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Crypto market maker and over-the-counter trading platform Cumberland deposited about $6.65 million worth of HYPE and USDT to exchanges, Onchain Lens reported. The firm transferred 108,090 HYPE worth $5.95 million to Bybit and 700,000 USDT to Binance.

Singapore-based asset manager Psalion has launched a $50 million fund, its largest to date, to invest in early-stage blockchain startups, The Block reported. The company plans to back pre-seed and seed-stage firms in areas including blockchain infrastructure, real-world assets, stablecoins and DeFi.

South Korean exchanges Upbit, Bithumb and Coinone announced they will place Storj (STORJ) on a delisting watchlist, citing a need to monitor and verify the sustainability of the project’s key virtual-asset-related business.

FactBlock will launch a support program funded from its own resources for buyers who have not received their Gaia Phone orders for an extended period, Digital Asset reported. FactBlock said it takes seriously the inconvenience and anxiety faced by Gaia Phone buyers amid the prolonged non-delivery situation and will implement a Gaia Phone buyer support program. The company said the program is a gratuitous support measure that FactBlock will operate independently, without cooperation or funding from Gaia. Support will amount to about 1.94 million won ($1,400) per device. Gaia Network unveiled its AI smartphone in a Korea Blockchain Week edition in July 2025 and began sales in September that year. Complaints over shipping delays and a lack of communication have since continued among the community and buyers.

RWA tokens delivered the strongest performance among major cryptocurrency sectors in July, posting a median return of 10%, CryptoRank reported. As of July 24, the total on-chain RWA market capitalization had risen to $32.2 billion, up 12.3% from the start of the month and setting a new all-time high above the previous record reached in April. The data indicates tokenization of traditional financial assets remains a key growth driver for the market.

Artificial intelligence may pose a bigger threat to DeFi protocols than to Bitcoin, according to Charles Edwards, founder of crypto investment firm Capriole Investments. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Edwards said the AI model "Mythos" had broken through multiple security safeguards in succession. If that could happen in a conventional computing environment, similar incidents could also occur across many DeFi protocols, Edwards said. Edwards added that DeFi hacks had become more frequent over the past 12 months, weighing on the crypto industry. He also said massive capital inflows into the AI market were drawing some funds away from cryptocurrencies broadly, including Bitcoin.

RWA platform Dow Protocol announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding. Participants in the round included MH Ventures, OKX Ventures, Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, Essentia Partners and Quartet Group. The company did not disclose how it plans to use the funds.

Bitcoin fell around 3% even as the KOSPI plunged more than 10% in a single day, Dailian reported. According to CoinGecko, Bitcoin traded at $63,544 as of 7:00 a.m. UTC today, down 2.9% from 24 hours earlier. The KOSPI closed at 6,023.66, down 10.84% from the previous session. Compared with its recent peak in mid-June, the index is down about 25%. More recently, however, Bitcoin has shown relatively greater stability than the KOSPI. Bitfinex analysts said the correlation between the two markets can vary depending on the cause of the shock and asset-specific supply and demand.

Bitcoin spot trading volume on major global exchanges has fallen more than 75% from its November 2024 peak, according to an analysis by on-chain analyst Darkfost. Darkfost said Binance’s BTC spot trading volume in July 2026 stood at $35 billion, down about 85.8% from $246 billion recorded in November 2024. Over the same period, Bybit fell 85%, Coinbase 61%, and OKX 67%, which Darkfost described as the lowest level since the 2023 bear market. Darkfost added deeper U.S.-Iran tensions have weakened risk appetite, while concerns persist that inflation could keep interest rates higher for longer. The analyst also said the stock market, supported by strength in tech shares, has absorbed liquidity, making it a key driver behind the drop in crypto trading volume. Darkfost added easing macroeconomic risks and a recovery in demand are essential for Bitcoin to regain bullish momentum.

Australia-listed DigitalX (DCC) sold 80 BTC, reducing its Bitcoin holdings to 283 BTC and increasing its cash holdings to $21 million, BitcoinTreasuries.net reported. As a result, DigitalX fell to 79th in the global ranking of listed companies by Bitcoin holdings.

Forty-five percent of wealthy investors worldwide plan to increase their cryptocurrency allocations over the next 12 months, according to an HSBC report. The report found crypto currently accounts for an average of 6% of portfolio assets, down one percentage point from a year earlier. Meanwhile, 40% of investors said they plan to maintain their current exposure, while 12% said they plan to reduce it or have not yet decided. By generation, younger investors showed a stronger preference for crypto. Current crypto allocations stood at 10% for Generation Z and 9% for millennials, compared with 4% for Generation X and 3% for baby boomers. Plans to increase crypto investment were also strongest among younger groups, at 48% for Generation Z, 47% for millennials, 40% for Generation X and 35% for baby boomers. The survey was conducted from Jan. 6 to Feb. 6 this year among 9,993 investors in 10 markets, including mainland China, Hong Kong, India, the U.S. and the UK, each holding at least $100,000 in investable assets.

Brazil’s cryptocurrency market is expanding rapidly, but its weak regulatory framework needs urgent strengthening, according to the International Monetary Fund, or IMF. In a recent Financial System Stability Assessment report, the IMF said Brazil’s cross-border crypto transaction volume has surpassed traditional cross-border capital flows. It added stricter oversight is needed, while the current regulatory framework remains inadequate and leaves investor protection vulnerable. Given the crypto market’s close links with the traditional financial system, the IMF said Brazil should strengthen rules including segregated custody of customer assets and implementation of the Travel Rule, while also enhancing cross-border regulatory cooperation.

Rachel Busch, who served as senior manager of communications at USDC issuer Circle (CRCL), said she is moving to Tempo, a stablecoin- and payments-focused blockchain. Busch said on X that she will lead communications at Tempo.

Binance announced on its official website that it will delist eight spot trading pairs at 3:00 a.m. UTC on July 31: ERA/BNB, MAGIC/USDC, MASK/USDC, MOVE/TRY, MOVE/USDC, POL/BTC, STORJ/TRY and SUSHI/USDC.

South Korean users showed far less search interest in virtual assets, or digital assets, than in the stock market, according to Digital Asset. An analysis of Naver search data for the Korean terms for "stocks" and "coins" over the one-year period from July 27, 2025, to July 26, 2026, found the average daily search index for stocks at 21.68, a relative measure in which the peak search period is set at 100. The comparable figure for coins was 3.49, leaving stock-related search volume about 6.2 times higher over the same period. Of the 365 days covered, the stock search index was higher than the coin search index on 308 days, or 84.4%, while coins led on 57 days, or 15.6%.

The price of an SK Hynix stock-linked futures trading pair on decentralized perpetual futures exchange Hyperliquid (HYPE) briefly plunged to $927 today, or about 1.36 million won, after an abnormal single sell order triggered the move, according to an analysis by Hubzi, formerly Spot On Chain. Hubzi said more than $80 million in cascading liquidations followed, making it one of the largest liquidation events for a single-name product. The analyst added that a single order setting off such a chain of liquidations showed the pair had shallow liquidity and excessive leverage.

Kyle Samani, chairman of Forward Industries (FWDI), described in the source as the largest corporate accumulator of Solana (SOL) through DAT, said on X that anyone building in the Solana ecosystem should recognize that Multicoin Capital is obstructing development across the ecosystem. The remarks came after the Hyperliquid Policy Center and Multicoin Capital submitted a joint comment letter backing the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s proposed rules on prediction market regulation. In the letter, the two sides argued prediction markets should be overseen under a single federal framework by the CFTC rather than under state gambling laws, and said clear standards that remain in place across political transitions, along with disclosure of review criteria, are needed. Meanwhile, Samani, who is also a co-founder of Multicoin Capital, dismissed speculation by crypto journalist Laura Shin, saying his departure from Multicoin had nothing to do with Hyperliquid.

The KOSPI briefly gave up the 6,000 level after falling more than 11% to 5,992.91 moments ago.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said at the 2026 ASEAN Tech Summit in Manila, the Philippines, that he supports introducing a crypto regulatory passport across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN. Zhao added that he backs a system under which a crypto business license obtained in one ASEAN member state would be recognized by other member states, which would allow crypto firms to expand into multiple countries more easily.

The following are the 24-hour long/short ratios for BTC perpetual futures on the world’s three largest crypto futures exchanges by open interest: Overall: 48.71% long, 51.29% short - Binance: 47.77% long, 52.23% short - OKX: 47.77% long, 52.23% short - Bybit: 47.97% long, 52.03% short

The average daily trading value of Samsung Asset Management's KODEX SK Hynix Single Stock Leveraged ETF was seven times higher than the combined trading volume of South Korea's five largest virtual-asset exchanges, Electronic Times Internet reported. The KODEX product tracks twice the daily move of the KRX SK Hynix Index. From July 1 to July 27, its average daily trading value stood at 4.5383 trillion won. Over the same period, based on 18 ETF trading sessions, the combined average daily trading value of five exchanges including South Korean Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit and Gopax was about 650.3 billion won.

Total value locked in apps built on Robinhood Chain has surpassed $600 million, rising about 50% over the past week, Cointelegraph reported, citing Token Terminal data.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for NEO and GAS at 9:00 a.m. UTC on July 31 to support the NEO network's mainnet upgrade.

Spot CVD is an order book analysis chart for the BTC/USDT spot trading pair. The upper section shows the volume heatmap, while the lower section represents cumulative volume delta, or CVD. - The volume heatmap in the upper section tracks trading volume at each price level, and the background color becomes brighter when the price stays in a specific range for an extended period or makes a large move. Areas closer to bright colors may act as support or resistance. - The cumulative volume delta indicator in the lower section reflects buy and sell orders by capital size, and the line for each color rises as buy orders increase. The yellow line represents $100 to $1,000 orders, while the brown line represents large orders worth $1 million to $10 million.

Binance has conducted simulated phishing attacks on employees every month for the past four years, and staff who repeatedly fail the tests could be fired, Chief Security Officer Jimmy Su said, according to Cointelegraph. The drills are carried out by Binance's internal red team, which attempts to penetrate systems and identify vulnerabilities. Su said Binance runs the phishing attacks each month to check whether employees' security awareness is improving, adding that employees who fail receive follow-up training.