Grayscale filed an SEC prospectus supplement updating its $1.6 billion Ethereum Staking Mini ETF to stake nearly all of its 839,556 ETH holdings and distribute staking rewards as quarterly cash payments to investors, effective August 6, 2026.
BNY, the largest custodian bank in the US, announced a partnership with Galaxy Digital to add cryptocurrency staking services to its digital asset custody platform, allowing institutional clients to earn staking rewards without moving assets off the platform, pending regulatory approval.
Uniswap has expanded beyond token trading with the launch of Earn, a self-custodial lending feature that allows users to deposit USDC, USDT, and ETH into Morpho vaults to generate yield directly within the Uniswap app. The product uses vaults curated by Gauntlet and integrates with Morpho's $11.79 billion lending network.
South Korean police arrested three individuals behind a fraudulent XRP staking platform that stole 3.4 million XRP (worth $8.5 million) from 71 investors by impersonating Flare Network and promising fixed monthly returns.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has integrated xStocks tokenized equities into its Dual Asset structured product, offering fixed-return yield products backed by shares of SpaceX, Nvidia, Apple, Alphabet, Coinbase, and Amazon with investment periods ranging from 8 hours to 1 day.
Galaxy Digital launched Galaxy Curator, a Morpho-based vault curation service distributed via Fireblocks Earn, giving over 2,400 institutional clients access to curated onchain stablecoin yield strategies without managing DeFi infrastructure directly.
DeFi lending infrastructure provider Morpho has integrated its protocol into Robinhood's consumer app, allowing retail users to earn approximately 7% yields on USDG stablecoin through onchain credit markets accessed via the Earn feature.
BlackRock has filed what appears to be the final amendment with the SEC for its iShares Bitcoin Premium Income ETF (BITA), a covered-call product charging 65 basis points that will trade on Nasdaq. The launch sets up a race with Goldman Sachs to bring the first major yield-paying Bitcoin ETF to market.
Liquid restaking protocol ether.fi is allocating $100 million to Plume's real-world asset vault, enabling its customers with over $6 billion in deposits to access institutional RWA yield opportunities through the partnership.
Coinbase Ventures purchased ENA tokens on the open market and announced a partnership with Ethena to develop onchain savings products, with a Coinbase integration set to roll out next week targeting their combined user base of over 100 million.
The Senate's crypto market structure bill, known as the CLARITY Act, faces mounting pressure to advance after months of delays caused by negotiations over stablecoin yield provisions. Senator Thom Tillis signals readiness to move forward to hearings as available Senate floor time diminishes and political uncertainty around leadership grows.
Senator Tillis delayed the stablecoin yield draft for the CLARITY Act amid fresh concerns from banking groups, with the latest text reportedly maintaining a ban on rewards for idle stablecoin holdings while other yield-related provisions remain under negotiation.
Fireblocks introduced 'Earn,' a new platform enabling institutions to generate yield on stablecoins through direct access to Aave and Morpho-based lending protocols, incorporating institutional-grade approval workflows and policy controls.
