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Odaily News – Robinhood Chain has surpassed $800 million in total value locked and processed over 200 million transactions within a little over a month since its launch. Johann Kerbrat, head of crypto at financial services firm Robinhood, stated that the team chose an Ethereum Layer 2 network to leverage existing security and decentralization capabilities while focusing resources on product development. Robinhood Chain is part of Robinhood's push to bring brokerage services on-chain, allowing users to trade approximately 200 tokenized stocks, buy and sell real-world assets, lend and borrow stablecoins, and trade perpetual contracts on the network. Kerbrat noted that developer activity is also a key metric for assessing network adoption. Kerbrat said Robinhood Chain caters to financial products such as tokenized stocks and derivatives, while also supporting Meme coins to meet user demand and provide liquidity. Robinhood aims to attract users who have never used cryptocurrency before, rather than competing with other blockchains for existing users.
Odaily News On August 6, at the "All Core Devs consensus call" held by the Ethereum community (a biweekly meeting to discuss consensus layer changes), Jerome introduced EIP-8363, a proposal aimed at introducing a decreasing burn mechanism for Ethereum. Once the staking ratio exceeds 50%, the staking incentive for validators would drop to zero.However, other participants expressed concerns about the potential negative impact on small validator nodes and the risk of centralization, and also questioned the actual returns for stakers and the complexity of implementation. As a result, the proposal was ultimately recommended for removal from consideration for inclusion in the Hegota upgrade. Jerome and the other authors of the proposal were also advised to respond to all comments on the EIP thread on the Eth Magicians forum.It is reported that EIP-8363 was submitted as a draft on August 4, in an attempt to meet the non-core EIP submission window for the Hegota upgrade (deadline August 6), but it triggered extensive controversy within the community regarding timing, impact on staking/DeFi, and centralization risks. Executives from Ethereum ecosystem companies, including SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom, Aave founder Stani Kulechov, and Ether.fi founder Mike Silagadze, all publicly opposed the proposal.
Odaily News Galaxy Digital and Sharplink have announced the joint launch of the Galaxy Sharplink Onchain Yield Fund. The fund is managed by Galaxy and has secured $125 million in committed capital at launch. Among this, Sharplink provides $100 million in staked ETH treasury backing, while Galaxy contributes $25 million.Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz stated, "We are entering a new phase of institutional adoption, with capital shifting from passive holding to active participation in blockchain-based markets." Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom added that the fund represents part of the strategic upgrade of its ETH treasury management.
Odaily News, SharpLink CEO Joseph Chalom has formally opposed Ethereum Improvement Proposal EIP-8363, stating that if passed, the proposal could weaken the DeFi ecosystem, limit institutional interest in Ethereum, and erase a key advantage ETH holds over Bitcoin.EIP-8363, also known as "Tapered Issuance Burn," works by gradually increasing the proportion of consensus layer validator rewards that are burned as ETH staking ratios rise. When approximately 50% of ETH's supply is staked, the reward burn ratio would reach 100%, meaning issuance returns would drop to zero. If passed, the mechanism would be phased in gradually over roughly 18 months.The proposal, introduced earlier this week, has sparked significant controversy. Supporters argue it could limit the scale of ETH staking through market-based means while reducing the dilution problem faced by non-stakers. Proposal authors include Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, EthCC founder Jérôme de Tychey, and others.However, critics argue the mechanism could disproportionately harm solo stakers and weaken Ethereum's security. Chalom stated that the proposal's authors are all serious researchers and long-term Ethereum supporters, but "well-intentioned people can also be wrong."
Circle launches native USDC stablecoin and cross-chain transfer protocol CCTP on OKX's Ethereum Layer 2 network X Layer, supporting cross-chain transfers and DeFi applications.
Odaily News: Tether's Q2 net operating profit was $1.5 billion, primarily derived from interest generated by its U.S. Treasury holdings and repurchase agreements. As of June 30, Tether's reserve buffer stood at $4.11 billion, with assets exceeding liabilities by the same amount. USDT's circulating supply increased by $446 million to $184.6 billion, accounting for over 60% of the global stablecoin market. DeFiLlama data shows the global stablecoin market size is approximately $307 billion, with Tether remaining one of the major holders of U.S. Treasury securities. Asset management firm BlackRock has launched two tokenized money market products aimed at stablecoin issuers to help meet reserve requirements under the U.S. GENIUS Act. One of the funds tokenizes shares of its existing Treasury liquidity strategy on Ethereum, while the other is an institutional-grade money market instrument designed to support multiple chains and automatically reinvest returns.
Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom (former Head of Digital Assets Strategy at BlackRock) posted that the EIP-8363 "decreasing issuance burn" proposal currently being discussed in the Ethereum community will gradually reduce validator staking yields by about 2.75%, until yields reach zero when staking volume reaches about half of the total supply; validators will then rely solely on transaction tips, accounting for 15% of current yields, to maintain operations. Chalom strongly opposes this, listing four major reasons: 1. Harms DeFi: Staking yields are the benchmark interest rate for on-chain lending; cutting them will raise on-chain capital costs and compress the collateral value of liquid staking tokens (approximately $35 billion TVL); 2. Weakens institutional appeal: ETH's native productivity is a core advantage distinguishing it from BTC; EIP-8363 will erase this difference, affecting institutional capital inflows such as ETPs and DATs; 3. Destroys ecosystem capital circulation: Issuance rewards are not "leakage," but flow to node operators, client development teams, and ecosystem builders; burning them will cut off the return of capital; 4. Extremely poor timing: Top institutions such as Robinhood, BlackRock, and BNY have successively chosen Ethereum; on-chain stablecoin scale reaches $159 billion, RWA exceeds $15 billion; modifying the underlying economic logic at this moment carries extremely high risk. Chalom expressed support for ETH's long-term deflationary goal, but believes the existing base fee burn mechanism (EIP-1
Bitget PoolX launches project 2U2.ai (2U2). Users can lock ETH or 2U2 to share 4.2 million 2U2 airdrop. Among them, the ETH locking pool airdrop total is 3.8 million 2U2, with an individual locking limit of 1,500 ETH; the 2U2 locking pool airdrop total is 400,000 2U2, with an individual locking limit of 35 million 2U2. The locking period is from August 7, 20:00 to August 11, 20:00 (UTC+8). Additionally, users with a positive net ETH deposit amount during the event can receive a 3% ETH interest rate boost coupon after the PoolX event ends; users participating in PoolX for the first time who meet the net deposit condition can receive a 12% ETH interest rate boost coupon.
The U.S. Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) failed to seize a critical advancement window before the Senate's summer recess, and the market is now focusing on whether the U.S. crypto industry can continue to develop even if the bill ultimately fails.Analysts believe that if the CLARITY Act fails to pass, it would be a significant setback for the crypto industry, but not a fatal blow. The bill was designed to clarify the boundaries between securities, commodities, and other categories of digital assets, determine the agencies responsible for overseeing related businesses, and grant the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clearer regulatory authority over crypto commodity trading.Currently, the bill's progress has stalled, and the likelihood of comprehensive crypto market structure legislation being enacted before the end of the year is declining. This means the U.S. may still lack a clear digital asset regulatory framework, particularly regarding oversight of trading in major crypto assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), where jurisdictional gaps remain between the CFTC and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).However, industry insiders point out that even if the CLARITY Act fails, the SEC and CFTC are still likely to continue advancing industry development through policy statements, regulatory guidance, and existing enforcement authority.In recent years, both agencies have issued multiple pieces of guidance clarifying the regulatory boundaries of business models such as crypto mining, Meme coins, and staking rewards. One of the most significant measures among these is the digital asset taxonomy framework, which seeks to establish standardized regulatory classifications for different types of digital assets. (CoinDesk)
据期权分析师 [email protected]（@BTC__options）发布的 8月 7 日期权交割数据，3.2 万张 BTC 期权到期，Put Call Ratio 仅为 0.26，最大痛点 64,000 美元，名义价值 20.6 亿美元；17.7 万张 ETH 期权到期，Put Call Ratio 为0.77，最大痛点 1,900 美元，名义价值 3.4 亿美元。 比特币自 5 月以来持续在 64K 附近震荡逾两个月，65K 上方为年初上涨成交密集区，当前热点不在加密领域，投机资金难以流入，方向或偏向下行。加密货币市场已历经 9 个月熊市，整体隐含波动率（IV）维持低位已逾一季度，若 Q3 仍无增量资金流入，市场存在潜在较大风险暴露的隐忧。
Odaily News: Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Remixpoint has released its crypto operations performance report. As of July 31, 2026, the company's Bitcoin lending principal stood at approximately 1,501.27 BTC, with cumulative loan fees of about 12.44 BTC (approximately ¥133 million) earned from February to July. Additionally, it has staked approximately 901.45 ETH and 13,920 SOL, with total staking rewards amounting to roughly ¥28.89 million.
Odaily News: MetaMask on Thursday launched the self-custodial wallet Agent Wallet, which allows AI agents to execute on-chain transactions within user-defined limits. It targets traders and developers who use AI agents to monitor markets, identify opportunities, and execute trades autonomously. Users can set spending limits, approve specific protocols, choose risk settings, and select between Guard Mode and Beast Mode for different levels of automation. Agent Wallet supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenCode, as well as Hyperliquid and Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. Agent Wallet supports gas abstraction, allowing users to pay network fees using the asset being transferred, without needing to hold the network's native token. MetaMask stated that supported transactions will undergo transaction simulation, threat scanning, and smart transaction MEV protection. Eligible transactions that still incur losses after passing security checks may be covered by Transaction Protection of up to $10,000 per month.
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is globally recruiting Protocol Security Researchers (Remote Full-time), a role within the Protocol Security team. The team is responsible for identifying and intercepting vulnerabilities before they reach mainnet, with work covering Execution Layer/Consensus Layer security reviews, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, fuzzing, specification audits, and coordinating vulnerability disclosure. Candidates are required to have deep experience with the Ethereum protocol, be familiar with EL/CL specifications and client implementations, and be proficient in languages such as Go, Rust, Java, C#, Nim, or Python. There are no hard requirements on years of work experience, with technical depth being the core consideration.
According to Spark's official report, Spark Protocol released its financial report for the second quarter of 2026. Quarterly total protocol revenue reached $40.6 million (QoQ +29%), net protocol revenue $4.31 million (QoQ -38%), and net protocol surplus $710,000 (QoQ -79%). Distribution rewards became the largest net revenue source this quarter at $4.53 million, with sUSDS contributing $2.63 million to rank first. The average deployed capital of Spark Liquidity Layer (SLL) increased to $2.56 billion, but dragged down by narrowing DeFi lending spreads and capital costs from Spark Savings USDT market expansion, SLL net revenue recorded -$810,000, with the capture spread dropping from 0.64% in Q1 to -0.13%. SparkLend USDT balance reached $528 million at the end of the quarter, becoming one of the largest USDT lending platforms on Ethereum. The protocol treasury balance at the end of the quarter was $48.5 million, with $1.31 million worth of SPK token buybacks completed during the quarter. Despite facing spread compression pressure, the protocol remained profitable every month this quarter.
: World Chain will launch full block access lists on mainnet on August 17, enabling the feature via a runtime flag without requiring a coordinated network-wide hard fork. The network stated that it will become the first production L2 network to stream EIP-7928 access list data within every flashblock. The feature transmits access list data every 200 milliseconds, allowing validators to verify transactions in parallel during block construction. World Chain stated that the upgrade aims to achieve throughput of up to 1 gigagas per second without raising validator hardware requirements. EIP-7928 is an Ethereum improvement proposal that introduces block-level access lists, used to record accounts and storage slots touched during block execution. World Chain's internal testing shows that validation latency remains stable when throughput rises to 1 gigagas per second on standard cloud infrastructure.
The Kite Foundation stated that it detected attacks targeting KITE tokens. After the security system discovered abnormal KITE token transfer activity on the Ethereum mainnet, the team immediately initiated the incident response mechanism and suspended KITE token transfers and cross-chain bridging on the Ethereum mainnet. The Foundation stated that the affected tokens have been frozen in place, cannot be transferred, and will not flow into the secondary market. Currently, the scope of the incident is limited to the Ethereum mainnet, and the relevant tokens have not moved since then.
The Ethereum Foundation's "Trillion Dollar Security" initiative announced a grant to the Freedom of the Press Foundation to support the continued development of the open-source tool WEBCAT. This tool helps browsers verify whether the frontend code actually delivered by a website matches the version released by the developer, reducing security risks associated with frontend tampering.
Odaily News According to official sources, Gate's GUSD product has been fully upgraded. Users holding GUSD can enjoy an annualized yield of 3.8%,with support for flexible deposits and withdrawals, 1:1 lossless redemption in the original subscription currency, and zero redemption fees. Meanwhile, Gate Launchpool is simultaneously opening SPCX and SLX staking pools. Among these, the total value of flexible staking in the SPCX GUSD pool has approached 66.38 million GUSD, with a staking APR of 3.50%. Combined with the 3.8% base annualized yield from GUSD flexible savings, the total annualized yield reaches as high as 7.30%.In addition, Gate is running multiple wealth management and reward campaigns in parallel. Dual rewards for deposits and trading: From 14:00 on August 3 to 14:00 on August 10, 2026 (UTC+8), deposit 100 USDT to receive 100 USDT, and trade to earn an additional 0.1 ETH. Exclusive VIP boost for Gate's余币宝 (Flexible Savings): USDT fixed-term wealth management yields have been fully upgraded, with 7-day and 30-day annualized yields increased to 3.8% and 4.0%, respectively. Quotas are limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. High-yield campaign for USD1 holders: Starting from 00:00 on July 29 (UTC+8), users holding USD1 in their asset accounts can earn up to 8% annualized yield. Campaign rewards will be distributed daily in the form of WLFI to eligible user accounts.As the product ecosystem and reward framework continue to evolve, Gate will keep enriching users' asset yield scenarios, delivering a digital asset management experience with higher returns and lower barriers.
Odaily News: Aave founder Stani Kulechov published a lengthy post stating that Ethereum's EIP-8361 progressive issuance burn proposal has systemic issues. The proposal aims to gradually burn consensus layer issuance rewards, reducing the net staking yield to zero when the total amount of staked ETH reaches 60.25 million, approximately 50% of the total supply. Stani Kulechov believes that the second-order ripple effects of this proposal have not been fully modeled and could damage the foundations of the Ethereum ecosystem across multiple dimensions. He stated that a zero-yield mechanism may exacerbate staking centralization, with home validators being the first to exit due to fixed costs such as hardware and electricity, while non-yield-driven entities like ETF issuers, exchanges, and corporate treasury funds will remain. MEV rewards, which are unaffected by the proposal, would also expand the advantages of top professional operators. He also noted that individual stakers could face tax and operational risks. If tax authorities calculate taxes based on the full issuance amount and classify the burned portion as a capital loss, home node operators could experience after-tax losses. With penalty standards for faults remaining unchanged, the node recovery period after a fault could be extended by up to 14 times as net yields decline. Stani Kulechov stated that staking yields serve as the pricing benchmark for on-chain ETH interest rates. A decline in yields could cause DeFi lending and fixed-income markets to lose their pricing anchor, potentially driving on-chain capital toward stablecoins offering 4% to 5% annual returns. For institutional investors, predictable yields are a core competitive advantage of ETH relative to BTC. If yields fall to zero while volatility increases, ETH's differentiation in the store-of-value track would diminish. He also pointed out that after the proposal is implemented, MEV's share of total validator revenue could rise from the current 7% to nearly 30%, potentially incentivizing operators to prioritize relay nodes that support censorship, thereby weakening Ethereum's credible neutrality. If an MEV burn mechanism is subsequently added, validator revenue could be nearly eliminated. Stani Kulechov suggested that the proposal's authors release after-tax yield assessments for individual node operators, tax opinions from major jurisdictions, and cascade risk models for the DeFi ecosystem, while setting a non-zero net yield floor. He believes that staking centralization should be addressed directly with targeted measures, rather than by suppressing validator yields across the board.
Odaily News: Lookonchain posted on the X platform that as of August 4: Bitcoin ETFs saw a net inflow of 1,600 BTC (approximately $102 million) on the day, and a 7-day net inflow of 1,241 BTC (approximately $79.36 million). Ethereum ETFs recorded a net outflow of 6,558 ETH (approximately $12.27 million) on the day, and a 7-day net outflow of 16,300 ETH (approximately $30.44 million).