regulation
The Illinois Department of Revenue's draft implementing rules for the state's Digital Asset Tax Act clarify who owes the 0.2% levy, when, and how DEX transactions are treated.
protocol
Robinhood pairs perpetual futures on eight assets, routed through Bitstamp, with in-app AI agents customers can leave running. Perps go live in the coming months.
protocol
The self-custodial wallet returns two years after Aztec Labs shut down the original, now settling private DAI payments on its own zk-rollup with per-transfer caps.
protocol
The first US spot NEAR ETF starts trading on NYSE Arca with a 0.75% fee and staking rewards routed to shareholders through NAV.
explainer
Ten weeks in one post — the Coldcard $116M drain, the Liquid Network and Bitget breaches, SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets, THORChain's Monero swaps and more.
governance
The Ethereum Foundation named security researcher Pascal Caversaccio to its board on July 29, 2026 — a one-year voluntary term, expanding the Swiss foundation's board from three to four.
regulation
Paul Atkins told CNBC the SEC will move on crypto rulemaking under existing authority if the CLARITY Act does not pass the Senate; Project Crypto is already on the 2026 rulemaking agenda.
protocol
Vitalik Buterin's July 28, 2026 essay walks through Sora Suegami's diamond iO — the first iO construction whose overhead is measured in millions of years, not universe-lifetimes.
protocol
NEAR activated protocol upgrade 2.13 on July 20, adding NIST-approved ML-DSA-65 as a third signature scheme and automatic shard splitting at epoch boundaries.