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Coinbase Institutional and Glassnode have jointly released a market report, maintaining a neutral outlook on the cryptocurrency market for the third quarter of 2026. In the second quarter, the total market capitalization of the crypto market (excluding stablecoins) declined by approximately 12%, while stablecoin supply reached an all-time high. On-chain data suggests that Bitcoin may be transitioning from a correction phase to an accumulation phase, characterized by compressed valuations, near-multi-year lows in recent active supply, and the proportion of supply in profit breaking below historical statistical lower bounds—historically corresponding to accumulation rather than distribution zones. However, the macro liquidity environment remains tight, with the Federal Reserve maintaining a hawkish stance under Kevin Warsh's leadership, a strong U.S. dollar, coupled with geopolitical risks, selling pressure from digital asset treasuries, and net outflows from spot BTC and ETH ETFs in the first half of the year (though the pace of outflows has begun to slow), thus overall caution is advised.
According to official announcements, Coinbase has added USDC-BRL support for Brazilian users. The trading pair will be available on Coinbase Exchange at launch and will gradually expand to the Coinbase website, Coinbase app, and Coinbase Advanced.
Odaily news, Samsung announced at the 2026 Galaxy Unpacked event that Samsung Wallet will support stablecoins, expanding from cash and savings to include new digital value forms such as stablecoins. A demo screen showed the wallet app holding Circle’s USDC, but Samsung did not mention USDC or USDT as partners for the initiative. Samsung product manager Lee Dinham stated that Samsung Wallet will become the financial ecosystem foundation connecting Galaxy devices and services, integrating payments, rewards, and digital assets into a single experience. Samsung also unveiled its first credit card, the Samsung Galaxy Card, offering users 5% cash back on eligible spending at brand stores and other qualifying merchants. Samsung previously introduced an embedded cryptocurrency wallet in the 2019 Galaxy S10 series, adopting a hardware-supported security solution. In October of this year, Samsung announced the integration of Coinbase's subscription service, Coinbase One, into Samsung Wallet in the US.
Injective has announced on X platform that native INJ has officially been listed on Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the United States. Coinbase users can now trade INJ and directly transfer INJ into the Injective ecosystem via deposit and withdrawal features.
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.
According to the official press release, Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy, and Strategy, nine leading financial institutions and Bitcoin companies, jointly announced the establishment of the Bitcoin Security Consortium on July 23, 2026. The members independently committed to contributing a total of $15 million over the next three years to support long-term security research for the Bitcoin network, with a focus on development work in the field of post-quantum cryptography. The consortium's daily affairs are coordinated on a voluntary basis by Brink Executive Director Mike Schmidt; it will not intervene in protocol development or specific change decisions and will regularly release Bitcoin security status reports to investors and the public.
Coinbase has announced a partnership with Mubadala Capital, part of the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, and KAIO, a tokenization infrastructure provider, to issue compliant on-chain tokens for Mubadala's evergreen private market fund, open to qualified investors.Coinbase will not only support the token issuance through the Base network but will also purchase the token and include it on its corporate balance sheet, marking the first time a major US-listed company has used a regulated tokenized real-world asset (RWA) for native on-chain treasury management. The product will also be deployed on the Solana and Sui networks, with KAIO providing compliant tokenization infrastructure. To date, the project has attracted approximately $75 million in funds, while Mubadala manages assets nearing $400 billion. (Fortune)
crypto exchange Coinbase disclosed that a routine infrastructure update last week, due to an undetected Kubernetes resource name conflict, mistakenly modified the Istio ingress gateway component, resulting in approximately 50 minutes of service interruption. Coinbase stated that customer funds were not at risk. The outage occurred between approximately 12:37 PM and 1:25 PM Eastern Time, impacting retail, institutional, and developer platforms. Some users were unable to complete deposits, withdrawals, or off-platform transactions, Coinbase Card debit card purchases were declined, while credit card purchases were unaffected. The outage also affected on-chain swaps on Base and Solana via Coinbase DEX, with Coinbase Exchange and Prime customers experiencing delayed or failed transfers and settlements. Coinbase stated it will add naming conflict checks, separate recovery tools from managed infrastructure, and test emergency access procedures more frequently.
U.S. Senate Republicans on Wednesday released a 616-page draft of the new Clarity Act, a significant legislative development in Congress's efforts to comprehensively regulate the digital asset industry. The crypto industry widely welcomed the draft, noting it retains protections for software developers and is expected to provide long-missing regulatory clarity for the U.S. digital asset market.Crypto Council for Innovation CEO Ji Hun Kim stated that bipartisan support is "critical" for the bill's passage. Solana Policy Institute CEO Miller Whitehouse-Levine called on Congress to seize the opportunity, while Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong remarked that the lack of a federal regulatory framework had previously allowed bad actors like FTX to harm consumers and forced a substantial amount of crypto business to move overseas.However, several Senate Democrats quickly voiced opposition, arguing that the ethics provisions in the new text addressing conflicts of interest related to Trump's crypto assets are too weak. Senator Angela Alsobrooks stated that the current proposal put forward by Republicans is still "not enough," and that provisions concerning elected officials' ethics, consumer protection, illicit finance, conflicts of interest, and market integrity all require strengthening.
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 a post by a16z crypto researcher Robert Hackett and data advisor Ryan Holloway, the tokenized stock market is experiencing explosive growth. As of June 2026, the total market capitalization of tokenized stocks reached approximately $1.7 billion, representing a more than fivefold increase from $329 million a year earlier, making it one of the fastest-growing categories among tokenized assets. On-chain data shows that monthly transfer volume surged from $53 million last June to $9.22 billion this June, a year-over-year increase of more than 170 times. The market structure has also changed significantly: the proportion of crypto-related products dropped from 79% to 21%; the AI and chip category jumped from nearly zero to a market share of 15.5%; tech giants rose from 0.6% to 10.6%; and ETFs and indices increased from 4.5% to 17.3%. At the institutional level, DTCC has completed the first live trades of tokenized Treasury bonds and stocks on Digital Asset's Canton network, with full services planned to launch in October, which will open access for Wall Street to approximately $114 trillion in DTC custodied assets. Meanwhile, Robinhood has launched its own chain, NYSE's parent company announced a joint venture with OKX (pending regulatory approval), and Coinbase and Binance have also sequentially launched offerings for non-U.S. users.
: 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.
According to Bitcoin Magazine, the head of Coinbase Canada stated that the company is pushing to expand its business footprint in Canada, with the goal of building an "all-in-one exchange" covering crypto assets, tokenized stocks, and prediction markets. The plan aims to leverage blockchain technology to provide a more efficient, 24/7 trading experience. Currently, Coinbase is coordinating with Canadian regulators regarding the launch of related products.
Balaji, former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at A16z, stated on the X platform that Network School has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Republic of Kazakhstan. The new campus will provide support such as accelerated visas, streamlined corporate re-registration processes, and global talent recruitment.
Coinbase has released a post-mortem report on the service outage that occurred on July 14, stating the incident was caused by a misconfiguration of a critical network component triggered by a routine configuration update. The impact lasted approximately 50 minutes, and user funds remained safe throughout the period.Coinbase stated that at 12:34 Beijing time (12:34 AM Eastern Time) on July 14, the company deployed a routine configuration change to a shared production Kubernetes cluster hosting core infrastructure services. The update was originally intended to migrate to a new service deployment model to enhance system performance and reliability.However, due to a resource name conflict that was not detected by the pre-production environment's detection mechanisms, this configuration modification unexpectedly affected the Istio Ingress Gateway-related Kubernetes resources within the cluster, rendering the network component unavailable. Approximately 3 minutes later, all inbound traffic to the cluster was interrupted, preventing internal services from accessing several infrastructure components.Coinbase noted that because numerous asynchronous workflows rely on these infrastructure services, including processes such as transaction settlement, fund transfers, and debit card transaction authorizations, multiple business lines were affected. The impacted services included:Retail users were unable to complete off-chain transactions, deposits, and withdrawals; some pending transactions appeared stuck and were completed after the service was restored;Coinbase Card debit card transactions temporarily failed, credit card payments were unaffected, but some card management functions were unavailable;Coinbase DEX's on-chain swap services on Base and Solana were suspended;Coinbase Exchange and Prime institutional customers experienced failed or delayed transfers and settlements;Coinbase Developer Platform customers were unable to complete account creation, fund transfers, or deposit services.Coinbase stated that the ingress gateway was restored at 13:20 Eastern Time, and the incident was mitigated by 13:23. Subsequently, the system began processing the backlog of tasks, with most services returning to normal quickly; the remaining queues were processed over the following hours. During the recovery process, Coinbase encountered two additional challenges. First, the deployment tools themselves relied on the affected ingress gateway to operate, preventing the standard rollback process from being executed, creating a circular dependency where the "fault impacted the remediation tools." Second, while the emergency break-glass access process was effective, the permission verification and manual review procedures increased the recovery time.Coinbase stated that there was no risk to asset security in this incident, but it exposed areas requiring continuous optimization in automated deployment, system dependencies, and disaster recovery mechanisms for large-scale finan
According to Decrypt, Galaxy Digital has officially launched the "Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Initiative," with three core pillars including: providing up to $5 million in post-quantum cryptography research grants to developers, publishing specialized research reports through Galaxy Research, and establishing a quantum advisory committee composed of scholars from multiple top universities. The initiative targets "Q-Day"—the critical moment when quantum computers utilize Shor's algorithm to crack Bitcoin's elliptic curve encryption, forge signatures, and steal wallet assets. Project Eleven predicts that quantum computers capable of cryptographic threats may emerge as early as 2030, at which point approximately 6.9 million BTC will face exposure risks. The Coinbase Quantum Advisory Committee has also called on developers to immediately initiate migration work. Meanwhile, Trump has signed an executive order setting the deadline for the U.S. federal government to complete post-quantum cryptography migration to December 2031.
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
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has responded to recent controversy surrounding his X account profile picture change and claims that the Base community is "unsupported." He thanked the community for their feedback and acknowledged that his previous communication regarding expectations was not clear enough. Users should not interpret the content of his personal X account as investment advice or signals for individual tokens. He stated that he simply shares internet content he finds interesting or amusing, and may not even be aware whether such content is associated with any particular token or project. He pointed out that his tweets and profile picture changes do not represent endorsements of or commitments to any project.Regarding support for the Base ecosystem, Brian Armstrong explained that Base aims to build financial services infrastructure, supporting various application scenarios including stock tokenization, lending protocols, stablecoin payments, and Meme coin trading. Coinbase supports users in freely trading assets but will not use its official influence to "pump" or promote specific tokens. Both Coinbase and the Base team are indeed subject to compliance and regulatory restrictions, preventing them from listing certain tokens on the centralized exchange and from marketing specific projects at the community's request.Base currently supports ecosystem development primarily through offline Base Batches events, developer grant programs, and investments from Coinbase Ventures and the Base Ecosystem Fund. Additionally, based on long-term user value assessment, Coinbase may integrate certain Base ecosystem DeFi protocols into its own products to help projects expand distribution.Brian Armstrong stated that Coinbase will continue to prioritize projects capable of creating long-term user value in the future, and expressed hope that this clarification will help the community set clearer expectations. He added that he may still continue to post Meme content he finds interesting, but such content will not constitute investment advice.
Coinbase announces it will list perpetual contract products related to CRCL, Robinhood (HOOD), and MicroStrategy (MSTR). The platform plans to open trading for the three perpetual contract markets, CRCL-PERP, HOOD-PERP, and MSTR-PERP, at or after 9:00 UTC on July 21 (17:00 Beijing Time on the 21st).
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).