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DeFi
Uniswap Protocol Revenue Nearly Triples After v4 Fee Switch as UNI Tops $4
Three days of onchain data show the expanded fee switch is delivering for UNI holders — about $325,000 a day now flows toward UNI burns, and the token is up 16% on the week. Liquidity providers and rival DEX founders say that money comes out of their pockets, and Uniswap's own documentation shows both sides are working from real numbers.

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.

DeFi
Aave Moves to Retire 50 Low-Adoption Assets, Wind Down Six Chains
Kulechov says the $98 million cleanup 'should not be interpreted as a view on any L1 or L2' as the lending giant narrows its focus to high-value markets.

Infrastructure
Lightning Labs Launches Site for L402 Bitcoin Agent Payments
The protocol, which lets AI agents pay Lightning invoices to access API endpoints, already runs inside Lightning Loop; the new site is the launch.
Markets
Bitcoin Slips Below $64K After Warsh Says "No Soft Inflation Target"
Crypto's relief pop after the Fed's 9-3 hold faded within the hour as the new chair's hawkish press conference dragged risk assets lower.

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.




