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Odaily News: Zurich-based crypto bank Sygnum Bank has integrated its regulated cryptocurrency services into the Bancastato online banking system, allowing clients in the Swiss canton of Ticino to buy, hold, and sell BTC, ETH, LTC, and SOL via Bancastato's web and mobile platforms without needing to open a separate exchange account. Bancastato has become the first bank to offer cryptocurrency trading through Sygnum's application programming interface within an Avaloq software-as-a-service banking environment. Clients can place market orders based on cryptocurrency quantity or dollar value, with Sygnum handling trade execution while Bancastato retains the client relationship, brand, and front-end experience. Sygnum stated that its B2B platform has provided trading, custody, compliance, and settlement infrastructure to more than 25 banks and international financial institutions, including partners such as Zuger Kantonalbank, Luzerner Kantonalbank, Postfinance, and VZ Vermögenszentrum. Sygnum noted that these collaborations have delivered regulated digital asset services to over one-third of the Swiss population through existing banking relationships.
Uniswap partners with decentralized lending protocol Morpho to launch yield product Earn, enabling users to directly deposit USDC, USDT, and ETH to earn on-chain yield while keeping assets non-custodial.
Bitwise released its Q3 2026 staking report. Currently, 40.2 million ETH are staked, accounting for 33% of the total supply. New staking this year primarily comes from institutions, including staking ETFs, corporate treasuries, and other large holders, continuing to increase despite price declines. Staking ratios on other networks also remain high: Solana at 68%, Near at 45%, Hyperliquid at 44%, and Avalanche at 41%. Ethereum throughput increased 73% year-over-year, while Avalanche trading volume grew 4x year-over-year. Institutional staking is also expanding to emerging networks.
Ethereum Institutional (@ethereuminsti) posted that Open Standard's stablecoin project Open USD will be deployed on Ethereum on its first day of launch, having already attracted over 140 enterprises to join, including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, BNY, and others. All reserve yields will flow to partners driving its growth. Open Standard stated that shared assets require neutral infrastructure, and Ethereum is the deployment platform it has chosen.
Japanese listed company Quantum Solutions has sold another 1,000 Ethereum, cashing out approximately $1.9 million to support its AI data center expansion. Following this sale, the company has reduced its ETH holdings by nearly 30% since mid-June.According to company documents, Quantum Solutions' subsidiary, GPT Pals Studio, sold this batch of ETH on Thursday at an average price of $1,903. The company expects to record a loss of approximately $100,000 from this transaction. After the sale, Quantum Solutions' remaining ETH holdings amount to approximately 4,765, which is lower than the 4,976 ETH held by Def consulting, thereby losing its position as the largest corporate ETH holder among Japanese listed companies.Quantum Solutions has sold a total of 1,904 ETH in less than two months, accounting for approximately 28.6% of its pre-sale holdings of 6,668.8 ETH. Previously, GPT Pals had sold 904 ETH on June 16, cashing out about $1.6 million.The company acquired the majority of its ETH during the crypto market highs of the fourth quarter of 2025, when ETH prices were in the range of approximately $4,000 to $4,500.
During the 11th year of Ethereum, the Ethereum Foundation underwent organizational restructuring, including leadership departures, layoffs, the introduction of a new CROPS mandate, and the spin-off of EthLabs, Ethereum Systems, and Ethereum Institutional as independent entities. The Ethereum Foundation seeks to further decentralize its role within the ecosystem. Concurrently, Ethereum continued to advance its technology and institutional adoption, launching the Fusaka upgrade and attracting participation from Wall Street institutions such as BlackRock and JPMorgan; cumulative inflows into US spot Ethereum ETFs have exceeded $11.23 billion.
Odaily News Trader 0xSun stated on social media that during Robinhood's earnings call, the only token appearing in a fleeting search bar was CASHCAT. Additionally, Robinhood CEO Vlad, when discussing the Robinhood Chain, mentioned that the chain will be built around RWA, adding that he also likes Meme coins.As a result, CASHCAT's market cap rebounded from approximately $30 million to nearly $50 million. 0xSun believes that an ideal trajectory for a public chain resembles the Base ecosystem in late 2024, initially driven by factors such as founder influence and team background, and later ignited by events like exchange listings. Currently, Robinhood possesses similar conditions, and tokens on its chain could benefit from expectations of potential exchange listings.Furthermore, 0xSun noted that the Meme coin PIPEDOG on the Robinhood chain saw its market cap quickly surge past $75 million within a few hours. The project team locked the liquidity pool and refunded 173 ETH to users affected by the initial contract. The project currently has deep liquidity, with the pool containing approximately $4.5 million in ETH at a market cap of around $30 million.Previously active HOODRAT also once approached zero due to the overall downturn of the Robinhood chain but recently received attention from Matt, the original artist of the Pepe comic, causing its market cap to rebound from a low of $500,000 to $5 million.Beyond Meme coins, 0xSun indicated that STONKBROKER is currently one of the better projects within the Robinhood ecosystem that combines NFT, RWA, and game mechanics, making it worthy of continued attention.
the Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady at 3.5% to 3.75% on Wednesday, in line with market expectations. This marks the fifth consecutive meeting where the committee has taken no action since the 25 basis point rate cut in December 2025. Following the Fed's announcement, the price of Bitcoin fell approximately 1% to $63,890, while Ethereum also dropped about 1%, trading above $1,900. This decision did not include a Summary of Economic Projections or a dot plot, with the next dot plot scheduled for release in September. The committee stated that the U.S. economy is expanding at a solid pace, but inflation remains above the 2% target, partly due to rising energy prices driven by tensions in the Middle East. Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari, and Dallas Fed President Lorie Logan dissented against maintaining the rate, supporting an immediate 25 basis point hike instead. The next FOMC decision is scheduled for September 16, 2026, and will include updated economic projections and a new dot plot.
According to The Block, SoFi's crypto trading revenue in the second quarter increased 10% quarter-over-quarter, reaching $134.3 million, with net income of approximately $1.2 million after deducting $133.1 million in transaction costs. Meanwhile, SoFi's stablecoin SoFiUSD has begun processing 24/7 business payments through its business banking platform Big Business Banking, and went live for retail users in May, supporting buying, selling, holding, and exchanging on Ethereum and Solana.
the token is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank, can be natively minted and redeemed on Celo, and can be directly used to pay on-chain gas fees via Celo's fee abstraction mechanism. USAT went live in January this year and currently has a market cap of approximately $185 million.
以太坊机构（Ethereum Institutional）宣布完成初始生态系统融资轮，获得逾 100 位生态参与者支持，锚定投资方包括 BitMNR、Sharplink 及以太坊联合创始人 Joseph Lubin、Mihai Alisie，参与者涵盖加密原生机构及个人投资者。 后续，该组织将加速与银行、资产管理公司、托管机构、金融科技及主权机构的直接接触，并联合 L2、应用团队、基础设施及托管服务商等推进以太坊机构化进程。目前该组织已开放招聘。
据悉，Bybit 已上线最新一期定投机器人挑战赛，用户定投 BTC, ETH和 XAUT 即可有机会瓜分奖池。 活动由即日起至 2026 年 8 月 17 日 23:59（UTC 时间）结束，赛事包括两部分： 第 1 部分：此前未在 Bybit 创建过定投机器人定投新用户，可享高达 20% 返现。活动期间，新用户创建新的 BTC、ETH 或 XAUT 定投机器人，即可根据其 BTC、ETH 和 XAUT 累计定投量获得 20% 的返现（最高 50 USDT）。该奖赏仅限 BTC、ETH 和 XAUT 累计定投量排名前 100 的用户领取，且参与用户累计定投量须超过$100。 第 2 部分：所有符合资格的已报名用户创建 BTC、ETH 或 XAUT 定投机器人，即可瓜分 50,000 USDT 奖池。奖励将根据每位创建定投机器人的用户在累计 BTC、ETH 或 XAUT 日均持仓量中所占的份额，从 50,000 USDT 的奖池中进行分配。参与用户须通过定投持有价值至少 $200 的 BTC、ETH 或 XAUT 才能获得奖励资格。
According to Cryptopolitan, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has released a draft of supporting regulatory rules for the cryptocurrency market, covering registration and operational requirements for crypto exchanges, digital depository institutions, and token issuers. The draft stipulates that the minimum net assets of digital depository institutions must range between 50 million and 250 million rubles (approximately $600,000 to $3 million), depending on the nature of the business. These rules will supplement the "Law on Digital Currency and Digital Rights" passed by the Russian State Duma earlier this month, which is expected to officially take effect on September 1, 2026. Under the new framework, non-qualified investors are limited to purchasing mainstream assets such as BTC, ETH, and USDT annually, with a cap of $4,000; industry participants will have a transition period until March 1, 2027, to complete compliance and approval procedures.
Odaily Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin has published a new article introducing Diamond iO, a novel cryptographic obfuscation technique. This technology aims to address the extreme inefficiency of traditional indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) schemes, allowing programs to execute while hiding their internal logic and critical data. Traditional iO technology offers privacy protection but at a high computational cost. Diamond iO, by adopting more aggressive new cryptographic assumptions, improves computational efficiency from "cosmological time" to "planetary time," bringing it closer to practical application. Diamond iO is built on technologies such as Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). It encrypts programs, enabling users to execute the encrypted program and obtain correct outputs without viewing its internal code or hidden keys. This scheme introduces a new input encoding mechanism and conditional decryption method, reducing computational complexity while ensuring program logic is hidden. Its core application scenarios include protecting programs containing private keys, enabling secure software licensing, building trustless cryptographic services, and supporting blockchain and AI systems with stronger privacy guarantees.Diamond iO is still in its early research stages. Its security depends on novel cryptographic assumptions, including All-Product LWE and Evasive LWE, which require further research and validation. At the same time, the technology still faces efficiency challenges such as high computational overhead and circuit depth limitations. Researchers believe that by optimizing underlying hash functions, improving homomorphic encryption schemes, and reducing security parameter requirements, Diamond iO has the potential to become an important direction for advancing practical program obfuscation technology in the future.
Hyperliquid has become a decentralized exchange used by many traders for perpetual contract trading. Its Ethereum-compatible module, HyperEVM, directly connects to the self-developed HyperCore blockchain, allowing applications such as wallets and exchanges to provide services like perpetual contract trading based on its shared liquidity. Currently, hundreds of developers are deploying or integrating through Hyperliquid's builder codes system, including MetaMask, Phantom wallet, and South African exchange VALR. Data from Flowscan shows that related developers have generated approximately $90 million in revenue so far. Since October 2025, MetaMask has offered users self-custodial perpetual contract access within the wallet and charges a 0.1% builder fee. VALR CEO Farzam Ehsani stated that the exchange previously built its own perpetual contract infrastructure but chose to integrate Hyperliquid's order book due to insufficient liquidity and trading volume.
: A security report for the first half of 2026 released by on-chain security platform Blockaid shows that the crypto industry suffered losses exceeding $1 billion during the period, with a record number of hacker incidents in six months. Blockaid tracked 212 security incidents, including a single attack on KelpDAO that resulted in a loss of $292 million. Ethereum and Solana were the networks with the largest amounts of stolen funds during the period, with losses of approximately $332 million and $326 million, respectively. Blockaid stated that the number of high-threshold attacks in the first half of 2026 was 3.4 times that of the entire year of 2025. Ethereum incidents were primarily driven by code vulnerabilities, with attack vectors including bridge and smart contract exploits, unauthorized access to privileged accounts, and market manipulation. Solana's losses increased significantly from approximately $127 million in 2025, with over 98% of losses stemming from key leaks, primarily involving incidents related to Drift Protocol and Step Finance.
According to monitoring by Odaily, two independent third-party websites—strategicethreserve[.]xyz, which tracks data on listed companies holding ETH treasuries, and strategicsolanareserve[.]org, which tracks data on listed companies holding SOL treasuries—have both ceased updating. The latest data on the former shows Bitmine increasing its ETH holdings on June 7; the latter website is no longer accessible, and the last update on its official social media account dates back to November of last year.
According to CoinDesk, Lido has launched its largest upgrade since V2, planning to integrate more than 8 million staked ETH, valued at approximately $16.5 billion, into the new validator architecture following the Ethereum Pectra upgrade.
Ethereum staking protocol Lido stated on X platform that today's stETH Rebase has been completed as expected, and has compensated for the ETH rewards missed yesterday due to calculation deficiencies. The corresponding annual percentage rate (APR) is approximately 2.29%. Additionally, the protocol's oracle has been updated and passed audit. The new version will improve report processing speed and help locate the cause more quickly when similar issues arise in the future.Regarding the yield calculation anomaly that occurred yesterday, Lido stated that contributors are still conducting a root cause analysis. Further investigation details will be published on the official forum and social platforms. Throughout the entire incident, user funds were never at risk. Preliminary analysis suggests the issue may have stemmed from a specific edge case: the yield report from yesterday omitted a validator that was in a pending deposit status, causing some staking rewards to be excluded from the calculation.Lido stated that a complete post-mortem report will be released in the coming days to further explain the cause of the issue, remediation measures, and subsequent improvement plans.
Bitmine 董事长 Tom Lee在 X 平台发文表示，以太坊有望成为金融与 AI 代理最广泛使用的结算层，“ETH 就是链上货币”。 此外，在其转发的采访内容中，Tom Lee 还称回应了市场认为以太坊正被 Layer2 蚕食的问题，他表示并不认同，并指出虽然 Layer2 网络也吸引数千万现实世界用户进入链上生态，但以太坊主网仍在进一步巩固其作为主要经济结算中心的地位，快速确认（Fast Confirmation）机制能够把转账摩擦降低约 98%。