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Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure XRP Ledger operators have been urged to upgrade to xrpld v3.2.1 after a hotfix was released to address validator manifest flooding that caused high memory and bandwidth usage on affected nodes. The xrpld v3.2.1 release notes show the hotfix was released on July 31, 2026. The issue did not disrupt consensus or transaction processing in the framing provided, but it did create resource pressure for individual nodes. That makes this a stability story rather than a catastrophic network-failure story. The fix is still important. Validator and node…

In brief The Senate took its first formal step toward voting on the Clarity Act, with Thune filing the motion to proceed early Saturday after an overnight session. The move tees up an initial procedural vote on September 15. Senators would need to reach agreement on several unresolved issues in the bill before now and then for the crypto market to get Clarity. The U.S. Senate has taken its first formal step toward voting on the Clarity Act, with leadership moving early Saturday to tee up a vote on the crypto market-structure bill and lock in a September date.Senate Majority…

In brief The initiative says it has scanned about 150 Bitcoin repositories and made more than a dozen vulnerability disclosures. The team is developing an open-source AI platform for auditing Bitcoin software. Developers say the effort is uncovering critical vulnerabilities across wallets, cryptographic libraries, and infrastructure. A volunteer security initiative says it used frontier AI models to scan 150 Bitcoin repositories and found more than a dozen vulnerabilities as developers increasingly use artificial intelligence to audit blockchains.In a post on X earlier this week, AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton said the group has spent about $20,000 on AI services while building…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana Foundation’s new Chief Information Security Officer, Michael Coates, has warned that AI is making crypto scams more convincing, especially through social engineering, phishing, and voice-based impersonation. The warning is not about a flaw in Solana’s blockchain or smart contracts. It is about the way attackers target people. That distinction matters. Crypto security used to be discussed mostly in terms of code: smart contracts, bridges, wallets, private keys, and validators. Those are still important. But attackers increasingly go after the user, the employee, the founder, the moderator,…

In brief Robinhood Chain reached almost $800 million in total value locked after one month. The network has processed more than 200 million transactions. Robinhood wants to reach people who have never used crypto rather than compete for existing users. Robinhood Chain wants to be a financial hub for the suits just as much as for the degens.That’s essentially the meaning behind Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s “two wolves” post on X, which the company’s head of crypto, Johann Kerbrat, says sums up what Robinhood is going for with the launch of its own Ethereum layer-2 network: a balance between serious…

In brief OpenAI’s first consumer device will be a screenless smart speaker shaped like a doughnut and roughly the size of a hockey puck, Bloomberg reported. Pricing has been discussed in the $300 to $400 range, with availability slated for 2027. Apple sued OpenAI in July over the alleged misappropriation of hardware trade secrets, and OpenAI moved to dismiss on Wednesday. OpenAI’s first consumer device will be a screenless smart speaker shaped like a doughnut and roughly the size of a hockey puck, Bloomberg reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the work who asked not to be identified because…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The XRP Ledger added 489,739 new accounts in the first half of 2026, bringing total accounts to about 8.4 million, according to public XRPL account-growth data. Public XRPL and RLUSD activity data links the growth to Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin activity, including deployment and minting during the period. That makes the account-growth story more interesting than a simple user-count headline. But the caveat matters: not every account is an active user. Blockchain account counts can include inactive wallets, low-balance accounts, test accounts, exchange-related addresses, app-created accounts, or one-time…

In brief Bitcoin trades at $64,938, up 1.06% on the day, but stuck below iboth the short-term and long-term moving averages. The U.S. economy shed 23,000 jobs in July, missing the 95,000 gain economists expected; CME FedWatch cut September hike odds to 40% from 55%. The short-term outlook remains bearish, but dwindling rate-hike odds may give investors hope. The U.S. labor market cracked harder than anyone expected. Employers cut 23,000 jobs in July—the first net loss since the pandemic-era recovery, and a sharp miss against the 95,000 gain economists had penciled in.The unemployment rate ticked down to 4.1% only because…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure An XRPL Foundation community director has warned users about a fake “XRP Holder Tiers” announcement designed to trick holders into connecting wallets and potentially losing funds. Public scam-warning materials identify the warning as coming from Hussein Zangana, known as “Vet,” who serves as Director of Community at the XRPL Foundation. The scam reportedly used a fake Ripple-style announcement to promote “XRP Holder Tiers,” encouraging users to connect wallets. The most important thing to be clear about is that this does not mean Ripple’s systems were hacked. This…

A decade-long international fraud operation has drained more than $9 million from over 200 elderly victims across the United States through promises of fake sweepstakes prizes. The scheme relied on unsolicited calls and texts that told seniors they had won large cash awards and luxury cars but first had to pay taxes or fees, reports reports the Jamaica Gleaner. Scammers then demanded more payments and, in some cases, took control of victims’ bank accounts to transfer funds directly to the operators. Thirty-year-old Jordan Trought entered a guilty plea on June 1st to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, mail fraud and…

In brief Hackers are using BNB Smart Chain contracts to store malware instructions. Fake CAPTCHA prompts tell victims to paste malicious commands into Windows tools. Successful attacks can steal credentials and give hackers lasting access to corporate networks. Hackers are using BNB Chain contracts to spread malware through compromised websites and fake CAPTCHA prompts, according to a report by Microsoft Threat Intelligence.In a post on X on Thursday, Microsoft Threat Intelligence said the campaign uses EtherHiding, a technique that stores malicious instructions in a blockchain smart contract. JavaScript injected into compromised websites contacts a BNB Chain gateway and retrieves commands…

In brief XRP fell 2.05% in 24 hours to $1.02, the lone red coin among the top 10; every other major is green. The Senate left Washington without voting on the Clarity Act, delaying the market-structure bill until at least September. XRP trades within a confirmed death cross, but prediction market traders remain optimistic for now. The Senate left town without taking up the Clarity Act, pushing the market-structure vote to at least September. Every major coin shrugged it off—except XRP.While Bitcoin stayed flat, dealing with its own headwinds, and Dogecoin gained 1.38% over the day to be the best…

A Louisiana man has been sentenced to four years in federal prison after orchestrating a wide-ranging bank fraud and mail theft scheme that targeted financial institutions and their customers. Marvell Trevenski Jackson Jr., 26, of Baton Rouge, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and theft of mail, says the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Louisiana. In addition to his 48-month prison sentence, he was ordered to serve three years of supervised release, pay $378,394 in restitution and forfeit another $238,804. According to prosecutors, Jackson led a scheme that targeted multiple federally insured financial institutions,…

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Solana traded near the $73 area as traders watched a mix of ETF-flow signals, ecosystem activity, and new integration pilots for signs of whether the network can hold its recent range. Public market and ecosystem updates point to positive ETF inflows, a Solana Pay proof-of-concept pilot with KSNET in South Korea, and MoneyGram joining as a validator. Those are useful ecosystem signals, though they should not be treated as a guarantee that SOL will hold any particular price level. That distinction matters because price commentary can easily…