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Even though the market is trading below the crucial $2,000 threshold, Ethereum whales are still demonstrating confidence. Recent on-chain data indicates that wallet 0x2d59 took 40,000 $ETH, roughly $76.6 million, out of Binance in two different transactions. It was one of the biggest exchange outflows of the day, with a 30,000 $ETH withdrawal and another 10,000 $ETH shortly after. Large withdrawals from centralized exchanges are typically seen as a positive indication. Important momentum change Coins leaving exchanges usually signify that investors plan to hold their assets in private wallets or deploy them elsewhere in decentralized finance rather than sell them…

Seven out of ten crypto traders are willing to hand over full control of their portfolios to an AI — no human double-checking every move. That finding, drawn from a survey of roughly 1,400 traders, reframes what most people assume about AI crypto portfolio management: it’s not a niche experiment embraced by tech enthusiasts. It’s already close to the market mainstream. Key takeaways 70% of surveyed traders said they’d be comfortable with AI managing their portfolio autonomously, either with full control or within self-set risk limits. Gen Z (38%) and Millennials (37%) are more than three times as likely as…

Crypto has spent years competing to build faster blockchains. Ondo Finance thinks the next battle won’t be about building another chain at all. Instead, it will be about execution. According to reporting by The Block, Ondo Finance has unveiled the Ondo Network, a new execution layer designed to deliver centralized exchange (CEX)-like trading speeds while preserving self-custody and onchain settlement. The launch marks a strategic shift away from Ondo Chain, as the company concludes that execution—not settlement—is now the biggest bottleneck preventing onchain markets from competing with traditional exchanges. “I’d frame it more as an evolution, but we will not…

According to on-chain data, a large Bitcoin whale completely closed its position of 1,105 $BTC today, which it had held for approximately 7 months. The current value of these Bitcoins is estimated at around $69.43 million, meaning the whale incurred a loss of $26.9 million from this transaction. According to the data, the whale withdrew $BTC from Binance and OKX exchanges between November last year and February this year at an average cost of $87,181, transferring the assets to its on-chain wallet. However, today all of these $BTC were sent back to Binance. This transfer was interpreted as the whale…

Ethereum price rose nearly 2% on July 29 as US spot ETF inflows and short liquidations helped $ETH defend its rising support structure before the Federal Reserve’s rate decision. Ethereum price returns above $1,900 According to data from crypto.news, Ethereum ($ETH) price was trading near $1,913 at the time of writing, up about 2% over the past 24 hours. The token had traded between approximately $1,856 and $1,926 during the session. The recovery followed a successful defense of the $1,850–$1,880 region. $ETH first reclaimed the daily Bollinger Band midpoint at $1,874 before moving back above the psychological $1,900 level. Ethereum’s…

S&P Dow Jones Indices and Pantera Capital have launched the S&P Pantera Digital Asset Index, a new benchmark that selects digital assets using revenue, market size and liquidity measures. The firms announced the product on July 21, while S&P index materials list July 20 as its official launch date. The index currently holds 18 digital assets and targets institutional investors seeking a structured way to track a broader part of the crypto market, according to the official announcement. The five largest constituents are Ether ($ETH), $BNB, Solana ($SOL), TRON ($TRX) and Hyperliquid ($HYPE), according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. The…

In the 1990s, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) were a novel idea. Many saw them simply as a new wrapper for traditional assets – a convenient repackaging of mutual funds. In reality, ETFs triggered a market structure revolution. By introducing creation/redemption mechanisms and arbitrage-driven liquidity, ETFs fundamentally changed how markets functioned and how investors accessed assets. ETFs blurred the line between primary and secondary markets and turned arbitrage into the mechanism for holding the system together. How does tokenization mirror the ETFs market structure revolution? In almost every key aspect. A robust tokenized asset isn’t simply “issued” once like a stock or…

LuLu Financial Holdings, a financial services group headquartered in Abu Dhabi, and CreataChain have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the integration of CreataChain’s blockchain infrastructure in a controlled sandbox environment. The evaluation will focus on the technical capabilities of CreataChain’s core ledger, smart contracts, interoperability tools, and developer infrastructure. The companies may test node deployment, wallet and SDK integrations, smart contracts, transaction verification, and communication between different blockchain networks. The tests will use only synthetic data, test accounts, and simulated transactions. No live customer data, production systems, payments, remittances, settlements, or customer assets will be involved. LuLuFin…

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) made noteworthy statements regarding how Bitcoin ($BTC) could be protected against quantum computers in the future and how the $BTC believed to belong to Satoshi Nakamoto should be handled. Appearing on the Galaxy Brains podcast hosted by Galaxy Research President Alex Thorn, CZ stated that quantum computing is not an insurmountable problem for Bitcoin. According to CZ, quantum-resistant encryption algorithms already exist to counter the risks that quantum computers could pose. The crucial point is whether the Bitcoin community can make such a transition in a coordinated manner. CZ argued that “doing nothing” regarding the…

Doppler Brings $XRP Infrastructure to Base Doppler Finance, an institutional-grade yield infrastructure built natively on the $XRP Ledger (XRPL), announced on July 29 that its infrastructure is expanding to Base, beginning with Coinbase Wrapped $XRP (cbXRP) and later extending to other tokenized financial products. The announcement outlines the phased deployment as one of the first steps in the protocol’s broader multichain strategy, enabling tokenized assets to gain institutional-grade onchain utility through lending, borrowing, collateral, and other decentralized financial applications. Doppler Finance stated: “Initially, the expansion will focus on supporting cbXRP, with additional support for tokenized assets planned as the Base…