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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.
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.
Ondo Finance and Japan's SBI Group have partnered to tokenize Japanese equities, settling trades in SBI's yen stablecoin JPYSC — a landmark RWA deal for Asian markets.
Anton Bukov claims he was fired from 1inch in November while still holding a 50% stake in the protocol. He has since launched infrastructure startup Second Tier.
Jesse Pollak admits Base's social-first strategy was 'definitively wrong', steps back from Base App leadership as the chain fell behind in perps and prediction markets.
Tether invests $20M in Ualá as part of a $195–197M round valuing the Latin American neobank at $3.2B, marking a major push into consumer fintech.
Morgan Stanley has secured preliminary OCC approval for a crypto trust bank consolidating Bitcoin custody, trading, staking and lending under one in-house roof.
VerifiedX and BitGo have signed a non-binding MOU to bring qualified institutional custody to vBTC.b, a canonical Bitcoin asset deployed on Coinbase's Base L2.
Velocity closes a $38M Series A led by Dragonfly and FirstMark, with Coinbase Ventures joining, to build enterprise stablecoin treasury and payments infrastructure.
