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Blockaid found Ethereum remained the hardest-hit blockchain in H1 2026, while Solana replaced Arbitrum as the network with the second-highest losses, driven largely by key compromises.
Crypto
Circle bought roughly 1,000 IBM blockchain patents, becoming the top U.S. holder. The seller is reportedly also a backer of Open USD, a stablecoin consortium built to compete with Circle's own USDC.
The agreement accelerates Core Scientific's pivot from bitcoin mining toward AI data centers, following the termination of its ASIC agreement with Block.
Bitcoin fell nearly $3,000 from Monday's $65,600 high, briefly reaching $63,000 as roughly $700 million in leveraged positions were liquidated. South Korea's Kospi plunged about 11%, while the U.S. Senate postponed the Crypto Clarity Act, weakening risk appetite before the Federal Reserve decision.
Hyperliquid's ETFs outpace peers with outsized inflow impact.
Ethereum has paused after its recent recovery, with the price action compressing beneath a key resistance area while still holding above higher lows. The current structure suggests that the market is approaching an inflection point where the next breakout or breakdown could determine the short-term direction.
Bitcoin has always been a highly cyclical, boom-or-bust asset. After the previous crypto bear market in 2022, Bitcoin exploded in value to hit a new all-time high.
With about 835 billion SHIB moving through exchanges in the last 24 hours, Shiba Inu has documented yet another wave of enormous whale activity. The narrative that institutional-sized wallets are actively managing exposure around SHIB's recent breakout is reinforced by the most recent on-chain data, which reveals that large holders continue to reposition their assets at an exceptionally high pace despite exchange inflows and outflows remaining elevated.
Bitcoin slid to $63,414 as a one-in-three Fed rate hike probability and $465M in ETF outflows erased July's fragile recovery gains.
The Cardano Foundation said that it partnered with Hamburg-based data cooperative Reef Data eG to record sales, reward distributions and member payouts on the Cardano blockchain. Using Reeve, the Foundation's open-source transparency platform, the project makes cooperative payment flows independently verifiable instead of relying only on internal records.
Bitcoin traders have spent the past month reducing protection against a price decline while the Fed has made its next decision harder to predict. The Bitcoin options put-to-call open-interest ratio has fallen to approximately 0.52 from 0.76 in late June, meaning about 52 put contracts remain open for every 100 calls.
Ripple has committed $48M this cycle, making it America's second-largest corporate donor as the CLARITY Act heads for a critical Senate vote.
XRP price fell about 5% to $1.05 on July 28 as a broader risk-off move and forced long liquidations pushed the token below a closely watched technical floor. XRP price breaks below a double-top neckline According to data from crypto.
In 2023 a group of developers forked the XRP Ledger because its validators would not adopt smart contracts.
Circle Internet Group (NYSE:CRCL) acquired nearly 1,000 blockchain patents from IBM (NYSE:IBM) Monday, making Circle the largest blockchain patent holder in the United States. What Did Circle Actually Buy?
1inch launched Aqua publicly across 13 EVM chains, with a 10M 1INCH incentive program for shared, self-custodial DeFi liquidity provisioning.
The yen's 40-year low raises carry-trade risks as traders watch USD/JPY, Bank of Japan policy and possible pressure on Bitcoin.
U.S. spot ether ETFs attracted $9.23 million on Monday, while bitcoin funds recorded a third consecutive day of withdrawals. Solana and XRP products also posted modest gains, but HYPE ETFs continued to lose capital. Ether ETFs Add $9.
bStocks' rapid growth highlights the potential for tokenized equities to transform trading, though regulatory challenges could impact future adoption. BNB Chain's bStocks hits $7B in trading volume weeks after launch.
Ethereum (ETH) price has gained 19.6% over the past month. That beat the 5.2% rise in Bitcoin (BTC) and led the 20 largest cryptocurrencies.
