Crypto News. July 28, 2026
A new CLARITY Act draft merges the Senate Banking and Agriculture Committee versions and adds an ethics provision for the first time; motion to proceed expected Monday or Tuesday with a possible floor vote week of August 3.
Strategy sold 5.43M MSTR shares for $544.5M in net proceeds between July 20-26, bought no BTC
Storj Labs filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy to clear legacy liabilities from prior acquisitions
Strive bought 79 BTC for $5.2M.
Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong rebranded its machine-payments stack as AiFi, arguing crypto and AI are “an and, not an or” as AI agents will need programmable, real-time money.
Strategy’s USD reserve rose $525M to $3.75B, giving 2.1 years of dividend coverage; BTC holdings unchanged at 843,775.
Russia’s Sberbank plans to build crypto trading infrastructure, including a digital depository and active crypto wallet, by December 1
South Korea’s Kookmin Bank to use JPMorgan’s blockchain for crypto-style payments.
WEMIX suffered a security breach after an attacker obtained smart contract owner privileges on July 26, minting and transferring roughly $6.25M in tokens
Tether’s gold-backed XAUT received Shariah certification, opening it up to Islamic banks and institutions.
MoonPay and Tempo announced a partnership bringing PathUSD and USDC.e to Tempo
Kyle Samani, who stepped down from Multicoin in February, warned Solana builders that Multicoin is working against them after the firm partnered with the Hyperliquid Policy Center to back the CFTC’s prediction markets framework.
Cross River and X launched X Money, the first FDIC-insured P2P payments platform built into a US social media platform.
Coinbase named Coinbase veteran RWitoff as new CTO amid ongoing executive shifts.
Kaspersky found SparkKitty malware hidden in mobile apps using OCR to scan photo galleries for crypto wallet seed phrases.
Lido began migrating over 8M ETH ($16.5B) to its Curated Module v2, aiming to cut Ethereum’s validator count by about a third and reduce attestation messages ~29% per epoch
Coinbase launched a New Launches tab letting users trade Base or Solana tokens as soon as they go live onchain.
Kraken parent Payward acquired Magic Labs’ embedded wallet business
Tom Lee’s BitMine bought 9,946 ETH ($19.38M) last week, now holding 5,787,414 ETH ($11.28B)
Binance research data showed Gen Z allocate just 5.9% of trading volume to leveraged ETFs, the lowest of any generation.
Ondo Finance launched Ondo Network, a new execution layer combining centralized exchange-like speed with non-custodial trading and onchain settlement
Securitize Capital registered with the SEC as an investment adviser to work more closely with institutional investors on tokenized strategies.
