An incident involving Wanchain’s Cardano-to-BNB cross-chain bridge has disrupted normal use of bridged NIGHT tokens. An official statement said the issue appears to stem from bridge operations rather than the Midnight Network mainnet itself. The team said it is monitoring the situation with relevant partners as it works to verify the facts. No loss amount, affected addresses, or recovery timeline has been disclosed, and users were urged to watch for phishing or impersonation scams.

Leveraged token xBTC has gone live on Hylo, offering 3x BTC exposure in the Solana ecosystem via a token that can be held in a wallet. The product is designed to be liquidation-resistant and is being offered with a 0% minting fee for this week. Hylo is positioning xBTC as a simpler alternative to traditional margin-based leverage.

Several U.S. institutions disclosed holdings in the REX-Osprey XRP ETF through 13F filings, which the SEC requires large managers to submit on a regular basis. The ETF is an approved spot XRP exchange-traded fund, and the filings indicate concrete allocation activity to XRP-linked products. This is not the first time such disclosures have appeared, but the growing number of filers suggests the XRP ETF is gradually entering mainstream institutional portfolios. XRP is the fund’s sole underlying asset, while “REX” is a prefix used across Osprey Funds’ ETF lineup rather than a separate tradable instrument.

Russia is set to vote on a national crypto regulatory framework bill on 2026-07-23, 69 days after it officially listed $XRP on its national exchange. If passed, the bill would provide $XRP and other crypto assets with a clearer legal status in Russia and lay out compliant paths for issuance and trading. It could also open the door to bank access and fiat rails.

On July 13, the BTC+ smart contract on BNB Smart Chain was attacked after the deployer private key was compromised, allowing an upgrade to the minting proxy and the creation of unauthorized BTC+. The team said it completed an emergency response within three hours, isolating the malicious contract and freezing, burning, or quarantining all unauthorized tokens while confirming the underlying BTC remains secure. Subscriptions and redemptions have been temporarily paused pending a final security review, with redemptions expected to resume within two weeks. BTC+ is issued only through official Solv channels and has no official liquidity pool on any DEX.

bStocks has recorded $2.5B in trading volume and $400M in assets under management (AUM) on BNB Chain. The project offers 24/7 access to global stock markets through tokenized equities. It also said it plans to deepen integrations with DeFi. The development is positioned as an application-layer milestone within the BNB Chain ecosystem, reflecting on-chain capital inflows and user activity focused on BNB Chain-native usage.

Russia is set to formally finalize its crypto asset regulatory framework on 2026-07-22. The headline states that XRP is already trading through Moscow Exchange (MOEX) infrastructure, indicating technical integration with the country’s core financial rails. MOEX is a state-led, mainstream securities exchange in Russia, and the setup suggests XRP’s compliance pathway is effectively in place rather than limited to policy debate or a sandbox stage. The focus is on greater regulatory certainty and the readiness of localized trading infrastructure, with no details provided on other tokens, global policy linkages, or capital 규모 data.

Soil Farm (@soil_farm) has launched a DeFi yield protocol offering institutional-style on-chain lending across USDC, RLUSD and XRP. Its XRP vault is deployed natively on XRPL and offers a 5% fixed annual yield without using bridges. The protocol also offers a flexible USDC/RLUSD liquid vault with ~5% fixed APR and a credit vault targeting ~8% yield, supported by ORQO’s regulated infrastructure and professional asset management.