Daily volume dropped from $878 million on Jul. 11 to $241 million on Aug. 1 as transactions, deposits and stablecoin supply climbed to all-time highs. Volume per transaction fell 74%. More than 90% of the chain's incentive spending pays depositors.

Stani Kulechov and Mike Silagadze headline two days of opposition to the tapered issuance burn, now renumbered EIP-8363. Ethereum core devs decide Thursday whether to consider it for Hegotá.

Circle's own disclaimer says Arc will be "operated by a permissioned validator set" and has not been reviewed by the New York State Department of Financial Services or any other regulator.

EIP-8361 would deduct a rising share of every validator's rewards as the staking ratio climbs, cancelling consensus issuance outright at 50%. It landed two days before the deadline to propose EIPs for Hegotá, and the timing drew an objection within hours.

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.

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.

Most exchanges and partners have signaled readiness for the hard fork, though a few are still reviewing details and the upgrade has not yet activated.

The company behind the MOVE token filed a voluntary petition in Delaware listing up to $10 million in liabilities, capping a year of governance disputes, a market-making scandal and a failed strategic pivot.

The Telegram founder is putting private-key custody inside the core app this summer, a distribution reach no self-custody wallet has attempted.

The privacy Layer 2 says its latest release halves proving time and transaction costs versus V4, with the Nyx wallet as its first live app.