Hyperliquid sets 500,000 HYPE stake for permissionless prediction market deployers

Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE, worth about $30.4 million, to deploy permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4. Source link

Ethereum news: Bitmine (BMNR) slows ETH purchase pace to shift cash to $86 million stock buyback

Bitmine (BMNR), the largest Ethereum treasury firm, bought just 7,430 ether (ETH) last week, dialing back its buying spree as it redirected capital to a stock buyback. The latest purchase, worth about $14 million at ether’s current price of $1,879, lifted BitMine’s holdings to 5,78 million ETH, or roughly 4.8% of Ethereum’s circulating supply, according…

Grayscale Plans Quarterly ETH, SOL Staking Reward Payouts

Asset manager Grayscale plans to establish regular cash distributions from rewards generated by its Ether (ETH) and Solana (SOL) staking exchange-traded products (ETPs), giving holders recurring access to yield generated by underlying assets.  In Form 8-K filings submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Grayscale said it intends to amend the trust agreements…

Russia Advances Crypto Regulation Bill for Final Vote

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BTC Price Focus Turns To $67,000 Despite Iran Risk-Asset Pressures

Bitcoin (BTC) starts the last full week of July holding key support while macro clouds continue to gather. Key points: Bitcoin preserves its 200-week trend line at the weekly close, leading to short-term BTC price targets of up to $67,000. US-Iran war rhetoric ramps up, with oil prices hitting five-week highs ahead of a week…

South Korea eyes September launch for second phase of CBDC pilot: Report

The Bank of Korea’s CBDC pilot will add two regional banks, new payment features and tests of government subsidy payments using tokenized bank deposits Source link

South Korea Uncovers 30 Cases Unfair Trading

South Korea’s financial authorities investigated more than 40 cases of unfair trading, including market manipulation and fraudulent crypto trading, in the last two years.  According to an X post by Financial Services Commission Chair Lee Eog-won, 30 of them reported or referred to investigative agencies, identifying 25 suspects since the Virtual Asset User Protection Act…

Will US Get CLARITY This Week? Bitcoin’s New $80K Target: Hodler’s Digest

CLARITY hinges on Trump’s ethics Polymarket suggests the odds of the CLARITY Act passing this year are just 40%, after a raft of Democratic Senators, including Chris Murphy, Jeff Merkley and Chris Van Hollen, spoke out against the bill. A crucial Senate vote could happen as early as this week, with Senate Majority Leader John…

Michael Saylor calls Bitcoin’s new BIP-110 proposal ‘a bad idea’

Michael Saylor, executive chairman and co-founder of Strategy, has come out swinging against a new proposal to clean up Bitcoin’s ‘spam,’ arguing that it could fundamentally alter how the world’s largest blockchain operates. The Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 110, aimed at temporarily restricting arbitrary data to focus on the core monetary functions, is a threat…

Robinhood L2 Sparks ETH Optimism, Saylor ‘Muddies Waters.’ Hodler’s Digest July 12, 2026

Robinhood Chain surge boosts ETH The successful launch of the layer-2 network Robinhood Chain has boosted investor sentiment around Ethereum. The newly launched blockchain uses ETH as its native gas token and around $141 million in ETH has already been bridged to the chain. More than half a million wallets holding ETH are now on the network,…