Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset, on July 20, Berset called on FIFA to launch international dialogue on establishing a comprehensive integrity framework for the 2030 World Cup. In an official statement, Berset warned that player-action betting and prediction markets

According to BlockBeats, on July 21, Solana ecosystem Meme token LIKE announced a strategic partnership with Web3 wallet platform AntFun and officially integrated into AntFun's community ecosystem. LIKE's liquidity pool stands at approximately 72,000 SOL (about $11.27 million). As of the report, LIK

Gate News bot message: Gate market data shows SNDKG is up 10% over the past 24 hours, with a current price of 1,515.03 USDT.

Gate News: According to an official announcement from Gate, Gate will first launch four Quanto Perpetual Contracts—TENCENTHKD, ZHIPUHKD, MINIMAXHKD, and XIAOMIHKD—on July 21, 2026 at 16:30 (UTC+8). The contracts support both long and short trading with 1–20x leverage, which users can select when placing an order. TENCENTHKD uses Tencent Holdings (00700.HK) as its underlying; ZHIPUHKD uses Zhipu (02513.HK) as its underlying; MINIMAXHKD uses MINIMAX-W (00100.HK) as its underlying; XIAOMIHKD uses X

According to HyperliquidNews, Hyperliquid's results market recorded a record settlement volume of $4.4 million over the past 24 hours.

According to BlockBeats, monitoring data from Hyperinsight showed that on July 21, the CXMT (Long Shine Storage Technology) Pre-IPO contract on Hyperliquid rose 5.4% over six hours during Asian trading hours to $6.88, corresponding to a CNY price of 46.56 yuan per

According to PANews, Matrixdock—the RWA tokenization platform under BIT (formerly Matrixport)—completed its fourth consecutive half-yearly independent reserve audit on July 21, including tokenized silver XAGm for the first time. Conducted by Bureau Veritas, the audit covered 574 gold and silver

On July 21, 2026 (Beijing time), bitcoin mining firm IREN Limited (Nasdaq ticker: IREN) closed at $40.20, up 19.57% on the day. Intraday, the share price briefly touched $41.10, an increase of more than 22% from the previous day’s close of $33.62. This surge was not driven by a synchronized rise in the bitcoin price—in fact, bitcoin did not show wild, proportional fluctuations during this period. The key driver behind the spike in IREN’s share price was major progress

Gate News: On July 21, 2026, Gate Event Contracts officially launched. The launch celebration competition is in full swing—trade to share the total $50,000 airdrop reward. Event Contracts are a trading product centered on price-direction prediction. Users only need to judge the price trend of assets such as BTC, ETH, etc. over future time windows like 5 minutes and 15 minutes, choose bullish or bearish, select the price from the order book, enter the quantity, and submit the order to participate

South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) announced on January 21 that it will strengthen cooperation with the Broadcasting Media Communications Review Committee to block access to illegal overseas virtual asset operators. The FIU issued the statement in response to criticism from Asia

South Korea's Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) announced on July 21 that it will strengthen cooperation with the Broadcasting Communications Deliberation Committee to block access to illegal overseas cryptocurrency platforms, according to an official statement released today. The FIU stated it wil

The UK Parliament's Crypto and Digital Assets All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) launched an inquiry on Tuesday (July 21) into banking access challenges facing the country's crypto sector. The APPG is examining difficulties crypto businesses face in opening and maintaining bank accounts and

According to monitoring by Axel Adler Jr, Bitcoin's HHI (Herfindahl-Hirschman Index) supply concentration index reached 1116.1 on July 21, the highest level since December 2021. The reading exceeds 89.6% of historical observations over the past decade. The index rose 5.5% over the past 90 days

Gate News message, a newly created wallet has withdrawn $14.64 million USDC from a centralized exchange and transferred the funds to Hyperliquid. Following the transfer, the wallet opened a 3x long position on $MU with 2,386.72 tokens valued at $2.17 million. The wallet address is 0xc8b527864ef2ad6d

According to BlockBeats, Binance launches four USDT-margined TradFi perpetual futures on July 21: SHAZUSDT (09:00 UTC), SOFIUSDT (09:05 UTC), PANWUSDT (09:10 UTC), and PENGUSDT (09:15 UTC), with underlying assets of SharonAI Holdings, SoFi Technologies, Palo Alto Networks, and Penguin Solutions

Hut 8 signed a $9.8 billion, 15-year lease for 352 megawatts of AI infrastructure at its Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas. The agreement doubles the same tenant's footprint to 704 MW and fully commercializes the one-gigawatt site. Bitcoin miners are shifting power assets toward

According to data provider SoSoValue, US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds posted their fifth consecutive day of net inflows on Monday, July 20, marking their longest winning streak since May. The ETFs attracted $226.9 million in net inflows that day, the strongest daily inflows since July

Veteran trader Peter Brandt predicts Bitcoin's bear market bottom will occur on 4 October 2026, stating the cryptocurrency has further downside before a durable recovery begins. Brandt expects Bitcoin may fall below $50,000 and could reach the high-$40,000 range before establishing its bear market l

According to PR Newswire, Hut 8 signed a $9.8 billion, 15-year artificial intelligence infrastructure lease at Beacon Point campus in Nueces County, Texas. The agreement covers 352 megawatts of IT capacity for the same high-investment-grade tenant that leased the first phase, doubling its