Crypto Markets & On-Chain Ecosystem Developments

According to PR Newswire, the American Arbitration Association (AAA) launched its Web3 Panel on July 29 to handle disputes related to smart contracts, blockchain, digital assets, tokenization, and decentralized systems. The panel focuses on contract drafting and interpretation, governance, asset con

BNY launched a blockchain-based version of its transfer agency business, which manages fund ownership records and investor transactions, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The New York-based custodian bank aims to modernize fund transaction infrastructure by bringing books and records

According to Lookonchain monitoring data cited by ChainCatcher, a whale opened a 3x long position on SKHX today, purchasing 3.72 million SKHX tokens valued at $37.3 million. The position has already generated $778,000 in profits. However, the same whale experienced losses exceeding $1 million on

Gate News bot message: Gate market data shows GLWG is up 10.06% over the past 24 hours, with a current price of 128.64 USDT.

Kaito AI launched Kaito Katalyst, a performance-based creator marketing platform that compensates creators based on verified conversion outcomes rather than flat fees or estimated reach. The platform allows project teams to attribute rewards against criteria including mindshare, click-through

According to Justin Sun, TRON's founder, daily new account signups surged 42.87% to 230,862 on July 29, marking the network's highest daily signup count in one month, per on-chain tracker Lookonchain. Sun stated that the spike reflects growing user adoption of TRON daily.

According to ChainCatcher, Solana mainnet launched 100M CU (compute unit) blocks via SIMD-0286 upgrade, raising the compute unit limit from 60M to 100M, increasing network capacity by 66%. Solana noted that approximately 1 in 9 blocks operated near full capacity during peak on-chain activity over th

According to ChainCatcher, stablecoin lending protocol Ebisu Finance announced today that it will gradually shut down operations. Users must promptly close remaining Troves, withdraw Stability Pool deposits and ebUSD DEX liquidity. ebUSD minting has been suspended, and the frontend will be

Crypto analyst xrpl_Adam challenged the dominant Ripple bull case on July 29, arguing that XRP's rapid settlement speed undermines the thesis that payment volume alone could justify a $100 token price. In a thread on X, xrpl_Adam explained that because XRP settles

According to crypto analyst xrpl_Adam, on July 29, XRP reaching $100 would require institutional adoption as collateral rather than relying on payment volume alone. Because XRP settles transactions within seconds, the same tokens can be reused throughout the day, limiting circulating capital require

According to BlockBeats, Citrini Research analyst Jukan on July 29 criticized the regulatory stabilization measures announced by South Korean authorities tonight, calling them "disappointing" and describing them as "symbolic gestures with almost no practical value." Jukan questioned why such

According to ChainCatcher, Grayscale CEO Mintzberg has applied to sell GXRP ETF shares at a price approximately 45% lower than the January application submitted by founder Barry Silbert and Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm. Over the past six months, GXRP's outstanding shares have declined from 5.79 mi

Russia's FSB formally charged Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorist activities and placed him on an international wanted list, sending GRAM lower in early trading. The charges stem from Telegram's alleged failure to remove material used by Ukrainian special services and terrorist or extremist

Safe wallet protocol processed nearly 130 million transactions in Q2 2026 and ended the quarter with over 63 million Safe accounts created, marking a 20% year-over-year increase, according to its latest report. April was the busiest

OKX launched X-Perps Simple Mode for European investors, a streamlined interface enabling leveraged long and short trading up to 10x without using traditional professional terminals. The feature is now available on iOS and Android across Europe, accompanied by a Futures Grid Bot and PnL Analysis

According to The Block, MoonPay has launched PayBox, an AI payment vault that connects directly to OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, enabling users to make payments from conversations. Users set up PayBox as a non-custodial vault and choose between "Always Ask" mode, which requires passkey

According to Bernstein analyst Gautam Chhugani (via The Block), the firm cut Circle's (CRCL) price target to $140 from $190 today, maintaining an 'outperform' rating and implying roughly 118% upside from the current stock price of $64.32. Bernstein also lowered its 2026 year-end USDC supply