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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.
: 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.
Odaily data shows that Solana and Hyperliquid ETF trading volumes together account for nearly 80% of all non-BTC and non-ETH ETF trading volume. The Solana ETF currently has an assets under management (AUM) of $904 million, while Hyperliquid-related funds have accumulated a net inflow of $350 million since their launch two months ago. The combined ETF sizes of both represent approximately 2% of their respective tokens' market capitalizations. (The Block)
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 The Block, Jito Labs has officially launched the self-custody trading platform JTX, targeting professional traders in the Solana ecosystem. The platform supports spot trading, covering cbBTC, SOL, HYPE, and meme coins, while also supporting trading of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) such as stocks and ETFs. JTX provides professional-grade trading tools such as limit orders, automatic execution, and conditional orders. Users hold their own private keys, settlement is completed on-chain, and there is no custodial risk. Regarding fee distribution, 80% of trading fee revenue will be used by Jito DAO to buy back and burn JTO tokens, with the remaining 20% distributed to referrers.
Solana blockchain infrastructure developer Jito Labs has announced the launch of JTX, a self-custodial on-chain trading platform designed for professional traders, aimed at providing specialized trading tools that offer an experience closer to traditional financial trading within the Solana ecosystem.In its initial phase, JTX supports spot trading, covering Solana ecosystem assets including cbBTC, SOL, HYPE, and various Meme coins, while also supporting tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) such as stocks and exchange-traded funds (ETFs).Jito stated that JTX is designed to address the conflict between self-custody and trading execution efficiency, offering users professional-grade trading features including limit orders, automated execution, and conditional orders. Users always retain control of their private keys, and trade settlements are completed directly on-chain without relying on centralized custodians. (The Block)
according to official sources, OKX Wallet has now launched "Social Login," allowing users to create a wallet in seconds using their email, Apple, or Google accounts, without the need to record or back up a seed phrase throughout the process. Wallets created via social login remain self-custodial; the seed phrase and private key will be generated, stored, and used for signing within a TEE (Trusted Execution Environment). OKX cannot access or export the user's private key, ensuring users always maintain control over their assets. Users can export their private key or convert to a standard seed phrase wallet at any time.It is reported that OKX Wallet's "Social Login" adopts a unified account system. One account can seamlessly connect across the App, browser extension, web platform, and Agent, automatically restoring the same wallet upon login. The initial launch supports 19 chains, including X Layer, Solana, among others, and natively supports trading scenarios such as Swap, cross-chain transactions, limit orders, copy trading, and RWA.
Blockworks' Solana Q2 2026 Token Holder Report indicates that the scale of on-chain tokenized asset trading reached a new high this quarter, hitting $5.8 billion, a 114% increase quarter-over-quarter. Among this, tokenized stock trading accounted for $4.8 billion, representing 97% of the entire network's tokenized equity trading volume, with institutional demand for RWA becoming the core growth driver.Dragged down by the ebbing tide of the meme coin market, Solana's real economic revenue decreased by 43% quarter-over-quarter to $51 million, and DEX spot trading volume fell back to $160.8 billion. However, the funding side remained robust, with SOL spot ETPs seeing a net inflow of $120 million and total staked amount reaching 427 million SOL, accounting for two-thirds of the total supply. Going forward, Solana will implement the Alpenglow upgrade and related SIMD proposals to adjust inflation and token burning rules, enhancing SOL's value capture capabilities.
Bybit Alpha has now launched Jimothy trading. Jimothy is a meme coin on the Solana blockchain, based on a viral video of a short-tailed raccoon from Seattle, which quickly gained popularity through its cute and quirky "mutant raccoon" image. The current on-chain price is approximately $0.007, with a market cap of $6.95 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.
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.
E*TRADE, the online investment platform under Morgan Stanley, has launched spot cryptocurrency trading functionality. Eligible clients can now directly buy, sell, and hold Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and Solana (SOL) through the E*TRADE platform.This crypto trading service is powered by digital asset infrastructure provider zerohash. Users can trade through a linked zerohash account and view both their digital asset and traditional investment portfolios within the E*TRADE platform.E*TRADE stated that the fee for spot crypto trading is priced at 50 basis points (50 bps), with asset transfer functionality expected to be launched later this year.This launch marks a further step in Morgan Stanley's digital asset strategy. Previously, E*TRADE has been continuously upgrading its investment service system, including launching retirement planning tools, fractional share trading, an upgraded IPO center, and feature optimizations for Power E*TRADE Pro aimed at active traders. (Businesswire)
According to Visa's official website, Visa and Artemis jointly released a report that deeply analyzes the current status and trends of AI agent payments based on real-time on-chain data. The report indicates that AI agent payments are divided into two categories: one is "macro commerce" where agents replace users to complete tasks like booking tickets and subscriptions, similar to traditional e-commerce payments; the other is "micro commerce" such as high-frequency, low-value API calls between software, where single transaction amounts are typically less than 1 cent. On-chain data shows that the open protocol x402, incubated by Coinbase and Cloudflare and now hosted by the Linux Foundation, has processed approximately 109 million transactions since launching in May 2025, with an adjusted transaction volume of about $15 million, mainly active on the Base, Solana, and Polygon chains; the Machine Payment Protocol (MPP), jointly built by Stripe and Tempo with Visa's contribution, launched in mid-March 2026 and completed approximately 115,000 transactions within weeks, with a settlement amount of about $25,000. The report notes that blockchain settlement costs have dropped to extremely low levels, making small payments in the 1-cent to 1-dollar range economically feasible for the first time, but agent payments still face significant challenges at the legal and regulatory level regarding trust, liability attribution, and dispute resolution. Visa stated that its goal is to build a unified foundation that simultaneously supports card-native trust authorization and machine-native settlement
Odaily President Trump will meet on Thursday with Republican Senators Bernie Moreno and Cynthia Lummis, along with White House crypto policy advisor Patrick Witt and White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, to focus on the ethics provisions in the CLARITY Act. These provisions are considered one of the main obstacles to advancing the crypto market structure bill.Kristin Smith, President of the Solana Policy Institute, stated, "The purpose of the meeting is to present some proposals on the ethics issue to Trump and hope to gain his support. I believe this is a very positive signal." She described the meeting as crucial for pushing the CLARITY Act through.Earlier, it was disclosed that Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial had received hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto-related revenue, raising concerns among Democrats about potential conflicts of interest. (The Block)
Odaily News on July 14, Bitcoin ETFs recorded net inflows of $181 million, and Ethereum ETFs recorded net inflows of $58.34 million. No outflows were observed for either Bitcoin or Ethereum ETFs on that day. BlackRock's IBIT saw net inflows of $139 million, Fidelity's FBTC posted net inflows of $21.07 million; all net inflows into Ethereum ETFs came from BlackRock's ETHA. HYPE, XRP, and Solana ETFs had no trading activity on the day. Morgan Stanley submitted a proposed amended filing for spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, with the document covering service providers such as Coinbase Custody and staking provisions. Japanese policymakers are advancing reforms aimed at classifying crypto assets under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act.
on July 14 that Morgan Stanley has updated the S-1 registration statements for its proposed spot Ethereum and Solana ETFs, designating Coinbase to handle custody and assist with staking. BNY Mellon will serve as the joint custodian for both trusts. The Ethereum trust plans to stake between 50% and 80% of its ETH under normal conditions, while the Solana trust may stake up to 100% of its SOL, retaining a portion of liquidity for redemptions and fees. The staking service provider and custodian will share 5% of the rewards, with the remaining 95% belonging to each trust. According to the filings, the annual sponsor fee for both funds is 0.14%. The Ethereum product is expected to trade under the ticker MSSE, while the Solana fund will be listed on NYSE Arca under MSOL. The relevant applications are still pending approval from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
According to official announcements, OKX will open the first batch of tokenized US stock spot trading on July 16. Users can hold and trade the price exposure of underlying stocks or ETFs in units of "shares". Assets are named by adding an "X" before the stock ticker (e.g., XNVDA, XTSLA). Deposits and withdrawals are supported via the Solana and X Layer networks, with 24/7 trading available, and trading pairs are quoted in USDT.It is reported that this product enables trading year-round, with prices during non-trading hours calculated based on the latest closing price plus market estimates. Positions in this product, spot, and stock perpetual swaps are unified under the same account, allowing direct trading with USDT without requiring a brokerage account. It supports automated trading via strategy robots such as recurring buys and grids. Dividends will be reinvested at the issuer level and returned in the form of increased share quantities.
According to Livecoins, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced a new round of sanctions on July 13, freezing 13 cryptocurrency wallets and trust funds associated with the Cuban regime, involving addresses on multiple chains such as Tron (TRX), Litecoin (LTC), Dogecoin (DOGE), Solana (SOL), Dash (DASH), and Zcash (ZEC), as well as Bitcoin and Ethereum assets. Sanctioned targets include Ukrainian citizen Dmytro Rashevskyi, Belarusian resident Yevgeniy Vladimirovich Silayev, and several Cuban state-owned institutions such as the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Ministry of Tourism. OFAC simultaneously released FAQ 1262, advising all U.S. citizens to immediately cease all dealings with the entities on the aforementioned sanctions list.