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Pump.fun transferred another 81,712 SOL, worth roughly $6.15 million, to crypto exchange Kraken on July 18, 2026, according to on-chain analyst EmberCN. On its own, the move is just another wallet transfer. But in the context of slowing memecoin activity and weakening Solana network revenue, it offers another glimpse into how one of crypto’s biggest success stories is changing.

Every day, billions of dollars change hands through decentralized exchanges. DefiLlama reports that DEX volume hit about $5 billion in the past 24 hours. Aggregators look at rates and paths from many liquidity providers to find the best deals. For example, 0x pulls data from roughly 150 services, while Uniswap’s quote API shows users both price and route. Many services also offer transaction simulations. The idea is that a simulation will match what happens in reality.

Tenev co-founded Robinhood with Baiju Bhatt. The pitch was simple and, at the time, radical: stock trading with no commissions, on a phone, designed for people who had never owned a brokerage account. It worked. Robinhood now serves roughly 28 million customers across 38 countries and trades on Nasdaq under HOOD. The name almost was not Robinhood. Before settling on it, the founders called the company CashCat.

Corbits, a platform that helps teams build collaborative AI workflows, has announced a partnership with NEAR AI, a company that works on blockchain and AI infrastructure. The two are teaming up to create more private and verifiable agent workflows. The idea is straightforward: give teams a way to check where AI inference actually happened, what an agent did, and which security rules were in place while it ran. Corbits brings tools for shared workflows and provenance records to the table.

Bitcoin continues to trade within a narrow range between $60,000 and $64,000, and analysts are now pointing to a critical junction that could define the next major move for the cryptocurrency. Two separate analytics firms have shared their assessments, outlining both bullish and bearish scenarios for BTC. The German analytics company Makrovision Research was the first to share its current analysis.

Crypto trader Ansem has questioned whether token buybacks can create lasting value on their own. He pointed to the wide valuation gap between Hyperliquid’s $HYPE and Pump.fun’s $PUMP. In a July 17 X post, Ansem argued that both businesses generate large revenues and regularly repurchase their tokens. Yet the market values them very differently. According to his figures, Hyperliquid generates about $800 million in annualized revenue and carries a fully diluted valuation near $65 billion.

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh testified before Congress this week, offering a range of comments on the economy, inflation, and notably, cryptocurrencies. Warsh stated that the Fed’s dual mandate of price stability and full employment is not contradictory. He argued that controlling inflation would actually encourage employers to create new jobs. During the session, he noted that economic activity remains strong and financial markets are generally functioning healthily.

Ether is the only large-cap crypto asset showing much movement this week. And the softer U.S. inflation print that lifted markets on Tuesday doesn’t fully explain it. Ether traded near $1,920 on Thursday, up 2.2% on the day and roughly 11% over seven sessions. Its market value sits at about $231 billion on roughly $12 billion of daily volume. Bitcoin, meanwhile, was at $64,600, down 0.3% on the day and up 4.2% for the week. Below them, the rest of the market is mostly negative.

If you have ever placed a large trade and watched the price move against you before it even filled, you have felt the exact problem dark pools were built to solve. Most exchanges and stock markets use a public order book. Every buy and sell order, including its size and price, is visible to anyone watching. That transparency sounds good in theory. But in practice, it creates a hidden tax on big trades. When you place a large order, other traders can see it sitting there.

Ondo Finance has joined a major tokenization initiative led by DTCC, the Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation. The announcement places Ondo alongside traditional finance giants like BlackRock, J.P. Morgan, and Goldman Sachs in what DTCC calls its largest tokenization effort to date. The project focuses on tokenized stock representations backed by DTC tokenized entitlements.