Uniswap’s Launches tab bets on Robinhood Chain’s 340k tokens
Uniswap ships a beta Launches tab aggregating Bankr, Pons and Long — as Robinhood Chain mints 340,000 tokens and $12.8bn in monthly Uniswap volume.
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August 2026
Solana Pay heads to 330,000 Korean merchants via KSNET
KSNET, Korea's $4bn-a-month processor, signs a Solana Foundation MOU to test Solana Pay and x402 AI-agent payments across 330,000 merchants.
July 2026
A third of all ETH is staked as the exit queue hits zero
33.33% of ETH supply is now staked and the exit queue is empty - but 12% of the staked base sits with one leveraged treasury. The risk inside the record.
Revolut shuts USDT deposits as August 31 delisting nears
Revolut closed new USDT deposits July 30 ahead of its August 31 delisting. Why Tether's MiCA exit is a shelf change, not a retreat, and what moves next.
Vanguard’s first digital assets role sits in wealth, not funds
Vanguard is hiring its first head of digital assets. The role sits in Personal Wealth, not asset management - which tells you it is building rails, not a bitcoin ETF.
Korea’s reverse kimchi premium hits -1.79% as KOSPI sheds 23%
Bitcoin's reverse kimchi premium hit -1.79% as the KOSPI fell 23% in July. Korean crypto volume is down 88% - but Upbit spiked 1,400% on a 4% equity dip.
BitMEX invented perps and exited on $400,000 a day
BitMEX shuts September 23 on $400,000 of daily volume. BitMart follows three days later with a five-month withdrawal tail. The venue layer is clearing out.
Aave Arc holds $57,000 as institutional DeFi routes around it
Aave Arc, the whitelisted institutional pool launched with 30 firms in 2022, holds $57,262. Morpho Blue added $926m in 30 days. Permissioned DeFi lost.
BUIDL sheds 12% in a week as tokenised RWAs roll over from peak
Tokenised RWAs fell to $34.67bn from a July 10 peak. BUIDL shed 12.22% in a week while USYC held - a rotation, not an exodus, as DTCC arrives.
Poolin’s $52m asset sale leaves 11,700 users short of $163m
Poolin filed Chapter 11 with $52m of signed offers against $163.7m owed to 11,700 wallet holders frozen since 2022 - 31.8% gross, before any cost is deducted.
Bitcoin miners sold 32,000 BTC as price holds below production cost
BTC sits 18% below JPMorgan's $78,000 production cost estimate.
Tenor raises Variant-led seed for fixed-rate onchain lending
Tenor raises a Variant-led seed for non-custodial fixed-rate onchain lending — built on Morpho, the second major product this month to route through it.
Kraken parent takes xStocks to Hong Kong, UK and Seoul
Payward extends xStocks to Hong Kong, UK and Seoul listings with GTN — a fix for the 24/7 market that stops trading when Wall Street closes.
Robinhood Chain hits $700m as RWAs stay under 10% of assets
Robinhood Chain hit $700m in on-chain assets three weeks after launch, but tokenised RWAs sit under 10% while one Morpho vault holds 64% of value locked.
HTX rotates wallets every few hours to dodge UK screening
TRM Labs says sanctioned exchange HTX retires addresses every few hours across four chains, leaving static list screening largely ineffective.
BIS finds stablecoin flows shrug off capital controls
BIS Working Paper 1370 tested 130+ economies and found dollar stablecoin inflows barely react to capital controls, while FX deposits do.
Grayscale files for a Worldcoin ETF as WLD sits 97% off its high
Grayscale filed for a spot Worldcoin ETF on Nasdaq under the ticker GWLD on July 20, 2026 - a wrapper for a token 97% off its high and thinly traded.
