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Ondo Enables Tokenized Stock Collateral on OndoPerps
Ondo Stocks holders can now back perpetual futures positions with SPYon and QQQon, subject to an initial $100,000 per-asset notional cap.
Morpho Launches Fixed-Rate Lending Protocol Midnight on Base
The DeFi lender also released a new Markets App that lets users set their own rates and terms, starting on Base with more networks to follow.
Grayscale Files S-1 for Spot Worldcoin ETF
The registration statement, filed with the SEC on July 20, would create an exchange-traded product holding the WLD token.
Armstrong Says His X Posts and Avatars Are Not Token Endorsements
The Coinbase CEO told traders not to treat his personal account as alpha after his profile-picture changes fueled a memecoin trading frenzy.
Consensys Halted MetaMask Releases Over North Korea-Linked Contractor
A contractor brought in through a third-party provider worked on MetaMask code from March until Consensys cut off access in April and paused product releases. The company says it found no stolen assets, exposed data or malicious code.
Lighter Makes Stock Tokens Eligible Collateral on Robinhood Chain
The perpetuals exchange now accepts Robinhood's tokenized equities as margin, expanding beyond the USDG stablecoin and delivering on a plan to broaden collateral in the third quarter.
Hyperliquid to Open HIP-4 Prediction Markets Behind 500,000 HYPE Stake
Deployers can set fees of up to 50% but face slashing by validator vote for poorly defined or unsettled markets, under terms Hyperliquid calls preliminary.
Allbridge Halts Core Bridge After $1.65M Flash Loan Exploit
The attacker used a $1.12 million Kamino flash loan to skew Allbridge's Solana stablecoin pools, then bridged the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.
Strategy Sells $263.5M in MSTR Shares, Skips Bitcoin Again
The bitcoin treasury company lifted its cash reserve to a $3.225 billion as its 843,775 BTC stack sits about $9 billion underwater.
Bitmine Slowed ETH Buys to Smallest Weekly Pace Since June 2025
The largest corporate ether holder slowed its buying to its smallest weekly pace since June 2025, redirecting capital to a share repurchase, and now holds 5.78 million ETH — 96% of the way to its "Alchemy of 5%" target.
HYPE Spot ETFs Log First Weekly Outflow Since May
Bitcoin and Ethereum funds pulled in a combined $181 million over the same week as HYPE's nine-week inflow streak broke.
'Coinbase Man' Token Crashes as Armstrong Swaps His Avatar for a CryptoPunk
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong set his X profile picture to the artwork behind a Base memecoin, then replaced it with a newly acquired CryptoPunk. The $BRIAN token round-tripped from obscurity to millions and back, a stark test of how far one social cue can move an onchain market.
Tokenized Stock Lending TVL Reaches $23M as DEX Volume Climbs
Token Terminal data shows QQQ and SPY trackers gaining onchain trading and collateral use, but the totals remain a rounding error next to broader DeFi.
CASHCAT Falls 75% from Peak After Hyperliquid Perp Listing
The Robinhood Chain memecoin's slide has erased most of a 4,000% run, even as its spot price held through a 60% perp wick that liquidated leveraged traders.
Visa Launches Stablecoin Platform Built on Open USD
Crypto head Cuy Sheffield unveiled the platform, which Fortune reported will bring stablecoin services to more than 200 million merchants, initially through Open USD.
Polygon Labs Cuts Staff Again as It Closes Coinme Deal
CEO Marc Boiron said the reductions, the company's second round in 2026, accompany a shift from a blockchain foundation to a blockchain-enabled payments company.
Dune Study for 1inch Finds 85% of Concentrated Liquidity Idle
The onchain research, which 1inch commissioned, estimates out-of-range positions forgo about $150M a year in fees across seven chains.
1inch Co-Founder Anton Bukov Launches Second Tier After Exit He Calls a Firing
Bukov says he was fired and no longer oversees the architecture and security he ran; 1inch disputes the account, saying he contributed to a team effort and was never an employee it could fire.
Ostium Halts Trading After Oracle Exploit Drains up to $18M from Vault
Blockaid says an attacker used a registered price-feed forwarder and future-dated oracle reports to book fake trading profits, in the latest exploit to target the automated infrastructure DeFi protocols lean on for pricing.
Argentine Judge Orders ID, Freeze of 25 LIBRA-Linked Crypto Wallets
The order targets holders at Binance, Bybit, OKX and Bitfinex, but analyst Fernando Molina says no funds have actually been frozen yet.
Bootstrapping A Decentralized Autonomous Corporation: Part I
Corporations, US presidential candidate Mitt Romney reminds us, are people. Whether or not you agree with the conclusions that his partisans draw from that claim, the statement certainly carries a large amount of truth. What is a corporation, after all, but a certain group of people working together under a...