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.
Circle secured an OCC federal trust bank charter on July 10, giving USDC federal oversight — as Standard Chartered warns stablecoins could drain $500B from US deposits by 2028.
OKX Europe has launched a one-way USDT-to-USDC conversion tool for EEA users, offering an 8% yield incentive as a July 2026 MiCA enforcement deadline approaches.
A Swedish Bitcoin treasury company couldn't sell nearly half its preferred shares despite a 10% annual yield, raising questions about the Bitcoin treasury model.
The attacker behind May's $5.87M TrustedVolumes DeFi exploit sent back 1,122.12 ETH (~$2.07M) on July 17 — roughly 35% of stolen funds — with no official statement from the protocol.
Input Output is transferring stewardship of Cardano's core infrastructure to external teams via the Proof of Provenance framework as a protocol upgrade lifts ADA.
JustLend DAO's fourth JST buyback-and-burn destroyed 355M+ tokens worth $34.59M on July 17, 2026 — the highest-value single round in the program's history.
Visa's Cuy Sheffield pegs adjusted x402 volume at $19M across 134M transactions, but a Visa-Artemis analysis shows just 4,000 wallets account for 90% of spending.
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong publicly admitted Base's content coin strategy failed, saying the network 'messed up,' while defending its new focus on AI agents, trading, and payments.
A Dune study for 1inch finds 85% of concentrated liquidity sat idle in H1 2026, with $542M out of range weekly and retail LPs missing $150M in annual fees.
Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh told Congress the Fed will not rescue failing crypto or stablecoin firms, drawing a hard line as the GENIUS Act nears finalization.
