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Odaily News: During a meeting at the White House with executives from crypto and financial firms, U.S. President Donald Trump urged Congress to pass a "fair version" of the Clarity Act, stating that market structure legislation is the next step in his digital assets policy.The meeting was attended by Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Michael Selig, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Paul Atkins, White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt, as well as executives from Coinbase, Ripple, Robinhood, and Kraken.The Clarity Act would establish federal rules for digital assets and clarify the regulatory jurisdictions of the SEC and CFTC. The bill is expected to return to the Senate in September, where Republicans will still need support from about six Democratic senators to reach the 60-vote threshold. (Decrypt)
Odaily News, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev posted on X platform stating that the world is in the early stages of a "tokenization supercycle." The significance of tokenization is not simply moving stocks onto the blockchain, but rather rebuilding the infrastructure for asset ownership, enabling assets to flow as freely as information on the internet.Tenev stated that within just over a month of its launch, Robinhood Chain has completed 100 million transactions. Its Stock Tokens have provided users in over 120 countries with economic exposure to more than 190 U.S. stocks, backed 1:1 by the underlying shares, but are not yet available to U.S. users. He believes that as the regulatory framework gradually matures, we expect token design to continue evolving, including the emergence of tokenized equity that carries the full rights of traditional stocks in the future.At the end of his post, he urged the U.S. regulatory framework to accelerate its adaptation to the tokenized market and stated that listed stocks are just the starting point. Assets with more restricted liquidity and access, such as equity in private companies, could become an important direction in the next phase.
Odaily News A trader (0x4B1) purchased approximately 0.85% of the total token supply for around $1.29 million when CASHCAT was listed on Robinhood, with the average purchase price corresponding to a market cap of approximately $150 million. After CASHCAT was listed on Robinhood, the price dropped by about 30%. The trader is currently facing an unrealized loss of approximately $412,000, but on-chain data shows that they have not sold any tokens to date.
Odaily News Pons announced on the X platform that since its launch one month ago, the platform's cumulative trading volume has approached $2.5 billion, with over 290,000 tokens issued and more than $15 million in rewards distributed to token creators. Additionally, Pons allocates 80% of protocol revenue to buy back PONS, and has so far burned over $9 million worth of PONS, accounting for nearly 30% of the total token supply.Furthermore, Pons expressed optimism about NFTs and their applications in combination with tokens, and is currently developing related products with two partners. In addition, Pons plans to open migration features for communities looking to conduct a CTO on Pons v1 tokens, as well as for projects hoping to migrate from Solana to Robinhood via Pons. Pons also stated that its iOS App has entered the testing phase.
Standard Chartered reports that Robinhood Chain is rapidly accumulating liquidity through Uniswap integration, with TVL approaching $1 billion, while driving UNI token annualized burn to $90 million.
Odaily News Robinhood's blockchain project, Robinhood Chain, has seen its total value locked (TVL) approach $1 billion. According to Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendrick, nearly all of its liquidity is provided by Uniswap V2, V3, and V4, making it the fastest-growing blockchain by this metric. Protocol fees generated by Robinhood Chain through Uniswap have now become the largest source of UNI burns. Since the Robinhood-related fee switch was activated on July 27, the annualized UNI burn rate has reached approximately $90 million. At roughly $3.50 per token, this equates to burning 25 million UNI annually, representing slightly more than 4% of the circulating supply. Robinhood Chain launched on July 1, with a focus on bringing real-world assets on-chain, and reached 194,000 daily active users within its first week. The partnership allows Robinhood to directly leverage mature DeFi infrastructure to provide liquidity for blockchain expansion. Robinhood is expanding its business into cryptocurrency, prediction markets, and tokenization. The company reported record second-quarter revenue and earnings, though cryptocurrency trading volumes and related revenue both declined. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) plans to unveil two crypto-related initiatives in the coming days, while Congress's CLARITY Act remains stalled at least until September. The SEC is expected to propose "Regulation Crypto" at a public meeting on Friday, allowing projects to raise funds through token sales without completing full securities registration. The SEC also plans to introduce an "innovation exemption" for tokenized stocks, with details potentially released on Friday. The exemption would allow tokenized versions of stocks such as Apple, Tesla, and Nvidia to trade on the blockchain 24/7, with support for fractional trading and near-instant settlement. Such tokens typically track the economic exposure of the underlying stock but do not carry voting rights or dividend entitlements. The initiative falls under SEC Chairman Paul Atkins's "Project Crypto" agenda, with Robinhood Chain, Solana, and Base all having advanced related on-chain markets. (Decrypt)
: Pudgy Penguins co-founder Cole Villemain was voted out and removed from his role by the project's holders in January 2022. Early Tuesday morning, the 44,444-piece NFT collection Spritehood, launched by Cole Villemain on the Robinhood Chain, sold out in under an hour. According to on-chain transaction data, the NFT mint generated approximately $1.28 million in revenue. During the public mint, 37,430 NFTs were sold at $17 each, while another 5,526 were sold at $117 each, the latter corresponding to the $100 upgrade option available on the mint page. Based on these figures, total sales revenue amounted to $1.2829 million, equivalent to approximately 684.28 ETH at the contract's mint-time pricing. Prior to the paid sale, the contract deployer also free-minted 1,488 NFTs through 20 zero-price transactions.
Odaily News: Prediction market platform Polymarket is undergoing an organizational upgrade in preparation for the upcoming fall trading peak, bringing in several new executives, restructuring its marketing system, and strengthening its compliance team in preparation for U.S. market expansion. Polymarket recently hired Travis VanderZanden, founder of shared e-scooter company Bird and former Uber and Lyft executive, as Chief Growth Officer, responsible for the company's growth strategy and marketing system development. VanderZanden stated that the prediction market is at a critical stage of rapid development, and the company needs to further improve its management team to support long-term growth.This adjustment comes as Polymarket faces regulatory scrutiny. Previously, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) had launched an investigation into its business model, related to the platform's marketing activities and promotional partnership policies. Sources say Polymarket has restructured its marketing department, updated rules for promotional partners, and provided relevant training to employees, while also hiring consulting firm AlixPartners to oversee whether content published by partners complies with the new standards.Meanwhile, Polymarket continues to strengthen its compliance and risk management capabilities for its U.S. operations. The company's U.S. trading platform has added several new executives in regulatory and risk roles, including former Robinhood executive Megan McGrath as Chief Compliance Officer for the U.S. platform, former Coinbase executive Natalie Oblazny overseeing U.S. regulatory affairs, former FBI and Coinbase employee Shana Bautista as Head of Global Investigations and Intelligence, and former Nasdaq executive Paul Jordan as Chief Risk Officer for the U.S. platform.Polymarket's U.S. trading platform went live in May this year and operates independently from its international business. With the NFL new season kicking off in September and the U.S. midterm elections approaching in November, the market expects a new wave of growth in prediction market trading activity.Previously, Polymarket had already become one of the representative platforms in the prediction market space and continues to seek expanded fundraising. According to reports, the company is currently seeking a new funding round at a valuation exceeding $20 billion. As institutional investors and professional traders gradually enter the prediction market, Polymarket is attempting to transform from a retail-facing, betting-style prediction platform into a more mature financial market infrastructure. (CNBC)
据 Common 平台披露，Sushi DAO 发布 RFC 提案，拟对 SUSHI 代币经济模型进行全面重构。提案建议以更均衡的框架取代现行 xSUSHI 费用分配机制，具体包括：削减 xSUSHI 回购规模至可持续水平、通过每周定期购入 SUSHI 建立协议储备（SUSHI Reserve），以及将剩余协议收入划拨至 Sushi Ops 用于运营与增长。此外，提案还计划将部分协议流动性迁移部署至 Robinhood Chain。目前该提案处于 RFC（征求意见）阶段，尚待社区讨论与治理投票。
Odaily News: According to official sources, the Gate Alpha Zone Meme coin MARVIN (7777) has risen 29.98% over the past 24 hours. MARVIN is one of Musk's pet dogs, with a birthday on November 1st. Musk has posted about the dog multiple times and even celebrated its birthday on November 1, 2023. Users can trade it seamlessly with one click on Gate Alpha.Gate Alpha now supports public chains including SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BSC, Base, SUI, ARB, World Chain, AVAX, Polygon, LINEA, ZK, OP, Robinhood, and Berachain, and enables frictionless cross-chain token trading via a contract address search function.
According to CoinDesk, Robinhood announced the launch of a new all-in-one investment app in the UK, providing UK users with zero-fee trading services for over 50 cryptocurrencies, including BTC, ETH, XRP, and Hyperliquid (HYPE), among others. Crypto asset trading is accessed through Bitstamp, an exchange acquired by Robinhood in 2025. In addition to crypto assets, the app simultaneously opens trading for traditional financial products such as stocks, Stocks ISA, options, and futures. The platform also launched an AI feature, "Robinhood Cortex Digests for Crypto," which analyzes breaking news, market data, and technical indicators in real-time, and interprets the drivers behind price fluctuations of various crypto assets in plain language.
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 - Karia Samaroo, founder and former CEO of Canadian crypto company WonderFi, recently stated that the company's acquisition by US trading platform Robinhood Markets for CAD 250 million was not due to a lack of growth potential, but rather because Canada's market environment has restricted local tech companies from continuing to scale.Samaroo said that WonderFi was founded in 2021. After several years of development, the company consolidated Canada's fragmented crypto market, built a nationwide brand, and survived the QuadrigaCX collapse, the FTX crash, and Canada's strict crypto regulatory environment. By 2023, WonderFi had become a leading crypto platform in the Canadian market.However, he believes that succeeding in Canada was not the company's ultimate goal. WonderFi had originally hoped to grow into a global enterprise, and Robinhood saw WonderFi as a strategic gateway into the Canadian market, which led to the CAD 250 million acquisition. Samaroo pointed out that Canada has long faced structural issues that limit companies' ability to scale, including insufficient venture capital, weak public markets, regulatory fragmentation, and declining attractiveness of entrepreneurial returns.For the crypto industry, the challenges are even more pronounced. Samaroo noted that after the QuadrigaCX incident, Canadian regulators established one of the world's strictest crypto regulatory frameworks. While the original intent was to protect investors, it also increased operational costs for businesses. International trading platforms including Binance, OKX, Bybit, and Gemini all entered the Canadian market previously and then exited. He believes that Canada's crypto regulations are not only strict but also compounded by fragmented securities regulatory systems, leading to higher financing costs, increased operational complexity, and diminished interest from overseas investors.Samaroo said that WonderFi is not an isolated case—many Canadian tech companies have followed a similar trajectory: growing domestically until hitting market ceilings, then ultimately seeking overseas capital or strategic buyers. Shopify founder Tobi Lütke has also previously criticized Canada for repeatedly "nurturing important companies only to send them abroad." Restricting corporate sales can easily become a political statement, but the real key to solving the problem lies in building a business environment that supports companies in financing, expansion, and competing globally.Robinhood previously announced the acquisition of WonderFi for approximately CAD 250 million. This deal also reflects the accelerating consolidation in the North American crypto industry, as US platforms expand into other markets through M&A. (Fortune)
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
since the launch of Robinhood Chain, DEX trading volume has dropped from a peak of approximately $878 million on July 11 to $241 million on August 1, a decline of 72.5%.During the same period, other core on-chain metrics rose, with daily transaction count hitting an all-time high of 13.3 million on August 5, TVL reaching a record $433 million on August 6, and stablecoin supply peaking at $597 million. Meanwhile, total global DEX trading volume increased from $5.27 billion to $7.33 billion, while Robinhood Chain's share of global DEX trading volume fell from a peak of 16.65% to 4.32%. DEX trading volume per transaction dropped 74% from $105.56 on July 13 to $27.82 on August 4, before recovering to $39.07.
Odaily News: According to the official page, Robinhood has listed CASHCAT.
According to the official page, Robinhood-owned CEX Bitstamp has just listed CASHCAT, a meme coin on the Robinhood chain. As of press time, CASHCAT is trading at $0.1123 on Bitstamp, while GMGN data shows CASHCAT is currently at $0.132 on-chain, up 48% in the past 24 hours. An official detailed announcement post from Bitstamp has not yet been seen, but the page indicates that trading functionality is already live. In early June, Robinhood announced the completion of its $200 million cash acquisition of Luxembourg-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp.
Odaily News, Ground COO Stephanie Vaughan stated that the current DeFi industry is陷入 a "yield war," but market participants are more focused on securing distribution access to fintech platforms, overlooking the real problems users need to solve.She pointed out that Robinhood, Coinbase, Revolut, and Kraken are competing for user funds, while protocols such as Aave, Morpho, and Ethena are competing to become the infrastructure for lending strategies. Vault service providers and risk management institutions are also competing around fintech platforms. However, this model does not establish DeFi's own user relationships—it merely fights for the opportunity to be selected by platforms.Stephanie believes that the current market is signaling that DeFi products have near-zero pricing power. Much of the yield comes from subsidies provided by platforms, Vault service providers, strategy providers, or underlying protocols, rather than genuine demand created by the products themselves. This is more like paying "shelf fees" than achieving true distribution capabilities.She further noted that some multi-strategy Vaults suffer from issues such as idle capital, deployment delays, and slow governance processes, resulting in a gap between the actual returns users receive and the advertised APY. In contrast, traditional financial products like money market funds can put capital to work immediately.Stephanie stated that with declining L2 costs and maturing cross-chain infrastructure, the chain itself is no longer a core competitive advantage. In the future, DeFi should build products closer to personal execution environments, driven by user needs. She believes the competitive focus should shift from shared Vaults to infrastructure like MPC wallets, allowing users to retain control over strategies while platforms handle execution and streamline processes.
Odaily News, RWA.xyz's tokenized stock dashboard shows that as of August 3, the number of holding addresses for tokenized stocks, including exchange-traded funds, approached 967,000, with a distributed value of $2.16 billion. In late July, the number of related addresses had reached 759,000, a 92% increase over 30 days and a 522% increase since early 2026.The above data counts blockchain addresses, not verified individual investors. A single user may control multiple wallets, and custodian addresses may also represent multiple clients.Jupiter stated that year-to-date, its platform's monthly tokenized stock trading volume during hours when the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange are closed has grown by 360%, with over 65% of stock token activity occurring outside regular trading hours. Demand for semiconductor and memory chip-related stock products is high, involving companies such as Nvidia, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix.Market commentator David Alexander estimates that Robinhood Chain has gained 325,000 new holders within four weeks of its launch. Robinhood's related tokens provide economic exposure to the underlying securities but do not grant investors direct legal ownership or beneficial ownership of these stocks.