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CoinDesk 20 Books 8.7% July Gain Even as BTC and ETH Fade on the Last Day
Bitcoin closed July 31 at $63,870 and Ether at $1,890 after a 1.3% and 1.4% intraday slide, but the CoinDesk 20 still posted its largest monthly advance in a year at 8.7%.
Three Fed Dissents, One Rate Hold, and a $32.1M Bitcoin ETF Flip on the Same Day
The FOMC kept rates at 3.50% to 3.75% on July 29 in a 9-3 vote, the first triple hawkish dissent since 2016, and by July 31 spot Bitcoin ETFs had booked $32.1 million of net inflows.
Bitcoin ETFs Pulled In $233M on July 30. Ethereum Got $12.8M. The Gap Is the Story.
BlackRock's IBIT alone took $183.4 million in a single session while Ethereum's entire spot ETF complex managed a fraction of that, extending a rotation pattern that has held for most of July.
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.
BNY Is Putting $8.6 Trillion in Fund Records On a Blockchain, Keeping the Old Rails Anyway
The 242-year-old bank is quietly rebuilding the plumbing behind 7.6 million fund accounts on-chain, with BlackRock and Baillie Gifford as anchor clients.
SEC Chair Atkins Says He Can Ship Crypto Rules Even If CLARITY Dies in Senate
SEC Chair Paul Atkins told CNBC his agency is 'ready, willing, and able' to issue crypto rules without the CLARITY Act if the Senate fails to pass it before the August recess.
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.
US Spot Bitcoin ETFs Bleed for a Fourth Straight Day Ahead of the FOMC Decision
US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $49.75 million on July 28, a fourth straight day of outflows, putting the category on track for the smallest monthly inflow total since the January 2024 launch.
Morgan Stanley Debuts MSSE and MSOL at 0.14 Percent, Lowest on the US Market
Morgan Stanley Investment Management listed MSSE and MSOL on NYSE Arca on July 28 at a 0.14 percent expense ratio, with staking rewards passed through to shareholders.
Russia's Biggest Bank Is Building a Crypto Exchange Before the Law Exists
Sberbank set a December 1, 2026 launch date for a full crypto trading stack including a digital depository, moving faster than the State Duma's July 21 bill that has not yet been signed into law.
North Korea's Best Crypto Hackers Now Vet You Before They Rob You
BlueNoroff's phishing kit scans your browser for wallet extensions during a fake Zoom or Teams call and only drops malware if you look worth it, hitting 100+ victims in 20+ countries between May 31 and July 14, 2026.
Fidelity Puts Its Digital Dollar on Ethereum, Issued Through an OCC Trust Bank
Fidelity confirmed on July 25 that FIDD, its dollar-backed stablecoin, will launch on Ethereum via Fidelity Digital Assets, an OCC-chartered national trust bank, redeemable 1:1 and backed by cash and short-term Treasuries under the GENIUS Act framework.
Four DeFi breaches in one week, four different layers, one uncomfortable pattern
AFX bridge lost $24.15M to oracle abuse. Zilliqa's Ledger app leaked nonces. SecondFi's Cardano wallet exposed signing keys, draining $2.4M. Lien Finance's permissionless bond registration burned $542K. Four incidents, four layers, one blind spot in standard audits.
LayerZero and Keeta to mint 9 bank-backed stablecoins across Ethereum, Solana, Base
LayerZero and Keeta plan nine fiat tokens backed by commercial bank deposits via Bivo. USD, EUR, JPY, CNY, GBP, CAD, MXN, AED, HKD move cross-chain through OFT burn-and-mint, with banks keeping freeze and pause control.
Lien Finance Let Anyone Register A Bond Group. One Malicious Payoff Drained $542K
Lien Finance lost 542,144 USDC on July 24 after an attacker registered a bond group with a rigged payoff. The pricing helper overvalued the crafted bonds and let the attacker mint and swap them for real USDC. No governance check gated the registration path.
Zilliqa Fixed 64 Bits Of The Nonce At Zero. SecondFi Left The Secret Out Entirely. Two Chains, Same Bug Class, One Day, Seven Years Of Signatures
On July 21 and 22, 2026, two independent wallet providers disclosed the same class of bug: nonce generation broken in a way that leaks private keys through public chain data. One drained 16.1M ADA. The other exposed every ZIL Ledger signature since 2019.
Samsung Just Put Circle USDC Inside Samsung Wallet On 1.2 Billion Galaxy Devices, And Shipped A Barclays Visa Credit Card At The Same Event
At Galaxy Unpacked 2026, Samsung wired a native Stablecoin account with Circle USDC into Samsung Wallet and launched the Barclays-issued Galaxy Card on Visa. One event, two payment rails, one billion-device distribution channel.
Zilliqa's Ledger App Fixed The Top 64 Bits Of Every Nonce At Zero For Seven Years. Five Signatures Are Enough To Recover The Private Key
Zilliqa halted native transactions on July 21, 2026 after confirming its Ledger app has generated Schnorr signatures with the top 64 bits of the ephemeral nonce fixed at zero since 2019. Five signatures are enough to recover the private key via a lattice attack.
BitMEX Invented The 100x Perp Then Killed It. HDR Is Winding Down 11 Years Of Derivatives Volume By September 23
HDR Global will shut BitMEX on September 23, 2026 after a board review. The exchange that invented the perpetual swap is exiting exactly as Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid and Bybit push derivatives ADV to record levels. New positions are already halted.
3 Bridges Lost $35M Yesterday Without A Single Solidity Bug. The 2026 DeFi Threat Model Stopped Fitting The Audit Report Months Ago
In May 2026, compromised keys overtook smart contract exploits as the leading DeFi attack vector by incident count. The July 22-23 bridge losses of $35.55M confirm it. What audits certify is no longer what protects LP capital, and $840M is already gone this year.
Ostium's Oracle Signer Key Signed A Future-Dated Report, Looped It 20 Times, Drained $24M From The OLP Vault
An attacker with Ostium's oracle signer key submitted a future-dated price report through the PriceUpKeep Forwarder, looped ~20 delegated trades, and drained roughly $24M from the OLP vault. TVL fell from $32.7M to $9M. The smart contracts did exactly what they were told.
B² Network Skipped The Whitehat Bounty Script And Offered The $3.86M Attacker Outright Legal Immunity For A Partial Refund
B² Network lost 8.59M B2 (~$3.86M) after an attacker compromised the upgrade authority on its staking contract. Funds moved B2 to BNB to ETH, then through NEAR Intents into Zcash. B² responded with a legal immunity offer, not a standard whitehat bounty.
Verus Redeposited $11.56M Into The Bridge That Just Got Drained. Two Weeks Later An Attacker Emptied It Again For $7.54M
Verus refunded its bridge on July 8 after the May exploit. Fourteen days later a different attacker drained $7.54M through the same forged import path bug class. Blockaid flagged the entry vector as identical. Post-incident review missed the class.
AFX Trade Called Its Bridge A Multi-Sig. Five Hot Keys Signed $24.15M Of USDC Out In One Transaction
AFX Trade lost $24.15M USDC after five hot validator keys cleared the bridge's 2/3 quorum and authorized a single transfer. Funds were bridged to Ethereum and swapped for roughly 12,467 ETH. Arbitrum's native bridge was untouched.
Why $110M In A Morpho Vault Is Earning Yield From Businesses You've Never Heard Of
Sentora's PRIME vault on Morpho crossed $110M in PYUSD deposits by routing capital into real-world credit markets, not leveraged crypto borrowers. The yield is uncorrelated with crypto volatility, which is why treasury desks are showing up.
Kraken Just Broke xStocks Out Of US Equities, And GTN Is The Pipe Nobody Talks About
Payward is putting Hong Kong stocks onchain through regulated broker GTN, with UK, EU and Korean shares queued behind regulatory approvals. The interesting part is not the tokens, it is the settlement plumbing crypto-native venues cannot skip.
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.
EigenLayer Slashing Goes Live: Restaked ETH Now Carries Real, Not Theoretical, Loss Risk
EigenLayer slashing is live on mainnet. Restaked ETH allocated to actively-validated services can now be cut for AVS-defined offenses. The abstract promise of restaking risk is now a concrete parameter LPs, restakers, and operators must underwrite.
Uniswap v4 Hook TVL Crosses A Threshold That Actually Matters: LP Strategies Are Now A Product Category
Uniswap v4 hook TVL has grown enough that hooks are no longer research toys. Dynamic-fee hooks, JIT-liquidity hooks, and range-order hooks are the first real product category built on the v4 primitive, and each type has a different LP risk profile.
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.
Every Orbit L2 Now Sends 10 Percent Of Fees Back To Arbitrum Treasury
Offchain Labs confirmed 10 percent of every Orbit-based Layer 2 fee (8 to ARB treasury, 2 to development) flows back to Arbitrum, on top of 100 percent of Arbitrum One's own fees. Robinhood Chain is the first at scale.
Lido Pipes wstETH Directly Into Robinhood, Opening Staking Yield To Retail
Lido enabled wstETH transfers directly to the Robinhood app on July 8, sending LDO up 16.79 percent and cementing Lido at 9.2 million ETH TVL, roughly 28 percent of all staked Ethereum.
BlackRock ETHB Goes Live With Staking as SEC Clears Yield Inside Ethereum ETFs
The SEC's March classification of 16 crypto assets as commodities has now translated into a live staking-enabled BlackRock Ethereum ETF (ETHB) and staking rewards paying inside Grayscale's ETHE.
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.
$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.
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