Morgan Stanley Launches Spot Ether, Solana ETPs on NYSE Arca
The MSSE and MSOL trusts each charge a 0.14% expense ratio and will stake a portion of holdings, passing rewards to investors.
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SoFi Says SoFiUSD Settlement Now Live on Q2 Earnings Call
The bank tied the stablecoin's first live settlements to real-time commercial payments running through its Big Business Banking platform on Solana.
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Morpho Signs First Hong Kong Partnership With HashKey's HSK Chain
Morpho will deploy on HSK Chain and become its official onchain credit partner as the lending network pushes into Asia's institutional market.
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Safe Logs 130M Transactions in Q2, a Quarterly Record
The smart-account provider ended the quarter with 63.4 million Safes deployed and pushed its Safenet Beta live with 54.8 million SAFE staked.
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10 European Banks Launch RL1 Blockchain Cooperative
RL1 inherits SWIAT's production network, which processed more than €700 million in transactions over three years before ownership moved to the Luxembourg cooperative.
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Crypto Hacks Hit Record 212 Incidents in H1 2026: Blockaid
North Korea-linked actors drove the largest losses, with the $292M KelpDAO and $285M Drift exploits both tied to DPRK groups.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Franklin Templeton Backs CLARITY Act as Wall Street Coalition Grows
The $1.79 trillion asset manager joins BlackRock, Fidelity and Goldman Sachs in backing the crypto market-structure bill as senators review updated Senate text.
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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.'
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Circle Buys IBM Blockchain Patent Portfolio
The USDC issuer says the roughly 1,000-patent haul makes it the leading US blockchain patent holder, with financial terms undisclosed.
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Magic Labs Sells Wallet Business to Kraken Parent Payward
The embedded-wallet pioneer is rebranding as Newton Labs to focus on an onchain authorization layer that vets transactions against policy before they settle.
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Securitize Registers Capital Affiliate as SEC Investment Adviser
Securitize Capital's registration took effect July 22, SEC records show, adding an advisory license to the tokenization firm's U.S. regulatory lineup three weeks after its NYSE debut.
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