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A Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP-110) pushing to ban Ordinals-style data inscriptions at the consensus level is barreling toward an activation window in early August, with less than 1% of mining hashrate behind it, raising legitimate concerns about a persistent chain split. What BIP-110 Actually Does BIP-110, authored by Dathon Ohm and formally titled the Reduced … Read more
Coinbase’s Base mainnet went down for nearly two hours Thursday after a faulty block froze the chain’s sequencer and halted all new block production. What Happened The incident began at 16:03 UTC on June 25, 2026, when Base engineers detected unhealthy block production on the network’s mainnet. By 16:52 UTC, the team had identified the … Read more
Allium, a New York-based blockchain data infrastructure company, has closed a $40 million Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to roughly $61.5 million as institutional demand for onchain data accelerates. Fortune was the first to report the raise, announced June 23, 2026. Amplify Partners led the round, with Kleiner Perkins and Theory … Read more
Two artificial intelligence (AI) agents incorporated as legal entities negotiated, signed, and executed a binding contract that a court can read and a blockchain can run. [/key_takeaways] Key Takeaways: Clawbank and Shodai executed the first AI-to-AI Ricardian contract, binding legal prose to Ethereum code. Shodai’s smart contract paid out automatically when 1 milestone condition was … Read more
Over the years, blockchain forensic analysis has traced roughly 1.1 million bitcoin, currently worth nearly $73 billion, to Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, with the entire cache sitting untouched since 2010. What the Numbers Show The estimate places Satoshi‘s holdings at approximately 1.09 million to 1.1 million BTC, representing about 5.47% of bitcoin’s … Read more
Tether, the issuer of the world’s most widely used stablecoin, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Dubai Multi Commodities Centre on June 16, 2026, setting up a framework to explore blockchain infrastructure, tokenization, and digital asset education across one of the Gulf’s largest business networks. What the Agreement Covers The MoU is non-binding and … Read more
The 2022 disconnection of Russian banks shattered the illusion that SWIFT was a politically neutral financial rail. It exposed a critical flaw in global financial utilities: having a democratic board matters little if a centralized legal entity is forced to comply with local laws. The Geopolitical Fracture of Legacy Rails For decades, the global financial … Read more
Semianalysis says top artificial intelligence (AI) subscriptions may hand heavy users thousands of dollars in hidden compute value, and that gap could give crypto-native AI networks a clearer opening. The June 2026 report tested consumer tiers from Anthropic and OpenAI by running long-horizon coding and agentic tasks until weekly limits were exhausted. The finding was … Read more
South Korean consumer electronics titan LG Electronics is developing a proprietary blockchain network aimed at transforming the digital advertising placement and sales industry. The Onchain Shift According to a report published by Fortune on June 11, 2026, the initiative leverages a shared, onchain database of advertising inventory and verified customer interaction records. Fortune’s Jack Kubinec … Read more
Citi has opened a regulated blockchain route into private-company shares, giving Wall Street another live test of tokenization beyond crypto-native trading. The Wall Street Journal reported June 11 that Citigroup is rolling out tokenized shares of private companies for wealthy and institutional clients, initially limited to foreign investors, with the bank hoping other financial institutions … Read more