Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to BlockBeats, on July 22, Baton Corporation, the developer behind Pump.fun, is hiring a head of growth marketing with a base salary of $400,000 to $1 million, plus incentive bonuses. Pump.fun founder Alon stated the platform has grown into one of the crypto industry's largest

According to Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas, Bitcoin has risen approximately 8% since July 4, outperforming most other assets. Spot Bitcoin ETF net inflows reached roughly $750 million over the past week.

Crypto venture capital funds secured $13.3 billion in committed capital during H1 2026, per CoinGecko data. This matched the full 2024 total in half the time. Investment round counts dropped 78% from the 2022 peak of 1,978 to 435 as capital concentrated in fewer large funds. The shift reflects a fun

According to CoinGlass, the cryptocurrency market saw $153 million in total liquidations over the past 24 hours, with long positions accounting for $73.18 million and short positions $80.16 million. Bitcoin liquidations reached $26.65 million, while Ethereum saw $34.32 million liquidated. The

According to a16z crypto, the tokenized equities market capitalization reached approximately $1.7 billion as of end of June, surging over 5-fold from $329 million a year ago, marking one of the fastest-growing tokenized asset categories. More than half of current market value stems from assets

On July 22, 2026, 15:00–15:15 UTC, ETH surged 0.45% in the short term over 15 minutes, with a price range of 1933.03–1943.21 USDT and an Ampl of 0.53%. During this period, the Filled Amount was 9,424 ETH, which is at a normal level. There was no volume-spike breakout. Market attention warmed up somewhat with the price rebound, but the overall low-volatility ranging pattern remains unchanged. The main driver behind this move was optimistic remarks by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about th

According to DefiLlama data reported by Foresight News, Robinhood Chain's 24-hour DEX trading volume reached $572.57 million in the past 24 hours, ranking 5th among all chains after Solana ($1.501 billion), Ethereum ($1.129 billion), BNB Chain ($826.3 million), and Base ($710.08 million). Robinhood

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice's District of Columbia office and the Secret Service recently filed five civil forfeiture lawsuits seizing over $25 million in cryptocurrency linked to investment fraud and romance scams targeting victims across the United States and Canada. The l

According to Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer, on July 22, the investment firm cut Coinbase's second-quarter revenue guidance to $1.38 billion from $1.51 billion, citing weak cryptocurrency trading activity. The firm also reduced its 2026 full-year revenue forecast to $6 billion from $6.33 billion.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced the platform will introduce a native, non-custodial Gram wallet directly into every Telegram application this summer. The announcement, made on July 21, triggered a more than 10% price surge for Gram (formerly Toncoin) within a 24-hour period, with the token ra

Bitget generated nearly $70 billion in TradFi perpetual trading volume in the second quarter of 2026, placing it among the top three venues for traditional-finance derivatives on crypto exchanges. The TokenInsight Q2 2026 Crypto Exchange Report named TradFi perpetuals as a strategically important ar

According to the TokenInsight Q2 2026 Crypto Exchange Report, Bitget generated approximately $70 billion in TradFi perpetual trading volume during the second quarter of 2026, placing it among the top three venues

According to Polymarket's Wednesday statement, the prediction market plans to challenge France's gaming authority (ANJ) decision to block access to its website. The ANJ ordered internet service providers to block Polymarket ahead of the World Cup final, citing concerns about illegal gambling and

Bitcoin is trading around $66,100 on July 22, after reaching above $66,500 earlier in the session, as its 30-day realized volatility compressed to 28.3, the lowest level since 2016. CryptoQuant contributor Axel Adler Jr. noted the volatility metric dropped from 41.6 on June 25, placing BTC in the bo

According to bit.com, CBRS rallied 2.5% on July 22, narrowing from an intraday peak of 18%. Cerebras Systems partnered with CrowdStrike to power the latter's Falcon AI inference model for threat detection and response; contract value was not

Ripple is preparing for its next scheduled XRP escrow release, with 1 billion XRP set to become available on Aug. 1 under the company's longstanding token management program established in 2017. The escrow mechanism automatically unlocks up to 1 billion XRP on the first day of each month through

According to Finbold, on August 1, Ripple will unlock 1 billion XRP through its monthly escrow mechanism on the XRP Ledger. The release follows the company's established schedule since 2017 to provide transparency around XRP supply management. Historically, Ripple has re-escrowed between 600

The Financial Action Task Force published a report Tuesday stating that many decentralized finance platforms retain centralized control and fall under its anti-money-laundering rules wherever identifiable people control them. The report found that centralized elements "frequently persist in