Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to Justin Sun, TRON's founder, daily new account signups surged 42.87% to 230,862 on July 29, marking the network's highest daily signup count in one month, per on-chain tracker Lookonchain. Sun stated that the spike reflects growing user adoption of TRON daily.

According to ChainCatcher, Solana mainnet launched 100M CU (compute unit) blocks via SIMD-0286 upgrade, raising the compute unit limit from 60M to 100M, increasing network capacity by 66%. Solana noted that approximately 1 in 9 blocks operated near full capacity during peak on-chain activity over th

According to ChainCatcher, stablecoin lending protocol Ebisu Finance announced today that it will gradually shut down operations. Users must promptly close remaining Troves, withdraw Stability Pool deposits and ebUSD DEX liquidity. ebUSD minting has been suspended, and the frontend will be

Crypto analyst xrpl_Adam challenged the dominant Ripple bull case on July 29, arguing that XRP's rapid settlement speed undermines the thesis that payment volume alone could justify a $100 token price. In a thread on X, xrpl_Adam explained that because XRP settles

According to crypto analyst xrpl_Adam, on July 29, XRP reaching $100 would require institutional adoption as collateral rather than relying on payment volume alone. Because XRP settles transactions within seconds, the same tokens can be reused throughout the day, limiting circulating capital require

According to BlockBeats, Citrini Research analyst Jukan on July 29 criticized the regulatory stabilization measures announced by South Korean authorities tonight, calling them "disappointing" and describing them as "symbolic gestures with almost no practical value." Jukan questioned why such

According to ChainCatcher, Grayscale CEO Mintzberg has applied to sell GXRP ETF shares at a price approximately 45% lower than the January application submitted by founder Barry Silbert and Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm. Over the past six months, GXRP's outstanding shares have declined from 5.79 mi

Russia's FSB formally charged Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and placed him on an international wanted list, sending GRAM lower in early trading. The charges stem from Telegram's alleged failure to remove material used by Ukrainian special services and terrorist or extremist

Safe wallet protocol processed nearly 130 million transactions in Q2 2026 and ended the quarter with over 63 million Safe accounts created, marking a 20% year-over-year increase, according to its latest report. April was the busiest

OKX launched X-Perps Simple Mode for European investors, a streamlined interface enabling leveraged long and short trading up to 10x without using traditional professional terminals. The feature is now available on iOS and Android across Europe, accompanied by a Futures Grid Bot and PnL Analysis

According to The Block, MoonPay has launched PayBox, an AI payment vault that connects directly to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, enabling users to make payments from conversations. Users set up PayBox as a non-custodial vault and choose between "Always Ask" mode, which requires passkey

According to Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani (via The Block), the firm cut Circle's (CRCL) price target to $140 from $190 today, maintaining an 'outperform' rating and implying roughly 118% upside from the current stock price of $64.32. Bernstein also lowered its 2026 year-end USDC supply

According to journalist Eleanor Terrett, the White House and Treasury Department recently denied participating in proposed modifications to the BRCA provisions of the Clarity Act. Two prosecutor representative groups submitted amendments seeking to remove protections for software developers from

According to Safe's Q2 report released today (July 29), the crypto wallet protocol processed 130 million transactions in the second quarter, a record high. However, quarterly revenue fell to approximately $1.98 million, down from $2.88 million in Q1—a decline of over 30% that may be linked to crypto

According to Fortune, Polymarket has established Polymarket Institute, a newly funded research organization dedicated to studying prediction markets and information discovery mechanisms. The platform will award 12 initial research fellows $10,000 each through a "Science Fellowship" program modeled o