Crypto Pulse—Industry Perspectives

Key takeawaysOndo Finance has publicly launched Ondo Network, an execution layer that runs trade matching inside hardware-secured Trusted Execution Environments while settling assets non-custodially on Ethereum. CEO Ian De Bode describes it as the evolution of the abandoned Ondo Chain blockchain project, after engineers concluded that execution speed, was the real constraint on institutional trading. Ondo Perps, live since July 7 for non-US investors with up to 20x leverage on tokenized equities

Key TakeawaysHyperliquid (HYPE) trades in the low $60s at the time of writing, consolidating below its all time high near $76.70 as analysts debate whether a bounce back to $70 is in play.Decentralized perpetual exchanges now account for roughly 13.5% of total open interest, and Hyperliquid dominates the category with about two thirds of onchain perp volume and more than $4 billion in open interest of its own.The shutdowns of BitMEX and BitMart in the past week strengthen the migration narrative

Key TakeawaysThe Federal Reserve meets Tuesday and Wednesday, July 28 to 29, with the rate decision due at 2:00 p.m. ET Wednesday and Chair Kevin Warsh's press conference at 2:30 p.m.Markets price roughly 80% odds of a hold at 3.50% to 3.75%, but the June dot plot showed 9 of 18 officials projecting at least one hike this year, and odds of a move as soon as September have been climbing.Bitcoin (BTC) trades near $64,400 after rejecting $66,910 on July 21, with options positioning clustered around

Key TakeawaysBitMart announced on Sunday, July 26, 2026 that it will wind down its trading platform after nine years, with all trading ending August 26 and full closure on January 31, 2027. Its BMX token crashed nearly 60% within hours.The move came just three days after BitMEX, the exchange that invented the perpetual swap, said it will shut down on September 23 after an 11 year run, sending its BMEX token down roughly 90%.BitMart is the third centralized exchange to announce a closure this mon

Samsung has officially confirmed that Samsung Wallet will support stablecoins in the future, allowing users to manage digital assets alongside payment cards, digital IDs, event tickets, and other digital credentials within a single application. Although the company has yet to announce a launch date, the underlying blockchain, or its stablecoin partners, the inclusion of stablecoins in one of the world's most widely used digital wallets has attracted significant attention from both the technology

Strategy, BlackRock, Fidelity Digital Assets, Coinbase, and five other leading organizations have officially launched the Bitcoin Security Consortium (BSC), committing a total of $15 million over the next three years to strengthen Bitcoin's long-term security, support open-source software development, and fund critical security research.One of the consortium's first priorities is advancing post-quantum cryptography research to prepare Bitcoin for a future in which quantum computers become powerf

Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram, has announced plans to integrate a non-custodial cryptocurrency wallet directly into the Telegram app. The new wallet will allow users to send and receive Gram—the new name for Toncoin following the TON ecosystem’s rebranding—almost instantly and with zero transaction fees.Unlike the current Wallet bot, which is operated by an independent company and relies partially on a custodial model, the new wallet will be fully non-custodial, giving users complete cont

After spending several months moving sideways, the crypto market is entering a period that has attracted significant attention from investors: Q4 2026. Historically, this quarter has often been associated with strong price movements across Bitcoin and the broader crypto market.However, a closer look at technical indicators, capital flows, and the broader macro environment suggests that Q4 this year could deliver a more meaningful recovery than what the market currently expects in the short term.

BitMEX, the crypto derivatives platform that essentially created the perpetual swap and popularized 100x leverage trading, announced on July 23, 2026 that it will permanently cease operations. The closure takes effect on September 23, 2026 at 04:00 UTC, and the exchange has already stopped accepting new account registrations. For an exchange that helped define an entire category of crypto trading over more than a decade, the announcement marks a quiet, almost anticlimactic end. 1.How the Shutdow

Most crypto traders rely on indicators like RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, and moving averages to navigate the markets. While these tools remain valuable, they represent only one layer of market analysis. Behind many institutional trading desks and quantitative hedge funds lies a different approach, one built on mathematics, probability, and statistical modeling rather than individual indicators alone.Instead of asking whether a signal is simply bullish or bearish, quantitative models estimate how