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DeFi
Lighter Makes Stock Tokens Eligible Collateral on Robinhood Chain
The perpetuals exchange now accepts Robinhood's tokenized equities as margin, expanding beyond the USDG stablecoin and delivering on a plan to broaden collateral in the third quarter.

Blockchains
Saylor Opposes Bitcoin's BIP-110 in 110-Point Essay
The Strategy chairman says the anti-spam soft fork would set a censorship precedent worse than the data problem it targets, weeks before an August signaling window.

DeFi
Hyperliquid to Open HIP-4 Prediction Markets Behind 500,000 HYPE Stake
Deployers can set fees of up to 50% but face slashing by validator vote for poorly defined or unsettled markets, under terms Hyperliquid calls preliminary.

Hacks
Allbridge Halts Core Bridge After $1.65M Flash Loan Exploit
The attacker used a $1.12 million Kamino flash loan to skew Allbridge's Solana stablecoin pools, then bridged the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.

TradFi & Fintech
Bitmine Slowed ETH Buys to Smallest Weekly Pace Since June 2025
The largest corporate ether holder slowed its buying to its smallest weekly pace since June 2025, redirecting capital to a share repurchase, and now holds 5.78 million ETH — 96% of the way to its "Alchemy of 5%" target.

Markets
HYPE Spot ETFs Log First Weekly Outflow Since May
Bitcoin and Ethereum funds pulled in a combined $181 million over the same week as HYPE's nine-week inflow streak broke.
Tokens
'Coinbase Man' Token Crashes as Armstrong Swaps His Avatar for a CryptoPunk
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong set his X profile picture to the artwork behind a Base memecoin, then replaced it with a newly acquired CryptoPunk. The $BRIAN token round-tripped from obscurity to millions and back, a stark test of how far one social cue can move an onchain market.

DeFi
Tokenized Stock Lending TVL Reaches $23M as DEX Volume Climbs
Token Terminal data shows QQQ and SPY trackers gaining onchain trading and collateral use, but the totals remain a rounding error next to broader DeFi.

Tokens
CASHCAT Falls 75% from Peak After Hyperliquid Perp Listing
The Robinhood Chain memecoin's slide has erased most of a 4,000% run, even as its spot price held through a 60% perp wick that liquidated leveraged traders.

Hacks
Ostium Vault Exploiter Routes 10,540 ETH to Tornado Cash
Blockchain security firm PeckShield now puts the drain on Arbitrum perpetuals protocol Ostium at roughly $24M, above the up-to-$18M first estimated.





