WEEKLY BRIEF Jul 5–Jul 12, 2026

Headlines
• Summer Finance exploited for $6M Ethereum
• Donald Trump suggests Bitcoin could be included in future US accounts
• BONK DAO drained of $20M in governance attack
• Tether executive Richard Heathcote to sell stake; PJT Partners advising
• Coinbase Markets launches pre-IPO perpetual contracts for OpenAI and Anthropic
• BNB Chain building new L1 aiming for 100k TPS and sub-50ms transactions
• VC firm Paradigm raises $1.2 billion for AI-focused crypto bets
• Arbitrum to direct 10% of Robinhood chain fees to ecosystem and 8% to DAO
• Dinari and tZero build infrastructure for tokenized US equities
• JPMorgan identifies lack of public chain adoption as the main risk to Bitcoin

Weekly ETF Flows
• BTC: +$197.4M net inflows
• ETH: +$84.3M net inflows
• SOL: +$2.1M net inflows
• HYP: +$10.3M net inflows

Exchange Listings
• Binance: $SKHY (futures)
• Bybit: $GROVE (spot)
• Coinbase: $GROVE (spot), $GRVT (roadmap)
• Upbit: $OPG (KRW)
• Bithumb: $ICNT (spot)
• Robinhood: $SENT (spot)

Regulatory
• Hyperliquid Policy Centre responds to CFTC, requesting recognition of onchain protocol autonomy

Market Flows
• Strategy BTC holdings decreased by 3,588 BTC (~$225.6M) over the past week