the Standing Committee on Finance that outright prohibition is still on the table. The Union government's next move comes on 15 July, and 39 million retail investors are watching what happens to a $2.1 billion holding that never got a proper legal framework.]]></description>
      <author>Aubrey Swanson</author>
      <category>Regulation</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[The FCA Cleared Coinbase to Sell Stocks and Derivatives in Britain]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The new UK licence adds equities and perpetual futures to Coinbase's product menu but retains the FCA's blanket ban on retail crypto derivatives. Tiger Brokers immediately lifted its price target on COIN to $200.]]></description>
      <author>Jessica Miles</author>
      <category>Regulation</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[BitMine Now Owns 4.8 Per Cent of Every Ether in Circulation]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Tom Lee's public miner added another 40,000 ETH on Monday and pushed its treasury above 5.78 million tokens. Roughly 85 per cent of the stack is already staked through MAVAN, generating an annualised $235 million.]]></description>
      <author>James Gray</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[The SEC Confirmed on Tuesday That 'Regulation Crypto' Is Slated for July — Paul Atkins's First Real Rulemaking Would Let Startups Raise $75 Million Without Registration]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The SEC's newly updated regulatory agenda places its long-promised safe-harbor rule in the July slot, the strongest signal yet that Paul Atkins will finally move from speeches to a formal proposal. Once filed, Regulation Crypto would be the first crypto-specific rulemaking of his chairmanship.]]></description>
      <author>Jessica Miles</author>
      <category>Regulation</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[BonkDAO Lost $20 Million on Monday After an Attacker Spent $4.4 Million to Buy the Vote — Seven Wallets Passed a Proposal 18,000 Others Ignored]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/bonkdao-lost-20-million-on-monday-after-an-attacker-spent-4-4-million-to-buy-the-vote-seven-wallets-passed-a-proposal-18-000-others-ignored/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[BonkDAO's treasury was drained of about $20 million in BONK tokens on Monday after an attacker spent roughly $4.4 million assembling the exact stake needed to force a governance proposal through a vote nobody else showed up for. Every step was a valid onchain transaction.]]></description>
      <author>James Gray</author>
      <category>DeFi</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Took in $265.7 Million on Monday — BlackRock's IBIT Wrote 79 Per Cent of the Cheque and Broke an Eight-Week Outflow Streak]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[US-listed spot bitcoin ETFs recorded $265.7 million of net inflows on 6 July, the second consecutive session above $200 million and the strongest institutional signal since May. IBIT alone pulled in $209.4 million.]]></description>
      <author>Sarah Blake</author>
      <category>Markets</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hexens Disclosed on Saturday That a $3,000 Server Could Have Broken Aptos — the Move VM Bug Had About $70 Billion in Systemic Reach Before the Patch]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/hexens-disclosed-on-saturday-that-a-3-000-server-could-have-broken-aptos-the-move-vm-bug-had-about-70-billion-in-systemic-reach-before-the-patch/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The security firm Hexens published the details of an Aptos Move virtual machine flaw on 4 July. Its simulation showed a 90 per cent success rate at compromising the network with commodity hardware, and about $70 billion in bridge, stablecoin and exchange balances sat within the blast radius.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
      <category>Technology</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Summer.fi Paused Its Lazy Summer Vaults on Monday After a $65 Million Flash Loan Drained $6 Million in DAI — the Attacker Sent Everything Through Tornado Cash]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/summer-fi-paused-its-lazy-summer-vaults-on-monday-after-a-65-million-flash-loan-drained-6-million-in-dai-the-attacker-sent-everything-through-tornado-cash/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The DeFi yield aggregator Summer.fi lost about $6 million in DAI after an attacker used a $65 million USDC flash loan to distort the accounting of its Lazy Summer Vault, briefly pushing the displayed APY above two million per cent.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
      <category>DeFi</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[TeraWulf Signed a 20-Year Data Centre Lease With Anthropic on Monday — the $19 Billion Contract Is Bigger Than the Miner's Market Cap]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/terawulf-signed-a-20-year-data-centre-lease-with-anthropic-on-monday-the-19-billion-contract-is-bigger-than-the-miners-market-cap/</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[TeraWulf leased its Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky to Anthropic for two decades, in a deal expected to generate roughly $19 billion in revenue — a figure larger than the bitcoin miner's own market value going into the announcement.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
      <category>Business</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Six Federal Agencies Have Until 18 July to Finalise the GENIUS Act Stablecoin Rules — Small Issuers Face a Cost Structure That May Kill Them]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/six-federal-agencies-have-until-18-july-to-finalise-the-genius-act-stablecoin-rules-small-issuers-face-a-cost-structure-that-may-kill-them/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The 18 July statutory deadline for GENIUS Act final rules pushes six federal agencies to publish frameworks that would impose bank-quality compliance stacks on stablecoin issuers — a cost structure the mid-market cannot carry and has been slow to prepare for.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
      <category>Regulation</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Aave V3 Passed $100 Million in Deposits on Monad Within 48 Hours of Launch — the Fastest Lending Deployment on a New Layer-1 in Two Years]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/aave-v3-passed-100-million-in-deposits-on-monad-within-48-hours-of-launch-the-fastest-lending-deployment-on-a-new-layer-1-in-two-years/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Aave V3 crossed $100 million on Monad within 48 hours of its 2 July deployment, powered by a $15 million incentive commitment from the Monad Foundation and a treasury acquisition of 10 million GHO — the sort of anchor tenancy new Layer-1s used to have to fight for.]]></description>
      <author>Ray Crawford</author>
      <category>DeFi</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Strategy Sold 3,588 Bitcoin Between 29 June and 5 July — Saylor Raised $216 Million to Cover Preferred Dividends]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/strategy-sold-3-588-bitcoin-between-29-june-and-5-july-saylor-raised-216-million-to-cover-preferred-dividends/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Strategy disclosed the sale of 3,588 BTC across two tranches to fund dividends on its Digital Credit securities, marking its largest bitcoin disposal since the 2022 tax-loss transaction and confirming the shift from pure accumulation to selective monetisation.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
      <category>Business</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Vitalik Buterin Published the 'Lean Ethereum' Strawmap on 4 July — the Next Rebuild Will Replace the EVM and Take Four Years]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/vitalik-buterin-published-the-lean-ethereum-strawmap-on-4-july-the-next-rebuild-will-replace-the-evm-and-take-four-years/</link>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Vitalik Buterin's Lean Ethereum roadmap commits the network to a three-to-four-year rebuild spanning seven hard forks — replacing the EVM, elevating quantum resistance to an immediate requirement, and building shielded transfers into the base layer rather than the application layer.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
      <category>Technology</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ethereum Institutional Launched as an Independent Nonprofit on 1 July — the Ethereum Foundation Has Now Handed Its Wall Street Desk Off Entirely]]></title>
      <link>https://miningpool.co.uk/news/ethereum-institutional-launched-as-an-independent-nonprofit-on-1-july-the-ethereum-foundation-has-now-handed-its-wall-street-desk-off-entirely/</link>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[The former Ethereum Foundation enterprise team has spun out as an independent nonprofit backed by BitMine, SharpLink Gaming, Joseph Lubin and Standard Chartered, with a mandate to serve every institution engaging Ethereum without charging a fee.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
      <category>Business</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ethereum's Glamsterdam Devnet Entered Its Final Phase in Mid-June — Client Teams Are Now Testing a 200 Million Gas Limit]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Core developers have moved Glamsterdam's multi-client devnet into its final stage, with a 200 million gas-limit target that would roughly triple current L1 capacity if it survives contact with mainnet.]]></description>
      <author>Tom Chen</author>
      <category>Technology</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Solana Broke Above $80 on Wednesday After Two Weeks of Sideways Trading — the March Commodity Ruling Is Still Doing the Heavy Lifting]]></title>
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      <description><![CDATA[SOL climbed out of its mid-June $66–$72 range on 1 July, testing above $85 intraday as the SEC and CFTC's March joint commodity interpretation continues to reshape which institutions can hold it.]]></description>
      <author>Alex Turner</author>
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      <title><![CDATA[Binance Withdrew Its Greek MiCA Application on 24 June — Coinbase and OKX Were Bidding for Its EU Users the Same Week]]></title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <description><![CDATA[Binance suspended new services for EU residents on 1 July after the Greek regulator was reportedly preparing to reject its licence. Coinbase and OKX moved within hours to court its 450 million European users.]]></description>
      <author>Sarah Blake</author>
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