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.
Uniswap's new v4 Permissioned Pools hook enforces compliance onchain for regulated tokenized assets, with Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo as launch partners.
Coinbase launches infrastructure for businesses to accept USDC payments from AI agents autonomously, with x402 protocol settling in 200ms and Amazon Bedrock integration.
AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings, Amazon's Japanese logistics partner, will pay ~2,300 contractor drivers in JPYC yen-pegged stablecoin — Japan's first large-scale corporate stablecoin payroll.
Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon publicly endorses the CLARITY Act, breaking with much of the banking industry as Senate Republicans push crypto market-structure legislation forward.
Kakao Group and Circle have signed an MOU to build won-backed stablecoin payment infrastructure in South Korea, with Toss, Kakao Pay, and Kakao Bank as key partners.
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.
