Crypto News. July 30, 2026
Ethereum Institutional closed its initial ecosystem funding round, anchored by BitMNR, SharpLink, and Ethereum co-founders Joseph Lubin and Mihai Alisie
Ostium published its post-mortem on the July 15 exploit
AUTO, backed by U.S. auto loans, went live on Solana via Figure Forge, with lending through Kamino, vault curation by Sentora, market making by RockawayX, and pricing from Chainlink
Robinhood Chain’s agent economy, powered by Virtuals, passed $200M in agent volume with 5,600+ agents launched and $2.7M raised for builders
BNY, which holds $8.6 trillion, is adopting blockchain tech to process trades and maintain fund ownership records.
Binance US plans to apply to the CFTC in August for designated contract market status to offer prediction markets
The Fed held rates at 3.50%-3.75% in a 9-3 vote
Michael Saylor pushed back on Bitcoin consensus changes like BIP-110 and larger blocks, calling for the base layer to stay simple, neutral, and secure with innovation built at the edges
Trade xyz will cover liquidation losses from a SKHYNIX price anomaly that saw its mark price drop from $1,127.9 to $917.25 on July 27
MoonPay launched PayBox, an AI payment vault letting users transact through ChatGPT and Claude using the x402 agent payment standard
Hyperliquid Ecosystem and HRC launched a Hyperliquid Financials dashboard with live reporting, CSV downloads, and analytical tools
SoFi pulled in $134M in crypto transaction revenue in Q2, netting $1.2M after costs, while expanding its SOFID stablecoin for 24/7 commercial payments
Tether’s USAT stablecoin launched on Celo with native mint, burn, and gas support, its second deployment beyond Ethereum mainnet
Hungary’s parliament voted to scrap the country’s crypto transaction validation requirement, dropping wallet ownership and asset origin checks
Ethereum Foundation named privacy advocate and SEAL911 co-founder pcaversaccio as its fourth board member, joining Aya Miyaguchi, Vitalik Buterin, and Patrick Storchenegger
