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• Russia Just Legalized Crypto for Cross-Border Trade and Blessed Exactly One Dollar Stablecoin: USDT. Half of It Runs on Tron - Russia's Duma passed its first crypto law on July 21, legalizing crypto for cross-border trade with only Bitcoin, Ethere
• THENA Holders Are Voting on a Pivot That Would Mint 32.6 Million New Tokens. We Read the Contract: It Is an 11.1% Dilution - THENA holders are voting on THENA 2.0, a pivot into RWAs, AI execution and options funded by minting 32.61M new THE. We
• Hyperliquid Is Coming for Polymarket, and the Ticket to Build Costs $30.6 Million in HYPE - Hyperliquid is opening permissionless prediction markets under HIP-4 to challenge Polymarket, but deploying one costs a
• Spain Won the World Cup and Polymarket Set a Record: A $4.33B Market Settled On-Chain the Same Week France Ordered a Block - Spain won the 2026 World Cup and Polymarket's Winner market settled at $4.33B, its biggest single market ever, verified
• The GENIUS Act Turns One With Zero Final Rules. The Stablecoin Market Grew $48 Billion Anyway - July 18 was the GENIUS Act's one-year deadline for final US stablecoin rules. It passed with eight proposals and zero fi
• The BRIAN Memecoin Rode Brian Armstrong's Avatar to $31M, Then Lost 93%. We Checked the Chain, and the Viral Claim Is False - The BRIAN memecoin pumped to a $31M market cap two hours after Brian Armstrong's avatar change, then lost over 93%. We v
• Uniswap Moves to Flip the Fee Switch: A Slice of $74M a Month Could Head to UNI - Uniswap proposed turning on protocol fees across Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Robinhood Chain and more, feeding its UNI bur
• A Bitcoin Whale Just Woke Up: Tracing 5,908 BTC That Sat Still for 8 Years - A Bitcoin wallet dormant for 8.5 years moved 5,907.56 BTC (about $383M) on July 16. We traced the transaction on-chain:
• Wall Street's Idle Cash Meets DeFi: Galaxy Wires 2,400 Institutions Into Morpho - Galaxy Curator wires Fireblocks' 2,400 institutional clients into Morpho-based DeFi lending. On-chain data shows why: le
• A Third of All ETH Is Now Staked: Inside Ethereum's 2026 Supply Squeeze - About 40.9M ETH, a record 33.5% of supply, is now staked and worth $74.5B, while exchange balances sit near record lows
• Ostium's $18M Exploit Is 2026's Biggest Oracle Attack: The On-Chain Ledger - An attacker drained about $18M from Ostium's Arbitrum vault using future-dated oracle reports. It is 2026's biggest orac
• Swift's Blockchain Ledger Goes Live: 17 Banks, Tokenized Deposits, and the $335B Already On-Chain - Swift activated a blockchain ledger with 17 global banks for tokenized deposits. Our on-chain census shows about $335B i
• The Stablecoin Shakeout: The $308B Market Looks Calm, but Some Dollars Are Quietly Bleeding Out - The $308B stablecoin market looks flat at the top, but read it on-chain and capital is rotating fast: Ethena's USDe and
• Top 3 Robinhood Chain Tokens Right Now: The King, the Cult and the Blue Chip - Robinhood Chain is crowded, fast and mostly fake volume, so we read it on-chain and picked the three tokens with somethi
• DEXTools Now Supports Robinhood Chain: Track and Trade the New Ethereum L2, and the Tokens Actually Moving on It - Robinhood Chain is now live on DEXTools. You can track and trade its pairs with our charts, scores and safety tools, the
• Robinhood Chain Flipped Hyperliquid on Volume. We Read the Chain: It Is $521M of Memecoins on $29M of Liquidity - Robinhood Chain made headlines by overtaking Hyperliquid in 24-hour DEX volume just a week after launch. We read the cha
• CASHCAT Wicked to $0.08 in Three Minutes on Hyperliquid, About 60% Down, Then Snapped Right Back - In three minutes on July 12, CASHCAT's perpetual on Hyperliquid crashed from about $0.18 to a low of $0.0804, roughly 56
• Solana's Tokenized Stocks Hit a Record $3.62B. We Pulled the Real DEX Liquidity, and the Deepest Pool Is $2.8M - Solana's tokenized real-world-asset market just set a record at $3.62 billion, and about 97% of the world's tokenized-eq
• The GENIUS Act Outlaws Stablecoin Yield on July 18. On-Chain, We Counted $1.57 Billion Already Legally Routing Around It - On July 18, one year after it was signed, the GENIUS Act's ban on paying stablecoin holders any interest or yield takes
• A Few Dollars of SAUCE Drained Bonzo Lend and Erased 78% of Its TVL. We Read the Hedera Oracle Hack On-Chain - An attacker deposited about $3 worth of SAUCE, pushed a manipulated price into a third-party oracle, and borrowed roughl
• New in DEXTools: Theme Presets Let You Restyle the Whole App - You asked, we built it. DEXTools now supports theme presets: restyle the entire app from Settings and pick the look that
• Aave Just Launched Fixed-Rate Stable Vaults to Chase Morpho. We Read Them On-Chain: They Hold About $1,400 - Aave made its fixed-rate Stable Vaults publicly available, a stablecoin-yield engine for fintechs aimed at Morpho. We re
• July's Biggest Token Unlock Is a $750M Cliff Landing on $5M of Real Liquidity. We Read the Chain - The largest token unlock of the week releases about $750 million of RAIN on July 11. We read the chain: the token carrie
• Robinhood vs Coinbase vs Kraken: Inside the Tokenized-Stock War, and Whose Tokens Actually Own Your Shares - The biggest exchanges are racing to put Wall Street on-chain, each on its own blockchain, and the pace jumped again this
• Base Built the B20 Standard for Stablecoins and RWAs. Day One, We Counted On-Chain: It Minted Memecoins - Base turned on its B20 native-token standard on July 8, pitched for stablecoins, real-world assets and tokenized equitie
• Robinhood Chain Was Sold as 24/7 Stocks. One Week In, We Read the Chain: It Is Running on Memecoins - Robinhood Chain went live on July 1 as a 24/7 tokenized-stock network. We read the chain a week later, and the open on-c
• Lighter (LIT) Is Having Its Hottest Week. On-Chain, 69% of the Supply Sits in 10 Wallets - Lighter's LIT is up about 17% this week on record whale buying, a Robinhood Chain launch and a switch to token burns. We
• Welcome to The DEXTools Bull ($DEXBULL): We Are Giving Social Boost Back to the Community - Following the narrative Ansem started with The Black Bull ($ANSEM), a community member sent a big share of a new token t
• A $2 Million Ethereum Swap Came Out as $14,500. The On-Chain Reason Is a $40,000 Pool - About $2M of ETH became $14,500 in a single Ethereum swap on July 7, a 99% loss to price impact and a same-block backrun
• Coinbase Premium Index: Tracking Institutional Demand - Understand the mechanics of the Coinbase Premium Index. Learn how tracking the price gap between Coinbase and Binance re