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.
PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin is now issued natively on Polygon via Paxos, ditching bridged tokens and integrating into Polygon's Open Money Stack for cross-border dollar settlement.
ARB surged ~19% after Offchain Labs confirmed every Arbitrum Orbit L2, including Robinhood Chain, must route 10% of net protocol revenue back to the ARB ecosystem.
XRPL's stablecoin supply hit $889.58M, up 20.56% in 30 days. Ripple's RLUSD dominates at $844.58M, but Valtorum's USDV is the fastest-growing issuer at $39.3M.
Michael Saylor and Adam Back slam BIP-110, the proposed Bitcoin soft fork to ban Ordinals, warning protocol tinkering is Bitcoin's biggest internal risk.
Phantom wallet and the Hyperliquid Policy Center petitioned the CFTC on July 9 to open registered derivatives markets to non-custodial wallets, backed by $1.8B in perp volume.
SpaceX moved Bitcoin on-chain for the first time in six months as Gwynne Shotwell donated $325M in stock and Raymond James set an $800 price target.
Japanese lender CRYL Inc. launches regulated Bitcoin-backed loans from $6,200 to $6.2M at 3.5% APR, letting BTC holders access yen liquidity without selling.
Bonzo Lend lost ~$9M on July 11 after an attacker exploited a flaw in Supra's oracle verifier to inflate SAUCE token collateral prices on the Hedera network.
South Korean super-app Toss partners with Optimism on a 3-month KRW stablecoin proof of concept on the OP Stack, targeting 30 million users.
Circle has received final OCC approval to charter Circle National Trust Bank — a federally regulated entity for USDC reserves and custody, barred from consumer deposits or loans.
