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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.

MEXC published its July 2026 Proof of Reserves report on 2026年7月20日, showing its Bitcoin (BTC) reserve ratio rose to 281%. The figure reflects an on-chain verifiable coverage metric disclosed by the exchange, comparing users’ custodial BTC balances with actual reserves held in hot and cold wallets. A 281% ratio means every 1 unit of user BTC deposits is backed by 2.81 units of on-chain reserves, well above a 100% full-reserve threshold. The disclosure is intended to strengthen confidence in the platform’s asset safety and redemption capacity as part of a transparency practice common among major exchanges.

YMIR has gone live on the Solana blockchain, with the project saying the token is backed by operating Bitcoin mining infrastructure. The team says it has sold 5,000+ mining machines worldwide, manages 10 MW, provides hosting to 500+ miners, and runs at 98% uptime, with power pricing from $0.055/kWh. It also outlines a token model that reinvests creator fees into additional miners, uses mining revenue for market buybacks and permanent token burns, and plans regular giveaways of physical mining machines to holders. The contract address has been published and the developer token supply is locked via Streamflow.

Grayscale said it will introduce a quarterly cash “showdown” comparing staking yields from Ethereum (ETH) and Solana (SOL). The initiative does not involve launching a new fund or securing ETF approval, but instead uses its existing product framework to regularly benchmark and present the cash returns generated by staking the two assets. Grayscale aims to bolster the competitiveness of its staking offerings and appeal to institutions and professional investors focused on yield differentials. The move does not include any new asset issuance, regulatory approvals, or on-chain status changes, and it does not feature forced redemptions, token burns, or liquidity withdrawals.

The video examines proposed Bitcoin-backed mortgage structures, including concepts discussed around People’s Reserve and a Coinbase Bitcoin mortgage offering. It focuses on how a “self-repaying mortgage” could work and how principal-protected Bitcoin bonds might be used within the model. It also outlines practical pathways such as refinancing an existing home mortgage into a Bitcoin-denominated structure and pairing loans with loyalty-style incentives and lower interest rates. The video does not provide regulatory approvals, funding size, launch timelines, or real lending data, and presents the ideas as conceptual explanations without evidence of deployed contracts or on-chain protocols.

Solana’s ecosystem reported a string of real-world asset (RWA) milestones, including SBI Global Asset Management listing its JX Japanese equity strategy via DigiFT. Backpack Securities posted $1.5B in first-month trading volume across six tokenized stocks including $HOOD, while Solana’s onchain tokenized-equity value hit a record $535M and RWA holders topped 300,000. Ondo Finance added 10 tokenized equity assets and Sempoxyz signed an MoU with Egypt’s AradyMisr on fractional land ownership, according to the weekly ecosystem update.

The article says Japan, the United States and South Korea are shaping the current flow of capital around XRP. Japan reportedly saw $21.7B pour into XRP over one year, an amount it describes as 4× higher than Bitcoin inflows over the same period. In the U.S., spot XRP ETFs are said to hold $1.5B in assets. In South Korea, the piece says more than 3B XRP sit on Bithumb and UPbit combined.

Crypto firm Bitmine said it needs to add just 507,000 ETH to meet its goal of owning 5% of Ethereum’s circulating supply. The statement did not specify the funding source, timeline, or execution path, and it was not backed by on-chain verification. The announcement has nonetheless drawn attention because of its explicit, quantified target and scale, based on an estimated mid-2026 circulating supply of about 30 million ETH, implying 5% equals 1.5 million ETH. The development is being treated as an off-chain, public-statement signal of whale behavior and does not involve confirmed on-chain transfers or protocol changes.