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Blackrock’s Tokenized Funds Hit $2.93B Onchain as Ethereum Leads With $1.1B
Blackrock now manages $2.93 billion in tokenized assets onchain, with Ethereum leading the pack ahead of Avalanche, Solana, and BNB Chain. A Multichain Footprint Anchored by BUIDL The bulk of Blackrock’s onchain assets sit in the Blackrock…
Musk’s SpaceX and Starlink Hijacked as ‘SCATMAN’ Memecoin Rockets to $32M on Robinhood Chain
Attackers seized the official X accounts of SpaceXAI and Starlink on Sunday to promote a memecoin called Scam Altman (SCATMAN), which briefly touched a $32 million market cap on Robinhood Chain. Lookonchain noted the hacker minted 10…
Bitcoin Drops Below 63$K as Trump Resumes Iran Strikes While Oil Jumps 4.5%
Bitcoin is trading around $63,000, down 2% over the last 24 hours, as the United States launched a third round of strikes on Iran and Tehran declared the Strait of Hormuz closed “until further notice.” Brent crude surged 4.5% as weekend…
Cambridge Report Reveals Ethereum’s Energy Consumption Dropped 99.98% Post-Merge
The report stresses that “The Merge,” a foundational change in Ethereum’s consensus mechanism, reduced energy demand by 3.5 orders of magnitude, scaling down a network that required energy equivalent to a small nation-state like Iceland…
Cape Town Expands Crypto Fraud Fight as Police Seize Luxury Cars With Fake Plates
South African mayor recently joined the metro police in a targeted night operation to impound luxury vehicles driven by self-proclaimed cryptocurrency and forex “traders” operating with fake or missing registrations. Luxury Seizures and…
The US Government Owes $39 Trillion. Here’s Why That’s Bitcoin’s Best Argument Yet
U.S. gross national debt crossed $39 trillion in mid-March, and debt held by the public stood at over $31 trillion. With the Congressional Budget Office projecting a $1.9 trillion deficit in fiscal 2026 and public debt rising to $56…
Combating Illicit Flows: Thailand Implements Strict New Checks on High-Volume Stablecoin Trades
The institution announced that this measure targets the country’s shadow economy, which accounted for nearly 41% of its GDP by 2015. The Bank of Thailand is already applying the proposed checks on large cash transactions and on gold bullion…
Bitcoin’s Lottery Jackpot: Solo Home Miner Wins $200,000 With a $150 Mining Device
A hobbyist running a single Bitaxe device just won Bitcoin’s biggest lottery. On July 9, 2026, at approximately 03:30 UTC, a solo miner using a palm-sized Bitaxe device mined block 957382 through Public Pool, claiming the full 3.1382 BTC…
Ripple Almost Shut Down and Distributed XRP After SEC Lawsuit, CEO Reveals
Ripple nearly shut down after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) sued the company, with CEO Brad Garlinghouse considering whether to end operations, distribute XRP holdings to shareholders, and close the business. Ripple…
Latam Insights: Inside Tether’s $20M Bet on Brazil, Operation Veil of Maya, and the Stablecoin Hold…
Welcome to Latam Insights, a compilation of the most relevant crypto news from Latin America over the past week. In this edition, Tether backs Mercado Bitcoin with $10 million, Brazilian police attack an illegal crypto betting ring, and the…