Polygon plans to activate its Heimdall v2 hard fork on 10 July, aiming to cut transaction finality on the proof-of-stake network to about five seconds and eliminate legacy code dating from 2018-19

SharpLink, whose shares trade under the ticker SBET, disclosed that it now holds about 205,634 ether, purchased at an average price of roughly $2,604

Paris-based 5G and internet-of-things chipmaker Sequans Communications has completed a private placement of debt and equity that raised about $384 million

Crypto wallet provider Phantom has introduced "Phantom Perps," a direct perpetual-futures trading feature powered by Hyperliquid

Stable-coin issuer Tether Holdings Ltd. said it has amassed almost 80 metric tons of gold—worth about $8 billion—in a vault it built and operates in Switzerland.

Pakistan’s federal cabinet has approved the creation of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority, an independent body that will license, monitor and supervise virtual-asset service providers while aligning the country’s rules with Financial Action Task Force standards

The Dubai Financial Services Authority has granted regulatory approval for the QCD Money Market Fund, the first tokenised money-market vehicle authorised in the Dubai International Financial Centre

Business-intelligence firm Strategy said it has launched a $4.2 billion at-the-market offering for its 10% perpetual STRD preferred stock.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Ethereum Foundation researcher Toni Wahrstätter have filed Ethereum Improvement Proposal 7983, calling for a hard cap of 16.77 million gas on every transaction executed on the network.

Russia has introduced a nationwide registry of cryptocurrency-mining equipment, marking its most comprehensive effort yet to monitor the industry’s energy consumption and curb unlicensed operations