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The Central Bank of Brazil disclosed that in the first half of 2026, Brazil's cryptocurrency purchases reached $14.68 billion, a 135% increase from $6.24 billion in the first half of 2025. The statistics include transactions involving Bitcoin, Ethereum, and stablecoins processed by registered Virtual Asset Service Providers (VASP).In June, Brazil's cryptocurrency purchases amounted to $2.54 billion, higher than the $1.48 billion in June 2025; in May, stablecoin purchases were close to $2.632 billion, a 158% increase from May 2025. Fernando Rocha, head of the statistics department at the Central Bank of Brazil, stated that the country's cryptocurrency market has moved past the initial stage and is expanding while exploring application scenarios. Fernando Rocha noted that the demand for dollar-pegged stablecoins is driving growth, with its demand share exceeding 90%, and they can be used for payments and cross-border settlements. The Central Bank of Brazil classifies VASP as Class 3, and after it takes effect in January 2027, relevant institutions will need to comply with the same requirements as securities brokers, securities distributors, and foreign exchange brokerage firms.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net outflow of Ethereum spot ETFs is $18.6542 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow in a single day is Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust MSSE, with a single-day net inflow of $14.297 million, and the historical total net inflow of MSSE currently stands at $19.4457 million.Next is the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a single-day net inflow of $5.1632 million, and the historical total net inflow of ETHA currently reaches $11.43 billion. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow in a single day is Fidelity ETF FETH, with a single-day net outflow of $16.0729 million, and the historical total net inflow of FETH currently stands at $2.105 billion. As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $10.369 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) is 4.56%, with a historical cumulative net inflow reaching $11.188 billion.

According to The Block, Tether's compliant stablecoin USA₮ (USAT) has officially launched on the Celo mainnet, marking its second mainnet deployment after Ethereum. The token is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and can be natively minted and redeemed on Celo, and can be directly used for on-chain gas payments through Celo's fee abstraction mechanism.USAT launched in January this year, with a current market capitalization of approximately $185 million.

According to official news, the institutional-level Ethereum ecosystem service organization Ethereum Institutional announced the completion of its initial ecosystem funding round and the formation of a supporter alliance, receiving support from over 100 ecosystem participants, led by BitMine, SharpLink, and Ethereum co-founders Joseph Lubin and Mihai Alisie, with the amount undisclosed. The organization stated that this funding will be used to support its accelerated efforts in tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain market infrastructure.Ethereum Institutional indicated that in the coming months, it will strengthen direct engagement with banks, asset management institutions, custodians, market infrastructure, fintech companies, and sovereign institutions to advance specific work related to tokenization, stablecoins, market infrastructure, and on-chain settlement, while expanding its core business areas such as institutional education, market intelligence, and ecosystem marketing; at the same time, it will continue to collaborate with a broader Ethereum ecosystem community, including L2, application teams, infrastructure, and custodial service providers.

The Ethereum Foundation stated on platform X that pcaversaccio (pc) has joined the board of the Ethereum Foundation. pc is a long-term contributor to the Ethereum ecosystem, co-founder and head of SEAL 911, and previously a member of the EF Silviculture Society, which provides informal advice to EF with the aim of maintaining core values such as anti-censorship, open source, privacy, and security.pc has joined the board on a voluntary basis for a term of one year. pcaversaccio authored the "Ethereum Cypherpunk Manifesto" (2024, adapted from Eric Hughes' "Cypherpunk Manifesto") and "Ethereum Privacy: The Path to Autonomy" (2025), and has promoted the development of security practices across the ecosystem through technical contributions and community advocacy.

On July 28, Eastern Time, Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) was officially listed on NYSE Arca, bringing the total number of listed ETH spot ETFs to 11.According to SoSoValue data, MSSE had a net inflow of $5.15 million on its first day of trading, with a trading volume of $19.03 million and a total net asset value of $6.18 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was Blackrock ETF ETHB, which had a net inflow of $5.91 million for the day. Currently, ETHB has a historical total net inflow of $529 million. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $10.5 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (the market value as a percentage of Ethereum's total market value) reaching 4.53%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $11.21 billion.

According to DefiLlama data, the Ethereum chain random NFT acquisition protocol Fake World Assets, developed by the two-person team Token Works, surpassed the daily revenue of Collector Crypt on Solana within four days of its relaunch on July 20.On July 25, the peak daily revenue reached $447,604, with total fees of $1.6 million, and approximately 90,000 transactions including about 35,000 draws, with a trading volume of around 2,000 ETH. After that, activity declined, with revenue in the past 24 hours dropping to $167,869, ranking second in daily revenue among Ethereum protocols, only behind Sky ($464,303), and ahead of Aave ($105,282) and Uniswap ($76,028).In this protocol, depositors list NFTs along with their pledged ETH collateral (similar to Uniswap V2 trading pairs), where the collateral determines the weight of each NFT and provides depositors with irrevocable continuous bids to reacquire the NFT. Anyone can pay the acquisition price generated by the liquidity pool to obtain a randomly selected NFT.The pool has accumulated over 1,500 NFTs including CryptoPunks, with randomness provided by Chainlink VRF. The token emission incentives expire 15 days after launch, and daily fees have decreased by about half from their peak. Collector Crypt on Solana remains the leader in this sector, with users spending over $209 million on its card packs in June alone.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a new article introducing a novel cryptographic obfuscation technology called Diamond iO. This technology aims to address the extremely low efficiency of traditional indistinguishable obfuscation schemes, allowing programs to run while hiding internal logic and critical data. Although traditional iO technology possesses strong privacy protection capabilities, its operational costs are prohibitively high, making it nearly impractical. Diamond iO, by adopting more aggressive new cryptographic assumptions, enhances computational efficiency from "universe-level time consumption" to "planet-level time consumption," bringing it closer to practical application.Diamond iO is built on technologies such as Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). By encrypting programs, it allows users to execute the encrypted programs and obtain correct outputs without being able to view the internal code or hidden keys. This solution introduces a new input encoding mechanism and conditional decryption method, reducing computational complexity while ensuring the program logic remains hidden. Its core application scenarios include protecting programs that contain private keys, enabling secure software licensing, constructing trustless cryptographic services, and supporting blockchain and artificial intelligence systems with stronger privacy protection.However, Diamond iO is still in the early research stage, and its security relies on new cryptographic assumptions, including All-Product LWE and Evasive LWE, which require further research validation. At the same time, the technology still faces efficiency challenges such as high computational overhead and circuit depth limitations. Researchers believe that by optimizing underlying hash functions, improving homomorphic encryption schemes, and reducing security parameter requirements, Diamond iO is expected to become an important direction for advancing practical program obfuscation technology in the future.

According to Cointelegraph, the on-chain security platform Blockaid released its security report for the first half of 2026 on Tuesday, stating that the amount stolen in the crypto industry exceeded $1 billion in the first half of the year. A total of 212 security incidents were recorded during this period, marking the highest number of hacking incidents in half a year. The number of verified high-risk vulnerabilities reached 3.4 times that of the entire year of 2025, with the largest single attack coming from KelpDAO, resulting in a loss of $292 million.The report shows that Ethereum and Solana were the two networks with the heaviest losses, with stolen amounts of approximately $332 million and $326 million, respectively. Ethereum incidents were primarily due to code vulnerabilities, with attackers mainly targeting vulnerabilities in high-value applications, involving key leakage incidents such as Humanity Protocol and StablR. Solana's losses significantly increased by about $127 million compared to 2025, but the increase did not stem from smart contract vulnerabilities; over 98% of the losses were due to key leakage, mainly involving Drift Protocol and Step Finance, which Blockaid associates with North Korean hacker organizations.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Morgan Stanley Investment Management has announced the launch of two new exchange-traded products (ETP): Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust (MSSE) and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust (MSOL).These two products are designed to track the performance of the native digital assets ETH and SOL on the Ethereum and Solana blockchain networks, respectively. The launch of MSSE and MSOL signifies Morgan Stanley's further expansion of its investment product offerings in crypto assets, providing institutions and investors with more traditional financial channels to participate in the digital asset market.

PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that in the Polymarket "Ethereum will reach price in July" prediction market, the probability of ETH reaching $2000 is 26%, down 46% in 24 hours; the probability of dropping to $1800 is currently reported at 43%, up 28% in 24 hours. According to the rules of this prediction market, the relevant results are determined based on the highest price of the Binance ETH/USDT trading pair's 1-minute K-line.Yesterday, ETH once surged to $1981, less than 1% away from the $2000 mark, but then quickly fell back and has now dropped below $1900.

According to SoSoValue data, on July 27, Eastern Time, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $9.23 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow in a single day was the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a net inflow of $11.75 million, and the historical total net inflow of ETHA has reached $11.42 billion.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow in a single day was the Invesco ETF QETH, with a net outflow of $2.52 million, and the historical total net inflow of QETH has reached $22.10 million. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $10.65 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value relative to the total market value of Ethereum) is 4.53%, with a historical cumulative net inflow of $11.19 billion.

Binance will stop supporting deposits and withdrawals for the Sophon (SOPH) mainnet on August 4, 2026, at 16:00, and will open deposits and withdrawals through the Ethereum (ERC20) network.Sophon (SOPH) will be migrated from the original mainnet to the Ethereum (ERC20) network at a ratio of 1:1. Users are advised to ensure that deposits are completed before the deadline.

According to Farside Investors data, as of the week ending July 24, the net inflow for Ethereum spot ETFs was $103.8 million, about three times that of Bitcoin spot ETFs at $33.9 million, surpassing Bitcoin products for the second consecutive week. The gap mainly comes from BlackRock: its Ethereum fund ETHA attracted $96.3 million, while the largest crypto ETF Bitcoin fund IBIT saw a net outflow of $95.5 million, with outflows of $202.5 million and $212.2 million on Thursday and Friday, respectively.Bitcoin ETFs performed strongly at the beginning of the week (with a total inflow of about $430 million on Monday and Tuesday), but then reversed sharply. Ethereum ETFs were more stable, with continuous inflows for the first four days before a $70.7 million outflow on Friday. The weekly inflow for Bitcoin ETFs decreased by 55% compared to the previous week, while Ethereum remained flat. On-chain, the largest corporate ETH holder BitMine Immersion increased its holdings by 104,512 ETH over the past 30 days and currently holds 5.78 million ETH, accounting for 4.8% of the supply. ETH is currently priced at about $1,936, and BTC at about $64,780.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event "Ethereum July Price Prediction" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Above $2,000" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 72.5% an hour ago to the current 50.5% (a fluctuation of 22%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

The ETH/BTC trading pair has recently risen to a nearly 3-month high, indicating that Ethereum's performance relative to Bitcoin is improving. The ETH/BTC exchange rate is used to measure the strength of ETH against BTC, rather than its performance in USD.Data shows that ETH/BTC had cumulatively fallen by about 80% from 2021 to 2025, remaining weak for a long time. With the recent rebound of ETH/BTC, the market is beginning to pay attention to whether Ethereum is experiencing a recovery relative to Bitcoin. Analysts point out that the rise of ETH/BTC usually reflects an increase in risk appetite for funds and an improvement in market expectations for the Ethereum ecosystem, application demand, and future growth.

According to SoSoValue data, during the last trading days (Eastern Time from July 20 to July 24), the net inflow for Ethereum spot ETFs was $104 million.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow last week was Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a weekly net inflow of $96.3044 million, bringing the historical total net inflow for ETHA to $11.41 billion. The second was Grayscale Ethereum Trust ETH, with a weekly net inflow of $9.9362 million, currently having a historical total net inflow of $1.81 billion. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow last week was Fidelity ETF FETH, with a weekly net outflow of $6.1804 million, currently having a historical total net inflow of $2.12 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $10.17 billion, with an ETF net asset ratio (market value compared to the total market value of Ethereum) of 4.53%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $11.18 billion.

The South Korean blockchain gaming platform WEMIX has updated the situation regarding abnormal transactions and response measures. The investigation results show that the contract ownership related to WEMIX was compromised, and the attacker unauthorizedly issued approximately 5,225,525 WEMIX, which was subsequently exchanged for about 30,736 WEMIX and 724,198.27 USDC.e.The stolen USDC.e was transferred to Ethereum and BSC via a bridge, exchanged for assets such as ETH and USDT, and partially deposited into centralized exchanges. The attacker's wallet and fund flow have been tracked, and applications for freezing are being made to exchanges and stablecoin issuers. The exact cause is still under investigation, and the team is conducting a comprehensive review with external experts while examining related and similar contracts. Market data shows that the price of WEMIX tokens has dropped by 16.65% in the last 24 hours.

According to monitoring by Blockaid, Garden's HTLC is currently under attack, with approximately $450,000 USDT stolen on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, and BNB Chain.In response, Garden tweeted that they have detected unusual activity, temporarily shut down the application, and launched a comprehensive investigation. More information will be released later.

Chairman of Bitmine, Tom Lee, posted on the X platform stating that Ethereum is expected to become the most widely used settlement layer for finance and AI agents, "ETH is the on-chain currency."In addition, in the interview content he shared, Tom Lee also responded to the market's concern that Ethereum is being eroded by Layer 2. He expressed disagreement and pointed out that although Layer 2 networks have attracted tens of millions of real-world users into the on-chain ecosystem, the Ethereum mainnet is still further consolidating its position as the primary economic settlement center, with the Fast Confirmation mechanism able to reduce transfer friction by about 98%.