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The SEC Will Propose Its First Real Crypto Rulebook on Friday and Congress Is Not Involved
The SEC has scheduled an August 14 open meeting to propose Regulation Crypto, a tailored offering regime for certain investment contracts. Reported terms allow raises up to $5 million annually, or $75 million through investment contracts tied to specific crypto assets.
Grayscale Killed Three Altcoin ETFs in 190 Seconds and the Market Did Not Blink
Grayscale filed withdrawal requests for its Cardano, Hedera and Polkadot ETF registrations within 190 seconds of each other on August 7, giving no reason beyond no longer intending to proceed. ADA, HBAR and DOT barely moved on the news.
On-Chain Real World Assets Hit $36.8B and 80% of It Is One Boring Trade
Tokenized real world assets reached $36.8 billion in early August across 1.35 million holders. Tokenized US Treasuries account for roughly $15 billion, BlackRock's BUIDL holds $2.9 billion with about 40% share, and BlackRock launched two new products on August 3.
92 Crypto ETFs Are Waiting on the SEC and a Dozen Deadlines Land in October
Bloomberg Intelligence counts 92 crypto ETF applications pending SEC review, up 20 in four months. Solana leads with eight filings and XRP follows with seven. At least a dozen hit final statutory deadlines in October, forcing decisions rather than delays.
Senate Shelves the CLARITY Act Until September and the 2026 Window Is Closing
Majority Leader John Thune confirmed there will be no Senate floor vote on the CLARITY Act before the August recess. The chamber returns September 14 with three weeks of runway before midterm campaigning consumes the calendar.
DeFi Is Down to $70B After a 39% Year and Only Two Top-10 Chains Grew
DeFi total value locked has fallen roughly 39% in 2026 to around $70 billion, down 59.6% from the November 2021 peak. Ethereum holds 53.1% share at $38.2 billion. Among the ten largest ecosystems, only TRON and Hyperliquid grew this year.
Italy's Biggest Bank Cut Its Bitcoin ETF 94% and Tripled Staked Ethereum
Intesa Sanpaolo's Q2 13F shows IBIT holdings down from 646,809 to 40,723 shares, bullish BTC calls down 99.3%, a new put on 500,000 IBIT shares, and staked ETH ETF exposure nearly tripled. This is not a crypto exit. It is a rotation from price beta into yield.
CLARITY Act Faces Knife-Edge Senate Deadline as Recess Nears and ADA ETF Clock Ticks
With only days until the Senate August recess, the CLARITY Act sits without a floor vote scheduled. Prediction markets price passage odds near 30 percent as ADA ETF eligibility approaches.
Hyperliquid FDV Overtakes Solana as Alpenglow Upgrade Nears Mainnet Activation
Hyperliquid's fully diluted valuation moved past Solana at $56B to $50B while SOL holders await the Alpenglow consensus overhaul scheduled between August and October 2026.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Solana Validators Just Voted To Retire Proof Of History
Alpenglow passed with 98.3% approval, replacing Solana's founding consensus primitives with Votor and Rotor. Finality drops from 12.8 seconds to roughly 150 milliseconds and 75% of block space gets freed.
Jito Just Committed 80% Of A Real Product's Fees To JTO Burns Through 2027
JIP-38 passed on July 13, 2026, routing the entire 80% DAO share of JTX trading fees into a programmatic on-market JTO buyback and burn. The commitment runs at least through Q4 2027 with epoch-level transparency.
Allbridge's Own 2023 Fix Would Have Blocked This Attack, But Solana's Pool Was Misconfigured
Allbridge paused Core after an attacker drained roughly $1.65M from Solana stablecoin pools using a Kamino flash loan. A post-2023 safeguard should have stopped the exact attack, but the Solana pool held both USDC and USDT.
Kamino Multiply Expands To New Solana Pairs, Making Levered LSD Yield A Two-Click Position
Kamino Multiply added new leveraged yield strategies on Solana LSTs and stablecoins. What used to require manually looping supply and borrow across Kamino Lend, MarginFi, or Solend is now a single-tx position with an oracle-managed liquidation buffer.
Solana Owns 54 Percent of Global DEX Spot Volume as Raydium xStocks Volume Triples
Solana averaged 425 billion in monthly spot DEX volume across H1 2026, capturing 54 percent of global DEX share, and Raydium tokenized-equity volume tripled quarter over quarter.
500M USDC Minted On Solana Pushes Stablecoin Supply Past 8B
Circle minted 500 million USDC on Solana on July 14 in two 250 million tranches, pushing native USDC supply above 8 billion and reinforcing Solana's spot as the second-largest USDC chain.
Grayscale and Morgan Stanley file amended Solana ETF specs. The fee war starts before the product ships.
Grayscale updated its proposed Solana staking ETF with a 0.19 percent fee. Morgan Stanley amended its spot SOL ETF proposal with a 0.14 percent management fee. The pricing tells you exactly how competitive this launch window is going to be, and what it means for SOL exposure.
Solana's alt-stablecoin supply hit $3.8 billion. That is 15x January 2025. Here is where the LP alpha is.
Non-USDC and non-USDT stablecoins on Solana have grown from around $250 million in January 2025 to $3.8 billion in July 2026. The growth is not evenly distributed and neither is the LP yield. Here is which pools are earning and which are drying up.
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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