DeFi
Mubadala Capital Goes Onchain: $75M Tokenized Private Fund Live Across Base, Solana, and Sui
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.
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DeFi
Decentralized finance — protocols, yields, stablecoin flows and on-chain activity.
DeFi
Uniswap Launches Permissioned Pools on v4 to Let Regulated Tokenized Assets Trade Through AMMs
Uniswap's new v4 Permissioned Pools hook enforces compliance onchain for regulated tokenized assets, with Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo as launch partners.
DeFi
Kakao and Circle Sign MOU to Build Won-Backed Stablecoin Payment Rails in South Korea
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.
DeFi
S&P and Pantera Launch Revenue-Screened Digital Asset Index That Excludes Bitcoin
S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital launch a fundamentals-based crypto index screening 15 digital assets by protocol revenue — Bitcoin excluded.
DeFi
Robinhood Chain Beats Coinbase’s Base on Daily Active Users in Three Weeks — But Memecoins, Not Stock Tokens, Drive the Surge
Robinhood Chain hit 324K daily active users and $588.9M TVL on July 21 — overtaking Coinbase's Base L2 just three weeks after launch, driven by memecoins.
DeFi
NEC and Ava Labs Sign MOU to Build Face-Verified Stablecoin Payments on Avalanche — Biometrics Stay Off-Chain
NEC and Ava Labs sign an MOU to explore biometric-verified stablecoin payments on Avalanche, with face data kept off-chain via decentralized identity credentials.
DeFi
Uniswap Fee Switch Vote Goes Live on Robinhood Chain: UNI Holders Test Whether Governance Token Can Become Revenue Token
UNI holders are voting today on activating Uniswap's fee switch on the Robinhood chain — the first live test of whether UNI can generate real revenue for holders.
DeFi
Cardano Activates Van Rossem Hard Fork July 18, Slashing Smart Contract Costs Ahead of Ouroboros Leios
Cardano's van Rossem hard fork went live on July 18, 2026, cutting smart contract costs and marking the first Voltaire governance-driven upgrade ahead of Ouroboros Leios.
DeFi
Leonidas Proposes ‘$DOG Mode’ Bitcoin Client, Setting Up the Next Ordinals Governance Fight
Ordinals dev Leonidas has proposed '$DOG Mode', a new Bitcoin client enforcing Ordinals-friendly rules — and Bitcoin's next governance war may be starting.
DeFi
Bitcoin Treasury Firm Can’t Sell Half Its Preferred Shares Despite 10% Yield as Investor Appetite Cools
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.
