Bybit launched 24/7 options on its stock perpetuals, starting with SpaceX and Nvidia, giving round-the-clock USDT-settled exposure to equities — The Block
Solana passed SIMD-0550, doubling SOL disinflation to 30% and cutting about 18.9M SOL ($1.5B) of future emissions; terminal inflation now lands around 2029 — Solana Governance
Shyft Finance tapped VARA-licensed GAP3 to co-curate its first two Ethereum yield vaults, shCORE and shYIELD, now nearing pre-deposits — Business Insider
Fogo halted its mainnet after an attacker received 400M FOGO ($3M), over 10% of circulating supply, in a compromise of the Fogo Foundation — The Block
Cronos halted its entire network after an exploit in Tectonic, its biggest lending protocol, drained an estimated $75M; the attacker was blacklisted and cannot bridge the funds out — Cronos
Chainalysis sued the US government after ICE handed a sole-source ~$95M forensics contract to rival TRM Labs, calling the no-bid award arbitrary and unlawful; oral argument is set for Sept 2 — The Block
MORE Markets, a lending protocol on Flow EVM, was drained of ~$9.3M after an attacker looped an Ankr bonded LST through E-mode to empty its WFLOW reserve — Blockaid
Polygon quietly patched security bugs in two hard forks, closing a flaw that could force costly work across its entire validator set; none were exploited on mainnet — Decrypt
Strategy bought 4,603 BTC for $369.7M (avg $80,318), its first bitcoin buy since June; the stack now totals 845,050 BTC as Saylor posts We are Back — SEC filing
Real Finance's ASSET is now live on Kraken Pro for EU users, its widest European access yet, with the token up 13.8% at a $267M FDV — Real Finance
Pavel Durov launched Gram Wallet, a non-custodial wallet built into Telegram, live for a small group now and rolling out to its 1B+ users in the coming weeks — Cryptobriefing
Hyperliquid is in advanced talks with Kraken's parent Payward to bring its perps to US traders via the CFTC-regulated Bitnomial exchange, sending HYPE to a fresh ATH past $83 — Decrypt
Fomo acquired the tech, IP, and team of onchain data platform Mobula for $17M, bringing infrastructure it already ran fully in-house; Mobula will keep operating independently — Cryptobriefing
OpenSea added Solana NFT trading, letting users buy and sell collections like Mad Lads and Claynosaurz, more than four years after its short-lived 2022 beta — The Block
Polymarket is raising $1B in a round led by 1789 Capital at a $21B valuation, up from $15B in April, cementing its lead among prediction markets — Cryptobriefing
X switched on X Money for every US Premium and Premium+ subscriber, adding an X Visa debit card, instant fee-free transfers, up to 3% cash back and a 6% APY — X
Andreessen Horowitz topped up its fifth growth fund to $8.5 billion, adding about $1.75 billion since January, just days after closing a separate $1.1 billion AI-hardware fund — TechCrunch
Kraken parent Payward and the London Stock Exchange will tokenize the 100 biggest UK stocks as xStocks, listed on LSE's 24-hour venue LSE 24 pending regulatory approval — CoinDesk
Injective lost about $4.9M after an attacker exploited a market-ID collision in its binary options logic with just 9,100 USDT, halting the chain for nearly four hours — Metaverse Post
Binance Futures listed MarsCoin, a BNB Chain memecoin whose 2% trade tax buys tokenized SpaceX stock (SPCXB), up to 20x leverage, a rare meme-to-equity crossover on a major exchange — Bloomingbit
Ethena launched Ethena Pay, its stablecoin neobank, on Avalanche, letting users earn a 6% savings rate on a synthetic dollar backed by its staked sUSDe — Ethena