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• Hyperliquid's $645M HYPE Unlock Lands July 6. Its Buyback Fund Already Holds 4.6 Times That - Hyperliquid unlocks 9.92 million HYPE to contributors on July 6. We read the on-chain balances: the protocol's buyback f
• Aave's Monad Launch Pulled In $83M on Day One, But Half of It Is Sitting Idle - Aave went live on Monad with about $83.5 million in day-one deposits. We pulled the market on-chain: roughly half of it
• Hinkal Exploit: We Traced the $820K Drain On-Chain, From a Proofless Deposit to a Single Bitcoin Address - The Hinkal privacy protocol was drained of about $820,000 on July 3. We reconstructed the full attack and laundering tra
• Edel Finance Exploit: On-Chain Data Shows How a Near-Empty Wrapper Broke a Tokenized-Stock Lender - A wrapped Alphabet-stock token with zero on-chain market was inflated about 78x to drain Edel Finance for roughly $403,0
• Robinhood Launches Robinhood Chain, an Ethereum Layer-2 for 24/7 Tokenized Stocks, With a DeFi Ecosystem Building on It From Day One - Robinhood launched the public mainnet of Robinhood Chain on July 1, 2026, an Arbitrum-based Ethereum Layer-2 with 24/7 t
• Taiwan Passes Its First Comprehensive Crypto Law: Exchange Licensing, 100% Stablecoin Reserves, and 7-Year Prison Terms - Taiwan passed its first comprehensive crypto law on July 1, 2026, requiring every exchange and virtual-asset provider to
• Inside the 2026 Influencer-Token Meta: How Creator Coins Like $ANSEM Work, and What the On-Chain Data Shows - A new 'creator coin' meta peaked on Solana in mid-2026, led by the $ANSEM token, where influencers collect and redistrib
• The UK Just Finalized Its First Comprehensive Crypto Rulebook: Licensing for Exchanges, a Lower Stablecoin Capital Floor, and a 2027 Deadline - The UK's Financial Conduct Authority published its final crypto rulebook on June 30, 2026, the country's first comprehen
• Crypto Influencer ChooseRich Says He 'Rugs' Copycat Tokens Made in His Name, After Being Sent 60% of One's Supply - Crypto content creator ChooseRich said openly, in his own posts on June 30, 2026, that he dumps, or in his words rugs, a
• The $ANSEM Memecoin Hit a $99M Market Cap With Just 1,455 Holders and $1.2M of Liquidity - The $ANSEM token everyone is watching, The Black Bull, touched a market cap near 99 million dollars on June 29, 2026. Li
• Bots Pile Into 1 in 4 New pump.fun Tokens at Launch, and Almost None Graduate - DEXTools sampled 215 fresh pump.fun tokens on June 29, 2026. Nearly a quarter showed a bot-like trading burst within 15
• Crypto Mints 67,000 New Tokens a Day, and Only 1% Survive Their First Week - DEXTools sampled live token-launch activity across 18 chains on June 29, 2026. The market is minting on the order of 67,
• Tether Gold (XAUT) Comes to Ledn, With Tokenized-Gold Loans Backed by a $23B Bullion Reserve Planned for Later in 2026 - Crypto lender Ledn has added support for Tether Gold (XAUT), and gold-backed loans against the tokenized gold are planne
• Ansem Disavows the $ANSEM Memecoins Trading on His Name: What the On-Chain Data Actually Shows - A wave of $ANSEM memecoins pumped on Solana using the name of influencer Ansem, who publicly disavowed them and launched
• On-Chain Data Shows an Ethereum Whale Reopening With a 20x, $19.7M Notional ETH Short on Hyperliquid - On-chain trackers reported that an Ethereum wallet dormant for eight months reopened with a 20x leveraged ETH short wort
• Binance to Halt EU Crypto Services From July 1 After Withdrawing Its Greek MiCA Application - Binance confirmed it withdrew its MiCA licence application in Greece on June 24, 2026 and will stop serving EU residents
• Polymarket Confirms Front-End Supply-Chain Breach and Pledges Full Refunds After Malicious Script Drains User Funds - Polymarket confirmed on June 25, 2026 that a compromised third-party vendor injected a malicious script into its front-e
• CZ Floats Freezing Dormant Bitcoin Against Quantum Theft, Says It Is Not His Call - CZ floated freezing dormant, quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin, including Satoshi's coins, but said it is not his call and woul
• Kraken Reportedly in Talks for a 15% Stake in Aave at a $385M Valuation, AAVE Jumps - Kraken is reportedly in talks to acquire a 15 percent stake in Aave at a roughly 385 million dollar valuation, according
• Coinbase's Base Halts Block Production After an Invalid Block, Reviving Single-Sequencer Concerns - Base, Coinbase's Ethereum Layer 2, halted block production on June 25, 2026 after a consensus problem caused an invalid
• MemeCore (M) Crashes Around 75% in a Day With No Clear Trigger as Analysts Question Supply Concentration - MemeCore's M token crashed about 75 percent in a single day around June 25, 2026, erasing close to 3 billion dollars in
• The Bunny Report #02: The VIX Is Rising and Bitcoin Is Still Bleeding - DEXTools analyst Bunny's market read: the VIX is waking up, Bitcoin is still bleeding toward the 58k and 56k levels, and
• MassAndEnergy ($MAE): The Pump.fun Token That Aims to Buy Real-World Assets With Its Trading Fees - MassAndEnergy ($MAE) is a new Solana token that launches through Pump.fun and says it converts its trading fees into tok
• SecondFi (Formerly Yoroi) Halts Services After a Cardano Wallet Flaw Drains Users: $2.4M Confirmed, Up to $20M at Risk - SecondFi, the Cardano self-custody platform formerly known as Yoroi, has halted services after a flaw in its wallet-gene
• US Congress Passes a Four-Year Fed CBDC Ban, Sending It to Trump's Desk: What the Bill Really Does - Both chambers of the US Congress have now passed a four-year ban on a Federal Reserve central bank digital currency, tuc
• Taiko Halts Its Ethereum Layer 2 After a Bridge Exploit: What Happened and How to Protect Your Funds - On June 22, 2026, Ethereum Layer 2 Taiko confirmed a bridge exploit, halted block production, and urged users to withdra
• Over $735M in Token Unlocks Hit the Market This Week, Led by MegaETH and Sahara AI - More than 735 million dollars in vested tokens are scheduled to unlock in the final week of June 2026, led by Humanity,
• Pump.fun in 2026: Graduation Rate Collapses to 0.26% as Solana Fees Drop 84% - Pump.fun, the dominant Solana memecoin launchpad, is in a steep structural decline. Its token graduation rate has fallen
• The $1.1M PancakeSwap LABUBI Drain Was a 46-Day Time Bomb. The On-Chain Signs Were There - The LABUBI pool on PancakeSwap lost about 1.1 million dollars on June 20, but this was no flash loan zero day. On-chain
• Crypto Is in Extreme Fear While New Tokens Pump 100%. Live Data Shows How Few Last a Week - The market sits in Extreme Fear, yet retail is chasing tokens up triple digits. Live DEXTools on-chain data shows the ba