Infrastructure
AI

Robinhood launched a Wall Street layer 2 chain and the market crowned a $150M cat coin first

Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain this month, describing it as a permissionless Layer 2 built on Arbitrum…
Jul 9, 2026
Infrastructure

Ethereum's newest nonprofit wants to become Wall Street's guide to crypto

In this week’s edition of The Protocol Newsletter, we’re digging into Ethereum Institutional, a new nonprofit aimed at educating financial…
Jul 9, 2026
Infrastructure

Cardano’s wallet hack exposed the user layer holding its on-chain government together

EMURGO said it is stepping down from its role in Pentad, the five-member group coordinating Cardano’s infrastructure funding, to focus…
Jul 9, 2026
Infrastructure

Why Stablecoins Need Privacy to Reach Their Full Potential

In this episode of Unchained Premium, Aleo Network Foundation policy chief Yaya Fanusie joined Laura to talk about a new…
Jul 9, 2026
Infrastructure

Over $7.2 billion have migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP as Mantle joins exodus

Migrations to Chainlink CCIP so far include Kelp and Lombard, both of which brought over $1 billion, as well as…
Jul 9, 2026
AI

BNB Chain makes 1,000,000 TPS moonshot bet on AI as BNB price slips to 2024 lows

Binance-backed BNB Chain is restructuring its underlying architecture and setting a long-term goal of processing 1 million transactions per second…
Jul 8, 2026
Infrastructure

Bitcoin Mining Pools in 2026: Hashrate Consolidation Is Creating a Two-Tier Market — and Smaller Miners Are Feeling It

The Bitcoin mining industry in 2026 looks very different from what it did just a few years ago. Post-halving pressure,…
Jul 8, 2026
Infrastructure

Dinari, tZERO join forces on turnkey platform for tokenized U.S. equities

The move comes as firms race to build the infrastructure for blockchain-based stocks and debate how tokenized stocks should work.…
Jul 8, 2026
Infrastructure

Mobile app Toss and blockchain Optimism to conduct Korean won stablecoin POC : report

Toss has reportedly partnered with Optimism and Sunnyside Labs for a proof of concept on the feasibility of a Korean…
Jul 8, 2026
Infrastructure

Berachain hard fork to replace dual-token model with WBERA rewards

Berachain launched the first stage of its PoL Next upgrade, which will phase out the BGT token and shift the…
Jul 8, 2026