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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.
Hacks
'I Did Everything Right': Coldcard Victims Recount Losing Life Savings
Bitcoiners who followed self-custody best practices — air-gapped devices, steel seed plates, safety deposit boxes — describe watching years of savings disappear in minutes as attackers exploiting the Coldcard flaw drained more than $114 million.
Podcast
The $114 Trillion Question: How DTCC Is Tokenizing the Entire U.S. Market
DTCC holds $114 trillion in assets. On July 15th, it showed the world how those assets can be converted into digital tokens, traded in real production conditions, and converted back — without disrupting anything.

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.

NFTs & Web3
YGG Play Shuts Down Services as Yield Guild Pivots to AI Data
Yield Guild's own sunset document retires the YGGPlay.fun site, Launchpad and questing platform by August 1, while GIGACHADBAT and Ragnarok Breaker continue under Delabs Games and Planetarium Labs.

DeFi
Metronome Discloses $15.7 Million Synth Shortfall, Blames Oracle Lag in Swap Module
MetronomeDAO says 6,367 msETH and 4.57 million msUSD lack backing after years of "unbacked float" accumulated through Chainlink price-feed latency; the treasury has staged $34 million in defensive positions to close the gap.
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.
Markets
Bitcoin Lags Stock Rally After Hawkish Fed Hold
BTC slipped 2.5% Friday as equities surged, closing a July in which the Fed's fifth straight hold and 3.7% PCE inflation shut the door on near-term rate cuts. Uniswap led weekly gainers; Worldcoin sank.

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.
NFTs & Web3
ENS Scales Back Plan to Move DAO Treasury Control to New Foundation
The executable draft adds Security Council oversight of Endowment transactions and narrows the Foundation's initial token grant to 1 million ENS after delegates called the earlier plan a "governance attack."



