Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain on July 1, 2026, during an event in London. The company that pioneered zero-commission stock trading in 2013 just built its own Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain. Not a wallet. Not a custodian.…
Hoskinson Is Building a City of AI Agents Inside Midnight. Here Is Why That Is Not Crazy.
On June 20, 2026, Input Output’s official X account posted content generated by an AI influencer. The crypto community reacted with the usual outrage. Charles Hoskinson posted a thread titled ‘AI Slop, IOG X, and the Future of Marketing’ and…
If Ethereum Is Copying Cardano, What Does That Actually Mean for Both Chains?
Ethereum researcher Toni Wahrstätter published a proposal this week to introduce native UTXOs into Ethereum’s payment layer, treating simple payments as one-shot objects rather than permanent state entries. The design could reduce Ethereum’s permanent state for payment workloads by up…
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…