Crypto News. August 1, 2026
Uniswap launched Earn on its web app and wallet
JPMorgan, Citi, UBS and 25 other banks completed a BIS-led pilot settling $1M in tokenized money across six currencies in an average of 80 seconds.
Sushi Launch went live as a native token launch layer for Robinhood Chain, pairing new tokens against tokenized RWAs like stock tokens with instant Sushi V3 markets.
Sei’s 6.6 upgrade proposal went live, making the Ares execution engine the mainnet default and starting migration to the new Eidos storage layer.
Hyperliquid launched permissionless HIP-4 deployments on testnet
Pumpfun reportedly laid off staff in early April and again in mid-July, over 40 total cuts, just ahead of PUMP token vesting.
Kulipa, a Paris stablecoin card issuer that raised $6.2M four months ago led by Flourish Ventures and 1kx, abruptly shut down.
Strategy said it will keep selling BTC opportunistically to fund its USD reserve, preferred dividends, and buybacks, and will no longer put all new capital raises into Bitcoin.
Coinkite warned Coldcard Mk3 devices on firmware 4.0.1–5.0.3 may have a seed generation flaw, urging users to migrate funds, amid ongoing probes into a 594 BTC theft from single-sig wallets.
Circle secured a limited-purpose trust charter from the NY Department of Financial Services for Circle Internet Trust Company
Privy rolled out support for deposits, swaps, and transfers on Robinhood Chain via Robinhood Crypto, using existing Privy APIs.
Ethereum Institutional, is hiring for Head of US, Head of MENA, Head of Marketing, and Forward Deployed Engineer roles.
Zebec is launching custom employee wallets with Stellar and Tangem.
Galaxy Research completed a 30-day review of Bitcoin transactions and found no additional transfers matching the Coldcard attacker’s fingerprint
