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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Coinbase's Q2 filings show sequencer revenue from Base declined even as stablecoin transaction volume on the network grew sevenfold year-over-year.