Jul 28 Tuesday
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an article introducing Diamond iO, a cryptographic obfuscation technique that improves efficiency over traditional indistinguishability obfuscation. It uses attribute-based encryption and fully homomorphic encryption to hide program logic, with potential applications in blockchain and AI privacy.
Base Build has launched Base Verify Onchain on the Base Sepolia testnet, allowing developers to enforce 'one real user, one claim' rules in smart contracts. The system generates stable identity hashes for users without collecting personal data, using existing accounts like Coinbase or Instagram for verification.
Bitcoin (BTC) surpassed $64,000, currently trading at $64,006.5 on Gate exchange. The cryptocurrency recorded a 0.91% decline over the past 24 hours.
Core Scientific reported Q2 revenue of $168.9 million, more than double the $79.5 million from a year earlier, driven by AI colocation becoming its largest business. The company posted a net loss of $1.15 billion due to a non-cash accounting charge related to warrant liabilities.
Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik expects AI trading agents to outnumber human traders in about two years. Nansen is transforming from an analytics tool to a platform enabling direct trading via agents, which has already facilitated over $500 million in volume.
Over the past 24 hours, total liquidations in the crypto market reached $583 million, with long positions accounting for $511 million. A total of 129,586 traders were liquidated, according to CoinGlass data.
The Ironwood upgrade retires the Orchard protocol, where a counterfeiting bug remained undetected for four years. All coins in the shielded pool must now exit through a gate that caps withdrawals at verified deposits.
Zcash activated the Ironwood NU6.3 network upgrade at block height 3,428,143, introducing a new shielded pool to enhance security and enable independent verification of ZEC supply. The upgrade restricts the Orchard pool, requiring funds to migrate via a turnstile, and is based on a formally verified protocol to prevent prior vulnerabilities.
Morgan Stanley is offering low-cost exchange-traded products for ether and solana. This follows the success of its bitcoin fund, which has amassed over $381 million in assets.
The audit report for Steel Fun, a project on the Robinhood blockchain, has been delivered. The audit scope includes SteelMineV2.sol and SteelToken.sol. For detailed findings and security analysis, check out the full audit on project detail page.
Tokenization platform xStocks announced its third IPO tokenization product, targeting U.S. sandwich chain Jersey Mike's, to be issued on Solana, EVM, and TON. Users can submit subscription intentions via Kraken, but the product only offers price exposure, not direct ownership, and is not available to U.S., UK, or Canadian residents.
The draft sets entry and operational rules for crypto exchanges and digital custodians, requiring exchanges to determine trading processes via their own rulebooks and calculate market prices. Digital custodians must have registered capital between 50 million and 2.5 billion rubles, held in highly liquid, high-credit-quality assets.
Bitcoin price fell amid growing regulatory concerns. The market reacted to new policy signals from global authorities.
Decentralized finance projects that weathered the 2022 Terra and FTX collapses are now shutting down in 2026. Analysts attribute this not to industry consolidation but to fragmentation.
Bitcoin fell below $63,000, currently trading at $62,937.8. The cryptocurrency recorded a 24-hour decline of 3.74%.
A trader opened a 4x leveraged long position on 23,251.544 SKHX tokens (worth $24.67 million) at an average price of $1,106.8 after the Korean stock market closed. The position is now facing an unrealized loss of $1.074 million, and the wallet has become the second-largest SKHX holder on Hyperliquid.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management launched the Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and Solana Trust (MSOL) on NYSE Arca, each with a 0.14% expense ratio. The trusts will stake a portion of their holdings, with Morgan Stanley retaining none of the staking rewards, and now cover BTC, ETH, and SOL alongside its existing bitcoin product MSBT.
Analysts warn of a potential repeat of the 2024 yen carry-trade unwind that pressured crypto markets. The Bank of Japan's upcoming interest-rate meeting is closely watched.
Blockaid reported that Ethereum suffered the highest hack losses in H1 2026, while Solana overtook Arbitrum for second place, primarily due to key compromises.
BlackRock moved approximately $10.07 million in assets from its ETF wallet, including 158.57 BTC worth $10.06 million and 4.49 ETH worth $8,500, to Coinbase Prime. The transfer was detected by Onchain Lens.
Morgan Stanley Investment Management announced two new exchange-traded products: Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL). These products track the performance of ETH and SOL, expanding the firm's crypto asset offerings for institutional investors.
Core Scientific has entered into an agreement with AMD to provide AI-related services, marking a strategic shift from bitcoin mining. This follows the termination of its ASIC agreement with Block.
LBank exchange has listed CXMT token, enabling deposits and trading. A $10,000 reward pool is available for participants.
NetMind has launched the Kimi K3 model, accessible through an OpenAI-compatible API. The pricing is set at $3 per million input tokens and $15 per million output tokens.
Lista now allows borrowing against tokenized stocks such as NVDA, MSFT, and COIN. Borrowing rates are as low as -18% for the next three weeks.
The Open Secure AI Alliance aims to develop open-source AI cybersecurity tools. The initiative brings together over 40 members including Nvidia, Microsoft, and IBM.
Anthropic spent $3.53 million on federal lobbying in the first half of 2026, a significant increase from $1.2 million in the same period last year. This amount surpasses OpenAI's lobbying expenditure of $2.22 million during the same period.
Websea will launch SMCI perpetual trading on July 28 at 10:00 UTC. The product offers flexible leverage options.
Bittime announced the delisting of FITFI and FOXY tokens effective July 29, 2026. Users must sell or transfer their assets by August 31, 2026.
The Venus Protocol Prime V2 leaderboard will lock soon, with the top 500 XVS stakers eligible for rewards from an expanded pool. Participants must ensure their positions are finalized before the deadline.
A crypto user reported that after depositing 100,000 USDT on Ourbit, withdrawals were blocked and account login restricted. Ourbit emailed that the review is postponed to July 2027, with possible further extensions.
PayPal reported Q2 adjusted EPS of $1.38, beating the $1.27 estimate, and total payment volume of $486.4 billion, also above expectations. The company raised its 2026 adjusted EPS guidance to $5.38, while remaining silent on a reported acquisition offer of about $60 per share from Advent and Stripe.
PayPal reported $8.68 billion in revenue for Q2, with an $81 million crypto-related earnings adjustment. The company highlighted the expansion of its stablecoin and AI-driven payment tools.
Atsuko Sato, owner of Kabosu the Shiba Inu, clarified that CATE tokens are unauthorized and unrelated to her. She stated that only the DOG token and COCORO token, managed by Own The Doge, are officially endorsed, with proceeds supporting animal welfare.
CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost reported that BTC long-term holders' transfer of holdings to exchanges has risen to 5.1% of total exchange inflows, near the historical high of 5.5% seen in 2020. The indicator uses a 90-day moving average, so it lags behind current market conditions.
A lawsuit claims Apple left a fraudulent bitcoin wallet app on its App Store after a user reported an $875,000 theft. Another user subsequently lost approximately $840,000 through the same app.
Myanmar's parliament passed a law on Tuesday allowing the death penalty for those who force others into online fraud through violence or illegal detention. The law also imposes up to life imprisonment for operating crypto scam centers or committing digital currency fraud.
Bitcoin's price has remained stable recently, but this has not led to a rally in other cryptocurrencies. The market is watching for signs of a broader uptrend.
1inch has launched Aqua, a shared liquidity protocol that allows users to support multiple DeFi liquidity positions with a single token balance without depositing assets into a pool. The protocol executes atomic transactions only when trades occur, keeping assets in users' wallets and addressing issues like capital inefficiency and custody risks.
Hyperscale Data, a NYSE American-listed AI data center company, increased its Bitcoin reserves to 1,106 BTC, worth about $71.7 million as of July 27. The company added 15 BTC over the past week through a subsidiary slated for a 2027 spin-off.
AEON, an AI agent economy settlement protocol, reported monthly average transaction volume exceeding $30 million. The protocol is expanding Agent-to-Agent and Agent-to-Merchant scenarios to connect AI agents with real-world commerce.
Bitcoin dropped 2% as South Korea's Kospi index plunged 11%, while the U.S. Senate shelved the Clarity Act. The market now awaits a pivotal Federal Reserve decision on Wednesday.
Visa and Artemis released a report analyzing AI agent payment trends, dividing smart commerce into macro-transactions and micropayments. The x402 protocol, developed by Coinbase and Cloudflare, processed $15 million in adjusted volume with 109.6 million transactions since its May 2025 launch, while the MPP protocol from Stripe and Tempo saw $25,000 in 33 days.
Websea has launched a perpetual contract for CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) on its TradFi zone. The move aims to provide users with flexible two-way trading options in the domestic memory chip sector.
Dwelly, a UK-based proptech startup, raised $170 million in a funding round led by EQT Growth and General Catalyst, including $95 million in equity and a $75 million debt facility from Trinity Capital. The company plans to use the funds to acquire more real estate firms and integrate artificial intelligence into its operations.
Solana plans to raise the mainnet block compute limit from 60 million CU to 100 million CU, a 66% increase. The upgrade, SIMD-0286, is expected to activate at the start of Epoch 1009.
The US Dollar Index (DXY) briefly reached 101.64, a one-month high. Data from Gate shows the index has risen to this level.
Perpetual futures tied to SK Hynix's American depositary receipts experienced a flash crash on Hyperliquid, plunging 20% to $900 in one minute before rebounding above $1,000. The incident highlights volatility in crypto derivatives markets.
Uniswap announced that Robinhood Chain's cumulative trading volume on its platform has exceeded $10 billion. This milestone was achieved in less than a month.
RootData released its latest stock derivatives exchange ranking, with Binance, Hyperliquid, and OKX taking the top three spots. Compared to last week, Hyperliquid rose from 7th to 2nd, OKX from 6th to 3rd, while Bybit fell from 3rd to 7th.
A newly created wallet has withdrawn 10,000 ETH, valued at approximately $18.81 million, from the exchange Bybit. On-chain data indicates that whales continue to accumulate and transfer ETH out of exchanges.
Amazon ended Walmart's 12-year streak to claim the top spot on the 2026 Fortune Global 500, with total revenue of listed firms reaching $43.1 trillion. Alphabet surpassed Saudi Aramco as the world's most profitable company with $132.17 billion in net profit, while Nvidia ranked second in profit and TSMC was the only Chinese firm in the profit top ten.
According to Gate market data, US commercial space stocks declined in premarket trading. SpaceX (SPCX.O) and Rocket Lab (RKLB.O) both fell over 2%.
Nexo has reaffirmed product compliance across the EEA ahead of MiCAR enforcement. The platform uses Tangany for custody and DLT Finance for brokerage, both MiCAR-licensed German partners.
A pre-market trade in South Korea's NXT market priced SK Hynix at KRW 1.272 million, causing a 17.9% drop in Hyperliquid's SKHYNIX perpetual contract and a trading halt. The contract, deployed by third-party team XYZ, is under investigation, with XYZ responsible for price inputs under HIP-3.
Lido launched Curated Module v2, which consolidates validators and introduces new operator rules. The upgrade could reduce Ethereum's validator count by one-third.
Hyperliquid stated that the SK Hynix perpetual contract market anomaly is being investigated by the Trade.xyz team, which deployed and operates the contract. The platform explained that HIP-3 deployers can independently push market prices, and the protocol only provides one of three median components.
The attacker labeled by PeckShield has returned 331.8 ETH, worth approximately $623,900, to the Across Protocol Hub Pool Owner multisig address. This follows a previous security incident involving the protocol.
Japan and Korea's top three MLCC suppliers (Murata, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Taiyo Yuden) saw June shipments hit a five-year high, driven by AI demand. The capacity shift to high-end specs has squeezed consumer-grade MLCC supply, leading to price hikes of 20-25% for distributors and spot prices surging to 2-3 times original levels.
Gate Event Contracts allow users to bet on short-term price directions of BTC and ETH without leverage or margin calls. The product offers a minimum participation of 1.5 USDT and a maximum loss limited to the premium paid, with a new user compensation program of $20,000.
Amanah Advisors has issued a Shariah compliance certification for Tether Gold, enabling Islamic financial institutions and investors to interact with the token globally. The certification confirms that Tether Gold adheres to Islamic financial principles.
Travala.com announced that users must claim AVA Smart and Ambassador bonuses by August 11, 7 AM UTC. The deadline applies to all eligible users.
Markets are pricing a 1-in-3 chance of a rate hike as Bitcoin trades at $63,000. The Federal Reserve's two-day meeting began today with the decision expected tomorrow at 2PM ET.
Ondo Network combines centralized exchange speed with non-custodial trading to enhance DeFi efficiency. The platform aims to improve user experience by offering faster transactions while maintaining asset control.
A deaf artist created an ARToken inspired by Sun Wukong and Bruce Lee, launched on-chain via Ultiland. The tribute marks Bruce Lee's 85th birth anniversary.
Circle has acquired nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM, making it the largest holder of such patents in the United States. The move strengthens Circle's intellectual property portfolio in the blockchain space.
AMINA, a Swiss crypto bank, is exploring a public listing through a reverse takeover of a digital asset treasury firm. The bank has partnered with Cantor to facilitate the potential transaction.
Fanatics has purchased a CFTC-regulated exchange and clearinghouse from BGC Group. The acquisition will enable Fanatics to launch a federally supervised prediction market platform.
Minh Do, COO of Animoca Brands, will deliver a keynote on AI agents in Southeast Asia on July 29. Kenneth Shek, CEO of Moca Network, will join a panel discussing attention in an agentic economy.
BIND Group, a banking group with over $2 billion in assets, is developing a stablecoin pegged to the Argentine peso through its subsidiary BEN, targeting institutional programmable currency services. It has partnered with Circle to provide compliant payment and treasury management. Separately, Petersen Group, with support from Lirium, is advancing a second peso stablecoin project called DIPE, which has a whitepaper.
A whale placed a single bet of $202,153.4 on the '25 basis point rate hike' outcome in the 'Fed July Decision' event on prediction market Polymarket. The current implied probability for this outcome is 73.58%.
According to Gate market data, the iShares Semiconductor ETF dropped 3.7%. The decline reflects recent market movements in the semiconductor sector.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) approved the first listing of crypto perpetual futures. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) is opposing the decision, arguing it deviates from legal requirements.
SanDisk (SNDK) fell 10.84% to $1,279.20, and Micron Technology (MU) dropped 2.08% to $900.98. Gate platform's SNDK and MU futures saw 24-hour trading volumes of $382 million and $55.35 million, respectively, ranking among the top on the network.
Bitcoin showed resilience amid a risk-off day, recovering from lows hit during the Asian session. Meanwhile, Nasdaq futures remained under pressure, reflecting broader market caution.