Decentralized finance — protocols, yields, stablecoin flows and on-chain activity.
Abu Dhabi's Mubadala Capital and KAIO launch a $75M tokenized private fund live across Base, Solana, and Sui, with Coinbase set to add exposure.
Uniswap's new v4 Permissioned Pools hook enforces compliance onchain for regulated tokenized assets, with Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo as launch partners.
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.
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital launch a fundamentals-based crypto index screening 15 digital assets by protocol revenue — Bitcoin excluded.
Robinhood Chain hit 324K daily active users and $588.9M TVL on July 21 — overtaking Coinbase's Base L2 just three weeks after launch, driven by memecoins.
NEC and Ava Labs sign an MOU to explore biometric-verified stablecoin payments on Avalanche, with face data kept off-chain via decentralized identity credentials.
UNI holders are voting today on activating Uniswap's fee switch on the Robinhood chain — the first live test of whether UNI can generate real revenue for holders.
Cardano's van Rossem hard fork went live on July 18, 2026, cutting smart contract costs and marking the first Voltaire governance-driven upgrade ahead of Ouroboros Leios.
Ordinals dev Leonidas has proposed '$DOG Mode', a new Bitcoin client enforcing Ordinals-friendly rules — and Bitcoin's next governance war may be starting.
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.
