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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.'

Markets
Ether ETFs Pull $104M, Tripling Bitcoin's Weekly Inflows
BlackRock's ETHA absorbed $96 million while its bitcoin fund IBIT bled $95 million, the second straight week ether products out-drew their bitcoin counterparts.

Infrastructure
World Enters 'Phase 3,' Extends Proof of Human to AI Agents
Three years after launch, the Sam Altman-backed identity project is winding down token-incentivized growth and betting its next stage on paid verification for enterprises, consumer apps, and AI agents.

Infrastructure
Phantom to End Monad Support on Aug. 26
The wallet is dropping the EVM chain nine months after its mainnet launch, a day after adding Robinhood Chain. Monad co-founder Keone Hon called the move "a step backward," while MetaMask offered to cover migrating users' gas fees.

Infrastructure
Storj Files Chapter 11, Floats Equity Path for Token Holders
The decentralized storage firm says its network keeps running and its parent, Inveniam, backs the reorganization, as STORJ falls about 18% in 24 hours.

Blockchains
Lido Unveils Curated Module v2 in Ethereum Staking Overhaul
The liquid staking protocol is migrating more than 8 million staked ETH onto a module that requires node operators to post bonds, a shift expected to cut Ethereum's validator count by about a third.




