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According to CryptoSlate, Nasdaq-listed company AIxCrypto Holdings announced plans to orderly sell all its crypto assets. As of June 30, the company held 46 BTC, 616 ETH, 6,659 SOL, 1,308 BNB, and small amounts of ADA, LINK, TRX, USDT, and XRP, with a total cost basis of $10.43 million, fair value of only $5.21 million, an unrealized loss of approximately $5.22 million, representing a drop of about 50% from cost. Meanwhile, the company's operating cash consumption in the first half of the year reached $7.94 million, with accumulated losses as high as $150.3 million, raising doubts about its ability to continue as a going concern. The company is shifting its business focus to its RoboShare robot rental platform and completed its first commercial order on August 15, deploying 6 robots at a Malibu event, but specific revenue and subsequent demand have not yet been disclosed.
cirBTC was officially launched on Ethereum on June 8. Data from its Ethereum contract shows a maximum total supply of approximately 40.02 tokens, with 11 holder addresses in total. Eligible institutional participants can mint and redeem cirBTC through Circle Mint. Currently, Ethereum is the only network where it has been launched, with future support planned for Circle's own blockchain Arc and additional networks. cirBTC is issued by Circle International Bermuda Limited, with the underlying Bitcoin held in custody by Circle National Trust and segregated from Circle's own assets. Reserve data from August 11 shows that cirBTC supply stands at 40.02159077 tokens, with 42.5070808 BTC held in reserves. Circle has publicly disclosed the reserve addresses and balances, and employs Chainlink's Proof of Reserve mechanism to publish verified reserve data on-chain. By comparison, WBTC has a circulating supply of approximately 116,100 tokens with a market cap of about $7.362 billion, while cbBTC has a circulating supply of approximately 97,200 tokens with a market cap of about $6.162 billion. cirBTC has not yet established a trackable market price or market capitalization.
Odaily News: Standard Chartered Bank's Head of Global Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, stated that as the tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA) accelerates, the price of Chainlink (LINK) tokens could rise to $200 by the end of 2030, representing an increase of over 25 times from its current level of approximately $8.In his latest report, Kendrick predicts that the scale of tokenized RWA will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028. As more traditional assets are brought on-chain, the demand for secure and reliable off-chain data is expected to increase significantly, which could further boost Chainlink's fee revenue and drive up LINK's valuation.The report also projects that by the end of 2030, the scale of tokenized assets and crypto-native assets deployed in decentralized finance (DeFi) will grow approximately 37-fold to reach $2.7 trillion. Kendrick believes these assets require trusted data, cross-network interoperability, privacy-preserving compliance mechanisms, and integration with the existing financial system—infrastructure that Chainlink currently has the capability to provide.Demand for RWA tokenization has continued to grow recently. Data shows that trading volume of tokenized RWAs on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) hit an all-time high of $14.1 billion in July, up 19.5% month-over-month, driven primarily by public market assets such as tokenized stocks.Currently, Chainlink remains one of the largest decentralized oracle service providers in the crypto industry, with a Total Value Secured (TVS) of approximately $34.4 billion—significantly higher than second-ranked Chronicle's $7.36 billion.However, Kendrick also noted that the prediction of LINK reaching $200 still faces risks, including institutional tokenization projects progressing slower than expected, intensified competition from specialized oracle service providers, and potential technical issues. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Standard Chartered initiated coverage on Monday of blockchain oracle project Chainlink, projecting LINK to reach $200 by the end of 2030 — roughly 25 times its current price of around $8. The bank's phased targets are $13 by the end of this year, followed by $41, $82, and $133. Standard Chartered estimates that the on-chain tokenized asset market will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028, with DeFi-deployed assets hitting $2.7 trillion by 2030 — a 37-fold increase from current levels. The bank expects Chainlink fees to grow approximately 25-fold over the same period, assuming token prices track fee growth. Chainlink secures over $110 billion in total value, covering approximately 70% of the value that global DeFi relies on from oracles, with a share exceeding 80% on Ethereum; Aave V3 accounts for 44% of that. Swift, DTCC, Euroclear, JPMorgan, Mastercard, UBS, Fidelity, and S&P Global are all listed as institutions using its services. Chainlink still lags behind LayerZero in cross-chain interoperability. Following the $292 million attack in April, over $7 billion in token value has migrated to Chainlink CCIP, with second-quarter transaction volume reaching $4.9 billion — up 353% year-over-year. Risks include slowing institutional tokenization, pilots not converting to production processes, and technical failures impacting confidence. (Decrypt)
Bitget announces a comprehensive upgrade to its BGBTC, adding daily coin-denominated yields, fast redemption for large amounts, and institutional-grade risk management.
Odaily Planet Daily reported that Polymarket has announced that, to enhance the manipulation resistance of its cryptocurrency up/down prediction markets, affected markets will transition from single price snapshot settlement to Time-Weighted Average Price (TWAP) settlement starting from 00:00 UTC on August 7. Specifically, the 5-minute markets will adopt a 30-second TWAP, while the 15-minute and 4-hour markets will adopt a 60-second TWAP.Additionally, the platform will provide a total of $1 million in liquidity rewards for the relevant markets throughout August. Chainlink's TWAP testnet data feed is now live, with the mainnet data feed and Polymarket's Real-Time Data Streams (RTDS) scheduled to go live on August 4, 2026.
documents filed by Protect Progress PAC, an affiliate of the crypto-focused political action committee Fairshake, with the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that as of Tuesday, it has spent over $986,000 to support current Democratic Representative Shri Thanedar in Michigan’s 13th Congressional District and oppose challenger Donavan McKinney. The expenditure occurs two weeks before the August 4 Democratic primary, which will determine the party’s nominee for the November general election. Protect Progress PAC spent approximately $1 million in 2024 to support Thanedar, who received 54.9% of the vote in that year’s Democratic primary and went on to secure 68.6% of the vote in the November general election. Fairshake and its affiliated organizations report having a $191 million war chest to influence key elections. Other crypto industry-related political action committees include the Fellowship, backed by Cantor Fitzgerald and Anchorage Digital, and the Blockchain Leadership Fund, supported by Anchorage and Chainlink Labs. Protect Progress PAC has also spent over $100,000 to support Arizona Representative Greg Stanton’s re-election. Meanwhile, Defend American Jobs PAC has spent over $65,000 to support Amanda McKinney, the Republican candidate in Washington’s 4th Congressional District.
Aave has announced the selection of Chainlink CCIP as its cross-chain infrastructure standard. CCIP is currently handling cross-chain GHO transfers and multi-chain governance execution through Aave's delivery infrastructure, a.DI. Going forward, it will also support the cross-chain logic of the Aave App via Stable Vaults, covering scenarios such as vault rebalancing, yield optimization, deposits, and transfers. These cross-chain operations will occur between Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum.
According to official information, Mantle announced today that its native cross-chain infrastructure Mantle Super Portal, jointly developed with Bybit, has migrated from LayerZero to Chainlink CCIP. Powered by CCIP, Mantle Super Portal will feature enhanced cross-chain security, decentralized node infrastructure protection, advanced risk management, and institutional-grade security standards, providing a higher level of security for cross-chain transfers of MNT tokens valued at over $2.5 billion. Furthermore, as an increasing number of regulated assets such as tokenized stocks are transferred on-chain, the underlying infrastructure supporting them must also meet traditional finance standards. This migration will further solidify Mantle's position as a "distribution layer connecting traditional finance and on-chain liquidity," and also reflects Mantle and Bybit's continued commitment to developing MNT through further integrations, opportunities, and use cases. According to the details provided, Mantle Super Portal will be temporarily closed during the migration, scheduled from July 9 to 15, 2026 (the actual timeframe may be slightly extended). No action is required from users, and transfers will automatically resume upon completion of the migration.
: Decentralized prediction market World.xyz announced on the X platform that, following a 24-hour review by the team, it has decided to migrate from Solana to Robinhood Chain. The team stated that this strategic adjustment was made after careful consideration, while also thanking the Solana Foundation and community for their support.Previously, World.xyz had launched on the Phantom wallet and its official website, allowing users to trade contracts for cryptocurrency prices and events such as the 2026 World Cup. It utilizes Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure and uses the Phantom stablecoin as the settlement asset.
According to official announcements, its dedicated Proof of Reserves (Proof of Reserves, POR) feature page has officially launched. The page has fully integrated Chainlink's Data API, providing automated, encrypted, and on-chain verifiable support for its asset reserves. Highlights of the new page include: real-time and immutable on-chain reserve data powered by Chainlink technology; an upgraded homepage navigation bar to facilitate user tracking of transparency metrics; and a clearer, more intuitive presentation of its 1:1 asset backing.
Robinhood has announced the official launch of the public mainnet for its proprietary Layer 2 network, Robinhood Chain. Built on the Arbitrum technology stack, the chain is positioned as an institution-grade, permissionless, AI-native network specifically designed for Real World Assets (RWA).Robinhood Chain's launch partners include Uniswap, Pleiades, Alchemy, BitGo, and Chainlink. Among them, Uniswap will deploy a dedicated AMM on the chain as the primary public liquidity protocol, while Pleiades will deploy its own AMM as the primary proprietary trading venue. The chain will also offer basic DeFi functionalities such as lending.Eligible users can trade tokenized stocks 24/7 on Robinhood Chain. Simultaneously, Robinhood Earn will introduce USDG-based decentralized lending products within the main app. In certain jurisdictions, the new version of Robinhood Wallet will also support access to Lighter's perpetual contract trading.Robinhood also announced the expansion of its European perpetual contract product range, its official entry into the Canadian market, and the acquisition of a Singapore Capital Markets Services license. Furthermore, Agentic Accounts for crypto trading are planned to begin rolling out in the US soon, allowing AI agents to participate in trading and fund management.Robinhood stated that this update represents its most ambitious global expansion and product vision to date, with the goal of establishing a more direct connection between traditional finance and DeFi, integrating stocks, crypto, RWA, perpetual contracts, and AI trading into a unified financial experience. (The Block)
Odaily, Solana-based fully on-chain prediction market World.xyz has now launched on Phantom wallet and its official website. The platform allows users to trade contracts on events such as cryptocurrency prices and the 2026 FIFA World Cup, adopting Chainlink as its primary oracle infrastructure for market data.World.xyz is a non-custodial prediction market, utilizing Phantom's stablecoin for settlement. (coindesk)
According to The Block, Trump's annual financial disclosure report (totaling 927 pages) released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics shows that Trump received significant crypto-related income through his family crypto company World Liberty Financial (WLF), including over $65.6 million from the sale of WLF Holdco equity and approximately $236.25 million from WLF token sale allocations. Additionally, the report disclosed his cold wallets holding various crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDC, LINK, AAVE, ENA, MOVE, and ONDO, and that he received approximately $1.8 million in Ethereum staking rewards. Trump also holds up to $100,000 in Coinbase stock and multiple investments in Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy). In contrast, Vice President JD Vance's annual financial report is only 17 pages, disclosing that he holds Bitcoin valued at up to $500,000.
According to Fortune, San Francisco-based crypto venture capital firm Framework Ventures has announced the closure of its fourth fund, raising $400 million. Investors include fund-of-funds, Ivy League endowments, sovereign wealth funds, and nonprofit organizations. The fund will focus on “frontier technologies,” expanding its investment scope from cryptocurrency into AI, robotics, and energy. Approximately half of the fund’s capital has already been deployed. Founded in 2019, Framework Ventures was an early investor in DeFi protocols Aave and Chainlink; as of December 2025, it manages $1.28 billion in assets under management (AUM). This expansion aligns with similar moves by peers such as Paradigm and Haun Ventures, reflecting an industry-wide trend among top crypto VCs accelerating their shift into AI amid a broader crypto market downturn.
Chainlink announced the launch of the Pangea project in collaboration with FairSquareLab, UniKA, and the euro stablecoin alliance Qivalis, aimed at exploring real-time cross-border foreign exchange settlement models based on stablecoins.According to reports, UniKA's steering committee includes Shinhan Bank, JB Bank, Kbank, FairSquareLab, and OBDIA, with participation from over a dozen Korean commercial banks; Qivalis is supported by 37 leading European banks. Collectively, these institutions represent over $10 trillion in assets under management.The Pangea project will leverage Chainlink's data, interoperability, and orchestration standards, along with FairSquareLab's on-chain FX settlement technology, to enable direct atomic transactions between compliant fiat-pegged digital assets, including the Euro and Korean Won. It aims to drive the transition of the foreign exchange market from traditional T+2 settlement to a T+0 real-time settlement model.
Chainlink has launched Project Pangea in collaboration with FairSquareLab, a South Korean digital asset infrastructure company, UniKA, a coalition of over a dozen South Korean commercial banks, and Qivalis, a euro stablecoin alliance backed by 37 European banks.The project aims to bring together financial institutions from Europe and South Korea to assess the feasibility of direct atomic swap settlements using euro- and won-denominated stablecoins, leveraging Chainlink’s data infrastructure and FairSquareLab’s on-chain foreign exchange settlement technology. Currently operating as a working group, the project has not yet announced an implementation timeline for production deployment. Separately, fintech startup OpenFX recently raised $94 million to expand its stablecoin-based payment network. (Cointelegraph)
According to CoinDesk, blockchain infrastructure company Chainlink has announced its participation in Project Pangea—a consortium formed by Qivalis, a European stablecoin consortium backed by 37 European banks, and UniKA, the Korean banking alliance representing over 10 commercial banks—collectively managing assets exceeding $10 trillion. The project targets the economic corridor between Europe and Korea, which sees annual trade exceeding $15 billion, aiming to reduce foreign exchange settlement cycles from the traditional T+2 (48 hours) to T+0 (near real-time) using regulated euro- and won-pegged stablecoins, and employing atomic PvP (payment-versus-payment) settlement to mitigate counterparty risk. Chainlink will serve as middleware, translating legacy SWIFT instructions into instant atomic swaps on-chain—without requiring banks to replace their existing payment infrastructure. The project aims to achieve live, compliant transactions within 12 months.
: SaharaAI has responded to the abnormal market volatility of the SAHARA token, stating that the team has noted the situation and is conducting real-time monitoring. Currently, no security issues have been found with the token contract or product, and an internal investigation has been initiated to further confirm the specific reasons for this price fluctuation.SaharaAI emphasized that the token allocations in the wallets of the team and investors have not changed on-chain, and no team or investor tokens have been sold or transferred.In response to the large on-chain transfers that attracted market attention, the project stated that the transactions believed to be related to this price fluctuation were actually pre-planned operations. These were used to replenish liquidity for the cross-chain bridge contract based on Chainlink CCIP, in order to support the recently launched cross-chain bridge functionality. This transfer of 600 million SAHARA tokens was part of a predetermined plan. The cross-chain bridge is operating normally, and an additional 150 million SAHARA tokens will be added subsequently as a liquidity supplement.SaharaAI stated that it is still investigating the cause of the abnormal market movement and will disclose further progress once confirmable information is obtained.
according to an official announcement, Binance will update the collateral ratios and tiered collateral ratios for Portfolio Margin Pro at 2026-06-12 06:00 UTC (14:00 Beijing time), involving assets such as U, CAKE, CRV, TAO, LINK, SHIB, and ADA. Additionally, at 2026-06-12 06:30 UTC (14:30 Beijing time), adjustments will be made to the leverage and margin tiers for USDⓈ-M perpetual contracts, including 1000000MOGUSDT, ZORAUSDT, ONTUSDT, BLURUSDT, AXLUSDT, TOSHIUSDT, RONINUSDT, ROSEUSDT, BRETTUSDT, METUSDT, MINAUSDT, NMRUSDT, MOVEUSDT, and SAHARAUSDT.