AMD will secure more than 500 MW of Core Scientific data-center capacity from 2027, with a route to 2.5 GW that sharpens the Bitcoin miner's AI infrastructure shift.
Tether Gold's XAUT has received a Shariah compliance certification, putting its one-ounce physical-gold backing at the center of a new Islamic-finance distribution push.
Solana is scheduled to lift its maximum block compute limit from 60 million to 100 million units on July 29, a 66% capacity increase intended to add headroom during busy trading and payments periods.
Mento Protocol has launched a USDm/EURm liquidity pool on Polygon, bringing oracle-priced onchain foreign exchange to a network handling more than $11.1 billion in non-dollar stablecoin transfers.
WEMIX suspended bridges, affected liquidity pools and parts of its gaming ecosystem after a compromised WEMIX$ contract led to unauthorized issuance and about $724,000 in USDC.e transfers.
Coinbase said it is building quantum-safe custody tools and will co-host an August working session with Stanford and Bitcoin developers as the industry prepares for a future cryptography transition.
Lido has begun moving more than 8 million ETH into post-Pectra validators through CMv2, a $16 billion migration designed to shrink Ethereum's validator count and add operator bonds.
KB Kookmin Bank plans to use JPMorgan's Kinexys blockchain network for corporate USD payments across 10 countries in August, putting a major South Korean lender on 24/7 institutional settlement rails.
Circle acquired IBM blockchain patent assets spanning more than 680 families and nearly 1,000 issued patents, adding an IP layer to USDC, Arc and its payments network.
HashKey has combined its Exchange and Global apps into one portal for Hong Kong, Singapore, the Middle East and Bermuda while keeping regional compliance controls separate.