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Arun | Senior Cybersecurity & Blockchain Strategist. Arun is a cybersecurity professional with over 20 years of experience leading security operations for global institutions. A frequent speaker at international Cybersecurity and Blockchain conferences, he has been a lead contributor at CryptoNewsBytes since 2017. ✍️ By combining two decades of security leadership with deep-dive reporting on AI, emerging threats, and crypto regulations (including the CLARITY and GENIUS Acts), Arun provides institutional-grade clarity for the evolving 2026 digital asset landscape. 🛡️🌐

Stellar Hits $3B in Tokenized RWAs. XRP Ledger Just Confirmed $4B. The Race to Become Wall Street’s Chain Is Real

Stellar crossed $3 billion in tokenized real-world assets today, July 6, 2026, up roughly 300% from sub-$1 billion at the start of the year. The XRP Ledger just confirmed approximately $4 billion in total tokenized RWA value across 500-plus financial…

Ripple Gets Full EU MiCA License: 30 Countries Unlocked, XRP Dropped Anyway

Ripple received full authorisation of its Crypto Asset Service Provider license from Luxembourg’s Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier on July 6, 2026. The CSSF upgraded the preliminary Green Light Letter issued on June 23 to a definitive authorisation, making…

Metaplanet – Now the World’s Third Largest Corporate Bitcoin Holder

Metaplanet, the Tokyo-listed firm that started 2024 as a struggling hotel operator, purchased 2,823 BTC for approximately $170.7 million on July 2, 2026, bringing its total Bitcoin treasury to 43,000 BTC worth about $2.6 billion. The purchase came after a…

Cardano RealFi Phase 1 Testnet Goes Live July 6: Hoskinson Calls It the Biggest Upgrade in Cardano History

Cardano’s RealFi Phase 1 testnet goes live on July 6, 2026. Charles Hoskinson called it the largest upgrade in Cardano’s history, and for once that description has a specific meaning rather than being founder hyperbole. RealFi is IOG’s attempt to…

Ondo Put a BlackRock ETF and Micron Stock On-Chain in the US. That Has Never Happened Before

Ondo Finance launched tokenized versions of BlackRock’s iShares Core S&P 500 ETF (IVV) and Micron Technology (MU) shares on Ethereum on July 2, 2026, and the thing that makes this different from every other tokenized stock announcement is where it…

Strategy Can Now Sell Bitcoin. Saylor Built a Wall Around How and When

Strategy authorized the sale of up to $1.25 billion in Bitcoin on June 29, 2026. That sentence would have been unthinkable twelve months ago. The company built its entire identity around never selling, raising capital through equity and convertible debt,…

SecondFi, the Wallet Emurgo Built, Just Lost $2.4 Million of Its Users’ ADA and and Up to $20 Million Remains at Risk

On June 23, 2026, SecondFi confirmed three separate external attacks had drained approximately 16 million ADA, worth around $2.4 million, from 374 user wallets. The vulnerability was traced to a flaw in the platform’s proprietary web wallet generation software: the…

Bitcoin Rebounds to $61,000 After Fed Chair Warsh’s First Soft Comment Since the June Crash

Bitcoin climbed above $61,000 on July 2, 2026, its strongest level in nearly two weeks, after Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation risks had eased during a panel at the European Central Bank’s annual forum in Sintra, Portugal. Warsh’s…

Cardano’s Van Rossem Hardfork Is Live and and It Just Proved the Voltaire Governance Era Works

Cardano’s van Rossem hardfork enacted on mainnet on June 18, 2026 at 21:45 UTC. Protocol Version 11 is live. What makes this upgrade different from every prior Cardano hardfork is not the technical specification. It is the mechanism by which…

Raydium Drained $1.34M Through Code It Retired in 2021, Days After the Yuga Rescue: Blue-Chip Security Is Still Broken

On June 10, an attacker drained roughly $1.34 million from Raydium, the largest decentralized exchange on Solana, without touching a single active user position. The exploit hit five liquidity pools tied to Raydium’s legacy AMM V3 program, code deprecated in…