Dfinity Foundation chystá pro Internet Computer ($ICP) spuštění sady Open SaaS s desítkami on-chain služeb pro provoz firem přímo na blockchainu. Nabídka má být zdarma a snadno nastavitelná pomocí AI.
Dfinity Adds Open SaaS to Its Growing Cloud RoadmapThe @Dfinity Foundation is pushing further into enterprise territory. Alongside its upcoming Cloud Engines product, founder Dominic Williams has announced that the Internet Computer ($ICP) protocol is preparing to launch an "Open SaaS" suite, a collection of dozens of on-chain services designed to let users run full enterprises directly on the blockchain.
According to Williams' post on X, every user will be able to customize their own SaaS service using AI, with the offering described as free to use forever and straightforward to install. The announcement adds another layer to what has become an ambitious product push from @Dfinity in 2026.
Cloud Engines Lay the FoundationThe Open SaaS suite builds on top of Cloud Engines, @Dfinity's sovereign cloud infrastructure product. A Cloud Engine is a dedicated private subnet within the ICP ecosystem, configurable to a specific specification, allowing users to choose their own security, performance, and resilience parameters. The technology gives enterprises real control over their infrastructure while maintaining tamper-proof hosting guarantees.
The Internet Computer's underlying cloud runs software that supports AI agents generating apps, websites, and SaaS on demand, with generated apps allowing users to make arbitrary requests via fluid AI experiences because AI can see the data inside and dynamically create logic on the fly. The Open SaaS announcement appears to operationalize that vision into a product anyone can deploy.
Sentiment around the project has strengthened after @Dfinity teased its upcoming Cloud Engines initiative, an announcement many view as a major step toward expanding $ICP's role in AI and decentralized cloud infrastructure. The global cloud infrastructure and platform services market is estimated at roughly $781 billion in 2025, and @Dfinity's Mission 70 white paper explicitly frames ICP as a platform that could address a major portion of that market through Cloud Engines and its "self-writing cloud" approach.
For the broader ICP ecosystem, the Open SaaS suite signals that @Dfinity is moving beyond developer tooling and into products that could attract mainstream enterprise users, with onchain services, AI customization, and a zero-cost entry point as the core selling points.
Sources:
Internet Computer Official Site
Coinpedia: ICP Price Climbs as DFINITY Expands AI Cloud Vision
Incrypted: DFINITY Foundation Announces New Economic Model for Internet Computer
Více než 80 000 fanoušků dorazilo na sledovací akci s lístky postavenými na blockchainu Avalanche pro FIFA. Systém už zpracoval přes 100 000 RTB a sekundární objem přesáhl 25 milionů USD.
More than 80,000 people showed up to FIFA World Cup watch parties carrying tickets built on blockchain. Not a single one had to think about wallets, gas fees, or private keys.
The system running underneath those tickets is built on Avalanche, specifically a dedicated Layer-1 chain that Ava Labs and FIFA built together and simply call the FIFA blockchain. The goal from day one was infrastructure that works invisibly, where fans get verifiable, fraud-resistant tickets and never have to know or care that a blockchain is involved.
How the FIFA ticketing system actually works FIFA’s approach uses two distinct digital entitlements: a Right-to-Buy (RTB) and a Right-to-Ticket (RTT). Think of an RTB like a reservation at a restaurant that you can sell to someone else before you ever sit down. It gives the holder the verified right to purchase a ticket, without being the ticket itself.
FIFA separates the right to get a ticket from the ticket itself, and both layers live on-chain where they can be tracked, verified, and transferred, but where fraud, bots, and scalpers have a much harder time operating.
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As of mid-June 2026, FIFA has issued more than 100,000 RTBs, including over 50,000 bundled Club World Cup tickets. Combined secondary-market volume from the RTB and RTT system has crossed $25 million.
The actual match-day tickets are still fulfilled through traditional infrastructure. Blockchain handles the rights management layer upstream, quietly.
FIFA’s longer road to blockchain FIFA did not arrive at Avalanche overnight. The organization previously ran its FIFA Collect digital collectibles platform across multiple blockchain networks before eventually consolidating on Avalanche.
Ava Labs, the company behind Avalanche’s development, has been pushing the dedicated subnet, now called a Layer-1 chain, architecture as the right model for enterprises that want blockchain’s benefits without sharing network congestion with the rest of the crypto ecosystem. A purpose-built FIFA chain means FIFA controls the validator set and governance rules, while still inheriting Avalanche’s consensus mechanism and security architecture.
The FIFA blockchain launched in 2025, giving the system roughly a year of operational runway before the 2026 World Cup cycle hit full stride.
What this means for Avalanche and the broader market For Avalanche as a network, a FIFA partnership is about as high-profile a real-world use case as exists in crypto right now. FIFA’s 2026 World Cup is projected to be one of the most-watched sporting events in history, expanding to 48 teams and spanning the United States, Canada, and Mexico.
The $25 million in secondary-market volume generated so far comes from the rights layer, before most of the primary tournament games have even been played.
The broader market implication cuts across the ticketing industry. Live event ticketing is a sector with well-documented problems: bot purchases, fraudulent resales, and opaque pricing have frustrated fans and organizers for decades. FIFA’s multi-year commitment and the decision to build a dedicated chain rather than use a shared network suggests a longer-term architectural bet, not a marketing experiment.
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FOMO na Solaně dosáhlo rekordních týdenních tržeb zhruba 1,39 milionu USD za sedm dní do 16. července 2026. Z toho asi 1,34 milionu USD přišlo přímo z aktivity na Solana DEX.
FOMO, the social trading app built on Solana, just posted its highest weekly revenue on record. In the seven days ending July 16, 2026, the platform generated approximately $1.39 million, a number that puts it in third place among all Solana protocols by weekly revenue, behind only Pump.fun.
To put that growth in context: FOMO was pulling in roughly $150,000 per week in late 2025. That is not a typo. The platform nearly 10x’d its weekly revenue in roughly eight months.
How FOMO actually makes money The platform earns through transaction fees on self-custodial swaps and builder code fees from Hyperliquid perpetual contracts. No governance token, no inflationary emissions.
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Of the $1.39M generated last week, approximately $1.34M came directly from Solana DEX activity. The concentration is notable. FOMO is, at its core, a Solana-native product that has found a repeatable revenue engine on one chain before expanding the thesis elsewhere.
$94M raised, 625,000 users, $4B in volume FOMO has raised a total of $94 million across three rounds. The journey started with a $2 million angel round in February 2025, followed by a $17 million Series A led by Benchmark in November 2025. Then, in June 2026, the company closed a $75 million Series B that valued it at $550 million.
On the user side, FOMO has crossed 625,000 accounts and has logged over $4 billion in cumulative trading volume since launching roughly a year before mid-2026. The platform has also recorded over 110 million social interactions in that same period.
The core premise is straightforward: combine a social feed with a trading interface, let users follow and copy top performers, and watch trading activity compound as social dynamics kick in.
At $1.39M per week, the platform is approaching an annualized revenue run rate that starts to make the $550 million valuation feel less like a bet and more like a multiple.
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Solana zůstává pod 80 USD, protože bezpečnostní incidenty a slabá dynamika brzdí pokus o zotavení. Klíčová podpora je na 73,44 USD; proražení by otevřelo cestu do středních 60 USD.
Solana price has stalled near $76 after repeated failures at $80, as two ecosystem exploits, weak momentum, and geopolitical stress have kept traders cautious.
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Solana price remains below $80 as security incidents weigh on trader sentiment. Bearish daily momentum contrasts with positive 4-hour capital flows near $76. Losing $73 could expose SOL to $70 and the mid-$60s region. According to data from crypto.news, Solana (SOL) price traded at $76.12 at the time of writing, down 0.34% on the daily candle after moving between $75.50 and $77.40. The token has gained only about 0.3% over the past seven days, compared with a 3% rise across the global crypto market.
Security concerns have weighed on sentiment throughout July. An attacker drained roughly $20 million from BonkDAO after spending about $4.4 million to acquire enough BONK to pass a malicious governance proposal. Only seven wallets voted, and the proposal received 99.9% approval.
Another attack hit Allbridge Core on July 20. crypto.news reported that the exploiter borrowed $1.12 million in USDC through Kamino, manipulated the protocol’s USDC-USDT pool and extracted more than $1.1 million before routing the funds through privacy tools. Some estimates placed the total liquidity loss near $1.65 million, while Allbridge paused the protocol and began investigating the incident.
Phantom also reported degraded performance for token transfers and swaps on July 12. Account balances and other wallet functions remained available, but the disruption added friction for users during a week in which SOL was already struggling to draw enough demand for a break above $80.
Network activity has provided little relief. Trading on Pump.fun and other speculative venues has fallen from previous peaks, reducing the fee activity that once accompanied Solana’s memecoin boom. Stablecoin balances on the network may offer deployable capital, but holders must exchange those assets for SOL before that liquidity can support the token directly.
Solana price must reclaim $80 to confirm a bullish reversal The daily chart places the main resistance at $79.96, where SOL’s early-July recovery failed, and sellers pushed the price back toward $75. A daily close above $80 would clear the psychological barrier and reopen the route toward the July swing high around $83, followed by the $90–$98 region.
Solana daily price chart — July 20 | Source: crypto.news According to analyst Daan Crypto Trades, SOL now sits at a decisive high-time-frame area where its next reaction could set the direction for the coming weeks.
“Either the bulls push through and set a higher low here to take a stab at the range high in the $90s. Or this rejects here and dribbles back down to that mid $60s area.”
Daily momentum has weakened since the early-July rally. The moving average convergence divergence line has dropped to 0.23, below its 0.63 signal line, while the histogram has slipped to minus 0.40. Buyers still control the medium-term structure above the daily Supertrend at $69.62, but the bearish MACD crossover leaves SOL exposed to another test of support.
On the 4-hour chart, SOL remains inside a descending parallel channel that began after the July 3 peak near $83. Price has reached the upper boundary around $76–$77, making a confirmed close above the trendline necessary before traders can treat the latest advance as a breakout.
Solana price is edging for a breakout from a descending parallel channel pattern on the 4-hour chart — July 20 | Source: crypto.news Conflicting momentum readings keep that setup unresolved. Aroon Down stands at 78.57%, compared with Aroon Up at 14.29%, giving sellers the stronger recent trend reading. Chaikin Money Flow, however, sits at 0.23, which shows that net capital flow over the measured period remains positive despite the lower highs.
The one-week liquidation heatmap shows concentrated leverage above the market at $77.50–$78.20, with another dense band near $78.80. A move through those levels could force short liquidations and help SOL retest $80. Smaller liquidity pockets sit near $76.40, while downside clusters around $74.20–$75 could draw price lower if buyers lose control of $75.41.
Solana liquidation heatmap | Source: CoinGlass Break below $73 would invalidate the recovery attempt Immediate support rests at $75.41, followed by the stronger daily level at $73.44. A close below the latter would weaken the higher-low structure and expose the lower edge of the 4-hour channel near $71. The Supertrend at $69.62 would then become the last major defense before Daan’s mid-$60s bearish target returns to view.
Macroeconomic conditions also threaten the setup. Renewed U.S.-Iran hostilities have pushed oil above $90 per barrel and lifted the average U.S. gasoline price back to $4, according to AP. Higher energy costs could keep inflation elevated and limit the Federal Reserve’s room to reduce interest rates.
The 10-year Treasury yield rose to about 4.56% on July 20, while the dollar index held near 100.8. Persistently high yields and a firm dollar could keep institutional portfolios defensive and restrict capital flows into volatile altcoins.
For bulls, the clean confirmation remains a daily close above $80 followed by a successful retest. Until then, SOL remains trapped between positive spot inflows on the 4-hour chart and a weakening daily momentum structure, with $73–$80 defining the next decisive range.
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Solana nyní zpracovává zhruba 95 % veškerého on-chain objemu tokenizovaných akcií. Kumulativní objem transakcí s tokenizovanými akciemi na Solaně přesáhl do června 2026 10 miliard USD.
rwa.xyz just launched a dedicated dashboard for tracking tokenized public equities and ETFs at app.rwa.xyz/stocks. The platform tracks 2,613 individual tokenized stocks with filtering by market share, transfer volumes, holder counts, and various chart types. The chain dominating this space isn’t Ethereum or Base. It’s Solana, processing roughly 95% of all on-chain tokenized equity volume.
The numbers behind Solana’s tokenized stock dominance Cumulative tokenized stock transaction volume on Solana exceeded $10 billion by June 2026. The first half of 2026 alone accounted for $4.9 billion, a sixfold increase from the previous half-year period.
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According to the rwa.xyz dashboard, the total distributed value of tokenized stocks currently sits at $1.85 billion, up 14.39% in just 30 days. Monthly transfer volumes reached $8.28 billion, marking a 52.87% jump. The dashboard reports 538,740 holders of tokenized stocks with approximately 120,000 monthly active addresses.
Who’s building on top of Solana’s rails Two platforms have emerged as the heavyweights in this space. Ondo leads with over 406 tokenized assets carrying a combined valuation of $851 million. xStocks follows with 183 assets valued at $481.6 million.
Backpack Securities introduced tokenized SpaceX shares on the company’s IPO day. The listing generated $108 million in transaction volume within 24 hours.
Solana’s broader RWA ambitions Solana’s total RWA value crossed $3 billion for the first time in June 2026, a milestone that encompasses tokenized treasuries, private credit, and other traditional financial instruments brought on-chain.
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Spoluzakladatel Solany Anatoly Yakovenko řekl, že dosažení standardu Nakamoto v decentralizaci potrvá roky. Solana je nyní podle něj ve fázi masového nasazení MCP.
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Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko outlined the network's long-term development path. Comparing the blockchain's technological stages to the 12-year period between the beginning of the American Revolution and the signing of the U.S. Constitution, he made it clear that reaching the Nakamoto milestone will take years.
From AI infrastructure to securitySolana is currently at the stage of large-scale Model Context Protocol (MCP) deployment. It connects the blockchain with artificial intelligence, allowing AI agents to natively analyze the network and manage wallets. However, Yakovenko is looking beyond the current hype surrounding AI.
His goal is the Nakamoto standard, which means a radical increase in the Nakamoto coefficient. This metric shows how many validators would need to be controlled to block or censor a blockchain.
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The same amount of time will pass between full mcp and Nakamoto as between the constitution and the revolution 🇺🇸
— toly 🇺🇸 (@toly) July 20, 2026 Solana's current score stands at around 20, heavily restricted by data center concentration and geographic staking clusters.
The goal of the new architecture is to raise it to a level that would make the network physically resistant to any external pressure, effectively distributing consensus power far beyond the current top-tier validation firms.
Why does this matter?Solana has already addressed its technical problems with speed and outages through the release of the ultra-fast Firedancer client, which pushed hardware efficiency limits to over one million transactions per second in test environments, introducing vital client diversity to eliminate single points of software failure.
But high speed is useless if the network can still be censored.
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In this context, Yakovenko's statement is not just another tweet, but the formalization of a new strategic plan in which Solana moves beyond its status as a "fast and cheap network for coins" and begins a direct expansion into Ethereum's territory, targeting its main advantage — long-term reliability and decentralization for institutional users, thereby positioning SOL as a sovereign, uncensorable Layer-1 asset capable of meeting strict global regulatory compliance standards.
SHIB za posledních 24 hodin spálil 12,47 milionu tokenů, což znamená nárůst denních burnů o 350,29 %. Současně přibývají velrybí objednávky a odtoky z burz, ale breakout zatím nepřišel.
Shiba Inu [SHIB] strengthened its long-term deflationary narrative after its burn rate climbed sharply over the past day.
Shibburn data showed that 12.47 million SHIB left circulation during the previous 24 hours, representing a 350.29% increase in daily burns.
The network also removed 481,463 SHIB during the last hour, while the seven-day burn total reached 44.23 million SHIB, reflecting a 32.63% weekly increase.
Those figures highlighted sustained efforts to reduce the token’s circulating supply despite relatively muted price action.
However, the shrinking supply alone did not immediately translate into stronger price appreciation.
Instead, the burn activity reinforced SHIB’s longer-term scarcity narrative, leaving traders focused on whether demand would strengthen enough to capitalize on the declining token supply.
Exchange outflows eased immediate selling pressure Spot flow data revealed that capital continued leaving exchanges instead of moving onto them.
SHIB recorded a negative spot netflow of approximately $175,050, indicating that more tokens exited exchanges than entered during the latest session.
Negative netflows typically indicate reduced immediate selling pressure, as investors move tokens off exchanges rather than preparing them for sale.
Even so, the relatively modest size of the outflow suggested that conviction remained measured instead of aggressive.
Market participants continued reducing available exchange liquidity without triggering a broad buying wave.
As a result, the outflow data complemented the improving burn statistics and suggested that holders preferred accumulation over distribution.
However, stronger demand would still need to emerge before SHIB could sustain a larger recovery.
Source: CoinGlass Whale activity quietly returned to the market Large investors became increasingly active across SHIB’s spot market despite the subdued price environment.
The Spot Average Order Size indicator continued flashing “Big Whale Orders,” showing that larger transactions accounted for a greater share of executed trades.
That pattern often reflected institutional or high-net-worth participation rather than retail-driven activity.
Even though the market lacked a decisive breakout, whales continued absorbing liquidity while exchange balances gradually declined.
This combination may indicate that larger participants are positioning for a longer-term move despite near-term uncertainty.
Retail participation remained relatively restrained, yet growing whale-sized orders hinted that sophisticated investors had started positioning ahead of a potential directional move instead of waiting for confirmation after a breakout.
Source: CryptoQuant SHIB held key support as MACD improved SHIB continued trading inside a descending channel after several weeks of lower highs and lower lows.
However, the price defended the $0.00000409 support area while attempting to stabilize above it, preventing another breakdown toward the channel’s lower boundary.
Immediate resistance remained near $0.00000450, while a stronger barrier stood around $0.00000500, both aligning with previous rejection zones.
The MACD reflected improving market conditions because the blue MACD line climbed above the signal line while the histogram shifted closer to the neutral level.
Although a confirmed bullish crossover had not yet appeared, selling pressure had continued fading throughout July.
If buyers maintain control above current support and the MACD completed a bullish crossover, SHIB could challenge $0.00000450 first.
A successful breakout above that level would likely expose $0.00000500. However, losing $0.00000409 could invite another decline within the descending channel.
Source: TradingView Shiba Inu combined stronger burn activity, continued exchange outflows, and increasing whale participation into a more constructive market structure.
Together, these on-chain metrics point to improving market conditions, although SHIB still needs a confirmed breakout to validate a broader trend reversal.
If buyers sustain current support and technical conditions continue improving, SHIB could attempt a move toward $0.00000450 before targeting $0.00000500.
Final Summary SHIB’s daily burn rate jumped more than 350% as exchange outflows continued to ease near-term selling pressure. Growing whale-sized orders and improving momentum indicators point to strengthening sentiment, but a breakout above resistance is still needed.
@Coinbase has kicked off the official migration of @Injective's $INJ token, moving the asset from its legacy Ethereum-based ERC-20 format to native chain support on the Injective mainnet. The transition, which runs from July 20 to July 22, 2026, marks the first time Coinbase will offer direct access to the sovereign Injective ecosystem.
What the Migration Means for INJ HoldersFor Coinbase users, the process is largely hands-off. Crypto Briefing reports that the exchange will automatically convert ERC-20 $INJ tokens to the native format at a 1:1 ratio with no fees charged. During the migration window, all $INJ deposits and withdrawals on Coinbase are temporarily suspended. Once complete, Coinbase will exclusively support the native version of the token, meaning settlement will route directly on Injective's chain rather than through Ethereum.
Coinbase itself confirmed the schedule on its status page, noting that users should refrain from depositing or transferring $INJ during the migration period.
Self-custody holders face a different calculus. Those holding $INJ in personal wallets and who miss the window may need to use a manual migration tool provided by Injective, and tokens remaining on the deprecated ERC-20 contract risk becoming inaccessible.
The Technology Behind the ShiftThe migration is made possible by Injective's MultiVM Token Standard (MTS), which allows unified token balances across different execution environments, including EVM and WASM, without requiring users to bridge assets between them. Injective detailed the standard in November 2025 as part of a broader architectural push supporting multiple virtual machines.
Coinbase is not the first major exchange to make this move. Kraken completed its own ERC-20 to native $INJ conversion in 2025, while Binance.US enabled native $INJ deposits and withdrawals earlier this year. The Coinbase integration is nonetheless significant given its scale as the largest US-regulated crypto exchange, and it adds another direct liquidity rail into Injective's ecosystem at a time when the chain has been expanding rapidly, including the launch of US-regulated INJ futures on Bitnomial in April 2026 and the integration of native USDC via Circle's CCTP in May 2026.
Sources:
Crypto Briefing: Injective enables native INJ deposits on Coinbase with MultiVM technology
Coinbase Status: INJ migration notice, July 14, 2026
CryptoRank: Coinbase to Support Injective (INJ) Migration Ahead of EVM Mainnet Launch
KuCoin automaticky převede WELL z Moonbeam na Base, takže držitelé na burze nebudou muset tokeny ručně bridgeovat. Síť Moonbeam se má úplně vypnout 31. července 2026.
KuCoin is facilitating the migration of WELL tokens from Moonbeam to Base, giving holders on the exchange one less thing to worry about as Moonbeam prepares to shut down entirely on July 31, 2026.
The move means KuCoin users holding WELL on the Moonbeam network won’t need to manually bridge their tokens. The exchange will handle the swap internally, converting Moonbeam-based WELL to Base-native WELL through a token swap process.
Why the migration matters Moonbeam, the Polkadot-connected smart contract platform, is winding down operations entirely. The network has announced a full shutdown scheduled for July 31, 2026, which includes a one-to-one migration of its native GLMR token to Base.
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Moonwell operates as a cross-chain lending and borrowing protocol across several EVM-compatible networks, including Base, Moonbeam, Optimism, and Moonriver. With Moonbeam going dark, the protocol has been actively encouraging token holders to transfer their WELL to supported chains using built-in tools available through the Moonwell app, no external bridges required.
WELL has been upgraded to xERC20 standards specifically to enable this kind of multichain functionality.
KuCoin, which has listed WELL since June 2022 and offers a WELL/USDT trading pair, has been issuing alerts to users about withdrawing Moonbeam-based assets ahead of the shutdown.
What this means for investors WELL has been trading in a tight range between $0.0033 and $0.0037, with modest volumes that suggest most participants are watching from the sidelines.
For KuCoin users specifically, the automatic swap removes the biggest friction point. Instead of navigating bridge interfaces and managing gas tokens on multiple networks, holders can sit tight and let the exchange handle the conversion.
The July 31 deadline creates a natural forcing function. Anyone still holding WELL or other assets on Moonbeam needs to act before the network goes offline. For exchange users on KuCoin, that action is being handled for them. For self-custody holders, the clock is ticking, and Moonwell’s in-app migration tools are the path of least resistance.
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CEO Aptos Labs Avery Ching uvedl, že nové regulace v USA, zejména CLARITY Act, mohou urychlit vstup institucí do krypta. Zákony GENIUS Act a CLARITY Act mají podle něj snížit právní nejistotu.
Aptos Labs CEO Avery Ching said that digital asset regulations being discussed in the US Congress could pave the way for a significant transformation in the financial sector. According to Ching, the enactment of the CLARITY Act, in particular, could act as a major catalyst, accelerating the entry of financial institutions and large companies into the digital asset market.
Appearing on the YouTube channel “3PROTV,” Ching stated that comprehensive cryptocurrency regulations in the US would not only reduce legal uncertainties in the sector but also allow institutional investors to enter the market more securely. Ching emphasized that current regulatory efforts are critical to the long-term growth of the digital asset ecosystem.
Aptos CEO Ching stated that the GENIUS Act and CLARITY Act, currently on the US agenda, will be two fundamental legal building blocks shaping the future of the sector. According to Ching, these two bills will form the most important legal framework supporting the development of the digital asset market and contribute to the widespread adoption of blockchain-based financial applications.
Ching stated that the biggest trends that will transform financial markets in the next five years will be the digitalization of assets and the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence technologies, adding that a period is approaching where US Treasury bonds, money market funds, stocks, and other traditional financial products can be traded more efficiently as digital assets through blockchain infrastructure. This transformation is expected to reduce transaction costs, speed up clearing processes, and increase global investor access.
On the other hand, the Aptos ecosystem continues to grow with new collaborations. The Aptos (APT) blockchain network developed by the company has been selected as one of the core blockchain partners for the next-generation stablecoin project OpenUSD (OUSD). This partnership aims to strengthen OpenUSD’s technical infrastructure and expand the enterprise use cases of the Aptos network.
Experts believe that if a comprehensive regulatory framework for crypto assets is implemented in the US, the interest of banks, investment firms, and large institutional investors in the digital asset sector could significantly increase. This is expected to both accelerate the adoption of blockchain-based financial applications and support the inflow of new capital into the sector.
*This is not investment advice.
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Tether Gold (XAUT) získal v Abu Dhabi Global Market schválení jako Accepted Spot Commodity. To otevírá cestu autorizovaným firmám nabízet služby navázané na toto tokenizované aktivum kryté zlatem.
Tether has secured recognition for its Tether Gold (XAUT) token as an Accepted Spot Commodity within the Abu Dhabi Global Market, clearing the way for authorized firms in the financial center to offer services tied to the gold-backed digital asset under ADGM’s regulatory framework, according to a Monday statement.
XAUT is a tokenized gold product issued by Tether that gives holders ownership of one fine troy ounce of physical gold per token, with the bullion stored in secure vaults, mainly in Switzerland.
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The token has a market value of nearly $2.5 billion and is issued on both the Ethereum (ERC-20) and Tron (TRC-20) blockchains, allowing investors to buy, transfer and trade gold digitally while retaining rights to allocated London Good Delivery bars.
According to the company, the approval follows close collaboration with ADGM to demonstrate its compliance standards and operational transparency.
The recognition provides a formal regulatory framework for XAUT in the financial center and further strengthens Tether’s footprint in the UAE as the country continues developing its digital asset ecosystem. Tether Gold is backed on a one-to-one basis by physical gold, with each token representing one troy fine ounce of gold from a London Good Delivery bar.
Tether said the latest approval expands on ADGM’s previous recognition of USDT and highlights the increasing adoption of tokenized real-world assets among institutional investors.
The company said it will continue working with regulators and industry partners across the Middle East to support regulated digital asset markets.
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Hyperliquid v příštím upgradu otevře trhy HIP-4 pro nasazení bez povolení. Tvůrci budou moci spouštět vlastní trhy bez schválení, pokud stakují 1 000 000 HYPE.
Hyperliquid has announced that its HIP-4 outcome markets will support permissionless deployment in an upcoming upgrade, according to The Block. This development will allow market creators to launch their own markets without prior approval, contingent upon a staking requirement of 1,000,000 HYPE tokens. The move follows the launch of HIP-4 on May 2, 2026, which introduced collateralized binary contracts settling in USDH with zero fees for opening positions. Initially, deployment was limited to canonical markets curated and settled by validators, but the upcoming Phase 2 upgrade will expand this capability to a wider user base. This strategic move is seen as part of Hyperliquid’s efforts to enhance its prediction market infrastructure and compete with established platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.
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Key Takeaways Hyperliquid’s announcement of permissionless deployment for HIP-4 markets appears to suggest potential for increased market activity. The requirement of staking 1,000,000 HYPE tokens per market slot may indicate a barrier to entry for some creators, but ensures system integrity. Market pricing suggests participants view the development as supportive of Hyperliquid’s price potentially reaching higher targets by the end of 2026. What to Watch Observers should monitor developments around the Phase 2 upgrade’s implementation, as successful execution could further bolster Hyperliquid’s competitive positioning. The market’s reaction to this upgrade, alongside any potential strategic partnerships or increased volumes, will be key indicators of Hyperliquid’s future valuation trajectory. Additionally, watch for any regulatory responses or security concerns that may arise, as these could significantly impact market sentiment and pricing.
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Hyperliquid představil návrh HIP-4 pro permissionless Outcome Markets, které se nejdřív spustí na testnetu. K nasazení trhu bude nutný stake 500 000 $HYPE.
Hyperliquid (@HyperliquidX) has unveiled HIP-4, a proposal to bring permissionless Outcome Markets to the protocol in a future network upgrade. The feature is set to launch on testnet first before any mainnet deployment.
How the Market Structure Works Under the proposal, anyone wishing to deploy a market must stake 500,000 $HYPE tokens. Slashing penalties apply for unclear market definitions or incorrect settlement, creating a financial incentive for deployers to maintain quality standards. Builders can deploy permissionless markets by staking HYPE, with slashable stakes burned if rules are violated. Validators will approve standardized templates, and deployers can earn up to a 50% share of trading fees generated by their markets.
HIP-4 introduces binary outcome contracts that settle to 0 or 1, allowing traders to speculate on events such as CPI releases or Bitcoin price levels without leverage or liquidations. Positions are fully collateralized in USDH, Hyperliquid's native stablecoin, and carry no liquidation risk. Unlike standalone prediction platforms, HIP-4 contracts operate inside the same account and execution engine as Hyperliquid's spot and perpetual futures markets, with YES and NO orders combined into a single shared order book.
A Strategic Bet on Prediction Markets Hyperliquid argues that prediction markets offer far more tradable events than spot or perpetual markets, making them a key long-term growth opportunity. The development was initiated in response to what the team described as "extensive user demand" for both prediction markets and options-style derivatives.
Traditional financial markets are largely dominated by products with non-linear payoffs, including options, CDS, and structured products. A huge portion of this market surface has so far been absent or barely represented in on-chain finance. HIP-4 is Hyperliquid's attempt to close that gap.
The rollout follows a phased approach. Phase 1 covers the testnet launch, Phase 2 brings mainnet deployment with a limited set of curated markets settled using objective data sources, and Phase 3 would open the infrastructure to permissionless deployment depending on the success of earlier phases.
Outcome markets require reliable settlement mechanisms, and the transition to permissionless deployment introduces questions about market quality and potential manipulation in thinly traded contracts. Builder curation in Phase 1 mitigates this, but Phase 2 will test the protocol's governance and oracle infrastructure.
Sources:
CoinDesk: Hyperliquid HIP-4 proposal adds outcome-based trading
OAK Research: What is HIP-4 and how do Hyperliquid outcome markets work?
Bitcoin.com News: Hyperliquid launches HIP-4 with zero-fee outcome markets
Hyperliquid plánuje v rámci upgradu HIP-4, aktivovaného na mainnetu v květnu 2026, přidat decentralizované prediction markets. Tím rozšiřuje nabídku nad rámec perpetual futures a míří proti Polymarket a Kalshi.
Hyperliquid, a decentralized Layer-1 blockchain and perpetuals DEX, is planning to enhance its HIP-4 upgrade by incorporating decentralized prediction markets, according to a report by CoinDesk. The upgrade, previously activated on mainnet in May 2026, introduced native outcome contracts that function as fully collateralized binary prediction markets. These markets settle based on real-world events and initially included curated one-day binary markets on Bitcoin (BTC) and Hyperliquid’s native token, HYPE. This development marks Hyperliquid’s strategic expansion beyond perpetual futures, placing it to compete directly with platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.
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The addition of decentralized prediction markets is expected to bolster Hyperliquid’s utility and attract a broader user base. This aligns with the project’s ongoing efforts to leverage its existing infrastructure, which includes an order book, cross-margin account, and USDH/USDC settlement. Market participants appear to view these developments as potentially increasing Hyperliquid’s market position, as evidenced by the current odds in relevant prediction markets.
Key Takeaways Hyperliquid’s plan to integrate decentralized prediction markets in its HIP-4 upgrade suggests a significant enhancement of the platform’s offerings. The introduction of outcome contracts and validator-governed offchain markets indicates a strategic move to compete with established prediction platforms. Current market odds and participant behavior suggest a moderate increase in Hyperliquid’s perceived value and potential future price. What to Watch Observers should monitor for further announcements regarding the implementation of decentralized prediction markets and any partnerships that may arise. The market’s response to these developments could provide insights into Hyperliquid’s ability to capture a larger share of the derivatives platform market. Additionally, any reports on Hyperliquid’s volume or user engagement could impact market perceptions and pricing, providing a clearer picture of the platform’s growth trajectory.
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Pump.fun generuje stovky milionů USD na poplatcích a část z nich používá na zpětné odkupy PUMP. Zároveň 33 % nabídky drží insideři a projekt čelí právním rizikům. Zpětné odkupy ale nejsou garantované a závisí na rozhodnutí týmu.
Key Takeaways Pump.fun stands as a leading revenue-generating platform on Solana, accumulating protocol fees in the hundreds of millions PUMP features a revenue-funded buyback mechanism that establishes direct value accrual from platform operations A significant 33% of total token supply remains with insiders, presenting potential dilution concerns during unlock periods Legal challenges surrounding alleged unregistered securities offerings connected to platform-launched tokens pose regulatory threats The buyback structure operates at the team’s discretion without guaranteed continuity or specific commitments Within the Solana ecosystem, Pump.fun has established itself as a remarkably profitable enterprise. The service enables virtually anyone to launch and trade freshly minted cryptocurrencies within minutes, eliminating technical barriers entirely.
Pump.Fun (PUMP) Price This straightforward approach has attracted substantial trading activity, producing protocol fees exceeding hundreds of millions of dollars. In contrast to numerous blockchain ventures, Pump.fun demonstrates authentic user engagement, functional infrastructure, and verifiable income streams.
New tokens deployed on the service begin trading via an automated bonding curve mechanism. When tokens achieve sufficient market momentum, they can transition to PumpSwap, the platform’s proprietary decentralized trading venue.
Additional features including livestream capabilities, creator incentive systems, community engagement tools, and competitive token events have been integrated. The infrastructure suggests development toward a comprehensive creator economy framework where visibility translates into monetization opportunities.
Understanding PUMP’s Revenue-Linked Buyback Mechanism A fundamental component of the PUMP value proposition involves its structured token repurchase program. The platform allocates a portion of generated protocol fees toward acquiring PUMP tokens from secondary markets.
Token repurchases decrease circulating supply while simultaneously generating purchasing pressure, potentially providing price support. This arrangement creates a more tangible connection between platform success and token economics compared to typical cryptocurrency projects.
Nevertheless, PUMP token holders possess no enforceable rights to platform earnings. The repurchase program operates without binding commitments, allowing management to modify or discontinue operations without restriction.
Team Allocation Concerns and Supply Dilution Dynamics PUMP’s tokenomics established a one trillion token maximum supply at launch. The development team secured 20% allocation while early-stage investors received 13%, culminating in 33% combined insider ownership.
Current circulation represents only a fraction of total supply. Progressive token unlock events will release additional PUMP into markets, potentially creating significant selling pressure.
Prudent evaluation requires examining fully diluted valuation metrics rather than focusing exclusively on circulating market capitalization. While buyback operations may counterbalance some pressure, no assurance exists that repurchases will match unlock velocities.
Regulatory exposure represents another consideration. Multiple lawsuits assert that certain platform-facilitated token sales constitute unregistered securities transactions. Although these remain allegations, potential outcomes include financial penalties or operational constraints.
The platform’s standing undergoes continuous stress testing through fraudulent projects, unsuccessful launches, and controversial livestream content incidents.
The overwhelming majority of tokens introduced through Pump.fun fail to sustain meaningful market interest. While the platform collects fees irrespective of individual token performance, sustainable expansion requires evolution beyond ephemeral memecoin trends.
Current operational status confirms ongoing buyback activity alongside consistent protocol revenue generation throughout recent reporting periods.
Strategy po prodeji 3 588 BTC za zhruba 216 milionů USD uvedla, že s nákupy Bitcoinu nekončí. CEO Phong Le řekl, že firma chce dál rozšiřovat svou pozici největšího identifikovaného firemního držitele BTC.
World’s largest corporate Bitcoin holder Strategy has no plans to slow down its Bitcoin buying. After surprising the market with a $216 million BTC sale, CEO Phong Le says the company is “not going anywhere.”
While Michael Saylor’s latest post has sparked speculation that another massive Bitcoin buying could be announced today.
Strategy CEO Says More Bitcoin Buying Is ComingStrategy President and CEO Phong Le has assured the investors that the company’s recent Bitcoin sale does not signal a change in its long-term strategy.
Speaking after Strategy sold 3,588 BTC worth about $216 million, Le said the transaction had little impact on the market.
“We sold about $200 million of Bitcoin, but it did not move the market. In fact, the market moved up during that period of time. So we’re not going anywhere.”
Le added that Strategy remains the largest identified corporate holder of Bitcoin and wants to continue expanding that position.
“We’re the largest identified holder of Bitcoin. My objective would be to be the largest buyer of Bitcoin for the foreseeable future. We’re not going anywhere.”
His comments come just days after many investors questioned whether Strategy had started reducing its Bitcoin exposure.
$3 Billion Cash Reserve Gives Strategy More FlexibilityFurther, when asked why Strategy recently increased its cash reserves instead of immediately buying more Bitcoin.
Lee said it was built after preferred shareholders requested a stronger liquidity position.
“We accumulated $3 billion in cash because we listened to our preferred shareholders… Building up the U.S. dollar reserve was a big part of that.”
According to Le, Strategy remains financially comfortable and does not see debt becoming a concern unless Bitcoin falls much further.
“When Bitcoin gets down closer to $8,000 to $10,000, that’s when we have to consider some of the risks associated with our debt. Until that point in time, we feel very secure about the balance sheet.”
He also confirmed that once the company’s preferred shares recover, Strategy expects to issue more shares and continue buying Bitcoin.
Michael Saylor’s Post Sparks Bitcoin Buying SpeculationAdding to the excitement, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor recently posted “What’s Next?” on X.
The post included the company’s orange dot chart, which has historically appeared before major Bitcoin purchase announcements. Because of that pattern, many investors believe Strategy could soon announce another Bitcoin acquisition this week.
Meanwhile, Bitcoin is trading around $64,212, down slightly over the past 24 hours. From a technical perspective, analysts say BTC is approaching the breakout point of a W pattern on the daily chart.
If confirmed, Bitcoin could rally toward $71,334, potentially creating another buying opportunity for Strategy.
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XRP Ledger má za zhruba dva týdny začít hlasování o velké aktualizaci s batch transakcemi, confidential transfers, sponsored fees a dalšími funkcemi. Součástí jsou i optimalizace výkonu a opravy chyb.
A slate of long-awaited protocol amendments for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) is expected to enter validator voting in roughly two weeks.
According to prominent XRPL validator Vet, the proposed changes include support for batch transactions, confidential transfers, sponsored fees and reserves, permission delegation, dynamic Multi-Purpose Tokens (MPTs), and a bundled bug fix.
The release also contains substantial performance optimizations that will make nodes more efficient and improve network reliability.
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"If everything goes well," Vet wrote on X, the amendments will be ready for voting in approximately two weeks.
A feature-packed upgradeThe upcoming package combines new functionality with infrastructure improvements.
For instance, Batch enables multiple transactions to be grouped together, and Confidential Transfers will conceal transaction amounts without compromising the ledger's integrity.
The proposal also includes Sponsored Fees and Reserves (XLS-68) that allow third parties to cover transaction fees and reserve requirements on behalf of users.
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At the same time, Permission Delegation would let users delegate specific permissions without handing over full control of an account. Dynamic MPT introduces enhancements to the ledger's Multi-Purpose Token standard.
Vet said security-related initiatives had delayed feature development, but that work had now resumed.
"Yes, the security initiatives put everything else on hold. We can start resuming," Vet wrote, describing the package as a "sweet mix" of performance improvements, new features, and fixes.
Reserve debate intensifies ahead of sponsored reserves launchIn the meantime, another governance discussion has emerged around whether XRPL's reserve requirements should be lowered further.
Vet made clear he opposes reducing reserves under the current conditions.
Back in the day, activating an account required 1,000 XRP during what was then known as the "create fee" era. Then, co-founder Jed McCaleb reduced that requirement to 200 XRP in 2013.
Over the years, validators repeatedly lowered reserve levels. Today, activating an XRPL account requires a 1 XRP base reserve.
Vet noted that he had supported previous reserve reductions but argued that storage and memory remain valuable network resources, particularly as demand for computing infrastructure has increased during the AI boom.
"The architects designed reserves as a deliberate protective mechanism of network resources, storage & memory, against spam and DDoS attacks," he wrote.
XRP v otevřeném zájmu futures kontraktů vystřelil na 2,60 miliardy USD a předstihl HYPE. Růst táhnou přílivy od velryb, spot ETF a derivátových obchodníků.
XRP recorded a sharp surge in open interest in the last few days, surpassing Hyperliquid’s HYPE token. The recent capital inflow into XRP from whales, spot ETFs, and derivatives traders has also kept prices stable. This indicates growing signs of institutional engagement in the XRP ecosystem.
XRP Futures Open Interest Surpasses HYPE According to CoinGlass data, XRP perpetual and futures open interest climbed significantly, reaching $2.60 billion as of July 20. A rise in open interest signals derivatives traders’ growing conviction and capital flow in XRP.
Derivatives market data showed massive buying in past 24 hours. The total XRP futures open interest jumped more than 10% to $2.60 billion. Futures OI across crypto exchanges climbed in the past 4 hours.
The crypto asset has surpassed HYPE to become the fourth largest in terms of total open interest. HYPE futures open interest dropped more than 2.50% to $2.57 billion in past 24 hours.
Total XRP Futures Open Interest. Source: Coinglass HYPE, the native token of the Hyperliquid, previously overtaken XRP in futures open interest earlier. HYPE open interest skyrocketed above $3 billion after Kalshi launched CFTC-regulated HYPE perpetuals.
Traders looking to take advantage of these volatile open interest swings can compare the best crypto futures trading platforms to evaluate margin rules, funding rates, and available leverage.
Rising Demand Among Institutions Fuels Momentum The major catalysts behind the recent growing institutional appetite for XRP include Ripple’s partnerships with many tradfi and crypto native firms, inflows into spot ETFs, and demand from derivatives amid low funding rates.
Jack McDonald, SVP Stablecoins at Ripple, told Grayscale about the company Ripple’s institutional strategy, and RWA adoption of RLUSD and XRP. Ripple has partnered with Ondo Finance, Mastercard, JPMorgan, and OKX to build the future of finance.
Ripple is partnering with @Mastercard, @jpmorgan, @okx, and @OndoFinance to build the future of finance for both traditional and digital assets.@_JackMcDonald_ joins Grayscale to discuss @Ripple's institutional strategy, real-world adoption of $RLUSD and $XRP, and what's next. pic.twitter.com/e98EgpiiJk
— Grayscale (@Grayscale) July 19, 2026
Moreover, spot ETFs recorded renewed inflows amid capital inflows into the crypto market. Cumulative net inflows and AUM have reached $1.49 billion and nearly $1 billion. Whereas HYPE ETF total assets under management reached $301.34 million, with significant outflows last week.
As CoinGape reported earlier, whales accumulated 70 million XRP in a week as US inflation cooled. The massive whale accumulation sent XRP price higher, alongside a notable surge in futures open interest.
Spotové ETF na Ethereum přilákaly za týden 13.–17. července čisté přílivy kapitálu 105 milionů USD, nejvíc od dubna 2026. BlackRockův ETHA opět táhl většinu přílivů.
Ethereum spot ETFs pulled in $105 million in net inflows during the week of July 13-17, marking the strongest weekly performance for the category since April 2026. The number represents a meaningful acceleration from the prior week’s roughly $84 million in net inflows, which itself was notable for being the first positive week after two straight months of redemptions.
Breaking the outflow streak The $105 million weekly figure carries extra weight when you consider what came before it. Ethereum spot ETFs had endured an eight-week stretch of net outflows. The prior week’s $84 million in inflows snapped that streak, and last week’s acceleration to $105 million suggests the reversal might have some staying power.
BlackRock’s iShares Ethereum Trust ETF, trading under the ticker ETHA, has been doing the heavy lifting. The fund has consistently accounted for the majority of daily net positive flows across the Ethereum ETF landscape.
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Ethereum was trading at approximately $1,845 during the inflow week, reflecting a modest price recovery. The $1,800 to $1,900 range has served as a critical zone for ETH, with buyers stepping in consistently near the lower end.
What changed the momentum Data from flow-tracking platforms like SoSoValue and Farside Investors confirms the trend of renewed institutional interest, contrasting sharply with the prolonged redemption period that preceded it.
What this means for investors The $105 million figure, while the best since April, still represents relatively modest flows compared to the peaks that Ethereum ETFs have seen during more euphoric periods.
The concentration of flows in BlackRock’s ETHA means the health of the entire Ethereum ETF category depends heavily on a single product. If ETHA flows slow, the broader category could easily tip back into net outflow territory.
For investors watching Ethereum’s price action, the $1,800 level has become a key support zone. Sustained ETF inflows tend to provide a floor under prices, as the ETFs need to purchase actual ETH to back their shares. If weekly inflows continue at the $80-105 million pace, that represents consistent buy pressure that didn’t exist during the outflow streak.
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Zilliqa uvedla, že u jednoho z jejích směnárenských partnerů došlo k bezpečnostnímu incidentu a z cold wallet byly odcizeny ZIL. Burzy byly vyzvány k dočasnému pozastavení vkladů a výběrů.
Zilliqa, a high-performance layer 1 blockchain built to deliver fast, low-cost transactions, on Monday announced that one of its exchange partners suffered a security breach in which ZIL tokens were stolen from a cold wallet.
According to the project, the incident is under investigation as it works alongside the relevant parties to identify the cause of the attack and determine its overall impact.
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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…
— Zilliqa (@zilliqa) July 20, 2026
In response, exchanges have been alerted and requested to temporarily halt ZIL deposits and withdrawals as a safeguard against the movement or liquidation of stolen assets on centralized exchanges.
The team said more details will be released once confirmed information becomes available.
ZIL fell from around $0.0028 to a low of $0.0024 before rebounding to $0.0026 by press time, marking a 7% decline over the past 24 hours, per CoinGecko.
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Zcash dokončil přechod z zcashd na Zebra a Zakura a vstupuje do éry Ironwood. Síť zároveň posiluje dlouhodobou bezpečnost díky formálnímu ověření a kvantové obnově.
Zcash’s infrastructure has entered a new phase as the network completes its transition away from its original software implementation. That evolution took nearly a decade, beginning with zcashd’s 2016 launch before Zebra’s 2024 release introduced a Rust-based alternative.
After the 2024 deprecation notice, node operators had enough time to switch over before the planned retirement. On the 18th of July, zcashd reached end of support at block height 3417100.
Source: X Meanwhile, Zakura completed the new node ecosystem. Rather than simply replacing legacy software, the transition strengthens maintainability, prepares the network for Ironwood, and reduces long-term operational risk.
Zcash’s adoption remains intact Completing Zcash’s infrastructure transition did not remove the market’s biggest question. Instead, it shifted attention to whether users still trusted the network after the Orchard vulnerability. Early activity suggests that confidence largely held.
Although shielded balances declined 14% to 4.42 million ZEC, users continued relying on private transactions, which rose 11.1% QoQ to 131,584.
Source: Zcash on X This trend became even more significant as the anonymity set for ZCash expanded by 325,127 units to 124.08 million.
This indicated an increase in participants using ZCash for privacy purposes. In addition, average daily trading volume increased by 33.8% QoQ to $373 million. This further reinforces that overall use of the network has been increasing.
Rather than reflecting weakening adoption, these trends point to cautious capital repositioning while confidence in Zcash’s privacy infrastructure remained intact.
Formal verification reinforces protocol integrity Even resilient blockchain networks are ultimately judged by how they respond to critical security threats. Zcash faced such a test when researchers found a flaw in Orchard shielded pools that secured roughly 85% of shielded value.
But the flaw stayed contained because disclosure was coordinated, and developers were able to release an emergency fix within days. More importantly, this flaw allowed forgery inside Orchard rather than inflating the total supply of ZEC.
The turnstile mechanism prevented forged funds from leaving the pool other than legitimate deposits. Looking ahead, Ironwood strengthens this protection through formal verification and quantum recovery too.
Together these upgrades move Zcash from reactive fixes towards stronger assurances of long-term security and confidence within the ecosystem.
Final Summary Zcash [ZEC] completed its migration to Zebra and Zakura, strengthening infrastructure while maintaining resilient network activity. Zcash enters the Ironwood era with formal verification and quantum recovery, reinforcing long-term protocol security.
Quarterly Cash Distributions Set for AugustGrayscale is moving to convert staking rewards from its Ethereum ($ETH) and Solana ($SOL) exchange-traded funds into regular cash payouts for shareholders. The asset manager filed a prospectus supplement on July 17, 2026, outlining changes to its Grayscale Solana Staking ETF (ticker: GSOL) that introduce mandatory quarterly cash distributions of staking rewards, with the amendment expected to take effect on or around August 7, 2026. A parallel amendment has been filed for its Ethereum Staking ETF (ticker: ETHE) on the same timeline.
Under the proposed structure, both trusts would convert staking rewards to cash no less often than quarterly, with the net proceeds distributed to shareholders after expenses and a facilitation payment to the sponsor. SEC documents explicitly state that there is no guarantee of a fixed distribution amount, as payouts will depend on the actual staking rewards received during each period.
IRS Guidance and the Case for Standardised PayoutsGrayscale views the change as necessary to align with IRS Revenue Procedure 2025-31, so each trust can continue to be treated as a grantor trust for U.S. federal income tax purposes. That procedure allows a compliant trust to distribute net staking rewards consistently, either in kind or after a cash sale, no less frequently than quarterly. Grayscale's proposed agreements specifically choose cash, requiring the trusts to sell the native-asset rewards before passing net proceeds to shareholders.
The move also has a practical benefit for investors. By aligning both the ETHE and GSOL trusts to the same payout cadence, investors gain a common framework to compare net cash returned across the two funds. GSOL stakes all of its Solana holdings, generating approximately 6.1% in annual rewards, which are converted to cash and paid out after fees. By contrast, gross staking rewards on Ethereum currently range from 3.1% to 3.3% annually, with net distributions to shareholders coming in at around 1.9% to 2.6% after fund fees and custody costs.
The Ethereum fund has already tested this model. In January 2026, Grayscale's ETHE became the first spot crypto ETP in the U.S. to distribute staking rewards to shareholders, paying out proceeds from rewards earned between October 6, 2025 and December 31, 2025. That initial distribution totalled $9.4 million, paid on January 6, 2026.
Investors should note the tax implications. Grayscale explicitly flags in the filing that cash distributions carry tax consequences, and the fund encourages investors to consult tax advisors, as distributions from a staking ETF are likely treated as ordinary income in most jurisdictions.
Sources:
Grayscale Ethereum Staking ETF, SEC Form 424B3 Filing, July 17, 2026
Grayscale Solana Staking ETF, SEC Form 424B3 Filing, July 17, 2026
CryptoSlate: Grayscale quarterly cash distributions analysis, July 19, 2026
Právní šéf společnosti Nova Labs uvedl, že CLARITY Act by mohl ukončit přístup „coin flip“ k regulaci kryptoměn po změnách politického vedení v USA. Zákon by mohl zařadit programově distribuované tokeny, jako je HNT, mezi digitální komodity místo cenných papírů.
Nova Labs’ legal chief said the CLARITY Act could stop crypto regulation from reversing whenever US political leadership changes. The SEC dismissed its digital asset claims against Nova Labs with prejudice in April 2025, three months after suing the company over HNT distributions. CLARITY could classify programmatically distributed tokens such as HNT as digital commodities rather than securities. The information provided in this article is for informational purposes only. It is not intended to be, nor should it be construed as, financial advice. We do not make any warranties regarding the completeness, reliability, or accuracy of this information. All investments involve risk, and past performance does not guarantee future results. We recommend consulting a financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
Giuseppe Ciccomascolo began his career as an investigative journalist in Italy, where he contributed to both local and national newspapers, focusing on various financial sectors.
Upon relocating to London, he worked as an analyst for Fitch's CapitalStructure and later as a Senior Reporter for Alliance News. In 2017, Giuseppe transitioned to covering cryptocurrency-related news, producing documentaries and articles on Bitcoin and other emerging digital currencies. He also played a pivotal role in establishing the academy for a cryptocurrency exchange website. Crypto remained his primary area of interest throughout his tenure as a writer for ThirdFloor.
Shiba Inu za posledních 24 hodin spálil 13,2 milionu tokenů SHIB a míra spalování vyskočila o 131,2 %. Největší transakce přesunula 9,7 milionu SHIB z CEX.IO do dead wallet.
Shiba Inu’s burn rate surged over the past 24 hours after community members permanently removed more than 13 million SHIB tokens from circulation.
According to Shibburn data, a total of 13.2 million Shiba Inu were burned in the past day, permanently reducing the token’s circulating supply. The burns were completed across 13 separate transactions, with the largest single burn accounting for the majority of the destroyed tokens.
The biggest transaction occurred yesterday when an unidentified user transferred 9.7 million SHIB from the CEX.IO exchange to the official dead wallet. Meanwhile, the second-largest burn took place just hours before press time, eliminating approximately 1.2 million SHIB from circulation.
Shiba Inu Burn Activity Accelerates Sharply The latest burn marks a significant increase compared with activity recorded over the previous week, during which daily burns generally remained below 7 million SHIB.
Following the latest spike in burns, Shibburn data shows that the 24-hour burn rate soared by 131.2%. The recent activity also lifted longer-term burn totals. Weekly burns have now reached 45.44 million SHIB, while the monthly burn count has climbed to 269.9 million SHIB.
Shiba Inu Burn Since the launch of the Shiba Inu ecosystem, the community has permanently destroyed 410,840,414,408,454 SHIB (410.84 trillion) through 21,216 burn transactions. That figure represents 41.08% of Shiba Inu’s original 1 quadrillion-token supply, leaving about 58.92% of the total supply still in circulation.
SHIB Price Remains Under Selling Pressure Despite the sharp increase in token burns, SHIB continues to trade under bearish pressure. At the time of writing, Shiba Inu was down 0.23% over the past 24 hours, trading at $0.000004143. The token has also declined 1.36% over the past seven days and 12.31% over the last month.
Furthermore, SHIB remains 1.13% lower on a month-to-date basis, leaving the token with only 11 days to recover and turn its monthly performance positive. It continues to rank outside the top 30 and currently stands as the 33rd-biggest token globally, with a market cap of $2.43 billion.
Meanwhile, growing exchange inflows continue to offset the positive impact of the latest burn activity. According to CryptoQuant data, approximately 12.6 billion SHIB flowed into cryptocurrency exchanges over the past 24 hours.
Consequently, Shiba Inu’s exchange reserve increased to 86.32 trillion SHIB, suggesting that more holders may be positioning their tokens for potential selling, which could continue to weigh on the asset’s near-term price performance.
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Binance ukončí podporu hlavní sítě Moonriver (MOVR) a Moonbeam (GLMR) a přesune jejich kontrakty na Base Network v poměru 1:1. Vklady a výběry přes hlavní síť budou pozastaveny 21. července 2026 v 11:00 UTC.
This is a general announcement and marketing communication. Products and services referred to here may not be available in your region. Fellow Binancians, Binance will discontinue the mainnet support of Moonriver (MOVR) and Moonbeam (GLMR), as well as open deposits and withdrawals via Base Network for the aforementioned tokens. General Deposits and WithdrawalsAt 2026-07-21 11:00 (UTC), deposits and withdrawals of the aforementioned tokens via Moonriver and Moonbeam mainnet will be suspended. Users should ensure they leave sufficient time for the aforementioned tokens’ deposits to be fully processed prior to this time. Binance will not make a separate announcement to inform users after we resume deposits and withdrawals of the aforementioned tokens.After the event is complete, Moonriver and Moonbeam mainnet will no longer be supported for deposits and withdrawals.Spot, Margin, and Futures trading and Binance Earn services will not be impacted during the migration.Binance will handle all technical requirements for users who are involved in this event. Contract Swap MOVR and GLMR will be migrated from their mainnets to Base Network at a ratio of 1:1. New tokens smart contract addresses:MOVRGLMR Note: There may be discrepancies between this original content in English and any translated versions. Please refer to the original English version for the most accurate information, in case any discrepancies arise. Thank you for your support! Binance Team 2026-07-20
Allbridge, the company behind cross-chain stablecoin bridge Allbridge Core, said it has paused the protocol as a precaution after a “security incident” that reportedly saw $1.65 million drained on Sunday.
The incident affected Allbridge Core’s Solana deployment, with the attacker having already bridged the stolen funds from Solana to Ethereum before moving them into privacy pools.
“Allbridge Core is experiencing a security incident,” it said in a post on X on Sunday. “We have paused the protocol as a precaution while we investigate. If you have liquidity in affected pools, please withdraw now.”
The Allbridge Core exploit is at least the sixth attack targeting a cross-chain bridge since May. Bridges are attractive targets for attackers because they often hold large pools of funds that back bridged assets on the destination blockchain.
Source: Lookonchain
Onchain Lens reported the attacker made a $1.12 million USDC (USDC) flash loan from Kamino, before rapid USDC/USDT swaps that distorted the Allbridge Core stablecoin pool’s exchange rate.
The attacker then withdrew liquidity at manipulated rates, repaying the $1.12 million USDC loan and keeping the difference.
“The resulting pool imbalance created a temporary positive arbitrage window. If you took advantage of it, please consider returning funds… this will go directly toward compensating affected LPs,” it added.
This wasn’t the first time Allbridge Core was hit by a flash loan attack.
In April 2023, Allbridge was exploited for $573,000 through a flash loan attack on Allbridge’s pool on the BNB Chain. The attacker acted as both liquidity provider and swapper, and exploited a flaw in a smart contract that allowed them to manipulate swap prices, which led to $289,900 drained in Binance USD (BUSD) and $290,900 in USDt (USDT).
Warning posted to the Allbridge Core website. Source: Allbridge Core
Cross-chain bridges targeted since May In June, Taiko, an Ethereum layer-2 blockchain, urged its users to withdraw assets from the network’s bridges after attackers exploited one of its bridge protocols and stole $1.7 million.
Taiko reopened its bridge 11 days later after completing a four-step recovery plan.
Weeks before the Taiko incident, Secret Network was exploited through an “infinite mint” bug on a vulnerable smart contract, which created unbacked versions of Axelar-wrapped assets, resulting in a $4.67 million exploit.
Other recent bridge exploits included the Gravity Bridge, Verus Bridge and the Butter Network.
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Aurora, the Ethereum-compatible blockchain layer built on NEAR Protocol, went dark at 02:16 UTC on July 20, 2026. Hours later, the network remains completely unavailable, with no official statement from Aurora Labs explaining what happened or when service might resume.
For a network that once locked up $2.5 billion in total value, this would have been a five-alarm fire. Today, with Aurora’s TVL sitting at roughly $4.65 million, the outage reads more like a quiet alarm going off in an increasingly empty building.
What we know so far On-chain monitoring flagged the outage shortly after it began in the early morning hours UTC. Aurora’s mainnet, which allows developers to deploy Ethereum-compatible smart contracts and decentralized applications at lower costs than Ethereum mainnet, has been completely inaccessible since.
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The @auroraisnear account has not issued any public explanation. No root cause has been identified publicly, and there’s no estimated timeline for restoration.
The long decline of Aurora’s TVL When Aurora launched in 2021, it had genuine momentum. The project raised $12 million from a roster of over 100 investors that included Pantera Capital and Electric Capital. It was positioned as the bridge between Ethereum’s massive developer ecosystem and NEAR Protocol’s scalable architecture.
By 2022, things were looking solid. Aurora’s TVL peaked at approximately $2.5 billion, and the broader NEAR ecosystem initiated a $90 million developer fund, allocating 25 million AURORA tokens to boost DeFi activity on the platform.
From $2.5 billion to roughly $4.65 million represents a drop of about 99%. The month preceding the outage was unremarkable. Aurora had been quietly pushing routine updates related to its Virtual Chains and Intents features, but nothing that suggested a major technical crisis was brewing.
What this means for investors and developers For anyone still holding positions on Aurora or building applications on the network, this outage demands a serious reassessment. Extended downtime without communication from the team is one of the clearest warning signals in crypto infrastructure.
A 99% decline in TVL tells you that capital has already voted with its feet. An unexplained, multi-hour mainnet outage tells you that operational resilience may also be deteriorating.
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Multicoin Capital vložil 1,75 milionu USD do seed kola Trasia Labs, která buduje asijsky zaměřenou perpetual futures platformu na Hyperliquidu. Jde o vstup Multicoinu do ekosystému Hyperliquid.
Multicoin Capital has provided $1.75 million in seed funding as the sole institutional backer for Trasia Labs, the developer of a specialized perpetual futures trading platform built natively on Hyperliquid. This transaction represents Multicoin’s entry into the Hyperliquid ecosystem and supports a project explicitly designed to serve traders across Asian markets.
Co-founded by Mable Jiang—previously a general partner at Multicoin Capital and chief revenue officer at the team behind Stepn—and Edison Chen, a longtime web3 builder, Trasia officially launched its initial web interface on July 17, 2026.
The platform offers bilingual support in Chinese and English and has a native mobile application scheduled for release in August.
An invite-only Asia Points rewards program is now active to engage early users.
Trasia operates as a non-custodial venue that initially provides acess to Hyperliquid’s native perpetual markets.
It intends to introduce proprietary contracts later in the year, with an early emphasis on assets linked to high-interest sectors such as AI infrastructure and companies approaching public listings or generating strong regional investor attention.
The team maintains flexibility in contract selection to respond quickly to market shifts.
The founders deliberately limited external equity capital at this stage, preferring to demonstrate product-market fit and user traction before seeking additional rounds.
In parallel, more than $35 million in HYPE and USDC has been committed to support the rollout of Trasia’s HIP-3 Asian equity perpetuals markets and related growth initiatives.
The platform leverages HIP-3 mechanics, which allow developers to build decentralized perpetual exchanges on Hyperliquid by staking a bond, enabling customized offerings while benefiting from the underlying network’s performance and liquidity.
A key differentiator for Trasia is its regional focus and distribution strategy.
Rather than competing solely for existing on-chain derivatives users, the team targets participants who may be new to decentralized trading or unfamiliar with Hyperliquid entirely.
Plans center on mobile-first design, localized channels, and the founders’ established networks in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Tokyo to lower entry barriers and build a distinct user community.
The current team consists of approximately ten members based primarily in these hubs.
This investment aligns with broader interest in expanding decentralized finance tools to serve high-potential geographies.
Asia represents a significant pool of trading activity and capital, yet many participants still rely on traditional or centralized venues.
By combining Hyperliquid’s high-throughput order book infrastructure with tailored user experiences and asset selections, Trasia aims to capture incremental flows and contribute to deeper on-chain liquidity in regional equities and related instruments.
Multicoin Capital has expressed long-term optimism about both the base Hyperliquid protocol and application-layer projects like Trasia.
The firm views the ecosystem as positioned for substantial growth, with specialized platforms capable of gaining meaningful share through targeted execution and user ownership.
Trasia will focus on product refinement, liquidity provisioning, and user acquisition amid a competitive HIP-3 landscape.
Early indicators, including the points program and upcoming mobile launch, suggest an emphasis on community engagement and accessibility. Success will depend on converting regional interest into sustained trading activity while navigating market volatility and evolving regulatory considerations.
The round highlights continued selective capital deployment in crypto infrastructure, particularly where experienced teams address clear geographic and product gaps.
For participants in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, Trasia’s development offers another avenue for exposure to Asia-centric perpetuals innovation and potential liquidity expansion. As the platform matures, it could serve as a case study in how focused distribution and technical integration drive adoption in decentralized derivatives.
HYPE drží support na 61,01 USD, zatímco denní poplatky protokolu Hyperliquid vystřelily na 1,9 milionu USD. To ho řadí na 6. místo mezi protokoly podle denních výnosů z poplatků.
Hyperliquid, a decentralized derivatives trading protocol, is seeing increased trading activity as its native token HYPE maintains a solid support level and network growth signals further potential. Recent data shows buyers are defending key price zones, while rising protocol fees highlight strengthening user engagement on the platform.
Price action and key support levelsHYPE is currently priced at $61.01, with a 24-hour trading volume of $235.1 million and a market capitalization of $15.43 billion. Over the previous 24 hours, the token gained 2.41%, which positions it for a possible bullish reversal. Market observers note the importance of HYPE holding above its main support, as sustained buying interest keeps the positive market structure intact despite recent consolidation.
According to Bitcoin Meraklisi, a well-followed cryptocurrency analyst, the critical $58 support serves as a crucial threshold for further bullish momentum. Holding this level is essential for the asset to pursue higher prices. If the price closes above the $74 resistance on higher timeframes, a bullish cup pattern could form, potentially pushing HYPE toward the $172 target. Failure to hold $58, however, may weaken the overall outlook and open the way for corrections.
Bitcoin Meraklisi emphasizes the significance of the $58 support, indicating that if HYPE remains above this level, there is room for a sustained upward move, while breaching it would likely lead to a loss of momentum.
Hyperliquid fee revenue surgesHyperliquid’s network has seen its daily protocol fee collection surge to $1.9 million, according to data compiled by blockchain research firm NSB Intel. This new milestone places Hyperliquid in sixth place among protocols that generate the highest daily fee revenue, surpassing competitors such as Canton in the process.
This surge in fee accrual is widely viewed as a positive sign for the protocol, pointing to greater user adoption and a notable increase in trading volumes on the platform.
Mini dictionary: Hyperliquid is a decentralized perpetual futures protocol that allows on-chain trading of cryptocurrency derivatives without the involvement of centralized intermediaries. The protocol’s growth is measured in part by fee revenue and user activity metrics.
ProtocolDaily Fee RevenueRankingHyperliquid$1.9 million6thCantonBelow $1.9 millionBelow 6thMarket sentiment and future outlookStronger trading volumes and higher protocol fee revenue have fueled optimism for HYPE’s continued growth. As bullish sentiment returns to the wider crypto market, reflected in upward movement in BTC, Hyperliquid investors are increasingly confident in the platform’s competitive position.
Technical analysts observe that, provided HYPE maintains critical support levels, the asset could test and potentially break above significant resistance barriers. If momentum holds, this move may accelerate gains and reinforce the token’s position within the decentralized finance landscape.
However, should HYPE lose its main support, analysts caution that the asset could see increased selling pressure and a price correction. Sustained network activity and fee generation remain important indicators for investor confidence and future price action.
Continued expansion in both trading activity and protocol revenue reflects the growing role of Hyperliquid in the decentralized finance sector, underscoring its strengthening market position relative to other DeFi platforms.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
Strategy drží 843 775 BTC v hodnotě asi 54,5 miliardy USD, ale její mNAV klesl na 1,03x a model financování je pod tlakem. Firma už prodala 3 588 BTC na výplatu dividend STRC a tvorbu hotovostních rezerv.
For years, Michael Saylor’s Bitcoin [BTC] strategy looked nearly impossible to challenge. Every capital raise financed another Bitcoin purchase. Every rally reinforced the model. Shareholder dilution also seemed justified because the corporate treasury kept expanding.
Yet, success gradually introduced a different challenge. The financial engine behind the relentless accumulation is now demanding more from the treasury it was built to grow. At press time, Strategy held 843,775 BTC, worth about $54.5 billion. This milestone comes after adding 171,278 BTC this year.
Source: Bitcoin Treasuries However, those holdings carry a $63.69 billion cost basis, with an average purchase price of $75,482. That gap has shifted attention from accumulation toward the sustainability of the model. Reflecting that transition, the recent sale of 3,588 BTC was used to support STRC dividends and strengthen $3 billion in cash reserves.
That said, the real question remains. Can Bitcoin‘s future appreciation continue offsetting dilution, financing costs, and an increasingly self-dependent capital structure?
The engine behind Strategy Dependence on the rising price of Bitcoin is no accident; it has been the foundation of Strategy’s accumulation engine since day one.
Meanwhile, the Market to Net Asset Value (mNAV) has slipped to just 1.03x. The metric gauges how the market values a Digital Asset Treasury (DAT). Previously, it spiked as high as 2.51x, but the sharp decline has eroded the premium that once made equity issuances highly accretive.
Rather than relying on operating cash flow, the company depended on maintaining an enterprise mNAV above 1, allowing it to issue shares at a premium and recycle fresh capital into Bitcoin purchases.
For years, that formula worked remarkably well in favor of the DAT. As mNAV climbed to 3.89x, Strategy raised $25.3 billion during 2025 and accelerated its treasury expansion without materially weakening shareholder exposure. However, currently, the math has changed.
Source: Strategy Therefore, Strategy will likely have to shift its focus away from adding to its Bitcoin holdings and toward creating flexibility within its balance sheet. Still, not everyone views the recent pressure as evidence that the model is failing.
Lead Information Compliance Assurance Manager at SpaceX, Vincent Peters, observed,
People often confuse volatility with failure. Bitcoin has experienced extraordinary appreciation punctuated by significant corrections.
He added that while those corrections create headlines, they “don’t necessarily invalidate a long-term strategy.” Unless Bitcoin regains sustained upward momentum, rebuilding the premium may prove more important than acquiring the next Bitcoin.
The per-share challenge That changing reality is also reshaping how Strategy measures success. The company was never trying to own more Bitcoin for the sake of it. Instead, the objective was to ensure every shareholder owned more Bitcoin over time. Such a distinction made BTC Yield and Bitcoin per share the clearest measures of whether the model was truly creating value. For several years, the model delivered on that promise.
BTC yield reached 9.4% in early 2026, while Bitcoin per share climbed to 207,776 satoshi (sats), supported by 171,278 BTC in net accumulation. Yet, the BTC yield has fallen off slightly, hovering around 6.6% as of press time. Although the flywheel has slowed down considerably, that same slowdown has started to impact how well Strategy is performing, according to those same metrics.
As enterprise mNAV compressed toward 1.03x, each new share issued generated less incremental Bitcoin ownership than before.
Source: Strategy More importantly, investors are no longer watching Strategy solely for the size of its Bitcoin treasury. They are watching whether it can continue funding future purchases. That debate has also attracted criticism from longtime Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff, who questioned Strategy’s capital allocation. He argued,
The model needlessly destroyed shareholder value by selling discounted MSTR shares instead of Bitcoin.
That shift matters. Rather than being simply the largest owner of Bitcoin, Strategy has become a proxy indicator for institutional demand for Bitcoin.
Therefore, the debate is moving beyond treasury growth alone, with the focus now on whether Strategy can maintain investor confidence in its ability to generate shareholder wealth over the long term by continuing to fund future purchases.
The cost of conviction Building the world’s largest corporate Bitcoin treasury has given Strategy its greatest financial burden. That trade-off is becoming harder to ignore as Strategy’s capital structure grows more complex.
The DAT has approximately $1.76 billion annually in Stretch (STRC) dividend obligations. In addition to those, it also has convertible notes and continuing equity financing. Meanwhile, its software business generates only about $500 million in annual revenue.
Source: Strategy Therefore, there exists a large funding gap. This funding gap explains why, currently, capital markets are equally important to the price of Strategy’s Bitcoin.
As Andrew Bahlmann, founder of Deal Leaders International, noted,
Having conviction with respect to an asset does not equate to having confidence in the ability to finance it.
He added that lenders ultimately favor collateral that remains stable across market cycles rather than assets whose value fluctuates sharply.
Strategy has approximately $2.5 to $3 billion in cash reserves. Therefore, it retains some financial flexibility. Still, prolonged mNAV compression may limit access to accretive capital. This would increase reliance upon reserves or selective sales of the Strategy’s Bitcoin to meet obligations. As such, this challenge is evident when compared to peers.
Metaplanet continues to expand through lower-cost yen-denominated financing. This is by accepting currency risk in exchange for cheaper capital despite mNAV near 0.92x. In contrast, Semler Scientific has adopted a more conservative approach, relying on lower issuance and minimal preferred obligations.
Source: Bitcoin Treasuries Strategy still commands unmatched scale with 843,775 BTC, yet its funding model is also the most demanding. The comparison highlights a growing trade-off across Bitcoin treasury companies.
All in all, aggressive accumulation can accelerate growth, but resilient capital structures ultimately determine how well that growth survives prolonged market stress.
Final Summary Bitcoin accumulation alone no longer guarantees Strategy’s long-term success. BTC treasury growth now hinges on sustainable capital, not just larger holdings.
Bitcoin BIP 110 je na rozcestí: podporu těžařů má jen 0,86 %, hluboko pod 55% hranicí pro rané uzamčení. Povinné signalizování začne na bloku 961 632 a plné vynucení má přijít 1. září 2026.
BIP 110 reached “Complete” status on June 25, 2026, proposing a one-year restriction on Bitcoin transaction data. Miner signaling for the proposal sits at 0.86%, far below the 55% threshold needed for early lock-in. Mandatory signaling begins at block 961,632, expected around August 7, with full enforcement targeted for September 1. Mining pool Foundry opened an internal vote that could shift the outcome before the deadline arrives. Bitcoin’s BIP 110 proposal, a one-year softfork that would reimpose strict limits on how much arbitrary data miners can embed inside transactions, advanced to complete status on June 25, 2026. Weekend signaling data puts miner backing at just 0.86%, a fraction of the 55% threshold needed for miners to lock the rule in early and guarantee it takes effect. The shortfall matters less than it might elsewhere in Bitcoin’s governance history, because BIP 110 does not need miner consent to take effect. Its mandatory signaling phase starts automatically at block 961,632, expected around August 7, and full enforcement follows on September 1 regardless of how many miners have opted in by then. Signaling works by having miners mark the blocks they produce to show whether they support the change, similar to a running vote tallied block by block.
A Rule Core Wrote Into Existence Itself The proposal exists because of a decision Bitcoin Core made months earlier. In late 2025, Core developers removed the historical 80-byte limit on OP_RETURN, a small text field Bitcoin lets users attach to a transaction to store non-payment data, like a short note, an image reference, or a token record, aiming to push data-heavy users toward prunable storage rather than methods that permanently bloat the UTXO set, the ledger of unspent coins every node has to hold. BIP 110 reverses that call and goes further, capping data pushes at 256 bytes and OP_RETURN itself at 83 bytes across seven distinct consensus restrictions new rules that every computer running the Bitcoin software would have to follow. Node-level support runs between 7% and 15%, carried almost entirely by users on Bitcoin Knots rather than Core. Knots has served for years as the client of choice for operators who want tighter limits on which transactions their computer accepts and passes along before miners confirm them, and this fight has turned it into the technical base camp for developers like Luke Dashjr and channels such as Bitcoin University, who treat inscriptions, Ordinals, and Runes as spam bloating storage costs for every full node operator.
None of that miner math is settled, though. Foundry controls between 25% and 30% of global hash rate, and it opened an internal vote over the weekend letting individual rig owners direct their share of the pool’s power toward signaling BIP 110. A meaningful swing from Foundry’s base could pull support well above 0.86% before block 961,632 arrives, though nothing guarantees that happens in time.
Date or Block Height Milestone Status June 25, 2026 BIP 110 reaches “Complete” status Confirmed Weekend of July 18-19, 2026 Miner signaling measured at 0.86% Below the 55% threshold needed for miners to approve it early Block 961,632 (~August 7, 2026) Mandatory signaling begins (enforced by node software, not by a miner vote) Automatic, independent of miner support September 1, 2026 Full enforcement target Pending Timeline table showing BIP 110 milestones from completion in June through enforcement in September 2026.
The Ordinals Camp Answers With DOG Mode’s Relaxed Rules Ordinals advocate Leonidas proposed a counter on July 16 and 17: DOG Mode, an alternative Core client that relaxes local relay policy instead of tightening consensus rules, permitting transactions near the full block size and cutting the dust limit to 1 satoshi. Backers say that frees up roughly $25 million in bitcoin that currently sits below the dust limit, the smallest payment size a node will bother forwarding because the fee to move it would cost more than the payment itself. The distinction that matters here is structural. DOG Mode only changes the mempool, the waiting room where unconfirmed transactions sit before a miner picks them up, and the relay policy a node uses to decide what to pass along to other nodes. It leaves the rules for what makes a block valid completely alone. That means DOG Mode needs just one cooperating miner willing to include the relevant transactions, rather than the network-wide agreement BIP 110 requires.
Aspect BIP 110 / Bitcoin Knots DOG Mode Type of change Consensus rule (network-wide) Local settings on individual nodes OP_RETURN cap 83 bytes Unrestricted, per Core v30 Dust limit Unchanged Cut to 1 satoshi Activation requirement Network-wide node adoption One willing miner Comparison table of consensus and policy differences between BIP 110 and the DOG Mode alternative client.
Blockstream CEO Adam Back spent the weekend spelling out the downside case. If nodes running BIP 110’s rules start rejecting blocks once mandatory enforcement hits, while miners without majority backing keep mining under the old rules anyway, the network splits into two chains that stop recognizing each other’s blocks. Back called the likely loser a “Pompeii chain,” a minority network frozen at the moment of the split, and mocked BIP 110’s backers on X for failing to line up real financial backing behind the effort.
MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor took the opposing position furthest in a weekend essay titled “110 reasons BIP-110 is a bad idea.” His argument: money cannot distinguish valid transactions from spam by design, and encoding that distinction into consensus hands developers a censorship tool. He warns that tool could later be pointed at privacy features or corporate custody arrangements once the precedent exists. He pairs it with an economic warning – suppressing data-heavy transactions cuts fee demand precisely as block subsidies, the fixed reward miners earn for each block, keep shrinking on a preset schedule, pushing miners to rely more on fees to stay profitable.
Seeking Alpha downgraded its near-term Bitcoin outlook from Strong Buy to Tactical Buy over the weekend, citing governance risk tied to the August deadline rather than any shift in the long-term monetary case. MicroStrategy alone holds 843,775 BTC, and treasury firms in that position value Bitcoin specifically for a rule set that doesn’t move without overwhelming consensus – a softfork activating on sub-1% miner backing, purely because nodes enforce it regardless, is exactly the governance uncertainty that kind of holder has avoided since 2017’s Blocksize Wars. What happens next hinges on Foundry’s vote closing before block 961,632 and on whether Knots adoption grows past its current 7% to 15% share in the weeks remaining.
Consensys popřel, že by při incidentu kolem MetaMask unikla uživatelská data nebo prostředky. Firma uvedla, že nebyl nasazen škodlivý kód a bezpečnost uživatelů zůstala nedotčena. Consensys také uvedl, že incident zachytil a nahlásil orgánům činným v trestním řízení.
Leading Ethereum software firm Consensys has firmly denied rumors that user data or funds were compromised after a North Korea-linked IT worker temporarily gained access to the core codebase of its popular Web3 wallet, MetaMask.
The security incident, which took place earlier this year, involved an individual operating under the alias "Tyler Knapp" (GitHub username: "imyugioh").
The individual was not a direct employee of Consensys, but was instead engaged as a consultant through an unnamed third-party provider.
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Between March 9 and early April 2026, the contractor contributed directly to MetaMask’s core codebase, specifically working on the wallet's fiat on-ramp and off-ramp features.
Upon detecting the threat, Consensys took immediate and aggressive action. The firm froze all product releases, swiftly terminated the contractor's access, and launched a comprehensive internal security audit.
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The company also confirmed that it has notified law enforcement agencies regarding the infiltration.
Correcting misinformationIn a public statement released on X (formerly Twitter), Consensys sought to correct recent misinformation circulating online about the severity of the breach.
"Earlier this year, we identified and contained a threat from an individual engaged as a consultant through a third-party provider," the company stated. "After the threat was quickly identified, we immediately terminated all access, launched a comprehensive investigation, and notified law enforcement."
Consensys emphasized the results of its internal audit, confirming that the threat was neutralized before any damage could occur.
"Our investigation confirmed no malicious code was deployed, no customer assets or data were compromised, and there was no impact to user safety, funds, or security," the firm concluded.
Nabídka stablecoinů na XRP Ledger vzrostla za týden o více než 5 % na zhruba 980,33 milionu USD, tažená hlavně RLUSD. Jižní Korea mezitím spustila pilot blockchainových dluhopisů pro trh v hodnotě 900 miliard USD.
South Korea has accelerated its move into blockchain-based finance with the launch of a pilot program aimed at its $900 billion bond market. The initiative comes as Ripple’s XRP Ledger approaches a major milestone, with the total stablecoin supply on the network climbing close to $1 billion, spurred primarily by strong growth in the Ripple USD (RLUSD) token.
XRPL stablecoin supply approaches $1 billionBSC News reported that XRP Ledger’s total stablecoin supply grew by over 5% in the past week, reaching approximately $980 million. Data from DefiLlama confirmed these numbers, showing the network’s stablecoin market capitalization at $980.33 million—an increase of roughly $47.4 million in a single week.
XRP Ledger is edging toward stablecoin dominance, with a surge in supply placing it just short of the symbolic $1 billion mark. The majority of the increase is attributed to RLUSD, which maintains a dominant share of the network’s stablecoin market cap.
RLUSD remains the leading stablecoin on the XRP Ledger, accounting for about 90% of the total supply. USDV ranks as the second-largest token following another period of rapid growth.
The network’s stablecoin supply has shown volatility throughout 2026. XRPL briefly surpassed the $1 billion threshold earlier this year before stabilizing in the $760 million to $980 million range in recent months.
Mini dictionary: RLUSD (Ripple USD) is a USD-backed stablecoin issued on both the XRP Ledger and Ethereum, facilitating fast and low-cost transactions. The token’s recent migration trends have made XRPL the primary platform for RLUSD circulation.
NetworkStablecoin Market CapRLUSD ShareTVLXRP Ledger$980 million~90%$32.8 millionEthereum–<50% of RLUSD–RLUSD migration strengthens XRPL dominanceRecent market data indicate that more than half of RLUSD’s circulating supply now resides on the XRP Ledger. Until early 2026, the stablecoin was primarily issued on Ethereum, but migration activity has shifted the balance, making XRPL RLUSD’s principal blockchain by supply.
Cumulative trading volume for RLUSD pairs on XRPL has surpassed $2.5 billion since its 2025 launch. However, decentralized finance activity on the network remains subdued when compared to the growth in stablecoin supply. DefiLlama’s dashboard shows XRPL’s total value locked at just $32.8 million—far behind its stablecoin circulation.
XRP price stable as South Korea tests blockchain bondsXRP is currently trading at $1.09, achieving a market capitalization near $68.4 billion and ranking sixth among all cryptocurrencies. Daily trading volume stands at $611 million, and the circulating supply is recorded at approximately 62.46 billion XRP.
Meanwhile, South Korea’s bond market pilot marks a significant step for institutional blockchain adoption. The program aims to digitize infrastructure in a market worth around $900 billion, reflecting growing interest among financial institutions in blockchain technology.
Ripple, established in 2012, is a US-based technology company known for developing payment settlement solutions and maintaining the XRP Ledger, a decentralized blockchain designed for fast asset transfers. South Korea’s public sector blockchain initiative and Ripple’s network expansion highlight parallel advances in both institutional and crypto-native segments.
Both developments are seen as signals of increasing blockchain integration across different areas of finance. Market analysts continue to monitor adoption trends, network growth, and liquidity patterns as the sector matures.
Disclaimer: The information contained in this article does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be aware that cryptocurrencies carry high volatility and therefore risk, and should conduct their own research.
TLDR: GENIUS Act’s one-year rule deadline passed on July 18, 2026, with zero final rules issued. Stablecoin supply grew 18.6% to $308.1 billion despite the unfinished regulatory framework. USDT and USDC together control 83% of the stablecoin market as rules remain drafts. Full regulatory effect now shifts to January 18, 2027, regardless of rulemaking progress. The GENIUS Act reached its first anniversary on July 18, 2026, without a single final rule published by regulators. The statutory deadline for completing payment stablecoin regulations passed with eight proposals still pending across several federal agencies.
Meanwhile, the stablecoin market expanded from $259.7 billion to $308.1 billion over the same period, an 18.6% increase recorded entirely under an unfinished regulatory framework. The law’s full effect now shifts to January 18, 2027, regardless of rulemaking progress.
Market Growth Outpaces Regulatory Progress On-chain data pulled on July 19 confirmed the scale of the gap between law and enforcement. Total stablecoin supply climbed from $259.7 billion at signing to a May peak above $320 billion. It settled at $308.1 billion by the missed deadline, showing steady expansion despite regulatory delays.
Four agencies hold responsibility for finalizing GENIUS Act rules, and none has completed the process. The OCC proposed a broad implementing rule in March covering reserves, capital and custody standards. The FDIC and NCUA submitted separate prudential and licensing proposals, while Treasury addressed state-level regulation in April.
Market concentration adds weight to the delay, since two issuers control most circulating supply. USDT and USDC together represent about 83% of the stablecoin market, meaning any final rule shapes their operations directly. USD1, the World Liberty Financial token, has grown into the fifth-largest stablecoin despite limited scale a year ago.
An institutional cohort has expanded inside this regulatory gap throughout the GENIUS Act’s first year. PayPal’s PYUSD, BlackRock’s BUIDL, Ripple’s RLUSD and Paxos-backed USDG all grew without finished federal guidance. These issuers built market share while the rules meant to govern them remained in draft form.
Stablecoin Issuers Face Uncertainty Ahead Of 2027 Deadline Congress built a backstop into the original legislation covering scenarios where deadlines slip. The Act takes effect on the earlier of January 18, 2027, or 120 days after final rules publish.
Since no rule finalized after September 20 can move that date earlier, January 18 now stands as the effective start.
Draft proposals outline requirements without yet carrying legal force for issuers. Reserves must sit one-to-one in cash and short-dated Treasuries under current drafts.
Redemptions would need processing within two business days, alongside a five-million-dollar capital floor from OCC language.
Individual issuers face different exposure depending on their current structure and market. Circle’s USDC has the most riding on final capital and reserve requirements. Tether launched USAT, a US-compliant token, anticipating rules that remain unpublished a year later.
Stablecoins function as the settlement layer beneath most crypto market activity today. Every DEX pair and on-chain treasury operates on infrastructure lacking finished US legal grounding. The market added $48 billion in new supply without waiting for regulatory certainty to arrive.
Injective oznámil zalistování INJ na Robinhood Crypto a podání žádosti o registraci transfer agenta u SEC. Tím směřuje k infrastruktuře pro regulované tokenizované cenné papíry.
Injective decided to do the crypto equivalent of dropping an entire album instead of a single. At its Summit in Washington, D.C. on July 16, the layer-1 blockchain rolled out a Robinhood listing, an SEC filing, a Linux Foundation membership, an AI development kit, and a MiCA whitepaper. That’s a lot of bullets for one press cycle.
The headline grabber is the live listing of INJ on Robinhood Crypto, which instantly puts the token in front of millions of eligible US users for spot trading. INJ launched on the platform trading between $4.76 and $5, placing its market capitalization at roughly $494 million.
The SEC play and what it actually means Beyond the exchange listing, Injective revealed it has filed a transfer agent registration with the SEC. This isn’t a token registration or a security filing. It’s something more specific and, frankly, more interesting.
A transfer agent is the entity that maintains official ownership records of securities. Injective wants to be the bookkeeper for tokenized stocks, bonds, and real-world assets, but on-chain instead of in some dusty back-office database.
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The move positions Injective as infrastructure for regulated tokenized securities rather than just another DeFi playground. If approved, it would allow the network to facilitate on-chain ownership records that satisfy US regulatory requirements.
The Summit itself drew attendees from Circle, Galaxy, and Robinhood, signaling that Injective’s institutional courtship is being taken seriously by firms that actually move capital at scale.
AI agents, Linux Foundation, and the kitchen sink Injective also announced it joined the x402 Foundation, an initiative operating under the Linux Foundation umbrella. The x402 Foundation’s stated goal is promoting internet-native payments for AI agents and applications.
Alongside that membership, Injective launched an AI Agent SDK, a software development kit designed to let developers build AI-powered applications on top of its blockchain.
The network also published a MiCA whitepaper, addressing the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets regulatory framework.
For a network that has processed over 2.9 billion transactions since inception, the throughput credentials are already established.
The ETF wildcard Canary Capital’s proposal for a staked INJ ETF has entered the SEC’s 21-day public comment period. This is still early-stage, and public comment periods are not approvals.
Investors watching this space should pay close attention to whether the Canary Capital ETF clears its comment period and whether the transfer agent registration advances, because those two milestones would convert announcements into actual regulatory infrastructure.
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Aevo spustil PERPS+ v mobilní aplikaci a přinesl zajištění proti poklesu u perpetual futures na BTC a ETH jedním klepnutím. Mobilní verze teď plně odpovídá desktopu.
Aevo’s decentralized derivatives exchange delivers PERPS+ to mobile traders, achieving full feature parity with desktop. Downside protection on perpetual futures is now available in one tap from a phone.
Aevo, the decentralized derivatives exchange with more than $10 billion in options volume since 2020, has made PERPS+ available on mobile. The update adds protection directly to a perpetual futures position at entry, where the trader selects a mode, defines the level, and Aevo executes the full position in a single tap. No options knowledge is needed. With this release, Aevo’s mobile platform now mirrors its desktop experience completely.
Traders can download the Aevo app on the App Store and Google Play for the full mobile experience (currently not available to U.S. or U.K. persons).
Aevo has a track record of building products the rest of the market eventually adopts. PERPS+ on mobile is the latest example. Risk-defined positions once required either a professional options desk or a DeFi vault with fixed parameters. They now require a single tap.
Built first, copied later Aevo’s technical foundation helped shape how decentralized derivatives are built today. A custom Ethereum layer-2 combines an off-chain order book with on-chain settlement, delivering centralized-exchange execution speeds without requiring traders to give up custody. That architecture has since been widely replicated across the decentralized derivatives space.
Aevo also introduced aeUSD, a yield-bearing stablecoin designed specifically as trading collateral. With nearly two years of live production history, it ranks among the most battle-tested yield-bearing collateral assets in DeFi. Collateral earns passively whether positions are open or flat.
Everything runs inside a single cross-margin account: options, perps, and structured products sharing one collateral pool. Delivering decentralized options at exchange scale remains a technical challenge most venues have not solved.
PERPS+: protection built in, no options knowledge required The barrier has always been the same. Options provide genuine risk management, loss caps, upfront income, and defined entry parameters, but strikes, expiries, and premium calculations push most perps traders away. The result is a majority of leveraged traders running positions with no protection at all.
PERPS+ removes the interface barrier. Traders choose from three enhancers:
Limit My Loss defines the maximum loss at entry, with the downside capped and the upside remaining fully open. Get Paid to Hold delivers an upfront premium immediately, in exchange for a defined profit ceiling. Lock My Range sets both the floor and the ceiling on a position for approximately zero net cost. PERPS+ is currently available on BTC and ETH perpetual futures.
The trader selects the protection level. Aevo handles the structuring, pricing, and execution in one tap.
Aevo spokesperson said “Onchain options have been called the next big thing every year since 2021. And every year, they’ve failed to become it… So we thought, what if getting options-level protection felt exactly like trading a perp? That’s PERPS+”.
PERPS+ addresses two distinct trader profiles. The first is the perps trader who has never used options, where they gain one-tap protection on positions they were already planning to open. The second is the DeFi vault depositor who wants structured exposure but without fixed vault terms, as PERPS+ gives them the same vault-like payoff structure with full control over their own parameters.
PERPS+ is live across web and mobile. The feature launched on web first and is now fully available on both platforms.
Protection that travels Closing a position from a phone has always been possible. Opening one with a defined floor already built in has not, until now. Aevo mobile makes that a one-tap action, on a mobile derivatives exchange with full desktop parity.
A token with a shrinking supply The AEVO token has been fully distributed since mid-2025, when the final scheduled unlock completed. No vesting cliffs ahead. No investor unlock events. No dilution overhang.
74 million AEVO have been permanently removed from circulation to date through a recurring monthly buyback and burn, funded entirely by real exchange revenue. The supply mechanic makes the token deflationary. Stakers receive monthly Uniswap V3 LP positions in the AEVO/USDC pool, earning swap fees that compound as long as the position is held.
The result: no unlock calendar to trade against, and a deflationary supply that shrinks as the exchange earns.
About Aevo PERPS+ and the full mobile experience are live at www.aevo.xyz. Technical documentation is on Aevo Docs.
PANews July 19 news, Token Unlocks data shows that tokens such as ZRO, KAITO, H will see significant unlocks next week, including:
LayerZero (ZRO) will unlock approximately 25.71 million tokens on July 20 at 7:00 PM Beijing time, representing roughly 4.6% of circulating supply and valued at around $20.9 million;
KAITO (KAITO) will unlock approximately 17.6 million tokens on July 20 at 8:00 PM Beijing time, representing roughly 4.3% of circulating supply and valued at around $16 million;
Humanity Protocol (H) will unlock approximately 266 million tokens on July 25 at 8:00 AM Beijing time, representing roughly 8.6% of circulating supply and valued at around $15.5 million;
Plasma (XPL) will unlock approximately 88.89 million tokens on July 25 at 8:00 PM Beijing time, representing roughly 3.44% of circulating supply and valued at around $7.3 million;
SoSoValue (SOSO) will unlock approximately 23.46 million tokens on July 24 at 5:00 PM Beijing time, representing roughly 6.78% of circulating supply and valued at around $6.9 million;
aPriori (APR) will unlock approximately 31.88 million tokens on July 23 at 8:00 AM Beijing time, representing roughly 11.28% of circulating supply and valued at around $6.8 million;
SOON (SOON) will unlock approximately 20.24 million tokens on July 23 at 4:30 PM Beijing time, representing roughly 3.91% of circulating supply and valued at around $3.3 million;
MBG By Multibank Group (MBG) will unlock approximately 27.15 million tokens on July 22 at 8:00 PM Beijing time, representing roughly 6.96% of circulating supply and valued at around $3.3 million;
Undeads Games (UDS) will unlock approximately 2.15 million tokens on July 21 at 8:00 AM Beijing time, representing roughly 1.11% of circulating supply and valued at around $2.4 million.
Bitcoin prochází on-chain resetem: aktivní tradeři stáhli ztrátovou marži na -11 % a staré velryby 14. července realizovaly ztrátu asi 297,3 milionu USD.
19 July 2026 | 17:33 Bitcoin’s rebound has reduced the losses carried by active on-chain traders, but the broader ownership data still stops short of confirming a trend reversal.
Key Takeaways Bitcoin’s on-chain trader loss margin has improved to -11%, returning to the neutral range used in the analysis. The realized prices of 1-3 month and 3-6 month holders have converged in the low-$70,000 area. Old whales realized approximately $297.3 million in losses on July 14, their second-largest daily loss event since September 2025. The reset becomes more convincing only if BTC absorbs the released supply and reclaims recent-holder cost bases. Different datasets describe different parts of the same adjustment. Recent investors have lowered their collective cost basis as coins changed hands during the decline. Older whales have started realizing unusually large losses, showing that the pressure has moved beyond the market’s newest participants. Bitcoin, however, remains below the price at which two important recent-holder groups would return to break-even.
The result is an on-chain structure that looks less damaged than it did at the June lows, but one that still needs demand to prove that the released supply has found durable buyers.
Recent Holders Have Repriced Lower but Remain Underwater CryptoQuant analyst reported that Bitcoin’s On-Chain Trader Profit/Loss Margin had recovered to -11%. The analyst classified the reading as neutral after it moved back inside the -12% boundary separating the bearish zone in this model.
Bitcoin on-chain trader realized price and profit/loss margin. A smaller loss margin can reflect a price recovery, but it can also develop when coins purchased or last moved at higher levels are sold and transferred again at lower prices. That second process reduces the realized price of the active cohort even without a complete market recovery.
ShayanMarkets found the same adjustment in the Realized Price UTXO Age Bands. Realized price values a group’s coins according to the market price when they last moved on-chain, making it a useful proxy for the cohort’s average cost basis rather than a record of every investor’s exact purchase price.
Bitcoin realized price by UTXO age bands. The realized prices of the 1–3 month and 3–6 month groups have converged in the low-$70,000 area. Continued trading during the downturn gradually pulled both readings lower, even though the cohorts entered the market at different stages.
These two analyses should not be treated as independent bullish confirmations. Both are capturing the same repricing among relatively recent holders: losses have been realized, coins have moved at lower values and the market’s collective break-even level has declined.
That adjustment reduces the distance Bitcoin must recover before recent investors return to profit. It also concentrates potential selling in the same area. Holders who endured the decline may use a rebound toward the low-$70,000s to exit near break-even, turning the shared realized price into an on-chain resistance zone.
Old Whales Are Now Participating in the Loss-Taking The third analysis shows that the stress has reached a more established part of Bitcoin’s holder base.
According to CryptoQuant analyst Moreno, old whales realized approximately $297.3 million in losses on July 14, when Bitcoin traded near $65,000. It was the second-largest daily negative reading for this cohort since September 2025.
BTC whale profit-taking activity chart / Source: CryptoQuant, Moreno. The only larger event occurred on January 20, when old-whale losses reached roughly $334.3 million with BTC near $88,300. That earlier event came before another severe stage of the downturn, so the size of the latest loss cannot be treated as evidence that capitulation has ended.
Older whales generally have greater capacity to withstand volatility than recent entrants. Their decision to move coins at a loss indicates that the drawdown has lasted long enough, or reached far enough, to force some mature holders to reassess their exposure.
They are not responsible for most of the capitulation. New whales, recently active whales and the 10,000-BTC balance cohort have recorded substantially larger losses at several points in the decline. The July 14 event shows that old whales have joined the process, while newer and more reactive capital continues to generate the heavier pressure.
Old whale Bitcoin profit-taking analysis. The Three Signals Describe an Ownership Reset The sequence across the datasets is more informative than any individual reading.
Active traders have already realized enough losses to pull their cost basis lower. Two recent-holder groups now share a similar break-even level, while some older whales are only beginning to accept losses of unusual size.
Coins are therefore being transferred from holders with higher reference prices to buyers receiving them closer to the current market. That can create a healthier base because the new owners need a smaller recovery to return to profit and may be less likely to sell after a modest bounce.
The data cannot identify those buyers or establish that they have stronger conviction. Realized losses confirm that ownership is changing; price must show whether the incoming demand can absorb the supply without another breakdown.
What Would Turn the Reset Into a Reversal? Three developments would provide stronger confirmation:
Whale losses begin to fade: The market should absorb the July 14 event without a cluster of larger losses from old or recently active whales. Bitcoin holds while supply changes hands: Avoiding new lows during continued loss realization would indicate that buyers are taking the released coins without requiring progressively lower prices. BTC reclaims the low-$70,000 area: A move above the converged 1-3 month and 3-6 month realized prices, followed by a successful retest, would show that recent-holder selling has been absorbed. Reclaiming the on-chain trader realized price would also return that cohort’s profit/loss margin above zero, shifting active traders from an aggregate loss into profit.
The bearish interpretation remains valid if large whale-loss events continue to cluster, BTC establishes new lows or another rebound fails below the recent-holder cost bases. Under those conditions, the lower realized prices would reflect ongoing capitulation rather than the foundation of a sustained recovery.
Bitcoin’s ownership structure is adjusting, but the market has not completed the final step. Losses have been realized and cost bases have moved lower; demand must now carry price through the low-$70,000 supply zone.
Even a move above the low-$70,000 area would not fully confirm a trend reversal on its own. Bitcoin would also need to hold above the recent-holder cost bases, absorb renewed selling and avoid a quick return below them. Until those conditions are met, the data supports an on-chain reset, not a reversal.
This article is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal or investment advice.
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Alexander Zdravkov is a market analyst and crypto journalist with interests in economics, broader financial markets and digital assets. His journey into crypto began more than four years ago, driven by a fascination with the rapid evolution of blockchain technology and the transformative potential of decentralized finance. He began analyzing market cycles and identifying emerging trends before they reach the mainstream. He holds a degree in International Relations - a background that helped shape his broader perspective on global economics, geopolitics, and the interconnected nature of modern financial markets. Whether covering the latest developments in the crypto sector or exploring broader macroeconomic themes, Alexander focuses on giving readers context rather than simply repeating headlines. During his career, he has authored more than 5,000 articles covering cryptocurrencies, traditional finance, and global market developments. His work spans everything from Bitcoin and altcoins to macroeconomic trends influencing risk assets worldwide.
Michael Saylor naznačil další krok Strategy po zveřejnění grafu kryptoměnových rezerv s otázkou „What’s next?“. Firma drží 843 775 BTC v hodnotě 54,28 miliardy USD a je v nerealizované ztrátě kolem 5 miliard USD.
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Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted a fresh chart of the company's crypto reserves on social media with the brief caption, "What's next?" — a teaser that immediately sparked discussion about the next steps of the world's largest corporate Bitcoin holder.
The situation is particularly intriguing because the company, which built its reputation on aggressive Bitcoin purchases, is now in a vulnerable position measured in billions of dollars in losses.
Billions in the red versus a fiat cushion: Strategy's capital scenariosAccording to the latest data from Strategy Tracker, the company holds 843,775 BTC on its balance sheet — an enormous 4% of Bitcoin's total global supply. The portfolio is worth $54.28 billion, but due to the high average purchase price of $75,653, the position is now sitting on an unrealized loss of nearly 15%, or around $5 billion, with Bitcoin currently trading near $64,000.
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Saylor's question about "what comes next" has divided the expert community into two camps, with the more optimistic side of the market predictably interpreting the post as an announcement of another buy-the-dip purchase financed through new debt. Investors are now awaiting the opening of trading on Monday and fresh SEC filings.
On the other hand, management's recent actions differ from the familiar "buy and never sell" slogan. Strategy has made no new purchases since June 22 and recently broke its own taboo by selling 3,588 BTC, with the latest transaction involving 2,225 BTC on July 6, used to pay dividends to shareholders and build a $2.55 billion reserve.
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Saylor's teaser appeared at a turning point, as the company is forced to balance its status as Wall Street's leading Bitcoin bull with the strict necessity of servicing its obligations during a market downturn.
Whether the next step will mark a return to aggressive purchases or a continuation of cautious maneuvering supported by a fiat safety cushion will become clear in the coming reporting days.
BlackRock zaznamenal během pěti obchodních dnů čisté přílivy kapitálu ve výši 343,4 milionu USD do svých krypto ETF. Nejvíc přinesl IBIT s 204,1 milionu USD, zatímco ethereum fondy ETHA a ETHB přidaly 139,3 milionu USD.
TLDR: BlackRock crypto ETF inflows reached $343.4 million across IBIT, ETHA and ETHB during the five trading days ending July 17. IBIT attracted $204.1 million despite opening the period with a $185.5 million outflow before recording four positive sessions. BlackRock’s Ethereum products added $139.3 million, with ETHA supplying nearly all the new capital received during the week. The figures represent net investor flows into BlackRock-managed ETFs, rather than cryptocurrency purchases for BlackRock’s corporate balance sheet. BlackRock crypto ETF inflows approached $350 million during five trading sessions as demand returned for regulated Bitcoin and Ethereum products. The asset manager’s three major crypto funds attracted a combined $343.4 million from July 13 through July 17.
The total included $204.1 million for the iShares Bitcoin Trust, known as IBIT. BlackRock’s Ethereum funds, ETHA and ETHB, received another $139.3 million. The activity followed several weeks of unstable flows across the wider digital asset ETF market.
BlackRock Crypto ETF Inflows Rebound After Early Outflow IBIT started the week with a $185.5 million withdrawal on July 13. That loss placed the fund under pressure as all U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded a combined $424.7 million daily outflow.
Demand shifted during the following session. IBIT gained $138.9 million on July 14, followed by $80.8 million on July 15. It then collected $33.4 million on July 16 and $136.5 million on July 17.
Those four sessions produced $389.6 million in gross inflows. They erased the opening redemption and left IBIT with $204.1 million in net weekly additions. Farside Investors’ data also shows IBIT supplied the largest Bitcoin ETF inflow on the final trading day.
The figures describe capital entering the ETF rather than a direct BlackRock Bitcoin purchase. Authorized participants create new fund shares as demand rises, while the trust adjusts its Bitcoin holdings to support those shares.
Source: Coinglass Bitcoin ETF inflows also recovered across the wider market. U.S. funds posted positive totals during each session from July 14 through July 17 after the sharp Monday withdrawal.
Bitcoin and Ethereum Funds Drive BlackRock ETF Demand Ethereum ETF demand added another source of growth for BlackRock. ETHA received $58.3 million on July 14 before adding $45.3 million the next day.
ETHB attracted $4 million on July 15. ETHA later recorded $31.7 million on July 17, bringing its five-day total to $135.3 million. The two funds therefore collected a combined $139.3 million.
BlackRock crypto ETF inflows were especially concentrated in ETHA during the final session. The fund supplied $31.7 million of the $36.7 million entering all U.S. Ethereum ETFs that day. Historical inflows into ETHA have reached about $11.3 billion.
ETHB gives brokerage investors exposure to Ethereum and staking rewards, while ETHA offers spot Ethereum exposure without direct wallet management.
Source: Coinglass The ETF activity arrived as BlackRock reported record assets under management of $15.3 trillion. The company collected $192 billion in net inflows during the second quarter and $321 billion during the first half of 2026. ETFs, private markets, and fixed-income products supported those results.
BlackRock’s iShares business collected $178 billion during the quarter. Total companywide net inflows reached $868 billion over the previous 12 months, showing that crypto products represent a small but expanding part of its broader ETF operation.
Cardano projekt Pogun chce přivést Bitcoin do DeFi přes úvěrový trh, výnosovou vrstvu a most, ale jeho první termín už uplynul a treasury financování nezískal.
19 July 2026 | 11:31 Cardano’s Pogun initiative targets Bitcoin liquidity through a credit market, yield layer and trust-minimized bridge, but the project remains unfinished after its treasury request expired and its first deadline passed.
Key Takeaways Pogun plans to combine a non-margin credit market, a yield application and a trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge on Cardano. The widely cited $1.6 trillion figure represents Bitcoin’s total market value, not capital already committed to the project. Pogun’s request for ₳12.29 million from the Cardano Treasury expired without receiving the required approval. The original Q2 credit-market deadline has passed, while Pogun’s official website still describes the platform as coming soon. Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is backing Pogun, a development initiative intended to bring Bitcoin liquidity into Cardano-based credit and yield markets.
Led by Omer Husain and the team behind Input Output’s open-source Cardinal bridge specification, Pogun plans to combine a non-margin credit market, a yield application and a trust-minimized Bitcoin bridge.
The project’s central test is not whether Cardano can advertise access to Bitcoin’s market value. It is whether Pogun can launch a useful credit market, attract borrowers and lenders, and give BTC holders a reason to cross the bridge when it becomes available.
The $1.6 Trillion Bitcoin Claim Needs Context Pogun’s official proposal describes Bitcoin as a vast pool of capital that is “almost entirely idle.” The phrase refers to Bitcoin’s limited use in native decentralized lending and credit markets, not to every BTC sitting unused.
Some coverage has rounded the opportunity to $1.6 trillion, while Pogun’s own governance proposal described Bitcoin as a roughly $1.5 trillion asset. Either figure is a time-sensitive estimate of Bitcoin’s total market capitalization which as of 19 July, 2026, is around $1.3T, not an amount that Pogun has secured or expects to move into Cardano in full.
Bitcoin is already used through self-custody, exchanges, corporate treasuries, exchange-traded products and centralized lending arrangements. Pogun’s argument is narrower: only a relatively small portion of that capital participates in decentralized credit and yield markets without relying on a centralized custodian.
Pogun is therefore competing for the subset of Bitcoin holders willing to use BTC as collateral or deploy it into financial strategies. It is not integrating Bitcoin’s entire market value into Cardano.
Pogun Plans to Build the Market Before the Bridge Pogun’s published roadmap contains three connected stages:
Q2 2026
Non-margin credit market
Bilateral, fixed-term loans without automatic price-based liquidations
Q3 2026
Yield application
An interface connecting user capital with strategies built on the credit market
Q4 2026
Bitcoin bridge
A trust-minimized route for deploying BTC in Cardano-based applications
Pogun’s sequence is deliberate. The credit market is intended to establish demand, the yield application would make that market easier to access, and the bridge would then introduce Bitcoin as additional collateral and liquidity.
That gives incoming BTC an intended use from the beginning, but it also creates dependency between the milestones. Delays or weak adoption in the first two products could reduce the reason for Bitcoin holders to use the bridge when it arrives.
The First Roadmap Deadline Has Passed The proposal stated that the non-margin credit market would launch on Cardano’s mainnet in the second quarter of 2026 after completing a formal security audit.
That quarter ended on June 30.
As of July 19, Pogun’s official website continues to describe the platform as “coming soon.” The official project pages reviewed for this article do not provide a public mainnet announcement, deployed contract address or completed audit report.
That does not establish that development has stopped. It means the Q2 milestone cannot yet be treated as publicly delivered based on the evidence currently available.
In a June 11 video, Hoskinson said work had not been paused after the project failed to secure treasury funding and described Pogun as a commercial initiative that could continue without the proposed community investment.
His comments indicate that development is continuing, but they do not establish that the credit market has launched publicly or completed the formal audit described in the original proposal.
The Cardano Treasury Did Not Fund Pogun Pogun requested ₳12.29 million from the Cardano Treasury, valued at approximately $2.95 million when the proposal was prepared.
The proposed funding was divided into milestone-based tranches. Later bridge funding would have depended on verified progress in the credit market, while the proposal included provisions for returning undisbursed funds if milestones failed, the team dissolved or the bridge was found to be technically infeasible.
Pogun also proposed returning 20% of EBITDA to the Cardano Treasury until the original investment had been repaid, followed by 5% of EBITDA from Cardano-related products in perpetuity.
That arrangement was never activated.
The onchain governance action expired on May 24, 2026, without receiving the support required for ratification. No ₳12.29 million treasury withdrawal was approved for Pogun.
The failed vote did not remove money that had already been granted. It meant that this specific treasury withdrawal was never authorized.
If Pogun continues as a privately funded commercial initiative, the Cardano Treasury will not automatically receive the proposed revenue share unless a separate agreement is approved in the future.
How Pogun’s Credit Market Is Supposed to Work Pogun’s first planned product differs from the pooled, overcollateralized lending markets commonly found across DeFi.
Borrowers and lenders would negotiate loan terms directly, including: The amount being borrowed; The interest rate; The repayment period; The collateral requirements; The conditions that constitute default. Smart contracts would enforce those agreed terms. According to Pogun, the model would not depend on external price oracles or automatic margin calls, meaning temporary market volatility would not by itself liquidate a borrower’s collateral.
The structure resembles fixed-term private credit more closely than a continuously rebalanced DeFi lending pool.
Active loan positions would be represented by transferable Bond Tokens issued as Cardano native assets. That could allow a lender to transfer or sell exposure before a loan matures, creating the foundation for a secondary market in tokenized debt positions.
Removing automatic price-based liquidation does not remove financial risk.
A borrower can still default, collateral can lose value before it is recovered, and Bond Tokens may have little secondary-market liquidity. Smart-contract vulnerabilities, weak borrower assessment and disputes involving real-world counterparties could add further risk.
The model exchanges the danger of rapid oracle-driven liquidation for longer-duration credit, liquidity and enforcement risks. Its usefulness will depend on how clearly those risks are disclosed and priced.
The Bridge Is Trust-Minimized, Not Trustless Pogun’s final stage is intended to move Bitcoin into the Cardano environment without placing the underlying BTC under the control of a single custodian.
The roadmap describes a 1-of-N security model. Under that design, a fraudulent withdrawal can be blocked as long as at least one verifier in the operator set remains honest and available.
Although the proposal labels the component a BitVM-powered bridge, a later technical explanation from Input Output says the team moved toward a custom implementation based on BABE after identifying production constraints in the BitVM family of designs.
The architecture described by Input Output combines several systems: A custom implementation based on BABE, which uses witness encryption for Bitcoin-side verification; Recursive Halo2 proofs intended to attest to Cardano state through the Mithril certificate chain; Groth16 proofs that package the result into a smaller form for the Bitcoin-side mechanism; An N-party transaction graph designed to support multiple operators and changes to the operator set. At a high level, the design is intended to prove what happened on Cardano, compress that evidence into a smaller cryptographic proof and make the result verifiable through a Bitcoin-side mechanism without giving one custodian control of the underlying BTC.
Mithril certificates allow external systems to verify authenticated information about Cardano without independently replaying the entire blockchain. Pogun intends to use proofs built over that certificate chain to establish what occurred on Cardano before a corresponding Bitcoin-side action is accepted.
The architecture is technically detailed, but a design document is not proof of production security.
Bridge implementations can be exposed to software bugs, proof-system failures, operator outages, configuration errors and weaknesses in the applications holding bridged assets. Public code, independent audits, testnet performance and the composition of the verifier set will matter as much as the cryptographic design.
Calling the bridge trust-minimized is therefore more accurate than calling it trustless.
Why Cardano Sees an Architectural Fit With Bitcoin Cardano argues that it is a natural environment for Bitcoin-based finance because the two networks share a related accounting structure.
As Cardano’s official documentation explains, Bitcoin and Cardano both use versions of the Unspent Transaction Output model. Bitcoin transactions consume existing outputs and create new ones, while Cardano extends that structure through its EUTXO model to support programmable conditions, native assets and smart contracts.
That shared lineage can make some financial logic easier to express across the two systems. It does not mean that Cardano can control native Bitcoin directly or that other smart-contract networks cannot support Bitcoin-based applications through different architectures.
Pogun still requires a bridge to connect two separate ledgers. Its success will depend on implementation quality, security and market demand rather than the UTXO connection alone.
What Pogun Could Mean for Cardano and ADA Pogun is partly an attempt to expand Cardano’s relatively small DeFi economy.
At the time of writing, DefiLlama records approximately $72 million in total value locked across Cardano applications. Even a modest amount of BTC deployed into Cardano-based credit markets could therefore be material relative to the ecosystem’s present size.
That possibility should not be confused with a guarantee that billions of dollars will arrive.
Claims that Pogun could push Cardano’s TVL to $10 billion or $15 billion are not supported by the project’s formal proposal. Its own end-of-2027 scenarios projected approximately:
$100 million in Pogun TVL under a bearish scenario; $450 million under its base scenario; $765 million under its bullish scenario. Those are project forecasts rather than assured outcomes. Actual adoption will depend on bridge security, borrowing demand, available returns, liquidity, regulatory access and competition from other Bitcoin DeFi platforms.
The effect on ADA also needs careful framing.
Under Cardano’s current rules, ADA is accepted as payment for network fees. Pogun activity executed on Cardano could therefore generate additional transaction-fee demand.
The scale of that effect would depend on transaction volume, fee levels and whether applications require users to hold ADA directly or abstract the payment process on their behalf. Bridged Bitcoin sitting inactive in a contract would not create the same recurring network demand as an actively used credit market.
Pogun could add utility to Cardano, but publishing a roadmap does not by itself create substantial or sustainable demand for ADA.
What Would Confirm the Bitcoin DeFi Thesis The strongest evidence will come from delivered products and measurable usage rather than the total market value of Bitcoin.
The thesis would become more credible if Pogun provides: • A publicly verifiable mainnet deployment for the credit market;
• A completed independent security audit and accessible report;
• Contract addresses and documentation that allow users to verify the system;
• Measurable loan volume, borrower activity and repayment data;
• A yield application with clear risk disclosures and sustained deposits;
• A functioning bridge testnet followed by an independently audited mainnet release;
• Transparent information about operators and the assumptions behind the 1-of-N model;
• Measurable BTC collateral, Cardano TVL and transaction growth after launch.
For now, Pogun remains a development initiative rather than evidence that significant Bitcoin liquidity has entered Cardano.
The next decisive proof point is a publicly verifiable launch of the credit market, followed by its audit results and measurable lending activity. Only then will the planned yield layer and Bitcoin bridge have an operating market to connect to.
This article is provided for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial, legal or investment advice.
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Alex is Editor-in-Chief of Coindoo and co-founder of Millennial Media Group, with nearly a decade of experience covering financial markets - crypto first, then everything else. It started in 2016 with Bitcoin. Like most people at the time, he didn't fully understand it - so he kept digging. Blockchain, tokenomics, the projects, the cycles. That curiosity never stopped, and eventually pulled him into traditional markets too: equities, commodities, macro. Not because he left crypto behind, but because you can't properly understand one without the other. What drives him is straightforward: he wants to know why something is happening, not just that it's happening. Most market coverage stops at the headline - price up, price down, here's a chart. Alex finds that kind of reporting actively unhelpful. If you walk away from an article without understanding the mechanism behind the move, what did you actually learn? He holds a degree in Tourism from New Bulgarian University - not the most obvious path into financial markets, but markets have a way of pulling in people who are simply too curious to stay out. He has authored over 200 in-depth analyses and more than 10,000 articles across crypto and traditional finance. He still thinks every day in markets teaches him something new. That's probably why he hasn't stopped.
Cardano aktivovalo hard fork Van Rossem na mainnetu, který přináší nové funkce Plutus, rychlejší a levnější smart kontrakty a vyšší bezpečnost sítě. ADA se drží kolem 0,165 USD.
Cardano price hovered at $0.1650 on Sunday after the Van Rossem hard fork officially activated across the mainnet. ADA gained during the previous 24 hours as traders assessed the upgrade’s impact on network performance.
The broader cryptocurrency market also improved, rising 0.54% to reach a $2.2 trillion valuation. Bitcoin price was still trading over $64,000, with Ethereum at $1,860 and XRP price showing a small gain.
Market sentiment may strengthen further if Bitcoin maintains support above $63,500 and approaches the $69,000 resistance level.
Van Rossem Hard Fork Strengthens Cardano Mainnet The Protocol Version 11 upgrade of Cardano was implemented once all the necessary governance groups gave it adequate approval. The proposal passed ratification levels in Epoch 643 on July 13. It was automatically enacted in the next epoch boundary, which is July 18, 2026.
The upgrade comes with new Plutus features that aim to enhance the execution of smart contracts. Faster processing, reduced costs and updated cost models can be enjoyed by developers.
These modifications can make decentralized applications run in the growing ecosystem of Cardano more efficient.
NEWS: V11 (van Rossem) hardfork is now officially live on Cardano $ADA mainnet.
It brought new Plutus capabilities, faster/cheaper smart contracts, and protocol prep for Leios.
Congratulations to the entire Cardano ecosystem on another successful upgrade! 🥳 pic.twitter.com/KLJtAaV9Uy
— Cardanians (CRDN) (@Cardanians_io) July 19, 2026
Van Rossem also enhances ledger consistency and enhances node security. The upgrade includes improved primitives, special VRF keys, and new reference input regulations.
The hard fork governance action was given precedence by the ledger of Cardano over other proposals during the ratification. There were however no rival governance actions that were withheld, stifled or lapsed.
The upgrade is also gearing Cardano towards the proposed transition to the Dijkstra era. That future hard fork should bring in Ouroboros Leios, the significant Cardano scalability framework. The goal of Leios is to maximise throughput without compromising network security and decentralisation.
Whale $100K Activity Falls While ADA Price Holds Steady Cardano price looks at recovery because whale transactions have not been high as compared to spikes that have been noticed earlier in the year. The current participation of major holders is limited and would show large ADA transfers above 100,000.
The whale activity had earlier spiked to more than 200 transactions in January and then went down in the months that followed. The highest brief increases were observed in February, March, June, and July, but none of them was as high as the first peak.
Santiment data The fact that this slowdown persists implies that large investors are acting cautiously until they can see through the fog before they can venture more into Cardano.
Cardano Price Outlook Signals 20% Rally Toward $0.20 The ADA price surged to $0.165, extending its recovery from the $0.160 support zone during four-hour trading.
Buyers are trying to gain control, but short-term resistance is close to $0.17 according to the Cardano future outlook.
An emphatic four hour close above that line may help build momentum towards $0.180. A break of $0.18 can lead to a break of $0.20, which is about 20% increase over the current.
Source: Tradingview The MACD is still a bit positive but narrow lines indicate that momentum still requires more volume. In the meantime, the Chaikin Money Flow value of approximately 0.13 indicates that capital is still flowing into the market.
Cardano price must defend $0.16 to preserve this bullish structure and prevent another pullback. Any failure at the support may reveal $0.15 before the buyers get confidence back.
Tether má před sebou dva roky na to, aby upravil USDT podle amerického zákona GENIUS Act, jinak může být na amerických kryptoměnových platformách omezen. Podle posledních zveřejnění by až čtvrtina rezerv USDT stále nesplňovala nové standardy.
The U.S. GENIUS Act to regulate stablecoins just hit a milestone, and Tether may have some compliance work ahead of it. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)Summary
The GENIUS Act that governs U.S. stablecoin issuers is complicated and a work-in-progress, but now that its first anniversary is reached, Tether and other non-U.S. issuers have two years left to figure out their compliance strategies. The one-year mark was supposed to see the federal financial regulators finishing their stablecoin rules, but none have done so, yet, leaving some compliance uncertainty. The basic outlines of the U.S. standards, though, would force the most widely circulated coin — Tether’s USDT — to make a lot of major changes before it could satisfy the law. The world's leading stablecoin by volume, Tether's USDT, could be shoved out of the U.S. markets if the company doesn't revamp dramatically in the next two years.
Despite assurances last year from CEO Paolo Ardoino that the stablecoin giant would achieve U.S. compliance for USDT, the company hasn't yet revealed a sharp turn toward the demands of the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act, which became law one year ago.
With that consequential anniversary of President Donald Trump's signing of the law passing on Saturday, the industry has marked a surge in stablecoin interest and issuance, plus a wide array of crypto and traditional financial firms pursuing U.S. trust bank charters to ease their stablecoin pathways. But the one-year mark was also supposed to be a deadline for federal financial regulators to have rules in place implementing GENIUS, and they've so far fallen short. That could be problematic as experts and industry insiders still reveal some disagreements over how the law should be interpreted.
At this point, it's still two firms battling for market dominance, with a few others — including the issuer tied to President Donald Trump, World Liberty Financial — fighting it out for a very distant third place. Tether's chief rival, U.S.-based Circle, has made more of an apparent effort to pre-comply with what U.S. regulations will soon require.
Meanwhile, Tether's most recent disclosures suggest as much as a quarter of USDT's reserves — the stockpile meant to ensure that those redeeming their coins will always be able to — were still plugged into assets that won't meet GENIUS Act standards, such as precious metals, lending and bitcoin BTC$64,666.25 holdings. GENIUS requires that issuers are fully reserved in the most highly liquid and reliable assets — essentially cash and U.S. Treasuries.
"Tether will comply with the GENIUS Act," Ardoino told CoinDesk at the White House, in the moments after Trump signed GENIUS a year ago. While the CEO indicated then that his company would pursue a separate U.S.-specific token, he said that USDT would also be managed to meet the law's foreign-issuer standards.
When asked multiple times for an update on its compliance stance in recent days, representatives of El Salvador-based Tether didn't offer a response.
This year, Tether rolled out USAT — launched with U.S. standards in mind and issued through U.S. banking partner Anchorage Digital. So far, it remains at a relatively low level of usage.
“Non-compliant stablecoins cannot be used by U.S. institutions when the safe harbor expires in 2028, but we don’t expect the market to wait," said Kevin Wysocki, head of policy at Anchorage Digital, the crypto-native bank that manages a number of stablecoins. He said the company believes institutional users will move toward "compliant, bank-issued digital dollars well ahead of that deadline."
Do they have two years?GENIUS included a three-year grace period for compliance, and two years remain, after which U.S. crypto platforms won't be able to offer stablecoins whose issuers haven't checked all the regulatory boxes. However, there seems to be some disagreement over whether foreign issuers are meant to enjoy that same safe harbor. Some lawyers in finance assume that Tether gets until July 18, 2028, to comply, but others have suggested that foreign issuers would have to comply the moment GENIUS officially goes live, which is likely six months from now in January.
"Upon the effectiveness of the GENIUS Act, foreign issuers will need to immediately comply with lawful orders to seize and freeze coins held by illicit actors, but they will have a runway of approximately two more years to prepare for the additional requirements so that their coins may remain eligible for listing on U.S. centralized trading platforms," said Justin Levine, a lawyer at Davis Polk who advises clients on stablecoin issues, adding that one of those remaining requirements — registration with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency — is likely to require a “significant undertaking”
"So they do have time, as long as they comply with seize and freeze orders,” he said. “But those that want to have their coins continue to be traded on U.S. centralized platforms and have that liquidity should still be thinking about it right now, even if it's not imminent that they're going to get delisted."
While Levine's firm and others have interpreted the deadline for foreign issuers as being two years away, an analysis last year from law firm Paul Hastings had read GENIUS as offering separate timelines for foreign and domestic firms. But after being asked about its view recently, that interpretation was removed from the firm's website, and its spokespeople didn't immediately respond to CoinDesk's requests for clarity.
A dive into the footnotes of federal regulators suggests a two-track deadline in the law. The OCC, the national bank regulator that will also be supervising certain stablecoin issuers, said in a footnote within a proposal for implementing aspects of GENIUS that the drop-dead date was generally in 2028, but that it gets triggered the moment the law is effective (by January) for the coins of foreign issuers that don't meet "certain requirements." Those requirements, though, could simply be referring to the shorter-term demands that include the ability to freeze bad actors' assets and, when requested by the government, to seize them.
The fuller slate of requirements for foreign issuers will eventually include demands that their home regulator be certified by the secretary of the Treasury as being "comparable" to the U.S. regime, that the firms be OCC-registered and they keep their reserves in U.S. institutions.
Regulators run behindHowever, none of the federal agencies have finalized their GENIUS rules, leaving some uncertainty about what will be set into regulatory stone even as the first requirements approach. A number of regulators' efforts are underway and may soon be completed, but others remain in preliminary stages. In other words, companies have no regulations to comply with just yet.
If there's lingering disagreement over GENIUS timelines, Trevor Tanifum, a managing principal at consulting firm FS Vector, said he anticipates that smaller platforms with low risk appetites will delist certain stablecoins and avoid the bother. But others may be willing to press on.
He said that prominent companies with robust legal departments may be willing to occupy a different view, such as: "We're going to spend the money on lawyers and lobbyists until someone walks up to our door and forces us to delist these non-U.S. issuers."
"It's pretty much what has happened, I think, at every major crypto hurdle," he said. "These platforms still count on a lot of transaction volumes, liquidity from non-U.S. issuers, and so I can't see them giving up those volumes without a fight."
The biggest U.S. exchange is Coinbase, but the company declined to discuss its stablecoin listing plans under GENIUS.
The exchange and much of the rest of the crypto industry has more recently shifted policy attention toward a different effort of Congress: the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The sector's lobbyists had aimed for a one-two punch with GENIUS and Clarity, and they'd succeeded last year in getting the stablecoin bill passed into law.
But that first major crypto law was meant to complement a wider-reaching regulation of U.S. crypto markets under the Clarity Act, which is still languishing in the final weeks of its potential 2026 congressional window. It remains unclear at the first anniversary of the GENIUS Act whether its companion will join it on the books. And if it does, it's likely to include some provisions that overhaul some of GENIUS's language.
Either way, Tether, Circle and the rest of the stablecoin sector are on track to be federally regulated in the coming months under the new law, and how those regulations are navigated may upend which firms play a leading role.
Chainlink je zapojen do pilotních projektů CBDC a vypořádání tokenizovaných aktiv v Brazílii, Hongkongu, Austrálii, Británii a v rámci projektu mBridge. V Brazílii a Hongkongu už podpořil přeshraniční test vypořádání obchodu.
Chainlink has wormed its way into the plumbing of central bank digital currency projects and tokenized asset settlements across five countries. Brazil, Hong Kong, Australia, the United Kingdom, and participants in the multi-nation mBridge initiative are all running pilots that rely on Chainlink’s infrastructure to move government data and settle cross-border transactions.
The central bank roster The highest-profile integration sits in Brazil, where the central bank’s Drex CBDC project has tapped Chainlink through a collaboration with Banco Inter. That partnership produced a cross-border trade settlement pilot connecting Brazil and Hong Kong, automating payments for tokenized assets in what amounted to a real-time proof of concept for programmable international commerce.
On the Hong Kong side, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s e-HKD project incorporated Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol, known as CCIP. The protocol handled cross-chain Payment-vs-Payment settlement between ANZ’s A$DC stablecoin and the e-HKD CBDC, essentially proving that a stablecoin issued by an Australian bank and a digital currency issued by Hong Kong’s monetary authority could swap value atomically across different ledgers.
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Australia’s involvement comes through ANZ, the Australia and New Zealand Banking Group, which has been one of the more aggressive traditional banks in experimenting with stablecoins and tokenized assets. ANZ’s demonstrations using Chainlink focused on settling tokenized assets across public blockchains.
The Bank of England entered the picture in February 2026, selecting Chainlink for its Synchronisation Lab. The lab’s mission is testing atomic settlement with onchain securities.
Rounding out the five-country footprint is Chainlink’s role in addressing interoperability challenges highlighted by mBridge, the multi-CBDC platform involving monetary authorities from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, and the UAE. Chainlink’s CCIP addresses the core technical problem: making different digital currencies talk to each other without a centralized intermediary acting as translator.
Why CCIP is the product that matters Chainlink’s CCIP enables actual value transfer and message passing between entirely separate blockchain networks. Chainlink’s infrastructure handles secure data feeds, cross-chain connectivity, compliance checks, and automated transaction mechanisms like Delivery-vs-Payment and Payment-vs-Payment settlements.
What this means for investors For LINK, Chainlink’s native token, the expanding use cases across both public DeFi and centralized finance create a dual demand profile. The Brazil-Hong Kong trade finance experiment completing successfully in late 2025 suggests at least some of these projects are moving beyond the science-fair stage.
The risk is that pilots remain pilots. Central bank technology projects have a long and storied history of impressive demonstrations that never reach production scale. The gap between a successful cross-border settlement test and a live system processing billions in daily volume is measured in years and political will, not just technical capability.
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Centrální banky testují Chainlink jako propojovací infrastrukturu pro data, platby, tokenizovaná aktiva, compliance a vypořádání napříč oddělenými systémy. Jde zatím jen o kontrolované piloty, ne o trvalé přijetí tokenu LINK.
19 July 2026 | 15:22 Chainlink is not offering central banks a new currency or asking governments to replace their sovereign financial systems with a public blockchain. Its institutional role is more practical: coordinating data, payments, tokenized assets, compliance checks and settlement instructions across systems that were not designed to communicate with one another.
Key Takeaways Central banks are testing Chainlink as connective infrastructure, not as a replacement for sovereign currencies or domestic settlement systems. The Brazil–Hong Kong experiment coordinated payments, trade documents and asset ownership across several separate platforms. Singapore’s Project Guardian showed that tokenized funds can operate alongside existing banking and fiat-payment infrastructure. These projects remain controlled pilots and do not represent permanent adoption or an endorsement of the LINK token. That pattern appears in experiments involving the Central Bank of Brazil, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Singapore’s Project Guardian, Swift, UBS Asset Management and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
These projects do not amount to broad central-bank adoption. They do, however, reveal why Chainlink continues to appear in public-sector and regulated financial experiments.
The Harder Problem Begins After a Digital Currency Is Created A central bank can build a domestic digital-currency or tokenized-settlement platform. The more difficult question is how that platform interacts with foreign currencies, commercial-bank systems, tokenized funds, trade documents, public blockchains and established payment networks.
The Bank for International Settlements has found that there is no universal model for connecting central bank digital currencies across borders. Each jurisdiction has its own legal framework, access rules, policy objectives, privacy requirements and technical architecture.
Its more recent work on tokenization reaches a similar conclusion. Multiple ledgers are likely to coexist, but fragmented systems could create isolated pools of money and assets unless institutions develop reliable ways to coordinate transactions between them. The BIS has warned that the benefits of tokenization depend not only on the technology but also on interoperability, governance and effective risk management. Its analysis is available in the report on tokenization in payments and financial markets.
Chainlink approaches this problem through several connected services.
Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol: CIP
carries messages and tokenized value between separate blockchain networks.
Automated Compliance Engine: ACE
is designed to apply identity, jurisdiction and transfer policies before a transaction proceeds.
The proposition is therefore broader than the familiar description of Chainlink as a price oracle. It is attempting to become an orchestration layer for financial processes that span several technological environments.
Brazil and Hong Kong Connected Two Sovereign Platforms In October 2024, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the Central Bank of Brazil announced plans to connect Hong Kong’s Ensemble Sandbox with Brazil’s Drex pilot.
The collaboration focused on cross-border payment-versus-payment and delivery-versus-payment settlement. The first mechanism coordinates the exchange of two currencies, while the second ensures that the transfer of an asset occurs together with its payment.
A subsequent trade finance experiment involved Banco Inter, Chainlink and the Global Shipping Business Network. It connected the Drex environment with Hong Kong’s Ensemble infrastructure, a trade finance platform and an electronic bill of lading system.
CRE coordinated payment instructions and translated messages into the formats required by the participating systems, including ISO 20022. It also triggered an external API to update the electronic bill of lading.
CCIP synchronized events between the platforms so that contract execution, credit release, payment and the transfer of ownership over the traded goods could form part of the same workflow.
This was more complex than sending a token from one blockchain address to another. The transaction depended on money, ownership records, banking instructions and trade documentation changing in the correct order across several independent platforms.
The experiment demonstrated that these actions could be coordinated technically. It did not establish whether the architecture can operate at production scale, how responsibility would be divided after an operational failure or whether central banks would use the same infrastructure in a live deployment.
Singapore Kept the Existing Payment Rails A separate experiment examined whether institutions could use tokenized assets without requiring every participating bank to adopt an onchain currency.
In November 2024, Swift, UBS Asset Management and Chainlink completed a pilot under the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s Project Guardian. The project automated subscriptions and redemptions for a UBS tokenized investment fund.
Chainlink coordinated the conditions needed to mint or burn the fund tokens. Swift carried the payment instructions through conventional fiat settlement infrastructure already connected to more than 11,500 financial institutions.
The payment leg therefore remained within established banking rails even though the investment fund was represented through blockchain-based tokens.
This addresses a practical barrier to institutional adoption. A bank should not need to rebuild its payment stack or hold a specific stablecoin simply to process a transaction involving a tokenized fund. Institutions can introduce tokenized products gradually while continuing to use infrastructure that already supports their operational and regulatory requirements.
The pilot involved a controlled process rather than an open commercial deployment. Its value lies in demonstrating a possible migration path, not in proving that the model has already achieved market-wide adoption.
Official Economic Data Can Now Be Read by Smart Contracts Chainlink’s work with the U.S. Department of Commerce concerns data rather than cross-border settlement.
On August 28, 2025, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a cryptographic hash of its second-quarter GDP release across nine blockchains. The headline GDP figure was also included on networks that supported the additional data.
The department worked with Chainlink and Pyth to distribute the information more broadly. Chainlink subsequently made six data series from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis available through its Data Feeds across ten blockchain ecosystems.
The feeds covered the levels and annualized percentage changes for: Real gross domestic product The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index Real final sales to private domestic purchasers A government report published on a website is readable by people. A standardized onchain feed can also be read directly by software.
A prediction market could use the official figure to settle a contract. A macro-linked financial product could calculate a payment from a published economic indicator. Lending or portfolio-management systems could incorporate the release into predefined risk rules.
That oracle role extends beyond economic data: on June 9, 2026, ADI Predictstreet, the official prediction market partner of the FIFA World Cup 2026, adopted Chainlink as its exclusive oracle infrastructure to automate market resolution, settlement and payouts.
Those examples describe potential applications rather than established demand. The publication proves that official government data can be delivered in a format smart contracts can consume; it does not show that financial protocols are already using those feeds at meaningful scale.
Compliance Is More Difficult Than Moving the Asset Interoperability alone is not sufficient for regulated finance.
A bank may need to confirm the identity, jurisdiction, sanctions status, investor classification and transfer eligibility of both parties before allowing a tokenized asset to change hands. Publishing the underlying customer records on a public blockchain would create serious privacy and data-protection problems.
Chainlink’s Automated Compliance Engine is designed to separate the compliance result from the sensitive information used to produce it.
A trusted institution could issue a credential confirming that a customer has completed the necessary checks. The transaction system would receive proof that the condition has been met without placing the customer’s name, passport information, address or complete banking record onchain.
The policy layer could then determine whether the transaction is permitted. Rules might cover investor eligibility, sanctions screening, geographic restrictions, transfer limits or the validity period of a credential.
ACE does not automatically make a financial product compliant with GDPR, MiCA, the Bank Secrecy Act or any other regulation. Legal compliance still depends on which rules are encoded, who supplies the identity information, where personal data is stored, how exceptions are handled and which institution remains responsible for the final decision.
Its purpose is narrower: giving institutions a technical way to translate some compliance requirements into enforceable transaction conditions.
The Evidence Supports a Role, Not a Final Winner The experiments show that Chainlink can perform several functions relevant to institutional tokenization:
Move instructions between separate blockchain networks
Coordinate onchain and offchain events
Connect tokenized assets with conventional payment systems
Deliver official external data to smart contracts
Apply identity and transfer conditions across a transaction
They do not show that central banks have selected Chainlink as permanent global infrastructure.
Most of the evidence still comes from pilots, sandboxes, technical demonstrations and announcements involving a limited number of institutions. Production systems would also need to resolve questions involving operational resilience, cybersecurity, governance, transaction reversals, legal responsibility, vendor dependence and incorrect external data.
The U.S. Department of Commerce explicitly stated that publishing its GDP data on blockchains did not endorse any particular blockchain, service or associated activity. Participation by a central bank or government body should therefore not be interpreted as support for the LINK token.
The more defensible conclusion is architectural. Central banks and regulated institutions are exploring tokenized finance, but the resulting system is unlikely to consist of one blockchain controlled by one operator. Sovereign platforms, commercial-bank ledgers, public networks and traditional payment rails may continue to coexist.
Chainlink is being tested as one possible way to make transactions work across those boundaries. Whether it becomes permanent infrastructure will depend less on the number of pilots announced and more on whether those experiments progress into resilient, legally defined and production-scale systems.
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Prezident Circle Heath Tarbert hájí dlouhodobou strategii firmy a tvrdí, že USDC s asi 73 miliardami USD v oběhu a podporou na 34 blockchainech je těžké napodobit. Akcie CRCL přitom po IPO spadly zhruba z 260 USD do nízkých 60 USD.
Circle President Heath Tarbert has defended the company’s long-term strategy after Circle shares fell sharply from their post-IPO peak.
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Circle says USDC’s scale and network effects remain difficult for new stablecoin competitors to replicate. Open USD adds pressure as Circle shares trade far below their post-IPO peak near $260. Circle keeps expanding regulated infrastructure while investors question competition, margins, and future stablecoin revenue sharing. Speaking in a July 14 interview with FOX Business, Tarbert said management remains focused on building financial infrastructure rather than reacting to short-term moves in the stock.
The interview came as Circle faced growing investor concern over competition in the stablecoin market. CRCL had traded near $260 after its public debut before falling toward the low $60 range. Tarbert said Circle is “playing the long game” and argued that successful execution would eventually support shareholder value.
Tarbert points to USDC network effects Tarbert said Circle’s main focus remains building a full-stack internet financial platform around USDC and related infrastructure. He argued that the company’s position cannot be measured only through daily stock movements and said the stock should “take care of itself” if Circle delivers on its wider mission.
He also defended USDC against new competitors. Tarbert pointed to roughly $73 billion in circulation and native support across 34 blockchains, saying those network effects would be “incredibly hard to replicate.” Circle describes USDC as a regulated digital dollar used across trading, payments and settlement.
Open USD adds new pressure to Circle The comments came after Open Standard launched Open USD, a planned stablecoin backed by more than 140 participating businesses. The group includes Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, BNY and Coinbase. Open Standard says partners can mint and redeem Open USD without fees and receive reserve earnings after a management charge.
As reported by crypto.news, Circle shares fell 17.5% to $62.63 after Open USD entered the market and CRCL left several Russell Growth indexes. The decline added to concerns about whether new stablecoin models could pressure Circle’s economics.
Wall Street has also raised questions about that competition. Crypto.news reported that Mizuho cut its Circle price target to $50, arguing that Open USD’s revenue-sharing structure could pressure margins and raise distribution costs.
Circle faces pressure over USDC economics Circle’s challenge extends beyond new stablecoin issuers.JPMorgan lowered earnings forecasts for Circle and Coinbase after a new revenue-sharing agreement tied to USDC balances on Hyperliquid. The bank said stronger adoption could come with lower reserve income retained by the companies.
Tarbert pushed back on the idea that competitors can quickly reproduce USDC’s reach. He also described USDC as the largest regulated stablecoin and said it leads in actual transaction volume, presenting scale and existing distribution as key parts of Circle’s competitive position.
Circle keeps expanding regulated infrastructure Circle has continued adding regulated infrastructure despite the stock decline. On July 10, the company received final OCC approval to establish Circle National Trust. The trust bank will initially provide digital asset custody, with USDC reserve management planned as a possible future service.
As reported by crypto.news, the approval places the new entity under direct federal supervision. Circle says the structure could support wider institutional use of its digital asset infrastructure.
Tarbert’s comments frame the stock decline against a wider contest for stablecoin distribution and reserve income. Open USD brings a large group of payment and financial companies into the market, while Circle continues betting that USDC’s existing network and regulated infrastructure will support its long-term position.
Zakladatel Zcash Zooko Wilcox představil nouzový plán, který má při hard forku Ironwood 28. července 2026 na bloku 3 428 143 uzamknout případné falešné ZEC v původním Orchard poolu. Nový Orchard pool poběží s opravenou kryptografií.
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Zcash (ZEC) co-founder and lead developer, Zooko Wilcox, has revealed the details of an emergency strategy designed to preserve the coin's mathematical integrity. The network is preparing for the Ironwood hard fork (NU6.3), which will activate on July 28, 2026, at block 3,428,143 to permanently isolate the vulnerable Orchard pool and lock up any potentially forged ZEC.
The "turnstile" strategy: How to lock up phantom coinsFor those who missed it, a critical bug was discovered by Shielded Labs researcher Taylor Hornby that could theoretically have allowed hackers to mint ZEC undetected inside the private Orchard pool. By 2026, developers had quickly fixed the vulnerability at the protocol level and found no evidence that it had actually been exploited.
However, because the Orchard pool provides complete privacy, no one can guarantee that hidden issuance did not occur before the patch was deployed.
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Zooko's strategy eliminates the need for blind trust. On July 28, the original Orchard pool will be completely sealed and a new, clean Orchard pool with corrected cryptography will launch in its place.
Ironwood Ironwood Ironwood!
Humanity is going to have a form of money that is unstoppable, private, and has full correctness proofs (formal verification) of some of its key properties, thanks to heroic math by an awesome team led by @TachyonZcash. https://t.co/Z85ktHtoPE
— zooko🛡🦓🦓🦓 ⓩ (@zooko) July 19, 2026 Funds will be transferable from the old system to the new one only through a special turnstile gateway. This cryptographic mechanism strictly controls the balance: it will prevent more coins from leaving the old pool than legitimately entered throughout its entire history.
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If hidden issuance did occur, the counterfeit ZEC will remain permanently frozen inside the old pool, becoming digital waste. At the same time, any user running a personal node will be able to independently verify the accuracy of the circulating supply.
Cryptocurrency exchanges, wallets, and swap services that have not completed their software testing may temporarily suspend ZEC deposits and withdrawals, but developers emphasize that such pauses are routine technical adjustments on the service providers' side, not a threat to the security of users' assets.
Private-wallet holders should also be prepared for their Orchard balances to temporarily appear unavailable.
As of now, ZEC holders only need to wait until July 28, when Ironwood's cryptographic "turnstile" will demonstrate in practice Zcash's ability to protect its economy under conditions of strong privacy guarantees.
Agenti Virtuals Protocol nasazení na Robinhood Chain jsou nově dohledatelní v Binance Wallet přes Meme Rush. Integrace přišla po spuštění mainnetu Robinhood Chain.
Every Virtuals Protocol agent deployed on Robinhood Chain is now discoverable inside Binance Wallet’s Meme Rush feature. Binance Wallet added filters for Robinhood Chain projects, including Virtuals Protocol, on July 18 and 19, 2026, roughly two and a half weeks after Robinhood Chain’s mainnet went live on July 1.
What Robinhood Chain actually is, and why it matters here Robinhood Chain is an AI-native Layer 2 blockchain built on Arbitrum infrastructure, oriented around financial services and tokenized real-world assets.
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Virtuals Protocol plugged its AI agent framework into Robinhood Chain around the mainnet launch date. Between 2,100 and 2,400 individual AI agents went live on the chain within roughly two weeks of that integration, generating trading volume in the range of $77 million to $100 million.
The VIRTUAL token saw a roughly 20% price increase tied to the Robinhood Chain integration milestones.
Meme Rush, explained without the hype Binance Wallet’s Meme Rush is a token discovery feature focused on emerging and early-stage tokens. The feature recently expanded to support multi-chain browsing, which opened the door for Robinhood Chain projects to appear alongside assets from other networks. Virtuals Protocol is not the only project benefiting. Meme Rush’s Robinhood Chain filter sits alongside filters for other launchpads including Flap and Bankr.
What investors should actually watch The numbers from the first two weeks, between 2,100 and 2,400 agents live and $77 million to $100 million in trading volume, suggest genuine traction rather than a soft launch. Early volume can be inflated by wash trading, incentive farming, or bot activity. The more durable signal will come from whether that volume holds or grows in the weeks after the Meme Rush integration.
The VIRTUAL token’s 20% move is worth contextualizing carefully. A price increase tied to a specific integration event can reflect genuine demand, but it can also reflect traders front-running anticipated retail flows.
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Zcash spouští Zakura, nový full node s cílem zvládnout více než 50 000 transakcí za sekundu při zachování soukromí. Podporuje i nadcházející upgrade Ironwood (NU6.3).
Zakura, a new Zcash full node maintained independently of the Zcash Foundation, launches as a pruned, fast-syncing fork of Zebra with compatibility for the legacy zcashd client ahead of its July 18 end of life.The software is one pillar of a broader effort, alongside Project Tachyon and private information retrieval research, to scale Zcash toward Visa- and Mastercard-level throughput by shrinking verification data and removing wallet performance bottlenecks.Zakura supports the Ironwood (NU6.3) upgrade activating July 28, which introduces a turnstile mechanism to cap withdrawals from the Orchard shielded pool and contain any counterfeit ZEC that may have been created via a long‑standing soundness bug.Those rebuilding Zcash have a dream: to match global payments giants Visa and Mastercard by handling tens of thousands of payments every second while preserving full verifiability and strong privacy guarantees.
The first piece of that plan is Zakura, a new full node software released Wednesday at version 1.0.0. It is maintained by Sean Bowe, a founding member of Zcash's zero-knowledge cryptography, and Dev Ojha, the Osmosis cofounder who now leads Valar Group. Both teams are funded by private ZEC donations rather than by a company or a foundation.
"Our dream is to support the world's payments. Mastercard and Visa handle more than 50k transactions per second; that's our floor. With Zcash's existing cryptography, that volume would demand over 500 MB/s of throughput from the node,” a blog post said. “The current stack won't get us there. The cryptography our teams are developing closes much of that gap.”
A full node is the program that keeps a complete copy of a blockchain, the Zcash ledger, in this case, and independently checks every transaction against the network's rules. Zakura is a fork of Zebra, the Zcash Foundation's node software – meaning it started from the Foundation's official code and was rebuilt from there.
Consensus rules are the shared rulebook every node enforces, the thing that decides which blocks and transactions the whole network accepts as valid. If a node applies different rules, it forks off and stops following the same chain as everyone else.
Pruning, snapshots and compatibilityZakura can also prune, a term for deleting old blockchain data a node no longer needs, and cut disk usage substantially. That shrinks the chain enough that the team publishes ready-made copies of it, about 11 gigabytes with the old data stripped, which a new node can download instead of pulling the whole history from other nodes one block at a time.
That takes a node from nothing to running in under two minutes, which the team says is “680 times faster.”
A compatibility mode further reproduces the interface of zcashd, the original client that reaches end of life on July 18, so wallets and exchange integrations built against it will keep working as is.
Throughput targets and Tachyon’s roleThe reason for building all this is arithmetic.
Mastercard and Visa process more than 50,000 transactions per second, and the team calls that figure '“its floor, not its target.” Zcash's current cryptography would require a node to take in and verify more than 500 megabytes of data every second to keep up, because every private transaction carries a proof, and proofs are large.
That is roughly a full DVD of data arriving every ten seconds, continuously, and no current Zcash software runs anywhere near that. But the missing piece is the reason each bottleneck exists.
Bowe's Project Tachyon is tackling this by working on recursive proofs, in which one proof attests to the validity of thousands of others, dramatically reducing the amount of data that must be checked at consensus.
Under Tachyon, a node verifies a single proof instead of the thousands, which the team says reduces the requirement for consensus data from 100 megabytes per second to 500 megabytes, a level they claim is technically achievable with careful engineering.
Wallet bottlenecks and Valar’s PIR solutionWallets have a different problem. Because Zcash hides who a transaction is for, a wallet cannot ask a server which transactions belong to it without giving itself away. It pulls down everything and tests each one, which is why wallet software tops out at about one transaction per second.
To remove that bottleneck, Valar Group is working on private information retrieval techniques that let a wallet fetch its own data from a server without the server learning which entries were requested.
Fast block propagation Fast block propagation means broadcasting newly mined blocks across a blockchain network as quickly as possible. Zakura is a software layer tasked with that.
It has to move new blocks between nodes fast enough for high‑volume proofs and wallet traffic to matter. It ships with an experimental system aimed at delivering every block to every node in under half a second, which is switched off by default for now.
The near‑term test of these ideas arrives in late July. Ironwood, formally NU6.3, activates on mainnet at block 3,428,143, roughly 8 a.m. Eastern on July 28, and Zakura supports it from release.
Bowe said on July 10 that all major organizations are committed to that height, a week later than originally planned, after exchanges and wallet providers requested preparation time.
How Ironwood came into existenceIronwood exists because of a flaw that nearly broke Zcash in June. The so-called shielded pools are the private side of the network, where amounts and participants are hidden, and a zero-knowledge proof stands in as evidence of the math work.
On May 29, Shielded Labs researcher Taylor Hornby found that the proof circuit for Orchard, the newest shielded pool, contained a soundness bug that let an attacker mint counterfeit ZEC with no onchain trace. The flaw had been live since Orchard activated in May 2022.
Developers disabled Orchard through an emergency response completed June 2, then restored it with a corrected circuit via the NU6.2 hard fork at block 3,364,600 on June 3.
The patch could not account for the four years the hole was open. A zero-knowledge proof reveals nothing beyond the fact that it verified, so the chain holds no record of what any Orchard transaction moved, and nobody can prove counterfeit ZEC was never created.
Ironwood is built to settle that. A so-called ‘turnstile’ at the pool's boundary caps what can leave and what can enter, leveraging the fact that ZEC amounts crossing into or out of shielded pools are public even when the transactions inside are not. Sealing Orchard to new deposits leaves the turnstile as the only exit, and any fake coins inside are stuck there.
In simple terms, honest balances can migrate out over time, while counterfeit coins may be prevented from fully exiting and entering into circulated supply. This setting traps any attempted excess supply at the boundary, restoring reliability of the token’s supply.
Zcash buduje novou architekturu node a upgrady Project Tachyon a NU7 s cílem dosáhnout až 50 000 TPS u shielded transakcí. Na testnetu klesla doba bloku ze 75 na 25 sekund a shielded TPS se zdvojnásobilo.
Zcash is swinging for the fences. The privacy-focused blockchain, which currently processes somewhere between 3 and 20 shielded transactions per second, is building toward a future where it can handle 50,000 TPS, putting it in the same conversation as Visa’s payment network. That’s roughly a 2,500x improvement over current capacity.
The ambition is built on a new node architecture and a series of protocol upgrades that collectively aim to make fully private transactions not just possible at scale, but practical.
Project Tachyon and NU7: the engine room The scaling push centers on two key initiatives: Project Tachyon and the NU7 network upgrade. Project Tachyon, led by cryptographer Sean Bowe, targets thousands of TPS for shielded transactions, with estimates suggesting up to 10,000 TPS as a near-term milestone before pushing toward the 50,000 figure.
The NU7 testnet launched on May 22, 2026, and early results are encouraging. Block times dropped from 75 seconds to just 25 seconds, a threefold reduction. Shielded TPS doubled on the testnet compared to previous benchmarks, contributing to what the project describes as a potential 300% increase in transaction speed.
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For context, Zcash’s current shielded throughput of 3 to 20 TPS makes it roughly comparable to Bitcoin’s base layer in terms of raw capacity. The difference is that every shielded Zcash transaction uses zk-SNARKs, a form of zero-knowledge cryptography that proves a transaction is valid without revealing sender, receiver, or amount. That privacy comes with heavy computational overhead, which is precisely what these upgrades are designed to reduce.
The improvements build on years of iterative upgrades, including the Sapling and Orchard shielded pools, which progressively reduced the cost and complexity of private transactions. The new node software, a Rust-based rewrite called Zebra, provides the foundation for these protocol-level scaling changes rather than relying on beefier hardware.
Growing adoption, growing pains Zcash’s shielded pool now constitutes around 30% of total supply. The Zcash Foundation also raised $25 million in March 2026, giving the project fresh capital to fund development. That fundraise coincided with the shielded pool growth, suggesting aligned momentum between builder activity and user adoption.
Zcash’s trajectory hit a serious speed bump in early June 2026 when a critical network vulnerability was discovered and patched. ZEC’s price dropped approximately 48% in the aftermath.
What this means for investors The competitive landscape matters here. Monero, Zcash’s primary rival in the privacy coin space, operates on a fundamentally different privacy model with its own scaling constraints. Meanwhile, general-purpose Layer 1s like Solana boast high TPS numbers but offer no native transaction privacy.
The 48% price crash following June’s vulnerability disclosure shows how quickly confidence can erode. Delivering a 300% speed improvement on a testnet is noteworthy. Delivering Visa-scale private transactions on mainnet, without security incidents, is an entirely different challenge.
The shielded pool reaching 30% of total supply is a metric worth watching closely. If that number continues climbing alongside successful mainnet deployments of NU7, it would suggest organic demand for Zcash’s core privacy proposition. If it stalls or reverses, it may indicate that the security scare did lasting damage to user confidence, regardless of how impressive the throughput numbers look on paper.
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