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Reference: Aave Governance Aave Picks Chainlink CCIP As Default Standard For Cross-Chain sGHO Aave governance has moved to make Chainlink CCIP the default standard for cross-chain sGHO transfers, reinforcing the role of security-focused infrastructure in DeFi’s next phase. The Aave governance proposal focuses on launching sGHO cross-chain and using Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol as the default option. The wider Delivery Infrastructure, known as a.DI, still uses a multi-bridge architecture for redundancy, but CCIP is positioned as the standard route for this specific cross-chain flow. That distinction matters. DeFi has spent years learning that bridges are one of the most sensitive…

Base founder Jesse Pollak said the Ethereum layer-2 network is working with Coinbase on a tokenized equities product backed 1:1 by underlying shares.  Summary Base and Coinbase now near 1:1-backed tokenized stocks designed to represent actual underlying equity ownership. Jesse Pollak says Robinhood Chain moved faster by placing tokenized equities directly in EVM markets. Coinbase’s planned model differs from Robinhood derivatives by backing each tokenized stock with real shares. He also acknowledged that Robinhood Chain moved faster in bringing stock-linked assets into an EVM environment. In a July 21 post on X, Pollak said Robinhood Chain had taken the “right”…

Ondo Global Markets has added 173 new tokenized stocks and ETFs to its platform, pushing its total catalog past 430. The new assets are live across Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain, and the batch covers some of the most talked-about sectors in public markets right now, AI, robotics, quantum computing, defense tech, critical materials, and data center energy. A handful of more specialized products made the cut too, including BlackRock active ETFs and covered call income strategies. It’s a sizable jump for one update. Adding 173 assets in a single batch isn’t the move of a platform still testing the…

Key highlights:The total cryptocurrency market cap increased from $ 2.20T to $ 2.21T in the past 24 hours, representing a 0.28% changeThe Bitcoin price at press time is $ 64,124 after falling by -0.93% in the last 24 hoursThe total crypto trading volume decreased by -34.37% in the past 24 hours, and is currently at $ 113.12BAll prices and changes are presented at the time of publication: July 20, 2026, at 06:00 UTCMarket OverviewThe total cryptocurrency market cap is currently $ 2.21T after a 0.28% increase on the day. The total crypto trading volume declined by -34.37% in the same time frame.Bitcoin is trading at…

Strategy’s preferred stock STRC has dropped below $84, well below the $90 it launched at and a full $16 beneath its $100 par value, hitting an all-time low and triggering a chain of consequences that points toward an outcome Saylor has publicly sworn to avoid: selling Bitcoin. The market is not panicking yet, but it is pricing in doubt, and the mechanics behind that doubt are worth understanding carefully. Solana Floor flagged the STRC decline as it broke below $85, noting the potential downstream pressure on Strategy’s Bitcoin position. What looks like a preferred stock pricing anomaly on the surface…

A wallet tracked as 0x5f91 just opened a fresh 5x leveraged long on ASTER, putting 3.86 million tokens worth roughly $2.61 million back on the line. The move comes only days after the same wallet got fully wiped out on a previous long position, a loss that cost the trader $530,600 when the market pulled back hard and triggered liquidation. This is the kind of pattern that draws attention fast in crypto trading circles, a whale getting liquidated on a leveraged position and then turning around to open another leveraged position on the exact same asset, in the same direction,…

20:00 Two U.S. troops killed as Bitcoin traders position for a move toward $72,000 The United States says two service members were killed and several others were wounded while U.S. Central Command and partner forces defended an air base in Jordan from Iranian ballistic missiles and drones. U.S. warplanes have used the base to carry out operations against Iran. One service member remains missing. Four others who were taken to hospitals in Jordan have since been discharged. These are the first American deaths caused by direct Iranian fire since the opening days of the war. The Trump administration said:…

TLDR: Bank of America digital assets leadership now includes Sonali Theisen, who will oversee platform development while retaining her FICC trading duties. Kevin Milsom will direct AI transformation across global markets and platforms, supporting automation, analytics, and generative AI implementation. The bank’s broader blockchain program covers tokenized deposits, stablecoins, digital collateral mobility, cryptocurrency settlement, and custody. Similar hiring moves at Vanguard and Morgan Stanley show traditional financial firms are placing digital assets inside established business divisions. Bank of America appointed Sonali Theisen and Kevin Milsom to lead technology programs across its global markets division. The move expands the Bank of…

Kimi K3, a massive 2.8-trillion-parameter open-weight model from Moonshot AI, breaks the pattern of unsubstantiated hype by delivering genuine, frontier-level reasoning. Backed by impressive third-party benchmark data, this release marks the first time a Chinese model is actively forcing the industry to re-evaluate where the global AI frontier actually sits. Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi K3 yesterday, claiming performance close to Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6. The model runs on a Mixture-of-Experts architecture with 2.8 trillion total parameters, making it the largest open-weight model released to date, and it ships with a 1 million-token context window capable of digesting…

In the world of digital money, a quiet war is brewing over what a “dollar” should be. For a long time, the deal in crypto was simple – You held stablecoins like USDT or USDC because they were stable and liquid. However, as central banks cranked up interest rates, a nagging question emerged – Why isn’t my digital dollar earning me anything? This opened the door for a new challenger – Tokens backed by actual U.S. Treasury Bills. Now, anyone with a crypto wallet has a real choice to make. Do you stick with the familiar, deeply connected stablecoins, or…