Morpho, DeFi's third-largest protocol by total value locked, went live on Solana on July 9, landing in a week when the network's tokenized real-world assets crossed $3 billion and social sentiment printed its most negative day of the year.
Kosta Gushterov
Journalist
Kosta has reported on cryptocurrency markets and blockchain infrastructure since 2020, bringing over six years of hands-on experience in the crypto industry built through daily tracking of markets, trends, and emerging blockchain developments. Specializing in Bitcoin on-chain analysis, institutional ETF flows, and digital asset price action, his work at Coindoo has been cited by other news agencies and consistently covers market developments with a focus on data-driven reporting across Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and XRP. Over the years, Kosta has contributed to multiple crypto media outlets in different regions, authoring over 6,000 articles across the sector. His reporting spans cryptocurrency markets and the broader fintech industry, tracking not only price action but also the technological and regulatory forces shaping the ecosystem. To support his analysis, Kosta actively leverages on-chain data and metrics from leading platforms such as Santiment, Glassnode, and CryptoQuant, enabling deeper, evidence-based market insights. He believes in the power of transparency and the data that underpins the blockchain ecosystem. His academic background in Marketing Management from Denmark further complements his analytical approach, adding a strong understanding of communication strategy and content positioning to his work.
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Swift announced on July 9 that its blockchain-based ledger is ready for initial use, with 17 banks from six continents preparing to pilot live cross-border payments using tokenised deposits.
Russia’s Alfa-Bank plans to launch a digital custody service for cryptocurrencies once new rules are in place.
ESMA launched a coordinated EU-wide review of crypto custody operations on July 8, 2026, moving MiCA supervision from the licensing question to the harder question of whether crypto firms can actually protect client assets under stress.
BNB Chain published its H2 2026 technical roadmap on July 8, targeting another doubling of mainnet throughput even as BSC DEX volume cooled 9.18% week-over-week to $4.35 billion.
Strategy sold Bitcoin last week to fund preferred stock distributions, but the sale did not reduce the company’s $1.25 billion reserve-building capacity.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has designated its "Regulation Crypto" proposal economically significant and targeted a July 2026 release, according to the 2026 Regulatory Agenda published July 7.
Zcash crossed a milestone written into its code at launch: four-fifths of all ZEC that will ever exist is now in circulation, and the chart shows price boxed between two technical zones right now.
Tether is bringing USDT back to the Bitcoin blockchain where it launched in 2014, using the newly live RGB protocol to enable private, near-instant transfers over the Lightning Network.
Strategy's Bitcoin sale drew a notably measured response from major institutions, with Grayscale and Bernstein framing the move as risk-reducing rather than bearish, even as spot ETFs logged fresh inflows.
Bitcoin dropped to $61,500 on news of Strategy's recent Bitcoin sale, then reversed the entire move within hours, liquidating the shorts that chased the headline.
Strategy has sold 3,588 Bitcoin for $216 million to fund dividend payments on its Digital Credit securities, the first sale executed under the capital framework the company adopted last month.
