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Throughput targets and Tachyon’s roleThe reason for building all this is arithmetic. Mastercard and Visa process more than 50,000 transactions per second, and the team calls that figure ‘“its floor, not its target.” Zcash’s current cryptography would require a node to take in and verify more than 500 megabytes of data every second to keep up, because every private transaction carries a proof, and proofs are large. That is roughly a full DVD of data arriving every ten seconds, continuously, and no current Zcash software runs anywhere near that. But the missing piece is the reason each bottleneck exists.Bowe’s Project…

Michael Saylor argued that corporate ownership of Bitcoin (BTC) is inevitable, framing companies as the legal engines it needs to succeed. He made the case in a July 18 post on X, saying that firms provide efficiency and creditworthiness that no individual can match on their own. Saylor’s Case for Corporate Bitcoin Ownership Bitcoin has moved from an individual store of value to an asset held increasingly on corporate books. Saylor, chairman of Strategy (MSTR), has pushed that shift harder than any other executive. His firm built what is often described as part of Bitcoin’s long-term endgame, a strategy built…

Ostium, an on-chain perpetuals trading platform, said a five-minute security incident caused losses from its public liquidity vault. Security firms estimated the exploit at up to $24 million.Co-founder Kaledora Kiernan-Linn confirmed that the issue ran from 14:18 to 14:23 UTC on July 15 and affected the public Ostium Liquidity Provider (OLP) vault. She said the team identified it within minutes and coordinated a trading pause within the hour. The statement did not give a definitive loss total, identify the root cause, or provide a final postmortem.Security firms said authorized data, rather than a missing signature, sat at the center of…

If BTC is to mimic its previous surge, it would rise above $500,000. Bitcoin has managed to recover some ground from the early July drop to a multi-year low and now fights for $65,000. On the more macro scale, though, the asset has flashed a signal that preceded one of the most impressive rallies in its recent history. Can it do it again now? BTC to $500K and Beyond? The signal in question was the formation of a bullish RSI divergence on the weekly chart, as outlined by popular analyst Ali Martinez. It emerges when the asset’s price and its…

Bitcoin traded near $62,900 on Friday afternoon, down roughly 38% from its October 2025 all-time high, as Brent crude settled above $85 and the Strait of Hormuz remained effectively closed to normal commercial traffic.By early Saturday, it had recovered to around $63,900, then traded flat throughout the EU morning.The disputed waterway normally carries 20.9 million barrels of oil per day, about one-fifth of global petroleum consumption, but tanker crossings have collapsed to near-record lows after the United States reimposed a naval blockade on Iranian ports and Tehran responded with missile strikes on Gulf state infrastructure.Oil futures, Treasury markets, and US…

Kaspersky has uncovered a new malware framework targeting cryptocurrency investors.Dubbed “OkoBot,” the malware initiates an infection chain that starts with social engineering tactics such as ClickFix, which tricks users into running malicious commands, or trojanized GitHub apps that deliver a backdoor to infected devices, the cybersecurity company wrote in a Wednesday report.The malware can harvest crypto wallet files, browser data and user credentials, inject malicious extensions and capture wallet application windows to steal assets. Kaspersky said it identified multiple attacks involving this malware family since January 2026.Kaspersky added that the malware framework evolved from “TookPS,” a malware campaign first identified…

Bitcoin may be wrapping up its bear market. The short-term holder cost basis just dropped below the adjusted long-term holder level — a crossover that has, in past cycles, shown up right before prolonged downturns finally ended. With Bitcoin trading above $30,000, that’s not a small thing. The crossover itself is pretty straightforward once you unpack the jargon. Short-term holders are basically newer buyers — people who got in recently. Long-term holders are the ones who’ve been sitting on coins for months or years. When the average price newer buyers paid drops below what seasoned holders paid on an adjusted…

San Francisco, CA, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2 million of the token from the open market. The purchase brings Numerai’s total NMR buybacks to $3.2 million within one year. The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in the staking system that aligns thousands of independent data scientists toward improving the firm’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, the machine learning model that powers Numerai’s…

London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional audiences, securing industry-leading protection against slashing risk for ether.fi users is critical. Over the last year, ether.fi has been systematically strengthening their stack across infrastructure, risk management, operational security and real-time defense systems.  Since ether.fi operates one of the largest validator sets on Ethereum, slashing is a…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on its spot market in collaboration with Ondo Finance. The five companies span a supply chain that runs from semiconductor and precision component manufacturing to industrial cooling and power infrastructure supporting AI data centers, allowing users to trade these U.S. stocks using USDT on MEXC around the clock, with instant settlement and no traditional brokerage account required. The trading pairs include tokenized shares of STMicroelectronics N.V. (STMON/USDT), Fabrinet (FNON/USDT), Trane Technologies (TTON/USDT), Amphenol (APHON/USDT) and Quanta Services (PWRON/USDT).…