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Real-world asset tokenization has gained a lot of traction within few years and is no longer limited to experimentation alone. Did you know that the total value locked in tokenized real-world assets is over $374 billion? (Source) We are excited to announce that our new RWA tokenization course launched recently is a great resource to learn about this emerging field. Real-world asset tokenization offers more than the benefit of bringing ownership of assets in the real world to blockchain protocols. The biggest reason to focus on RWA tokenization now is visible in how tokenization has the potential to introduce structural…

Zcash’s Ironwood network upgrade, the solution to an “infinity” bug discovered in May on the privacy-focused blockchain’s main private transaction pool, Orchard, is set to go live on July 28. Announced in June, Ironwood closes the current Orchard pool, prevents new activity in it and sets up a new private pool. Funds leaving Orchard would have to pass through an accounting checkpoint before entering Ironwood, which could produce evidence about whether any counterfeit Zcash (ZEC) tokens were produced through the Orchard bug. “Zcash’s Ironwood mainnet activation height has been set and tagged! All of the major organizations are committed to activation of…

The amount of Ether bridged to Robinhood’s new layer-2 blockchain exceeded $70 million in just the first week, according to Token Terminal. Robinhood Chain, an EVM-compatible Arbitrum-based layer-2 network that uses ETH as its native gas token, launched on July 1 with the company describing it as “AI-native and purpose-built for real-world assets.” “If adoption continues, the chain could become a meaningful new source of demand for ETH,” said Token Terminal on Thursday. Robinhood has also offered tokenized stocks to customers in more than 120 countries, responding to a surging demand for tokenized US equities. Ethereum and its layer-2 scaling networks have been a…

Polymarket wants in. The prediction market platform has filed applications to offer regulated margin trading in the United States, a move that puts it squarely in competition with Kalshi, which already locked down that approval back in March. The gap between the two platforms is real. Kalshi got there first, securing the regulatory green light for margin trading months ago, and that head start matters in a market where being second means fighting for users who’ve already picked a favorite. Polymarket is now running the same regulatory race, filing its own applications and hoping the outcome lands in its favor.…

The European Parliament has passed legislation allowing tech firms to scan messages for child sexual abuse material until 2028, a controversial law dubbed “chat control” by critics.EU lawmakers on Thursday largely voted against extending the regulation, dubbed “Chat Control 1.0,” but stopping it required 361 lawmakers to reject it. Only 314 voted to stop the law, and 276 supported it.The vote advances reviving the “chat control” rules that expired in April, and has been a controversial topic among privacy and cryptography advocates, as the originally designed law breaks the principle behind encrypting messages.Parliament, however, passed an exemption to exclude “communications to…

New York, USA, July 9th, 2026, Chainwire New VIP Trading Badges give high-volume traders access to CEX-style fee discounts, card rewards and expanded spending power—without surrendering custody of their assets Tria, the leading self-custodial neofinance platform, today became the first platform to bring VIP trading to self-custody, giving high-volume traders access to institutional-style trading rewards without giving up ownership of their digital assets. For years, active traders have faced a tradeoff. The deepest fee discounts and richest rewards were available only on centralized exchanges, where users had to relinquish custody of their assets. Self-custody offered control, but not comparable VIP…

Eightco treasury composition as of July 8, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $397 million Worldcoin token (WLD) now listed on Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), expanding access to millions OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its…

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 9th, 2026, Chainwire  Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, reported that Bybit’s Private Wealth Management (PWM) BTC fund products have recorded a comprehensive annualized return of approximately 4.9% over the past 60 days, with select individual funds delivering 30-day annualized percentage rates exceeding 40%. Through its BTC-invested, BTC-settled fund structure, Bybit PWM’s BTC strategies offers a more advanced allocation solution to users holding larger BTC positions. Launched in September 2025, Bybit PWM manages over $239 million in assets across over 160 portfolios. In June 2026, Bybit introduced PWM 2.0, expanding direct dashboard…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 8th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, will add nine Ondo tokenized stock and ETF trading pairs to its spot market, the latest expansion of ongoing collaboration with Ondo Finance. The new pairs cover companies across the data center, semiconductor and power supply chains linked to growing AI infrastructure demand, expanding the range of tokenized U.S. equities available to users and providing on-chain exposure to a sector at the center of the current AI infrastructure buildout. The pairs include tokenized stocks and ETFs tracking Bloom Energy (BEON/USDT), Astera Labs (ALABON/USDT), Credo Technology (CRDOON/USDT),…

Zug, Switzerland, July 7th, 2026, Chainwire Premium virtual assets pioneer BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. is now fully authorized by the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, enabling regulated institutional services across the UAE. Building on its position as Switzerland’s leading crypto financial services provider, Bitcoin Suisse is further accelerating its international expansion. Bitcoin Suisse Group’s subsidiary, BTCS (Middle East) Ltd. (“BTCS ME”) has received Financial Services Permission (FSP) from the Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of ADGM, the international financial centre of Abu Dhabi, marking another significant step toward the Group’s international growth strategy becoming a leading global wealth…