Crypto News. July 21, 2026

Jul 21, 2026

Vlad followed Pons launchpad founder and it insta pumped to 39M mc

Vlad Tenev followed Ozzy, and $PONS immediately pumped to 39M It is worth noting that a few hours ago, gole tweeted that three years ago, he strongly recommended Bonk when its market cap was around 20M. Now PONS market cap is also only 20M, but he feels it is similar to Bonk I

Jeff @cfm_sol

$PONS reached a new high again. The main reasons are: Vlad Tenev followed WLFI advisor ogle, and ogle has been an early supporter of the PONS ecosystem, consistently active and posting about PONS Currently, PONS is maintaining a 20M market cap. In terms of data: yesterday, https://t.co/i1YsFGoOKP

4:48 AM · Jul 21, 2026 · 15.6K Views

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

Brian Armstrong@brian_armstrong

Regarding the recent buzz around my profile picture changes and some feelings that the Base community isn’t being supported enough: I appreciate the feedback (even if tough to hear) and I realize you wouldn't take the time to respond unless you cared. It seems I wasn't clear

2:27 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 1.23M Views

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

Michael Saylor@saylor

Strategy has increased its USD Reserve by $225 million. As of 7/19/2026, we hodl ₿843,775 in our BTC Reserve and $3.2 billion in our USD Reserve. $MSTR $STRC

strategy.com

Strategy Increases USD Reserve by $225 Million; Now Holds BTC Reserve of ₿843,775 and USD Reserve of $3.2 Billion

12:02 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 1.11M Views

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

Bitmine (NYSE-BMNR) $ETH@BitMNR

1/ BitMine provided its latest holdings update for July 20, 2026 $11.5 billion in total crypto + "moonshots": - 5,777,468 ETH at $1,879 per ETH per ETH (per @coinbase) - 207 Bitcoin (BTC) - $180 million stake in Beast Industries @MrBeast - $58 million stake in Eightco

12:40 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 39.2K Views

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

Star_OKX@star_okx

Today, we’re excited to announce that Andrew M. Cuomo (@andrewcuomo) has joined the OKX Board of Directors. Governor Cuomo has been a trusted advisor to OKX since 2023, providing valuable guidance as we’ve grown. We’re proud to now officially welcome him to our Board. 2026 has

10:30 AM · Jul 20, 2026 · 174K Views

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

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

Two-Thirds of Polymarket World Cup Traders Lost Money According to @defioasis, nearly 130,000 of more than 194,000 unique addresses trading Polymarket’s World Cup winner market recorded losses, representing 66.7% of participants. Most lost less than $100, while 43 addresses lost

7:07 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 39.7K Views

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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.

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

Vietnam to Fine Users Up to $1,900 for Trading on Unlicensed Crypto Platforms Vietnam has issued Decree No. 284/2026/ND-CP, introducing administrative penalties for crypto-related violations ahead of the launch of its regulated digital asset market. Under the new rules,

4:59 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 32.3K Views

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

Robinhood@RobinhoodApp

Robinhood is now open to AI agents. You can open an agentic account and connect an AI agent to it. From there, you can let it research, trade, and manage a portfolio on your behalf. Here's how to get started. 🧵

1:25 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 1.81M Views

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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.

deployer@0xDeployer

two upgrades to every new bankr launch, live now: 1/ every trade now deepens the pool -- permanently. 0.285% of every swap now converts automatically into locked liquidity. there is no withdraw function, not for us, not for the creator, not for anyone. it stays in the pool

deployer @0xDeployer

we rebuilt the bankr launch curve. then we replayed real trading flows from past launches through it. same buys, same sells: old curve: peaked $8M new curve: peaked $53M $10k start. charts that move. live now for every new deploy on robinhood. cook.

7:43 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 21.4K Views

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

James Seyffart@JSeyff

NEW: @Grayscale files for a Worldcoin ETF ethereum:0x163f8c2467924be0ae7b5347228cabf260318753. LOOK INTO THE ORB

8:24 PM · Jul 20, 2026 · 26.3K Views

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

Zilliqa@zilliqa

We have been made aware of a security incident involving one of our exchange partners, in which ZIL was stolen from a cold wallet. The incident is under active investigation, and we are working with the relevant parties to establish the root cause and full scope. As a

10:17 AM · Jul 20, 2026 · 50.4K Views

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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.

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

Vibe-coded a toy demo version of the "anon billboard with moderation" idea from vitalik.eth.limo/general/2022/0… on aztec github.com/vbuterin/aztec… It's early days but you can already do very interesting nontrivial stuff!

10:15 PM · Jul 19, 2026 · 236K Views

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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.