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Ripple Rolls Out New XRPL Upgrade, but Less Than Half of Nodes Have Upgraded
Despite the majority of nodes still operating on v3.1.3, roughly 61% of XRPL validators running on rippled versions have adopted the new upgrade.
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Ripple Rolls Out New XRPL Upgrade, but Less Than Half of Nodes Have Upgraded
Despite the majority of nodes still operating on v3.1.3, roughly 61% of XRPL validators running on rippled versions have adopted the new upgrade.
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Bitcoin Treasury Firm Empery Digital Dumps Nearly Half of BTC Holdings for $87 Million
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- Since May 7, Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin for about $87.1 million, slashing its BTC treasury by nearly half. - The firm repaid $10 million in debt, funded a pending property acquisition, and covered legal costs from ongoing stockholder litigation. - As of July 10, the company holds 1,514 BTC and roughly $73.9 million in cash.
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Bitcoin Treasury Firm Empery Digital Dumps Nearly Half of BTC Holdings for $87 Million
In brief
- Since May 7, Empery Digital sold 1,400 Bitcoin for about $87.1 million, slashing its BTC treasury by nearly half. - The firm repaid $10 million in debt, funded a pending property acquisition, and covered legal costs from ongoing stockholder litigation. - As of July 10, the company holds 1,514 BTC and roughly $73.9 million in cash.
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Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users
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- The Bank of Korea will launch Phase 2 of its CBDC pilot in September, expanding to nine banks and a cap of 500,000 users for live deposit token testing. - Phase 1 (April–June 2025) processed 114,880 transactions across 81,000 wallets. - Phase 2 adds biometric payments, person-to-person transfers, and real government subsidy disbursements.
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Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users
In brief
- The Bank of Korea will launch Phase 2 of its CBDC pilot in September, expanding to nine banks and a cap of 500,000 users for live deposit token testing. - Phase 1 (April–June 2025) processed 114,880 transactions across 81,000 wallets. - Phase 2 adds biometric payments, person-to-person transfers, and real government subsidy disbursements.
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Claude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the Price
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- Claude Opus 5, released July 24, costs $5 per million input tokens—identical to its predecessor Opus 4.8 and exactly half the price of Fable 5—while outperforming Fable 5 on most major benchmarks. - Opus 5 scored 43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1, an agentic coding evaluation, versus 33.7% for Fable 5 and 34.4% for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol; on ARC-AGI-3, a novel problem-solving benchmark, it scored 30.2% against GPT-5.6 Sol's 7.8%—a gap that's not close. - The new model is the default on Claude Max and the strongest on Claude Pro, effectively replacing Fable 5 as the go-to for most subscribers.
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Claude Opus 5 Outscores Fable 5 on Most Benchmarks—At Half the Price
In brief
- Claude Opus 5, released July 24, costs $5 per million input tokens—identical to its predecessor Opus 4.8 and exactly half the price of Fable 5—while outperforming Fable 5 on most major benchmarks. - Opus 5 scored 43.3% on Frontier-Bench v0.1, an agentic coding evaluation, versus 33.7% for Fable 5 and 34.4% for OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol; on ARC-AGI-3, a novel problem-solving benchmark, it scored 30.2% against GPT-5.6 Sol's 7.8%—a gap that's not close. - The new model is the default on Claude Max and the strongest on Claude Pro, effectively replacing Fable 5 as the go-to for most subscribers.
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Bitcoin Back Above $100K? Scaramucci Says the 2028 Halving Holds the Key
SkyBridge's Anthony Scaramucci expects Bitcoin to return above $100,000 as the next halving approaches, despite BTC currently trading around $64,000.
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Bitcoin Back Above $100K? Scaramucci Says the 2028 Halving Holds the Key
SkyBridge's Anthony Scaramucci expects Bitcoin to return above $100,000 as the next halving approaches, despite BTC currently trading around $64,000.
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Bitcoin Suisse to shift up to half of Swiss jobs abroad
Bitcoin Suisse to shift up to half of Swiss jobs abroad
The Swiss crypto financial services firm plans to move back-office functions to lower-cost international hubs as it expands its global wealth and asset management business, according to Finews. Bitcoin Suisse plans to shift up to half of its Swiss jobs abroad as the crypto financial services firm expands its international operations. Founded in Zug in 2013, the company provides crypto trading, custody, staking and lending services.
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Bitcoin Suisse to shift up to half of Swiss jobs abroad
Bitcoin Suisse to shift up to half of Swiss jobs abroad
The Swiss crypto financial services firm plans to move back-office functions to lower-cost international hubs as it expands its global wealth and asset management business, according to Finews. Bitcoin Suisse plans to shift up to half of its Swiss jobs abroad as the crypto financial services firm expands its international operations. Founded in Zug in 2013, the company provides crypto trading, custody, staking and lending services.
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Zcash Closes On $1,400 After Coinholders Vote to Keep Bitcoin-Style Halvings
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- ZEC reached $1,388 following the NU7 sentiment polls, whose results landed on Sunday. - Coinholders voted 98.9% to preserve halvings, with 2.4 million ZEC cast, a record 66% of the eligible pool. - The privacy coin has tripled since July's Ironwood upgrade and is up more than 2,500% over a year that brought a Grayscale ETF.
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Zcash Closes On $1,400 After Coinholders Vote to Keep Bitcoin-Style Halvings
In brief
- ZEC reached $1,388 following the NU7 sentiment polls, whose results landed on Sunday. - Coinholders voted 98.9% to preserve halvings, with 2.4 million ZEC cast, a record 66% of the eligible pool. - The privacy coin has tripled since July's Ironwood upgrade and is up more than 2,500% over a year that brought a Grayscale ETF.
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Bitcoin’s Halving Clock Is Ticking With Fewer Than 80,000 Blocks Left
Bitcoin’s notorious halving event is getting closer, and as of Monday, there are now fewer than 80,000 blocks left until that point. When that happens, at block height 1050000, on or around April 12, 2028, block rewards will shrink from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. Bitcoin’s Halving Clock Is Ticking With Fewer Than 80,000 Blocks Left
Key Takeaways
- Bitcoin’s fifth halving is now fewer than 80,000 blocks away, with rewards set to drop to 1.5625 BTC in 2028.
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Bitcoin’s Halving Clock Is Ticking With Fewer Than 80,000 Blocks Left
Bitcoin’s notorious halving event is getting closer, and as of Monday, there are now fewer than 80,000 blocks left until that point. When that happens, at block height 1050000, on or around April 12, 2028, block rewards will shrink from 3.125 BTC to 1.5625 BTC. Bitcoin’s Halving Clock Is Ticking With Fewer Than 80,000 Blocks Left
Key Takeaways
- Bitcoin’s fifth halving is now fewer than 80,000 blocks away, with rewards set to drop to 1.5625 BTC in 2028.
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Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1: Better Than Its Predecessor at Half the Price
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- Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on Oct. 6, rolling it out in the Gemini app, Search's AI Mode, Google Ads and its developer tools. - Google's own tests put it ahead of Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro, including an infographic factuality score of 0.521 versus 0.179, but independent testing was not available at launch.
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Google Launches Nano Banana 2.1: Better Than Its Predecessor at Half the Price
In brief
- Google released Nano Banana 2.1 on Oct. 6, rolling it out in the Gemini app, Search's AI Mode, Google Ads and its developer tools. - Google's own tests put it ahead of Nano Banana 2 and Nano Banana Pro, including an infographic factuality score of 0.521 versus 0.179, but independent testing was not available at launch.
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Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants subsidy, citing $125 million treasury
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending automatic grants funding, citing a treasury valuation of more than $125 million.
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Zcash co-founder proposes ending grants subsidy, citing $125 million treasury
Zcash co-founder Sean Bowe proposed ending automatic grants funding, citing a treasury valuation of more than $125 million.
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Binance taps half its SAFU Bitcoin holdings, releases reserve proof
Binance taps half its SAFU Bitcoin holdings, releases reserve proof
Binance’s SAFU Bitcoin wallet now holds about 7,500 BTC after a 7,499 BTC transfer linked to the hack, with no timeline for restoring the $1 billion fund. Binance’s publicly disclosed emergency Bitcoin wallet held roughly half its previous balance on Monday after the exchange tapped its user protection fund to cover losses from Thursday’s $6.3 billion hack. The exchange confirmed a transfer of 7,499 Bitcoin (BTC) on Saturday, linking it to the partial deployment of its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU).
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Binance taps half its SAFU Bitcoin holdings, releases reserve proof
Binance taps half its SAFU Bitcoin holdings, releases reserve proof
Binance’s SAFU Bitcoin wallet now holds about 7,500 BTC after a 7,499 BTC transfer linked to the hack, with no timeline for restoring the $1 billion fund. Binance’s publicly disclosed emergency Bitcoin wallet held roughly half its previous balance on Monday after the exchange tapped its user protection fund to cover losses from Thursday’s $6.3 billion hack. The exchange confirmed a transfer of 7,499 Bitcoin (BTC) on Saturday, linking it to the partial deployment of its Secure Asset Fund for Users (SAFU).
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