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According to blockchain data analytics platform Bubblemaps, after BitMEX announced its closure, the price of its platform token BMEX dropped significantly, falling approximately 95% from its previous levels. However, based on the tokenomics publicly disclosed by BitMEX, about 75% of the total BMEX supply was originally planned for employee incentives, ecosystem development, and long-term reserves, but these tokens were never distributed on-chain. Data shows that approximately 92% of the BMEX supply was locked in vesting contracts in 2021, with the remaining 8% distributed at the token launch, including: 5% for airdrops and 3% for product and liquidity support.On November 2, 2022, the product and liquidity address claimed approximately 63.75 million BMEX, while addresses designated for employee incentives, ecosystem growth, and long-term reserves did not claim any tokens. Bubblemaps stated that this does not necessarily indicate a problem, as the project may have subsequently adjusted its tokenomics, contracts, or distribution plans, which were not reflected on-chain.
LayerZero has announced a partnership with Keeta to support the transfer of tokenized commercial bank deposits across public chains including Keeta Network, Ethereum, Solana, and Base, aiming to provide institutional cross-chain settlement infrastructure.According to the announcement, the two parties will combine LayerZero's omnichain interoperability protocol with Keeta's compliance infrastructure to support institutions in fund management and payment operations. The newly introduced Keeta Stablecoins are backed by commercial bank deposits custodied by Bivo, a licensed fintech platform in the United States. Unlike traditional stablecoins, they correspond to real commercial bank deposits and allow the issuer to maintain control over the contract through LayerZero's Omnichain Fungible Token (OFT) standard.Keeta Stablecoins will launch later this month, initially supporting the US dollar, with future expansions to include the Euro, Japanese Yen, Chinese Yuan, British Pound, Canadian Dollar, Mexican Peso, UAE Dirham, Hong Kong Dollar, and other fiat currencies. (The Block)
Odaily News: Ethereum Layer 2 network Taiko released a post-mortem of the June 21 security incident, stating that the attack resulted from an off-chain signature key leak and a verification process gap. The attacker exploited these to forge proofs and bypass the Prover whitelist, rather than breaking ZK cryptography or smart contracts. The attacker stole approximately $1.75 million from cross-chain bridges and Vaults, but over $11 million in assets were protected, and no user funds were lost. Taiko has fixed the vulnerability, restored the pre-attack state, and resumed operation on July 2; an OpenZeppelin audit confirmed the fixes with no high, medium, or low-risk vulnerabilities identified. The official statement also indicated that the Unzen upgrade, scheduled for August 6, will require ZK proofs for every block to further enhance network security.
According to Odaily, Pons, a token launch platform on Robinhood Chain, will release its v2 version, planning to introduce multiple feature updates.It is reported that Pons v2 will introduce a Bonding Curve mechanism denominated in ETH, remove trading restrictions for non-developer wallets, and support custom trading pairs, including RWA assets such as USDG, NVDA, AAPL, and HOOD.Additionally, Pons will adopt Uniswap V4 pools and Hooks to redesign the fee structure, with creators receiving fees in ETH by default. When the token value reaches 4.2 ETH, it will automatically graduate to a permanently locked Uniswap V4 full-range position.Other updates include a new CTO function with a 3-day timelock, support for charging fees in stablecoins or other tokens, and an optional tax mechanism for each buy and sell transaction.
According to CertiK Alert monitoring, a security incident occurred on VerusCoin's Ethereum cross-chain bridge, with approximately $7.53 million in assets transferred out. Preliminary analysis indicates that this issue may be related to the cross-chain bridge failing to sufficiently verify whether the Verus chain-side input supports the paid amount, similar to an incident that occurred in May this year.
According to CoinDesk, the UK government plans to complete the first tokenized sovereign bond issuance tests through HSBC and the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) in early 2027, but industry experts point out that on-chain cash settlement issues remain the core obstacle hindering the implementation of the plan. Varun Paul, Global Head of Central Banks and Market Infrastructure at Fireblocks, stated that the project has secured sufficient institutional support, and a change in government (UK Prime Minister changing from Keir Starmer to Andy Burnham) is unlikely to reverse it, and tokenized government bonds are expected to boost market demand given the UK's current debt scale of nearly 3 trillion pounds (approximately 4 trillion USD). Jannah Patchay, Founder of Markets Evolution, pointed out that tokenized bond technology has been validated for nearly seven years since Santander Bank issued the first tokenized sterling corporate bond in 2019, but the absence of on-chain counterparty risk-free settlement assets has remained unresolved. She called on regulators to promote the use of compliant sterling stablecoins to provide an on-chain settlement mechanism. Currently, the global stablecoin market size reaches $300 billion, but TGBP, the largest pound stablecoin by market capitalization, is only worth about $34.2 million, accounting for a negligible proportion.
: Sandy Kaul, Head of Digital Assets and Innovation at investment management firm Franklin Templeton, stated that the AI agent economy will increase demand for blockchain protocols to facilitate machine-to-machine micropayments. Traditional bank card networks are unsuitable for agent-based payments due to fees and settlement times. Sandy Kaul pointed out that blockchain networks like Aptos, Solana, and BNB Chain are more suitable for the agent economy, with transactions settling in seconds, faster than the 1 to 3 business day settlement time of the Visa network. In a joint report, payment company Visa and investment validation platform Artemis stated that traditional bank cards designed for low-frequency human commercial activities are insufficient to support AI agents, which require near-zero fees and faster settlement. Since its launch in May 2025, the x402 payment protocol developed by Coinbase has seen an adjusted transaction volume of $15 million and over 109 million adjusted transactions.
: BNB Chain Agent commercial clearing layer TermiX announced that Web3 security infrastructure GoPlus and smart contract security auditing firm Salus have officially become Provider Agents on the Agent.family platform. They have launched two production-grade security audit services, promoting the autonomous invocation and settlement of "security capability as a service" for AI Agents in on-chain commercial scenarios.GoPlus has packaged its verified token contract deep scanning capability as a standard Provider Agent service. DeepScan conducts comprehensive security checks on token contracts, identifying risk patterns such as Rug Pulls, honeypot scams, contract permission abuse, and trading restrictions, and generates structured audit reports.Salus has launched smart contract auditing and penetration testing services, encompassing formal verification, fuzz testing, machine learning-based vulnerability detection, and manual expert auditing. It covers high-risk vulnerability categories such as reentrancy attacks, access control issues, integer overflows, and DoS attacks. Salus, a seed-stage investment from Binance Labs, is a core security partner within the BNB Chain ecosystem.
CardBox, an RWA infrastructure platform for trading card collectibles, officially announced a deep agency grading partnership with international grading brand CGC. The business currently primarily covers the Japanese and South Korean markets, with over 10,000 cards submitted for grading each month.CardBox is dedicated to verifying, custodializing, and digitizing physical collectible assets such as raw cards, graded cards, unopened packs, and boxes, enhancing their global circulation efficiency. In the future, the platform will further integrate the agency grading and Vault custodial processes. Users will be able to directly deposit graded cards into the CardBox Vault, and eligible custodial assets can generate RWA digital certificates for subsequent management and circulation.The CardBox Beta is now live on BNB Chain, with over 20,000 registered platform users and a cumulative transaction volume exceeding $1 million.
: Arcus, a decentralized exchange supported by Robinhood, launched tokenized stocks and perpetual futures on the Robinhood Chain on Tuesday. Arcus is built by the team behind the decentralized exchange dYdX and is supported by Robinhood Crypto. Arcus previously launched its spot market on July 1st when the Robinhood Chain went live. The platform offers over 95 stock tokens, perpetual markets, and crypto assets via self-custodial trading accounts, using USDG, a stablecoin issued by Paxos, as the primary collateral and settlement asset. The tokens launched on Arcus include stock tokens for major US companies such as Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google, and Amazon, as well as perpetual markets linked to stocks, ETFs, commodities, indices, and crypto assets. Arcus stated that its stock tokens are not available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and other restricted jurisdictions. The platform utilizes a self-custody model, allowing users to retain control of their assets and connect self-custodial wallets such as MetaMask, Ledger, and WalletConnect.
the Midnight Foundation has provided an update on the handling of the cross-chain bridge attack event involving Wanchain Cardano and BNB. Multiple exchanges including KuCoin, Kraken, Binance, Bybit, OKX, Gate, and MEXC have coordinated risk control actions, temporarily freezing the involved accounts and associated addresses, adding the hacker wallet to a blacklist, and pausing NIGHT token deposits and withdrawals as needed to curb the transfer and cashing out of stolen assets.The Foundation specifically noted that this security incident is an isolated incident related to a third-party cross-chain bridge, and the Midnight mainnet and native NIGHT assets have not been affected. The project team continues to collaborate with major exchanges and ecosystem partners to advance traceability investigations, reminding the community to rely on official disclosures for information and to be cautious of misinformation.
Global Chain Business has completed its global ecosystem launch conference, attracting approximately 6,000 participants from over 20 countries and regions to join online.During the conference, the new Global Chain Business Financial Academy was also launched, along with the release of the 2026-2027 global ecosystem strategic plan.Its core infrastructure, Webbridge Securities and Omin Market, have been launched simultaneously. During the public beta phase, the cumulative registered users reached 200,000, and the transaction volume of a single STO ecosystem exceeded $300 million.
RobinHub posted on platform X, stating that data shows since the launch of the Robinhood mainnet three weeks ago, the number of transactions has reached 119.75 million, the number of blocks has reached 15.25 million, the number of unique sending addresses has reached 1.66 million, the protocol TVL has reached $262 million, the number of deployed contracts has reached 974,300, the number of ERC-20 tokens has reached 396,000, the number of NFT collections has reached 9,090, and the number of DEX transactions has reached 46.66 million.
Odaily reports, according to official sources, Gate Alpha is launching a Robinhood Chain trading contest from 17:00 on July 17 to 16:00 on July 22 (UTC+8). After users click "Join Now" to complete registration, trading any token assets on the Robinhood Chain will qualify them to share in a $30,000 USDT airdrop reward. Sprint Trading Award: During the event, users with a cumulative trading volume on the Gate Alpha platform for Robinhood Chain assets (including both buys and sells) of ≥ $1,000 will proportionally share the $30,000 USDT airdrop reward based on their trading amount. Please visit the Gate Alpha zone, search for the Robinhood Chain token contract address, and participate in trading.Gate Alpha now supports popular public chains including SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BSC, Base, SUI, ARB, World Chain, AVAX, Polygon, LINEA, ZK, OP, and Berachain, and enables seamless cross-chain token trading through contract address search functionality, breaking down cross-chain trading barriers to provide one-click access to all on-chain tokens.
Virtuals 表示，本周 Robinhood Chain 上的代理经济继续加速，代理交易量突破 1.5 亿美元，建设者募资总额超过 230 万美元，累计上线代理数量超过 4500 个。官方称，Robinhood Chain 上首个 1 亿美元代理交易量用了两周，而从 1 亿美元增至 1.5 亿美元仅用了 3 天。
Robinhood is betting on the decentralized finance (DeFi) market by building its own blockchain, Robinhood Chain, aiming to bring over 10 million active users into the on-chain ecosystem. However, current trading activity on the network is still primarily driven by meme coin speculation, while the initial vision of tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) has yet to gain traction.Trading volume on Robinhood Chain has seen rapid growth recently. On July 12, the chain’s 24-hour DEX trading volume reached approximately $878 million, briefly surpassing Coinbase’s Base and Ethereum to rank among the top in decentralized trading volume, sparking interest in the crypto community. However, Robinhood Chain is still in its early stages. Data shows:1. On July 13, the chain’s perpetual contract trading volume was only about $5.9 million, while leading on-chain derivatives platform Hyperliquid recorded a trading volume of $8.9 billion during the same period;2. Robinhood Chain’s bridged TVL is reported at around $734 million, but the actual on-chain total value locked (TVL) is approximately $211 million, with some assets remaining in wallets and not entering lending or yield protocols;3. The market capitalization of tokenized RWA assets currently stands at just about $12.66 million.Currently, most of the trading activity on Robinhood Chain comes from meme coins. The CASHCAT token, recently launched on the chain, surged over 2,100% in one week, reaching a market cap of $156 million at one point—12 times the size of the entire RWA market on the chain.Robinhood stated that early on-chain activity is meeting expectations, with developers building out the ecosystem and users actively engaging with the network. The company emphasized that the long-term goal remains to bring real-world assets like stocks and ETFs on-chain, enabling services such as 24/7 trading and on-chain lending.Analysts believe Robinhood Chain’s development trajectory mirrors the early stages of some new public chains: gaining initial traction through speculative trading before proving whether it can convert this into long-term users, a developer ecosystem, and real financial applications. The key going forward will be whether Robinhood can leverage its massive retail user base to transform the short-term meme coin frenzy into a sustainable on-chain financial ecosystem. (CoinDesk)
Gate DEX has announced its full integration with Robinhood Chain, becoming one of the first mainstream exchange on-chain gateways to support this ecosystem, further expanding the platform's multi-chain ecosystem layout and Web3 infrastructure capabilities. This integration covers core scenarios such as asset discovery, wallet management, on-chain trading, cross-chain swaps, market tracking, and DApp interaction, providing users with a more complete and efficient on-chain experience.With this upgrade, Gate Main Site Alpha has added support for the display and trading of Robinhood Chain ecosystem assets, and has integrated with ecosystem launch platforms such as Noxa.fun and Bankr; Gate Wallet supports Robinhood Chain asset management and DApp interaction; Gate DEX Swap supports single-chain and cross-chain swaps on Robinhood Chain, and achieves asset interoperability with mainstream public chains such as BSC, Ethereum, and Base via Across and LayerZero, further improving the efficiency of multi-chain asset flow.As emerging public chain ecosystems like Robinhood Chain develop rapidly, Gate DEX continues to enhance its one-stop on-chain service capabilities covering asset discovery, trading, cross-chain connectivity, and ecosystem applications. Looking ahead, Gate will continue to deepen its multi-chain ecosystem development, connect with more high-quality public chains and innovative applications, continuously improve its Web3 product capabilities, and create a more open, efficient, and convenient on-chain experience for global users.
on July 17 that the token launch platform on Robinhood Chain listed 42,709 new tokens in the past 24 hours, including 11,547 pons tokens, 9,935 flap tokens, 6,471 hood.fun tokens, 2,358 bankr.bot tokens, 1,168 Virtuals tokens, 908 clanker tokens, among others.
MoonPay announced the acquisition of Y Combinator-backed crypto deposit startup Glide via an all-stock transaction, with the specific deal size undisclosed. Founded in 2023, Glide primarily provides crypto asset deposit solutions across tokens, wallets, exchanges, and bank cards, supporting over 100 tokens and 30 blockchain networks, with an annualized trading volume exceeding $100 million.
According to official data, more than a week after launch, Virtuals' Agent trading volume on Robinhood Chain has exceeded $100 million. Over 2,440 Agents have been launched, raising $1.8 million for developers from well-known companies such as Google and General Dynamics. As previously reported, Robinhood Chain integrated Virtuals' AI Agent infrastructure from day one, enabling users to launch, fund, own, and use Agents in a tokenized market. Currently, Virtuals has become a key AI Agent infrastructure on Robinhood Chain.