Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

Sports betting analytics firm H2 Gambling Capital’s latest estimate says that during the first month of the 2026 World Cup, prediction market activity accounted for 27% of all legal sports betting volume in the United States—up from just 9% earlier this year. When converted into a growth multiple, that share expanded by more than 3x within just a few months. The U.S. sports betting market reached total handle of about $34 billion in 2025. H2 Gambling Capital: Inflow to prediction market platform

U.S. regulators failed to finalize rulemaking within the one-year deadline set by the Guidance and Establishing New Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act); the GENIUS Act’s one-year deadline falls around July 19. According to a rulemaking tracker involving the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC, and the Federal Reserve Board issuing proposed rules and collecting public comments, none of them completed the final rules by the deadline

According to Odaily, as of July 19, Pons reached 58,000 daily active addresses, while NOXA and Flap recorded approximately 28,000 and 14,600 respectively.

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, XUNCE (XUNCE 03317.HK) has surged by 18% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market

Gate News, July 20. According to Gate Market data, as of the time of writing, PIRATE (Pirate Nation) is trading at $0.0025. It is up 103.21% over the past 24 hours, with a highest price of $0.0033 and a low of $0.000979. The 24-hour trading volume reached $1.355 million. The current market cap is approximately $1.7922 million. PIRATE can be spent on Ethereum and enables cross-chain execution of completed projects via the gaming Proof of Apex. It delivers seamless, low-gas L1 cross-chain purchase

According to ChainCatcher citing RootData data, as of July 20, MEXC has the largest price spread among the top 10 equity derivatives exchanges at 1.35%. Binance leads the rankings with a score of 92 and spread of 0.021%, followed by Bitget with a score of 90.6 and spread of 0.053%, and Bybit with a

Dunamu, the operator of Upbit, is expanding recruitment for its GASOK program to discover talented developers for the GIWA blockchain ecosystem, with applications open until the end of this month. The initiative aims to identify builders, developers, and entrepreneurs with innovative ideas who can c

According to a report by Nikkei on July 20, Japanese mid-sized logistics company AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings plans to use JPYC (a yen-denominated stablecoin) to make payments to about 2,300 business partners, including individual contractors in the transportation industry and truck drivers. AZ-COM Maruwa is also considering partnering with JPYC and investing more than 1 billion yen (about $6.2 million). Overview of AZ-COM Maruwa’s JPYC Adoption Plan According to Nikkei, AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings’ JPYC a

On July 20, Dunamu (operator of Upbit exchange) announced an expanded recruitment round for its GASOK developer program within the GIWA ecosystem, its in-house Web3 infrastructure. The program accepts applications until end of July. Winning teams will receive up to $100,000 in prize money and the op

According to Nikkei, AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings plans to adopt the JPYC yen-denominated stablecoin to pay around 2,300 business partners, marking the first large-scale corporate use of JPYC in Japan. The logistics company will use the stablecoin to pay fees and compensation to individual contractors

According to ChainCatcher, the Bonk treasury attacker transferred 400 billion BONK to Coinbase approximately 5 hours ago on July 20, valued at around $1.11 million, according to Ember monitoring. To date, 2.426 trillion BONK out of the 4.426 trillion BONK tokens obtained in the governance attack ha

According to Digital Asset, weekly trading volume on South Korea's five largest crypto exchanges fell to 8.06 trillion won during the period from July 9 to July 16, marking the lowest level since May 2023. The decline follows a continuous downtrend starting from 17.7 trillion won on June

According to CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost, Binance and Bybit saw a combined net outflow of approximately $2.3 billion in stablecoin reserves over the past 30 days, limiting liquidity inflows into the broader crypto market. The analyst noted that Bitcoin has oscillated around the $60,000 support

According to a Broadridge survey cited by CoinDesk, 84% of North American financial services executives view tokenization as strategically important, signaling a shift from blockchain experimentation toward integrating tokenized assets into mainstream market infrastructure. The survey of 200

According to Moonshot, on July 20, some users received phishing emails with the subject line 'View Recent Activity.' The emails do not originate from Moonshot, and no account compromises have been detected so far. Moonshot is investigating the matter and advises users to delete the emails and

According to PeckShieldAlert, today (July 20), the Allbridge Core cross-chain bridge suffered an attack, with approximately $1.65 million stolen. The attacker has transferred the stolen funds from Solana to

The cross-chain bridge protocol Allbridge Core suffered a flash-loan and stablecoin pool exchange-rate manipulation attack on July 20. Onchain Lens on-chain monitoring shows that losses have exceeded $1.1 million. Allbridge Core has officially paused the protocol as a precaution and advised users who hold funds in the affected liquidity pools (LPs) to withdraw immediately. Allbridge Core Official Statement: Protocol Paused, LP Withdrawal Advice, and Refund Address Allbridge Core’s official state

From 00:45 to 01:00 (UTC) on July 20, 2026, BTC fell by 0.41% over 15 minutes. Its price range was 64,411.7–64,822.2 USDT, with an Ampl of 0.63%. Over the past 24 hours, BTC’s price change was only -0.02%. The current offer is about $64,824.5. The intraday trading range is limited to $64,278–$64,970 (Ampl of about 1.1%). Overall, the market shows extremely low volatility characteristics: trading is thin and the filled amount is at a relatively low level. The main driver behind this abnormal move

According to The Block, U.S. regulators failed to finalize stablecoin rules required by the GENIUS Act by the July 18 deadline. The act, signed by President Trump on July 18, 2025, mandated that the OCC, Federal Reserve, FDIC, NCUA, Treasury Department, and state stablecoin regulators complete