Onchain Lens has flagged a Bitcoin transfer involving Morgan Stanley Bitcoin Trust ETF, according to a newsflash published by ChainCatcher. The monitored transaction showed the fund withdrawing 106.04 BTC from Coinbase Prime. The report valued the transferred holdings at about $7.01 million at the time of the update. The brief did not provide more transaction details beyond the amount, estimated value, and the platform involved. The move centers on a single on-chain withdrawal record tied to an institutional Bitcoin product and Coinbase Prime.

OpenAI said on July 21 that it has appointed two chief executives from publicly listed financial companies as independent directors on both its foundation and corporate boards: David Velez, founder and CEO of Brazilian digital bank Nubank, and Robin Vince, CEO of Bank of New York Mellon (BNY). With the two appointments, OpenAI’s board will expand from eight members to 10. The company also outlined the backgrounds of the new directors. Velez founded Nubank in 2013 and previously worked on Latin America investments at Sequoia Capital, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley. Vince spent 26 years at Goldman Sachs, where he served as chief risk officer and chief operating officer. OpenAI said it remains controlled by a nonprofit foundation that oversees a public-benefit company allowed to pursue profit. Most directors sit on both the foundation and company boards, while Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman is the only internal director.

Crypto lobbying group TDC has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Illinois’ Digital Asset Tax Act from taking effect, according to ChainCatcher. Based on the information provided, the tax would apply to any company that is headquartered in Illinois, or operates in the state and offers digital asset services there. No additional details on the filing, court venue, or timeline were disclosed in the source material.

ENS DAO has approved the creation of an eight-member security council with a two-year term, adding a new safeguard to the protocol’s governance process. The council will operate under a 5-of-8 multisig structure and can cancel malicious transactions during the two-day timelock period after a governance proposal passes. According to the update, the body holds veto power designed to stop potentially harmful transactions before they affect the protocol. The move is described as an important upgrade to ENS governance security, with the multisig and timelock setup intended to strengthen protection around proposal execution.

Solana posted $5.77 billion in tokenized asset trading volume in the second quarter, up 114% from the previous quarter and marking its sixth straight quarterly record, according to Odaily. Tokenized stock trading made up the bulk of that activity, reaching $4.8 billion, compared with $1.1 billion in the first quarter, or about four times higher. Solana Foundation said the network accounted for roughly 97% of spot tokenized stock trading volume and has held the top position in that segment for 54 consecutive weeks. In the final week of the second quarter, weekly tokenized asset volume on Solana climbed to $1.42 billion, setting a new all-time high on a weekly basis. The number of RWA holding addresses on the network also rose above 300,000 earlier this year, adding to the growth signals around tokenized assets on Solana.

Market data cited by Techub showed gold moving above $4,050 per ounce during the session, with the daily gain at 0.93%. New York gold futures also extended their intraday advance to 0.93%, last quoted at $4,053.40 per ounce. The update was published as a short market snapshot and focused on the latest quoted prices and percentage move. No additional drivers or broader market context were provided in the source item.

Bitcoin Magazine published an opinion article arguing that the fight around BIP-110 rests on a flawed view of what a Bitcoin full node is and what it can actually do. The proposal, formally titled “Reduced Data Temporary Softfork,” seeks to restrict the kinds and amount of arbitrary data that can be inserted into consensus-valid Bitcoin transactions by narrowing scripting functionality. According to the piece, the effort is being led by the pseudonymous developer Dathon Ohm and has drawn support from the Knots community, while facing opposition or indifference from much of the senior Bitcoin developer base. The article says BIP-110 is approaching a mandatory signaling period in the coming weeks, creating the possibility of a split from the main consensus rules implemented in Bitcoin Core. Still, miner support remains minimal. At the time of writing, the piece says signaling stood at less than 1% of blocks in the current difficulty adjustment period. The author contends that full nodes help users verify supply, transaction history, privacy, and network sync, but do not by themselves confer the power to rewrite Bitcoin’s consensus rules. Drawing on earlier conflicts such as the 2017 Bitcoin Cash fork and the User Activated Soft Fork, the article argues that nodes matter only when they carry economic weight and have backing from developers, investors, miners, and major economic actors. It concludes that BIP-110 has not secured that broader coalition and is therefore unlikely to succeed.

Jack Dorsey has introduced Buzz, a new open-source group chat platform built for teams of humans and AI agents, as Block moves deeper into open and decentralized software tools. Announced Tuesday on X, Buzz is described as model-agnostic, decentralized, self-sovereign, and open source, with a design meant to reduce reliance on products such as Slack. According to Block, the app is built on the decentralized social networking protocol Nostr and combines chat, planning, project management, coding, and pull request workflows inside a shared workspace. Bradley Axen, Block’s head of AI capabilities, said companies will need places where humans and agents can work together, and argued that those environments should be open rather than proprietary. The launch also fits Dorsey’s longer push toward decentralized systems centered on Bitcoin. Since leaving Twitter in 2021, he has focused on payments and Bitcoin adoption through Block’s businesses, including Cash App and Square, while also backing Bitcoin mining hardware.