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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, July 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, today announced a landmark operational milestone: surpassing $1.1 billion in cumulative trading volume during its initial period of operation. This rapid ascent is supported by over 8.6 million total trades, positioning AFX as one of the fastest-growing decentralized derivatives platforms in the 2026 Web3 landscape. The most distinctive feature of AFX’s growth is its superior capital efficiency. While many decentralized protocols rely on massive Total Value Locked (TVL) to attract volume, AFX has achieved its $1.1 billion milestone with a lean TVL…

New York, USA, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire TrueDAO announced today the completion of a $10 million strategic funding round. The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Zee Prime Capital and Jump Capital. The proceeds will primarily fund core AI protocol development, AI-driven risk control, security audits, global compliance efforts, and the expansion of ecosystem partnerships. The journey to this milestone began a year ago when the TrueDAO team set out to build a decentralized financial infrastructure driven by smart contracts, on-chain reserves, dynamic adjustment mechanisms, and community governance. The initiative aimed to address challenges in the…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the launch of its VVIP Futures Loss Coverage Program 2.0 from July 10 to July 30, 2026 (UTC), an upgraded initiative offering enhanced trading protection and a 1,000,000 USDT prize pool for futures users to share. The Loss Coverage Program 2.0 introduces three key enhancements. Losses Covered Instantly gives eligible VVIP users same-day compensation on qualifying losing trades, with coverage chances and limits tiered according to VVIP level. Elite VVIP users with a credit score of 800 or above enjoy real-time compensation upon triggering loss…

The Optex Markets LLC filings point to digital asset futures and perpetual futures, not event contracts, as perps become a bigger issue for CFTC-regulated marketsThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved Optex Markets LLC as a new designated contract market (DCM), giving the company the same basic exchange status used by CFTC-regulated venues that list futures, options and other derivatives.The approval appeared in the CFTC’s DCM portal on July 9, less than a month after the agency designated Ludlow Exchange (tied to Novig) and ProphetX, two sports prediction market exchanges. Unlike those recent approvals, Optex’s public filings do not…

New Hampshire’s Executive Council rejected a proposed $100 million Bitcoin-backed municipal bond in a 3-2 vote on July 8, stopping a Business Finance Authority structure that would have moved BTC collateral into a state-linked public finance process.The vote came after the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority said last November that its board had approved a $100 million inaugural issuance backed by Bitcoin, while noting that issuance would still require approval by the Governor and Executive Council.That approval did not come.As the Boston Globe reported, the councilors voted against the plan after a motion to table the proposal failed to receive…

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…