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DCG's Zcash miner powers up its first ground-up site
Fortitude Mining, the Digital Currency Group-backed Zcash miner, has energized a 12 MW greenfield facility in Grand Island, Nebraska, pushing owned power past 60 MW and cutting ZEC mining costs ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing via HeartSciences.
Zcash sealed its main shielded pool and the migration moved fast
Zcash activated its Ironwood (NU6.3) network upgrade at block 3,428,143 on July 28, sealing the Orchard shielded pool and routing all remaining ZEC through a supply-verification turnstile after a critical proof circuit bug was found in May 2026.
Rate-hike chatter is peaking right before the decision
Crypto social volume around Fed rate-hike fears is spiking ahead of the July 2026 FOMC decision. Here is what Bitcoin traders are watching as Chair Kevin Warsh prepares to announce.
Claude weakened a quantum-resistant crypto candidate in 60 hours
Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview has produced two new cryptanalysis results, weakening HAWK, a NIST post-quantum signature candidate, and speeding up attacks on a reduced version of AES. No production systems are affected.
Argentine banking groups are quietly building peso stablecoins
Grupo BIND and Grupo Petersen are each developing peso-backed stablecoins through licensed non-bank subsidiaries, targeting institutional clients with programmable treasury and payment tools.
MetaMask users in Vietnam can now fund wallets straight from a bank
Banxa has enabled VietQR support for MetaMask, letting Vietnamese users buy crypto via a bank QR scan at a 3% flat rate, down from card fees as high as 7%.
Ionic Digital recovers after soft Nasdaq open
Ionic Digital (IOND) opened below its $53 reference price on Nasdaq before climbing roughly 12% above the open, as the Celsius Mining spinout makes its public debut with an AI data center pivot at its core.
Flare cuts XRP DEFI onboarding to a single signature
Flare Network has launched Smart Accounts v1.3, reducing XRP DeFi onboarding to a single XRPL wallet signature. The update adds the Clearstar yield vault, expands wallet support, and comes as FXRP deployed across DeFi climbs from 82 million to 144 million since February.
Crypto fund manager gets 37 months for hiding $7M from the IRS
Justin Ryan Schmidt, who ran Austin-based crypto hedge fund Translunar, was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for hiding millions in income from the IRS, filing false tax returns, and submitting a fraudulent expatriation statement.
Whale Exits Ethereum with a huge loss after holding long-term
On-chain data shows Ethereum whale 0x0340 liquidated 5,000 $ETH for $9.38M, booking a $13.28M loss after holding for more than two years at an average cost of $3,219.
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