Crypto News. July 16, 2026
Cobie will take over the Base app while Jesse fully focus on Base
jesse.base.eth@jessepollak
some people didn't fully read this: i'm handing the @baseapp to @cobie so i can focus fully on the @base.
building base into the blockchain for global finance is the biggest opportunity in the world
if you're building on base, this means i'm now 100% focused on you. day one.
jesse.base.eth @jessepollak
lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months.
first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a
12:27 AM · Jul 16, 2026 · 26K Views
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jesse.base.eth@jessepollak
lots of conversations about base over the last week. wanted to share my candid take after a week of listening and a lot of reflection over the last 6 months.
first off - in case it’s not obvious, the first quarter of 2026 was a punch in the face. I spent 2024 and 2025 making a
4:17 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 720K Views
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Summerfi is winding down and sunsetting its UI.
Summer.fi ☀@summerfinance_
After 7 amazing years building in DeFi, the recent exploit on the Lazy Summer Protocol has forced us into the very difficult decision to wind down Summer.fi and sunset the UI.
We want to thank all our users, the community and supporters - you made it worthwhile.
2:41 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 58.6K Views
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DTCC ran its first live production trades of tokenized stocks and Treasurys, tokenizing shares of Microsoft, Circle, QQQ, SPY and short-term Treasury ETFs
DTCC@The_DTCC
Today, tokenization continues to move from discussion toward real-world market activity.
Through live production use cases, DTCC is demonstrating how tokenized assets move through established market infrastructure.
Follow along: brnw.ch/21x49lK
12:39 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 266K Views
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Ostium suffered a $18M exploit on Arbitrum
Blockaid@blockaid_
🚨 Blockaid detected an @Ostium Vault exploit on Arbitrum.
An attacker used a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder and future-dated authorized oracle reports to create artificial trade profit, triggering a ~$18M USDC payout from the vault.
More details in 🧵
2:50 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 176K Views
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Aave V4 went live on Avalanche
Avalanche🔺@avax
BREAKING: Aave V4 is live on Avalanche
@aave’s first V4 deployment beyond Ethereum mainnet sets the stage for new credit markets on Avalanche, including those for tokenized assets.
V4 enables specialized lending hubs with tailored risk controls & deep shared liquidity.
3:26 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 55.2K Views
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Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought 6,000 ETH (worth $11.2M) via FalconX on Tuesday
Lookonchain@lookonchain
It seems that Tom Lee(@fundstrat)'s #Bitmine bought another 6,000 $ETH($11.18M) from #FalconX 7 hours ago.
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12:57 AM · Jul 15, 2026 · 118K Views
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Trump to meet senators to discuss the Clarity Act’s path forward
Bitcoin Magazine@BitcoinMagazine
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 President Trump to meet with senators tomorrow to discuss the Clarity Act's "path to success" 👀
“I’m hoping that we can come up with some agreement by the end of this week” - Sen. Thom Tillis
4:59 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 129K Views
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Hyperion will deploy 500,000 staked HYPE to Skew to seed new institutional HIP-3 perps markets in exchange for equity and revenue share
Dave Knox@dknox_hypd
We are re-entering Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 markets PLUS establishing a new institutional listing service to grow the products and markets offered on Hyperliquid.
This deal is the essence of @HyperionDeFi’s Triple-Dip strategy, and demonstrates how we are beyond a DAT and are more
5:45 PM · Jul 15, 2026 · 7.89K Views
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