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London, United Kingdom, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire ether.fi, the leading onchain neobank for digital asset management, has selected Nexus Mutual to provide crypto’s largest-ever ETH Slashing Cover. The cover protects ether.fi‘s validators against up to 15,000 ETH worth of slashing penalties. As ether.fi continues to see rapid adoption from both retail and institutional audiences, securing industry-leading protection against slashing risk for ether.fi users is critical. Over the last year, ether.fi has been systematically strengthening their stack across infrastructure, risk management, operational security and real-time defense systems.  Since ether.fi operates one of the largest validator sets on Ethereum, slashing is a…

Mutsamudu, Comoros, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire MEXC, a pioneer in 0-fee digital asset trading, has listed five Ondo tokenized stock trading pairs on its spot market in collaboration with Ondo Finance. The five companies span a supply chain that runs from semiconductor and precision component manufacturing to industrial cooling and power infrastructure supporting AI data centers, allowing users to trade these U.S. stocks using USDT on MEXC around the clock, with instant settlement and no traditional brokerage account required. The trading pairs include tokenized shares of STMicroelectronics N.V. (STMON/USDT), Fabrinet (FNON/USDT), Trane Technologies (TTON/USDT), Amphenol (APHON/USDT) and Quanta Services (PWRON/USDT).…

Dubai, UAE, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, today released its Q1 2026 BTC spot execution analysis, showing that its Rapid Price Improvement (RPI) mechanism consistently delivered lower trading slippage than comparable execution measurements across major cryptocurrency exchanges. As digital asset markets continue to mature, execution quality has emerged as an increasingly important measure of market performance alongside trading fees and quoted liquidity. Bybit’s latest analysis demonstrates that improvements in market structure can materially reduce trading costs for both retail and institutional participants. Across simulated BTC/USDT spot trades ranging from US$10,000 to US$1…

Bitcoin BTC$62,907.20 and Asian stocks fell Friday after fresh U.S. airstrikes on Iran raised geopolitical uncertainty. Additionally, President Donald Trump’s allegations that China tampered with the 2020 election hurt risk sentiment, sending the Australian dollar lower.BTC, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, slipped below $63,000, extending Thursday’s nearly 1.4% slide from $65,000, according to CoinDesk data. As of this writing, the cryptocurrency traded just below its 50-day simple moving average, the widely-tracked gauge of near-term momentum.Asian equity markets wilted, with Japan’s Nikkei trading nearly 3% lower at its lowest in over a month. Australia’s ASX 200 slipped by 0.5% alongside…

Felix Pinkston Jul 17, 2026 07:03 Bitcoin is trading at $62,897 with momentum completely dead and aggressive selling dominating the tape — a test of the $61,315 strong support looks imminent within 7 days, and a breakdown there ope… BTC’s Technical Reality Check Momentum has flatlined, and that alone should make bulls nervous. With the MACD histogram printing exactly zero and RSI parked in the mid-40s, the market is straddling a knife’s edge between hesitation and capitulation. This is not a neutral setup — it’s a setup where the path of least resistance is lower until proven otherwise. The moving…

Willemstad, Curaçao, July 17th, 2026, PlayNewswire Cryptocurrency has become one of the fastest-growing categories within prediction markets, as traders and investors increasingly look beyond price charts to speculate on major industry milestones. Reflecting this trend, international betting brand 1win has expanded its Markets product with a series of new cryptocurrency prediction markets covering some of the sector’s most closely watched digital assets. The new crypto-themed forecasts on 1win Markets allow users to speculate on topics, including “Crypto-related forecasts are becoming a natural extension of prediction markets, giving users another way to engage with some of the biggest narratives in the…

Bitcoin Ordinals advocate Leonidas has proposed developing a new open-source Bitcoin client, aimed at removing restrictions affecting Runes and Ordinals transactions. In a post to X on Friday, Leonidas called the proposed client “Bitcoin $DOG Mode,” which would lift the maximum individual transaction size to 3.9 million weight units (WU), compared to Bitcoin Core’s 400,000 WU, and lower the dust limit to 1 satoshi (sats) from 294-546 sats.The changes would make it easier to send Ordinals inscriptions and Runes, which have been described as Bitcoin’s take on fungible and non-fungible tokens. Both have been controversial within the Bitcoin community, with critics…

Equity investors have bet so heavily on a Goldilocks economy that stock funds now command a record 64.7% of assets tracked by EPFR Global. Yet Bitcoin (BTC) sat out the rally entirely. The split matters because Bitcoin typically behaves like a high-beta technology stock. This time, it broke from that pattern. Stocks Run Out of Room While Crypto Falls Behind Bloomberg reported that bullish investors have pushed risk-on sentiment so far that the next upside trigger is hard to spot. The optimism still rests on solid ground. Inflation is cooling, and growth and earnings remain strong. The Federal Reserve may…

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While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.