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HSBC and Standard Chartered Complete First Live Transaction on Swift Blockchain Ledger
Swift’s ledger matched and netted obligations recorded on the banks’ separate platforms, but final settlement still ran through existing systems.
Maya Protocol Exploit Drains $1.7 Million From Shared Liquidity
Founder Aaluxx said he would ‘work to fix and recover in full,’ while routing service LeoDex reported that Maya had activated a global halt.
Gnosis Chain to Abandon Its Validator Set and Settle to Ethereum
GnosisDAO approved a strategic shift from standalone Layer 1 to an Ethereum-settled rollup, unlocking about 350,000 GNO and ending treasury-funded staking rewards.
Hayden Adams Says AMMs Will Win The Biggest Markets. A Former XTX Trader Says They're Going To Zero
The Uniswap founder's first blog post since 2019 argues tokenized stocks will trade against index funds instead of dollars. The replies split between investors who called the thesis disruptive and traders who asked who would want to sell NVIDIA for SPY.
Aligned Details ALIGN Airdrop 20 Months Later
The ZK infrastructure firm set unlock schedules and claiming networks for 8.74% of supply. It has not dated the token launch, and the site it built for its public auction now says the sale was canceled.
Tenev Pushes for Tokenized Stocks in America
The Robinhood CEO published a case for US equity tokenization five days after the SEC shelved its innovation exemption for a second time.
SEC Proposes Token Offering Rules With $75 Million Exemption
The proposal pairs two registration exemptions with a conditional safe harbor that would take the "investment contract" label off a token, and preempts state securities law. All three sitting commissioners backed it in a vote held outside a public meeting.
Omnichain Launchpad Printr Shuts Down, Cancels Token Launch And Airdrop
Printr said it will cease all operations by Aug. 31 and will not hold the token generation event or airdrop it had promised. The launchpad raised $4.5 million last October and collected 84% of its lifetime fees in a single month.
Ansem Launches Site Where Teams Buy His Attention With Airdrops
Projects launching on ansem.io hand at least 3% of supply to holders of his memecoin and burn $ANSEM to rank higher. Every coin created there is a pump.fun token.
Deel Takes Its DLUSD Stablecoin Wallet to More Than 80 Countries
The payroll platform's dollar balance, issued through Stripe's Bridge and settled on Tempo, is now live across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia-Pacific. The US, UK, EU and Australia remain excluded.
Neynar Seeks a New Owner for Farcaster Seven Months After Buying It
Protocol fees fell from $35.43 million in the first quarter to $376,740 so far in the third, according to DefiLlama. Neynar says it will return most of its remaining balance sheet and its team will disband.
Search Interest in Prediction Markets Falls 83% From Its World Cup Peak as Kalshi Pulls Away
Google Trends set its five-year high for "prediction market" the week the 2026 World Cup opened, and its single-day high on the day of the final. Category volume hit a record in July. August is pacing lower on both, and Polymarket is falling behind Kalshi faster than the mindshare data suggests.
Compound Foundation Names Coinbase And Anchorage Alumni To Run $52 Million Institutional Push
The DAO approved the two-year budget in May with 1.88 million COMP in favor and none against. Compound holds about $1.2 billion in deposits, against Aave's $14.8 billion.
Fake World Assets Opens Its Gacha Pool to New NFT Collections
TokenWorks will let artists issue collections directly into the randomized pool through a mechanism called FWAir, with backers fronting the ETH and creators paid out of trading fees rather than mint proceeds.
Stripe’s Reported $7 Billion OpenRouter Deal Buys Micropayments Without a Blockchain
OpenRouter meters AI usage against prepaid deposits and charges 5% on crypto top-ups against 5.5% on card purchases made through Stripe. Stripe co-incubated Tempo to settle machine payments onchain; the chain is running at about one transaction per second.
SafePal Breach Exposes 39,798 Buyers as Stolen Records Hit Cybercrime Forum
The wallet maker says a flaw in an order-tracking plug-in leaked names, phone numbers and shipping addresses over 14 months. A seller is now advertising the file.
Tether Clears First Full Audit From KPMG Without Publishing the Statements
The Big Four firm issued an unqualified opinion on 2025 accounts for Tether's El Salvador issuing entity. The work was done to AICPA standards rather than the PCAOB standards the GENIUS Act sets for licensed U.S. issuers, and Tether has released neither the statements nor the opinion letter.
Norway Wealth Fund Discloses $81.9 Million BitMine Stake
The fund reported holding 6.15 million BMNR shares at June 30, giving it indirect Ethereum exposure through a listed company.
Tempo Launches Embedded Yield Product for Platforms, Starting With Deel
Tempo Earn routes rewards through Morpho vaults and tokenized money market funds, placing the payment outside the stablecoin issuer that US law bars from paying interest. Deel's contractor wallet is the first named deployment, at a promotional target rate of up to 4% APY.
Standard Chartered Says Its $100 UNI Target May Be Too Low After Robinhood Chain Burns
Geoff Kendrick says UNI burns funded by Robinhood Chain trading have run at an annualized $90 million since Jul. 27. DefiLlama data puts Uniswap's protocol revenue at 2.4 times its prior level, with Robinhood Chain supplying about 60% of it.
SharpLink Plans $200 Million ETH Allocation to Lido’s wstETH
Using Kraken’s displayed $1,889.84 ETH price, the planned allocation equates to about 106,000 ETH, roughly 12% of SharpLink’s reported holdings.
Neutrl Pauses Minting and Redemptions While Assessing Reserve Impact
Strata paused minting, redemptions and related functions on its Neutrl market contracts, whose two tranche tokens carried more than $1.7 million in displayed onchain value.
Robinhood Private-Market Fund Prices $200 Million IPO
RVII pays its adviser a 2% annual base fee and a 20% realized-gains incentive fee; some exposure may use illiquid vehicles.
Trezor Shipping-Provider Breach Exposes Data of 13,689 Customers
ShipMonk incident exposed names and contact details of recent customers in seven countries; Trezor says its devices and systems were not compromised.
ether.fi Adds Tokenized Stocks, New Fiat Rails And Aave-Backed Borrowing
The Summer release lands a week after the protocol pulled restaking out of weETH. The release also introduces programmatic ETHFI buybacks funded from every revenue line.
Securitize’s Tokenized Assets Hit $4.3 Billion as Revenue Falls
Tokenization revenue dropped 12% and operating costs jumped 56%, showing that higher onchain assets have yet to produce steadier earnings.
Uniswap Founder Says Team Renounced Creator Fees From Employee Testing
TradePools said test tokens built while developing Pools no longer send creator fees to Uniswap Labs, with past and future fees redirected to an ETH-for-burn mechanism.
Boltz Founders Exit as Unnamed Bitcoin Group Agrees to Take Over Suspended Swap Service
The service remains offline while incoming operators work to fix vulnerabilities; Boltz said attacks caused losses to the company.
Circle’s cirBTC Is Live on Ethereum but Has Only 40 BTC Outstanding
Circle National Trust custodies the backing, while published Bitcoin addresses and Chainlink Proof of Reserve provide onchain visibility; Arc support remains forthcoming.
BitGo CFO to Exit as Q2 Net Loss Hits $19 Million
Revenue jumped 80%, but trading and staking margins weakened as BitGo targeted $15 million in annualized savings following June layoffs.
SEC Staff Clears Franklin Funds to Use Onchain Money Fund for Cash and Collateral
The relief lets Franklin Templeton’s registered funds hold FOBXX through an affiliated blockchain-integrated system, subject to 12 custody and control conditions.
Pump.fun's Share Of Launchpad Fees Fell To 27% In July. Four Weeks Later It's Back Above Half
Two launchpads on Robinhood Chain cut pump.fun's share of launchpad fees from 80% to 27% in two weeks. Pump.fun's fees are up 30% over 30 days anyway, because the category grew 77% around it. Memecoin prices did not participate.
Marinade Says 28.83% of Solana Stake Went Delinquent, Nearing Finality Halt
Teraswitch confirmed a 12-site routing failure; Marinade said 94% of the 118.89 million SOL on its autonomous system went dark.
SEC Advances Tokenized-Securities Exemption That Could Enable 24/7 Trading
Atkins says the framework would support compliant onchain trading while long-term rules are developed; Friday's scheduled Commission consideration covers a separate offering proposal.
Solana Community Argues Over Whether Its Foundation Should Pick Winners
Flash.Trade's founder said Foundation backing for a rival contributed to his decision to wind the perps exchange down. Foundation president Lily Liu says the market decides who wins.
Bitwise Cuts 14% of Staff as Client Assets Fall to $9 Billion
The crypto asset manager reduced headcount to about 155 from 180, while its BITW index fund ended June with $532.8 million in net assets, down from $1.03 billion at year-end.
Harmony Patches Pre-Staking Quorum and Receipt-Replay Flaws After ONE Mint Claim
Harmony asked exchanges to block four wallets and paused its bridge, while an analyst’s estimate of four billion unauthorized ONE remains unconfirmed.
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