BNY uses tokenized US Treasury in landmark Citadel Securities repo deal
BNY and Citadel Securities have completed a U.S. Treasury financing transaction using a tokenized security as collateral on a major triparty repo platform for the first time. Summary BNY and Citadel Securities completed the first transaction involving tokenized assets on…
Sberbank Moves Closer to Crypto Trading Launch After Bank of Russia Approval
The bank said the launch date depends on two things. One is the central bank’s decision on its application. The other is the readiness of the regulations that put the law into effect. Sberbank joined the Bank of Russia’s…
Wells Fargo prepares for stablecoins as CEO questions US use cases
Wells Fargo has outlined plans to issue stablecoins with 20 other financial institutions in the first half of 2027, while CEO Charlie Scharf has said their use cases in the United States remain unclear. Summary 21 financial institutions are establishing…
Blur Is Pulling the Plug on Its Frontend, but the On-Chain Protocol Lives On
The Blur frontend is scheduled for deprecation in November. Blur will shut down its frontend on November 12, 2026. But the NFT marketplace won’t disappear. Its protocol will keep running on-chain, and the BLUR token will still control the…
Crypto Funds See 4th Week of Outflows, but XRP and SOL Shine: CoinShares Report
Four consecutive weeks of crypto fund outflows hit $3.74 billion, but altcoins outperform as US investors retreat from the market. Investment products linked to digital assets experienced their fourth consecutive week of outflows, recording $173 million and pushing cumulative…
Hayden Davis Resurfaces After LIBRA Crash, But His Latest Trades Are Deep in the Red
Bubblemaps found that Hayden Davis, who was involved with LIBRA and YZY tokens, has resumed on-chain trading, but recent Solana meme coin bets resulted in nearly $3 million losses. A year after Bubblemaps first detailed the on-chain mechanics behind…
Solana Growth Signals Hope Despite Woes
Data from Santiment shows new wallet creation rising even as prices slump, hinting network curiosity hasn’t faded with sentiment yet. The price of Solana’s native SOL token is near $84, after a steep, multi-month slide that erased nearly 67%…
How a Wallet Compromise Killed the Solana DeFi Aggregator
After exploring fundraising and acquisition options, the teams concluded that no sustainable recovery path existed following the breach. Solana-based DeFi aggregator, Step Finance, along with two other affiliate projects, SolanaFloor and Remora Markets, announced plans to shut down all…
UK Plans First G7 Digital Sovereign Bond by Early 2027
The United Kingdom is preparing to become the first G7 nation to issue a digital sovereign bond, marking a significant milestone in the adoption of blockchain technology within traditional finance. Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced that the inaugural Digital Gilt Instrument…
Circle wins legal fight over Heka’s USDC minting and redemption account
Circle has secured a court-backed arbitration win after records made public in a Boston federal court detailed why the stablecoin issuer suspended Heka Funds’ USDC minting and redemption services over suspected market manipulation involving Tether. Summary Circle has won an…
Bitmine Makes Ethereum King, Turns 98% of Revenue Into Staking Windfall
Key Takeaways Bitmine reported $45.7 million in Q3 2026 staking revenue, ending a focus on bitcoin mining. The firm is the largest ETH treasury by number of ether held on its balance sheet. The company now holds 5.4 million ether…
Hyperliquid’s Lawyers Just Met the SEC Crypto Unit: Here’s What Happened
The U.S. SEC Crypto Task Force held a formal meeting on July 14, 2026, with the Hyperliquid Policy Center, the operator of Trade.xyz, XYZ Ltd., and the elite law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to discuss digital asset regulation and on-chain…
BNB Chain Completes 36th Quarterly Token Burn, Marks Third Burn of 2026
[PRESS RELEASE – Dubai, UAE, July 15th, 2026] 15th of July: The BNB Chain Foundation has officially announced the successful completion of the 36th quarterly BNB token burn by BNB Chain. This marks our third burn of 2026. Here are the…
The Math Behind ‘1,200 Digital Workers’
Key Takeaways Coinbase’s Rob Witoff said 95–100% of the company’s code is now written by or with AI, up from 40% in February. Most Coinbase engineers run 5 to 10 AI agents at once, together matching the output of about…
BitMine earns $45.7M from ETH staking as revenue jumps 22-fold
BitMine Immersion Technologies generated $45.7 million from Ethereum staking and validation during the three months ended May 31, making staking its main source of revenue. Summary Ethereum staking generated $45.7 million, accounting for 98% of BitMine’s total quarterly revenue in…
Pump.Fun’s First Major Vesting Unlock: Here’s What Happened
Pump.fun completed its first major insider token unlock on July 15, 2026, distributing 57.279 billion PUMP tokens valued at approximately $86.49M across 121 wallets, the largest single Solana token unlock of the month. The unlock ended a 12-month vesting cliff…
Peter Schiff Sees a New Bitcoin Regret Coming: Not Selling Above $60,000
Key Takeaways Peter Schiff said holders may soon regret not selling bitcoin above $60,000. Schiff admitted regretting not buying BTC early but insists he would not buy even at $20,000. Bitcoin traded above $65,005 on July 15, leaving Schiff’s warning…
Coinbase’s fastest product ever: prediction markets
Coinbase spent 2025 losing an argument about what it was. Trading volumes softened, the stock fell from $419.78 in July to the mid-$160s, and the market delivered its verdict on a company whose revenue still rose and fell with bitcoin:…