Bitcoin miner IREN jumped 16% after signing $2.8B in AI developer contracts and raising its fiscal year-end AI cloud annualized revenue target above $4 billion.
Cardano's van Rossem hard fork went live on July 18, 2026, cutting smart contract costs and marking the first Voltaire governance-driven upgrade ahead of Ouroboros Leios.
The Ostium OLP vault exploiter has routed 10,540 of 12,080 stolen ETH through Tornado Cash after a $24M Arbitrum hack revised up from $18M, per PeckShield.
Crypto market cap edges to $2.30T with BTC flat at $64,797. Ethereum gains +3.97% on the week, outpacing bitcoin as Fear & Greed holds at 29.
Allbridge Core paused its cross-chain bridge after a flash loan attacker manipulated the stablecoin pool exchange rate and drained roughly $1.65 million in a single transaction.
BitPay's European subsidiary BitPay B.V. has secured a MiCA CASP license from the Dutch AFM, unlocking regulated crypto and stablecoin payments across all 27 EU states.
