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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
Markets

Swift Readies Ledger for 24/7 Token Transfers—Though True Settlement Is Stuck on Old Rails

Swift’s pilot allows 17 global banks to transfer tokenized deposits on weekends, but ultimate settlement still relies on legacy systems.…
Jul 9, 2026
Markets

Swift Readies Ledger for 24/7 Token Transfers—Though True Settlement Is Stuck on Old Rails

Swift’s pilot allows 17 global banks to transfer tokenized deposits on weekends, but ultimate settlement still relies on legacy systems.…
Jul 9, 2026
Markets

Bitcoin traders reveal key levels as BTC price passes $63K after Trump Iran 'deal' comments

Bitcoin gained new upside targets for the daily close and beyond after US president Donald Trump said that Iran “wants…
Jul 9, 2026
Markets

Bitcoin traders reveal key levels as BTC price passes $63K after Trump Iran 'deal' comments

Bitcoin gained new upside targets for the daily close and beyond after US president Donald Trump said that Iran “wants…
Jul 9, 2026
Markets

Why Bitcoin ATMs are becoming the last stop in America’s $11B crypto scam pipeline

FBI and IC3 data show how online coercion can end at a kiosk before anyone can stop the transfer. The…
Jul 9, 2026
Markets

New Hampshire Council Rejects $100 Million Bitcoin-Backed Bond

Bitcoin Magazine New Hampshire Council Rejects $100 Million Bitcoin-Backed Bond New Hampshire’s Executive Council voted 3-2 to reject a proposed…
Jul 9, 2026
Institutional

Russia’s Largest Private Bank Alfa-Bank To Test Bitcoin and Crypto Trading

Bitcoin Magazine Russia’s Largest Private Bank Alfa-Bank To Test Bitcoin and Crypto Trading Russia’s largest private lender, Alfa-Bank, plans to…
Jul 9, 2026
Markets

Bitcoin’s quantum dilemma: Bigger blocks or STARK proofs?

Dealing with large post quantum signatures slowing down Bitcoin can be solved with bigger blocks, or aggregating signatures using STARK…
Jul 9, 2026
Markets

Age verification is the surveillance nobody voted for

KOSA and Chat Control both retreated on their most-criticized measures this week, but both kept mandatory age verification, the quiet…
Jul 9, 2026