exploit
Bonzo Lend drained of ~$9.05M on July 11 after a Supra oracle verifier accepted a zeroed BLS signature. Attacker inflated SAUCE price 12 orders of magnitude, bridged $5.25M via LayerZero.
governance
Uniswap Labs' Snapshot temperature check on activating v4 protocol fees closed July 12, 2026, with roughly 93% support. Binding on-chain vote runs the week of July 13.
protocol
The EF Protocol Support account announced its own dissolution on July 9, absorbing the team that ran All Core Devs into the new Protocol Layer cluster from the June 23 restructure.
protocol
Protocol 27 lands on Stellar mainnet on July 10, adding CAP-0071-01 authentication delegation for Soroban custom accounts and CAP-0071-02 address-bound credentials.
governance
Polkadot's OpenGov enacted two staking overhauls on July 6, 2026 — validators need 10,000 DOT self-stake at zero commission, nominators lose slashing exposure, unbonding drops from 28 days to ~2.
protocol
A consensus bug hit during vault rotation forces THORChain to pause churning. v3.19.4 is scrapped; the fix ships in v3.20 alongside XMR and router V6. Solana re-enables first.
regulation
ESMA announced a Common Supervisory Action on July 8 covering the digital operational resilience of authorised CASPs' custody services. NCAs run the risk-based reviews from H2 2026 to H1 2027.
regulation
Sony Bank's Connectia Trust NA — a $40M NY trust chartered to issue a USD-pegged stablecoin — cleared OCC conditional approval on July 7. Operations targeted for 2027 after final sign-off.
protocol
Karst (Upgrade 19) activated July 8 16:00 UTC across op, ink, zora, mode, lisk, metal, unichain, soneium, ethernity, tbn. Adds L2CM, promotes kona-client, ports five Osaka EIPs. op-geth EoS.