Quick Take

• Bitcoin mempool transactions hit a 1-year high.
• Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin updated the network's roadmap to prioritize quantum-computing readiness and user privacy.
• MoneyGram expanded its "Ramps" service to Solana, enabling two-way cash-crypto conversions via a single API for crypto wallets.
• Jupiter rolled out Lend v2, allowing assets to generate dual yields by acting as loan collateral and trading liquidity simultaneously.
• Harmony chain was exploited, resulting in the unauthorized minting of roughly 4 billion ONE tokens.
• The contentious Bitcoin BIP-110 soft fork failed during its mandatory signaling phase after securing support from only around 2.5% of miners.
• A critical vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Lightning payment servers resulted in fund theft from multiple merchants.

Weekly DeFi Index

This week, the market cap, volume, and volatility indices decreased -0.91%, -20.05%, and -36.91%, respectively.

• Grayscale's Q2 2026 fund update listed Curve DAO Token (CRV) as a component of its Decentralized Finance Fund.
• Pyth Network (PYTH) reported reaching $7.5 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) by July, along with record monthly RWA perpetuals volume secured.
• Jupiter rolled out Lend v2, allowing assets to generate dual yields by acting as loan collateral and trading liquidity simultaneously. Deposits and borrowed assets now earn lending interest plus a share of Jupiter liquidity pool swap fees.