1. Ethereum Institutional Privacy Firm EthSystems Officially Launches, Backed by BitMine, SharpLink and Other Institutions link Institutional-grade Ethereum privacy technology firm EthSystems officially launched with initial backing from listed Ethereum treasury company BitMine, SharpLink, SNZ Holding, as well as Joseph Lubin, co-founder of Ethereum and founder of Consensys. Founded by the former Institutional Privacy Working Group team from the Ethereum Foundation, EthSystems develops privacy and compliance systems for regulated entities including banks and asset managers. These solutions enable institutional transactions on Ethereum while safeguarding sensitive data such as transaction details and client identities. 2. Optimism Partners With Dunamu, Toss & DB Securities to Expand South Korean Ecosystem link Ethereum Layer 2 infrastructure project Optimism will expand its presence in South Korea through partnerships with Dunamu, operator of Upbit, fintech platform Toss and DB Securities. The collaboration covers upgrading and globalizing Dunamu’s blockchain GIWA, validating digital financial infrastructure denominated in South Korean won, and commercializing Jeju Island smart agriculture, livestock assets and Korean intellectual property in the form of tokenized securities and real-world assets (RWA). 3. Robinhood Chain Hits Second Place in Developer Activity Only 14 Days Post Mainnet Launch link Nikil Viswanathan, co-founder of Alchemy, posted that developer activity on Robinhood Chain has risen to second place across the crypto ecosystem within 14 days of launch, trailing only Ethereum. Base, Polygon and BNB Chain rank third to fifth respectively. Per data shared by @tomwanhh, cumulative fee revenue generated on Robinhood Chain has surpassed $1 million just two weeks post-launch. The network is currently booming with its meme coin ecosystem led by Cash Cat and launchpad applications. 4. Base Founder Jesse Pollak Abandons Social & Content Token Strategy, Shifts Focus to Trading, Payments & AI Agents link Jesse Pollak, founder of Base, posted that Q1 2026 was a major challenge for Base. Misjudgments in past bets on social products and content tokens left Base behind competitors in key sectors such as perpetual contracts, prediction markets, tokenization and payments. Pollak said he has refocused on building blockchain infrastructure, arguing the crypto industry does not need social scenarios to achieve mass growth, and financial applications including stablecoins, prediction markets, perpetual contracts and tokenization are sufficient to drive user onboarding. The Base App has been returned to Coinbase for management with Cobie in charge of its follow-up development. Pollak will focus on building Base into global financial infrastructure and prioritize three major verticals of trading, payments and AI Agents in 2026, including support for tokenized equities, stablecoin payments and on-chain economic activities tailored for AI. 5. Starknet Rolls Out STRK20 Compliant Privacy Framework for ERC-20 Assets link Ethereum Layer 2 network Starknet announced the launch of its privacy framework STRK20, enabling users to apply privacy processing to any assets, with developers able to integrate via SDKs and wallet APIs. Users must undergo screening before entering privacy pools, where all activities remain encrypted. Information about specified users, transfers or timeframes will only be disclosed upon receipt of valid legal requests following independent assessments. Starknet stated this mechanism facilitates fund source audits and investigations into stolen assets while preventing exposure of data belonging to unrelated users. 6. PumpFun Completes First Team Token Unlock, Distributing $86.49M Worth of Tokens Across 121 Wallets link The one-year lock-up period for team and investor tokens of Pumpfun has expired, kicking off a three-year vesting cycle. Pumpfun completed the first unlock of team and investor tokens early this morning, with a total of 57.279 billion PUMP tokens worth approximately $86.49 million unlocked, transferred and distributed to 121 wallets. 7. Polygon Labs Conducts Staff Layoffs and Moves Forward With Acquisition of Coinme link Marc Boiron, CEO of Polygon Labs, posted that the company is in the final stage of acquiring Coinme and will integrate its team. To achieve profitability by 2027, Polygon Labs is transforming from a blockchain foundation into a blockchain payment firm, a strategic shift accompanied by layoffs. Marc Boiron stated the organizational restructuring aligns with the company’s business pivot from a foundation to a payment enterprise rather than stemming from the performance of laid-off staff. Despite steady revenue growth and record-high stablecoin trading volumes, the firm must optimize its workforce for long-term sustainable growth. Additionally, Polygon Labs emphasized it will offer severance packages and career referral support to affected employees. 8. Alleged Price Manipulation Detected on Polymarket’s 5-Minute Bitcoin Prediction Market link Researchers from Stanford University and Singapore Management University released a working paper pointing to suspected manipulation in Polymarket’s popular five-minute Bitcoin prediction markets. After analyzing roughly two months of trading data, the study found certain traders place concentrated one-sided orders on Binance in the final seconds before contract settlement, temporarily shifting the BTC price used for settlement in their favor to profit from bets on the same direction. 9. Symbiotic Unveils Core V2, Shifting Focus From Restaking to Universal Collateral Marketplace link Restaking protocol Symbiotic announced the launch of Core V2, extending its shared collateral mechanism to scenarios including insurance, on-chain credit and RWAs. Core V2 allows the same collateral asset to back multiple financial obligations simultaneously and be deployed to protocols such as Aave and Morpho during idle periods to generate extra yields. Symbiotic stated the upgrade aims to build on-chain Collateral Markets, boost capital efficiency and drive institutional capital into on-chain finance. Symbiotic secured a $5.8 million seed round led by Paradigm in 2024 and closed a $29 million financing round led by Pantera Capital in 2025. 10. Dune Analytics: Low Utilization of Concentrated Liquidity Causes Around $150M Annual Fee Losses Across DeFi link On-chain analytics platform Dune released a research report showing roughly 85% of concentrated liquidity across DeFi protocols remains underutilized at any given time. The study analyzed around 200 active pools on protocols including Uniswap v3/v4, PancakeSwap v3 and Aerodrome, covering approximately $1.84 billion in weekly liquidity, of which about $1.6 billion sat idle. The report estimated liquidity providers with out-of-range positions lose $150 million in annual fee revenue, and over one-third of idle capital has not been adjusted in more than 90 days. Sergej Kunz, co-founder of 1inch, commented that structural inefficiencies in DeFi cost liquidity providers billions in capital utilization and millions in trading fees. Dune’s data further indicated idle capital is mostly held by individual wallets rather than trading bots, and despite new features such as Hooks introduced in Uniswap v4, the core issue of underused liquidity remains unresolved. Follow us Twitter: https://twitter.com/WuBlockchain Telegram: https://t.me/wublockchainenglish
Cobie: Coinbase Has Long Been Distant From Crypto-Native Users
KOL Rune asked Coinbase trading product lead Cobie how the Base App plans to attract onchain users after trust in the Base ecosystem was damaged. Cobie replied that he took over the Base App and Coinbase trading products a few days ago but is not responsible for the Base network. He said Coinbase has long been somewhat distant from crypto-native users, and that both Coinbase and Base have severely eroded user trust through a series of avoidable mistakes, including today's incident. Cobie added that he plans to listen more closely to onchain users and build products they actually want to use.
Highlight Clip Tom Lee: Ethereum Will Penalize Impatient Investors
Tom Lee: Ethereum Will Penalize Impatient Investors On July 7, 2026, Tom Lee stated on the New Era Finance Podcast that the recent lag in the crypto market is primarily due to the aftermath of deleveraging, with capital flowing toward yield-bearing sectors. When discussing how to maintain conviction during the pullback of assets like Ethereum, he noted that the fundamentals remain unchanged. Citing Nvidia's $2 trillion surge in three months after a long consolidation at $160, Tom Lee expressed that both the stock and crypto markets will ultimately penalize impatient investors, and those who cannot hold on are the ones who actually lose.
Drop Site Newsによると、ブロックチェーン企業Consensysは、北朝鮮に関連するソフトウェア開発者を誤って採用したという。開発者は別名「Tyler Knapp」を使用しており、第三者のサービス提供者を通じて参加し、暗号資産から法定通貨への換算機能を含むMetaMask関連のコードに貢献した。Consensysは、セキュリティ上のリスクを特定した後に開発者のアクセス権を取り消したと述べ、資産やデータは侵害されていないこと、悪意のあるコードは導入されていないこと、ユーザーへの影響はなかったことを確認した。