Cardano enacted its community-ratified van Rossem hard fork, bringing Protocol Version 11 and new Plutus capabilities to mainnet after a July 18 epoch boundary.
Zcash is shifting node operators away from zcashd and toward Zebra before the July 28 Ironwood upgrade, while Zebra 6.1.0 fixes four node-security issues.
Galaxy launched Curator, a Morpho-based institutional vault offering distributed through Fireblocks Earn, targeting idle stablecoin balances with two risk tiers.
Bank of America named Sonali Theisen to lead its global digital-assets platform, putting tokenized deposits, stablecoins, custody and crypto settlement under a dedicated markets mandate.
A London court jailed three men after the Metropolitan Police said they impersonated officers, stole more than £4 million in cryptocurrency from eight victims and laundered the proceeds.
FTX Recovery Trust will begin a roughly $900 million fifth creditor distribution July 31. Eligible claims will receive up to 120% cumulatively.
Polygon is retiring its free Amoy RPC endpoint and will stop maintaining polygon-rpc.com for mainnet on July 31. What developers need to change.
Dune's study of concentrated DeFi liquidity found about $542 million sat outside fee-earning ranges in an average week, with individual LPs forgoing roughly $150 million a year in fees.
Kraken has launched USD-settled Bitcoin and Ether options for eligible professional and institutional clients, with portfolio margin and more than 30 collateral currencies.
Marex has begun accepting USDC for initial margin in regulated derivatives clearing, with Coinbase providing custody, conversion and daily reporting.