Everything Crypto ICYMI – Saturday's Edition✍️
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🌎Macro, Markets & Global Economy
•U.S. national debt officially reached a record $39.5T.
•@Apple ($AAPL) reclaimed the title of the world's most valuable company by market cap, overtaking @nvidia ($NVDA).
•More than $432M was liquidated across the crypto market over the past 24 hours.
•@POTUS said the U.S. is taking over the Strait of Hormuz.
• $BTC has historically delivered strong July performance even during bear markets according to @cryptoquant_com
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🏛️Regulation & Institutional Adoption
•The UK will introduce a "no gain, no loss" tax treatment for eligible crypto lending & DeFi liquidity pool trxns beginning in April 2027.
•JCB & @circle signed an MOU to explore $USDC-powered cross-border payments & stablecoin merchant payments across Japan.
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🏗️Infrastructure & Network Development
•@JupiterExchange unveiled Gacha, an onchain marketplace for professionally graded Pokémon & One Piece collectibles.
•@trondao's SBM V1 Comptroller Upgrade enhances protocol stability, scalability & smarter risk parameter management within the JustLend DAO ecosystem.
•@ADIChain_ partnered with @ZIGChain to expand stablecoin-native infrastructure for real-world assets.
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🚀 Product & Ecosystem Updates
•@Infinit_Labs is launching a marketplace for AI-managed trading vaults.
•@KorProtocol raised $7.5M in a Series A round at a $100M valuation, backed by @1kxnetwork & @blockchaincap, to build a creative asset clearinghouse on @base that connects AI-generated talent with labels, agencies & payment infrastructure.
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📊Market Intelligence & Onchain Data
•Crypto prediction market volume has surged 44× over the past 7 months.
•@coinbase's Chief Policy Officer said stablecoin growth has not reduced bank deposits, with $USDC supply up 4.6% while demand deposits increased 4.5% over the past 6 months.
•⚡HIP-3 Is Consolidating
➤@HyperliquidX's HIP-3 ecosystem has surpassed $300B in trading volume. TradeXYZ now controls nearly 97% of market share, while several competitors have shut down.
•⚡2026 Memecoin Launches
➤ $ANSEM leads 2026 memecoin launches by FDV at $222M, ahead of $CASHCAT ($168M), with much of the activity centered on Robinhood Chain.
•Biggest Fundraising Rounds in H1 2026
➤14 funding rounds raised a combined $4.3B, led by prediction markets, AI infrastructure, payments, blockchain, RWA, DeFi & compliance.
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🛡️Stablecoin & DeFi Risk Monitor
•An early @solana genesis whale was likely hacked for 180,900 $SOL ($14.2M), with the stolen funds bridged to $ETH, according to @zachxbt
•More than $155M has been drained from the crypto ecosystem over the past 2 months across 75+ security incidents, as attackers increasingly target infrastructure, private keys, multisigs & oracle vulnerabilities instead of smart contract exploits.
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🏢Real-World Assets (RWA) & Tokenization
•Tokenized stocks have grown 50% over the past month, with the upcoming DTCC trading launch expected to further accelerate adoption.
•@OndoFinance partnered with Mirae Asset, South Korea's largest asset manager.
•@Securitize & Cantor Fitzgerald partnered to bring regulated IPOs & follow-on offerings onchain.
•Tradable plans to tokenize up to $1B in private credit assets on @StellarOrg
•@jpmorgan, @GoldmanSachs, @BlackRock, Vanguard & the @NYSE will participate in a trial tokenizing U.S. stocks & Treasuries.
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🔓Token Unlocks
• $DBR @debridge → $10.4M today (July 18)
• $CC @CantonNetwork → $19.9M ongoing daily
• $WLD @worldnetwork → $16.0M ongoing daily
• $TRUMP → $10.2M ongoing daily
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📈Daily Movers (24H)
•Top Gainers: $BTC, $XMR, $BNB, $ZEC, $LINK
•Top Losers: $CC, $HYPE, $BCH, $GRAM, $DEXE
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Crypto has a habit of calling every incident a hack, even when the mechanics are completely different.
That’s not what happened with @bonk_inu.
The issue was isolated to the BonkDAO treasury and came through governance. The $BONK token contract wasn’t compromised, user wallets weren’t drained, and the products across the ecosystem kept operating.
That distinction matters, but it doesn’t make the governance failure less serious. If community assets can be moved through a single compromised vote, then the controls clearly weren’t strong enough and holders are right to demand better.
Still, treating this as if the entire BONK ecosystem was hacked is simply inaccurate.
One treasury failure can be serious without making the token, user wallets, and every product built around it unsafe.
DAOs only work when community ownership comes with governance strong enough to protect the community. That’s the part worth fixing here.
There's a specific kind of silence in my house during Argentina matches. Nobody talks. Nobody moves. My phone stays face down until the whistle.
That's what this World Cup has done to me for a month straight, and now we're in the semifinals. So close I can almost see the trophy.
Between matches, I've been on the @LBank_Exchange Super League and honestly, it made the whole tournament more fun. They tied a $5,000,000 USDT pool to the entire event.
Match predictions, puzzle games, a penalty shootout mini game. Every activity stacks points that you redeem for real rewards. BTC, ETH, jerseys, and yes, actual World Cup Final tickets.
It all ends July 20, so this is genuinely the last window.
Join here 👇
https://t.co/9AUrxEDmyl
If Argentina lifts it again, I'm framing this month forever 🇦🇷
🐸 $RIBBIT is starting to make some noise.
📈 Currently trending on Dexscreener
🦎 Already listed on CoinGecko
☀️ Built on Solana
What makes it interesting?
$RIBBIT is set to be integrated into a Polymarket-style prediction market platform being developed by @HelloMoon_io, where the token will be used for placing predictions and participating in markets.
It’s also the official meme token of the $ZSWAP ecosystem.
Ticker: $RIBBIT
CA: FrtbBAaSZksfh4oV46E7Pvb43QiiUmYLD3dcGS6gpump
Ribbit. 🐸
#Solana #Crypto #DeFi
Everything Crypto ICYMI – Saturday's Edition✍️
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🌎Macro, Markets & Global Economy
•The U.S. imposed new sanctions on Iran.
•@POTUS said he will not sign the housing bill passed by Congress.
•The Total Crypto Market has added $170B since July 1.
•This marks the first green week for U.S. spot $BTC ETFs since May.
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🏛️Regulation & Institutional Adoption
•EU officials are preparing "MiCA 2.0," which would expand MiCA to cover non-EU stablecoin issuers in response to the U.S. GENIUS Act.
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🏗️Infrastructure & Network Development
•@base said the B20 Token Standard launch has been delayed due to a @github outage.
•@chainlink announced CCIP has surpassed $21B in transferred volume and now supports more than $62B in cross-chain token value.
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🚀 Product & Ecosystem Updates
•@krakenfx is preparing to relaunch its mobile app with AI-powered agentic trading as a core feature.
•@jito's JTX Trading Terminal entered early access in late June, with a public rollout targeted for early July.
•3 Upcoming Crypto Launches
➤@theInterfold ($FOLD) — Auction (July 8–10) beginning at a $20M FDV with a 40-day cooldown after the auction.
➤@grvt_io ($GRVT) — Listing on July 21 with a 28% community airdrop allocation and Tier-1 CEX listings expected.
➤@squidrouter ($QUID) — TGE expected in early Q3 after its public sale closed 44% oversubscribed.
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📊Market Intelligence & Onchain Data
•⚡️Perp DEX Launch Forecasts on @Polymarket
➤Polymarket traders are pricing FDV expectations for upcoming launches including @Variational_io, @edgeX_exchange, @grvt_io, @Extendedapp, @pacifica_fi and @StandX_Official
•⚡️Top Derivatives Protocols by Perpetual Volume
➤@HyperliquidX led with $245B in 30-day perpetual volume, followed by @Aster_DEX ($60.4B), @OfficialApeXdex ($50.4B) and @Lighter_xyz ($45.2B). Hyperliquid also leads open interest at $9.32B.
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🛡️Security & Risk Monitor
•99 crypto hacks occurred during Q2 2026, making it the worst quarter on record for crypto exploits.
➤DeFi security remains one of the industry's biggest challenges.
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🧠DeFi & AI Agents
•@aave V4 has surpassed $275M in deposits.
•@Uniswap has processed more than $1B in trading volume on Robinhood Chain since launch, according to @DefiLlama
•@ethena's Steakhouse High Yield Vault surpassed $200M just one month after launch.
•@jpmorgan built AI agents that dynamically rotate between stocks and bonds, outperforming a traditional 60/40 portfolio by 0.7 percentage points annually in backtests, according to Bloomberg.
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🏢Real-World Assets (RWA) & Tokenization
•Plume brings institutional RWA yield to Binance Wallet.
➤@plumenetwork's nBASIS vault is now live inside @BinanceWallet, combining @Bitwise's Crypto Carry Fund and Invesco's tokenized U.S. Treasury fund (USTB), with tokenization provided by Superstate.
➤Tokenized RWA TVL has increased roughly 420% over the past year as distribution becomes the industry's next major focus.
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🔓Token Unlocks
• $CC @CantonNetwork → $20.7M ongoing daily
• $WLD @worldnetwork → $16.1M ongoing daily
• $TRUMP → $10.7M ongoing daily
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📈Daily Movers (24H)
•Top Gainers: $XMR, $BNB, $ZEC, $CC, $DEXE
•Top Losers: $HYPE, $SOL, $XLM, $BCH, $HBAR
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Everything Crypto ICYMI – Friday's Edition✍️
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🌎Macro, Markets & Global Economy
•🇺🇸🇪🇸 @POTUS ordered the U.S. to cut off all trade with Spain.
•@cryptoquant_com says $BTC's recent rebound is a bear-market recovery rather than a trend reversal, with its Bull Score Index remaining firmly bearish.
•@solana's negative sentiment has reached its highest level of 2026 while trading volume has fallen to its lowest level, a combination that has historically preceded bullish reversals.
•CEX listing activity fell to a 2-year low in June with just 82 new token listings, down roughly 77% from the September 2025 peak.
•@Kalshi is reportedly in talks to raise additional funding at a $40B valuation.
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🏛️Regulation & Institutional Adoption
•EU regulator ESMA is launching a dedicated review process for crypto custody providers.
•UK FCA says AI could reshape retail financial services by 2030, with around 11 million UK adults expected to use agentic AI for personal finance.
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🏗️Infrastructure & Network Development
•UNDP and @StellarOrg extended their partnership to expand blockchain-powered digital payment solutions across UNDP country offices.
•@Optimism says its new MOU with Toss could bring South Korea's 30M-user financial superapp closer to onchain payments.
•@NEAR Protocol announced the public launch of Confidential Intents.
•@PayPal's $PYUSD is now live natively on @0xPolygon, enabling regulated cross-border stablecoin payments through a single integration.
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🚀 Product & Ecosystem Updates
•@tether minted another $1B $USDT.
•@orbs_network launched Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0, enabling teams to deploy white-label perpetual exchanges with shared liquidity and built-in execution, settlement, liquidation and hedging infrastructure.
•@ether_fi requested that @aave DAO create a dedicated @aave V4 instance for EtherFi Cash.
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📊Market Intelligence & Onchain Data
•Robinhood Chain has surpassed $80M TVL, $200M in stablecoins and $800M in cumulative DEX volume since launch, according to @DefiLlama.
•⚡️On-Chain Protocols by Monthly Revenue;
➤@HyperliquidX led with $48M, followed by @Polymarket ($33M) and @Pumpfun ($28.1M).
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🛡️Security & Risk Monitor
•A custom ERC-4626 @Uniswap V3 yield vault was exploited for roughly 34 WETH (~$53K) across @base and @arbitrum after a double-payment bug in its redeem function was abused.
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🧠DeFi & AI Agents
•@maplefinance proposed revenue-based $SYRUP token buybacks.
•@LidoFinance introduced Wisp, a new verifiably private AI solution.
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🏢Real-World Assets (RWA) & Tokenization
•€5.3T French banking giant @CreditAgricole launched EURXT, a euro-pegged stablecoin on @ethereum
•Tokenized stock transfers surged 105% in one month to $8.4B, while holders increased 17% to more than 409,000.
•@nadoHQ introduced Boosted xPoints for xStocks, allowing users to earn both xPoints and Nado Points while using tokenized stocks as trading collateral.
•⚡️RWA Asset Classes by Total Value
➤U.S. Treasury debt remains the largest tokenized asset class at $14.9B, followed by commodities ($4.7B), asset-backed credit ($2.3B) and tokenized stocks ($2B).
Stocks continue to be the fastest-growing RWA segment, according to @RWA_xyz
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🎮GameFi
•The top blockchains powering crypto games right now:
@0xPolygon 📈 +19.05%
@binance 📈 +10.57%
@ethereum 📈 +9.38%
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🔓Token Unlocks
• $RAIN @Rain__Protocol → $785.5M today (July 10)
• $CC @CantonNetwork → $20.7M ongoing daily
• $WLD @worldnetwork → $16.1M ongoing daily
• $TRUMP → $10.7M ongoing daily
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📈Daily Movers (24H)
•Top Gainers: $ZEC, $BTC, $ETH, $DOGE, $LINK
•Top Losers: $NIGHT, $TRX, $ADA, $PAXG, $XAUt
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One thing I've noticed...
Every cycle creates a new way to monetize the internet.
First it was DeFi. Then NFTs. Then AI.
I wouldn't be surprised if the next narrative is creators owning the value of their attention.
That's what caught my eye about @clashoAi✍️
Definitely one to watch guys👀