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Storj Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in U.S. Court
Storj Labs, the company behind the decentralized cloud storage network, filed for voluntary Chapter 11 reorganization on July 26 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of West Virginia.
The company says the filing resolves legacy obligations from an earlier chapter of the business, while operations, service and the network keep running normally with no anticipated interruption for customers.
"The business underneath is strong and right-sized. What holds it back are legacy obligations from an earlier chapter. This process lets us resolve them in an orderly way," said Kaloyan Raev, Director of Software Engineering at Storj.
Samsung Wallet Adds Native Stablecoin Support
At Galaxy Unpacked on July 22, Samsung said Wallet will move beyond cards and cash to hold stablecoins natively, folding payments, rewards and digital assets into one app.
Product manager Lee Dinham said the move would make Samsung one of the first major mobile brands to bring native stablecoins to a smartphone, for fast and trusted transfers of digital value.
No stablecoins, launch window or partners were named. Galaxy owners in the US have been able to buy crypto inside Wallet through Coinbase since October 2025, a tie-up that covered more than 75 million devices.
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HTX Named in EU's Russia Sanctions Package
HTX — the global crypto exchange formerly known as Huobi — has been included in the European Union's latest package of sanctions targeting Russia, according to a report from Reuters.
The inclusion places a major exchange directly under EU restrictions, underscoring the bloc's tightening focus on crypto platforms within its Russia sanctions regime.
BitMEX Hit With $40M Lawsuit Over 623 BTC
BKX Services and investor David Namdar have accused BitMEX of misappropriating 623 BTC (about $40M), alleging the exchange forcibly liquidated their positions and swept the remaining funds into its insurance fund.
The lawsuit was filed in a New York court on the same day that BitMEX announced its upcoming shutdown.
Ripple Makes Strategic Investment in Notabene
Ripple has made a strategic investment in Notabene, which operates the world's largest open network for regulated on-chain transactions, and will integrate its RLUSD stablecoin into the firm's B2B platform, Notabene Flow.
Notabene's network already clears more than $2T in annualized volume across 2,300+ institutions and 100+ jurisdictions, and will now anchor compliance for Ripple's stablecoin payment rails.
Odos DEX Aggregator Shuts Down: Goes Offline July 30
The company operating DEX aggregator Odos is winding down. The app switches to read-only on July 27, and all Odos services shut down permanently on July 30, 2026.
Odos is non-custodial — user assets stay on-chain and remain fully withdrawable, unaffected by the shutdown.
Tenor has closed Seed Round Led by Variant Fund
Tenor went live on Base on July 21, built on top of Morpho's newly launched fixed-rate primitive. It matches lenders and borrowers at predetermined rates through an interest-rate AMM, with isolated markets and fixed maturities.
Nascent joined the round, with participation from Prelude, Very Early, and angel investors. Deal size and valuation were not disclosed.
Cryptomarket Check-In. Major Events & Headlines
AI kept attracting massive capital, stablecoin regulation moved closer to reality, major crypto companies expanded globally, while security breaches and industry shakeups continued across the market.
🔎 Recent Updates & Developments
— AMD commits up to $5B to Anthropic
— Telegram to launch a native Gram wallet
— BitMEX to shut down operations
— Movement Labs files for Chapter 11
— Tether faces GENIUS Act deadline
— Databricks reaches a $188B valuation
— Bybit expands into Indonesia with NOBI acquisition
— Samsung creates a dedicated robotics division
Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Raises $1.7B for Atoms Industrial AI Venture
Travis Kalanick has announced a $1.7 billion equity investment into Atoms, his industrial AI venture, led by Andreessen Horowitz, with a16z partner Ben Horowitz joining the board. As part of the round, Kalanick's various businesses have been merged into a single Atoms equity structure.
Atoms targets heavy industries like food, mining, construction, and transport with specialized robotics and automation, framing manufacturing as the "CPU," real estate as "storage," and transportation as the "network" — extending the same bits-to-atoms thesis Kalanick pursued at Uber and later at CloudKitchens.
Sentient Foundation Launches $42M Fund for Open-Source AI Builders
The Sentient Foundation has unveiled a $42 million funding initiative to support developers building open-source AI, with grants and investments available for projects ranging from AI models and agents to infrastructure, datasets, evaluations, and consumer applications.
The program is open to both individual developers and established teams, encouraging builders at every stage to develop AI that is transparent, locally deployable, and accessible without relying on centralized providers.
Kalshi Launches a Midterms Election Hub
Kalshi has launched the Midterms Hub — what it calls the first election hub built on the wisdom of the crowd, where real people put real money on what they think will happen.
Its markets trade 24/7, so the odds move the second news breaks, a debate lands, or results roll in. The hub pulls polling, fundraising, historical results and live market odds into one place — no spin, just skin in the game and prices that update in real time.
BitMEX Is Shutting Down on September 23
BitMEX, the exchange that pioneered the crypto perpetual swap, will cease all operations on September 23, 2026, following a strategic review by parent HDR Global Trading.
New sign-ups are already closed. From August 26, users can only reduce positions, and anything still open at shutdown will be force-liquidated. KYC-verified users must withdraw beforehand or face a monthly account fee of $50 or 1% of the balance.
Senate Bill Would Bar Officials From Issuing Crypto
An updated CLARITY Act adds an ethics section that would bar presidents, the VP, Congress, federal officials and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring any cryptocurrency.
Covered officials would have to sell their crypto and stakes in crypto firms, move them into a blind trust they do not control, or both — plus disclose any crypto sale over $1,000, with the GAO hunting for more loopholes. Enforcement could reach $250K a day in fines. The catch: it targets Washington’s biggest crypto portfolio. Trump booked ~$1.2–1.4B in crypto income in year one — and reportedly signed off. Democrats balk over who enforces it, and it is not law yet.
Subgraphs vs Substreams: Picking the right blockchain data tool
Every onchain app needs data — but how you index it matters. The Graph ecosystem gives you two tools: Subgraphs (built-in GraphQL, 15,000+ ready to fork, great for dApps) and Substreams (parallel processing via Firehose, built for high-volume data, ML, analytics).
The simple rule: Subgraphs for queries, Substreams for scale. And with substreams-convert, moving between them is easier than ever.
NVIDIA & SK Group Build $500B+ AI Factories
SK Group and NVIDIA expanded their partnership on July 24 into a $500 billion-plus programme covering AI factories and next-generation memory across Korea.
SK Telecom will build a 2-gigawatt-scale AI Cloud on NVIDIA's DSX platform with Vera Rubin accelerated computing and SK hynix HBM4 memory, with the first AI factory planned for 2027.
SK hynix separately signed a long-term AI memory supply deal with NVIDIA, co-developing next-generation HBM for large language model training, agentic AI and physical AI.
"Together with SK Telecom and SK hynix, we are building a new generation of AI factories that will power Korea's next wave of growth," said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang.
BitMart Shuts Down, Trading Ends Aug 26
New registrations, deposits and new trading orders were suspended at 01:30 UTC on July 26, hours after the exchange published its wind-down notice.
All trading services stop on August 26 at 01:00 UTC. Platform operations formally cease on January 31, 2027, with withdrawals available until then. BitMart urged users to close positions, complete KYC and pull assets out early.
The company cited its operating conditions, the market environment and a change in strategic direction. No buyer, successor venue or migration path was named.
Colibri Trade Secures $1M to Deepen Liquidity Across Prediction Markets
Colibri Trade, a crypto-native quantitative trading firm built specifically for prediction markets, has secured a $1,000,000 trading capital allocation, deployed through Colibri's market-making infrastructure, a mandate rather than a venture investment.
Colibri already runs over $10M in monthly trading volume across 70+ markets spanning crypto, sports, politics, geopolitics, and macro, with 24/7 automated execution and risk management active on leading venues including Polymarket, Kalshi, Limitless, Predict fun, XO Markets, and Opinion.
The new capital will flow directly into Colibri's systems to provide continuous two-sided liquidity, deepen order books, and tighten spreads across those venues.
The fresh fundds comes as prediction markets face a widening gap between user growth and market structure, liquidity remains fragmented across venues, order books thin outside headline markets, and spreads inconsistent, limiting how efficiently capital actually gets deployed.
Gnoland Launches $86M FDV Public Token Sale for GNOT
Gnoland, the smart contract platform built on Gno, a Go-based interpreted language, has opened a live public sale for its native token GNOT, running as a uniform-price English auction to July 27, 2026.
The sale offers 38,760,000 GNOT (~2.9% of total supply) with a starting price of $0.0645, a $100 minimum commitment, and a $2.5M soft cap, accepting USDC and USDT on Ethereum mainnet.
Total supply is fixed at 1.33B GNOT, with only ~14.8% circulating at TGE. Allocation breaks down across a Cosmos governance snapshot airdrop (26.26%), NewTendermint LLC (24.91%), investors (22.51%), an AtomOne snapshot airdrop (17.33%), plus smaller ecosystem, core, and validator treasuries.
Participation requires identity verification through Echo's Sonar compliance platform before connecting a wallet and bidding.
Poolin has Filed Chapter 11, Sets $52 Million Floor Bid
Poolin, once among the world's largest bitcoin mining pools before it halted withdrawals in 2022, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and set a $52 million floor bid for its Texas mining operations.
The $52 million offer is a stalking-horse (floor) bid for Poolin's Texas mining assets, setting the opening price for a court-supervised sale of the assets.
Mirae Asset Acquires Controlling Stake in Korbit
Mirae Asset has completed its acquisition of a 92.06% controlling stake in South Korean crypto exchange Korbit for ₩133.48B ($91M), becoming its largest shareholder after clearing all regulatory approvals.
Under Korea's Virtual Asset User Protection Act, customer funds stay fully segregated — Korbit's trading, deposits, and withdrawals all continue as usual.
Real Tokenizes Alpha Bulgaria’s Listed Warrants
REAL Finance has tokenized Alpha Bulgaria AD’s listed warrants — the first transaction under its securities-tokenization agreement with licensed EU broker Factori AD.
The pilot brings 5 million warrants (ALFW, ~€2.75 each) of Bulgarian Stock Exchange-listed Alpha Bulgaria onchain through REAL’s infrastructure, while Factori handles the licensed custody, KYC/AML and transfer-agent side of the deal. It is the first slice of a $100M+ institutional pipeline Factori has committed to tokenize via REAL. REAL’s model targets only real securities — listed equities, derivatives and bonds — not synthetic exposure.
Zama Ships a Confidential RFQ Swap on Ethereum
Zama has launched Confidential RFQ on Ethereum mainnet — what it calls the first fully onchain, composable RFQ swap where the size and direction of every trade stay confidential at all times.
The pitch: an end to “the tyranny of MEV.” Because bots cannot see the size or side of an order, they cannot front-run or sandwich it — while the trade still settles onchain and remains composable with the rest of DeFi.
NVIDIA Competitor Etched Raises $300M Series C at $10.3B Valuation
Etched has closed a $300 million Series C at a $10.3 billion valuation, with investment from Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz, Jane Street, Argo, and SK Hynix, as the company works toward its mission to "run the world's inference."
The fresh capital will accelerate production of Etched's inference clusters, with the company opening an 80,000-square-foot, 10-MW facility just 15 minutes from its office to speed up prototyping and manufacturing.
Uniswap Launches DualPool Hook for Yield on Idle Liquidity
Uniswap has released DualPool, an audited, open-source hook for Uniswap v4 that lets liquidity providers earn yield on idle capital while still collecting swap fees, built in collaboration with Spark and developed by Uniswap Labs.
The hook works by parking pool capital in ERC-4626 yield vaults between trades, then pulling exactly what's needed into concentrated liquidity positions the moment a swap arrives, executing atomically, and re-depositing the remainder back into the vaults — all within the same block and without any keeper infrastructure.
Plume’s nOPAL Brings RWA Yield to Avalanche
Plume has gone live on Avalanche with nOPAL, a tokenized vault that brings institutional-grade Brazilian credit-card receivables onchain as composable RWA yield.
Issued by BlackOpal, nOPAL turns real credit-card receivables — settled via Visa and Mastercard and registered with Brazil’s Central Bank — into an onchain asset whose returns come from real economic activity, not token incentives.
Three protocols were drained in a matter of hours, $35M+ gone
AFX Trade lost $24M on Arbitrum after its bridge validator keys were compromised. Verus lost $7.5M in a repeat of a bug it never fully fixed. B² Network lost $3.9M when an attacker seized its staking contract.
None of it was broken cryptography. It was keys and permissions, again. That's how most of crypto gets stolen in 2026.
AMD and Anthropic Strike a Major Chip Deal
AMD and Anthropic have signed a strategic deal that pairs a huge chip-supply commitment with an equity investment — AMD will put up to $5B into Anthropic, tied to milestones.
Anthropic will deploy up to 2 gigawatts of AMD Instinct MI450-series GPUs in AMD’s “Helios” rackscale systems, with the first gigawatt live in H1 2027, and has committed to buy tens of billions of dollars of AMD AI chips. Anthropic will own some chips outright and rent the rest via clouds. For AMD, landing a marquee AI lab is a major push against Nvidia’s grip on AI compute.
Exchange Winners & Losers: 30-Day Asset Flows
Bitget and OKX led every exchange in net inflows over the past 30 days, adding +$677M and +$420M. Binance and Bybit went the other way, shedding $1.65B and $416M.
Across all CEXs, $2.09B left the books on net this month. 42 exchanges saw outflows, only 23 saw inflows. Most exchanges lost assets this month. A handful didn't.
Crypto's Biggest Upgrades Still Ahead in 2026
Before 2026 is out, eight different chains ship their biggest upgrades in years — and the first lands this week. Zcash's Ironwood goes live July 28 (new shielded pool, quantum-recoverable funds).
Zcash update is followed by Ethereum's Glamsterdam, Solana's Alpenglow, Polkadot's JAM, and Cardano's largest upgrade ever. Chainlink is bringing Wall Street's DTCC settlement on-chain, while Polygon and BNB Chain race toward 100k and 10k+ TPS.Читать полностью…