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ROAD TOWN, British Virgin Islands, July 11, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — AFX, a high-performance sovereign L1 purpose-built for decentralized derivatives, today announced a landmark operational milestone: surpassing $1.1 billion in cumulative trading volume during its initial period of operation. This rapid ascent is supported by over 8.6 million total trades, positioning AFX as one of the fastest-growing decentralized derivatives platforms in the 2026 Web3 landscape. The most distinctive feature of AFX’s growth is its superior capital efficiency. While many decentralized protocols rely on massive Total Value Locked (TVL) to attract volume, AFX has achieved its $1.1 billion milestone with a lean TVL…

Ethereum News: The Ethereum Foundation’s Protocol Security team, in a July 9, 2026, post authored by Nikos Baxevanis, has published a detailed account of running coordinated AI agents against Ethereum’s core protocol code, including systems software, cryptographic libraries, and contracts، and the headline result is methodological, not just the vulnerability they disclosed. The agents found a real bug: a remotely-triggerable panic in libp2p’s gossipsub layer, the peer-to-peer substrate that all Ethereum consensus clients depend on, now patched and publicly disclosed as CVE-2026-34219. But Baxevanis frames that disclosure as secondary to a more durable insight about where security research time actually…

Key highlights:The Ethereum Foundation has tested AI agents in a cybersecurity roleThe AI agents found real bugs in the shortest time possible, with the Foundation warning that security researchers are still requiredEthereum is now bracing for its biggest network improvements since The MergeThe Ethereum Foundation has announced a raft of positives after testing the capabilities of AI agents in spotting security vulnerabilities on the Ethereum network. Despite the successes, the Ethereum Foundation disclosed that AI agents are not replacements for security researchers as the network braces for seismic changes.Ethereum Foundation unleashes AI agents to spot vulnerabilitiesAccording to a blog post…

Oklo just went shopping again. The nuclear energy company completed its acquisition of Creative Engineers, Inc. (CEI) on June 30, bringing aboard roughly 20 engineers, fabricators, and welders who specialize in exactly the kind of sodium and alkali-metal systems that Oklo’s Aurora reactor technology depends on. This is Oklo’s second acquisition in a matter of weeks. Stock reaction was mixed, with some price slips observed around the announcement. Why sodium experts matter for a nuclear startup Oklo’s Aurora reactor is a compact, modular design that uses liquid sodium as a coolant instead of water. CEI has been doing alkali-metal work…

Regulators have until July 18, 2026, to turn the GENIUS Act from a statute into access rules for stablecoin issuers that want a clear regulatory path into the US.That date is the Act’s one-year rulemaking deadline, not a blanket cutoff for users or every restriction on issuers. Public Law 119-27 requires primary federal payment stablecoin regulators, Treasury, and state payment stablecoin regulators to issue implementing regulations through notice-and-comment rulemaking within one year of enactment.The law’s effective date is separate from this deadline. According to the OCC, the GENIUS Act takes effect on the earlier of two dates: 18 months after…

A group of crypto and Web3 firms that includes OKX, MetaMask, Matter Labs and Genlayer have formed the “Internet Court” to reach dispute resolutions between AI agents.These days, AI agents negotiate and pay one another without humans in the loop, but as with human-to-human transactions, agent-to-agent transactions will run into contractual disagreements.The problem is that agentic systems have no way to settle these disputes, and traditional courts are not built to handle such cases. Hence the need for the 27-firm-backed protocol, led by the Genlayer Foundation, which makes AI-based payments, escrow and dispute resolution interoperable, according to a press release.Agentic…

New York, USA, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire TrueDAO announced today the completion of a $10 million strategic funding round. The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Zee Prime Capital and Jump Capital. The proceeds will primarily fund core AI protocol development, AI-driven risk control, security audits, global compliance efforts, and the expansion of ecosystem partnerships. The journey to this milestone began a year ago when the TrueDAO team set out to build a decentralized financial infrastructure driven by smart contracts, on-chain reserves, dynamic adjustment mechanisms, and community governance. The initiative aimed to address challenges in the…

Growing crypto Regulation has been rumored to be behind the departures of top executives at Coinbase and Grayscale, two of crypto’s largest firms, with both seeing a top executive step down this week. Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal and Grayscale Chief Financial Officer Edward McGee announced their exits hours apart. Both are leaving on good terms after multi-year tenures, and each firm quickly named internal successors. Neither cited any dispute as a reason for leaving their respective high-profile positions. These exits dropped as the total crypto market cap surged +1% overnight to $2.25 trillion, with Bitcoin reclaiming $64,000 and…

Victoria, Seychelles, July 10th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, announced the launch of its VVIP Futures Loss Coverage Program 2.0 from July 10 to July 30, 2026 (UTC), an upgraded initiative offering enhanced trading protection and a 1,000,000 USDT prize pool for futures users to share. The Loss Coverage Program 2.0 introduces three key enhancements. Losses Covered Instantly gives eligible VVIP users same-day compensation on qualifying losing trades, with coverage chances and limits tiered according to VVIP level. Elite VVIP users with a credit score of 800 or above enjoy real-time compensation upon triggering loss…

Eightco treasury composition as of July 8, 2026: $90M OpenAI equity (indirect), $18M Beast Industries equity, 16,278 ETH, 283 million WLD holdings, and $149M cash and equivalents, totaling approximately $397 million Worldcoin token (WLD) now listed on Robinhood (NASDAQ: HOOD), expanding access to millions OpenAI recently announced that it submitted a confidential S-1, setting itself up for an initial public offering Eightco provides indirect exposure to some of the most innovative private companies including OpenAI and Beast Industries EASTON, Pa., July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Eightco Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ORBS) (“Eightco” or the “Company”) today provided an update on its…