Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to a survey released by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) on July 30, one-quarter of Canadians now hold digital assets or crypto investment funds, up from 10% in 2023 and 13% in 2022. Public awareness has also increased, with 59% of Canadians now able to correctly identify crypto ass

According to Bloomberg, ALT5 Sigma (now AI Financial Corp.) lost over 90% of its value since its summer partnership with Trump-linked platform World Liberty Financial, with the WLFI token it purchased plummeting from 20 cents to 6 cents. The company's market capitalization collapsed from over $1

According to Ark Invest's daily trade disclosures, Ark Innovation ETF (ARKK) sold 120,665 shares of Bitmine Immersion Technologies (BMNR) on Wednesday, marking the fund's largest sale of the day. The fund also trimmed positions in Bullish (BLSH, 11,314 shares), Block (XYZ, 13,403 shares), and

According to Aave founder Stani Kulechov on July 30, the protocol's recent delisting of low-adoption assets and networks should not be interpreted as a position on any Layer 1 or Layer 2 blockchain. The move aims to reduce operational, technical, and economic risk exposure, allowing Aave to

According to Ostium's incident report published on X, the Arbitrum-based RWA trading platform suffered a security breach on July 15 that resulted in $23.75M USDC being withdrawn from its liquidity provider vault. Attackers compromised the protocol's off-chain price infrastructure and submitted

According to PANews, WEMIX announced on July 30 a security incident affecting the WEMIX$ stablecoin that occurred on July 26. Two smart contracts—DIOS (price stability mechanism) and AMA (1:1 redemption mechanism)—had their ownership transferred to unauthorized third parties. The attacker deployed a

According to Deputy Prime Minister Koo Yun-cheol, South Korea will begin taxing cryptocurrency gains on January 1, 2027, with a 20% national tax rate and a 2.5 million won annual basic deduction, during a National Assembly Finance and Economy Committee meeting on July 29. Officials said the

Tether's USAT stablecoin launched on the Celo network on July 29, 2026, marking its first deployment on a blockchain outside Ethereum since the token's initial launch in January. Anchorage Digital Bank, the federally chartered institution issuing USAT, confirmed the token supports native minting,

Bitcoin is holding near $64,000 after the latest Federal Reserve decision failed to trigger a decisive breakout. Technical charts from analysts Lennaert Snyder and Jesse Olson point to continued downside risk unless BTC reclaims nearby resistance levels. The cryptocurrency faces heavy resistance

According to Anchorage Digital Bank, Tether's USAT stablecoin launched on the Celo network on July 29, 2026, marking its first deployment beyond Ethereum since the token's January inception. The deployment includes native minting and burning capabilities, positioning it as a native-first

Solana is attempting to stabilize near the $69-$74 support zone after declining more than 75% from its peak near $295. The token's market capitalization stands at approximately $42.8 billion, reflecting a sharp contraction from its previous high above $120 billion. The decline returned SOL to a

According to Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court on July 29, Igor Runets, founder of Russia's largest cryptocurrency mining company Bitriver, was ordered transferred from house arrest to a pretrial detention facility over alleged $12.5 million equipment fraud against En+ Group. The court

According to the Ethereum Foundation, Pascal Caversaccio, known on-chain as pcaversaccio, has joined the Foundation's board for an initial one-year voluntary term. He joins Aya Miyaguchi, Vitalik Buterin, and Swiss legal counsel Patrick Storchenegger on the four-member board, which sets the Foundati

According to SlowMist, DeFi protocol Set Protocol suffered a smart contract vulnerability resulting in a loss of approximately $9,600. The root cause was an insufficient state-locking mechanism in Index Coop's ExchangeIssuance contract when processing issuance requests. Attackers exploited a