Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to ChainCatcher, Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya identified two major structural headwinds for bitcoin bulls on social media. First, marginal liquidity is flowing toward prediction markets and equities rather than crypto assets. Second, energy used for bitcoin mining could be w

South Korean courts convicted 94 of 95 defendants across 52 virtual asset foreign exchange violation cases from 2017 to 2026, with illegal transactions totaling approximately 3.1 trillion won. The cases involved unregistered foreign exchange operations using digital assets to facilitate

According to RootData, a Web3 asset data platform, Walrus (WAL) will unlock approximately 38.33 million tokens worth about $1.11 million on July 27 at 10 a.m. Beijing time.

According to GMGN data, over the past 24 hours, Jimothy led the popular token sector with $16.28 million in trading volume and a market cap of $7.34 million, but declined 27%. The second-largest performer, ANSEM, rose 19.3% to reach a $300 million market cap with $12.57 million in 24-hour volume.

Jason Oxman, CEO of the Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), which represents payment giants such as Visa, MasterCard, Amazon, and PayPal, said in an interview with CoinDesk that the traditional electronic payments industry is seeing Bitcoin’s disruptive potential, and collaboration with startups will only increase. Oxman said ETA’s role is to facilitate electronic transactions, which will be adopted in whatever form customers or merchants consider most suitable. BitPay became the first Bi

According to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, reported by ChainCatcher, short-term holder cost basis has fallen below long-term holder cost basis, a signal suggesting the bear market may be entering its final phase. The metric recently reached $69,000, down from $112,500. Darkfost clarified that this s

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, ZHIPU dropped sharply over 17% on Hyperliquid on July 20, hitting a low of $120.7 within one hour before Hong Kong market open, with declines extending into the afternoon session. A major whale (starting with 0xddb) holding 7,300 contracts in 10x leveraged

Gate News, July 20, according to Gate行情 data: as of the time of writing, BANK (Black Flag DAO) is trading at $0.23. Within the past 24 hours, it has risen 109.42%, with a high of $0.24 and a low of $0.09. The 24-hour Filled Amount is $18.0096 million. Current market cap is approximately $98.0116 million. Lorenzo Protocol is an institutional-grade asset management platform committed to building the financial services infrastructure needed for on-chain investment products—an essential foundation f

According to blockchain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring via Polymarket data, user yamal19 won $1.135 million by betting on Spain to win the World Cup final against Argentina on July 20.

According to Coinglass data cited by ChainCatcher, the crypto derivatives market saw $116 million in liquidations over the past 24 hours. Long positions accounted for $52.92 million in losses, while short positions saw $62.71 million

Allbridge Core, a cross-chain stablecoin bridge, paused its protocol on Sunday after a security incident that drained $1.65 million. The attack targeted Allbridge Core's Solana deployment, with the attacker using a flash loan manipulation technique to exploit stablecoin pool exchange rates. This inc

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, SK Hynix (SKHX) on Hyperliquid surged to $1,270.1 early today, up 8.7% from the opening price of $1,168.1. The asset retreated sharply to $1,185.3 by 9:55 AM UTC, down 6.7% from the intraday

Following Moonshot AI's release of Kimi K3 on July 16, market expectations for Anthropic's year-end IPO valuation hitting $1.5 trillion declined to 67%, down 11 percentage points, according to prediction platform Polymarket. The next-generation model features 2.8 trillion parameters and 1 million to

According to Coindesk, one year after the U.S. GENIUS Act took effect, USDT faces approximately two years to comply with new stablecoin regulations. The law requires stablecoin issuers to maintain full reserves primarily in cash and U.S. Treasury securities. Tether's latest reserve disclosure

The Korea Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has recently served Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, with an “inspection opinion letter,” formally starting the administrative penalty process. This comes nearly 8 months after the incident and about 7 months after the FSS launched an on-site inspection. The FSS is assessing whether Dunamu violated the “Virtual Asset User Protection Act,” but the law currently does not include direct penalty provisions for hacker attacks or system accidents, leaving th

According to BlockBeats, Hyperliquid's SKHX (SK Hynix) experienced sharp volatility on July 20, opening at $1,168.1 and surging to $1,270.1 within 30 minutes before collapsing to $1,185.3 by 9:55 AM—a 6.7% decline from peak. Three whales established long positions totaling 11,620.674 contracts

According to SoSoValue data, the tracked XRP spot ETF recorded a net inflow of $6.78 million over five trading days as of July 18, bringing the cumulative net inflow total back up to nearly $1.5 billion, a new all-time high. However, the entire $6.78 million inflow was concentrated entirely on July 16, and the other four trading days showed no reported trading activity; over the past 10 trading days, net inflows were zero for seven days. XRP ETF Posts $6.78 Million Net Inflow This Week (Source:

According to PANews citing SoSoValue data, on July 20, crypto market sectors declined while the Meme sector advanced 0.56% in 24 hours. PEPE rose 4.38%, PUMP increased 22.76%, and B climbed 31.65%. Meanwhile, Bitcoin fell 0.25% to above $64,000; Ethereum gained 0.52%, trading around $1,800. Other s