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Ripple Founder Backs Senator's Son In New Crypto Venture
Chris Larsen, co-founder and executive chair of Ripple Labs, is among investors backing APEC, a perpetual futures exchange founded by Theodore Gillibrand, son of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, which raised $30 million at a $300 million valuation.
Pi Network Pushes Pi2Day Ecosystem Quest
Pi Network has launched the Pi2Day 2026 Ecosystem Quest, inviting users to explore new features including SoloHost, Pi Sign-in, and PiVerify. Participants can earn an exclusive in-app badge before the quest closes on July 13.
Russia Confirms Digital Ruble Rollout Date
Bank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina says preparations are complete for the digital ruble's September 1 launch, marking the start of a phased CBDC rollout across Russian banks and retailers.
A Bittensor subnet just built an AI safety model that beats the big players
Trishool's HaloGuard 1.0, built on Bittensor subnet 23, claims top rankings across seven prompt-safety benchmarks, using real-time screening and adversarial miner incentives to stay ahead of threats.
Strategy just crossed $100 again, even as Wall Street cuts its price targets
Strategy's $MSTR stock topped $100 intraday on July 2, rising over 7% as the Digital Credit Capital Framework announcement continued to drive momentum, even as Citi, BTIG, and Canaccord all cut price targets.
Robinhood's EU perpetual futures list is bigger than anyone reported
Robinhood's EU perpetual futures platform covers 13 crypto assets and 7 traditional instruments including gold, oil, QQQ and EUR/USD, all tradable with up to 10x leverage through Bitstamp.
Cloudflare just gave AI companies an ultimatum on scraping
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from ad-supported pages by default from September 15, 2026, while evolving its Pay Per Crawl marketplace into a Pay Per Use model that pays publishers when their content appears in AI answers.
A crypto news brand just changed hands, and nobody knows who bought it
DL News, DeFiLlama's former news arm, shut down in May 2026 and has since been acquired by unknown owners. DeFiLlama has distanced itself from the brand and its core dev warned users not to trust content published under the DL News name.
Metaplanet just bought its way to 43,000 Bitcoin
Japan's Metaplanet added 2,823 BTC in Q2 2026, lifting total holdings to 43,000 Bitcoin worth around $2.6 billion and cementing its place as the world's third-largest corporate Bitcoin treasury.
India's crypto investors just got older, not younger
CoinDCX's H1 2026 report shows assets under custody grew across every age group even as Bitcoin fell roughly 50% from its peak, with Gen X and Gen Z leading percentage gains and the average investor age ticking up to 30-31.
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