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USDC on ARC is now available on SimpleSwap ⚡️

ARC is Circle's own Layer-1, live on mainnet since September 16. The part that matters: USDC is the native gas token, so network fees are paid in the same dollar you're moving, with a base fee targeting around $0.01.

➡️ Choose your pair and swap

Two-thirds of cryptocurrency thefts have nothing to do with hacking. No exploits, no stolen keys – someone simply convinces you to send the funds yourself.

This is exactly what SimpleSwap Safety Academy is about: twelve attack scenarios, each broken down by how it works and what you need to check before completing a transaction.

Scammers need you to take action, which means they start by sending signals. Urgency. Guaranteed returns. A fee to unlock money that supposedly already belongs to you.

👉 Keep your funds safe and study every scenario to avoid trouble

Visa has built a comprehensive platform for issuing and managing stablecoins. Mastercard paid up to $1.8 billion for BVNK, a stablecoin infrastructure company. Nine European banks have formed a joint venture to issue their own euro-backed stablecoin under MiCA regulations. Even X is reportedly considering stablecoin payouts for content creators.

Our Head of Analytics, Rick Cramer, spoke with Blockchain Reporter about why banks are becoming more compelling players in this space than crypto-native issuers, and why the term "stablecoin" describes price behavior rather than a safety guarantee. He also breaks down the two questions that truly matter before trusting any token with real money.

👉 Full interview here

Celebrating a great milestone: SimpleSwap x Exodus, 1 year of integration! 🤝

Fixed-rate swaps launched inside Exodus a year ago. Since then, five partner-side updates have shipped: automatic refunds on swaps paused for screening, custom fee settings per API key and trading pair, margin control on individual transactions, reverse estimates, and 300+ new assets.

None of these changes required Exodus, or any other partner, to touch a single line of their integration code.

That's the part worth celebrating. Read the full year-one recap

The week, summarized

📊 Weekly Market Highlights – where BTC, ETH, and the broader market stood this week

🎉 5 years of SwapSpace partnership, celebrated with a giveaway

🔓 Crypto Data Leaks: why a stolen address is worth more than it looks

🥪 MEV and Sandwich Attacks: how bots skim on-chain trades

⛏️ The Bitcoin fork that tried to rewrite the rules through nodes instead of miners – mined two blocks, then died

📖 Crypto dictionary: Flippening vs Halvening

Same time next week 👋

Catching up? Here's the week in one thread

🎁 Wrapped up our Crypto Scam Map series with a $300 giveaway – take the quiz, test what you learned

🤝 Five years into our partnership with SwapSpace – Stefan and Vasily talked infrastructure, reliability, and self-custody with U.Today

🔒 What the Coldcard incident actually broke, and what it left standing

📖 Is SimpleSwap legit and safe? The full 2026 review

⚡️ Two new batches of listings dropped – 27 tokenized stocks and 9 fresh alts

Same time next week 👋

Weekly Recap – everything we published this week

🔒 Kicked off our Crypto Scam Map series – 8 posts, one attack pattern each, starting with why the costliest scams never touch the blockchain

🎂 Ethereum turned 11 – we answered the "Bitcoin and stablecoins are enough" argument properly, and why it quietly depends on the thing it's dismissing

🎥 A step-by-step video guide on swapping into $ADI on SimpleSwap

📖 Order Books vs AMMs: two fundamentally different ways a market sets a price

📖 Under the Hood of a Swap: what actually happens between "Send" and "Received"

That's the week. See you in the next one 👋

Fresh listings just landed on SimpleSwap ⚡️

$AAOIB, $AMDB, $ARMB, $AVGOB, $AXTIB, $BABAB, $CBRSB, $COINB, $CRCLB, $CRWVB, $DRAMB, $EWYB, $GLWB, $GOOGLB, $HOODB, $IBMB, $INTCB, $INTWB, and $KORUB (all on BSC) are live for wallet-to-wallet swaps.

➡️ Choose your pair and swap directly from your wallet

New listings on SimpleSwap ⚡️

$NES, $ANSEM, $CASHCAT, $DATA, $SLX, $ARX now supported for wallet-to-wallet swaps.

➡️ Pick an asset and swap in a single step

In crypto, your worst trades usually aren't wrong ideas. They're emotional ones

Two forces run the market's mood, and both are built to make you act against your own plan.

FOMO – fear of missing out. Price runs, everyone's posting gains, and buying feels urgent. It's loudest at the top, right when risk is highest. The feeling that you have to act now is the tell.

FUD – fear, uncertainty, doubt. Bad headlines, red candles, and the urge to dump everything before it "goes to zero." It peaks at the bottom, right when panic is most expensive.

Notice the pattern: both push you to do the wrong thing at the worst time. Buy the top, sell the bottom.

The fix isn't willpower, it's a plan made before the emotion hits. Decide your entries, exits, and position sizes when you're calm, then follow the plan instead of the feed. Urgency is almost always manufactured, and a market that's been around this long will still be there after you've slept on it.

How do you keep emotion out of your decisions? 👇

📲 Tap in. Your keys, your route, your call.

SimpleSwap adds $ADI, providing direct self-custody access to ADI Chain 🤝

The integration adds a self-custodial, wallet-to-wallet swap flow for users moving assets into $ADI – the gas token required for every transaction on ADI Chain – with liquidity aggregated across 20+ CEX and DEX sources handled under the hood.

Users can reach ADI Chain from 2,800+ supported assets without opening an exchange account or parking funds with a custodian just to top up gas, while remaining fully in control of their keys throughout the process.

Built for simpler network access and more efficient liquidity routing.

👉 Read more about the SimpleSwap × ADI integration and how it simplifies onboarding onto ADI Chain

$BTC just cleared the level that's been capping it for weeks 📈

Bitcoin broke through $66,500, its highest since mid-June, after grinding against $65,000 resistance for most of the month. From the early-July low around $58,000, that's a 14% recovery in under three weeks.

Technically this is a clean break rather than another bounce inside the range. The level that rejected every attempt since June is now support, and holding it is what turns this from relief into something more durable.

Where do you see BTC heading from here? 👇

The Fed has entered the blackout period 🤔

The FOMC meets July 28-29, with the rate decision landing Wednesday at 2:00 PM ET. Since July 18, no Fed official speaks publicly until it's over.

So there's no new policy signal this week. Nothing to react to, nothing to reprice.

That matters more than it sounds. Crypto has traded on macro for most of 2026, taking cues from rate expectations rather than anything crypto-native. Strip out the macro input and what's left is flows, positioning, and supply events like this week's unlocks.

The starting point: the Fed held at 3.5-3.75% in June, citing inflation still above target. No dot plot in July either, so the guidance comes down to the statement and the press conference.

Quiet weeks are never calm. They're the ones where positioning builds up before something forces a decision.

What do you expect from the Fed next week? 👇

Crypto scams are not slowing down

Fake support teams, wallet drainers, phishing links, fake giveaways, recovery scams – many people do not lose funds because wallets or blockchains “break”. They lose them when scammers find the weak point in the user journey.

No crypto service can protect users from every scam, SimpleSwap included. But we believe the industry should do more than say “be careful” after the damage is done.

That’s why we’re launching Know the Scam by SimpleSwap – an educational series about common crypto scam patterns, how they work, and what can help users spot them earlier.

We’re starting with The Crypto Scam Map: a breakdown of eight attack patterns behind many reported cases, where they meet the swap journey, and the first check that can break each one.

Prevention is not a single feature. It is a habit built through awareness.

👉 Read the first article and share it with someone who might need it before they learn it the hard way.

$BTC trades around $64,500, up modestly on the week after holding the low $60Ks instead of breaking down again.

Sentiment hasn't caught up: Fear & Greed sits at 34 (Fear), barely moved. $ETH climbed from the $1,780s to ~$1,866, but dominance still ticked up to 58.60% – so this isn't rotation, it's the whole market drifting up together with BTC still in charge.

The catch: ETH sits ~20% below its 200-day EMA at $2,239, so this is a bounce inside a downtrend until proven otherwise.

Key level: does ETH hold above $1,842, or does the bounce fade back into range?

The Fed is in blackout until the July 29 decision, so no macro signal this week. Where do you see the market heading? 📊

L1 vs L2, without the jargon

Think of a Layer 1 as a highway. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana – the base roads every transaction ultimately settles on. Secure and decentralized, but when traffic spikes, everyone competes for the same lanes. That's when fees rise and confirmations slow.

A Layer 2 is an express lane built on top. It bundles transactions, processes them off to the side, then posts the final result back down to the L1. You get the speed and low fees of the side road while still inheriting the base layer's security. Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism work this way for Ethereum.

Why it matters to you: the same swap can cost cents on an L2 and noticeably more on the L1 at a busy moment. Knowing which layer you're on explains a fee difference most people never question.

One catch: moving between an L1 and an L2 means using a bridge, and bridges have been one of crypto's most exploited points. Worth respecting when you cross.

What would you want explained next, simply? 👇

Bitcoin's biggest early exchange was built on a marketplace for Magic: The Gathering cards 🃏

The domain mtgox.com started in 2007 as the "Magic: The Gathering Online eXchange." Three years later it was rewritten into a bitcoin order book, and Mt. Gox opened for trading in July 2010 – sixteen years ago this month.

By 2013 it cleared an estimated 70% of the world's bitcoin volume. Then in February 2014, withdrawals froze and ~850,000 BTC were gone – worth hundreds of millions then, tens of billions today.

That's the day "not your keys, not your coins" stopped being a slogan and became a warning.

But holding your keys only answers who controls your assets while they sit still, not what happens when you move them. Swapping still usually means trusting some venue with your funds mid-trade. That's the gap we've spent eight years building under: wallet-to-wallet swaps, no on-platform balances.

16 years on, the question isn't whether BTC holds its value. It's whether you know who's holding yours while it moves.

"Not your keys, not your coins" gets repeated a lot. Here's what it actually means 🔑

Every wallet answers one question: who holds the private key?

Custodial. A company holds the key for you – most exchange accounts work this way. Easy to start, but your access depends on their permission. If they freeze withdrawals, get hacked, or go under, your coins are caught in it. You can see the balance and still not move it. FTX and Celsius were exactly that.

Non-custodial. You hold the key. No company between you and your funds, no one to freeze or lend them out. The trade: recovery is on you, so lose the seed phrase and there's no support line to call.

So it comes down to what you'd rather own: someone else's promise, or your own responsibility. For anything you actually want to hold, keys you control remove a whole category of risk that has nothing to do with the market.

It's the same principle we build on: swaps on SimpleSwap move wallet-to-wallet, so your keys stay with you start to finish.