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Arbitrum’s technology has been integrated into Robinhood’s new product offerings, as announced by Ignas | DeFi on Twitter. This collaboration represents a strategic move for both platforms to enhance their market positions in decentralized finance. The tweet highlighted that while this is a significant technical and reputational win for Arbitrum, the market reaction has been subdued. What Happened The broader crypto market is currently exhibiting mixed signals, with many assets struggling to gain momentum. In particular, Arbitrum’s integration into Robinhood’s offerings could be a game-changer for liquidity through the Orbit stack, yet the $ARB token has only marginally recovered from…

BitMine, the world’s largest Ethereum treasury firm founded by Tom Lee, has celebrated Robinhood Chain for its impressive growth within just over one week of launch. A recent X post has seen BitMine acknowledge Robinhood Chain’s growth as the network continues to boast of major milestones across the DeFi ecosystem. Robinhood Chain surpasses $1 billion milestone BitMine’s appraisal came after a Robinhood executive shared a few major milestones the network has achieved in just about a week of launch. The post revealed that Robinhood Chain has crossed over $1 billion in DEX volume, and has already reached 17 million transactions…

Ethereum ($ETH) is trading at nearly 65% below its all-time high, with attention around the asset at an almost yearly low, even as its largest network upgrade since The Merge is due within weeks. But an analyst tracking the setup says the gap between weak social interest and steady on-chain usage is the kind of divergence that has often come right before sharp moves for the cryptocurrency. Glamsterdam Approaches as On-Chain Data Stays Firm In a July 9 post on X, pseudonymous analyst Wise Crypto noted that the Ethereum network has been processing roughly 450,000 active addresses despite social media…

Robinhood shares have climbed more than 2% after the Trump administration officially launched the Trump Accounts savings program, even as the broader crypto market turned lower. The White House officially launched the Trump Accounts initiative on Monday with a ceremony attended by President Donald Trump, who rang the opening bells at both the Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange. The program has also gone live on Robinhood’s platform, with the brokerage and BNY Mellon serving as the U.S. Treasury’s official partners for the rollout. Robinhood traded near $114 following the announcement, gaining over 2% on the day and extending…

Shiba Inu has just witnessed a historic surge in its network activity as its burn rate has jumped to levels not seen since this year began. With the Shiba Inu burn rate being consistently modest for most days of 2026, the dramatic surge in the metric seen in the last day has caught the attention of the crypto community, especially market analysts. 117.54 million $SHIB exit circulation in a day The last 24 hours have seen Shiba Inu destroy the highest number of tokens it has ever destroyed this year, as data provided by Shibburn shows a rare four-digit surge…

In a press release dated the 3rd of July, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand addressed the mounting ethical questions surrounding U.S President Donald Trump’s personal involvement in the cryptocurrency sector. This, after President Trump’s 2025 financial disclosures, where the main source of income came from issuing memecoins. Details of Trump’s income sources via his crypto ventures In his most recent 927-page financial disclosure, the Office of Government Ethics revealed Trump’s extensive involvement in the digital asset industry. It disclosed that in 2025, he earned over $1.4 billion from cryptocurrency-related activities. CIC Digital LLC, the company involved in licensing the Official Trump ($TRUMP)…

An address linked to Wang Chun, co-founder of F2Pool — the world’s fourth-largest Bitcoin mining pool — has deposited 9,876 $ETH, valued at approximately $17.02 million, to the Binance exchange, according to on-chain monitoring service Onchain Lens. Large deposits to centralized exchanges are widely interpreted by market analysts as a signal of intent to sell. From Accumulation to Distribution The deposit marks a notable shift in Wang Chun’s recent on-chain behavior. Between May 26 and early this month, the same address had been actively accumulating, withdrawing a total of 91,945 $ETH (worth roughly $159.9 million at current prices) and 973…

BlackRock’s USD Institutional Digital Liquidity Fund, known as BUIDL, has passed $900 million in assets on Avalanche. The figure rose from about $464 million within seven days, adding roughly $436 million and marking a 105% weekly increase.Wu Blockchain cited current RWA.xyz data when reporting the move on July 12. RWA.xyz’s BUIDL dashboard places the fund’s total asset value at about $2.87 billion across supported networks. Its Avalanche position now represents close to one-third of the full fund. Current data also puts Avalanche behind Ethereum as BUIDL’s second-largest network allocation. The increase comes without a change to the token’s target value…

Fidelity Investments’ Director of Global Macro, Jurrien Timmer, recently shared an updated rendition of the firm’s famous “Periodic Table of Investment Returns.” The performance leaderboard shows that the high-flying gains seen in certain global equities stood in sharp contrast to a painful cooling-off period for traditional safe havens and alternative assets. The periodic table below shows the leaderboard through June. EM, small caps, Japan at the top and Bitcoin, gold, and bonds at the bottom. pic.twitter.com/Wb4lA9cOcd — Jurrien Timmer (@TimmerFidelity) July 8, 2026 Winners and losers Emerging markets, small-cap equities, and Japanese markets successfully claimed the top spots on the…

Ethereum price has rebounded to nearly $1,800 after easing geopolitical tensions and an aggressive short squeeze across crypto derivatives restored appetite for risk assets, while traders now watch whether bulls can force a breakout above a key technical ceiling. The second-largest cryptocurrency has recovered sharply from this week’s low near $1,505, when U.S. strikes on Iranian targets triggered a broad sell-off across digital assets. Sentiment reversed over the past 24 hours after fears of further escalation subsided, prompting investors to rotate back into higher-risk assets A wave of forced short liquidations accelerated the move, pushing $ETH through several resistance levels…