Coinbase's first production Solana contract is live, according to one engineer's post — and not much else

Coinbase engineer Richard Wu says the exchange has shipped its first production Solana smart contract, a DEX trade aggregator built by staff from its Vector acquisition, with no program ID or company confirmation yet.

SEC charges New York operator over $74M "pre-IPO" fund scheme built on hidden markups

The SEC sued New York's Andrew Spaventa and three of his firms on Friday, alleging eleven "pre-IPO" funds raised $74 million from 800 retail investors while charging undisclosed markups averaging 46%.

Bank Leumi Announces Crypto Trading for Early 2027, With Galaxy as Plumbing — and a 2022 Attempt It Never Shipped

Israel's largest bank says customers will be able to trade bitcoin, ether and solana through its app in early 2027, with Galaxy Digital supplying trading and custody — four years after a similar plan with Paxos went nowhere.

Strategy tells MSCI to stay in its lane as index-exclusion screen looms

Strategy publicly objected to MSCI's proposed "non-operating company" screen, which — applied to May 2026 data — would have removed it, Metaplanet and uranium holder Yellow Cake from the ACWI IMI.

Norway's sovereign fund carries 11,549 BTC of indirect bitcoin exposure — 86% of it sitting in Strategy

Norges Bank Investment Management's half-year disclosures show its equity stakes map to a record 11,549 BTC of look-through bitcoin exposure, with Strategy alone accounting for 9,914 of it.

SEC charges three Toms River men over $47 million affinity fraud aimed at Orthodox Jewish investors

The SEC says Leor Moshe raised about $47 million from more than 87 investors for a business-lending fund that mostly wasn't, with two unregistered recruiters bringing in $23 million of it.

Protos traces HTX reserve assets into Poloniex wallets after $1.3B moved to an unnamed custodian

Protos says it traced hundreds of millions of dollars in HTX reserve assets — including WBTC and roughly $200 million in sUSDS — through Etherscan-labelled Poloniex wallets, weeks after HTX moved $1.3 billion to an unnamed "ThirdParty" custodian.

SNS to pause .sol registrations on August 17, snapshot to decide who gets a matching domain in the new registry

Solana Name Service says it will pause .sol registrations on August 17 and take an on-chain snapshot to decide which wallets receive matching domains in a new SRS-based registry.

Solana says MoneyGram cash on- and off-ramps are live, with the details still unstated

Solana's official account said MoneyGram Ramps is live, letting wallet developers plug into an API for cash in and out at MoneyGram locations across 170 countries.

Trezor customer data exposed through a shipping partner, Decrypt reports — scope still undisclosed

Decrypt reported on August 13 that Trezor customer data was exposed via a third-party shipping provider, with the partner's identity, the affected record count and the data fields all still undisclosed.

Trezor customer addresses exposed in breach at shipping contractor ShipMonk

Trezor says a breach at logistics contractor ShipMonk exposed names and contact details of roughly 13,700 customers, including home addresses and phone numbers for 11,742 of them.

MoneyGram says its cash ramps are live on Solana, with one app integrated and no fee disclosure

MoneyGram says its Ramps cash-in/cash-out product went live on Solana on August 11, with wallet app Rift as the first integration; the company has not disclosed fees, supported assets or launch countries.

SEC staff clears Franklin Templeton's traditional funds to park cash in its own onchain money fund

SEC staff issued Franklin Templeton a no-action letter letting its conventional mutual funds and ETFs hold shares of its blockchain-based FOBXX money fund for cash management without meeting certain 1940 Act custody conditions.

Anza publishes Agave 4.3 release schedule, with Alpenglow staged for activation

Anza published the release schedule for Agave 4.3, the Solana validator client build that stages the Alpenglow feature set, two new syscalls and increased CPI depth for activation.

OCC sent Zerohash's trust bank application back. The company didn't mention it until asked.

The OCC returned Zerohash's national trust bank application on July 17 as materially deficient, and the Morgan Stanley infrastructure provider says it will refile this month with a narrower scope.

Securitize misses in first quarter as a public company; shares drop 20% despite record tokenized AUM

Securitize's first quarterly report since its July SPAC listing showed revenue down 5% to $14.4 million against a $20.6 million consensus, and shares fell 20% after hours even as tokenized assets and transaction volume hit records.

Hyperion DeFi posts $31M quarter as HYPE mark rises — and half its treasury goes out on loan

Hyperion DeFi reported $31 million in second-quarter net income, up from $8.8 million, as the value of its roughly 2 million HYPE tokens rose to $133 million.

CFTC staff tells exchanges their prediction-market incentive filings aren't good enough

The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight told exchanges on August 12 that a growing number of self-certified market-maker and incentive-program filings for event contracts are arriving with procedural or substantive defects.

A proposal to burn validator rewards lands as ETH staking hits 34%

Ethereum researchers including the Ethereum Foundation's Justin Drake filed EIP-8361 on Aug. 4, a proposal to burn a rising share of validator rewards that its own authors model as halving staking yield.

Fidelity Files to Stake the Ether Inside Its Ethereum ETF

Decrypt reported on August 12 that Fidelity has filed to let its spot Ethereum ETF stake its holdings and route the rewards to shareholders; the filing's terms remain unconfirmed.

Bitcoin's derivatives market went quiet before CPI — but the leverage didn't go anywhere

Bitcoin perpetual volumes on Binance and Bybit fell to a three-year low of $10.8 billion, K33 says, while open interest stayed elevated and a Harmony exploit minted 4 billion ONE tokens.

Metaplanet moves 3,881 BTC between its own wallets as its bitcoin stack sits 34% underwater

Metaplanet shifted 3,881 BTC — roughly $247 million — out of cold storage into new addresses it also controls on Wednesday, repeating a pattern it ran in March while sitting on a $1.4 billion paper loss.

Harmony confirms unauthorized mint of 4 billion ONE, says it is weighing a rollback

Harmony says an attacker minted 4 billion ONE tokens without authorization; on-chain researcher Juiceberg estimates about 97% has already reached exchanges, and the token fell roughly a third on Wednesday.

Bitwise cuts 14% of staff to about 155, as CEO frames the reduction as growth prep

Bitwise Asset Management cut 14% of its global staff last week, leaving about 155 employees, as its flagship index fund's net assets fell 31% over the first seven months of 2026.

Harmony says attacker minted ~4 billion ONE; token drops 26% as team weighs a rollback

Harmony's ONE fell about 26% on Wednesday after an apparent exploit minted roughly 4 billion tokens, and the team said it is pursuing exchange freezes, a patch and a possible chain rollback.

CFTC declares a market emergency at Kalshi's request — and orders the exchange to keep trading

The CFTC invoked emergency authority on August 11 to order Kalshi to keep operating, twelve days after New York's attorney general sued to bar the exchange's event contracts nationwide and sought more than $36 billion.

Itaú enters ANBIMA tokenization pilot with OpenAssets — a vendor part-backed by the bank's founding family

Itaú Unibanco and infrastructure firm OpenAssets said Tuesday they have begun a tokenized bond and fund pilot run by Brazilian markets body ANBIMA, with no size or timeline disclosed.

CFTC sues Goliath Ventures and its CEO over alleged $397 million crypto Ponzi scheme

The CFTC filed a civil complaint in Florida federal court alleging Goliath Ventures and CEO Christopher Delgado ran a Ponzi scheme that took at least $397 million from roughly 1,600 customers.

A MoneyGram-on-Solana "launch" so far exists only as a hype post and a fire emoji

Solana's official account amplified a booster's post claiming MoneyGram Ramps is live on the network, but no MoneyGram or Solana Foundation announcement, fee data, or corridor detail has surfaced with it.

Coldcard seed bug drives a spike in new Bitcoin addresses as users flee 2021-era wallets

Coinkite users have lost at least 1,816 BTC — roughly $116 million — in four theft waves since July 30, traced to a 2021 firmware bug that generated wallet seeds with a weak software random number generator.

eToro to buy TradeZero for up to $231 million as its crypto volumes keep shrinking

eToro will pay up to $231 million in cash and stock for U.S. retail brokerage TradeZero, announced alongside a Q2 in which profit grew year-over-year but fell sharply from Q1.

Solana says MoneyGram cash rails are live. MoneyGram hasn't said anything.

Solana's official account says MoneyGram Ramps is now live, offering cash pickup in 170-plus countries, but the claim rests entirely on Solana-side promotion with no MoneyGram statement attached.

MoneyGram Ramps goes live on Solana, announced by Solana itself

Solana's official account said MoneyGram Ramps is now live on the network, offering builders one API for cash-in in 25-plus countries and cash-out in 170-plus, with wallet app Rift the first integration.

Cardano Foundation votes yes on a 120 million ADA treasury withdrawal for AlphaGrowth's "Cardano PRIME"

The Cardano Foundation said on August 11 that it voted yes on a treasury withdrawal of 120 million ADA to fund AlphaGrowth's "Cardano PRIME" liquidity program, publishing an on-chain vote hash but no program terms.

Coinbase says it has an Abu Dhabi licence for tokenized securities

Coinbase says Abu Dhabi's FSRA granted it a Financial Services Permission to arrange deals in and custody tokenized securities, making the emirate its international tokenization base.

Trump Media's crypto treasury drops $306.7 million in value as company books $360.6 million in half-year digital-asset losses

Trump Media booked a $238.1 million second-quarter net loss and $360.6 million in digital-asset losses for the first half, as its bitcoin and Cronos holdings fell to $597.7 million from $904.4 million.

Bitcoin wallets holding 10,000+ BTC hit 90, a six-month high, per Santiment

Analytics firm Santiment counts 90 bitcoin wallets holding at least 10,000 BTC, a six-month high, while smaller wallets shrink and bitcoin trades near $64,000.

MoneyGram's cash network plugs into Solana's developer platform

Solana and MoneyGram say the remittance firm's cash on- and off-ramp API is now live for Solana developers, offering cash-in across 25-plus countries and cash-out in more than 170.

SEC charges Adit Ventures and CEO Eric Munson over pre-IPO funds

The SEC on August 10 charged New York adviser Adit Ventures Management, CEO Eric Munson and three affiliated general partners with misappropriating client assets and taking millions in undisclosed fees on pre-IPO deals.

SEC charges pre-IPO fund adviser Adit Ventures and its CEO with fraud; defendants settle without admitting

The SEC says Adit Ventures Management, CEO Eric Munson and three affiliated general partners defrauded investors in SpaceX and Klarna pre-IPO share funds; all settled without admitting the allegations.

CFTC sets Aug. 20 for the first meeting of its Innovation Advisory Committee — agenda and membership still undisclosed

The CFTC will convene the first meeting of its Innovation Advisory Committee at 1 p.m. on Aug. 20 in Washington, though the agency has not published an agenda or a membership roster.

Grayscale pulls its Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETF registrations

Grayscale withdrew SEC registration statements for proposed Cardano, Polkadot and Hedera ETFs late Friday, telling the regulator it will not proceed with the offerings.

BitMine adds $14M of ether as its cash falls to $104M, per Decrypt

Decrypt reports that Tom Lee's BitMine bought $14 million of ether while its cash position fell to $104 million, a purchase small enough to raise questions about remaining dry powder.

Immunefi puts July crypto hack losses at $110 million — and uses the occasion to market its audit competitions

Immunefi says crypto lost about $110 million to hacks in July and paid researchers $2.32 million, in a statement that also markets its own audit-competition product against rival auditors.

Standard Chartered puts a $200 tag on LINK by 2030, and shows its arithmetic

Standard Chartered initiated coverage of Chainlink with a $200 end-2030 target for LINK, roughly 25 times its current $8, built on a forecast that tokenized assets reach $4 trillion by 2028.

Strategy sold another 1,690 BTC below cost, and used stock sales to top up a $4.65 billion cash pile

Strategy sold 1,690 bitcoin below its own average cost basis last week and issued $653 million of common stock, routing the proceeds into preferred-share buybacks and a $4.65 billion dollar reserve.

Decrypt Puts Five-Day Bitcoin ETF Inflows at $854 Million, With Bitcoin Quoted at $65,032

Decrypt reported $854 million of net inflows into bitcoin ETFs across five sessions, with bitcoin quoted at $65,032 — a single-outlet figure not yet matched against issuer or tracker data.

Coinsbuy drained of $8.07M across TRON and Ethereum; wallets refilled within a day, no statement

An attacker drained $8.07 million in USDT and ETH from crypto exchange Coinsbuy across TRON and Ethereum in under an hour on Aug. 9, and the exchange quietly topped the wallets back up without explaining how.

Cardano Foundation CTO Giorgio Zinetti to exit August 31, with no successor named

Giorgio Zinetti is stepping down as chief technology officer of the Cardano Foundation on August 31 after roughly two and a half years, with no replacement announced.

Robinhood turns on UK crypto via Bitstamp, with a "zero-fee" label that has an FX fee attached

Robinhood switched on crypto trading for eligible UK customers this week, routing more than 50 tokens through FCA-registered Bitstamp UK, as its own crypto revenue fell 38% year over year and prediction markets overtook it.

Solana Foundation puts its canonical-token registry on GitHub, with the details left blank

The Solana Foundation published its "tokens" repository — billed as the source of truth for canonical assets on Solana — to GitHub on Aug. 10, without stating a license, governance model, or how canonical status is decided.

Spot bitcoin ETFs post best week since April — and four-fifths of it landed at BlackRock

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in $853.54 million in the week ended Aug. 7, their best week since mid-April, but the funds are still roughly $4.5 billion in the red for 2026.

Trump Media walks away from the CRO treasury company — and most of the rest of the Crypto.com deal

Trump Media, Crypto.com and SPAC Yorkville Acquisition mutually terminated the planned CRO treasury company on Friday, along with an ETF servicing deal, citing market conditions and shifting priorities.

BTCPay Server warns of critical flaw under active exploitation; patch details not yet public

BTCPay Server has warned that a critical flaw in the self-hosted Bitcoin payment processor is under active exploitation, though no CVE number or patched release has surfaced in public reporting yet.

CleanSpark has an AI tenant. MARA has a pipeline. Both have shrinking mining revenue.

MARA and CleanSpark posted a combined $851 million net loss for the June quarter as mining revenue fell by more than a quarter at both, and Bernstein split its ratings on their AI pivots.

Protos traces $135M of HTX's staked ether into wallets labelled Poloniex

Protos traced 71,853 stETH from an HTX proof-of-reserves address into wallets Etherscan labels as Poloniex, one of them formerly tagged "Justin Sun 4," days before HTX shifted reserves into an undisclosed "ThirdParty" bucket.

Wintermute registers a U.S. broker-dealer, opening a path into stocks, options and ETF creation

Crypto market maker Wintermute has registered a New York subsidiary as a broker-dealer with the SEC and FINRA, allowing it to trade U.S. stocks and options and act as an ETF Authorized Participant.

Judge to Coinbase on prediction-market preemption: 'applesauce'

A federal judge in Michigan refused to shield Coinbase from state gambling enforcement over sports event contracts, calling the exchange's federal-preemption arguments "applesauce.

BTCPay Server tells users to patch or power down, citing an actively exploited critical bug

BTCPay Server told users on Aug. 7 to upgrade to version 2.4.2 or shut down their servers, saying a critical flaw is already being exploited and funds may be at risk.

Sui sets a 2026–27 timeline for post-quantum signatures, with vaults first and accounts later

Sui says it will add NIST-standardized ML-DSA-65 signatures for native accounts and hash-based SLH-DSA inside Move contracts for high-value vaults, with mainnet account support targeted for Q1 2027.

Tokenized real-world assets grew to $7.4 billion while the rest of DeFi shrank, CoinShares report says

A CoinShares and Token Terminal report says tokenized real-world asset deposits into lending markets and DEXs rose from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion year over year while total DeFi deposits fell about 15%.

Senate punts Clarity Act vote to September, leaving a three-week window before the midterms swallow the calendar

Senate Majority Leader John Thune told The Block the chamber will not take a procedural vote on the Clarity Act until lawmakers return from recess in mid-September.

Cardano Foundation claims a July hard fork, a new Constitutional Committee and a finished Catalyst handover — without naming any of them

The Cardano Foundation's July recap claims a hard fork was enacted, a new Constitutional Committee elected and the Catalyst handover completed, but names no versions, members or figures.

Big wallets and ETFs both bought bitcoin this week. The price didn't move.

Santiment data cited by CoinDesk shows wallets holding 10 to 10,000 BTC added more than 20,000 coins since July 29, while U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs took in $754.69 million this week — with bitcoin still stuck below $65,000.

A 2011 bitcoin wallet moved 50 BTC. Where it went next is the part nobody can confirm

A wallet untouched since July 2011 sent 49.97 BTC — about $3.2 million — into an address that has previously deposited coins with brokerage FalconX, though the funds have not moved again.

Clarity Act vote slips to September as Senate leaves for recess

Senate Majority Leader John Thune says the Senate will not vote on the Clarity Act before its August recess, pushing the crypto market structure bill's procedural vote to mid-September.

Sui plans NIST post-quantum signatures, with native account support slipping to 2027

Sui plans to add two NIST-standardized post-quantum signature schemes as opt-in features, with contract-level vaults due this year and native account authentication on mainnet targeted for the first quarter of 2027.

Ondo Finance founder's estate sues CEO over control of the company

Ondo Finance founder Nathan Allman's estate has sued in Delaware Chancery Court, alleging CEO Ian De Bode improperly took control of the tokenization firm after Allman's death in May.

Tokenized real-world assets tripled to $7.4B in DeFi while the rest of DeFi shrank, CoinShares says

A CoinShares and Token Terminal report says tokenized real-world assets in DeFi lending and DEXs grew from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion year over year while total DeFi deposits shrank about 15%.

Backpack lists a tokenized Take-Two stock on Solana, one day before Take-Two reports earnings

Backpack Securities listed a tokenized Take-Two stock on Solana hours before the company's earnings, with no named brokerage partner, regulator, supply figure or fee schedule disclosed.

Rarible switches on Solana support, starting with a single collection

Rarible said on August 6 it has opened its NFT marketplace to Solana, launching with Claynosaurz as the first featured collection and no disclosed fee terms.

Coinbase opens 24/5 US stock trading to UK users, with Apex holding the shares

Coinbase began rolling out zero-commission trading in nearly 4,000 US stocks to eligible UK users on Aug. 6, with shares custodied by Apex Clearing and orders routed through its US broker-dealer.

Solana says it ran 82% of July's tokenized stock volume, citing a Blockworks figure it didn't link

Solana's official account said the chain handled about $1.45 billion of tokenized equities volume in July, roughly 82% of the cross-chain total, crediting Blockworks data that the post did not link.

SEC builds a dedicated accounting-fraud unit — with no headcount, no budget, and no mention of digital assets

The SEC created a Financial Reporting and Accounting Unit inside its Enforcement Division on August 5, 2026, led by Timothy Zimmerman, with no headcount, budget or effective date disclosed.

Solomon Labs puts its USDv program on Solana mainnet — the stablecoin itself is still "coming"

Solomon Labs deployed its USDv "Chancery" program to Solana mainnet on August 5, publishing a program address, token mint and GitHub repo — but no issuer details, reserve disclosure or launch date for the token itself.

Eliza's founder calls the AI token dead and winds down its foundation after a settlement

Decrypt reports that Eliza's founder has declared the AI token dead and is winding down the project's foundation following a lawsuit settlement, with terms and parties still unconfirmed.

Circle Lines Up Visa, Mastercard and BlackRock as Arc Validators, Decrypt Reports

Decrypt reports that Circle has lined up Visa, Mastercard and BlackRock as validators on Arc, its own Layer-1 network, ahead of a September launch, with terms undisclosed.

AllUnity's CHFAU Swiss franc stablecoin goes live on Solana — on the issuer's word alone

AllUnity says its Swiss franc stablecoin CHFAU is now live on Solana with supply nearing ₣50 million, but every figure comes from the issuer's own marketing post, which carries a "no regulatory review or approval" disclaimer.

Solana says it cleared 1.01 billion weekly transactions, citing a Blockworks figure it didn't link

Solana's official account said the network processed 1,012,226,009 transactions in the week of July 27 to August 2, citing Blockworks data it did not link.

Ethereum Foundation funds a front-end integrity tool built for journalists, aimed at wallets

The Ethereum Foundation's Trillion Dollar Security initiative is funding Freedom of the Press Foundation to build a WEBCAT front-end verification library for crypto wallets, though the announcement names no grant amount, timeline or committed integrators.

Circle beats on profit, misses on revenue, and puts Wall Street names on its Arc validator set

Circle beat profit estimates but missed on revenue for Q2 2026, and named BlackRock, DTCC, ICE, Visa and Mastercard as founding validators for its Arc blockchain, which launches Sept. 16.

Solana's official account amplifies a claim of 1.01B non-vote transactions in a week

An analyst's post reshared by Solana's official account claims the network cleared 1.01 billion non-vote transactions last week, an all-time high — but no data provider, date range or methodology accompanies the figure.

Intesa Sanpaolo cut its IBIT position 94% last quarter — and quietly added puts

Intesa Sanpaolo's second-quarter filing shows a 94% cut to its IBIT position, calls swapped for puts on 500,000 shares, and a tripled staked-ether ETF stake.

Western Union's Stablecard goes live on Solana, per the chain's own account and its card issuer

Solana and card issuer Rain say Western Union's USDPT-backed Stablecard went live on August 4, spendable on Visa rails across 37 markets, though no Western Union statement of its own has surfaced.

Coldcard's seed flaw is still live, and an exchange is already selling the moral

Coinkite says the entropy flaw behind up to $114 million in stolen bitcoin is still live and requires manual migration, while OKX claims the theft is driving record deposits to exchanges.

Crypto lobby and sheriffs' group trade letters over Clarity Act's DeFi carve-out, with days left before recess

The Blockchain Association wrote to Senate leaders on Monday disputing the National Sheriffs' Association's claim that the Clarity Act would exempt DeFi from anti-money-laundering rules, days before an August recess.

Injective says it has a live testnet rail to Cardano. The details are still missing

Injective says a testnet rail now connects its chain to Cardano and that ADA and INJ will move both ways, but no mainnet date, mechanism detail or audit has been published by either side.

BlackRock's "BRSRV" surfaces in an SEC filing link — announced by Solana, not BlackRock

Solana's official X account announced that BlackRock filed with the SEC for a tokenized "stablecoin reserve" vehicle called BRSRV, pointing to a single EDGAR document and no BlackRock statement.

Alchemy announces historical Solana account lookups; the technical details sit behind a marketing link

Infrastructure provider Alchemy announced a Solana Account Archive on Aug 3 that returns getAccountInfo for any account at any past slot, but disclosed no pricing, retention depth or verification method.

Solana touts a $1.6B tokenized card market. The numbers are its own.

Solana's own news arm says Collector Crypt has crossed $1.6 billion in volume tokenizing vaulted trading cards, part of a fast-growing but self-reported market with unnamed custodians and unaudited numbers.

CFTC fines UBS's brokerage arm $8M over FX wire monitoring gaps, including a fix that broke

The CFTC fined UBS Financial Services $8 million over four and a half years of gaps in monitoring foreign-currency wires, including a 2021 system replacement the firm then misconfigured.

Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin and bought back its own preferred stock below par

Strategy sold 1,638 bitcoin for $104.73 million last week and issued $290.6 million of common stock, using the cash to buy back preferred shares and lift its dollar reserve to $4 billion.

Fourth Coldcard sweep is running live, with estimated losses near $114 million

Galaxy's Alex Thorn says a fourth wave of sweeps against Coldcard-generated bitcoin addresses began Monday, putting estimated losses since July 30 near 1,816 BTC, or roughly $114 million.

Bithumb sets 2028 IPO date, with a 2027 filing and an accounting overhaul in between

Bithumb says it will file for a preliminary listing review in 2027 and complete an IPO in 2028, three years after its original target, following a promotional payout error that drew a regulatory probe.

Coldcard wallet drain reaches $88 million, per Decrypt — with the mechanism still unspecified

Decrypt reports that losses from an exploit hitting Coldcard bitcoin wallets have reached $88 million and are still climbing, with the attack vector and vendor response not yet specified.

Trump Media moves 2,628 BTC to Crypto.com, says it wasn't a sale

Wallets tagged to Trump Media sent 2,628 BTC worth roughly $165 million to Crypto.com on Saturday; the company says the coins were moved, not sold.

Treasury sanctions Iranian marine "insurance" scheme that took bitcoin for Hormuz passage

The U.S. Treasury designated two Iranian maritime insurers, including a bitcoin-accepting platform built by Tehran's economy ministry, alleging they extorted ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz for the IRGC.

The World Cup's $20 billion prediction-market number is real. The framing around it isn't.

Chainalysis says the 2026 World Cup drove $20 billion in prediction market volume across 400,000 wallets, but only $5.7 billion of it landed during the tournament, and the firm hasn't said which platforms it counted.

Solana talks up Agave 4.2 — three feature-gated changes, no release date

Solana's official accounts say the Agave 4.2 validator release will cut rent 90%, expand transaction size 3.3x and bring 200ms slot times — all feature-gated, with no ship date disclosed.

CZ warns Bitcoin holders after reported $70 million Coldcard exploit

Decrypt reported on August 1 that Binance founder Changpeng Zhao warned Bitcoin holders after a roughly $70 million exploit involving Coldcard hardware wallets, with the attack path still unspecified.

Bitcoin mining difficulty falls below year-ago levels for only the second time ever

Bitcoin's mining difficulty has dropped to 126.23 trillion, 1.1% below where it sat a year ago — only the second annual decline ever, after China's 2021 mining ban.

Bank of Italy: stablecoin remittances cost 0.3% to 9% once you count the off-ramp

A Bank of Italy mystery-shopping study of USDC transfers across 10 corridors found end-to-end costs of 0.3% to nearly 9%, with blockchain fees a negligible share.

Coldcard key flaw: third sweep takes 208 BTC, running total hits 1,367

A third sweep of wallets seeded by a flawed March 2021 Coldcard firmware build drained 208 bitcoin from 1,912 addresses, pushing the running total to 1,367 BTC.

Quantum Solutions sells another 1,000 ETH at a 47% discount to cost, cedes Japan's top ether treasury to Def Consulting

Tokyo-listed Quantum Solutions sold 1,000 ether at $1,903 on July 30 to fund an AI data center push, cutting its stack 29% since June and losing Japan's largest listed ETH position to Def Consulting.

Ondo is said to be weighing a $250M–$500M acquisition. Ondo says it isn't in talks with anyone.

A single CoinDesk report citing one anonymous source says the tokenization firm is weighing a $250 million to $500 million acquisition, possibly in wealthtech; Ondo says it is not in talks with anyone.

Miners' AI trade rallies on a forced seller: inside the Situational Awareness liquidation

Shares in six bitcoin miners turned AI data-center operators jumped as much as 27% on July 30 after reports that Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness was forced to dump its stock book to meet margin calls.

Seoul police detain two over fake Flare staking site that took 3.4 million XRP

Seoul police say two men have been detained over a counterfeit Flare Network staking site that took 3.4 million XRP from 71 people, with a third suspect abroad and the total possibly reaching $19 million.

Aave moves to retire 96 markets and exit six chains, with $98.1 million of deposits in scope

A LlamaRisk-authored governance proposal would retire 71 asset markets across 11 Aave V3 deployments and wind down six chains entirely, covering $98.1 million in supplied assets.

Luno cuts a fifth of its staff, and files it under 'automation'

Luno is cutting roughly 20% of its global workforce, its second major reduction since January 2023, as the DCG-owned exchange exits some markets and pushes a white-label business for banks.

Russia moves BitRiver founder into pre-trial detention over undelivered mining rigs

A Moscow court moved BitRiver founder Igor Runets from house arrest into pre-trial detention over an unfulfilled 2023 mining-equipment contract with an En+ subsidiary, with investigators alleging 1 billion rubles in damages.

Circle picks up a New York trust charter — while the reserve job its federal bank was pitched for stays deferred

Circle said Friday it won a limited-purpose trust charter from New York's financial regulator, three weeks after OCC approval of a national trust bank whose USDC reserve role is deferred.

Galaxy puts the Coldcard drain at 1,082 BTC across 1,196 wallets — roughly double the first count

Galaxy Research says an attacker swept 1,082.65 BTC from 1,196 Coldcard wallets in 41 minutes on July 30 by reconstructing weakly generated seeds offline, without touching a single device.

The Clarity Act's last week before recess comes down to one paragraph on ethics

Senators Thom Tillis and Ruben Gallego sent fresh ethics language to the White House on July 30 as prediction-market odds on the Clarity Act passing by year-end fell to 26–37%, the lowest of 2026.

Solana's account says demand is already filling 100M compute unit blocks. It didn't show the numbers.

Solana's official account claimed on July 30 that demand is already filling 100 million compute unit blocks, without publishing data, a benchmark, or a timeline for raising the limit.

Ostium says $23.75M vault drain came from breached off-chain systems, not its contracts

Onchain perpetuals venue Ostium says its July 15 loss of 23.75 million USDC came from a breach of off-chain infrastructure used to feed fraudulent BTC-USD prices, not from its contracts.

Solana Foundation signs non-binding MOU with Korean payment processor KSNET

Solana's official account says Korean payments processor KSNET has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation to integrate Solana Pay across a merchant network it describes as 330,000-plus strong.

CFTC fines George Santos $35,000 for trading an event contract on whether he would show up to the State of the Union

The CFTC settled with former Rep. George Santos on July 31 over trades in a Kalshi event contract on his own State of the Union attendance, imposing disgorgement, a penalty and a three-year trading ban.

Tether's reserve buffer halved in Q2 while the company led with a $1.5 billion 'operating' profit

Tether's second-quarter attestation shows excess reserves halving to $4.11 billion and a negative $3.2 billion result for the first half, while the company led with a $1.5 billion operating profit figure.

Russia's central bank floats capital rules for crypto custodians ahead of September framework

The Bank of Russia published draft rules requiring crypto "digital depositories" to hold between 50 million and 250 million rubles in liquid capital, ahead of a national crypto framework due to take full effect by September 2026.

1inch Launches 'Aqua' Shared Liquidity Layer, But Hard Details Are Thin

Decrypt reported on July 28, 2026 that 1inch launched Aqua, a "shared liquidity layer," though public details on how it works and what it holds remain scarce.

Hong Kong's regulator scores its banks 2.3 out of 10 on quantum readiness

Hong Kong's central bank scored its banking sector 2.3 out of 10 on a new quantum-readiness index, with roughly half of surveyed banks yet to formalize any post-quantum cryptography plan.

NY Attorney General James tells Senate the CLARITY Act would 'dilute' states' power to prosecute crypto fraud

New York AG Letitia James told a Senate subcommittee the CLARITY Act would preempt state investor-protection laws and weaken fraud prosecution, as backers push for a Senate floor vote before the August recess.

Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche got cheaper and busier as their tokens halved, Bitwise says

Bitwise's first quarterly staking report found Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche grew busier and cheaper to use over the past year, yet staking revenue and all three tokens fell by roughly half.

Bitcoin ETFs eke out a third weekly inflow — after $465 million walked out the door on Thursday and Friday

U.S. spot bitcoin ETFs booked a net $33.79 million for the week ended July 24, their third straight weekly inflow, but $465 million left over the final two days as BlackRock's IBIT led the exits.

Strategy sits out bitcoin for a fifth week, raising cash and selling stock instead of stacking coins

Strategy went a fifth straight week without buying bitcoin, instead selling $544.5 million of stock to lift its cash reserve to $3.75 billion and repurchasing $25 million of its own preferred shares.

CFTC tells prediction markets to stop filing cookie-cutter event contracts

The CFTC issued a second advisory in recent months warning prediction-market operators like Kalshi and Polymarket to stop filing broad, template-style event-contract self-certifications instead of detailing each product.

Tokenized stocks on Robinhood Chain grow fivefold to ~$70M — but still under a tenth of the chain's trading

Tokenized real-world assets on Robinhood Chain rose to about $70 million, roughly fivefold in under two weeks, though memecoins and stablecoins still account for most of the network's near-$600 million daily volume.

CFTC staff extends dormancy relief for Kraken's rebranded futures exchange

The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight granted Kraken Derivatives Exchange — the futures venue formerly known as Small Exchange — a time-limited extension of earlier no-action relief tied to dormancy procedures.

CFTC tells exchanges to stop bundling event contracts into one catch-all filing

The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight told exchanges on July 24, 2026 to stop filing broad, template-style self-certifications that bundle many event-contract variations into a single filing, saying the practice blocks proper review.

CFTC buys itself another month on 24/7 futures and energy "perpetuals"

The CFTC pushed its public-comment deadline back 30 days to August 26, 2026, on whether to permit 24/7 trading of standard energy futures and to list perpetual contracts referencing physical or storable energy commodities.

SEC Sets September 17 Roundtable on 24-Hour Stock Trading

The SEC said it will hold a public roundtable on September 17, 2026 to discuss preparations for round-the-clock trading in U.S. equity markets, with agenda and panelists still to come.

Bitcoin Core ships v30.3

The Bitcoin Core project published version 30.3 of its reference client on July 23, 2026, posting binaries and release notes to bitcoincore.org.

Solana Moves to Split and Burn Base Fees After 'Resource and Inclusion Fees' SIMD Is Accepted

Solana's Resource and Inclusion Fees improvement document reached "accepted" status, routing 2,500 lamports of each base fee to validators and burning the rest based on requested compute units.

SEC Sets September Roundtable on 24-Hour Equity Trading

The SEC will hold a public roundtable on September 17, 2026, to weigh moving U.S. equity markets toward around-the-clock trading, and is taking public comment under File No. 4-913.

Peirce weighs in on crypto vaults and onchain lending — as a commissioner, not the Commission

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce published a personal statement on crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies on July 22, addressing how DeFi "curator" roles fit existing securities law.

Mubadala Capital puts a private-markets fund onchain with $75M in commitments; Coinbase takes a stake

Mubadala Capital has tokenized a private-markets fund across Base, Solana and Sui through a provider called KAIO, drawing $75M in commitments, with Coinbase taking a stake, according to CoinDesk.

Grayscale's Worldcoin ETF filing puts the project's centralization in writing: 100 wallets, 90% of the supply

Grayscale's July 20 S-1 for a proposed Worldcoin ETF discloses that the largest 100 wallets hold roughly 90% of circulating WLD and that governance "remains substantially guided by the World Foundation.

Crypto 'wrench attacks' hit 52 in first half of 2026, with money targeted up more than tenfold

CertiK recorded 52 crypto "wrench attacks" — physical assaults and extortion targeting holders — in the first half of 2026, with total money demanded or stolen jumping more than tenfold to $124 million, most of it concentrated in France.

SEC's No. 2 Enforcement Official Sam Waldon to Depart July 31

The SEC said Sam Waldon, its Principal Deputy Director of Enforcement, will leave the agency on July 31 after 14 years; Osman Nawaz, who rejoined last month, will replace him.

TRM Labs says HTX is 'rotating wallets' to dodge sanctions screening; HTX calls it routine

Blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs says Justin Sun's HTX exchange is cycling its wallets every few hours to evade sanctions screening, a characterization HTX rejects as routine security operations.

Trump signs off on crypto ethics language — then hands enforcement to the DOJ, and Democrats balk

President Trump agreed to ethics language barring federal officials from issuing digital assets, but a fight over whether the DOJ or state attorneys general enforce it now threatens the Clarity Act before the Senate's August 7 recess.

Solana and Hyperliquid ETFs quietly capture most altcoin fund flows

Solana ETFs hold about $904 million in assets and Hyperliquid funds have drawn $350 million in net inflows since launching two months ago, together making up nearly 80% of altcoin ETF volume, per The Block.

Ripple executives talk up XRP Ledger's agentic payments after 1 million transactions

RippleX's engineering head told The Block that AI-agent transactions on the XRP Ledger, having just passed 1 million, could reach 10 million or even 100 million within a couple of years — a projection from an interested party, not a milestone reached.

Galaxy commits up to $5M to prep Bitcoin for a quantum threat that doesn't exist yet

Galaxy has pledged up to $5 million in milestone-based developer grants and formed an advisory council to prepare Bitcoin for a future quantum-computing threat that experts agree does not exist yet.

Russia's Duma clears bill letting ordinary investors buy crypto — with a 300,000-ruble annual leash

Russia's State Duma passed a bill Tuesday putting crypto trading under state oversight and letting retail investors buy major tokens through registered intermediaries, capped at 300,000 rubles a year each.

Coinbase blames July 14 outage on a 'low-risk' config change that collided with itself

Coinbase said a botched routine configuration change to a shared Kubernetes cluster caused a roughly 50-minute platform-wide outage on July 14 that halted trading, transfers and card payments.

An "Intel" token goes live on Solana — issued by Backpack Securities, not Intel

A tokenized version of Intel stock, $INTC, went live on Solana on July 21, issued by Backpack Securities through a service called Sunrise and routed to major Solana trading apps — with no sign the chipmaker itself is involved.

Morpho ships Midnight, a fixed-rate lending protocol, on Base

Morpho publicly launched Midnight, a fixed-rate, fixed-term lending protocol, on Base, positioning it alongside its variable-rate Morpho Blue and pitching institutional credit use cases.

CoinShares opens UCITS platform to reach European institutions its old products couldn't touch

CoinShares launched a UCITS platform and a Bitcoin Mining ETF on Deutsche Börse Xetra, aiming at European pension funds, insurers and private banks whose mandates barred its existing debt-backed products.

Ethereum Foundation's monthly launch roundup leads with Robinhood's L2 and Aztec's decentralization milestone

The Ethereum Foundation's monthly "shipping" thread touts a Robinhood Layer 2 that cleared $1B in DEX volume in a week and Aztec's Stage 2 decentralization, but nearly every figure is self-reported by the projects involved.

Hyperliquid to open prediction-market deployment to anyone — for a 500,000 HYPE stake

Hyperliquid says a coming update to its HIP-4 upgrade will let anyone deploy prediction markets on the exchange, requiring a 500,000 HYPE stake that validators can slash for bad settlement.

A quantum recovery tool for frozen bitcoin — that can't reach Satoshi's coins

Quantum research firm Project Eleven says it has built a fast zero-knowledge proof to recover frozen quantum-vulnerable bitcoin, but it can't rescue Satoshi's ~1.1 million coins or any pre-2012 wallet.

$2.5B in Bitcoin Call Spreads Bet on $72,000 by July 31 — Right After the Fed Meets

CLARITY Act's odds hit a record low on Polymarket as Senate ethics fight drags

Polymarket traders now give the CLARITY Act just a 32% chance of becoming law this year — a record low — as Senate talks stall over a bipartisan ethics provision.

Trezor executive concedes hardware wallets are "clunky" but rejects ZachXBT's "complete garbage" verdict

On-chain investigator ZachXBT called all hardware wallets "complete garbage" for high-stakes use; Trezor's commercial chief conceded the tools are "clunky" but rejected the blanket verdict, while Tornado Cash's Roman Storm sided partly with ZachXBT.

CFTC Ends Routine Large-Trader Position Reporting for Physical Commodity Swaps

The CFTC issued a final order ending Part 20's routine daily and event-based position reports for physical commodity swaps, while keeping recordkeeping and special-call powers in place.

Trump Media to sell traders an early peek at Trump's Truth Social posts

Trump Media said it will sell trading firms millisecond-early access to Truth Social posts, including President Trump's, as a legal ethics expert called the plan "brazen corruption.

MegaETH shuts its Mega Mafia accelerator, admitting most of its hits build elsewhere

MegaETH is ending its Mega Mafia accelerator after two cohorts, with team member Shuyao Kong conceding that most of the roughly 20 startups it incubated have left for rival chains.

Citadel Securities buys into Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, its second exchange stake in eight months

Citadel Securities put $400 million into Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation, the exchange's first institutional raise, earmarked to expand tokenized stocks, derivatives and prediction markets.

SEC proposes making electronic delivery the default for investor disclosures

The SEC voted to propose Regulation E-Delivery on July 16, 2026, a rule letting issuers, broker-dealers and advisers default to electronic rather than paper delivery of required disclosures; it now heads to public comment.

A "$HOOD" token for Robinhood shows up on Solana — announced by Solana itself, with most of the details missing

Solana's official account says a "$HOOD" token tracking Robinhood, issued by Backpack Securities via a system called Sunrise, is now trading across Solana apps — but the announcement omits price, backing and Robinhood's own role.

Senate votes unanimously against a Bankman-Fried pardon

The U.S. Senate passed a resolution by unanimous consent declaring that convicted FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried should receive no presidential pardon or commutation.

Bitcoin wallet dormant for 8 years moves 5,908 BTC, worth about $383 million

A bitcoin wallet dormant since December 2017 moved 5,908 BTC — worth roughly $383 million — to a new address on July 15, according to on-chain trackers; the coins have not moved since and no sale is confirmed.

Solana claims No. 1 spot for real-world-asset holders at 300K — a headline about wallets, not dollars

Solana's official account said the network passed 300,000 real-world-asset holders, claiming the top spot by holder count, citing analytics outlet SolanaFloor — a milestone about wallet numbers, not asset value.

Cardano's van Rossem Hard Fork Set for July 18 After On-Chain Ratification

Cardano's van Rossem hard fork, ratified by on-chain governance vote on July 13, is scheduled to enact at 21:44:51 UTC on July 18, 2026, with node operators urged to upgrade first.

Circle suspended a Tether-backed arbitrage fund over manipulation fears, unsealed filings show

Arbitration records unsealed in Boston show Circle cut off Heka Funds' USDC minting and redemptions in December 2023 after concluding the Tether-backed arbitrage fund might be manipulating the market; the arbitrator found no breach of contract.

Treasury sanctions Iran-linked wallets; Tether freezes ~$131M in USDT

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned crypto wallets tied to Iran's central bank, and stablecoin issuer Tether froze roughly $131 million in USDT on the Tron network shortly before the announcement.

CFTC Overrides Michigan Court, Orders Kalshi to Settle Cancelled Trades

The CFTC on July 14 stayed a KalshiEX emergency rule change and invoked emergency authority to force the exchange to settle trades a Michigan court had ordered cancelled, escalating a national fight over who regulates prediction markets.

Two Wall Street banks turn on Circle's stablecoin economics — while two others say the fear is overdone

Mizuho cut Circle to underperform with a $50 target and JPMorgan trimmed estimates, both warning that new rival Open USD and richer distributor deals will squeeze USDC's reserve-income economics; Bernstein and William Blair disagree.

Devcon 8 Heads to Mumbai in November, With Tickets Starting at $499 in ETH

The Ethereum Foundation opened Devcon 8 ticket sales on July 14, setting the conference for Mumbai on November 3–6 with general admission from $499 in ETH and tiered discounts down to free for core developers.

Cardano Foundation joins Linux Foundation's x402 payments standard as the group goes 'operational'

The Cardano Foundation says it has joined the Linux Foundation's newly launched x402 Foundation as an Associate Member, backing an open standard for per-request stablecoin payments by apps and AI agents.

US Government Shifts $288M in Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime, Decrypt Reports

A wallet tied to the US government moved roughly $288 million in seized cryptocurrency to Coinbase Prime, according to Decrypt, though which assets, which case and the reason went undisclosed.

Cardano's van Rossem hard fork clears governance vote, enactment set for July 18

Cardano's van Rossem hard fork was ratified on July 13, 2026, clearing DRep, stake-pool and constitutional-committee votes, with on-chain enactment scheduled for July 18.

Prediction markets hit $50B in World Cup's first month as sportsbook apps fade

Prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket and Robinhood's Rothera cleared a combined $50 billion in monthly volume during the 2026 World Cup's first month, drawing first-time and female bettors as traditional sportsbook apps faded.

UK Defers Capital Gains Tax on Crypto Lending and Liquidity Pools From April 2027

HM Revenue & Customs will treat crypto lending and liquidity-pool deposits as "no gain, no loss," deferring Capital Gains Tax until an economic disposal, from 6 April 2027.

US government wallets shift $288M in seized bitcoin and ether to Coinbase Prime, per Arkham

On-chain analytics firm Arkham says U.S. government-linked wallets moved roughly 3,800 BTC and 30,007 ETH — over $288 million — to Coinbase Prime on July 13, drawn from criminal-case seizures.

Retail chatter about Bitcoin and Ethereum has drained back to 2020 levels, The Block's data desk says

The Block's data desk reports that daily tweet volume for "Bitcoin" and "Ethereum" has fallen to roughly 130,000 and 40,000 mentions — 12-month lows last seen in 2020 — even as institutional crypto activity climbs.

Stock perps now make up nearly half of Hyperliquid's trading volume, The Block reports

Perpetual futures tracking stocks like Nvidia and Tesla have grown from roughly 2% to nearly 50% of Hyperliquid's daily perp volume this year, according to The Block, with builder-deployed HIP-3 markets driving the shift.

Gondor plans to let Polymarket users borrow against their whole portfolio to place bigger bets

Polymarket-focused startup Gondor says its v1 product will let users cross-margin their entire prediction-market portfolio to place leveraged bets, with a private test next week and a public launch targeted for September.

Robinhood built a chain for tokenized stocks. Two weeks in, memecoins own it

Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum layer-2 launched July 1 to host tokenized stocks, has drawn heavy early traffic driven mostly by memecoins, with real-world assets making up roughly $13 million of activity.

Bitcoin and Ether ETFs Log Fresh Inflows After Extended Outflow Run, Decrypt Reports

Decrypt's July 13 Morning Minute reports US spot bitcoin and ether ETFs recorded net inflows after an extended run of outflows, though the brief did not disclose the dollar figures behind the reversal.

Stablecoin cross-border payments beat interbank FX all of Q2, benchmark says — with the real cost now in provider choice

Borderless.xyz's Q2 2026 benchmark says stablecoin cross-border payments priced below interbank FX every month of the quarter, and pegs the cost of not shopping providers at about $2,330 per $1 million moved.

Solana Says SBI and Megabank SMFG Are Building On-Chain Markets on Its Chain. The Details Are Missing.

Solana's official account said Japan's SBI Holdings, alongside megabank group SMFG, is building an on-chain market for real-world assets and stablecoins on the Solana blockchain — but the announcement carried no terms, timeline, capital figures, or independent confirmation from either bank.

Dormant bitcoin wallet moves 2,931 BTC worth ~$188 million after seven years quiet

A bitcoin wallet dormant since October 2018 moved 2,931 BTC — worth roughly $188 million — to a fresh address on July 12, according to on-chain trackers; the reason is unknown.

SK Hynix's $26.5B Nasdaq debut gets tokenized on Telegram and Solana within a day

SK Hynix's $26.5 billion Nasdaq ADR listing went live Friday, and crypto firms including Telegram's built-in wallet moved quickly to offer tokenized versions of the stock.

Robinhood Chain posts big week-one numbers — and its first scam-token warnings

Robinhood's crypto GM touted 17M transactions and $250M TVL a week into Robinhood Chain, as Relay Protocol warned of self-deleting scam tokens hitting buyers on the permissionless network.

SK Hynix's Nasdaq debut arrives on Solana the same day — via three tokenized-stock issuers

SK Hynix debuted an American Depositary Receipt on Nasdaq and, per Solana's own announcement, three issuers simultaneously launched tokenized versions of the stock for 24/7 trading on Solana.

CFTC Freezes CME's Bid to Launch 24/7 Crude Oil Futures Trading

The CFTC on July 9 froze CME's self-certified contract that would have launched 24/7 crude oil futures trading as early as July 10, saying the exchange bypassed an open review of round-the-clock trading.

Ethereum Foundation: AI agents found real protocol bugs, but the triage is where the work is

Ethereum Foundation's Protocol Security team says coordinated AI agents found real bugs in protocol code, including a disclosed libp2p flaw, but that verifying the findings — not generating them — is now the hard part.

Bitcoin's long-term holders are capitulating, but analysts stop short of calling a bottom

Glassnode data cited by The Block shows bitcoin has traded below key on-chain value levels for five months as long-term holders sell at the fastest pace since December 2022, with no confirmed bottom.

Mantle shifts $2.5B Super Portal to Chainlink CCIP as LayerZero exodus tops $7 billion

Mantle is moving its $2.5 billion Bybit-built Super Portal from LayerZero to Chainlink's CCIP between July 9 and 15, part of more than $7.2 billion in announced bridge migrations since a March exploit.

CFTC's Selig presses Senate on Clarity Act, warns regulators will fill the vacuum

CFTC Chair Michael Selig urged the Senate to pass the crypto market-structure Clarity Act before its August recess, warning that regulators would otherwise set the rules by default after Congress missed a July 4 target.

BitGo says it will ship quantum-risk tools for institutional Bitcoin wallets 'in coming weeks'

BitGo said Thursday it will roll out tools in the coming weeks to help institutions measure and cut Bitcoin wallets' exposure to a future quantum-computing attack, built on its existing multi-signature setup.

Hyundai Card runs a $20,000 stablecoin remittance test with Tether and Avalanche

Hyundai Card said it completed a $20,000 USDT test remittance between Hyundai's U.S. and Mexican units on Avalanche, with a second Visa- and Circle-backed pilot in Europe due later this month.

AscendEX shuts down, warns users may not get their crypto back

Crypto exchange AscendEX ceased operations on July 1 and told users it cannot guarantee they will recover their full balances, citing MiCA non-authorization, a failed liquidity deal, and near-empty hot wallets flagged by on-chain investigators.

Optimism and Toss sign MOU to explore a Won-backed stablecoin — nothing built yet

Optimism and South Korean fintech app Toss signed a non-binding MOU to explore a Won-backed stablecoin on the OP Stack, announced via Optimism's own promotional post.

SEC to hold July 13 roundtable on reworking the IPO process

The SEC will livestream a July 13 roundtable on overhauling the IPO process and making it easier for companies to go and stay public, its small-business advocate and Corporation Finance division announced July 8.

Bitcoin Core v31.1 released

The Bitcoin Core project announced the release of Bitcoin Core v31.1 on July 8, 2026, a point update to the reference implementation, though the release notes' contents were not detailed in the announcement.

Onchain trackers say Bitmine bought another $70M in ETH; the company hasn't confirmed it

Onchain analyst Lookonchain says Tom Lee's Bitmine bought 40,000 ETH (about $70 million) on Tuesday; the company has not confirmed the purchase, which would edge its holdings toward a 5% supply target.

Solana merges the final flag to start turning on Alpenglow, with a Testnet target of July

Solana's July 2 developer changelog says Agave v4.1.0 merged the final feature flag to begin activating the Alpenglow consensus overhaul, which the team expects to reach Testnet in July and Mainnet in August.

CFTC Sues North Carolina Trader Over Alleged $14M Ponzi-Style Commodity Pool

The CFTC filed a fraud complaint on July 7, 2026 against North Carolina trader Trevor L. Vernon and his firm Argent Capital Management, alleging a $14 million Ponzi-like commodity pool that faked profits from 2022 to 2026.

Tokenized SpaceX shares drive on-chain equity trading to a record $3.86B in June

On-chain tokenized-equity trading jumped 145% to a record $3.86 billion in June, with tokenized SpaceX shares alone accounting for $1.19 billion after the company's $75 billion IPO, per a CoinDesk Data report.

Ondo says traders can now post tokenized stocks as collateral on its perps platform

Ondo Finance opened pre-alpha access to a perpetual-futures platform that lets non-U.S. traders post tokenized stocks as collateral, a claim reported by The Block and sourced to Ondo's own announcement.

SEC Stands Up a Retail Fraud Working Group, Naming Pump-and-Dumps and Market Manipulation

Gemini adds 0% stock trading, pitches itself as a financial "super app"

Gemini launched zero-commission US stock trading on July 7, positioning itself as an "all-in-one financial super app" while still posting a $109 million quarterly net loss.

Vanguard, long crypto's loudest skeptic, advertises for a head of digital assets

Vanguard has posted a job ad for a head of digital assets to build a multi-year crypto strategy and represent the firm with regulators — a shift for a manager that once called Bitcoin an "immature asset class.

Emurgo winds down SecondFi wallet, keeping only an asset-recovery team after Cardano exploit

Cardano developer Emurgo says wallet firm SecondFi will not resume operations after a June exploit exposed private keys, drained 16 million ADA to attackers and moved 129 million ADA to an unidentified white hat.

U.S. bitcoin reserve still on the drawing board 16 months after Trump ordered it

Sixteen months after Trump's executive order, the White House says it is still evaluating whether Treasury or Commerce should house a U.S. bitcoin reserve, and Congress has passed no law to back it.

BonkDAO says $20M in BONK drained via malicious governance proposal

BonkDAO said an attacker pushed through a malicious governance proposal and drained an estimated $20 million in BONK from its treasury, with Upbit halting BONK deposits and withdrawals in response.

SEC's Atkins declares the end of 'regulation by enforcement' — but the post is a slogan, not a docket

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency has ended the "regulation by enforcement" era and refocused on investor-protection cases — a statement of posture, posted with no case numbers or specifics attached.

BitMine's ether pile nears 5% of all ETH as Tom Lee pins the rally on a 50/50 regulatory bet

BitMine bought about 42,197 ether for roughly $73–74 million last week, pushing its treasury to 5.74 million ETH — near 5% of all Ethereum — as chairman Tom Lee credited a coin-flip Clarity Act bet for ether's relative strength.

Strategy sells 3,588 bitcoin at a loss to pay its dividends, formalizing the one thing Saylor swore it wouldn't do

Strategy sold 3,588 bitcoin for about $216 million last week to fund preferred-stock dividends, an SEC filing shows, formalizing a sell mechanism at a company long defined by never selling.

U.S. wallets traded $571M on Polymarket's political markets — despite being banned from the platform

On-chain analysis firm Allium found U.S.-linked wallets traded about $571 million on Polymarket's political markets over the past year — the largest national share — despite the platform being barred from serving American users.

Solana touts sub-second finality with 'Alpenglow' — the numbers, and where they come from

A widely shared post says Solana's "Alpenglow" upgrade will cut transaction finality to 100–150 milliseconds after a 98% validator vote, with mainnet targeted for Q3 2026 — but every figure traces to a single amplified social post, not a primary source.

Bitcoin claws back above $61,000 as a soft jobs report ends the ETF bleed — but the 'dovish' read has holes

Bitcoin rebounded above $61,000 and US spot bitcoin ETFs took in roughly $222 million on July 2, ending a 10-day outflow streak, after a weak June jobs report trimmed the odds of another Fed rate hike this year.

Avalanche Treasury Corp warns the SEC it may not last the year

Avalanche Treasury Corp warned the SEC of "substantial doubt" about its survival after its AVAX stockpile fell more than half underwater and its stock lost 93% in a month following its Nasdaq debut.

Developers Are Testing Lending on the XRP Ledger — But "Missing Layer" Is Ripple's Framing, Not a Launch

Decrypt reported on June 29 that developers are testing native lending and credit features on the XRP Ledger, a long-promised capability Ripple describes as the network's "missing layer.

SEC wins $5.5M default judgment against fake crypto platform NanoBit

A federal judge in Brooklyn entered a $5.5 million default judgment against NanoBit and five co-defendants over a fake crypto trading platform that the SEC says defrauded 18 investors of roughly $1 million.

UK regulator proposes halving stablecoin capital buffer to 1%, below EU's MiCA

The UK's FCA proposed halving stablecoin issuers' capital buffer to 1% of coins in circulation, below the EU's 2% MiCA rule, days after the Bank of England dropped its planned holding cap.

Bitcoin whales added 270,000 BTC in two weeks as U.S. ETFs logged a record $4.06B June outflow

Large bitcoin holders bought more than 270,000 BTC (about $16.7 billion) over two weeks in late June while U.S. spot ETFs shed a record $4.06 billion, per CoinDesk citing Bitfinex.

Cardano's van Rossem hard fork awaits stake pool and committee votes as epoch 640 winds down

Cardano's van Rossem hard fork cleared its DRep vote threshold but still lacked enough stake pool operator and constitutional committee votes as epoch 640 neared its close on July 3.

CryptoQuant flags a jump in exchange deposits as bitcoin tests $60,000

CryptoQuant analyst Julio Moreno says a spike in bitcoin, ether and altcoin exchange deposits — driven by large holders — has historically preceded higher volatility, as bitcoin trades near $62,000 and tests $60,000 support.

Uniswap DAO moves to claw back $42m in UNI loaned to delegates

Uniswap's DAO is voting to reclaim roughly $42 million in UNI tokens loaned to the Uniswap Foundation and top delegates in 2022–2023, with 53% in favor as of the May 8 close.

Wallet linked to accused $65M DeFi hacker Medjedovic moves $13.5M through Tornado Cash

On-chain records show a wallet tied to accused DeFi hacker Andean Medjedovic sent roughly $13.5 million in Ether to Tornado Cash, bringing funds laundered from his alleged thefts to nearly $25 million.

Drift's fix for its $295M hack: IOUs paid out of future revenue, possibly over eight years

Drift proposed compensating victims of April's $295 million hack with "recovery tokens" backed by future protocol revenue — a plan that, at 2025's earnings rate, could take roughly eight years to make users whole.

Ark Invest adds ~$17M in Coinbase, Circle, Bullish and Robinhood shares on Monday rally

Ark Invest bought roughly $16.9 million in Coinbase, Circle, Bullish and Robinhood shares across three of its ETFs on Monday, June 29, as all four crypto-linked stocks rose in a broad market rally.

StarkWare lays out a three-phase plan to make Starknet quantum-resistant — and calls it crypto's 'strongest'

StarkWare published a three-phase plan to make its Starknet network resistant to quantum computers, replacing elliptic-curve cryptography and adding migration tools, and billed it as crypto's "strongest" such roadmap to date.

Coinbase Turns On Stock Trading for All U.S. Users, With a Yahoo Finance Tie-In

Coinbase now offers commission-free stock and ETF trading to all U.S. users, with 24/5 hours on leading equities and a Yahoo Finance research-to-trade integration, per the company's own announcement.

Coinbase and Better launch a crypto-backed mortgage — with a lot riding on one company's blog post

Coinbase and lender Better announced a mortgage that lets borrowers pledge Bitcoin or USDC to fund a down payment without selling it, wrapped into a Fannie Mae-backed conforming loan.

Metaplanet Added 2,823 Bitcoin in Q2, With Buying Slowing

Metaplanet disclosed adding 2,823 bitcoin during the second quarter of 2026, a purchase pace that has slowed from the Japanese firm's earlier, more aggressive accumulation, according to Decrypt.

Treasury sanctions 134 ISIS-K crypto addresses; Tether freezes the Tron wallets

OFAC added 134 crypto addresses tied to ISIS-K to its sanctions list on July 1, and Tether promptly froze the roughly $1.4 million that passed through the 131 flagged Tron wallets.

Cardano's Project Catalyst returns ~40.5M ADA to treasury, cancels three grant rounds in handover to Foundation

Project Catalyst returned about 40.5 million ADA to Cardano's treasury on July 2, scrapping the Fund15, Fund16 and RPGF grant rounds as stewardship of the programme moves from Input Output Group to the Cardano Foundation.

Irish investigators recover another 500 BTC from Clifton Collins stash, reaching 1,500 total

Ireland's Criminal Assets Bureau, aided by Europol, seized a third tranche of 500 bitcoin from a lost stash tied to drug trafficker Clifton Collins, bringing total recoveries to 1,500 BTC.

SEC's Atkins marks a year of "historic steps" on crypto — without naming one

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins posted a video statement on July 2 claiming a year of "historic steps" to modernize crypto rules, but named no specific rule, action, or timeline.

Illinois passes a 0.2% crypto transaction tax; CFTC chair calls it planning "from an ivory tower"

CFTC Chair Michael Selig publicly attacked Illinois over its new 0.2% tax on crypto transactions, which was signed into law last month and takes effect in January 2027.

eToro leads $12.5M round in onchain perps exchange Extended

eToro said it led a $12.5 million strategic round in Extended, an onchain perpetuals exchange, alongside Jump Crypto, linking the deal to its recently acquired Zengo self-custody wallet.

Coinbase Says It Won Conditional OCC Approval for a National Trust Charter

Coinbase says it won conditional OCC approval to charter a national trust company for its crypto custody business, stressing it won't take deposits or become a bank.

Coinbase's Q1 update leads with market share and 'annualized' product metrics — and skips the bottom line

Coinbase's Q1 2026 press release touts an 8.6% all-time-high trading market share and fast-growing derivatives, prediction markets and stablecoin volumes — but discloses no total revenue or net income, and calls the quarter's market "softer.

Coinbase brings crypto-style perpetual futures to equity indexes

Coinbase Derivatives said it would launch four cash-settled, perpetual-style equity index futures — tracking AI, Chinese ADRs, defense, and the Nasdaq top 100 — on its CFTC-regulated US exchange in June 2026.

Metaplanet's bitcoin buying slows to its weakest quarter as its treasury sits about $1.5 billion underwater

Metaplanet bought 2,823 bitcoin in Q2 2026, its smallest quarter yet, lifting holdings to 43,000 BTC — a stack that cost about $4.07 billion but is worth roughly $2.6 billion at current prices.

Coinbase Says CFTC Cleared It to Offer US Clients Global Crypto Derivatives

Ethereum Foundation pitches itself to governments as "neutral" public infrastructure

The Ethereum Foundation published a non-technical policy guide urging governments to treat decentralized public blockchains as neutral infrastructure for identity, records and tokenization — while pitching Ethereum over rivals.

Trump-family miner American Bitcoin plans reverse split to keep its Nasdaq listing

American Bitcoin, the Trump-family bitcoin miner, will execute a 1-for-15 reverse stock split next week to stay above Nasdaq's $1 minimum bid after shares hit a record low around $0.64.

Robinhood says its 'Robinhood Chain' is live on mainnet — the receipts, so far, are thin

Robinhood said its own blockchain, "Robinhood Chain," went live on mainnet on July 1, 2026 — an announcement the Ethereum Foundation amplified but that comes with marketing language and no independent activity data.

A new group called "Ethereum Institutional" launches to court institutions — with little disclosed beyond the pitch

A new self-described independent non-profit called Ethereum Institutional announced itself on July 1, 2026, saying it will push institutional adoption of Ethereum, with almost no verifiable detail disclosed.

Cardano Foundation floats a 2M ADA Catalyst "pilot fund" for August; community balks at the size

The Cardano Foundation says a new Project Catalyst "pilot fund" will open in August 2026 with a 2 million ADA grant pool, drawing community complaints that the sum is too small and accountability unaddressed.

CFTC Opens a Rules Review, Inviting the Public to Name What Should Go

The CFTC opened a Request for Information on June 16 asking the public to flag rules, guidance, and no-action letters it should reconsider to ease competition for fintech firms.

CFTC closes out its civil case against Celsius founder Mashinsky

CFTC Opens Comment Period on 24/7 Futures and Energy 'Perpetual' Contracts

The CFTC on June 22 opened a public comment period on letting standard futures trade around the clock and on introducing perpetual futures tied to physically delivered or storable energy commodities.

CFTC Sues Kentucky, Claiming State Is Trying to Shut Down Markets It Doesn't Regulate

The CFTC filed suit against Kentucky on June 23, 2026, seeking to stop the state from using its own laws to shut down federally registered contract markets, which the agency says fall under its exclusive jurisdiction.

CFTC proposes new data-reporting rules for event contracts, opens public comment

The CFTC published a proposed rule on June 25 seeking public comment on new data-reporting requirements for certain event contracts, amending Parts 15, 16, and 17 of its regulations.

CFTC hits two offshore firms with $2.5M over illegal leveraged retail trades

The CFTC on June 29 ordered offshore firms Netrios LP Ltd. and Red Acre Ltd. to pay $2.5 million combined for illegally offering leveraged or margined retail commodity transactions to U.S. customers off-exchange.

Bitcoin Core ships a test build to fix the privacy feature that leaked privacy

Bitcoin Core has published v31.1rc1 for testing, a minor release whose headline fix closes a privacy bug in the new private-broadcast feature that could leak a sender's IP address to a peer.

Bitcoin Core ships v31.0 as the Core-versus-Knots rift stays raw

Bitcoin Core published its v31.0 node software on April 20, 2026 after a five-week release-candidate cycle; the announcement threads carry no feature detail but are thick with hostile reactions and pitches for the rival Bitcoin Knots implementation.

Bitcoin Core discloses a high-severity node-crash bug, CVE-2024-52911, fixed in version 29.0

Bitcoin Core disclosed CVE-2024-52911, a high-severity use-after-free bug that let a miner crash nodes running versions from 0.14.0 up to 29.0 by broadcasting a specially crafted invalid block.

SEC and CFTC Ask the Public Three More Questions About Harmonizing Derivatives Rules — and Propose Nothing

Over two weeks in June 2026, the SEC and CFTC issued three joint requests for public comment on harmonizing derivatives rules — product definitions, data reporting and portfolio margining — but proposed no actual rules.

Bitcoin Core discloses five patched vulnerabilities, including a high-severity remote-crash bug that lingered for eight years

Bitcoin Core disclosed five node vulnerabilities patched in earlier releases, led by a high-severity use-after-free crash bug that went unnoticed for roughly eight years.

Coinbase Launches "Pre-IPO" Perpetual Futures, Starting With a SpaceX Contract

Coinbase is offering non-US traders a USDC-settled perpetual future that tracks SpaceX's implied private valuation, issued through its Bermuda entity and barred to US persons.

Solana Ships Native Onchain Subscriptions and Spending Allowances

The Solana Foundation says it has deployed a native onchain program for recurring billing, delegated spending, and merchant subscription tiers on mainnet, with all details drawn solely from its own announcement.

Ethereum Foundation Begins Staking ~70,000 ETH From Its Treasury

The Ethereum Foundation has begun solo staking roughly 70,000 ETH from its treasury, directing rewards back to the treasury while running minority clients and distributed signing across multiple jurisdictions.

Ethereum Foundation launches "Clear Signing" standard to kill blind transaction approvals

The Ethereum Foundation released ERC-7730, an open "Clear Signing" standard that gives wallet users human-readable descriptions of transactions to eliminate blind signing approvals.

CFTC Clears Path for Exchanges to Convert Crypto "Perp-Style" Futures into True Perpetuals — But the Relief Has Already Lapsed

The CFTC's Division of Market Oversight issued a no-action letter allowing registered exchanges to strip expiration dates from digital-commodity futures and create true perpetuals, but the relief expired June 30.

CFTC Opens 21-Day Comment Window on Fintech Rules It Says May "Unduly Impede" Firm Partnerships

The CFTC issued a Request for Information seeking public input on which of its own rules may impede fintech partnerships, acting under Trump's Executive Order 14405 without naming any specific target.

Crypto theft dipped to $76M in June, with Humanity Protocol's $31M–$36M hack the largest single loss

Blockchain security firm PeckShield tallied about $76 million stolen across 40 crypto incidents in June, a 7% dip from May, led by Humanity Protocol's private-key breach.

Circle Loses Nearly a Fifth of Its Value as a 140-Company Consortium Unveils a Stablecoin That Shares the Yield

Circle shares fell roughly 16–17% to a four-month low below $63 after a 140-company consortium including Stripe, Coinbase, Visa and BlackRock announced Open USD, a yield-sharing stablecoin that is not yet live.

MetaMask bundles yield, a debit card and trading into one "Money Account" — built on Monad, powered by its own stablecoin

Consensys launched MetaMask Money Account, a self-custodial hub bundling up to 4% DeFi-routed stablecoin yield, a Mastercard debit card and in-app trading, built on Monad and centered on its own mUSD stablecoin.

New York Life's asset manager puts a junk-bond fund on-chain with Centrifuge — but not for anyone in the U.S.

New York Life Investment Management tokenized its high-yield corporate bond strategy with Centrifuge, settling in USDC but structuring the fund offshore under Reg S so U.S. investors are excluded.

Clarity Act's odds slide back toward a coin flip as the calendar, not the crypto lobby, takes over

The Clarity Act cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15-9, but prediction-market odds of 2026 passage have fallen from a mid-May peak near 70% to about 48% as roughly 20 legislative days remain before the August recess.

SharpLink Buys Its First ETH in Eight Months, Then Buys Back Its Own Stock — All Funded by a Fresh $75M Raise

SharpLink Gaming bought 10,000 ETH and repurchased 2.13 million of its own shares in one week, funding both with a newly closed $75 million stock-and-warrant offering.

CFTC Escalates Multi-State War Over Prediction Markets, Suing Kentucky and New Mexico to Assert Exclusive Federal Jurisdiction

The CFTC has gone on the offensive, suing New Mexico and Kentucky in federal court to assert exclusive federal jurisdiction over prediction markets like Kalshi against state gaming laws.

MoneyGram Joins Solana's Developer Platform and Runs a Validator, Both Sides Say

The Solana Foundation says MoneyGram has joined its Developer Platform and begun running a network validator, though no product, timeline, stablecoin, or validator details were disclosed.

Cardano Foundation Announces Two-Year SENAI São Paulo Training Deal; No Financials Disclosed

The Cardano Foundation says it has begun onboarding 130 SENAI São Paulo staff to a two-year blockchain training and industrial-pilot program in Brazil, with no financial terms disclosed.

Ethereum Foundation launches "Platform" team to tighten the L1–L2 relationship

The Ethereum Foundation formed an internal team called Platform on February 17, 2026 to strengthen coordination between its base layer and rollups amid concerns over ecosystem fragmentation.

SEC Opens a 60-Day Comment Window on "Novel" ETFs — Without Once Saying "Crypto"

The SEC issued a June 30 request for 60 days of public comment on ETFs holding "innovative asset classes," while naming no specific asset and changing no rules.

Nick Johnson's ~80% vote share sinks ENS Security Council renewal, and the DAO panics

ENS co-founder Nick Johnson used an estimated 3.26 million ENS stake to push the DAO's on-chain Security Council renewal to 82% against, intensifying disputes over voting-power concentration.

Ethereum Foundation cuts 54 staff — about 20% — as it reorganizes around its new "Mandate"

The Ethereum Foundation laid off 54 staff, about 20% of its workforce, and restructured into five domain clusters to implement its March 2026 Mandate.

CFTC moves to replace its 2017 prediction-market "band-aids" with actual rules

The CFTC issued two June rulemaking proposals to replace nine years of informal no-action letters governing prediction markets with formal rules on reporting and on vetting sports and gaming contracts for the public interest.

Bitcoin Core 31.0 ships, with details deferred to the release notes

Bitcoin Core released version 31.0 on April 19, 2026, with a minimal announcement citing bug fixes and directing users to the release notes for details.

Ethereum Foundation Reorganizes Its Protocol Work Into Three Tracks for 2026, Eyes 100M+ Gas Limit

The Ethereum Foundation restructured its protocol roadmap into Scale, Improve UX, and a new Harden the L1 track, targeting the Glamsterdam upgrade and a gas limit beyond 100M in 2026.

New York Life's Investment Arm Reported to Launch Its First Tokenized Bond Fund — but the Details Aren't in Front of Us

Decrypt reported that New York Life Investment Management launched its first tokenized bond fund, but no primary announcement, fund size, blockchain, or custody details were confirmed.

Symbiotic Rebrands From Restaking to "Collateral Markets" With Core V2 Launch

Symbiotic launched Core V2 on Wednesday, rebranding from restaking to shared "collateral markets" that pool capital across lending, insurance and tokenized-asset vaults, per The Block.

Trump's 2025 Disclosure Shows Crypto Became His Biggest Business — Well Over $800M Booked, Filings Suggest $1B+

Trump's 2025 financial disclosure, released June 30, itemizes hundreds of millions in crypto income from a memecoin and his family's DeFi venture, with reported totals ranging from well over $800 million to more than $1 billion.

SEC opens 60-day comment period on reworking ETF rules, with crypto funds in the frame

The SEC has opened a 60-day public comment period on reworking its fast-track ETF listing rules, asking whether funds holding non-securities such as crypto can qualify as investment companies.

Strategy Authorizes Up to $1.25B in Bitcoin Sales, Reversing Saylor's "Never Sell" Pledge

Michael Saylor's Strategy has authorized selling up to $1.25 billion in bitcoin to fund share buybacks after its stock and preferred shares slid to 52-week lows, though no coins have been sold.