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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.
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.
BlackRock's ETHA absorbed $96 million while its bitcoin fund IBIT bled $95 million, the second straight week ether products out-drew their bitcoin counterparts.
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.'
The decentralized storage firm says its network keeps running and its parent, Inveniam, backs the reorganization, as STORJ falls about 18% in 24 hours.
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.
Securitize Capital's registration took effect July 22, SEC records show, adding an advisory license to the tokenization firm's U.S. regulatory lineup three weeks after its NYSE debut.
The embedded-wallet pioneer is rebranding as Newton Labs to focus on an onchain authorization layer that vets transactions against policy before they settle.
The USDC issuer says the roughly 1,000-patent haul makes it the leading US blockchain patent holder, with financial terms undisclosed.
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.
The exchange gave no specific reason for the closure, and its BMX token fell about 59% in 24 hours after the announcement.
India's cybercrime agency gave GitHub three hours to pull three Bitchat repositories, objecting to the mesh messaging app's ability to work during internet shutdowns amid protests in New Delhi. Digital rights advocates called the order unconstitutional.
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.
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.
The former SushiSwap CTO described the decentralized exchange as a side project that 'outgrew nights and weekends,' with no specs, contract, or token disclosed.
Monthly volume on the once top-five aggregator collapsed 98% from its $7.85B peak in December 2024. Users with social-login wallets must move assets before the deadline.
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
The announcement at Galaxy Unpacked in London came with no timeline, issuers, or markets — but would put stablecoins on hundreds of millions of phones.
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.
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
The Commissioner known as 'Crypto Mom' framed the statement as an invitation to engage rather than an enforcement threat, warning builders who twist the law that they "will have a painful fall."
Coinbase will add exposure to the tokenized private-markets offering, which launched with about $75M in onchain value, KAIO said.
The v4 hook enforces issuer allowlists onchain at the protocol level, with Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo as launch partners.
The tokenization firm said its broker-dealer subsidiary can now sell tokenized equities, ETFs and funds to American investors under SEC and FINRA oversight.
Owner HDR Global Trading blamed a strategic review; users have until an Aug. 26 risk-limit cutover before positions get force-closed.
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.
Coinbase, the Blockchain Association and the DeFi Education Fund urged the Senate to pass the 616-page merged draft, while Sen. Angela Alsobrooks called its DOJ-led ethics enforcement "wild and unserious and stone-cold crazy."
Positions will be marked to the live market price at reopen, and new OLP liquidity-provider deposits stay paused as the protocol works through recovery.
The Arbitrum Orbit network posted 324,000 daily active users and a record $588.9 million in TVL on July 21, edging out Coinbase's L2 on activity — though memecoins, not the tokenized stocks it was built for, are driving most of the volume.
Ondo, Backed Finance, and Robinhood Chain all set all-time highs in tokenized equity holdings this week, while dYdX's new Arcus exchange posted record perps volume — signs the market for onchain stocks is scaling on multiple fronts at once.
Bridge converts dollars for Bill Pay while Privy stores balances, splitting the roles across Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure.
Digital assets head Sandy Kaul argues card rails can't handle $0.001 machine payments, making blockchain tokens the way to capture agentic AI value.
The company behind the MOVE token filed a voluntary petition in Delaware listing up to $10 million in liabilities, capping a year of governance disputes, a market-making scandal and a failed strategic pivot.
The 18-constituent benchmark excludes Bitcoin and meme coins, screening for protocols with positive revenue verified by onchain data.
Bitcoin reclaimed $66,000 after reports that the White House circulated agreed-upon ethics-provision language to Senate Republicans, removing the main obstacle to a floor vote before the August recess.
Board member Raphael Zagury takes over the Tether-backed bitcoin treasury company, and Strike is no longer under consideration for a business combination.
The Solana launchpad's co-founder says the change adds about 20% liquidity to each newly migrated coin, with all figures the company's own projections.
Ondo Stocks holders can now back perpetual futures positions with SPYon and QQQon, subject to an initial $100,000 per-asset notional cap.
The Telegram founder is putting private-key custody inside the core app this summer, a distribution reach no self-custody wallet has attempted.
The privacy Layer 2 says its latest release halves proving time and transaction costs versus V4, with the Nyx wallet as its first live app.