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Emirates said on X it has introduced cryptocurrency payments through Crypto.com Pay. The service is limited to residents of the United Arab Emirates and applies only to tickets settled in UAE dirhams. Customers pay through the Crypto.com wallet, but the airline does not directly receive cryptocurrency. Instead, payments are settled in dirhams or in an approved dirham-linked stablecoin under UAE central bank rules.

Binance’s stock tokenization platform Bstocks recorded more than $2 billion in trading volume over the weekend, Cointelegraph reported.

U.S. President Donald Trump said now is a good time for Iran to reach a deal and added he wants to avoid attacks on Iran’s bridges and power plants. Trump also stressed that Iran must formally declare it will not possess nuclear weapons.

As of July 28, 150 venture capital firms had participated in cryptocurrency investment rounds this month, the lowest monthly figure since November 2020, according to crypto market data platform CryptoRank. That was also well below the peak of 1,177 firms recorded in May 2022. CryptoRank said the trend suggests crypto VC investment is becoming concentrated among a smaller number of funds, while investors are applying stricter screening standards to projects.

Jeffrey Huang, a Taiwanese singer better known as Machi Big Brother, is about $20 away from the liquidation price on a Hyperliquid perpetual futures position, according to Hupz, formerly Spot On Chain. Hupz said Huang has also listed two BAYC NFTs for sale to raise margin and that Huang's cumulative losses have exceeded $80 million since last year.

Crypto exchange Luno, part of Digital Currency Group, will cut about 20% of its global workforce as part of a restructuring, Bloomberg reported. Through the reorganization, Luno plans to expand its B2B business and reduce costs in line with current market conditions.

The owner of Kabosu, the Shiba Inu that inspired Dogecoin, said on X that there is no connection to the recently surging meme coin CATE. @kabosumama said a coin was issued without permission after a cat-related Instagram post was shared, adding that the only projects officially authorized to issue tokens were DOGE and COCORO. CATE, meanwhile, is a meme coin launched based on a video shared by Kabosu's owner featuring a kitten, and its market capitalization previously surged 230-fold.

CME Group, the world’s largest futures exchange operator, has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission over its approval of on-chain perpetual futures, Hubz, formerly Spot On Chain, said. CME Group argues the product should be classified as swaps rather than futures and was approved without proper rulemaking procedures. Hubz said the lawsuit targets the regulatory foundation of the on-chain perpetual futures market itself. It added the products are the same type as those offered by decentralized exchanges such as Hyperliquid, and said a reclassification as swaps could tighten compliance requirements and limit DEX offerings of perpetual futures. Given the likelihood of a prolonged legal process, Hubz said the case could weigh on perpetual futures-focused platforms in the short term.

Fortitude, the mining subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG), said it has begun supplying power to its first greenfield mining facility. The company said it completed construction of the 12 MW site in Grand Island, Nebraska, expanding its total operating power capacity to 60 MW.

Bitcoin and Ethereum have remained relatively resilient by holding above their 50-day moving averages despite the recent pullback, but the broader crypto market still has yet to show a clear recovery, CoinDesk said. CoinDesk added that, compared with the Nasdaq 100, the current weakness in crypto stands out more clearly. As of July 27, local time, 47 Nasdaq 100 constituents were trading above their 50-day moving averages, indicating a stronger trend than in the crypto market. While BTC has remained stable since rebounding from around $58,000 in early last month, that strength has not spread across the broader altcoin market. At the same time, ETH has recently outperformed BTC, raising the possibility that buying interest could expand into altcoins. The outlet added that markets are watching the U.S. Federal Reserve’s rate decision, its future monetary policy path, and upcoming U.S. core PCE inflation and GDP data as key variables. It also said expectations for institutional inflows have cooled further after the U.S. Senate delayed action on the Clarity Act.

Russia’s central bank has released draft regulations on cryptocurrency trading, The Block reported. Under the proposal, crypto custodians would be required to hold between 50 million and 250 million rubles in equity capital and meet additional requirements for custody and record management.

DEX aggregator 1inch has launched 1inch Aqua, a solution aimed at improving DeFi liquidity efficiency. Aqua allows a single token to support multiple liquidity positions, while assets remain in users’ wallets until a swap is executed. Users can support multiple liquidity positions based on the same token balance without depositing assets into a liquidity pool. Tokens remain securely stored in users’ wallets, and swap fees are protected from JIT attacks, in which liquidity is added just before a trade and withdrawn immediately after to capture fees.

AAVE founder Stani Kulechov said on X that the U.S. crypto market structure bill known as the Clarity Act includes legal authority allowing banks to use cryptocurrencies or distributed ledger technology, or DLT, without prior notice or approval. Kulechov said that authority covers business areas including custody, staking and lending, and described the bill as establishing a legal basis for U.S. banks to offer crypto-related services in a compliant manner, potentially broadening traditional financial institutions’ participation in the crypto business market.

Crypto analyst Murphy (@Murphychen888) said BTC supply concentration within a plus-or-minus 5% range of the spot price has risen to 12%. Murphy said supply concentration is one of the key indicators used to gauge volatility, as an excessive build-up of holdings at a specific price range can trigger broad position movement even on small price swings, potentially causing sharp volatility. Murphy added that if BTC continues to trade sideways in the $62,000-$66,000 range for the time being, supply concentration could rise further, increasing the likelihood of a strong move higher or lower and a redistribution of holdings.

Kenya’s Treasury has lowered the minimum paid-in capital requirement for stablecoin issuers by 40% from an earlier draft to $2.32 million (300 million Kenyan shillings), BitcoinNews.com reported. Rules aimed at investor protection will remain in place, including a requirement for issuers to back stablecoins one-to-one with reserve assets and honor redemption requests within two business days. Kenya’s central bank will also have the authority to restrict the circulation of offshore-issued stablecoins.

An anonymous whale whose wallet address starts with 0xfC2c8 withdrew 10,000 ETH worth $18.81 million from Bybit, Onchain Lens reported. Exchange withdrawals are typically interpreted as a move to hold the assets.

South Korean exchange Bithumb announced it will temporarily suspend deposits and withdrawals for 25 virtual assets, including BTC, XRP and ETH, from 8:00 a.m. UTC on July 31 to 6:00 p.m. UTC on Aug. 1 for its monthly virtual asset inspection. The affected assets are BTC, XRP, ETH, SOL, DOGE, USDT, WLD, XLM, ONDO, TRX, SHIB, KAIA, ADA, ETC, LINK, SUI, BCH, PEPE, HBAR, VIRTUAL, BASED, 0G, PRL, BLEND and B3.

An address believed to be tied to the Across Protocol hacker returned 331.8 ETH, worth about $623,900, to a multisig wallet owned by the Across Protocol Hub Pool, PeckShield reported. Across Protocol previously lost about $3.6 million in cryptocurrencies in a hack on the Solana network.

Crypto market maker and over-the-counter trading platform Cumberland deposited about $6.65 million worth of HYPE and USDT to exchanges, Onchain Lens reported. The firm transferred 108,090 HYPE worth $5.95 million to Bybit and 700,000 USDT to Binance.

Singapore-based asset manager Psalion has launched a $50 million fund, its largest to date, to invest in early-stage blockchain startups, The Block reported. The company plans to back pre-seed and seed-stage firms in areas including blockchain infrastructure, real-world assets, stablecoins and DeFi.

South Korean exchanges Upbit, Bithumb and Coinone announced they will place Storj (STORJ) on a delisting watchlist, citing a need to monitor and verify the sustainability of the project’s key virtual-asset-related business.

FactBlock will launch a support program funded from its own resources for buyers who have not received their Gaia Phone orders for an extended period, Digital Asset reported. FactBlock said it takes seriously the inconvenience and anxiety faced by Gaia Phone buyers amid the prolonged non-delivery situation and will implement a Gaia Phone buyer support program. The company said the program is a gratuitous support measure that FactBlock will operate independently, without cooperation or funding from Gaia. Support will amount to about 1.94 million won ($1,400) per device. Gaia Network unveiled its AI smartphone in a Korea Blockchain Week edition in July 2025 and began sales in September that year. Complaints over shipping delays and a lack of communication have since continued among the community and buyers.

RWA tokens delivered the strongest performance among major cryptocurrency sectors in July, posting a median return of 10%, CryptoRank reported. As of July 24, the total on-chain RWA market capitalization had risen to $32.2 billion, up 12.3% from the start of the month and setting a new all-time high above the previous record reached in April. The data indicates tokenization of traditional financial assets remains a key growth driver for the market.

Artificial intelligence may pose a bigger threat to DeFi protocols than to Bitcoin, according to Charles Edwards, founder of crypto investment firm Capriole Investments. In an interview with Cointelegraph, Edwards said the AI model "Mythos" had broken through multiple security safeguards in succession. If that could happen in a conventional computing environment, similar incidents could also occur across many DeFi protocols, Edwards said. Edwards added that DeFi hacks had become more frequent over the past 12 months, weighing on the crypto industry. He also said massive capital inflows into the AI market were drawing some funds away from cryptocurrencies broadly, including Bitcoin.

RWA platform Dow Protocol announced it has raised $9 million in seed funding. Participants in the round included MH Ventures, OKX Ventures, Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, Essentia Partners and Quartet Group. The company did not disclose how it plans to use the funds.