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Active Crypto VC Firms Fall to 150, Lowest Since 2020
The July count sits far below the 1,177 unique investors CryptoRank recorded at the March 2022 peak, pointing to a smaller, more selective pool of backers.
OpenAI's Rogue AI Hacked Four More Platforms Besides Hugging Face
OpenAI quietly updated its breach disclosure to confirm its agent accessed four external services beyond Hugging Face. Only one has been named so far.
SoFi Says SoFiUSD Settlement Now Live on Q2 Earnings Call
The bank tied the stablecoin's first live settlements to real-time commercial payments running through its Big Business Banking platform on Solana.
Morpho Signs First Hong Kong Partnership With HashKey's HSK Chain
Morpho will deploy on HSK Chain and become its official onchain credit partner as the lending network pushes into Asia's institutional market.
Safe Logs 130M Transactions in Q2, a Quarterly Record
The smart-account provider ended the quarter with 63.4 million Safes deployed and pushed its Safenet Beta live with 54.8 million SAFE staked.
Crypto Hacks Hit Record 212 Incidents in H1 2026: Blockaid
North Korea-linked actors drove the largest losses, with the $292M KelpDAO and $285M Drift exploits both tied to DPRK groups.
Robinhood Chain Tops Solana in Tokenized Stock Volume Via Memecoin Pairs
Tokenized stocks on Robinhood's three-week-old chain averaged $29.7 million in daily DEX volume over the past week, more than Solana's xStocks and Backpack venues combined, with memecoin pairs supplying the push.
Zama CEO Claims 1,000 Confidential Transfers Per Second on GPUs
Rand Hindi said the fully homomorphic encryption benchmark is not yet live on mainnet, with activation planned for end of year.
NFT Gacha Protocol Fake World Assets Trails Only Sky in Ethereum Daily Revenue
The two-developer project overtook Solana's dominant tokenized-card platform four days after relaunching, generating $1.6M in daily fees at its peak before activity cooled.
Ondo Recasts Its Blockchain as the Ondo Network
CEO Ian De Bode says the company will not run the new execution layer and the earlier Ondo Chain in parallel, and that the network 'isn't a blockchain today.'
World Enters 'Phase 3,' Extends Proof of Human to AI Agents
Three years after launch, the Sam Altman-backed identity project is winding down token-incentivized growth and betting its next stage on paid verification for enterprises, consumer apps, and AI agents.
Phantom to End Monad Support on Aug. 26
The wallet is dropping the EVM chain nine months after its mainnet launch, a day after adding Robinhood Chain. Monad co-founder Keone Hon called the move "a step backward," while MetaMask offered to cover migrating users' gas fees.
Lido Unveils Curated Module v2 in Ethereum Staking Overhaul
The liquid staking protocol is migrating more than 8 million staked ETH onto a module that requires node operators to post bonds, a shift expected to cut Ethereum's validator count by about a third.
Coinbase Opens 'Launches' Tab for New Base, Solana Tokens
The feature routes users into Coinbase's built-in DEX, which its product page says is not available in all locations and requires a self-custody wallet.
Perp DEX Dango to Wind Down, Will Halt Trading July 29
The Hack VC-backed Layer 1 will shut its blockchain on Aug. 13 and return user funds as USDC, closing out a mainnet run of under four months that began with a $1.9 million exploit.
Stacks Bitcoin Staking Upgrade Vote Passes With 99%, Muneeb Says
Most exchanges and partners have signaled readiness for the hard fork, though a few are still reviewing details and the upgrade has not yet activated.
BitMEX, Hayes Sued Over 623 BTC Liquidation Claims as Exchange Winds Down
A proposed class action landed in New York federal court the same day BitMEX announced it will close on Sept. 23, reviving allegations the exchange pocketed customer collateral.good job I as
OCC Denies Wise's US National Trust Bank Charter
The regulator cited money-laundering risk concerns in a rare rejection amid a wave of crypto charter approvals. Wise plans to refile under the GENIUS Act.
Hacker Behind Fake 'Vladhood' Token Still Collecting Fees After Robinhood CEO's X Account Hack
Onchain records show the scam token was deployed 46 minutes before the hacked post appeared, and that its creator has been harvesting trading fees — without ever pulling liquidity
Ondo's Oasis Pro Markets Cleared to Offer Tokenized Stocks in US
The tokenization firm said its broker-dealer subsidiary can now sell tokenized equities, ETFs and funds to American investors under SEC and FINRA oversight.
Uniswap Adds Permissioned Pools to Bring Regulated Assets to v4
The v4 hook enforces issuer allowlists onchain at the protocol level, with Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo as launch partners.
KAIO Tokenizes Mubadala Capital Fund Across Base, Solana and Sui
Coinbase will add exposure to the tokenized private-markets offering, which launched with about $75M in onchain value, KAIO said.
BitMEX to Shut Down Exchange on Sept. 23, Urges Withdrawals
Owner HDR Global Trading blamed a strategic review; users have until an Aug. 26 risk-limit cutover before positions get force-closed.
Attacker Drains $24M in USDC From AFX Bridge on Arbitrum
The exploit targeted a bridge operated by derivatives exchange AFX and emptied nearly all of the USDC locked in the contract, according to security firm Blockaid. Arbitrum co-founder Steven Goldfeder said the network's native bridge was not affected.