Here's everything that happened in crypto last week👇 Strategy authorized its first real Bitcoin sales to fund its preferred dividend, breaking the never-sell doctrine that defined the entire Bitcoin treasury company narrative. The same week, a Nasdaq-listed AVAX treasury vehicle warned it may not survive the year. The leveraged BTC treasury trade that defined the last cycle is starting to unwind. Watch this space carefully. Robinhood Chain, their own Ethereum L2, went live. Lighter's perps were natively integrated into Robinhood Wallet. dYdX rebranded to Arcus and announced its deployment on Robinhood Chain. TradingView integrated Hyperliquid charts. The retail trading infrastructure is getting serious upgrades across the board. Securitize, the engine behind BlackRock's BUIDL, went public and tokenized its own shares. Mantle announced the launch of Openstock on its L2, bringing pre-IPO vaults on-chain. Ethena partnered with BlackRock to integrate USDe into BlackRock's Aladdin app. Open USD, a new stablecoin backed by 140 plus TradFi businesses, was announced as a direct challenge to Circle. That last one is worth paying attention to. A 140-company consortium building a stablecoin is not a small move. Protocol updates worth noting: Aave announced plans to launch a new automated buyback mechanism. Pendle cut its token incentives by 71% over the past six months, aggressive but disciplined. Resolv introduced primeUSD, a structured yield product generating yield via leveraged strategies on tokenized US T-bills. World, a fully native prediction market platform on Solana, went live. Ethereum Institution, a non-profit designed to accelerate Ethereum's institutional adoption, was introduced. Mantle's H1 2026 Recap report also dropped this week. Watchlist for the week ahead: → Jupiter launches the private beta of GUM, its new everything exchange, on July 6. Worth watching , Jupiter has been building toward this for a while. → Near Protocol hosts a livestream called "The Big Reveal" on July 7. No details but the name suggests something significant. → Tokenized stocks on Lighter are expected to launch next week. → Berachain's PoL Next, its biggest upgrade since mainnet, goes live on July 7. → Jito is rumored to launch JTX, a new perps DEX on Solana, in mid-July. → EtherFi just requested Aave DAO to create a dedicated V4 instance hub for its EtherFi Cash product. → Some good news for Zcash is coming next week according to Mert , worth keeping an eye on for the privacy narrative. To a bullish week ahead 🫡
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