Crypto & Web3 — July 20, 2026 Weekly
Key Findings
Executive Summary (5)
- •Tokenization crossed from pilot to production this week: DTCC's first live trades with 20+ Wall Street institutions, Cantor-Securitize bringing blockchain into IPOs, and DTCC's October launch timeline collectively confirm that the incumbent U.S. settlement infrastructure is now actively building the tokenized securities market — not just studying it.
- •The stablecoin competitive landscape underwent a structural disruption: Open USD's consortium model (Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google) sharing reserve income with partners rather than the issuer directly threatens Circle's USDC revenue model, while Tether's USDT faces a two-year U.S. regulatory countdown — together signaling that the current stablecoin market structure is unlikely to persist through 2028.
- •DeFi's oracle and keeper infrastructure proved systemically vulnerable for the third consecutive week, with Ostium losing $18 million via future-dated oracle manipulation — a pattern that poses a direct reputational and financial risk to the RWA-focused DeFi protocols that institutional tokenization depends on.
- •The U.S. crypto legislative agenda bifurcated sharply: the Clarity Act stalled at record-low passage odds while the GENIUS Act framework actively reshaped the stablecoin market, the U.S.-UK joint tokenization roadmap advanced, and DTCC set an October production launch — suggesting that market infrastructure is moving faster than market structure legislation.
- •Traditional finance's crypto commitment deepened irreversibly this week: Citadel Securities' $400M Crypto.com investment, T. Rowe Price's first multi-token active ETF, Morgan Stanley's E*TRADE crypto rollout, and Swift's expansion to 40+ banks collectively signal that the institutional holdout era is over and the competition has shifted to controlling distribution and settlement rails.
Key Points (15)
- 1.DTCC processed its first live production trades involving tokenized stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasurys on July 15 with 20+ major institutions including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and Vanguard, and plans to launch its tokenization service more broadly in October 2026 [8].
- 2.Cantor Fitzgerald and Securitize announced a collaboration on July 15 to bring tokenization directly into IPOs and follow-on offerings, extending blockchain infrastructure into primary capital markets for the first time [16].
- 3.Robinhood Chain generated $3.1 billion in DEX volume over its first seven days and briefly overtook Base and Ethereum in 24-hour volume at $878 million on July 12, but tokenized RWAs account for only $12.66 million versus the CASHCAT memecoin's $156 million peak market cap [10].
- 4.Ostium, a perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum, lost approximately $18 million in USDC on July 15 via an oracle manipulation exploit using future-dated timestamps — the third major DeFi oracle or keeper exploit in two weeks [9].
- 5.Open USD, a consortium-governed stablecoin backed by 140+ partners including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase and Google, was unveiled with a revenue-sharing model that Mizuho and CoinShares identified as the biggest threat yet to Circle's USDC economics [8a].
- 6.Visa launched a stablecoin platform on July 16 letting banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network, while Galaxy Digital launched institutional DeFi vaults on Morpho distributed through Fireblocks Earn to 2,400 institutional clients [17].
- 7.Dune Analytics found that approximately 29.5% of concentrated liquidity capital — averaging $542 million per week — sat fully outside active trading ranges in H1 2026, with roughly 85% of the $1.84 billion tracked underutilized overall and approximately $150 million in annual fees foregone [2].
- 8.The stablecoin market totaled approximately $312 billion as of June 30, 2026, up 27% year-over-year; USDT settled approximately $95 billion in commerce in H1 2026 versus $14 billion for USDC, with USDC on Base turning over approximately 20 times per day [1].
- 9.Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com at a $20 billion valuation on July 16, while T. Rowe Price launched the first actively managed multi-token spot crypto ETF (TKNZ) and Morgan Stanley completed the rollout of spot crypto trading on E*TRADE's 8.6 million-customer platform [8b].
- 10.The Ethereum Foundation spun out EthSystems on July 14, a for-profit startup building confidentiality infrastructure for banks using Ethereum, joining EthLabs and Ethereum Institutional as the foundation distributes responsibilities following a ~20% headcount reduction [13].
- 11.Swift expanded its blockchain-based settlement network from 17 to more than 40 financial institutions, while Stripe made an unsolicited $53 billion bid for PayPal on July 15 — moves analysts described as a race to control the next generation of global payment infrastructure [18].
- 12.The CLARITY Act's passage odds fell to a record low on Polymarket as of July 17, with Senate Democrats calling it 'corrupt' and ethics provisions unresolved; the U.S. and UK announced a joint roadmap to align rules for tokenized finance on July 14 [8a].
- 13.Tether's USDT faces a two-year countdown to potential delisting from U.S. platforms under the GENIUS Act framework, with rules expected to be fully in effect by July 2028; the U.S. also added four Iran central bank crypto wallets to sanctions, with Tether freezing $131 million in TRON-based USDT [8a].
- 14.BIP-110, which sought to restrict non-financial data on Bitcoin, failed to gain meaningful support with just over 0.7% of miners backing it; Michael Saylor published a detailed critique arguing it would undermine Bitcoin's neutrality and weaken miner incentives [15].
- 15.SBI Holdings pivoted its blockchain initiative to Solana for stablecoin issuance and RWA tokenization, renaming SBI R3 Japan to SBI Solana Global and adding the Solana Foundation as a partner, aiming to establish Japan as a core hub for onchain finance in Asia [19].
Market Trends
TradFi Tokenization Accelerates from Pilot to Production Infrastructure
The week saw tokenization move decisively into live production: DTCC processed its first series of live production trades involving tokenized stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasurys on July 15, with more than two dozen major institutions including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and Vanguard participating [8]. DTCC plans to launch its tokenization service more broadly in October 2026 [8]. Cantor Fitzgerald and Securitize announced a collaboration to bring tokenization directly into IPOs and follow-on…
DeFi Oracle and Keeper Exploits Emerge as Systemic Attack Pattern
A second major oracle manipulation exploit struck DeFi this period: Ostium, a perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum focused on real-world assets, lost approximately $18 million in USDC from its liquidity vault on July 15 after an attacker leveraged a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder to submit oracle price reports with future-dated timestamps, manufacturing fake profitable trades [9]. This followed the $9 million Bonzo/Hedera oracle exploit from the prior period and a $6 million Summer.fi keeper exploi…
Stablecoin Market Stratifies into Three Distinct Product Categories
Dune Analytics published a behavioral analysis of the stablecoin market as of June 30, 2026, finding the total market at approximately $312 billion across 200+ tokens, up 27% year-over-year from roughly $246 billion in June 2025 [1]. The analysis identified three distinct product types: USDC as a trading dollar (USDC on Base turned over approximately 20 times per day in June); USDT as a payment rail (93% of USDT on Tron sits in ordinary wallets, settling approximately $95 billion in commerce in …
DeFi Liquidity Efficiency Crisis: $542M Weekly Sits Idle in Concentrated Liquidity Pools
Dune Analytics, in research commissioned by 1inch, found that approximately 29.5% of concentrated liquidity capital — averaging $542 million per week — sat fully outside active trading ranges across Uniswap v3, PancakeSwap v3, Aerodrome Slipstream and Uniswap v4 during H1 2026, earning zero fees [2]. Approximately 85% of the $1.84 billion tracked was underutilized overall, with roughly $200 million dormant for more than 90 days [2]. Individual wallets accounted for 82–94% of idle capital on Unis…
Bitcoin Governance Conflict Intensifies as BIP-110 Fails to Gain Miner Support
Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110, which sought to temporarily restrict non-financial data storage on the Bitcoin blockchain via a one-year soft fork, failed to gain meaningful industry backing, with just over 0.7% of miners in support as of July 14 [14]. Michael Saylor, whose firm Strategy holds 843,775 BTC worth approximately $54.31 billion, published a detailed critique on July 19 arguing BIP-110 would undermine Bitcoin's neutrality, weaken miner incentives and establish a dangerous precedent …
Competitor Trends
Robinhood Chain Scales to Top-5 DEX Volume but RWA Thesis Remains Unproven
Robinhood Chain generated $3.1 billion in DEX volume over its first seven days, ranking among the top five chains by DEX activity per Bernstein research [11]. By July 12, the chain briefly overtook Base and Ethereum in 24-hour DEX volume at $878 million, with total value locked reaching approximately $312 million and 800,000 lifetime active addresses [12]. However, tokenized real-world assets accounted for only $12.66 million of the chain's activity, dwarfed by the CASHCAT memecoin which peaked …
Institutional Stablecoin Competition Intensifies as Visa, Open USD, and Galaxy Enter
Visa launched a stablecoin platform on July 16 that lets banks and fintechs issue, manage and settle digital dollars through its payments network, backing Open USD [8a]. Open USD, a consortium-governed stablecoin backed by 140-plus partners including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase and Google, was unveiled as a model that shares reserve income with partners rather than the issuer — posing what CoinShares called the biggest threat yet to Circle's USDC economics [8a]. Mizuho downgrad…
Ethereum Foundation Restructures into Specialized Spinouts Targeting Institutional Privacy
Former members of the Ethereum Foundation's Institutional Privacy Task Force launched EthSystems on July 14, a for-profit startup building confidentiality infrastructure for banks and institutions using Ethereum, commercializing work previously developed inside the foundation [13]. The spinout joins EthLabs (nonprofit focused on protocol research) and Ethereum Institutional (nonprofit coordinating institutional adoption) as the Ethereum Foundation distributes responsibilities across specialized …
Citadel Securities and T. Rowe Price Signal Deepening TradFi Crypto Commitment
Citadel Securities invested $400 million in Crypto.com on July 16, valuing the exchange at $20 billion in its first institutional funding round, with proceeds earmarked for expansion into tokenized securities and derivatives [8a]. T. Rowe Price launched the T. Rowe Price Active Crypto ETF (TKNZ) on July 16, described as the industry's first actively managed multi-token spot ETF, investing across BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL and HYPE with a net expense ratio of 0.75% through May 2027 [8b]. Morgan Stan…
Payments Infrastructure Race: Swift Expands to 40+ Banks as Stripe Bids $53B for PayPal
Swift expanded its blockchain-based settlement network from 17 to more than 40 financial institutions after completing pilot work, underscoring how incumbents are racing to build tokenized payment rails [18]. Stripe made an unsolicited $53 billion bid for PayPal on July 15, which would combine one of the world's largest merchant payment networks with one of the biggest consumer wallet businesses; PayPal's board reportedly sees the bid as undervaluing the company [18]. Analysts noted the race has…
Regulatory Trends
Clarity Act Passage Odds Fall to Record Low as Senate Ethics Dispute Stalls Bill
Polymarket traders cut the odds of the CLARITY Act passing in 2026 to a record low as Senate negotiations over ethics provisions remained unresolved as of July 17 [8a]. Some U.S. Senate Democrats came out against the Clarity Act on July 15, calling it a 'corrupt' bill, while President Trump was expected to meet with senators to work on ethics concerns [8a]. CoinDesk sources reported a new draft may emerge in a final push for late-July action, though it still lacks bipartisan buy-in [8a]. The SEC…
DTCC October Tokenization Launch and UK Sovereign Bond Signal G7 Regulatory Alignment
DTCC announced plans to launch its tokenization service more broadly in October 2026, when eligible participants will be able to begin converting certain securities into blockchain-based representations for production use [8]. The UK announced plans for its first G7 digital sovereign bond by early 2027, to launch on HSBC's Orion platform within the Bank of England and FCA's Digital Securities Sandbox [8a]. The U.S. and UK moved to align rules for tokenized finance across the world's two largest …
GENIUS Act Compliance Framework Shapes Stablecoin Market as USDT Faces 2-Year U.S. Countdown
CoinDesk reported on July 19 that Tether's USDT faces a two-year countdown threatening its position on U.S. crypto platforms, as the GENIUS Act has hit its first anniversary without U.S. regulators meeting deadlines to write regulations, though rules will be in full effect by July 2028 [8a]. Tether's USAT, issued through federally chartered Anchorage Digital as a GENIUS Act-compliant token, grew from $28 million at end of March to $157 million, with holder count rising sharply from May 19 to 8,3…
FSB Publishes AI Consultation and Cross-Border Payments Update as Global Oversight Expands
The FSB published a consultation report on Sound Practices for Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence on June 10, with comments due by July 22, 2026 [7]. The FSB also published a cross-border payments update titled 'Towards the Next Chapter' on July 8 and held a resolution planning event on July 9 [7]. The FSB's Regional Consultative Group for Sub-Saharan Africa met in Mauritius on July 16 [7]. The SEC proposed a new e-delivery approach to make information more readily accessible for in…
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DTCC Executes First Live Production Tokenized Securities Trades; October Launch Planned
On July 15, DTCC processed its first live production trades involving tokenized stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasurys with 20+ major institutions including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and Vanguard, using assets already held at DTC. DTCC plans to launch its tokenization service more broadly in October 2026 [8]. This is the most significant live production tokenization milestone by the incumbent U.S. settlement infrastructure to date.
Robinhood Chain Reaches $3.1B Weekly DEX Volume but RWA Market Cap Stays at $12.66M
Robinhood Chain scaled to top-5 DEX volume globally at $3.1 billion over seven days and briefly overtook Base and Ethereum in 24-hour volume at $878 million on July 12, with 800,000 lifetime active addresses and $312 million TVL [11]. However, tokenized RWAs account for only $12.66 million — dwarfed by the CASHCAT memecoin which peaked at $156 million — and the memecoin launchpad Noxa subsequently shut down [10]. This updates the prior period's $568M daily volume figure with a week of sustained …
Ostium $18M Oracle Exploit Extends DeFi Attack Wave; Three Major Exploits in Two Weeks
Ostium, a perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum focused on real-world assets, lost approximately $18 million in USDC on July 15 after an attacker submitted oracle price reports with future-dated timestamps via a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder [9]. This follows the $9 million Bonzo/Hedera oracle exploit and $6 million Summer.fi keeper exploit from the prior period, establishing a pattern of oracle and keeper-system attacks across DeFi. Ostium had raised $27.8 million in total funding and processed ov…
Clarity Act Stalls as Senate Democrats Oppose; Polymarket Odds Hit Record Low
The CLARITY Act's passage odds fell to a record low on Polymarket as of July 17, with Senate Democrats calling it 'corrupt' and ethics provisions remaining unresolved [8a]. This updates the prior period's report of a late-July draft nearing release — the bill has not advanced and faces growing opposition. The SEC's Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee meeting is scheduled for July 21 [21].
Open USD Consortium and Visa Stablecoin Platform Threaten Circle's USDC Economics
Open USD, backed by 140+ partners including Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, BlackRock, Coinbase and Google, was unveiled as a consortium-governed stablecoin that shares reserve income with partners rather than the issuer [1]. Visa simultaneously launched a stablecoin platform for banks and fintechs on July 16 [8a]. Mizuho downgraded Circle to underperform and cut its price target to $50 on the Open USD threat, while CoinShares called it the biggest threat yet to USDC economics [8a]. This is a new comp…
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- 1.DTCC's live production tokenization trades represent a qualitatively different milestone than prior pilots: by converting existing DTC-custodied securities into blockchain-based digital twins that retain full legal ownership rights, DTCC is building a bridge between the $114 trillion traditional securities system and onchain infrastructure — protocols and networks that achieve interoperability with this bridge will gain institutional distribution advantages that are structurally difficult to dis…
- 2.Open USD's revenue-sharing model — distributing reserve income to 140+ consortium partners rather than the issuer — represents a fundamental challenge to the stablecoin business model that USDC pioneered; if adopted at scale, it transforms stablecoins from issuer-profit-center to network-effect infrastructure, potentially commoditizing the issuer role and concentrating value in distribution networks like Visa and Mastercard [8a].
- 3.The clustering of three major oracle and keeper exploits within two weeks — Summer.fi ($6M), Bonzo/Hedera ($9M), Ostium ($18M) — is not coincidental: as RWA-focused DeFi protocols grow in TVL and attract institutional attention, they become higher-value targets for the same oracle manipulation techniques, creating a security arms race that automated infrastructure is currently losing [9].
- 4.Robinhood Chain's trajectory — $3.1B weekly DEX volume dominated by memecoins while tokenized RWAs sit at $12.66M — mirrors Coinbase's Base launch pattern exactly, suggesting that speculative activity is a necessary but insufficient precondition for institutional use case adoption; the critical variable is whether Robinhood's 27.6 million funded customers convert to onchain users before memecoin traders move to the next chain [12].
- 5.The Dune/1inch finding that 85% of concentrated liquidity is underutilized — with $542M weekly sitting idle and $150M in annual fees foregone — reveals that DeFi's capital efficiency problem is structural, not cyclical: individual LPs who set ranges and walk away account for 82–94% of idle capital, meaning the solution requires either automated management tools or protocol-level incentives to rebalance positions, not just market conditions [2].
- 6.The Ethereum Foundation's restructuring into three specialized entities (EthSystems for institutional privacy, EthLabs for protocol research, Ethereum Institutional for adoption coordination) following a 20% headcount reduction signals a maturation of the foundation's role: as Ethereum becomes critical financial infrastructure, the foundation is separating public-goods stewardship from commercial engagement — a governance model that other major protocol foundations may need to adopt [13].
- 7.The Stripe-PayPal bid and Swift's expansion to 40+ banks occurring in the same week illustrate that the payments infrastructure race has entered a consolidation phase: incumbents are acquiring distribution (Stripe bidding for PayPal's 439M accounts) while messaging networks are building settlement rails (Swift's blockchain ledger), compressing the window for crypto-native payment protocols to establish distribution before traditional finance controls both ends [18].
- 8.USDT's two-year U.S. countdown under the GENIUS Act — combined with Tether's demonstrated willingness to freeze $131M in sanctioned wallets — reveals a strategic paradox: Tether's compliance with U.S. sanctions enforcement makes it operationally useful to U.S. regulators, but its offshore structure and reserve opacity make it legally incompatible with the GENIUS Act framework, suggesting a forced bifurcation between USAT (U.S.-compliant) and USDT (global) rather than a single Tether product [8a]…
- 9.BIP-110's failure with just 0.7% miner support — despite backing from prominent developers — confirms that Bitcoin's governance model is structurally resistant to consensus changes that lack overwhelming miner and institutional support; Saylor's intervention, representing 843,775 BTC in institutional holdings, demonstrates that large corporate treasury holders now function as a de facto veto bloc in Bitcoin governance debates [15].
- 10.The Clarity Act stalling at record-low passage odds while DTCC sets an October tokenization launch date illustrates a recurring pattern in financial technology regulation: market infrastructure moves faster than legislation, and by the time the Clarity Act passes (if it does), the market structure it seeks to govern will have already been shaped by GENIUS Act compliance, DTCC's tokenization service, and institutional adoption decisions made in 2026 [8a].
- 11.SBI Holdings' pivot from Corda (permissioned R3 blockchain) to Solana for stablecoin issuance and RWA tokenization represents a significant signal: one of Asia's largest financial institutions is choosing a public, permissionless Layer 1 over enterprise blockchain infrastructure for production financial applications — a validation of Solana's institutional credibility and a potential template for other Asian financial institutions [19].
- 12.The stablecoin behavioral analysis showing USDT settling $95B in H1 2026 commerce versus USDC's $14B — with USDT dominating B2B (92%) and payroll (96%) — reveals that the payment rail use case is already captured by USDT at a scale that USDC's trading-dollar positioning cannot easily displace; the competitive battleground for USDC is consumer-to-business payments, where it holds roughly a third of volume [1].
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Dune Analytics research as of June 30, 2026: total stablecoin market at $312B across 200+ tokens, up 27% YoY; USDT settled $95B in H1 2026 commerce vs USDC's $14B; USDC on Base turned over ~20x per day; three product categories identified: trading dollar (USDC), payment rail (USDT), yield dollar (USDe/USDS).
Dune research commissioned by 1inch: 29.5% of concentrated liquidity capital (~$542M/week) sat outside active ranges in H1 2026; 85% of $1.84B tracked was underutilized; ~$150M in annual fees foregone; individual wallets account for 82-94% of idle capital on Uniswap v3.
Paxos became first blockchain-native SEC clearing agency; DTCC to tokenize custodied assets on Stellar; SoFi SOFID available to 14.7M customers; Tether USAT grew 5x to $157M; CFTC approved first regulated US bitcoin perpetual (Kalshi BTCPERP).
Cronos Network, Crypto.com's settlement layer for stablecoins and tokenized assets with 150M+ registered users, went live on Dune Analytics with queryable stablecoin flows, tokenized stock settlement, and trading data (company announcement — may reflect promotional framing).
a16z Crypto analysis: institutions selectively adopt blockchain primitives (atomic settlement, programmable money, shared ledgers) while discarding permissionless and pseudonymous properties, creating a new category of programmable financial infrastructure distinct from both TradFi and DeFi (company announcement — may reflect promotional framing).
Devcon 8 tickets went live on July 14 for a November gathering in Mumbai; Ethereum Foundation also published findings from AI agents run against Ethereum protocol code discovering a remotely triggerable validator crash bug.
FSB published AI consultation report (comments due July 22), cross-border payments update on July 8, resolution planning event on July 9, and Regional Consultative Group for Sub-Saharan Africa meeting on July 16 as part of 2026 work programme.
DTCC processed first live production trades involving tokenized stocks, ETFs and U.S. Treasurys on July 15 with 20+ major institutions including JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, BlackRock and Vanguard; DTCC plans broader tokenization service launch in October 2026.
Ostium, a perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum focused on RWAs, lost approximately $18 million in USDC on July 15 via oracle manipulation using future-dated timestamps through a registered PriceUpKeep forwarder; Ostium had raised $27.8M and processed $50B+ in cumulative volume.
Robinhood Chain reached $312M TVL and 3.6M daily transactions but tokenized RWAs account for only $12.81M while CASHCAT memecoin peaked at $156M market cap; chain generated $3.1B in weekly DEX volume ranking top-5 globally.
Bernstein research: Robinhood Chain generated $3.1B in DEX volume over first seven days, ranking top-5 by DEX activity; 65,000+ users hold ~$13M in tokenized stocks and $300M in stablecoins; tokenized RWA sector grew ~170% YTD to $1.9B.
Robinhood Chain generated $878M in 24-hour DEX volume on July 12, briefly overtaking Base and Ethereum; of $734M bridged, only $211M deployed in lending/yield; tokenized RWA market cap at $12.66M; Robinhood targets 27.6M funded customers for onchain finance onboarding.
Former Ethereum Foundation Institutional Privacy Task Force members launched EthSystems, a for-profit startup building confidentiality infrastructure for banks using Ethereum; joins EthLabs and Ethereum Institutional as foundation distributes responsibilities following ~20% headcount reduction.
BIP-110 sought to temporarily restrict non-financial data on Bitcoin blockchain via one-year soft fork; failed to gain meaningful support with just over 0.7% of miners backing it; proposal appears to have reached a dead end.
Michael Saylor published detailed critique of BIP-110 on July 19, arguing it would undermine Bitcoin's neutrality, weaken miner incentives and establish censorship precedent; Strategy holds 843,775 BTC worth ~$54.31B.
Cantor Fitzgerald and Securitize announced collaboration to bring tokenization into IPOs and follow-on offerings; Cantor provides equity capital markets capabilities while Securitize provides tokenization infrastructure; extends blockchain into primary capital markets.
Galaxy Digital launched Galaxy Curator, institutional vaults on Morpho distributed through Fireblocks Earn, giving 2,400 institutional clients access to curated onchain yield strategies; two products: Quality Vault (blue-chip collateral) and Enhanced Vault (higher yield including LRTs and Ethena).
Swift expanded blockchain settlement network from 17 to 40+ financial institutions; Stripe made unsolicited $53B bid for PayPal; analysts describe race to control next-generation global payment infrastructure as stablecoins evolve into core payments infrastructure.
SBI Holdings renamed SBI R3 Japan to SBI Solana Global, pivoting from Corda to Solana for stablecoin issuance and RWA tokenization; Solana Foundation added as partner; aims to establish Japan as core hub for onchain finance in Asia.
CoinDesk reported on Dune/1inch research: $1.6B in DeFi liquidity underutilized in H1 2026; $542M weekly sat outside active trading ranges; ~$150M in annual fees foregone; individual wallets account for 82-94% of idle capital.
SEC proposed new e-delivery approach on July 16; Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee meeting scheduled for July 21; Crypto Task Force active; SEC Chairman Paul Atkins hosting Material Matters podcast on financial regulation.
Total DeFi TVL at $75.555B as of July 19; stablecoin market cap at $310.098B; total RWA active market cap at $27.292B; Robinhood Chain now listed as a tracked chain; Lido at $17.164B TVL, Aave at $14.213B, Morpho at $7.422B.
Polygon blog updated with PayPal USD landing on Polygon Chain on July 9 and Credible surpassing $152M total payments volume; Open Money Stack statistics: 159M unique wallet addresses, $54B stablecoin transfer volume, $3.4B stablecoin supply (company announcement — may reflect promotional framing).