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.
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 $1.65 million in a single transaction.
BitPay's European subsidiary BitPay B.V. has secured a MiCA CASP license from the Dutch AFM, unlocking regulated crypto and stablecoin payments across all 27 EU states.
Federal agencies missed the GENIUS Act's July 18, 2026 deadline to finalize stablecoin rules. Ten proposals exist, zero are binding — clarity now delayed to January 2027.
Ordinals dev Leonidas has proposed '$DOG Mode', a new Bitcoin client enforcing Ordinals-friendly rules — and Bitcoin's next governance war may be starting.
