Marcus Feld is CoinScoop's DeFi and on-chain analyst. He digs into L2 activity, stablecoin flows and protocol revenue, translating raw chain data into plain-English calls.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce, known as 'Crypto Mom,' warned on July 22 that DeFi vaults and onchain lending strategies could qualify as securities depending on their structure.
An attacker drained ~$24M in USDC from AFX's Arbitrum bridge in a targeted exploit. Arbitrum's native bridge was confirmed unaffected. USDC holds its peg.
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital launch a fundamentals-based crypto index screening 15 digital assets by protocol revenue — Bitcoin excluded.
A critical nonce bug in the Zilliqa Ledger app lets attackers recover private keys from just five on-chain transactions. ZIL dropped ~10% on the disclosure.
Robinhood Chain hit 324K daily active users and $588.9M TVL on July 21 — overtaking Coinbase's Base L2 just three weeks after launch, driven by memecoins.
NEC and Ava Labs sign an MOU to explore biometric-verified stablecoin payments on Avalanche, with face data kept off-chain via decentralized identity credentials.
UNI holders are voting today on activating Uniswap's fee switch on the Robinhood chain — the first live test of whether UNI can generate real revenue for holders.
Cardano's van Rossem hard fork went live on July 18, 2026, cutting smart contract costs and marking the first Voltaire governance-driven upgrade ahead of Ouroboros Leios.
The Ostium OLP vault exploiter has routed 10,540 of 12,080 stolen ETH through Tornado Cash after a $24M Arbitrum hack revised up from $18M, per PeckShield.
Allbridge Core paused its cross-chain bridge after a flash loan attacker manipulated the stablecoin pool exchange rate and drained roughly $1.65 million in a single transaction.
