Soil Farm (@soil_farm) has launched a DeFi yield protocol offering institutional-style on-chain lending across USDC, RLUSD and XRP. Its XRP vault is deployed natively on XRPL and offers a 5% fixed annual yield without using bridges. The protocol also offers a flexible USDC/RLUSD liquid vault with ~5% fixed APR and a credit vault targeting ~8% yield, supported by ORQO’s regulated infrastructure and professional asset management.

Robinhood has launched Robinhood Chain on mainnet, an Ethereum Layer 2 built on the Arbitrum stack that enables 24/7 trading of tokenized stocks and ETFs via Robinhood Wallet for users in more than 120 countries. The network surpassed $1B in DEX volume in just over a week. Aztec reached Stage 2 rollup decentralization under L2Beat’s framework by removing governance control over its core protocol. Sparkdotfi also launched a Stablecoin FX Layer on Uniswap v4, aiming to provide shared liquidity infrastructure across stablecoins.

Tom Lee’s Bitmine bought $14 million worth of Ethereum (ETH) last week. The firm now holds 5.77M ETH valued at about $10.8 billion, accounting for roughly 4.8% of Ethereum’s total supply. The position represents a notable whale-sized holding on-chain and reflects professional institutions’ recognition of ETH’s medium- to long-term value. The move is a large on-chain accumulation and is not tied to protocol upgrades, regulatory changes or macro policy shifts, with its impact expected to flow directly through ETH market sentiment and fund-flow expectations.

A Bitcoin whale urgently closed a $122 million 40x leveraged long position just before it could be forcibly liquidated. The move came at a sensitive moment marked by high leverage and thin liquidity in the BTC futures market. It could trigger cascading liquidations and near-term sell pressure. The event is an on-chain verifiable shift of a large position, not a rumor or speculation.

Bitmine repurchased about 5.5 million shares of common stock over the past week at an average price of $15.6156 per share. The buyback was carried out under the company’s previously authorized $4 billion share repurchase program. The move reduces the number of shares in circulation and supports shareholder-return metrics such as earnings per share.

On July 20, 2026, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee passed the Clarity Act by a 15-9 vote. The bill seeks to define whether digital assets are securities, creating a federal framework for regulatory determinations affecting exchanges, issuers and developers. It now heads to the full Senate for consideration and has not become law. The measure was framed as relevant to BTC and XRP, with XRP’s status tied to longstanding SEC litigation while BTC is often treated as a non-security example.

The U.S. CLARITY Act has passed the House 294–134 and cleared the Senate Banking Committee 15–9, leaving a Senate floor vote as the next step. The bill is designed to clarify how digital assets are classified. The SEC and CFTC have previously agreed that XRP is a commodity. If signed into law, the measure would codify XRP’s commodity status at the federal level and end a long-running dispute over its regulatory classification.

BANK surged 111.60% to USD 0.243332 as BTCfi/yield attention and USD 358.09M turnover met positive funding, elevated leverage and supply risk.