Decentralized finance — protocols, yields, stablecoin flows and on-chain activity.
Odos, once a top-five DEX aggregator, permanently closes July 30 after monthly volume collapsed ~98% from its $7.85B peak. Social-login wallet users face urgent deadline.
Stacks' on-chain governance vote for its Bitcoin staking upgrade passed with 99% support. Most exchanges signal readiness, but mainnet activation has not yet occurred.
Samsung showed a USDC mockup inside Samsung Wallet at Galaxy Unpacked — send, receive, and top-up functions — but no launch date, chain, or issuer partners confirmed.
Former SushiSwap CTO Joseph DeLong announces Deepstate, an order-book DEX launching next week on Robinhood Chain — no specs, no token, just a date.
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.
