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DePIN project Vangrid raises $9 million in token round to build spatial data network for physical AI

DePIN project Vangrid raises $9 million in token round to build spatial data network for physical AI

Vangrid, a decentralized physical infrastructure network, or DePIN, focused on collecting spatial data, has raised $9 million in a seed funding round.HashKey, Borderless, Crypto.com Capital, Animoca Brands, Gate Labs and Mapleblock Capital participated in the round as "key stakeholders," Vangrid co-…

Coinbase’s Base app will become ā€˜less Base-centric’ under Cobie, Jesse Pollak says

Coinbase’s Base app will become ā€˜less Base-centric’ under Cobie, Jesse Pollak says

Coinbase's Base app will become less closely tied to its namesake blockchain as new leader Jordan "Cobie" Fish focuses on building an all-encompassing trading platform, Base creator Jesse Pollak said Thursday."As it's becoming a trading app, it's just becoming less Base-centric," Pollak said to The …

World Chain becomes first production L2 to ship streaming Block Access Lists via Flashblocks

World Chain becomes first production L2 to ship streaming Block Access Lists via Flashblocks

World Chain plans on becoming the first production Layer 2 blockchain to stream full EIP-7928 Block Access Lists inside every flashblock, with the feature rolling out on mainnet on Aug. 17, according to an announcement on Wednesday.The upgrade enables validators to verify blocks in parallel while th…

Saylor’s Strategy joins Coinbase, Morgan Stanley and more in pledging contributions to Trump Accounts

Saylor’s Strategy joins Coinbase, Morgan Stanley and more in pledging contributions to Trump Accounts

Strategy, the largest corporate holder of bitcoin, has joined Coinbase, Circle, and Wall Street giants such as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in pledging contributions to Trump Accounts, the president's initiative to help children begin investing early.Besides making a one-time $1,000 contribution…

Cloudflare kicks off stablecoin wallet rollout for AI agents to pay for APIs and online content

Cloudflare kicks off stablecoin wallet rollout for AI agents to pay for APIs and online content

Cloudflare is in the early stages of rolling out programmable wallets designed to let AI agents pay for APIs, data and online content using stablecoins, adding a key piece of infrastructure to its agentic commerce ecosystem.The first step, revealed Tuesday, allows users to claim a unique Cloudflare …

Ethereum researchers propose burning validator rewards to cap staking at 50%

Ethereum researchers propose burning validator rewards to cap staking at 50%

A group of Ethereum researchers, including Justin Drake, published a draft Ethereum Improvement Proposal that would introduce a "tapered issuance burn," deducting and permanently destroying a portion of validators’ "idealized" rewards that scales with the network’s overall staking ratio.The proposal…

Ripple invests in ZILO and Licuido to deepen tokenized capital markets push

Ripple invests in ZILO and Licuido to deepen tokenized capital markets push

Ripple announced Monday strategic investments in ZILO, which focuses on transfer agency solutions, and Licuido, an FCA-regulated tokenization platform, as it deepens its push into capital markets.Ripple said in a statement that the deals are expected to bring regulated transfer agency, issuance, and…

Bernstein says Clarity Act failure could accelerate SEC, CFTC crypto rulemaking

Bernstein says Clarity Act failure could accelerate SEC, CFTC crypto rulemaking

Back in May last year when House representatives French Hill and Glenn Thompson introduced the Clarity Act, supporters heralded the legislation as a long-awaited framework to clarify regulatory responsibilities between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commissi…

BitGo launches Link, connecting clients to Coinbase, Kraken, Crypto.com and more

BitGo launches Link, connecting clients to Coinbase, Kraken, Crypto.com and more

BitGo Holdings Inc. (NYSE: BTGO) on Monday announced the launch of BitGo Link, a new tool that connects institutional clients’ accounts at external crypto exchanges like Crypto.com, Kraken, and Coinbase to the company’s own platform.Link is designed to provide a single interface for viewing and movi…

Saylor hints at Strategy bitcoin buy after five-week pause as STRC rate stays at 12%: ā€˜Bitcoin Drive engaged’

Saylor hints at Strategy bitcoin buy after five-week pause as STRC rate stays at 12%: ā€˜Bitcoin Drive engaged’

Strategy co-founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor captioned his usual Sunday chart post "Bitcoin Drive engaged," a possible hint that the firm may disclose a BTC buy Monday.Strategy has gone five weeks without disclosing a bitcoin (BTC) purchase, an atypical drought for the firm. Saylor's ch…

Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says

Bitcoin losses linked to Coldcard vulnerability grow to $70 million, Galaxy Research says

Galaxy Research said Friday that nearly 1,200 addresses were drained of more than 1,000 BTC, worth about $70 million in transactions it linked to a vulnerability affecting Coldcard hardware wallets.On Thursday, Coinkite advised that there was an ongoing issue affecting seeds generated on Coldcard Mk…

World Cup 2026 prediction markets topped $20 billion, with Ronaldo tears among the biggest wagers

World Cup 2026 prediction markets topped $20 billion, with Ronaldo tears among the biggest wagers

The 2026 FIFA World Cup generated more than $20 billion in onchain prediction market volume, according to a new report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.Among the tournament's biggest markets was a wager on whether Cristiano Ronaldo would cry following what is expected to be his final World…