Uniswap introduced Permissioned Pools for v4, targeting tokenized real-world assets it cited as estimated to reach $11 trillion by 2030. The pool verifies whether a wallet is approved before swaps or liquidity actions. Launch partners include Superstate, Securitize, and Dowgo. UNI traded down 1.6% over the prior 24 hours, with a market capitalization near $2.36 billion.

Coinbase Business users can now accept payments from AI agents in USDC through the x402 protocol. The rollout is happening this week. Coinbase developed and incubated x402, and Coinbase Payments powers the setup.

Google disclosed about $94 billion in SpaceX stock, equal to roughly a 6% stake in Elon Musk’s newly public company. The quarterly filing listed $80 billion in SpaceX shares under short-term sale restrictions. The filing also listed $14.1 billion in shares under long-term restrictions through the third quarter of 2027.

BlackRock said post-quantum migration for cryptocurrencies is technically addressable, while coordination and implementation remain the key challenges. The asset manager said about 35% of circulating Bitcoin supply may be vulnerable to certain attack types due to exposed public keys. BlackRock also joined Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, and Block in announcing a Bitcoin Security Consortium to fund open-source engineering work.

Kazakhstan approved the Strategic Digital Mining Implementation Rules on July 18, 2026. Strategic digital mining companies can receive capped electricity quotas under the rules. The companies must transfer part of their mined digital assets to Astana Hub. The rules will take effect 10 calendar days after official publication.

A CLARITY Act ethics deal faces a Senate dispute after seven Democratic senators said the Republican proposal falls short. The latest draft would bar senior federal officials and their spouses from issuing or sponsoring digital assets while in office. Republicans want DOJ enforcement, while Democrats want state attorneys general to have enforcement power if the DOJ does not act.

Empery Digital invested $20 million in Cardinal Data Power and acquired an approximately 8% stake. The financing will support a 750-megawatt data center campus in West Texas, with first power expected in 2027. Empery Digital said it had sold about 1,400 Bitcoin over a two-month period for roughly $87.1 million.

KAIO said it launched tokenized access to a Mubadala Capital evergreen private market strategy with approximately $75 million in onchain value. The offering is live across Base, Solana and Sui. KAIO said Coinbase will be adding exposure to the tokenized offering, but KAIO did not disclose the size of that exposure. Onchain contract addresses were not published in the posts reviewed.

Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon urged U.S. regulators to pass the Crypto CLARITY Act to create market structure for digital assets. JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon argued that the bill could disadvantage traditional banks. U.S. Senate Republicans released a new draft on Wednesday for discussion.

President Trump is considering a major military strike on Iran as oil prices surged above $100 a barrel. The Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged more than 500 points on the heightened risk of wider conflict. Trump said the US does not need outside help and said Israel would join if asked.

A Solana-based memecoin tied to the raccoon Jimothy rose about 60% after the official White House account posted about it. GMGN data showed the token’s market capitalization above $40 million and trading volume at $44 million.

U.S. Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott said he would work with others to push the CLARITY bill to final passage. Scott said the bill would protect ordinary Americans, support entrepreneurs, create domestic jobs, and strengthen national security.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce said crypto vaults and onchain lending strategies can fall under U.S. federal securities laws depending on structure and management. CoinGecko data showed MORPHO dropped as much as 6.85% on the news before recovering.

Bubblemaps said about 75% of total BMEX supply was planned for employee incentives, ecosystem development, and long-term reserves but was never distributed on-chain. BMEX fell approximately 95% after BitMEX announced its closure. Data shows approximately 92% of BMEX supply was locked in vesting contracts in 2021.

BlackRock, Coinbase and Strategy are backing a $15 million Bitcoin Security Consortium effort to prepare Bitcoin for future quantum-computing attacks. The consortium was announced July 23 and includes nine founding members tied to Bitcoin. Dune Analytics data shows more than 7 million BTC in outputs with exposed public keys, worth roughly $460.8 billion at recent prices. No cryptographically relevant quantum computer capable of breaking Bitcoin signatures is known to exist today.

Robinhood Chain is an Ethereum Layer 2 from Robinhood that recorded approximately $3.1 billion in DEX trading volume over a seven-day period. The network held around $300 million in stablecoins and $13 million in Stock Tokens. Much of the early activity came from memecoin trading, while RWA applications remained at an early stage. Stock Tokens provide economic exposure to stocks but do not provide direct ownership or shareholder rights.

BitMEX will permanently shut down its exchange on Sept. 23 and urged users to close positions and withdraw funds before the deadline. New account registrations stopped the same day as the announcement. CoinGecko data showed the BMEX token down roughly 91% over 24 hours.

Coinbase Business launched a payments stack for AI bot payments as the unit has reached about $1 billion in combined payments and trading volume. The stack uses Coinbase Payments and the x402 open internet payments standard. Siddharth Coelho-Prabhu said agentic payments are one of Coinbase's most high-conviction bets.

Public data found no evidence of a broad crypto-funding wave during India’s Cockroach Janta Party protest escalation, even as protest searches rose about 1,350% from July 18 to July 22. Crypto-buying searches fell about 18%, estimated USDT/INR turnover dropped about 30%, and the USDT premium narrowed by roughly 44%. Four unofficial Solana tokens generated about $1.48 million in decentralized exchange volume, but no public evidence connects them to protest organisers.

HMRC recovered more than £8 million, or $10.7 million, in unpaid taxes from crypto investors over the past three years. Voluntary disclosure settlements involved 502 crypto investors over the past two years. Recoveries rose in the 2025/26 tax year even as the number of settlements fell.