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According to Morning Minute, Jesse Pollak, Coinbase executive running Base blockchain, handed the Base consumer app to trader Cobie today and acknowledged his 2024-2025 strategy betting on onchain social growth was incorrect. Pollak admitted that the social ecosystem he championed—including

According to ChainCatcher, Galaxy Digital announced the launch of Galaxy Curator, an institutional-grade vault management service built on the decentralized lending protocol Morpho. The product is available to over 2,400 institutional clients through Fireblocks Earn, enabling them to earn

According to Foresight News, Baillie Gifford recently launched Baillie Gifford Asset Enhancement Yield (BAGEY), a tokenized fund, in Hong Kong. The fund is natively issued on public blockchain infrastructure, with tokens representing investor fund shares and blockchain serving as the official

According to PANews, Cardano-based derivatives trading protocol DeltaDeFi announced today that it is suspending operations effective immediately due to insufficient operating funds. Development and routine maintenance work will also be halted during the

Maczo, a crypto gaming platform, opened provably fair verification tools, source code repositories and browser-based verification methods for its in-house games on July 16, 2026. The platform published verification resources covering 31 Maczo Originals and Lucky Spin, enabling players to

Base will refocus on trading, payments and AI agents after moving away from its earlier social push, according to founder Jesse Pollak. The strategic shift for Coinbase's Layer 2 network aims to concentrate on financial infrastructure rather than consumer social applications. Pollak said Base's soci

According to founder Jesse Pollak, Base is refocusing on trading, payments and AI agents after moving away from its social push. Pollak said Base's social experiments had "disintegrated completely," marking a strategic shift for Coinbase's Layer 2 network away from consumer social applications

According to Foresight News, Arrow Finance, a DeFi protocol in the Robinhood ecosystem, launched CDP Alpha v0.1, enabling users to use USDG, WETH, and tokenized stocks as collateral for borrowing. The protocol currently operates

VeChain launched VeWorld.ai on July 16, 2026, a no-code AI agent marketplace that enables users to build, list, and monetize AI agents without technical expertise. The platform is accessible at no cost, with no fees to build, list, or test a first agent. VeWorld.ai extends the VeWorld ecosystem, VeC

According to MPost, VeChain officially launched VeWorld.ai on July 16, a free no-code AI agent marketplace that enables anyone to build, list, and monetize AI agents without technical expertise. The platform offers no fees to build, list, or test a first agent. Users can register via social login or

According to PANews and vlad fun's official statement on July 16, the token launch platform vlad fun on Robinhood Chain has suspended operations due to serious internal integrity issues involving team members discovered during platform rollout. The team stated it has paused its website for a

According to a press release on July 15, Nasdaq-listed Hyperion DeFi entered an agreement with Skew Technologies to deploy 500,000 Hyperliquid (HYPE) tokens to support institutional perpetual futures markets on Hyperliquid's HIP-3 permissionless listings. Under the agreement, Hyperion will receive a

According to U.Today, Volvo Group's logistics management head Ivan Branco recently disclosed that the company is developing a proprietary cryptocurrency for supplier transaction settlements. The company tested the digital currency in a closed environment to unify transaction processes between

According to Visa's joint research report released on July 16, AI agent payments are accelerating. The x402 protocol, incubated by Coinbase and Cloudflare and managed by the Linux Foundation, has processed approximately $15 million in adjusted on-chain transaction volume since May 2025, with

According to Foresight News, Humanoid Network launched today on Robinhood Chain, enabling the conversion of human movements into verifiable training data for humanoid robot development. The network's HAN token began trading via Virtuals Protocol, reaching a peak market cap of $18.95 million

Bitget recently launched 16 rTokens (tokenized U.S. equities and ETFs) including rXBI (SPDR Biotechnology ETF), rDIA (SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust), rKSTR (Shanghai Stock Exchange Sci-Tech 50 ETF), rJBL (Jabil Global Tech), and rKR (Kroger), spanning financial services, healthcare, in

Pi Network released an announcement on July 15 outlining three updates: the v25 protocol upgrade is scheduled to be executed on July 22. The main additions include the BN254 cryptography module and the Poseidon hashing algorithm, enabling developers to build privacy-preserving applications supporting zero-knowledge proofs on the Pi Chain. The v26 upgrade has also been added to the subsequent schedule; the exact timeline will follow Pi Network’s official announcement. Pi Network Protocol v25 Upgr

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) completed its first batch of tokenized securities live trading on July 15, with pilot assets covering tokenized stocks, ETFs, and U.S. Treasuries. Participating institutions include JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock, Vanguard, and CME Group. Overall, there are more than 20 participating institutions, and some reports indicate that ecosystem cooperation partners number more than 40. DTCC has announced plans to roll out tokenized services more br

Base co-founder Jesse Pollak published a long post on his personal X account on July 15, admitting publicly that between 2024 and 2025 he bet on a dual strategy of on-chain native social and creator tokens (“Creator Coins”)—which he said was “obviously the wrong bet”—and announcing that Base would be repositioned as “the blockchain for global finance.” The three core pillars have been adjusted to trading, payments, and AI agents. Q1 2026 Social Strategy Misstep: The Breakdown and Knock-on Losses