Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

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on X, the Arbitrum-based RWA trading platform suffered a security breach on July 15 that resulted in $23.75M USDC being withdrawn from its liquidity provider vault.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

According to blockchain analysis platform Bubblemaps, on July 29, a single entity controls 50% of PIPEDOG token supply on the Robinhood ecosystem, with $1 million already sold and $16 million still held unsold. Bubblemaps' investigation revealed that between July 20-26, approximately 80 previously i

According to Foresight News, Stacks announced that its PoX-5 hard fork activated at Bitcoin block 960,230, with the network now operating under the new rules. The upgrade provides infrastructure support for the platform's Bitcoin staking functionality, with staking channels now officially

XRP trades near $1.09 after analysts flagged monthly momentum readings more extreme than the 2020 COVID crash. The token sits roughly 72% below its record high. Analyst Ash Crypto noted that XRP's monthly RSI has fallen below levels recorded during the March 2020 collapse, and the token touched a

According to analyst Ash Crypto, XRP hit its most oversold monthly RSI levels on July 28-29, 2026, surpassing the March 2020 COVID crash, with the token trading near $1.09 after declining 72% from its all-time high. The Relative Strength Index reading fell below the 2020 lows, though XRP had

According to Whale Alert, Circle's USDC Treasury minted 250 million USDC on the Solana blockchain today (July 30).

According to BlockBeats citing Deribit data, on July 30, crypto options worth $10.3 billion expire tomorrow. BTC options account for $9.5 billion with a put/call ratio of 0.28 and a maximum pain level of $64,000. ETH options comprise $819 million of the total, with a put/call ratio of 0.59 and a ma