Securitize’s Tokenized Assets Hit $4.3 Billion as Revenue Falls
Tokenization revenue dropped 12% and operating costs jumped 56%, showing that higher onchain assets have yet to produce steadier earnings.
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Uniswap Founder Says Team Renounced Creator Fees From Employee Testing
TradePools said test tokens built while developing Pools no longer send creator fees to Uniswap Labs, with past and future fees redirected to an ETH-for-burn mechanism.
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Boltz Founders Exit as Unnamed Bitcoin Group Agrees to Take Over Suspended Swap Service
The service remains offline while incoming operators work to fix vulnerabilities; Boltz said attacks caused losses to the company.
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Circle’s cirBTC Is Live on Ethereum but Has Only 40 BTC Outstanding
Circle National Trust custodies the backing, while published Bitcoin addresses and Chainlink Proof of Reserve provide onchain visibility; Arc support remains forthcoming.
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BitGo CFO to Exit as Q2 Net Loss Hits $19 Million
Revenue jumped 80%, but trading and staking margins weakened as BitGo targeted $15 million in annualized savings following June layoffs.
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SEC Staff Clears Franklin Funds to Use Onchain Money Fund for Cash and Collateral
The relief lets Franklin Templeton’s registered funds hold FOBXX through an affiliated blockchain-integrated system, subject to 12 custody and control conditions.
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Pump.fun's Share Of Launchpad Fees Fell To 27% In July. Four Weeks Later It's Back Above Half
Two launchpads on Robinhood Chain cut pump.fun's share of launchpad fees from 80% to 27% in two weeks. Pump.fun's fees are up 30% over 30 days anyway, because the category grew 77% around it. Memecoin prices did not participate.
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Marinade Says 28.83% of Solana Stake Went Delinquent, Nearing Finality Halt
Teraswitch confirmed a 12-site routing failure; Marinade said 94% of the 118.89 million SOL on its autonomous system went dark.
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SEC Advances Tokenized-Securities Exemption That Could Enable 24/7 Trading
Atkins says the framework would support compliant onchain trading while long-term rules are developed; Friday's scheduled Commission consideration covers a separate offering proposal.
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Solana Community Argues Over Whether Its Foundation Should Pick Winners
Flash.Trade's founder said Foundation backing for a rival contributed to his decision to wind the perps exchange down. Foundation president Lily Liu says the market decides who wins.
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Bitwise Cuts 14% of Staff as Client Assets Fall to $9 Billion
The crypto asset manager reduced headcount to about 155 from 180, while its BITW index fund ended June with $532.8 million in net assets, down from $1.03 billion at year-end.
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Harmony Patches Pre-Staking Quorum and Receipt-Replay Flaws After ONE Mint Claim
Harmony asked exchanges to block four wallets and paused its bridge, while an analyst’s estimate of four billion unauthorized ONE remains unconfirmed.
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Barça Mobile Plans Stellar Wallet With Wirex and Crossmint
Wirex will provide payment and card infrastructure, Crossmint will handle wallet onboarding, and Stellar will supply the blockchain layer for the planned feature.
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CFTC Sues Goliath Ventures Over Alleged $397M DeFi Liquidity Pool Ponzi
The complaint says $87 million went to Ponzi payments, $174 million to recruiter commissions and $48 million to CEO Christopher Delgado's personal spending, with recoveries for roughly 1,600 customers now running through a bankruptcy estate.
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Riot Signs $9.1B, 20-Year AI Data Center Lease at Its Texas Bitcoin Mine
The 20-year lease is projected to average $457 million a year, while Riot's fully costed bitcoin mining ran at 126.5% of the value of the coins it produced last quarter.
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Stablecoin Card Issuer Rain Buys Merchant Wallet Startup Ansa
Ansa builds branded prepaid wallets that hold dollar balances for merchants, with no stablecoin leg. Founder Sophia Goldberg joins Rain as head of payments, and terms were not disclosed.
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ENS Tokenholders Hand Endowment Control to a Staffed Foundation
The proposal passed with 1.27 million ENS in favor and 480,690 against. Co-founder Alex Van de Sande voted no after decoding the executable, arguing the DAO disappears from the endowment's control chain.
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Coinbase Wins Abu Dhabi License for Tokenized Securities Hub
The FSRA permission covers arranging deals in investments and custody. Coinbase has not named a launch date, and the fine print limits which token holders can vote their shares.
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Ousted Pudgy Penguins Co-Founder Sells Out 44,444-Piece NFT Mint on Robinhood Chain
An onchain tally of the mint events by analyst 0xlaplaced puts the take at $1,282,852 — well above the $755,000 figures that circulated during the sale — while the Spritehood contract's source code remains unverified.
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MoneyGram Brings Cash-To-Crypto Ramps To Solana
MoneyGram Ramps is now native to Solana, ending its run as a Stellar-only product. Trading app Rift is the first Solana wallet to integrate it.
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