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All news is rigorously fact-checked and reviewed by leading blockchain experts and seasoned industry insiders. Binance.US intends to apply for a Commodity Futures Trading Commission license in August, seeking designation as a Designated Contract Market, the federal status held by regulated exchanges that list futures, options and event contracts. TL;DR Binance.US plans to apply in August for a CFTC license to run a regulated prediction market exchange. A Designated Contract Market license covers trading only; clearing requires separate registration or a partner. CFTC guidance issued July 24 blocks template-style filings covering many markets at once. Crypto.com bought its way in…

Ripple’s native token XRP was launched in 2014, and the lifetime charts from TradingView show that the altcoin has experienced major bull rallies only five times in the last 12 years. Even after rising more than 100% in value five times, the altcoin has dipped with equal fervor, erasing nearly 80% of its gains and getting back to square one. This pattern has been cyclic for more than a decade, giving insights into how the altcoin operates.Source: TradingViewFor instance, each time XRP climbed above $ 1.50, it fell back below $0.50. When it climbed above $2, its price subsequently fell…

Bitunix vs Binance looks like David versus Goliath on paper. Binance is the largest exchange in the world. Bitunix is the fast-rising challenger with a fraction of the volume. However, 2026 flipped parts of this script. Binance lost EU access in July after failing to secure a MiCA license. Meanwhile, Bitunix keeps winning traders with optional KYC, 200x leverage, and cheaper spot fees. Therefore, this comparison weighs size against access, privacy, and cost.Quick verdict: Binance wins on liquidity and catalog where you can legally use it. Bitunix wins on privacy, leverage, spot costs, and simple accessibility. For the deep dives,…

Robinhood delivered its strongest quarter yet, posting record Q2 revenue of $1.31 billion, up 32% year-over-year, while net income climbed 48% to $573 million and earnings per share reached $0.62 as per the report. But the biggest surprise wasn’t the record revenue, it was the company’s shifting business model.Event Contracts Steal the SpotlightTransaction-based revenue jumped 44% to $776 million, led by event contract revenue of $156 million, which surged more than 10x compared to last year. Robinhood also reported strong growth in options revenue, up 29% to $342 million, while equities revenue nearly doubled 95% to $129 million.Meanwhile, crypto revenue…

Key TakeawaysAllwyn confirmed a £177,547.30 EuroMillions prize expired after the July 15, 2026 deadline.National Lottery Good Causes gains £177,547.30, adding to roughly £33M raised weekly.EuroMillions rules stay firm after 180 days, with unclaimed prizes redirected to community projects. Somebody who bought a EuroMillions ticket in Watford, just north-west of London, is now walking around without £177,547.30 they could have collected. The ticket matched five main numbers plus one Lucky Star in the 1/16/2026 draw, but the UK’s 180-day claim window closed at midnight on 7/15/2026 with no valid claim. That means the prize is gone for good, and the money…

Today, our feeds lit up. On X, we saw a few people claim over $600 in USDC from a brand-new MoonPay product called PayBox. Naturally, we checked it out. As always, we test every airdrop we talk about on our platform before writing a single word.Here is the honest version of how that went. We followed every step, connected our AI, but couldn’t link our X, and then… nothing. No airdrop. I kept refreshing and refreshing the dashboard, staring at a “x faucet is not available” message.Until MoonPay tweeted, 12 minutes ago: “some of you missed it — lock in,…

Prediction market guides explain how contracts resolve and pay. Almost none explain what happens when a market never gets that far, because it was voided, suspended by a court, renamed mid-life, or pulled by the exchange. The answers live in rulebooks and incident history, and they differ enough to matter. Summary A prediction market can end without a normal resolution in at least four ways: the exchange voids it, a regulator or court forces suspension, the contract’s terms are altered mid-life, or the venue withdraws a self-certified product under pressure. Voiding is the cleanest outcome and generally means positions are…

Every chain announcement leads with a transaction number. On a network charging $0.0002, 1 million transactions represents $200 of economic activity and a weekend of testing. The metric that headlines every milestone is the one that survives the least scrutiny, and the analytics platforms already know it. Summary Transaction counts are the most-cited blockchain metric and among the least informative, because a count measures events, not value, and says nothing about what those events were worth. On networks with fees measured in fractions of a cent, the cost of generating enormous counts is trivial, so testing, scripts, and incentive farming…

Caroline Bishop Jul 29, 2026 22:16 AMD EPYC 9004 and 9005 CPUs offer 12 memory channels, challenging traditional server memory provisioning practices amid global DRAM shortages. As global memory shortages push enterprises to rethink server provisioning strategies, AMD has positioned its EPYC 9004 and 9005 series CPUs as a critical tool for optimizing costs and performance. With 12 memory channels per socket, the processors enable organizations to fine-tune memory configurations for modern workloads without overprovisioning, a costly mistake in today’s constrained market. The launch couldn’t come at a more pivotal time. The 2024–2026…

Darius Baruo Jul 29, 2026 22:09 ThunderAgent eliminates inefficiencies in agentic inference, achieving 2.5x throughput and near-linear scalability for synthetic data generation. Together.ai has unveiled ThunderAgent, a system designed to optimize agentic inference for synthetic data generation. By rethinking how inference workflows are scheduled, ThunderAgent delivers a 2.5x throughput improvement on single nodes and scales near-linearly across multi-node GPU clusters. The system, which has been accepted as a Spotlight paper at ICML 2026, promises to streamline large-scale synthetic data pipelines critical for modern AI applications. ThunderAgent’s key innovation lies in treating each agentic…