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Binance CSO Jimmy Su said the exchange runs monthly internal phishing tests on employees, with repeat failures risking dismissal.

Cybersecurity firm JUMPSEC said North Korea-linked BlueNoroff is targeting crypto users via fake Zoom/Teams meetings and hijacked Telegram accounts to install malware that steals wallet and session data.

Uniswap launched Permissioned Pools on v4, letting tokenized securities and regulated assets trade via AMMs with onchain allowlist checks

Michael Saylor hinted at another Bitcoin purchase, saying “we’re gonna need another color”

Terminal launched Tracked Dev Highlights, letting users track individual dev wallets on the Trenches feed and get flagged on notable launches faster.

Robinhood is reportedly in talks to add Crypto[.]com’s prediction-market contracts to its app

evm[.]chat launched, letting users message any wallet address across EVM chains using their address as their inbox, no phone number or email needed.

Lido’s stETH rebase completed and included the ETH missed from the prior day’s under-calculated rebase oracle updated to speed up reporting, no funds were at risk, root cause traced to a missed validator with a pending deposit, full post-mortem coming.

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Bitmex to shutdown on 23 September

Samsung is adding native stablecoin support to Samsung Wallet.

Zama Protocol to release Q2 Shielded report July 27

OCC-chartered Fidelity Digital Assets to launche FIDD, its first stablecoin, on Ethereum.

XRP Ledger agent payments now support Mastercard’s Verifiable Intent standard via the x402 Facilitator.

Bitcoin Policy Institute named alongside Palantir and Anduril in the US State Department’s Freedom Tech Excellence Program.

World Foundation raised $52.5M via a WLD token sale with a one-year lockup, led by Pantera Capital.

EU sanctioned 14 crypto platforms across Georgia, Panama, UAE, Marshall Islands, Kyrgyzstan and Belarus for helping Russia evade sanctions

Privy rolled out a native fiat + crypto deposit flow (cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, ACH, crypto transfers) in one hook and modal, with automatic provider routing by region.

Strategy launched an MSTR-BTC dashboard showing 843,775 BTC held

Poolin Technology, once the largest bitcoin mining pool, filed Chapter 11 with a $52M stalking-horse bid for its Texas assets

Phantom is ending support for Monad on August 12; users must migrate funds to another EVM wallet before then.

Aptos enabled AIP-146 on mainnet, introducing staking-based transaction limits that let high-stake fee payers unlock higher execution and IO capacity

Base launched chain[.]base[.]org, a new hub for builders and node operators featuring Vibenet, fork upgrade timelines, and reth v2 snapshots for faster node sync.

Gasless stablecoin transfers are now live on Sui, built directly into the protocol with no gas token required.

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BitMEX to shut down operations effective September 23, 2026.

Uniswap introduced Permissioned Pools on v4, a new hook standard bringing compliance-checked permissioned assets to the AMM.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev’s X account was hacked and used to promote a fake meme coin.

Deloitte and Avalanche published a stablecoin playbook covering adoption strategy, regulation, and execution for institutions.

SEC will host a roundtable on September 17, 2026 on moving toward 24-hour trading in US equity markets, covering operational resilience and investor protections.

Strategy launched a Bitcoin Security Consortium with BlackRock, Coinbase, Galaxy, Anchorage and others, pledging $15M over three years, with initial focus on quantum computing risks to Bitcoin.

Verus-Ethereum bridge was exploited for $7.54M across ETH, tBTC, USDC, USDT, EURC, MKR and scrvUSD, the second exploit in two months using the same vulnerability as May’s $11.5M hack.

AFX’s Arbitrum-based bridge was exploited for $24.15M in USDC; the bridge was independently operated and not Arbitrum’s official bridge.

AFX offered its exploiter a white-hat deal, letting them keep 30% of the roughly $24M stolen in exchange for returning the rest.

Polkadot launched a Products Devnet public sandbox for developers to test its upcoming production network

MoonPay now accepts Discover Network cards for crypto purchases in the US

LayerZero and Keeta partnered to enable tokenized bank deposits across Ethereum, Solana, Base, and Keeta, backed by Bivo-held bank deposits

The Smarter Web Company sold 177.89 BTC at $65,762 to repay $11.7M to TOBAM two weeks early

Circle signed partnerships with Kakao Group and Toss Bank to explore stablecoin payment rails in South Korea.

Mirae Asset completed its acquisition of Korbit and plans to raise its stake from 92.06% to 97.15% this week.

Beezie, an onchain collectibles marketplace with claw-machine mechanics, went live on Solana.

Pumpfun co-founder Sapijiju said Pump’s revenue is mispriced since it has hundreds of thousands of active users outside crypto Twitter, unlike Hyperliquid.

Transparency Alliance grew to 70+ participants including Moody’s, Coinlist, Multicoin, Paxos, Gate, Upbit, and WisdomTree, backing the Token Transparency Framework.

Robinhood Chain went live on Phantom wallet.

Japan’s FSA is preparing rule changes that could allow the country’s first Bitcoin ETF as early as 2028, with major asset managers eyeing entry.

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Baton Corporation, the company behind Pumpfun, is hiring a Growth Marketing Lead with a $400K-$1M base salary to scale the platform to a mainstream consumer app.

Senate Republicans released updated Clarity Act text with an ethics package banning the President, VP, Congress members, federal judges and spouses from issuing or sponsoring digital assets while in office

BIS warned dollar-backed stablecoins can bypass capital controls, finding them largely unaffected by FX restrictions governments use to limit money flows.

SEC settled with Coinbase over its 2024 FOIA lawsuit, agreeing to release two withheld documents and review its records

DualPool, a Uniswap v4 hook built with Spark, launched as audited and open source.

Relay integrated Circle Gateway, letting it draw from a unified USDC balance instead of pre-positioning liquidity across every chain.

Ethereum’s validator exit queue has fallen to zero from over 2.6M ETH in September 2025

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said whether crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies count as securities depends on their structure

Kraken parent Payward is expanding xStocks to Hong Kong via a partnership with GTN, with UK, European and South Korean equities to follow

Zilliqa disclosed a critical nonce-generation flaw in its Ledger app allowing private key recovery after ~5 native transactions, affecting all versions from 2019-2026 with active exploitation seen July 19

SEC Principal Deputy Director of Enforcement Sam Waldon to depart July 31 after 14+ years; Osman Nawaz, who rejoined last month, succeeds him.

BTQ Technologies’ QPerfect subsidiary partnered with the University of Strasbourg’s aQCess program to build a digital twin of France’s first public neutral-atom quantum computer, targeting 400+ qubits.

Revolut reportedly hit a $115B valuation in a secondary share sale, up ~50% from its last round

Backpack CEO said it will be hard to convince startups to build stock products on Robinhood Chain since they’d be competing directly with Robinhood.

Robinhood is rolling out its Platinum Card, a 27-gram card with 99.9% pure platinum plating.

Multicoin Capital unstaked $120M in HYPE across 3 wallets, says the move was not to sell but tied to privacy/wallet rotation practices.

Tenor raised a seed round led by Variant Fund, with participation from Nascent, Prelude, Coinbase Ventures to build non-custodial lending infra for asset managers and large borrowers.

Trump is preparing to announce 10% tariffs on dozens of countries this week.

NEAR Mobile v3.11.0 is live, requiring more NPRO and a longer lock-up period for Premium tier.

Aurora mainnet’s apparent outage was actually a NEAR Protocol indexer bug from back-to-back protocol updates, not real downtime

UK Parliament launched a formal inquiry into banks that denied accounts or restricted transactions for crypto firms.

Morpho launched Morpho Midnight alongside a new Markets App for lending and borrowing directly from Midnight Markets.

Base’s Jesse Pollak admitted Base is behind Robinhood Chain on tokenized equities but says Base and Coinbase are close to launching 1:1-backed tokenized equities on an EVM chain.

Doppler opened XDP Genesis Airdrop registration as its Doppler Points Season 2 program concludes.

Jack Mallers has stepped down as Twenty One Capital CEO, replaced by Raphael Zagury effective July 20,

Robinhood Chain hits $700M in onchain assets three weeks post-launch

Strategy said its Bitcoin reserve could cover 31 years of dividends and its dollar reserve 1.8 years

ENS DAO approved a two-year, 5-of-8 multisig Security Council empowered to veto malicious transactions during governance timelocks, with no treasury or proposal authority.

Trump has agreed to an ethics provision in the CLARITY Act, clearing the final hurdle before a Senate vote

Arcus rolled out 24/7 tokenized US stocks and perpetual markets on Robinhood Chain.

Ethereum privacy project Aztec launched its full v5 execution layer in alpha, enabling client-side ZK proving in seconds on phones and laptops

Gate DEX integrated Robinhood Crypto for cross-chain swaps across Ethereum, BSC, and Base.

Tokenized asset volume on Solana hit a $5.8B all-time high in Q2, up 114% QoQ.

Zama partnered with Elliptic to make confidential finance compliant by design for institutional adoption.

Telegram will roll out a native non-custodial Gram Wallet this summer with instant, zero-fee crypto transactions.

Intel’s INTC is now live on Solana via Sunrise, issued by Backpack Securities.

Pumpfun launched BOOST mode, reinjecting liquidity via buybacks and burns for 5 minutes after every coin migration

Base launched a builders list, inviting community nominations.

RippleX said agentic transactions on the XRP Ledger should cross 10 million soon, up from 1 million recently.

Digital Asset raised an additional $10M from Shinhan Financial Group and SC Ventures, pushing its recent funding round to $365M at a flat $2B valuation.

Satsuma shareholders voted to sell the company’s remaining bitcoin, return capital to investors, and delist from the London Stock Exchange

Galaxy launched a Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative, offering up to $5M in grants for developers building post-quantum cryptographic tools.

Ramp launched Stablecoin Accounts built on Privy’s wallet infrastructure.

Tether Wallet rolled out an upgrade with a new portfolio view, BTC/Sats toggle, local currency support, and address book.

ChainSecurity published a new Aave V4 security audit covering the Liquidity Hub, Spoke, and position manager contracts.

Lightning Labs launched Wavelength, a non-custodial API toolkit letting developers add Lightning bitcoin payments to any app without running Lightning infra; live now on signet/testnet, mainnet by invite.

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Brian Armstrong said his X posts and PFP changes aren’t investment advice or coin endorsements.

Strategy sold 2.73M MSTR shares for $263.5M and bought zero BTC last week, USD reserve now at $3.225B.

BitMine added 7,430 ETH, bringing holdings to 5.78M ETH

Former NY Governor Andrew Cuomo joined OKX’s board, will also co-chair the OKX-ICE/NYSE joint venture.

Nearly 130,000 of 194,000+ addresses (66.7%) lost money trading Polymarket’s World Cup winner market

Vietnam to fine traders up to $1,900 for using unlicensed crypto platforms and up to $7,700 for unauthorized token offerings/AML violations, effective Sept 1.

Robinhood launched agentic trading access, letting users connect AI agents via MCP to research, trade and manage portfolios on real brokerage accounts

Bankr rolled out two upgrades: 0.285% of every swap now locks permanently into pool liquidity with no withdraw function, plus a 24-hour 2% wallet cap on new token launches to curb whale dominance.

Grayscale filed SEC registration for a Worldcoin ETF, tracking WLD on Nasdaq

Zilliqa asked exchanges to pause ZIL deposits/withdrawals after an exchange partner’s cold wallet was breached.

Vitalik Buterin built and released an anonymous message board demo on Aztec, where users post with no address link and an LLM-based moderator auto-flags posts against an onchain policy.

Ostium said it’s targeting a relaunch this week; positions will be marked to live price on resume, no retroactive liquidations, but any position already underwater at relaunch price gets liquidated.

Bernstein raised Robinhood (HOOD) price target to $160 from $130. citing prediction markets potentially overtaking crypto as its top revenue line.

Tangem released version 6.0 of its wallet app with a full redesign of its main screen, token screen, Markets, Add Funds and Tangem Pay.

Uniswap is voting to expand protocol fees and increase UNI burns, with the vote closing in 5 days.

Hedera launched Scaffold-hbar, a CLI tool that spins up a production-ready multichain dapp in under 60 seconds.

Exodus is cutting 25% of staff to refocus on a full-stack stablecoin payments platform.

MetaMask launched its Money Account with spendable yield, powered by Monad and Veda’s vault infrastructure.

Tokenized stocks’ market cap hit $1.7B at end of June, up from $329M a year earlier

London Stock Exchange to launch round-the-clock trading in bid to compete with 24/7 crypto platforms

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Vlad is bullish on memes and Rwa for Robinhood

Base partnered with Optimism, Coinbase and WalletConnect to bring Native Account Abstraction (EIP-8130) to all EVM wallets

Across restored Solana deposits after exploit, confirms no user funds lost, full post-mortem due next week

Variational launched swaps, a new TradFi-benchmarked instrument with ~4.5% flat annual financing cost

Tangem shipped app v6.0 with a redesigned UI, BTC DEX swaps via SwapKit/LI.FI, single-step swap approval and ERC20 support on Hedera

Ostium kept trading contracts frozen as exploit investigation continues with law enforcement

SBI Holdings completed majority acquisition of Singapore crypto platform Coinhako after MAS approval

PayPal board reportedly viewed Stripe/Advent’s $53B takeover offer as inadequate.

ether[.]fi partnered with Nexus Mutual on crypto’s largest-ever ETH slashing cover, protecting up to 15,000 ETH in validator penalties

Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index stayed negative for a record 60 straight days.

Grant Cardone said Cardone Capital added 10.5 BTC from July cash flow, pushing holdings past 2,700 BTC

FTX began fifth creditor distribution of ~$900M on July 31 for Convenience and Non-Convenience class claimholders

GRVT delayed its TGE to July 30

Base’s Native Account Abstraction went live for testing at vibes.base.org, offering 63% cheaper USDC transfers than ERC-4337

Vlad followed Index finance, Index went from $13M to $60M in one minute

¥4,500,000,000,000 wiped out from Chinese stock market

Trump Media to sell Wall Street firms real-time API access to Truth Social posts starting August 1.

Crypto[.]com raised $400M in its first institutional funding round, led by Citadel Securities

Visa unveiled the Visa Stablecoin Platform, letting banks, fintechs and crypto firms mint, move and manage stablecoins

Galaxy Digital ($12B AUM) joined Morpho as a curator, launching two institutional stablecoin vaults.

MegaETH is sunsetting its Mega Mafia accelerator after two years and two cohorts.

Sunrise listed a tokenized Robinhood share (HOOD) on Solana, issued by Backpack Securities.

Keyrock completed its acquisition of BlockFills’ institutional trading and brokerage operations for $3.25M out of Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

MoonPay acquired Glide, which lets apps accept crypto deposits from any token, wallet, exchange or card.

Injective filed a transfer agent registration with the SEC to record tokenized securities on-chain

Trump’s teleprompter operator Gabriel Perez allegedly made $100K+ betting on Kalshi off Trump’s speeches, now in CFTC settlement talks.

Circle partnered with Fireblocks, giving institutions access to Gateway and Circle Payments Network for USDC operations with Fireblocks’ policy controls.

DefiTuna Lending was exploited for $580K, leaving its USDC lending pool in deficit.

Avalanche Foundation wind down its Retro9000 grants program, shifting funding focus to Team1 Builder Grants.

Jeff Booth and Lyn Alden-backed Orange Juice raised $40M to launch a permanent capital firm with a bitcoin treasury strategy.

US Senate unanimously passed a resolution urging no pardon or commutation for Sam Bankman-Fried.

Ondo Finance partnered with SBI Group to bring Japanese equities onchain

Polygon Labs announced layoffs as it shifts from a blockchain foundation to a blockchain payments company, nearing its acquisition of Coinme.

1inch co-founder Anton Bukov said he was fired in November 2025, remains a 50% shareholder, and is launching a new DeFi project called Second Tier.

Ansem unveiled the ANSEM thesis, pitching a tokenized creator economy combining memecoin virality with creator-economy incentives.

Multicoin Capital invested $1.75M in Trasia, its first Hyperliquid ecosystem bet, becoming sole investor in the Asia-focused perps platform.

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Summerfi is winding down and sunsetting its UI.

DTCC ran its first live production trades of tokenized stocks and Treasurys, tokenizing shares of Microsoft, Circle, QQQ, SPY and short-term Treasury ETFs

Ostium suffered a $18M exploit on Arbitrum

Aave V4 went live on Avalanche

Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought 6,000 ETH (worth $11.2M) via FalconX on Tuesday

Trump to meet senators to discuss the Clarity Act’s path forward

Hyperion will deploy 500,000 staked HYPE to Skew to seed new institutional HIP-3 perps markets in exchange for equity and revenue share

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