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Infrastructure
BitGo Names Chainlink CCIP Exclusive Cross-Chain Provider for $7.7 Billion WBTC
BitGo will move Wrapped Bitcoin and every future BitGo-issued asset onto Chainlink CCIP, dropping the provider it chose in September 2024. The announcement never uses the word LayerZero.

TradFi & Fintech
BitMine Buys 10,399 More ETH but Reported Holdings Fall to $11.3B
Cash and marketable securities dropped to $173 million from $268 million after BitMine repurchased another 4.5 million shares, lifting buybacks since July 1 to 16.1 million.
NFTs & Web3
Fake World Assets Boosts Buybacks to 80% of Fees After Token Crashes to Record Low
TokenWorks reversed course twice in under 24 hours after FWA holders learned none of the roughly $3.2 million in launch-period revenue would fund buybacks, sending the token down more than 40%.

TradFi & Fintech
Robinhood's Second Venture Fund Targets Y Combinator Startups in $200 Million IPO
Retail investors can request RVII shares at an expected $25 apiece through Aug. 12, ahead of an NYSE listing set for Aug. 13 — five months after Robinhood's first venture fund raised $658.4 million to buy into companies like OpenAI and Stripe.
DeFi
Bitcoin Bridge Boltz Halts Swaps Indefinitely, Citing AI-Assisted Attacks
The non-custodial swap service said attackers now iterate faster than its team can patch, leaving wallets including Aqua and Bull Bitcoin racing to restore Lightning and Liquid swaps.

DeFi
Tornado Cash Logs 968 Deposits in Busiest Day of 2026, L2Beat Says
The July 23 spike — worth about $57 million in ETH — was driven largely by the Drift exploiter, who pushed $44 million through the mixer in under two hours.

DeFi
Flap Overtakes Pump.fun in Daily Revenue With $1.18 Million
The BNB Chain launchpad's fees grew 40x in two weeks, making it the second BNB Chain platform to flip the Solana incumbent.

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.



