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A Gaming Legend Enters Solana: Doom Co-Designer Sandy Petersen Launches $DOOM and a Free Play-to-Earn - One of the most respected names in gaming has arrived on Solana. Sandy Petersen, a designer of the original 1993 Doom and creator of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, has launched a $DOOM token and a free play-to-earn site (doomsol.com), announced from his verified X account. We read it on-chain: a lively day-two start around a $3.76M market cap, ~$11M in 24h volume, and, as a graduated pump.fun token, a burned liquidity pool that cannot be pulled, with a clean safety scan. For accuracy: Petersen co-designed the original game but does not own the Doom trademark, so this is a project from a co-creator, built on the open-source engine, not an official franchise release.
Ethereum Has Gone Nowhere for a Month at About $1,850, but On-Chain Trackers Say Whales Are Loading Up - Ethereum has spent a month going nowhere. We pulled the price history: ETH has been pinned between roughly $1,742 and $1,952 and trades around $1,853 today, down about 5% on the week. But on-chain trackers say large wallets are quietly accumulating near the lows, including one that has bought about 74,000 ETH (~$131M) since late June at an average near $1,771, plus continued buying from ETH-treasury holders like Tom Lee's BitMine. We verified the price backdrop ourselves and relay the wallet flows as attributed to the trackers. Accumulating into a flat market is often deliberate, patient capital building positions cheaply before a move.
Zcash Is Back Among Crypto's 15 Biggest Coins, and It Is a Top-5 Market on Hyperliquid - Privacy coins have quietly become a major category again. We read the data: Zcash (ZEC) trades around $488 for a market cap near $8.2 billion, back among crypto's 15 biggest assets, and on the derivatives exchange Hyperliquid it is a top-5 market with about $178 million of open interest. Monero (XMR) sits near $6.8 billion and is up roughly 9% on the month. Together the two make up around $15 billion of value in a market that has otherwise chopped sideways. After years of being written off, the privacy trade has a pulse again, and the leverage behind ZEC suggests conviction, not just a spot blip.
A DEX Called Flap.sh Just Did $119M in a Day on Under $1M of Liquidity: The On-Chain Red Flags - A multi-chain DEX called Flap.sh reported about $119 million of 24-hour volume on August 1, and roughly $207 million the day before. We pulled the on-chain data: the entire platform holds under $1 million in liquidity. That means it claims to have turned over its whole book more than a hundred times in a day, the textbook signature of wash trading or inflated volume. A week earlier it was doing $2M to $11M a day, with no matching growth in liquidity or users. We are not calling it a scam, but the headline volume should not be trusted at face value. Always read volume next to liquidity.
Hyperliquid's Open Interest Tops $6.6 Billion, and HYPE Is Now the Third-Biggest Market on Its Own Exchange - Hyperliquid has quietly become one of the biggest trading venues in crypto, and we read it straight from the exchange's own API: about $6.6 billion of open interest on roughly $2.1 billion of daily volume. The detail inside the number is the story. HYPE, Hyperliquid's own token, is now the third-largest market on the platform at about $1.19 billion of open interest, behind only Bitcoin and Ethereum and roughly four times Solana's. On Hyperliquid, people are betting on Hyperliquid almost as heavily as on Ethereum, a reflexive dynamic that cuts both ways.
The DEX Volume Leaderboard: PancakeSwap Is Quietly Surging Back as the Rest of the Market Cools - The decentralized-exchange market is cooling and reshuffling at once. We read the on-chain data: total DEX volume is around $5 billion a day, down about 30% in a day but with capital rotating hard toward a few winners. Solana's PumpSwap still leads at ~$642M, but the comeback story is PancakeSwap, whose two AMMs are up about 91% and 63% on the week, joined by Aerodrome (+84%), while July favorite Native Swap fell about 37%. Volume is the truest scoreboard in on-chain trading, and right now it points to a rotation, not a rout.
Robinhood Chain's Split Personality: Capital Is Pouring In While Trading Dries Up, Our On-Chain Data Shows - Robinhood Chain is telling two opposite stories at once. We pulled the on-chain data ourselves: total value locked has jumped about 62% in two weeks to $382 million, while daily DEX trading volume has fallen roughly 36% week over week, from a $679 million peak on July 23 to around $361 million. Capital is arriving faster than it is being traded, the signature of a chain turning from a memecoin casino into a place to park money for yield, helped by a ~7% Earn rate and a fast-growing pile of tokenized stocks like GameStop, Nvidia and SpaceX that get held rather than flipped.
Meet Slide.fun: Swipe, Launch and Trade Memecoins on Solana, All Inside Telegram - Slide.fun reinvents memecoin trading on Solana around a single addictive motion: the swipe. Open a Telegram mini-app, flick through a feed of short videos where every clip is a live token, and buy, sell, or launch with a tap. Creators earn half of the tiny 0.8% fee on every trade, onboarding spins up a Solana wallet for you automatically, and an XP, badge and referral layer makes the whole thing feel like a game. With reported traction of 90,000-plus users and over $660M in volume, the freshly relaunched app is one of the slickest ways to trade memecoins right now.
A HYPE Whale Just Finished Unstaking $104M After a 7-Day Countdown, and Trackers Say It May Be Heading to Sell - On July 23 a HYPE whale pressed unstake on 1,893,338 HYPE, and because Hyperliquid runs a seven-day unstaking queue, the exit was visible a week in advance. On July 30 it finalized, leaving about $104 million in liquid HYPE in the wallet, which on-chain trackers flagged as possibly bound for FalconX and Coinbase Prime to sell. We verified the full timeline from Hyperliquid's staking records: staked in November 2025, withdrawn this week, staked balance now zero. Unstaking is not selling, but the timer is the signal, and it is worth watching.
Ethereum's Split Screen: ETH Sits Near $1,900 While the Network Settles Nearly Half of Every Stablecoin - Ethereum is living two lives at once. Ether the asset trades near $1,890, stuck well below its highs. Ethereum the network settles about $147.5 billion in stablecoins, nearly half of the entire $307 billion market and more than Tron, Solana and every layer 2 combined. It is also where the institutional dollar, USDC, concentrates, and the chain Open USD picked first. We pull the on-chain data and explain why the most-used settlement layer in crypto can dominate while its token lags, and what would finally close the gap.
A Coldcard Firmware Flaw Drained 594 BTC in 25 Minutes: We Traced the $38M Sweep On-Chain - About 594.48 BTC (roughly $38 million) was swept out of around 500 Bitcoin wallets in a 25-minute burst on July 30, and the wallets share one trait: seeds generated on an older Coldcard hardware wallet. Coinkite's advisory ties it to a firmware flaw from 2021 that made devices skip their hardware randomness and fall back to predictable keys. We traced the money ourselves: 594.4772 BTC into one collector address, then 562 BTC into a stationary second wallet that has not moved.
The Fed Held Rates in a 9-3 Split With Three Members Voting to Hike, and Crypto Held Its Ground - The Fed held rates at 3.50-3.75% on July 29 for a fifth straight meeting, but the vote split 9-3 with three regional presidents dissenting in favor of a HIKE, the most divided decision of the cycle. Our preview had flagged a real one-in-five hike probability, and the dissents proved it was not paranoia. Crypto took it in stride: Bitcoin dipped to about $62,850 intraday and recovered to around $64,600. The volatility that did appear came more from an oil spike and geopolitics than the Fed.
North Korea Just Moved Another 121 BTC: Inside the Lazarus Group's 2026 Crypto Theft Machine - On-chain trackers flagged wallets tied to North Korea's Lazarus Group moving another 121.5 BTC (about $7.74 million) today, one more shuffle in a laundering operation that dominates 2026's theft data. Per TRM Labs, DPRK groups stole about $643 million in H1 2026, roughly 66% of all crypto stolen worldwide, led by the $292M Kelp DAO and $285M Drift thefts in April. The single move is small; the machine behind it, patient social engineering followed by months of laundering, is not.
A Dormant Bitcoin Whale Just Sent 625 BTC to an Exchange After 17 Months, Apparently to Sell at a $20M Loss - A Bitcoin wallet dormant for nearly 17 months sent its entire 625 BTC (about $39.96 million) to the exchange FalconX on July 29, the classic on-chain signature of an intent to sell, and it is selling into a loss. We verified the movement on-chain: the wallet received the coins in early 2025, held through the peak and the slide, and is now empty. On-chain trackers estimate the holder's loss at roughly $20 million. One wallet, but capitulation from long-dormant money is a signal worth reading at $64,000.
X Money Went Live in the US With No Crypto, and Dogecoin Barely Moved - X Money, the payments product from Elon Musk's X, launched in the US with no cryptocurrency support, and Dogecoin, the token most associated with Musk, barely reacted, trading near $0.071 and roughly flat on the day. The non-reaction is the signal: after years of rumored-then-denied integrations, the market had already stopped pricing a DOGE tie-in. The disappointment was loud on social media and quiet on the chart.
The Senate Shelved the CLARITY Act and Crypto Shrugged: Passage Odds Sit at 30% as the 2026 Window Narrows - The US Senate shelved the CLARITY Act, crypto's flagship market-structure bill, to prioritize a Russia sanctions package, and with the summer recess days away, 2026 passage is now a long shot. Polymarket gives it about a 30% chance of being signed this year. Yet spot crypto shrugged: a fast liquidation cascade on the news, then Bitcoin back above $64,000 and XRP recovering to ~$1.09 within a day. After a year of delays, the market has stopped trading on the bill.
Lido Is Moving 8 Million ETH to a New Validator Architecture, and It Already Stakes Nearly a Quarter of Ethereum - Lido, crypto's largest liquid-staking protocol, has begun migrating more than 8 million ETH to a new Curated Module v2 architecture built for Ethereum's post-Pectra large validators. On-chain data shows why it matters: Lido's stETH supply is about 9.36 million ETH, roughly 22.8% of all staked ETH, so re-plumbing its validators re-plumbs nearly a quarter of Ethereum's security. The upgrade is routine; the concentration underneath it is the story.
BitMart Is Winding Down After Nine Years, and Its BMX Token Has Crashed 82% in a Week - BitMart, a centralized exchange of nine years, is reported to be winding down, and its BMX exchange token has already priced it in: a roughly 82% collapse in one week, from about $0.31 to under $0.06, with a 65% single-day drop on July 25 as the news spread. BMX is now down about 91% from its all-time high with a market value under $20M. An exchange token is a claim on the exchange, and this is what that looks like when the exchange goes away.
One Venue Now Does 44% of All Solana DEX Volume: How the Pump.fun Ecosystem Took Over the Chain - When we pulled the DefiLlama data, one venue dominated Solana: PumpSwap, the Pump.fun AMM, is doing about 43.6% of all Solana DEX volume, more than five times the next-biggest DEX. Solana DEXs did $1.84B in 24 hours; PumpSwap alone did $803M, and with the bonding curve the Pump.fun ecosystem is close to 47% of the chain. It is no longer a memecoin sideshow but the market structure itself.
Triple-A's $11.8M Hack: We Followed the ETH On-Chain and It Has Already Left the Wallet Investigators Flagged - Triple-A, a Singapore-regulated payments firm, confirmed an $11.8M hack across seven chains. We read the flagged ETH consolidation wallet ourselves: it now holds just 1.62 ETH after eight transfers moved 5,287 ETH (about $10.1M) to a single new address, which then dispersed the funds via 36 more transactions. Both wallets now sit near zero, one hop past the address every outlet cited.
DeXe (DEXE) Went From a $47.84 High to Under $2 in Two Weeks: the On-Chain Anatomy of a 95% Collapse - DeXe's DEXE token ran to an all-time high of $47.84 on July 13, then collapsed to about $2.51 by July 27, roughly a 95% loss, with an 83% single-day crash on July 22. We mapped the daily price record and current on-chain figures: over $180M in daily volume against a ~$245M market cap. The token is live and actively traded; we prove the collapse but make no claim about its cause.
Crypto's Own Money Prices a Real Chance of a Fed Hike on July 29: What Polymarket Odds and Perp Funding Actually Say - The Fed decides on July 29 and crypto's own money is pricing a real chance of a hike. Polymarket implies 79.7% no change, 19.9% for a 25bp hike (the highest of the cycle) and 0.35% for a cut, while Hyperliquid perp funding (BTC ~6.4%, ETH ~11% annualized) shows calm, un-braced positioning. Crypto and rates traders take a hike seriously; economists mostly do not.
Bitcoin's 48.7% Drawdown Just Put the Treasury-Company Playbook Into Reverse: 20 Firms Retreat and Strategy's mNAV Falls Below 1 - With Bitcoin 48.7% below its October peak at $64,633, the digital-asset-treasury model has flipped into reverse. At least 20 public treasury companies are retreating (VanEck: 9 full exits, 7 sellers, 4 shifting to active management), Satsuma voted to liquidate its 668 BTC, and Strategy's mNAV fell below 1 for the first time. When shares trade below the coins they hold, the financing flywheel stops.