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According to SlowMist monitoring, the decentralized finance protocol Lien Finance suffered an attack. The attacker exploited a smart contract vulnerability to mint unbacked bond tokens and stole approximately $542,000 worth of USDC. Leveraging this vulnerability, the attacker successfully minted new, non-anomalous BondTokens without burning the corresponding input bonds. Subsequently, the attacker exchanged the tokens for USDC via a pre-authorized address, ultimately transferring approximately 542,144.63 USDC from the victim's address. Analysis indicates that the incident was essentially caused by a verification flaw in the bond token exchange logic, which allowed the attacker to bypass asset collateral constraints and mint unsupported assets.
According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the MakerDAO initial team/investor address (claim address 0x74B...F0E, sell address 0xE26...7dc) sold 1,050 MKR that had been held for 10 years 20 minutes ago, swapping them for 1.316 million USDC and transferring the funds to Kraken. This address claimed the 1,050 MKR in April 2016. Since then, aside from the MKR token upgrade migration in 2018, the relevant MKR had remained unmoved.
Odaily News Bitwise released its "Q3 2026 Staking Report," showing that 40.2 million ETH has now been staked, accounting for 33% of the total ETH supply, a new all-time high. The increase in staking this year has primarily come from institutions, including staking ETFs, corporate treasuries, and other large holders. The report also indicates that the staking rates for the networks covered by Bitwise remain high, with Solana at 68%, Near at 45%, Hyperliquid at 44%, and Avalanche at 41%.Additionally, Ethereum’s throughput increased by 73% year-over-year, while Avalanche’s transaction volume reached four times that of the same period last year. Recently, Coinbase and Circle also staked 500,000 HYPE each on Hyperliquid, signaling that institutional staking is expanding to more emerging PoS networks.
Odaily AI infrastructure project Vanar has announced its migration to the Base network. The positioning of the VANRY token will shift from supporting blockchain infrastructure to coordinating and incentivizing the AI Organizations ecosystem.Vanar stated that it is building an AI Organization economic system, enabling functions such as product development, service delivery, order processing, USDC settlement, and reputation recording through organization-level AI agents. The team believes that the core bottleneck for future AI development will shift from model capabilities to identity, trust, memory, and organizational structure.Regarding the token migration, existing VANRY holders will migrate at a 1:1 ratio, meaning their holdings will not change. However, the total supply will increase from 2.4 billion to 10 billion tokens to support incentives for the AI Organizations ecosystem, developers, partners, and infrastructure development.According to the official statement, 62% of the total supply will remain locked initially. Newly allocated tokens will adopt a lock-up and 60-month linear release mechanism, with the full release cycle expected to be 5 years.Additionally, Vanar will terminate the validator node staking mechanism on Vanarchain and integrate its infrastructure into the Base network. The team plans to launch the Vanar Genesis event on August 3rd, where the first batch of AI Organizations will go live, alongside a reward pool of 100 million VANRY tokens to incentivize high-performing ecosystem projects.
Bitget launches a USDT wealth management event from July 23 to August 6. During the event, users whose net deposit amount reaches the specified threshold can subscribe to USDT flexible wealth management products in the "Simple Earn" section and enjoy corresponding tiered annualized yields, up to 8.5% APR. Eligible net deposit currencies include USDT, USDC, USDGO, and U. For details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
According to official announcements, Ondo Perps has now launched a dual reward mechanism: on one hand, traders can share a portion of the USDC reward pool by inviting new users, and their own trading volume also counts towards this reward pool; on the other hand, every trade will also simultaneously earn Ondo Points based on trading volume and Open Interest.
Mizuho analysts stated that if the U.S. crypto market structure bill, the "Clarity Act," is passed, while it may generally benefit the digital asset industry, the long-term impact on Circle could be negative. The reason is that regulatory clarity will attract more large institutions into the stablecoin market, further accelerating stablecoin commodification and eroding the revenue potential of Circle's USDC.Mizuho believes that the primary pressure Circle faces in the near term comes from Open USD. This stablecoin project is backed by a coalition of over 140 financial, technology, and crypto companies, with members including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, and Coinbase. Unlike Circle's model, which retains approximately 38% of USDC reserve yields, Open USD employs a "pass-through" model, distributing nearly all reserve yields to distribution partners while retaining only a small management fee.Analysts also noted that Coinbase, as the largest distributor of USDC, also supports Open USD. This could give Coinbase stronger bargaining power when renegotiating its revenue-sharing agreement with Circle in the future. The distribution agreement between the two parties could be up for renegotiation as early as next month.
According to official sources, the annualized yield from minting Gate GUSD has reached 3.8%. As a yield-bearing stable asset backed by US Treasury RWA and stablecoin assets, GUSD provides stable returns while allowing users to participate in diverse ecosystem scenarios such as Launchpool and Pre-IPOs, enhancing the efficiency of idle capital utilization. Currently, Gate's 367th ANTFUN Launchpool is ongoing. Users can stake GUSD to share in rewards of 3,756,574 ANTFUN tokens. When combining the staking yield from the GUSD pool with its minting returns, the current estimated annualized yield reaches 8.56%.Furthermore, Gate has launched a lossless, instant redemption feature for GUSD. Users who mint GUSD via USDT, USDC, or USD1 can, within the available quota for lossless exit of the corresponding currency, enjoy a 1:1 real-time deposit in the original currency and be exempt from redemption fees. This feature balances yield generation with flexible capital allocation.
GoPlus Security issued a security alert stating that a user signed a malicious Permit transaction 183 days ago, resulting in approximately $1,625 worth of USDC being transferred by phishing attackers. Since the user did not revoke the relevant authorization thereafter, attackers exploited this authorization again to transfer approximately $75,780 worth of USDC.
TownSquare, an institutional yield and cross-chain lending brokerage service infrastructure, announced the official launch of its ICO public sale. This public sale is technically supported by the Echo Sonar platform from the Coinbase ecosystem. The valuation is divided into two tiers: a $150 million valuation based on a 6-month lock-up, and a $200 million valuation with no lock-up and full release at TGE, with a fundraising cap of $1 million. Currently, 30 minutes into the public sale, over $200,000 has been raised. According to data, most users chose the second tier with the $200 million valuation. This public sale is the first project based on the Monad ecosystem on Sonar, supporting USDC and USDT0 tokens on Monad. Previously, TownSquare completed a total of 3 rounds of financing totaling $16.25 million, with participation from World Liberty Financial, Auros Ventures, Amber Group, Animoca Ventures, OKX Ventures, as well as angel investors and institutions from ecosystems such as Monad, a16z, etc. It is projected that the previous valuation is comparable to this ICO valuation. TownSquare Sonar Public Sale Registration: townsq.xyz/sale
the cross-chain protocol Allbridge has issued an official statement confirming that an attacker has withdrawn approximately $1.65 million in assets from the Allbridge Core liquidity pool. A detailed analysis of the incident is currently being compiled, and the full investigation results will be published subsequently. The team emphasizes that there is no further risk to current user liquidity and that the Allbridge Next service is operating normally.In response to this incident, Allbridge plans to relaunch the Core version but will remove the liquidity pool design. Future cross-chain transfers will be facilitated via Circle CCTP and the LayerZero router to eliminate the risk of liquidity pool imbalance and the model vulnerabilities exploited in this attack. This incident has accelerated the previously initiated migration plan to fully transition to the more secure new infrastructure, Allbridge Next. According to the plan, Allbridge Core and Allbridge Classic will cease operations in their current form within the next three months, and users are advised to withdraw their relevant liquidity in advance.It is understood that this attack has exposed the risks inherent in the traditional cross-chain liquidity pool model and has further driven the protocol's transition towards a cross-chain architecture based on message passing and native asset transfer.
Coinbase has announced the upcoming listing of perpetual contract products related to CRCL, Robinhood (HOOD), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). The platform plans to open trading for the CRCL-PERP, HOOD-PERP, and MSTR-PERP perpetual contract markets on or after July 21 at 9:00 UTC (17:00 Beijing time on the 21st).
edgeX has officially announced the start of its migration from version V1 to V2. Upon completion of the migration, users will be able to participate in the new USDC Rewards Vault incentive program using native USDC.This program is launched by edgeX in collaboration with the USDC ecosystem and on-chain risk management institution Gauntlet, with a total reward quota of up to 50 million USDC. During the event, users depositing USDC can earn a comprehensive annualized reward of up to approximately 7%, including:4% USDC annualized yieldAn additional 3% EDGE annualized rewardThis migration will further upgrade edgeX's transition towards a native USDC settlement system, offering users a more stable and efficient capital usage experience. The program is available for a limited time and will remain open until the deposit quota is reached.
: In an interview this week, Circle President Heath Tarbert responded to questions about the stock price falling from $260 to $62, stating that the company is focusing on long-term development. If it can fulfill its mission of building a full-stack internet platform infrastructure, the stock price will ultimately reflect that value in the long run. Addressing the new competition posed by the Open USD Alliance, which consists of 140 companies including Visa, Stripe, Mastercard, and Google, Heath Tarbert noted that USDC, as a stablecoin natively supporting 34 blockchains, has built a network effect with a circulating supply of $73 billion that is extremely difficult to replicate. Discussing the difference in market position compared to Tether, he stated that USDC is the world's largest regulated stablecoin and boasts the highest real transaction volume.
Odaily News: Headline: "Loss of 23.75 Million USDC: Ostium Price Data Attacked". According to Ostium's monitoring, Ostium has released an update on the security incident. Its liquidity provider treasury was attacked on July 15, resulting in a loss of 23,752,746 USDC. Preliminary investigations indicate that the attacker compromised the off-chain infrastructure that supplies price data to the protocol, submitting disguised, fraudulent price reports. By rapidly opening and closing multiple large positions, the attacker extracted artificially generated profits from the treasury. Ostium stated that trader collateral is stored in separate, isolated smart contracts and was unaffected by this incident; all trading positions remain open. The team paused trading and froze all trading contracts within 60 minutes of the first attack transaction. Currently, Ostium is cooperating with Mandiant, zeroShadow, Collisionless, SEAL 911, and law enforcement agencies, and is coordinating with trading platforms, bridge contracts, and stablecoin issuers to advance the investigation. The engineering team is repairing and strengthening the relevant infrastructure to support a safe resumption of trading. Ostium stated it will notify at least 24 hours in advance before thawing the trading contracts. Once trading resumes, existing positions will be marked at the price at the time of reopening, unaffected by price fluctuations during the suspension.
CertiK published an analysis stating that the Solana ecosystem protocol DeFiTuna was attacked on July 16, with losses of approximately 569,601 USDC. The attacker first created an extremely low-liquidity TUNA/USDC pool and swapped borrowed USDC into the pool via Jupiter routing. Since only a minimal amount of TUNA was ultimately obtained, the protocol experienced rounding down during the position asset value calculation, causing the total assets to be recorded as 0, thereby incorrectly passing the health and solvency checks.
: Circle has entered into a strategic alliance with Argentine financial services group BIND Group to provide USDC liquidity access to Argentine enterprises through BEN, a licensed virtual asset service provider under BIND. BIND Group has total assets exceeding $2 billion, and its core banking entity, BIND Banco Industrial, provides services to institutions and enterprises. BEN will operate in compliance with Argentine regulatory requirements, supporting use cases such as payments, treasury management, and digital asset transfers. BIND Vice President Andrés Meta stated that expanding institutional access to USDC is an important step for the Argentine digital asset ecosystem. Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire noted that Argentina has become a more attractive destination for foreign investment. Argentina is one of the few markets in Latin America where USDC adoption levels are close to those of USDT. Tether-backed Oobit disclosed that transaction volumes completed by Argentine users using USDC account for 46% of the country’s total stablecoin transaction volume.
global payment giant Visa is accelerating its stablecoin infrastructure efforts by launching the Visa Stablecoin Platform, which helps banks and fintech companies integrate stablecoin payment capabilities into their existing payment and treasury management systems. It is reported that the platform aims to provide stablecoin service support to approximately 15,000 financial institutions and over 200 million merchants within Visa's network, enabling enterprises to use USD stablecoins for settlement, capital flow, and financial management within the traditional payment network.Visa currently processes approximately $15 trillion in payment transactions annually and has already processed tens of billions of dollars in stablecoin settlement volume. The company hopes to further expand the application scope of stablecoins through this new platform. Initially, the Visa Stablecoin Platform will support the new stablecoin OUSD, launched by the Open Standard alliance, while continuing to be compatible with stablecoins already supported by Visa, including USDC issued by Circle and USDG issued by Paxos. Visa believes that stablecoins are becoming an important part of the future financial infrastructure, with advantages including:Instant Settlement: Transactions no longer rely on traditional banking clearing cycles;Low-Cost Transfers: Reducing payment costs based on blockchain networks;Transparency and Traceability: On-chain transaction records provide higher verifiability.Visa has been consistently building its footprint in the stablecoin space. In 2020, Visa became the first global payment network to support USDC settlement; in 2025, the company launched a stablecoin settlement plan to further promote the entry of stablecoins into the mainstream payment system.Meanwhile, Visa's competitors are also accelerating their entry into the stablecoin market. Mastercard recently launched a stablecoin settlement solution and partnered with companies such as MoonPay and Paxos; American Express has also participated in the ecosystem development related to Open Standard.As traditional payment giants increasingly adopt stablecoins, they are transitioning from a payment tool within the crypto industry into a vital component of the global financial infrastructure. (Fortune)
Coinbase officially announced that the regulated derivatives clearing business of UK financial services group Marex has now formally supported the use of USDC as Initial Margin collateral. This marks the first entry of a stablecoin into the actual operational processes of traditional clearing infrastructure. The first transaction was completed by Prime Trading, LLC, with Coinbase providing the underlying infrastructure support, including custody services, 1:1 instant conversion between fiat currency and USDC, and a customized daily reporting system that meets clearing industry standards.The implementation of this business was made possible by a "No-Action Letter" issued by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in December 2025. This policy opens the door for Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs) to accept stablecoins, Bitcoin, and Ethereum as client margin collateral.Coinbase stated that USDC, as a collateral asset, can provide round-the-clock liquidity, helping institutions break free from the limitations of traditional banking hours, allowing margin funds to be transferred in line with market operating hours. In this partnership, the core capabilities provided by Coinbase include:24/7 instant conversion between fiat currency and USDC: Institutional clients can convert between USD and USDC at any time, improving the efficiency of margin allocation;Customized reporting system: Meets the requirements of traditional clearing systems for asset recording, reconciliation, and regulatory reporting;NYDFS-compliant custody: Provides institutional-grade security for USDC collateral assets.
Coinbase stated on X platform that Marex is leveraging Coinbase infrastructure to enable clients to use USDC as initial margin for US regulated futures and options, providing its traders with a new level of capital efficiency.