Solana block time drops by 17% due to speed upgrade

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has issued an innovation exemption to establish a pathway for secondary trading on tokenized stock chains, with an implementation period from September 17, 2026 to September 17, 2031. This exemption applies to specific tokenized securities trading venues that provide licensed automatic market makers and liquidity pools. The trading venues must be deployed on public, permissionless blockchain and only allow verified or authorized participants to trade. Qualified tokens must correspond to actual US National Market System stocks and grant shareholder rights, with exemptions not covering primary issuances, synthetic exposures, and products that do not have legal or beneficial rights to the underlying stocks. Galaxy is studying the next steps to enable on chain GLXY secondary trading.

Marc van der Chijs sold much of his bitcoin to invest in AI. Now, growing concerns about the technology accompany a move to put some profits back into crypto.

Commander Brad Cooper of the US Central Command stated that the main navigation channels in the Strait of Hormuz have completed mine clearance, thousands of ships have passed through, and over 1 billion barrels of crude oil have been shipped out by Gulf partners. The transportation volume of crude oil, cargo, and liquefied natural gas in the past two weeks has reached its highest level in six months.

The upcoming Batch V1.1 can make linked asset and payment transfers succeed together or fail together, and Ripple says commercial projects are already being built around the feature after an extensive security review.

A certain address holds 9810 ZEC multiple orders, with an opening price of $517.68 and a current price of $1534.70, resulting in a floating profit of $9.98 million; The address holds 3550 ETH short positions, resulting in a loss of $2.6 million.