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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.
Input Output is transferring stewardship of Cardano's core infrastructure to external teams via the Proof of Provenance framework as a protocol upgrade lifts ADA.
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.
