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GRVT Jumps 62% on Debut as ZKsync DeFi Token Lands on Six Exchanges at Once
GRVT closed its first full trading day up 62.44% at $0.2436 on $246.2 million in volume, one day after a multi-exchange launch that put the ZKsync Validium based DeFi token on Binance, Bybit, MEXC, KuCoin, Bitget, and Coinbase deposits at once.
5,600 AI Agents and $200M in Volume: Robinhood's L2 Just Had the Fastest Startup
Virtuals Protocol crossed $200 million in agent trading volume on Robinhood Chain in under 30 days, with 5,600 agents deployed and $2.7 million raised for builders.
Crypto Lost $1.1B in H1 2026 Across 212 Exploits, Blockaid Says
Blockaid's H1 2026 report counted 212 onchain exploits and $1.1 billion in losses, with Lazarus-linked actors driving 55% of the damage and 74% of thefts traced to compromised keys rather than smart contract bugs.
Solana Perp DEXs Cleared $183.2B in Q2, Up 42% From Q1
Jupiter, Drift and Zeta Markets drove Solana perpetual DEX notional volume to a record $183.2 billion in Q2 2026, a 42% quarterly jump reported by DefiLlama and Dune Analytics.
Attacker Prints 5.23M WEMIX$ From Thin Air, Forces a Full Network Halt
At 09:17 UTC on July 26, an attacker with admin rights over the WEMIX$ stablecoin contract minted 5,225,525 tokens (about $5.22M) and laundered roughly $724,198 in USDC.e across Ethereum and BNB Chain, prompting WEMIX to freeze bridges, DEX and marketplace trading.
Peirce Just Drew A Line That Puts $8B Of DeFi Vaults On The Wrong Side
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said on July 22 that many DeFi vaults may qualify as securities depending on curator discretion, putting Coinbase and Robinhood yield products directly in the regulatory blast radius.
Pendle Opens YT Markets On BlackRock ETHB Staking Yield, Splitting TradFi Yield For DeFi Traders
Pendle has listed principal token and yield token markets against the BlackRock ETHB staking yield stream, letting DeFi users buy fixed-rate ETH staking exposure or lever-long the future staking APY without touching a validator.
Aavenomics 3.0 Hardcodes AAVE Buyback Into Protocol Revenue
Aave shifted its token buyback from a governance-controlled discretionary program into a hardcoded, protocol-level mechanism, permanently tying AAVE demand to actual protocol revenue.
Robinhood Chain Hits 3.9B DEX Volume as MetaMask Adds Support
Robinhood Chain saw 3.9 billion dollars in DEX volume on July 15, and MetaMask has officially added support for the Arbitrum Orbit L2 that launched mainnet on July 1.
Uniswap V4 Crosses V3 Volume For The First Time
Uniswap V4 has flipped V3 on daily trading volume for the first time since launch, a structural turn that pushes hook-enabled pools and tokenised real-world assets ahead of vanilla concentrated liquidity.
Aave Stable Vaults Push 20B Stablecoin Yield Engine Into Fintech Apps
Aave Labs launched Stable Vaults on July 9, letting fintechs, wallets and exchanges embed predictable USDC, USDT and GHO yield through a single Chainlink CCIP integration.
Aave V4 Launches on Avalanche With 15M in Foundation Incentives
Aave V4's first non-Ethereum deployment goes live on Avalanche, with the Avalanche Foundation committing up to 15M in milestone-based liquidity incentives to bootstrap the market.
$1.6 billion in DeFi liquidity is idle. This is why your LP APR is a lie.
Dune research published on July 18 found that $1.6 billion in DeFi liquidity earned nothing in H1 2026. Around $542 million per week sat outside active price ranges. Here is why the APR you see quoted is not the APR you earn, and how to measure the difference.
Uniswap fee switch flips. Every V2, V3 and V4 LP gets a haircut, and UNI holders finally get paid.
Hayden Adams announced proposals on July 18 to turn on Uniswap protocol fees across V2 and V3 on Robinhood Chain and V4 across seven networks, with revenue routed to UNI burns. Here is what LPs actually pay, and what changes for allocators.
Morpho lands on Solana. What it changes for LP allocators.
Morpho, the second largest lending protocol on Ethereum, went live on Solana on July 9 via Sunrise. Here is what it actually means for LP allocators, borrow costs and how Koinlytics tracks the new surface area.
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