"Bitcoin is now an institutional-grade asset. It's integrated into portfolios, but has only reached a tiny, tiny fraction of portfolios."
Hear @alextapscott discuss why institutional adoption of Bitcoin is still in its early stages on Double Down with @Tristan0x15 and @Cryptocito.
LitTown is officially live on the @LitecoinVM
We’re proud to announce that LitTown has officially joined the LitVM ecosystem
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Babylon and 84 Labs @BWPM_official are partnering to bring native Bitcoin collateral to Korea.
Powered by Trustless Bitcoin Vaults, 84 Labs plans to enable native BTC collateral on @aave v4. @Upbit's Giwa deployment is also planned upon launch.
Up to 1,000 BTC has been referenced as an indicative figure for strategies that may integrate with TBV at the end of 2026, subject to further agreement.
BitMine and Strategy have all the chances to create the largest market crash in the history of crypto
Fingers crossed that it won’t happen, but if it did, what’s your strategy for BTC crash to 10-20k$?
LitVM's LiteForge testnet is live 🔥
For the first time, the Litecoin ecosystem has access to smart contracts, DeFi, and Web3 applications — running on LitVM, powered by zkLTC.
The next chapter of Litecoin starts now.
🌐 Explore: testnet.litvm.com
Native Bitcoin-backed borrowing is coming soon to one of the leading institutional MPC wallet platforms.
Babylon and @utila_io are partnering to bring native Bitcoin-backed borrowing with @aave v4 to Utila's institutional Bitcoin holders.
Utila is trusted by more than 300 institutions, including exchanges, custodians, hedge funds and banks. Its customers can borrow against native Bitcoin without wrapping, bridging or giving up custody.
More details on the partnership will be shared in the coming months.
Shipping season never ends 🥷
1⃣ Native privacy for all assets is now live on Starknet
- STRK20s is fully live on Mainnet, a privacy pool integrated at the protocol level, finally bringing practical privacy onchain: the lowest privacy fee on the market, fast UX, one-click at the wallet level, deep DeFi integrations, and the same liquidity as public markets, for all ERC-20s
- As of today, you can shield, unshield, and access private swaps directly from Ready and Xverse wallets.
- The ecosystem is already leveraging it: private USDC flows highlighted by Circle, 2 PoCs built by StarkWare (private Payroll and private KYC), and Zylith, a new call auction dark pool built on top of STRK20s.
- For builders: the privacy SDK will be open-sourced very soon, and the Starknet Foundation launched Proof, an 8-week incubator for high-potential privacy teams. Applications close 10 July, so be quick.
2⃣ Starknet is becoming a real bet on post-quantum security
StarkWare published a roadmap to make Starknet an end-to-end post-quantum-secure chain well before the Q-Day deadline:
- Phase 0 (the foundation): STARK proofs already post-quantum secure, S2morrow's post-quantum wallet PoC already running on Mainnet, and Native Account Abstraction making wallet migration smooth for everyone.
- Phase 1 (in progress): make new activity post-quantum secure by default. Work started, ~2 months to completion.
- Phase 2 (next): give existing contracts a path to post-quantum durability, without breaking interfaces or forcing painful migrations. 1-2 months after phase 1.
- Phase 3 (depending on Ethereum): the two remaining inherited surfaces, bridge messaging and blob data availability through KZG commitments, will be resolved as soon as Ethereum migrates its own stack.
3⃣ Better performance, more post-quantum security
Starknet v0.14.3 goes live on Mainnet Monday, 6 July, bringing:
- Keccak support for client-side proving, enabling virtual private txs signed with EVM signatures
- A quantum-resistant SNOS hash, with Blake replacing Pedersen
- Block times down from 2 to 1.5 seconds
- A dynamic L2 gas base fee for more adaptive pricing during congestion
Note: an 8-minute downtime at 8:10am UTC on Monday, and some breaking changes for builders, read the pre-release notes!
4⃣ The ecosystem keeps shipping
- STRK is now listed on Robinhood
- Extended launched its spot market offering, starting with BTC, ETH, and USDT, with spot and perpetuals sharing a single margin account. We also know the next 6 months' focus: decentralization, ecosystem expansion, the transition to a community-owned protocol, and a massive partnership to be announced (eToro announced yesterday).
- Xverse now supports Ledger on Mobile, any user can now use the leading hardware wallet on Xverse mobile to access Starknet.
- Medieval Tech became the first Starknet project accepted into the NVIDIA Inception program, with Octopi, a real-time spatial intelligence platform built in parallel of the AMMA prediction market.
- Troves released a WBTC boosted vault: a one-click advanced DeFi strategy yielding ~7%
- Vesu launched Explore: track positions, inspect pools, and monitor liquidations in one place.
- 5 new projects launched on Mainnet this month: ArcX (Pendle-like mechanism on top of Extended) - Starkscan (explorer combining an explorer, an API surface, and an agent workflow layer) - Deadeye (Distribution Markets) - Gaffer (fantasy soccer game) - DeFa (RWA project)
5⃣ The numbers keep improving
- Starknet crossed 300M transactions processed on Mainnet
- STRK staking reached 1.4B STRK, ~22% of the circulating supply.
- Starknet is still the #1 L2 by developer activity across the Ethereum ecosystem.
- In only a few days: ArcX hit $400,000 TVL on top of Extended, Hyper xSTRK by Troves filled all its tiers, and the privacy pool reached 5k txs and 100 new users per day, with $500 in daily revenue, during the Shield rush campaign.
Can’t stop, won’t stop.