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Key TakeawaysThe Fed held rates at 3.50% to 3.75% on July 29 in a 9-3 vote with three dissents.CME Fedwatch odds for a September 16 hike rose to 61.4%, up from 50.6% a month ago.Kalshi and Polymarket traders price a hike near 52% to 53% ahead of the Fed’s next meeting. The Federal Open Market Committee voted 9 to 3 to keep the target range unchanged. Fed Chair Kevin Warsh addressed the disagreement during his post-meeting press conference, making it clear the Committee wanted to reinforce its commitment to price stability rather than soften its stance. “There is no soft…

Crypto feels like it should be nearing the end of the bear market. Maybe we’re in the last inning.That doesn’t mean we blindly start aping into everything with a ticker. I’m still picking and choosing my bets, farming airdrops, and trading when I see a setup I like. But I do think it’s time to keep an eye on some of the riskier corners of crypto again, especially memes and NFTs.I don’t want to miss the $PEPE of this cycle.So I’m keeping my ear to the streets. Right now, that means watching the memes trending around Robinhood, while I’ve already…

Galaxy said on July 28 that it has acquired approximately 500 acres of land in McGregor, McLennan County, Texas, under a development agreement with the City of McGregor, to build and operate a data center campus serving artificial intelligence and high-performance computing in the McGregor Industrial Park.This marks Galaxy’s second major data center investment in Texas, following its Helios campus in West Texas. The project shows that the company is expanding further into AI infrastructure, amid rapidly growing compute demand and intensifying competition among data center developers for land, power, and deployment speed.Galaxy is expanding its data center footprint. We’ve…

Pi Network paid more than a million people to verify eighteen million identities across half a billion discrete tasks, then published the exact formula for what it paid them. Every outlet reproduced the formula. Not one converted it to dollars. Here is the number, and what it says about crypto’s largest experiment in distributed human labour. Summary Pi Network distributed its first round of KYC validator rewards to 1,094,680 people who completed 526,970,631 verification tasks, confirming roughly 18 million identities. The formula is published by Pi itself: a pool of 16,568,774 Pi contributed by migrating users, plus 10 million Pi…

Lawrence Jengar Jul 30, 2026 14:46 Uniswap (UNI)’s new ‘Launches’ feature aggregates top token launchpads, simplifying discovery for traders and projects. Uniswap (UNI) Labs has unveiled ‘Launches,’ a new beta feature within its web app that aggregates top token launchpads built on the Uniswap protocol. The feature, announced on July 30, 2026, aims to simplify token discovery for traders while boosting visibility for projects launching on Uniswap’s infrastructure. According to Uniswap Labs, the Launches tab consolidates tokens from launchpads such as Bankr, Pons, and Long into a single, filterable feed. Users can sort…

All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. FTX has started its fifth distribution round, returning approximately $900 million to eligible creditors. Total repayments have now reached nearly $10 billion since the exchange entered bankruptcy in 2022. Most customer and unsecured creditor classes have now recovered more than 100% of their allowed claims. The estate is entering its final distribution phase, with additional payment dates expected later. This marks another milestone in one of the largest bankruptcy recoveries in the digital asset industry. Eligible creditors who completed all required pre-distribution steps before the…

The Avalanche price continues to consolidate within a narrow range after witnessing a significant pullback from a pivotal support zone. It is trading around $6.47 after a rise of 1.33%, while the trading volume decreased marginally by 7%. In the meantime, the ecosystem has displayed positive developments with the Helicon upgrade going live on the Fuji Testnet. However, AVAX continues to trade below a key resistance zone, with traders watching whether the token can build enough momentum for a breakout.Avalanche Launches Helicon Upgrade on Fuji TestnetThe Avalanche Foundation confirmed that the Helicon upgrade has gone live on the Fuji Testnet,…

You send 0.02 BTC to a friend. A few seconds later, your exchange pings you for the recipient’s name and maybe their provider. Then it waits. That pause is not lag. It is compliance checking if the right identity data can hitch a ride with your transaction.Welcome to the Travel Rule era for crypto. It is not new, but it just got sharper in places like the EU, and vendors are upgrading the plumbing behind the scenes. If you are moving coins between hosted wallets, there is now a decent chance your transfer is being screened, labeled, and rechecked in…

This article first appeared in The Energy Mag. The original article can be viewed here. The Energy Mag (formerly The Miner Mag) provides news, data, and insights on the energy–compute–markets nexus. The expansion includes a $31.5 million miner purchase commitment and two acquisitions totaling $13.9 million for power contracts, land, buildings and mining equipment. Together, the transactions are intended to turn Fortitude from a miner reliant partly on third-party infrastructure into a more vertically integrated operator with company-controlled power and data-center capacity. Fortitude said its controlled data-center capacity has risen to more than 60 megawatts in 2026. The buildout comes…

Aave is redrafting parts of its multi-chain expansion and reducing its asset list in a bid to lower risk and align its focus. Following a broad review, the protocol is reducing 50 low adoption assets, reserves across several adoption, and winding down operations on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos, which altogether cover another 25 reserves. This was announced by Aave’s CEO Stani Kulechov on social media platform X today, July 30, 2026. The changes affect $98.1 million in supply and $15.6 million in debt, and are being framed as a segment of a new Aave risk framework and…