Uniswap founder Hayden Adams has proposed expanding protocol fees across Uniswap v4 and several network deployments, bringing one of DeFi's longest-running governance debates back to the center of the market. Protocol fees are a sensitive topic for Uniswap, as it is one of the most important infrastructures in DeFi. It handles huge volumes, exists across multiple chains, and remains the core liquidity venue for tokens. However, for many years there has been a question of whether its usage should lead to direct economic value for the protocol and UNI's governance. The new proposal, published through Uniswap Governance, targets protocol-level fee…
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Jul 18, 2026 16:20 Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is set to endorse Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley in the state’s Democratic gubernatorial primary, weeks after Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez quit amid a finance scandal. Polymarket prices Eizenkot at 49.65% to be Israel’s next PM after election Polymarket Reprices Israel “Next Prime Minister” Odds as Eizenkot Jumps +10.55pp to 49.65% Polymarket traders have pushed Gadi Eizenkot to the top of the “next Prime Minister of Israel after the next election” market at 49.65% (+10.55pp) on $27.76M in volume. The repricing comes as a separate political endorsement story circulated in U.S. state…
Key TakeawaysDrake bet $1.5 million in USDT on Argentina at +245 odds through Stake ahead of the July 19 final.Drake has lost $5.7 million in public bets since Kendrick Lamar’s Euphoria dropped on April 30, 2024.Polymarket traders put $158 million on Argentina even as Kalshi prices Spain as the 59% favorite. The rapper placed the bet through Stake, the crypto betting platform he has partnered with since a reported $100 million deal in 2022, at odds of +245. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. ET on July 19 in a final that pits Argentina’s bid for back-to-back titles against a…
In late May, Neil Rimer said something during a sit-down I had with him in Athens that I haven’t been able to shake. At a vibrant new tech festival in the city, talking about the wealth piling up around AI, he said he has “a strong sense that there will be some sort of a redistribution.” He continued on. “It’ll either be voluntary or it’ll be involuntary, but it’ll happen, and I hope it’s voluntary,” he told me, adding that he thinks tech leaders “can play a leading role in seeing that through.” Coming from most people, that would sound…
Cardano is trading near support as ADA investors look for stronger reasons to return to the market. The project still has one of the most engaged communities in the cryptocurrency space, and its development roadmap remains a central part of long-term discussions. However, price action has subsided and traders are looking to see if support can hold as the broader market grapples with a decline in risk appetite. That's the current state of tension with the ADA. Cardano has not disappeared from the conversation, but beyond the support of the patient community, it needs a new catalyst strong enough to…
San Francisco, CA, July 17th, 2026, Chainwire Crowdsourced Hedge Fund Completes Third Open-Market Purchase as Contributor Network and Assets Continue to Grow Numerai, the decentralized hedge fund powered by crowdsourced machine learning, today announced the completion of a third strategic purchase of Numeraire (NMR), acquiring an additional $1.2 million of the token from the open market. The purchase brings Numerai’s total NMR buybacks to $3.2 million within one year. The buyback reflects Numerai’s continued investment in the staking system that aligns thousands of independent data scientists toward improving the firm’s Stake-Weighted Meta Model, the machine learning model that powers Numerai’s…
Jul 17, 2026 14:29 Avalanche (AVAX) drives NFT innovation with low energy use, fractional ownership, and institutional adoption, trading at $6.49 as of July 2026. Avalanche, the Layer 1 blockchain network designed for scalability and speed, is making waves in the NFT sector as it positions itself as a key player in decentralized ownership. Unlike Ethereum’s energy-intensive proof-of-work (PoW) system, Avalanche’s proof-of-stake (PoS) mechanism enables NFT creators to mint and trade tokens with a negligible environmental footprint. According to the Crypto Carbon Ratings Institute (CCRI), Avalanche uses just 0.0005% of the energy consumed by Bitcoin, equivalent to the electricity needs…
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…
Key TakeawaysE*Trade now offers spot BTC, ETH and SOL trading 24/7, with Zerohash handling custody and settlement.Morgan Stanley’s 50-basis-point fee undercuts Coinbase and Robinhood rates of up to 95 basis points.Crypto transfers on and off E*Trade are expected later in 2026 as the bank deepens its digital asset push. What’s on Offer The completed rollout means eligible E*Trade clients can buy, sell and hold the three largest non- stablecoin digital assets inside the same interface they use for stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs), with trading available around the clock on the platform’s web and mobile apps. It is direct spot…
OpenAI’s Sora may have shut down, but Google apparently thinks there’s still interest in a tool that lets you star in your own AI videos. On Thursday, the tech giant announced an update to Google Vids that will allow you to create a custom digital avatar that looks and sounds like you based on a selfie and a voice recording you upload. In addition, Google said it’s bringing its multi-modal AI model Gemini Omni to Vids, letting you create videos using a combination of a written prompt and reference images you upload. Omni then mixes those inputs together to create…