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Hyperliquid requires 500K HYPE stake for permissionless prediction markets
Hyperliquid plans to require developers to stake 500,000 HYPE tokens (approximately $30.4 million) to deploy permissionless prediction markets under its HIP-4 proposal, with slashing mechanisms to discourage poorly defined or settled markets.
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MicroStrategy raises $225M, holds 843,775 BTC steady
MicroStrategy raised $225 million in cash reserves through an equity offering, bringing its U.S. dollar buffer to $3.225 billion while maintaining its 843,775 BTC holdings unchanged. The world's largest corporate bitcoin holder is prioritizing liquidity for dividend payments on preferred stock.
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Hyperliquid activates HIP-4 upgrade, opens prediction markets to all
Hyperliquid has activated its HIP-4 upgrade, enabling all users to deploy fully collateralized binary outcome contracts tied to real-world events. The move positions the platform to compete with Polymarket and Kalshi while maintaining $5.5 billion in total value locked.
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Zilliqa exchange partner cold wallet breach, ZIL drops 7%
Zilliqa announced that one of its exchange partners experienced a security breach resulting in stolen ZIL tokens from a cold wallet. The incident triggered a temporary halt on deposits and withdrawals across exchanges as the blockchain works to establish the root cause.
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Brookfield, CPP Investments eye $5.2B LXP Industrial Trust acquisition
Brookfield and CPP Investments are reportedly pursuing a $5.2 billion all-cash acquisition of LXP Industrial Trust, but no official announcements or regulatory filings have confirmed the deal as of July 20, 2026. The transaction would mark one of the largest industrial REIT takeovers of the year.
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160B SHIB Moved to Exchanges as Price Recovery Stalls
More than 160 billion Shiba Inu tokens have flowed into trading platforms, signaling potential selling pressure ahead. The token faces resistance at its 50-day moving average as on-chain metrics show mixed signals on accumulation trends.
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Kambi processes 100M bets at 2026 World Cup, AI Bet Builders surge 10x
Kambi Group processed over 100 million bets during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, with AI-powered Bet Builders surging 10-fold in live betting compared to 2022, signaling a structural shift in sports betting preferences away from traditional match-winner wagers.
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Powerloom network shuts down July 21, users have 24 hours to bridge POWER
Powerloom, a blockchain network for decentralized data infrastructure, is permanently halting at 6:00 AM UTC on July 21. Users have until then to move POWER and other transferable assets via an Arbitrum bridge to Ethereum, as reward claims and unstaking closed five days earlier.
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Coinbase CEO Armstrong Rejects AI Mining Exodus Theory
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong pushed back against billionaire Chamath Palihapitiya's prediction that AI profits will drain Bitcoin miners, arguing the network's automatic difficulty adjustment and global monetary policy—not electricity costs—determine Bitcoin's price.
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Bitcoin ETFs record second straight week of net inflows
US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs posted $75.7 million in net inflows for the week ending July 18, marking a second consecutive week of positive flows after an eight-week outflow streak that exceeded $8 billion since early May.
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AZ-Com Maruwa Pays 2,300 Partners With JPYC Yen Stablecoin
Tokyo-listed logistics firm AZ-Com Maruwa, which serves Amazon Japan, plans to settle payments with roughly 2,300 business partners using JPYC, Japan's first regulated yen stablecoin, in what marks the country's first large-scale corporate stablecoin rollout.
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Chamath Palihapitiya Names Two Core Challenges Facing Bitcoin
Venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya identified liquidity diversion to prediction markets and AI's energy efficiency advantage as Bitcoin's two main challenges, sparking debate across the crypto community.
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South Korea's central bank targets September for second CBDC pilot phase
The Bank of Korea could launch the second phase of Project Hangang, its wholesale CBDC pilot, as early as September, adding two regional banks and testing government subsidy payments through tokenized deposits.
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Bitcoin slips under $64,000 as oil surge and chip selloff collide
Bitcoin fell 1.3% to $63,900 on Monday as geopolitical tension drove oil to one-month highs, reviving inflation fears that offset gains in U.S. equities. Crypto remains sandwiched between war-driven commodity strength and lingering weakness in Asian chip stocks.
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Yat Siu: Blockchain Powers AI Agents Better Than Banks
Yat Siu, co-founder of Animoca Brands, forecasts 50–200 billion autonomous AI agents by 2031 and argues blockchain—not traditional banking—offers the infrastructure they require. Animoca launched Hello Minds and a $10M developer fund to advance the agentic economy.
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Hyperliquid enables permissionless HIP-4 prediction market deployment
Hyperliquid announced that HIP-4 outcome markets will support permissionless deployment in an upcoming Phase 2 upgrade, allowing market creators to launch without prior approval if they stake 1,000,000 HYPE tokens.
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AZ-COM Maruwa to pay 2,300 drivers with JPYC stablecoin
AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, a mid-sized Japanese logistics company that serves Amazon Japan, plans to adopt the JPYC yen-denominated stablecoin to pay transportation contractors, marking the first large-scale corporate deployment of the digital currency in Japan.
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Pau Cubarsí's World Cup Young Player Award Boosts Chiliz Fan Token Trading
Barcelona center-back Pau Cubarsí won the FIFA Young Player of the Tournament at the 2026 World Cup, sparking increased trading activity across Chiliz fan tokens and digital collectibles platforms including Sorare and Panini NFTs.
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Russian airstrike kills five on cargo ship at Odesa port, escalating Black Sea risk
A Russian airstrike struck a Togolese-flagged cargo ship unloading fertilizers at Odesa port on July 13, killing five people including three foreign crew members and injuring ten. The attack intensifies threats to global wheat and fertilizer supply chains already disrupted by recurring strikes on Ukrainian port infrastructure.
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Nvidia invests $6.5B in silicon photonics to solve AI cluster bandwidth limits
Nvidia has invested over $6.5 billion in silicon photonics companies since March 2026, signaling a fundamental infrastructure shift as AI training clusters push hundreds of thousands of GPUs beyond the bandwidth capacity of traditional copper wiring.
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FIFA 2026 World Cup prize pool hits $871M as crypto markets surge
FIFA's 2026 World Cup champion will earn $51 million from an $871 million total prize pool—a 65% jump from Qatar 2022. The tournament's expansion to 48 teams has fueled explosive growth in crypto prediction markets, with Polymarket alone logging over $4 billion in trading volume on its World Cup winner market.
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Netanyahu vows to continue Iran military campaign amid crypto, oil volatility
Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to continue military operations against Iran regardless of US diplomatic efforts, triggering capital flight from Iranian crypto exchanges and oil-hedging spikes on decentralized platforms.
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IMF warns bonds no longer reliably hedge equity risk as 60/40 portfolios crater
The IMF identified a structural break in stock-bond correlation since 2020, with classic 60/40 portfolios suffering their worst drawdown since 2008 in 2022 as bonds and equities fell together during inflationary shocks.
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Dogecoin Dev Clarifies Merge Mining Security Model
Dogecoin Foundation developer Chromatic X disputed claims that Dogecoin depends solely on Litecoin for security, clarifying that it relies on all merge-mined L1 scrypt coins. The exchange highlights ongoing community discussion about the coin's long-term security model.