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Vitalik Buterin shares roadmap to Ethereum becoming leaner and more scalable
Vitalik Buterin has published an updated long-term roadmap for Ethereum, calling the multi-year effort “Lean Ethereum” as the network’s biggest redesign since the Merge. He posted it to X on July 4, 2026, days after Ethereum researchers gathered in Berlin to work on the protocol’s long-term trajectory. Buterin’s post is important to those...Cryptopolitan
Sun, Jul 5
Aave hits $100M in Monad deposits within 48 hours of launch
Aave’s lending market on Monad had already surpassed $100 million in total deposits in two days of launching on July 2. That’s a milestone some DeFi projects spend months trying to reach. The top DeFi lending protocol went live on Monad on Thursday with its V3 deployment. This launch marks the first time Aave’s lending,...Cryptopolitan
Sun, Jul 5
Revolut drops Tether's USDT in Europe, handing regulated market to USDC
Tether’s USDT will no longer be available to European customers in Revolut from August 31, 2026, after the company decided to end direct access to the cryptocurrency amid the tightening regulations in the market. Per the customer notification issued by the company, the move was based on a periodic assessment of the assets it supports....Cryptopolitan
Sun, Jul 5
Nakamoto founder David Bailey calls failed BIP-110 fork bullish for Bitcoin
David Bailey, the founder of Nakamoto, said yesterday that the BIP-110 proposal will not be moving forward anymore, just weeks before it was set to go live. He made the announcement on X, where he called the failed soft fork “incredibly bullish for Bitcoin” and described the campaign behind its cancellation as a “hostile takeover...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
Trump's billion-dollar crypto gain came with almost $4B investor losses
President Donald Trump earned a $636 million payout from his Official Trump (TRUMP) memecoin while the people who bought it lost considerably more, according to blockchain data from Nansen and Trump’s own 2025 financial disclosure. The analytics firm counted 988,905 wallets that lost a total of $3.81 billion by the end of June. Nansen’s tally,...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
Tether CEO Ardoino warns AI infrastructure spending rests on four mismatches
In an opinion shared on X today, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino warned that Big Tech’s efforts to build AI data centers depend on subsidized computing and hardware that lose value within three to five years. He believes four structural mismatches are putting the sector at risk. This warning comes as hyperscalers invest record amounts in...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
IMF flags fragmentation risk as assets shift to shared digital ledgers
IMF financial counselor Tobias Adrian warned on July 2 that tokenization represents a structural shift in financial architecture, not just a faster payment rail, and that poor policy choices could fragment the global financial system.Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
Micron goes all in on AI with $9.3B Japan chip plant
Micron Technology broke ground on a new plant to manufacture memory chips in western Japan. This $9.3-billion facility represents an enormous commitment by Micron to grow its ability to deliver semiconductors for AI. The new facility will enable Micron to provide large amounts of high-bandwidth memory (HBM), a key part of training and operating AI...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
Moonbeam abandons Polkadot for Base as GLMR pivots to AI
The Moonbeam Network announced the complete closure of Polkadot’s parachain. The GLMR token would be migrating 1:1 to Coinbase’s Base Layer-2, and they will now be relaunching with a new purpose as a decentralized protocol for AI agent communications and on-chain settlements. This change is just the latest in a string of high-profile exits from...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
SEC bets on Project Crypto to reverse crypto exodus from the U.S.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is doubling down on its ambitious Project Crypto initiative as it seeks to reverse years of digital asset companies relocating overseas due to regulatory uncertainty. On X, he wrote, “An entire generation of digital asset innovation developed outside the U.S., not because American entrepreneurs lacked the ambition, or...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
F2Pool co-founder Chun Wang sends $17 million in ETH to Binance as exchange inflows rise
Chun Wang, who is among those who helped create F2Pool, one of the biggest Bitcoin mining pools, deposited 9,876 Ether (ETH), which is currently worth around $17 million USD, into Binance on July 3. Chun Wang (@satofishi) further deposited 9876 $ETH ($17.02M) into #Binance.https://t.co/tlqgpqwLLL https://t.co/XAhmbXD0i9 pic.twitter.com/eOXMRaPSZr — Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens) July 3, 2026 This is...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
Brantly Millegan leaves ENS and winds down ethid.org amid governance upheaval
Brantly Millegan, Director of Operations at ENS Labs, announced on July 4 that he has decided to leave the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) ecosystem as well as to close down ethid.org, the identity services company that he operated as a service provider to the ENS decentralized autonomous organization (DAO). His departure removes one of the...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
JPMorgan predicting $4,500 gold price in fourth quarter, quotes weaker demand
JPMorgan expects gold prices to trade sideways in the coming weeks before climbing to $4,500 per ounce by the fourth quarter of 2026. The bank is recalibrating its short-term outlook due to reduced demand from key buying sectors. The Wall Street bank projects an average price of $4,300/oz during the third quarter, rising to $4,500...Cryptopolitan
Sat, Jul 4
Ethereum Price Forecast: ETH weakness in June likely from intense retail sell-off and US de-risking
Ethereum (ETH) declined by 21.6% in June, its largest monthly drop since November, amid intense risk-off sentiment and heightened volatility, spearheaded by retail investors and US market participants.
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Sat, Jul 4
CME records a stronger Q2 crypto volume at $13.7 billion
CME Group saw a stronger crypto activity in Q2, despite recent price meltdowns. In Q2, CME crypto derivatives averaged 250,000 contracts per day, with a notional value of $13.7 billion. That represents a 32% increase year-over-year, according to the report on Thursday. The record beats the Q1 update, in which the company reported an average...Cryptopolitan
Fri, Jul 3
Trump's $1.4B crypto income triggers fresh Democrat scrutiny round
According to a recent filing with the Office of Government Ethics, President Trump reported more than $600 million in income from his $TRUMP memecoin in 2025. As a result, Democrats, led by long-term Trump critic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), have returned to demanding stronger ethics provisions in any crypto legislation Republicans plan to bring to the...Cryptopolitan
Fri, Jul 3
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