Uniswap captures $12.8B on Robinhood Chain in one month via v4 launches
Uniswap's new hooks and launch tab drive adoption of a prediction market chain, demonstrating how modular Ethereum infrastructure captures cross-chain demand.
The Ether: Friday, July 31, 2026
Blocks: 25,649,111 - 25,656,291
Slots: 14,885,999 - 14,893,198
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The day in review
The day in review
Protocol
A quiet day here.
Apps
- Uniswap v4's hooks and launch tools drove $12.8B in volume on Robinhood Chain within a month, showing how modular infrastructure captures cross-chain demand.
World
- Circle secured New York trust chartering for USDC, adding state-level regulation atop its federal approval and formalizing institutional stablecoin oversight.
Circle secures NYDFS trust charter for USDC oversight
Circle obtained state-level trust chartering from New York regulators, layering state supervision onto its federal OCC approval and formalizing institutional stablecoin backing.
More: CoinDesk
Also in the news this day
Stories that gathered new coverage this day but broke earlier, so they live on their own day's page.
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- Sky Q2 2026 RWA report published
- Ethereal weekly #32: Glamsterdam testnet targeted for September, Uniswap v4 launches
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- Risk Month in Review: July 2026
- Dispute game settlement asymmetry source and fix details disputed on Optimism
- Post-quantum migration for on-chain identity via anchored key-binding and recomputation
- EIP-8359 Beacon Block Reporting Field drafted