HashStack #016

Strategy has acquired 4,225 BTC for ~$472.5 million at ~$111,827 per Bitcoin.

Cantor Fitzgerald SPAC in talks with Adam Back, co-founder and CEO of Blockstream, to purchase between $3B - $4B in Bitcoin following its financing deals with Maple Finance and FalconX. 

Standard Chartered launched spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading service for institutional clients. 

Tether’s USDT0 integrates with the Bitcoin L2 network, Rootstock. 

Build on Bitcoin (BOB) launched BOB Snaps, an incentivized marketing campaign, with Cookie.fun. 

Lombard announced its yield-bearing LBTC will launch on 22 July 2025. 

EVM compatible, Proof of Stake network for Bitcoin, Core blockchain has announced the launch of a revenue-sharing pool with participating partners.

SharpLink Gaming acquired 10K ETH from EF via OTC at an average price of $2,572.37 and now becomes the largest corporate holder of Ethereum surpassing Ethereum Foundation. 

Linea confirmed that tokenomics and governance details to be released at the end of July. 

Liquid restaking platform, Inception, to sunset operations after failing to find PMF, following news of Eigen Labs cutting 25% of its workforce.

Robinhood launches ETH and SOL staking for US customers. 

Ethereum developers plan full zkEVM rollout, targeting full zk proof across the protocol

Ethereum founder, Vitalik, proposes a gas limit cap of 16.77M per transaction to reduce the risk of DoS attack. 

Bit Digital swaps entire treasury into Ethereum, says it's now a top public ETH holder after also deploying $173M to purchase Ethereum. It also plans to raise $67.3M to buy more Ethereum. 

GameSquare shares surged over 60% after the board approved $100M Ethereum treasury initiatives.

Polygon completed its Heimdall v2 upgrade which cuts finality to 5s.

XION announced the launch of ECCO app, allowing users to source movies across platforms. 

Story and World partnered to verify IP ownership onchain.

Bit Mining made the pivot to crypto treasury after announcing plans to raise $200M - $300M for Solana treasury. 

Sonic chain saw more than 13,500+ contracts leveraging their FeeM monetization feature which allows developers to earn 90% of network fees that their dApps generate. 

Sonnet BioTherapeutics, Inc. announced a merger deal to launch Hyperliquid Strategies, a new entity that is expected to hold 12.6M HYPE and $305M in cash. 

Ton Application Chain (TAC) launched its mainnet, allowing Ethereum dApps to now become easily accessible for Telegram users. 

BNB chain joins Ondo Global Markets Alliance with plans to support Ondo’s suite of tokenized assets in future. 

Cosmos announced its new roadmap for the next 6 months to focus more on being a service hub for IBC-chains and applications and pausing the launch of their EVM platform on Cosmos. 

Grok 4 and Kimi K2 launched, both frontier models achieving SOTA performance across various benchmarks, underscoring competitive performance in both closed-source and open-source models. 

Coinbase partners with Perplexity on real time crypto data service

IPTP Network and MCB Ventures announced the launch of DeCenter Foundation to drive decentralized AI cloud using data centers from IPTP and edge node infrastructure.

Fetch.ai contributed to a onchain identity initiative led by Bosch focused on decentralized identity and data sharing for next-gen mobility. 

Prime Intellect released Synthetic V2, its open dataset of 4M verified reasoning traces spanning complex RL tasks and verifiers. 

Decentralized agent launchpad, Creator.Bid, announced v2 and the launch of autonomous research agent, Rizzy. 

AIOZ AI V1 announced the launch of a new AI model that is able to combine different subjects and backgrounds into one single, artifact-free composite. 

Circle and OKX partners to provide free USDC-USD conversion. 

Ant international plans to add USDC support to its blockchain after stablecoin regulatory greenlight.

Over 40 companies applied for stablecoin license ahead of Aug 1 launch in Hong Kong

Tether to sunset USDT on 5 legacy blockchains including Algorand, Bitcoin Cash, EOS, Kusama, and Omni Layer due to lack of usage from 1 September 2025. 

Zero-knowledge Privacy Pools, backed by Vitalik Buterin, integrates with Sky’s USDS and announced support for more assets in future. 

Plasma Network announced the launch of its Phase 2 which will conduct a public sale of its network native token, XPL. Additionally, it also released its testnet featuring PlasmaBFT and EVM execution layer for scalable stablecoin payment infrastructure. 

Paypal to expand PYUSD access to the Arbitrum network. 

Aethir and Credible launched a DePIN-powered credit card and loan product backed by ATH. 

Maple finance becomes the largest onchain asset manager ($2.9B), overtaking BlackRock’s BUIDL ($2.3B).

Nasdaq-listed firm, Biosiq, entered into a definitive agreement to receive up to $1.1B growth financing to tokenize $142T commodities market after merger with Streamex Exchange Corporation. 

Aevo launched Aevo degen platform, offering 1000x leverage on tokenized equity.

Amber International becomes first Asia-based company to tokenize its shares via xStocks on Solana

Kraken and Backed Finance to expand tokenized equity access to BNB chain.

Bitget integrates with Backed Finance xStocks to offer tokenized equity. 

DL Holdings announced the tokenization of $500M of RWA with a portion distributed to eligible shareholders, DL Securities clients and neuralfin technology users. Currently pending approval from HK SFC.

Peaq launched its own Python SDK for the machine economy. 

Monad Foundation acquired stablecoin infrastructure startup Portal.

Agora, stablecoin issuer of AUSD, announced a $50M Series A round led by Paradigm. 

Dakota, a crypto-integrated business banking platform, secured a $12.5M Series A round led by CoinFund. 

Function raised a $10M seed round led by Galaxy Digital to drive institutional yield opportunities with its FBTC. 

Remix, a gaming launchpad, raised a $5M seed round led by Archetype. 

Talos acquired Coin Metrics for over $100M. 

Ondo Finance acquired Strangelove. 

Tanssi announced mainnet launch. 

Babylon plans to launch the Bitcoin multi-staking testnet in Q3, and mainnet in Q4.

Yala launches PayFi Universe, allowing users to spend Bitcoin earnings without selling coins.

Mind Network and ByteDance’s cloud platform BytePlus signed a MOU to jointly promote the construction of trusted AI infrastructure.

Orbiter Finance and Nano Labs collaborate to launch compliant stablecoin cross-chain solution NBNB.io.

Animoca Brands and DDC Enter into $100 Million Bitcoin Strategic Partnership. The two parties will jointly develop and implement Bitcoin profit enhancement and risk management strategies.