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Odaily Odaily News: Last week, Circle President Heath Tarbert addressed doubts regarding CRCL's stock price falling from $260 to $62 in an interview. Heath Tarbert stated at the time that the company is focused on long-term development, and if it can achieve its mission of building a full-stack internet platform infrastructure, the stock price will reflect its value in the long run.However, Circle Form 4 filings show that since his first sale of CRCL in June 2025, Heath Tarbert has sold CRCL 10 times in total, cashing out approximately $30.77 million, without ever making any purchases to increase his holdings.
Odaily Odaily News: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, 5bro.eth (0x58bro) deposited 1.5 million USDC and placed a limit order to go long on 2,000 ETH, worth approximately $3.73 million. If executed, their position will decrease from a short of 6,500 ETH to a short of 4,500 ETH. The lifetime profit for this address is $34.7 million. The address is 0x418aa6bf98a2b2bc93779f810330d88cde488888.
Odaily News According to Defillama data, the stablecoin market has experienced an outflow of $12.413 billion in the 62 days since May 17, 2026, with $1.555 billion flowing out since July 11, marking one of the largest contractions in over four years. As of July 18, Tether's USDT market cap stood at $184.055 billion, while Circle's USDC market cap was $73.376 billion. Over the past week, USDT decreased by 0.06%, and USDC decreased by 0.04%. Sky's USDS market cap was $6.66 billion, declining by 12.30% over the past week, making it the worst performer among the top ten stablecoins.World Liberty Financial's USD1 fell by 4.59%, while Sky's DAI decreased by 0.43%. Global Dollar's USDG rose by 9.08% over the past week, reaching a market cap of $3.164 billion, the highest gain among the top ten stablecoins. PayPal's PYUSD increased by 1.60% to $2.877 billion, while Circle's USYC and BlackRock's BUIDL decreased by 3.64% and 8.68%, respectively.
According to Ember monitoring, a whale or institution allegedly sold 30,000 ETH over-the-counter (OTC) through Galaxy Digital at a price of $1,833, worth approximately $55 million.The address transferred 30,000 ETH to the Galaxy Digital OTC wallet 7 hours ago. About 3 hours later, it received 55 million USDC, with the transaction price being approximately $1,833/ETH.
According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale sold 30,000 ETH through Galaxy Digital OTC, exchanging them for 55 million USDC, and subsequently deposited the funds into Coinbase.
Coinbase stated on X platform that Marex is leveraging Coinbase infrastructure to enable clients to use USDC as initial margin for US regulated futures and options, providing its traders with a new level of capital efficiency.
According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a newly created wallet address deposited 10 million USDC into Hyperliquid and subsequently established a short position on CXMT. The specific positions are as follows: • Opened positions: 1x short 514,357 CXMT, valued at approximately $3.8 million • Pending orders to add position: Limit short orders for 490,000 CXMT (approximately $4.17 million), with trigger price range set between $8 and $9
Odaily reports, perpetual contract DEX Ostium stated that platform trading remains paused following a security incident. User positions remain open but cannot be modified for now, and trading margin funds are still held in the frozen trading smart contract without any movement.Ostium stated that its team is continuously coordinating with relevant authorities, SEAL 911, and multiple security researchers. Updates regarding the resumption of smart contract activities and the timeline for fund recovery will be released subsequently.According to PeckShield monitoring, approximately 24 million USDC from Ostium's public OLP vault was stolen. The attacker subsequently swapped these funds for approximately 12,100 ETH, of which about 10,500 ETH was transferred to Tornado Cash.
Odaily Odaily News According to MAX monitoring, on July 16, the Cascade CLS treasury suspectedly experienced a security vulnerability, resulting in approximately $1.3 million in user fund losses. The platform has suspended all trading and withdrawals and has invited SEAL 911 and other third-party security teams to investigate and handle the incident. Cascade is a 24/7 multi-asset perpetual contract platform headquartered in New York, targeting the US market. It supports deposits via Arbitrum USDC or bank accounts and is currently still in an invitation-only private testing phase.
According to monitoring by on-chain analyst PeckShield (@PeckShieldAlert), the public OLP vault of decentralized perpetual contract protocol Ostium (@Ostium) was attacked, with approximately 24 million USDC stolen. The attacker subsequently swapped the stolen funds for 12,080 ETH and has transferred 10,540 ETH into the mixer Tornado Cash to obscure the fund flow. On-chain tracing shows that the attacker's initial funds originated from ChangeNow and Bybit, with 1 ETH transferred from each to the attacker's wallet (0x321D...8bfD9).
Odaily Planet Daily reports that BlackRock’s second-quarter revenue increased 31% year-over-year to $7.1 billion, with adjusted operating income up 39% to $2.9 billion. AUM reached $15.3 trillion, with net inflows of $868 billion over the past 12 months. BlackRock has filed two registration statements with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for tokenized money market funds. One proposal aims to create a tokenized share class for an existing fund on Ethereum, while the other is a digital-native strategy. BlackRock’s iShares ETF platform has AUM exceeding $6 trillion, with net inflows of $178 billion in the second quarter. Its digital asset-related AUM stands at approximately $110 billion, with the iShares Bitcoin Trust, Ethereum Trust, and BUIDL remaining the largest products in their respective categories. BlackRock also manages the $60 billion in reserves of stablecoin issuer Circle. The company has increased its 2026 stock buyback plan to $2 billion and repurchased $450 million worth of shares in the second quarter.
according to Onchain Lens monitoring, Arthur Hayes received 646.33 ETH worth $1.24 million from Galaxy Digital (@galaxyhq). A few minutes ago, he transferred 1.25 million USDC to FalconX, which may be part of the same settlement process.
according to on-chain analyst Yujin's monitoring, half an hour ago, an address (0x321...bfd9) with the DeBank username musti_akrep profited 23.75 million USDC by exploiting a vulnerability on Perp DEX Ostium and withdrew it. The 23.75 million USDC was withdrawn to the Arbitrum chain and immediately exchanged for 12,085 ETH at a price of $1,965. Currently, these 12,085 ETH remain on the Arbitrum chain.
Odaily reports, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale has borrowed another 2 million USDC on Hyperlend. Currently, it has deposited 74,210 WHYPE as collateral, worth $50.66 million, and has borrowed 17.73 million USDC.
According to official announcements, Coinbase will cease support for USDC deposits and withdrawals on the Noble network on August 17, 2026.
that, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale deposited 5 million USDC into HyperLiquid and opened a short position on CXMT with 1x leverage through a TWAP order, with the position size increasing.
Interactive Brokers has added 9 new cryptocurrency trading pairs and now supports users withdrawing stablecoins to external wallets via USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD. (Cointelegraph)
According to CoinDesk, Japanese investment bank Mizuho has downgraded stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) from "Neutral" to "Underperform," with the price target significantly lowered from $85 to $50. Circle's stock price subsequently fell 0.6% to $62.63. Mizuho analysts pointed out that the OpenUSD stablecoin launched by the Open Standard consortium on June 30 poses a fundamental threat to Circle's business model. Unlike the USDC model, which retains most reserve yield and then shares it with partners such as Coinbase and Binance, OpenUSD charges only a small operating fee and distributes the vast majority of reserve yield to issuers and distributors, which may force Circle's partners to demand a higher revenue share. The consortium has assembled over 140 partners, including Mastercard, Stripe, Coinbase, and BlackRock.
Interactive Brokers has announced the addition of support for trading 12 new cryptocurrency tokens via Zero Hash and Paxos. With this expansion, its users can now trade a wider range of digital assets. The platform has also launched a stablecoin withdrawal feature, allowing clients to convert their U.S. dollar balances into stablecoins and withdraw USDC, PYUSD, and RLUSD to external wallets. This functionality means users can not only hold digital assets in their traditional brokerage accounts but also transfer stablecoins to on-chain wallets, further bridging the gap between traditional financial accounts and the crypto ecosystem. (The Block)
According to The Block, Mizuho Bank analysts noted that while Circle's approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank helps enhance its compliance credibility, it is insufficient to resolve current core pressures—the continued shrinkage of USDC market cap and increasingly fierce competition from Open USD—which still constitute a significant drag on $CRCL stock price.