💸 Morgan Stanley's advisor network has ether and solana products to sell

A quiet Binance policy change is reportedly frustrating investigators on two continents

✈️ Emirates added a checkout option that would have been unthinkable a few years ago

🧨 Crypto recorded its most-hacked half-year

📉 Trade[XYZ] will reimburse traders liquidated when its SK Hynix perpetual crashed 19% late Monday, blaming a single executed trade on a thin Korean pre-market venue rather than any system failure. The mark price fell from $1,127.90 to $917.25 at 23:01 UTC on July 27, and the firm called the payout a one-time discretionary decision. 

🔒 Zcash activated its Ironwood upgrade at block 3,428,143 on Tuesday, sealing the Orchard shielded pool that holds about 3.66 million ZEC, roughly $1.7 billion. Coins can only exit through a turnstile that caps withdrawals at verifiably deposited amounts, a response to a proof-circuit bug that sat undetected in Orchard for four years. 

🇷🇺 The Bank of Russia published draft rules on Monday for “organized trading” in digital currencies and digital rights, its first framework for a regulated domestic crypto market. Exchanges would set their own trading modes and calculate market prices, while new digital depositories would need minimum equity of $629,000 to $3 million. 

⚖️ Myanmar reportedly approved a law on Tuesday authorising capital punishment for those who detain or violently coerce victims into working in scam centres, with life imprisonment for running online scam centers. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime said this month that enforcement across the region has displaced scam networks rather than dismantled them. 

🤖 Galaxy Digital acquired 500 acres in McGregor, Texas, for an AI and high-performance computing campus, its second data center investment in the state after the 1.6-gigawatt Helios site. An initial phase is expected to reach 74 MW and start receiving power in 2028, with Galaxy funding its own substation and adding an estimated minimum $130 million to the local property tax base. 

🍎 Apple faces a federal lawsuit from three plaintiffs who say they lost about $1.84 million after entering seed phrases into an App Store app impersonating Sparrow Wallet. The suit, filed July 24 in California, alleges Apple left the app up for more than a week after one user reported an $875,000 theft, after which a second user lost roughly $840,000. 

📉 Luno is cutting 20% of its global staff as it restructures toward business-to-business services, chief executive James Lanigan said, according to Bloomberg. The Digital Currency Group-owned exchange has 16 million users across Africa and Asia-Pacific and is opening its wallet and compliance infrastructure to partners including Discovery Bank. 

⚡ Fortitude energized a Nebraska facility with 12 MW of capacity, its first greenfield build, lifting the Zcash-focused miner's owned power portfolio past 60 MW across seven sites. The DCG-owned company expects power costs near $0.045/kWh to help cut its Zcash mining cost from about $70 per coin toward $40, and is going public through a merger with Nasdaq-listed HeartSciences.

🌐 Tether signed a memorandum with the Nairobi Securities Exchange to explore tokenizing and instantly settling securities on the $26.4 billion exchange, using its Hadron platform to enable fractional access for local and diaspora investors. The agreement also covers investor education, AML and KYC onboarding flows, and assessing USDT as a settlement layer.

💰 Core Scientific signed an infrastructure partnership with AMD, which will secure more than 500 megawatts of U.S. data center capacity starting in 2027 with the option to scale to 2.5 gigawatts. AMD also receives market-priced warrants to buy Core Scientific stock, subject to commercial conditions, as the company repurposes its remaining bitcoin mining facilities for high-density colocation.