Infrastructure
Infrastructure

Solana Launches Onchain Governance With Stake-Weighted Voting for Validators

Solana Foundation says onchain governance is now live, letting validators with at least 100,000 SOL delegated open proposals that go…
Jul 1, 2026
AI

Robinhood Launches 'AI-Native' Ethereum Layer-2 Network, Tokenized Stock Trading

Brokerage and crypto exchange Robinhood opened the public mainnet for its Arbitrum-powered Ethereum layer-2 network on Wednesday. Read Full Story…
Jul 1, 2026
Infrastructure

Cloudflare Launches Monetization Gateway for Stablecoin Payments via x402

Cloudflare opened a waitlist for its Monetization Gateway on Wednesday, letting customers charge for web pages, datasets, APIs or MCP…
Jul 1, 2026
Infrastructure

Tradeweb executes real-time tokenized US Treasury transaction on Canton Network

Franklin Templeton transferred a tokenized US Treasury to Virtu Financial in what Tradeweb said was the first real-time transaction settled…
Jul 1, 2026
DeFi

Circle CEO says Open USD must break USDC’s network effect before its 140 backers matter

Allaire says the stablecoin fight will hinge on liquidity, integrations and regulated usage once OUSD goes live. The post Circle…
Jul 1, 2026
Infrastructure

Robinhood rolls out public blockchain as it expands deeper into crypto

Robinhood’s product push continues to blur the line between crypto and more traditional finance. Read Full Story at Coindesk.com →
Jul 1, 2026
Infrastructure

XRP holds above $1 after leverage flush as network activity improves

Open interest has collapsed from last year’s highs while active addresses and ETF inflows rise, but XRP still needs to…
Jul 1, 2026
Infrastructure

Phantom Hires Ventuals Founders After Hyperliquid Perps Venue Winds Down

The Solana wallet is bringing on the three-person team behind a pre-IPO perpetuals platform, deepening its push into derivatives. Read…
Jun 30, 2026
DeFi

DeFi hacks are turning high yields into a hidden liquidity tax

DeFiLlama data shows $780.3 million in Q2 known losses as bridges, keys and protocol logic turn security into a live…
Jun 30, 2026
Infrastructure

Circle slides 13% as Stripe, Coinbase and BlackRock back rival stablecoin network

Open Standard’s Open USD aims to let partners keep reserve income and eliminate minting fees, challenging Circle’s USDC. Read Full…
Jun 30, 2026