🔮 ZenDaily - 17th Aug 2026 🔮
Ethereum Evaluates Proposals For Hegotá Upgrade, Ripple Mints 10M RLUSD On XRPL,Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter for $7B+, And More.
🗞 NFT NEWSFLASH
The current Bitcoin price is $63.59, ETH is $1.90K, and BNB is $604.80.: https://tinyurl.com/uu5v9frz
Ethereum Is Evaluating Proposals For Its Upcoming Hegotá upgrade, prioritizing censorship resistance, faster blocks, native account abstraction, privacy and L1 scaling, with FOCIL (EIP-7805) already confirmed as the headliner.: https://tinyurl.com/mrxm7mua
Ripple Minted 10 million RLUSD On The XRP Ledger on August 17, with the transaction costing just 0.000405 XRP. RLUSD’s circulating supply now stands at approximately 1.71 billion tokens.: https://tinyurl.com/59nvk47h
Chainalysis Sues U.S. Government Over TRM Labs Contract, challenging ICE’s $94.7 million sole-source contract with rival TRM Labs and seeking to halt the arrangement.: https://tinyurl.com/53fvjut6
Binance To Block Transactions With 11 Crypto Platforms From August 23
Binance will stop processing transactions involving 11 crypto platforms, including HTX, EXMO, Rapira and WhiteBird, from August 23 following recent regulatory developments.: https://tinyurl.com/yztrwbpd
NEAR Launches Staking-Powered AI Services And Always-On IronClaw Agents, allowing users to stake NEAR and receive recurring AI compute credits while retaining ownership of their staked tokens.: https://tinyurl.com/44fabmy6
Stripe Reportedly Agrees to Acquire OpenRouter for $7B+. Stripe has reportedly agreed to acquire AI model marketplace OpenRouter for more than $7 billion, over 5× its $1.3 billion valuation from May 2026.: https://tinyurl.com/3mnvsswj
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