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Bitcoin and Ethereum edged higher into July 31, while a small shift in market dominance suggested traders were again watching whether capital was rotating toward major altcoins.The validated notes show Bitcoin rising 0.29% to about $64,145.86, while Ethereum traded...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Key Takeaways Companies where both the owner and the business are visible to AI saw a 2.5% year-over-year traffic increase, while those where both were invisible dropped more than 28% — a 30-point...

NEAR has launched a staking-based payment model for NEAR AI, giving users a way to lock NEAR tokens and receive monthly compute credits instead of paying through traditional cloud billing or credit-card rails.According to the validated notes, the system...

A Bank of Italy study found that stablecoin-based remittances did not offer a systematic cost or speed advantage over traditional payment channels, as fiat on- and off-ramp frictions accounted for most costs and transfer delays.Researchers tested 200 USDC (USDC)...

ENS Labs has revised a governance proposal after delegate criticism over treasury control, choosing to keep the DAO’s primary operational wallet custody in place rather than moving broader control to the Foundation.According to the validated notes, the revised plan...

Pump.fun co-founder Noah Tweedale reportedly attributed the layoffs to the company growing too quickly.Source link

Uniswap governance has activated a protocol fee switch on v4 liquidity pools, pushing protocol revenue higher and directing collected fees toward UNI buy-and-burn mechanics rather than direct distributions to tokenholders.The validated notes point to Uniswap Governance Proposal 100 passing...

Leopold Aschenbrenner’s fund was forced to sell most of its $16 billion stock portfolio to Citadel. Source link

CleanCore Solutions has signed a 10-year colocation agreement with Cerebras Systems valued at $800 million, and the story is not just that a small public company has moved into AI infrastructure. It is that a company previously known in...

A rewards subsidiary of Kansai Electric Power has launched a loyalty-points conversion route into JPYC on Polygon, giving Japanese users a small but meaningful bridge between closed-loop reward points and on-chain stablecoin payments.The integration involves MOACT’s rewards app, NORM...