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Aave's USDC Incentives Could Shift DeFi Liquidity Aave introduced USDC borrowing incentives on its V4 Prime Hub on July 17, 2026. Borrowers can now earn a 1% rebate in USDC. I'll be honest: 1% looks almost forgettable on paper. It isn't. Traders routinely move funds for a fraction of a p ...

Early Uber Investor: Bitcoin Has a Strategy Problem Early Uber investor Jason Calacanis says Bitcoin has a Strategy problem. His concern is specific: Strategy, formerly MicroStrategy, and co-founder Michael Saylor now have too much sway over the market. Why does that mat ...

Ethereum Has $76B Staked. How Much Protection Does That Buy? The Ethereum Foundation recently reported that roughly $76 billion worth of ETH is staked to secure the network, far more than on competing layer 1 chains. That number deserves attention, but not worship. My take: it measures c ...

DTCC and Ripple Prime Tokenization Work Could Expand XRP Use The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) began initial trading operations for tokenized securities on July 15, bringing digital assets closer to the machinery of traditional markets. DTCC processe ...

Chainlink Holds Support as CCIP Adoption Faces a Longer-Term Infrastructure Test Chainlink is hovering near a support area traders care about. Short-term, the question is blunt: will buyers defend it? Longer-term, traders are waiting to see whether its cross-chain infrastructure, especia ...

Venezuela's $1.4B USDT Surge Rivals Oil as Crypto Use Grows USDT trading in Venezuela hit a record $1.4 billion on Binance P2P between mid-June and mid-July, or about $44 million a day. That is not background noise. It shows how quickly Venezuelans are changing the way they buy foreign c ...

Bitcoin Sentiment Turns Bullish, but Macro Pressure Hasn't Gone Away Bitcoin investors showed more nerve last week, putting fresh money into crypto exchange-traded products after weeks of selling. The mood has improved. That's real. But nobody should pop the champagne yet: inflation worr ...

Consensys North Korea outsourcing case adds to regulatory pressure on DeFi Consensys unknowingly assigned development work to someone allegedly linked to North Korea, giving regulators another reason to scrutinize decentralized finance (DeFi). Earlier this year, the comp ...

Injective's SEC Filing: Can INJ Break $5.20 as It Pursues Regulation? Injective applied to become an SEC-registered transfer agent on July 16. Its token, $INJ, then climbed back above $5. Why does that matter? Because the filing could open a route into regulated real-world assets (RWAs) ...

Lido Whale Moves $1.61M in LDO After Holding for Five Years An early Lido investor appears to have run out of patience after holding $LDO for about five and a half years. The investor transferred 4.3 million tokens, worth roughly $1.61 million, to Kraken—nearly their en ...