Decentralized finance — protocols, yields, stablecoin flows and on-chain activity.
Two-developer NFT gacha protocol Fake World Assets hit $1.6M in daily fees on July 25, overtaking Solana's Collector Crypt and ranking second only to Sky on Ethereum.
Ondo Finance has abandoned its layer-1 blockchain plans, launching the Ondo Network — an offchain execution layer built on secure hardware enclaves with onchain settlement.
Lido's Curated Module v2 migrates 8M+ staked ETH to a bond-backed operator model, potentially cutting Ethereum's total validator count by roughly one-third.
Mirae Asset plans to rebrand South Korea's Korbit crypto exchange as Digital X, targeting tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins, and digital finance services.
Ripple has launched Ripple Mint, giving institutions API-driven access to mint and redeem RLUSD as the stablecoin's market cap nears $1.6 billion.
Tokenized real-world assets hit $25.1B on Hyperliquid in the week of July 13–19, claiming 52% of the DEX's $48.2B weekly volume — a first for the platform.
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.
