Mark Bychek

🚨 Zcash has launched the Ironwood update on the main network.

The upgrade is a response to a recent scandal: an Orchard pool reportedly found a vulnerability that had existed since 2022. Theoretically, it could have allowed for the creation of an unlimited number of fake ZEC with no trace.

What Ironwood includes:

🔸 A new Ironwood private pool with formal verification.
🔸 Full “sealing” of the old Orchard pool—no more deposits are allowed into it.
🔸 A mechanism to verify the total number of coins in the pool.

Users of the old Orchard and Sapling pools need to transfer their funds to the new Ironwood pool. The team stresses that there should be no issues with verification and urges everyone to switch.

Do you think this will restore trust in Zcash after what happened? 🫠

Morgan Stanley launches spot ETFs on Ethereum and Solana. Today on NYSE Arca, trading began for the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL).

The combined fee for both funds is 0.14%. These are among the lowest rates in the market. In addition, the funds will generate extra income through staking: up to 80% ETH and up to 100% SOL. Around 95% of staking rewards will be returned to investors. Morgan Stanley does not keep any staking fee for itself.

This is a logical continuation of the success of their Bitcoin fund (MSBT), which attracted more than $430 million. Now Morgan Stanley has an ETF for three major cryptocurrencies—BTC, ETH, and SOL—available through regular brokerage accounts.

Do you think this is the start of a new wave of institutional money into crypto, or just another ETF?

The XRP Ledger encountered problems after an update

After the release of the new xrpld v3.2.0 version, developers found several bugs. Some nodes started to lag, while others began to lose synchronization with the main network.

Some operators have already rolled back to the older v3.1.3 version to restore operation. There are reports from Windows 10 users—their nodes hang at the connection stage, even though the connection to peers is stable.

At the same time, the vote on the fixCleanup3_2_0 upgrade is almost complete—30 out of 35 validators support the changes. Activation is scheduled for July 29. But if you haven’t upgraded to version 3.2.0 yet, there’s a chance you’ll be left behind.

Apple is once again the most valuable company in the world, overtaking Nvidia.

Its market capitalization has reached approximately $4.92 trillion. Over the year, Apple’s shares rose by 22%, helped by the company’s more restrained approach to spending on AI. Investors see this as an advantage rather than a lag.

In fact, Apple surpassed Nvidia amid a broader shift of capital away from companies heavily investing in AI infrastructure toward more stable technology giants.

Trump published an AI photo with a cigar and a cap reading “Trump 2028”.

The Constitution bans a third term. But hats and memes are already for sale.

The other posts are AI fantasies about strikes on Iran and saving George Washington.

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🇪🇺 The EU will prohibit citizens and residents of Belarus from owning, controlling, or managing any crypto service provider regulated by MiCA from 25 August.

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🚀 The first former trillionaire in history… but there’s a catch! 😂

Remember the famous tweet where analysts predicted Elon Musk would become the world’s first trillionaire thanks to SpaceX’s colossal success? The billionaire’s response, as usual, deserves its own spot in the internet-trolling hall of fame.

Musk briefly clarified: In $DOGE

For years, journalists have been making serious economic forecasts, and Elon has once again proved that a doge-themed meme coin with a Shiba Inu in it holds a special place in his heart—and in his portfolio. By the way, every time he jokes about this on social media, the coin’s price instantly reacts with a rapid surge.

By the way, irony of fate: the analysts’ predictions came true after all! In the summer of 2026, Elon Musk officially crossed the historic milestone and became the world’s first dollar trillionaire. Sure, it was the tech giants SpaceX and Tesla that brought him the fortune—not memes. But who knows, maybe his next goal is to become a quadrillionaire in DOGE? 🐕🛰️

🚨 Error at $360,000: The Power of a Single Cup of Coffee!

Many people wait for the “perfect moment” to enter the market, while others get rich with nothing but ordinary discipline.

Let’s remove the emotions and look at dry numbers. What would happen if, instead of buying a cup of coffee, you invested just $10 every day for the last 10 years?

Over 10 years, you would have set aside $36,560 from your pocket.

And here’s what that money would turn into today:

📈 Gold — $84,657
👑 Bitcoin — $397,832

What’s the secret?

It’s a DCA averaging strategy. You don’t try to guess the bottom—you just buy the asset, in rain and in sunshine. Over the long run, it completely wipes out any market dips. Time ALWAYS beats timing.

Conspiracy theorists on platform X have already begun putting forward a new theory in connection with the closure of the BitMEX exchange.

According to them, serious issues at major crypto exchanges coincided with the end of the bearish market and the start of a new BTC growth cycle.

Examples include:
Mt.Gox (2014) +11,860%
BitGrail (2018) +2044%
FTX (2022) +687%

Now they expect this scenario to repeat, with a BTC target around ~$180,000+

Hackers broke into CEO Robinhood's account on X and promoted a scam token.

In 20 minutes, the post racked up 175K views. The scammers withdrew ~650 ETH ($1.2M). At its peak, the fake token's market cap reached $10M.

Robinhood confirmed the hack and the post was taken down.

A convenient excuse: "it wasn't me, I was hacked." Do we believe it?

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Jensen Huang stepped into X. And he has something to say.

The founder of NVIDIA wrote on social media for the first time—and his first post wasn’t about graphics cards, but about the future of AI. He signed a letter backed by Microsoft, Meta, IBM, and dozens of other companies. OpenAI and Anthropic are standing aside.

The United States can’t rely solely on closed models. That’s a risk. Open models provide flexibility and security. Chinese developments are already catching up—for example, Kimi K3 from Moonshot AI.

Huang puts it plainly: limiting open models means weakening your own position.

“AI will change everything. It will be built by every country. And the world needs both approaches—open and closed.”

Jensen didn’t just go out to write a post. He went out with a position.

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The largest companies, such as BlackRock, Coinbase, Fidelity and Strategy, have joined forces to enhance Bitcoin security by forming the Bitcoin Security Consortium.

The consortium will focus on funding developers and conducting research in network security, including protection against potential threats from quantum technologies.

Participants plan to allocate 15 млн$ for these purposes over the next three years.

👀 Franklin Templeton: AI agents will change the crypto economy

The company’s analysts believe that AI agents will become the key driver behind the mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. They will make billions of micropayments with each other because traditional banks are too slow and too expensive for this.

As a result, blockchains could become the foundation of a new economy.

Main beneficiaries: Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain.

BNB Chain is already actively preparing for this scenario. A new L1 is being developed for high-frequency trading and AI agents with transaction pre-confirmation in under 50 ms and throughput of more than 100,000 TPS. The testnet is scheduled for the end of 2026, and the mainnet—at the beginning of 2027. This is not just an upgrade, but a purpose-built infrastructure for a machine economy.

Santiment data: large investors increased their share of XRP by 2.8% over five weeks.

According to analytics platform Santiment, over the past five weeks wallets holding between 100,000 and 100 million XRP increased their holdings by 2.8%.

While whales were accumulating, small holders reduced their positions by 5.2%.

Analysts consider this divergence in the behavior of large and small players a bullish signal.

In half a year, gold and silver lost $14.5 trillion — 6.6 times more than the entire capitalization of the crypto market.

For comparison: the entire crypto market is currently worth about $2.1 trillion. And precious metals simply disappeared an amount that is many times larger.

If this money had gone into $BTC , its price could have soared to $750,000.

Satoshi in 2010

👀 A woman’s Wise account was closed because of her company name.

She founded BTC Isla — a local community of entrepreneurs in Mexico. No cryptocurrency transactions, no transfers. But Wise saw the word “BTC” and blocked the account.

When she contacted support, they told her they don’t work with Bitcoin. She explained that it’s just a name. Pointless. They also asked her to delete a post on social media.

She started looking for others who had run into the same thing — and found hundreds of similar cases. Banks close accounts for people just for being associated with crypto assets.

Who said Operation Chokepoint 2.0 is over? You can’t open a business account if the name includes “BTC” or “Bitcoin.” Even if you don’t use the account to buy cryptocurrency.

This isn’t about security and it isn’t about the law. It’s about discrimination. And maybe that’s exactly why decentralized alternatives are becoming more and more real.

Bitcoin was created for situations like this. It doesn’t ask for permission. It doesn’t close accounts. And no one can forbid you from owning it just because they don’t like the name of your company.

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🚨 US Senate has finally published the full text of the bill on the structure of the cryptocurrency market.

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The exit queue for Ethereum validators has emptied.

There are 2.47 million ETH in the intake. The waiting time is 43 days.

At the exit—zero. No one wants to withdraw.

The sellers’ pressure has gone. And this is an important signal.

Attorney Taytov made loud statements in the extradition case.

Joseph McBride confirmed that a powerful Miami attorney, Black Srebnik, has joined the defense team while the brothers fight extradition and new charges.

He refused to confirm support from Trump, but said that the UK prime minister, Keir Starmer, is angry and that it is connected to recent developments.

McBride: The whole world knows that Andrew and Tristan are innocent.

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