Latest

TradFi & Fintech
Active Crypto VC Firms Fall to 150, Lowest Since 2020
The July count sits far below the 1,177 unique investors CryptoRank recorded at the March 2022 peak, pointing to a smaller, more selective pool of backers.

DeFi
Morpho Signs First Hong Kong Partnership With HashKey's HSK Chain
Morpho will deploy on HSK Chain and become its official onchain credit partner as the lending network pushes into Asia's institutional market.

Infrastructure
Safe Logs 130M Transactions in Q2, a Quarterly Record
The smart-account provider ended the quarter with 63.4 million Safes deployed and pushed its Safenet Beta live with 54.8 million SAFE staked.

TradFi & Fintech
10 European Banks Launch RL1 Blockchain Cooperative
RL1 inherits SWIAT's production network, which processed more than €700 million in transactions over three years before ownership moved to the Luxembourg cooperative.

Hacks
Crypto Hacks Hit Record 212 Incidents in H1 2026: Blockaid
North Korea-linked actors drove the largest losses, with the $292M KelpDAO and $285M Drift exploits both tied to DPRK groups.

Blockchains
Robinhood Chain Tops Solana in Tokenized Stock Volume Via Memecoin Pairs
Tokenized stocks on Robinhood's three-week-old chain averaged $29.7 million in daily DEX volume over the past week, more than Solana's xStocks and Backpack venues combined, with memecoin pairs supplying the push.

Infrastructure
Zama CEO Claims 1,000 Confidential Transfers Per Second on GPUs
Rand Hindi said the fully homomorphic encryption benchmark is not yet live on mainnet, with activation planned for end of year.

DeFi
1inch Commits 10M 1INCH, 500k USDC to Aqua LP Rewards
The three-month campaign runs through Merkl across 80+ 1INCH markets, with BNB Chain named as the first co-incentive partner.

NFTs & Web3
NFT Gacha Protocol Fake World Assets Trails Only Sky in Ethereum Daily Revenue
The two-developer project overtook Solana's dominant tokenized-card platform four days after relaunching, generating $1.6M in daily fees at its peak before activity cooled.

Infrastructure
Ondo Recasts Its Blockchain as the Ondo Network
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.'