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DeFi
DEX Spot Volume Hit a Record 24% of CEX Volume in July
Decentralized exchanges took their largest share of spot trading since tracking began in 2019 — in a month when overall volumes sank to a two-year low.

Markets
RWAs Topped Half of Hyperliquid's Volume for Two Straight Weeks in July
Perpetual futures tied to stocks, indexes and commodities out-traded crypto pairs on the largest perps DEX for the first time, less than a year after builder-deployed markets went live.

TradFi & Fintech
Crypto Card Volume Hits $748.7M in July, a Fifth Straight Monthly Gain: Paymentscan
Spending on crypto payment cards jumped 19% to a monthly record, with RedotPay handling more than half the volume as flows into stablecoin neobanks crossed $1 billion for the first time.

CeFi
Strategy Sells 1,638 Bitcoin for $105M, Splits Proceeds Between Dividends and STRC Buyback
The company raised its USD Reserve to $4.0 billion from $3.0 billion three weeks earlier, funding the increase with $250 million from the sale of 3,011,361 MSTR shares.

Security
Coldcard Thefts Near $114 Million as Fourth Attack Wave Hits
A firmware bug that shipped in 2021 made Coldcard seeds guessable, and attackers have drained more than 1,800 BTC since Thursday. The latest sweep can still be outbid in the mempool, giving some victims a window to rescue their coins.
CeFi
Coinbase Says Revenue From Its Base Layer 2 Fell Despite Record Volume
Coinbase's Q2 filings show sequencer revenue from Base declined even as stablecoin transaction volume on the network grew sevenfold year-over-year.

Tokens
Polygon Turns Kansai Electric Loyalty Points Into JPYC Spending
Rewards earned in the utility giant's MOACT app now convert into Japan's regulated yen stablecoin, usable across DeFi through HashPort Wallet.

CeFi
Ready Shuts Card Program After Issuer Kulipa's Sudden Wind-Down
Self-custodial wallet says user funds are untouched as the collapse of a shared card issuer knocks out Ready, Solflare and other crypto card programs overnight.

TradFi & Fintech
Banco Santander Discloses Spot Bitcoin ETF Stake in 13F Filing
The Spanish lender's Q2 2026 filing lists a position in BlackRock's iShares Bitcoin Trust, the largest spot Bitcoin ETF.

Regulation & Politics
US Sanctions Iranian Marine Insurers Taking Bitcoin for Strait of Hormuz Passage
Treasury says HormuzSafe, developed by Iran's Ministry of Economy, accepted digital assets to fund an IRGC-backed 'extortion' scheme targeting commercial shipping.




