Sablier Labs, the company behind token-streaming and vesting infrastructure, has halted active product development and moved into maintenance mode through June 2028, according to co-founder and CEO Paul Berg. The company said existing streams, vesting plans, and airdrops will continue to operate because Sablier’s smart contracts are deployed onchain and do not depend on the company remaining in business. Starting July 13, 2026, the official interface stopped accepting new vesting streams and airdrops with end dates beyond June 2028, and it no longer allows open-ended payment streams. Berg linked the decision to a sharp drop in usage and revenue in the first quarter of 2026, even though the company shipped more features than in any prior quarter. He cited delayed token launches as crypto markets weakened and lower barriers for rivals as AI-assisted coding made replication cheaper. Sablier also moved up the license conversion for its main EVM smart contracts, switching immediately from Business Source License 1.1 to GPL on July 13, 2026, instead of waiting until July 1, 2029. The company said more than 345,000 Ethereum addresses have used the protocol across over 837,000 transactions and more than 547,000 vesting plans, airdrop claims, and payment streams on 30-plus EVM chains and Solana.

Uniswap has launched its Continuous Clearing Auctions, or CCA, along with the Uniswap Auctions tool on Robinhood Chain, opening the door for project teams to run fully onchain token sales on the network. The company said the setup is designed to help teams conduct token auctions onchain, discover a credible market price, and bootstrap liquidity on Uniswap v4, the protocol’s newest exchange version. As part of the rollout, auctions on Robinhood Chain will appear directly inside the Uniswap Web App instead of using a separate interface, allowing users to launch, browse, bid, and claim in one place once an auction is configured. In a related blog post, Uniswap said teams can set up and launch auctions directly from the app, with CCA serving as the protocol’s liquidity bootstrapping mechanism. Under that process, price discovery takes place across multiple blocks before tokens are moved into a Uniswap v4 pool. The integration expands the no-code auction product Uniswap introduced last month to Robinhood’s own network, whose mainnet went live in early July and has since recorded rising activity tied to memecoin trading.

Strategy sold $466.7 million in MSTR common stock between July 6 and July 12, 2026, according to a Form 8-K filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on July 13. The company said the sale, executed through its at-the-market equity program, involved about 4.82 million shares and lifted its U.S. dollar reserve to $3 billion, adding roughly $450 million to its cash cushion. The filing also showed that Strategy did not buy any bitcoin during the period, leaving its holdings unchanged at 843,775 BTC. Michael Saylor posted a tracker chart on X showing the company’s bitcoin stack was worth $54 billion as of July 12. The new cash reserve is intended to cover preferred stock dividends and interest payments on Strategy’s debt, not to fund fresh bitcoin purchases. The company said the reserve now covers more than 20 months of those obligations. The week followed an earlier period in which Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million to fund dividend payments, also without adding to its bitcoin position.

Robinhood Chain has opened with several days of founder-led promotion and rising on-chain activity, and some market participants are now describing the network’s early identity as a mix of meme trading and real-world assets, or RWA. The article argues that meme coins may be effective for pulling users in quickly, especially for a chain that has not shown signs of issuing its own token, but that approach is unlikely to sustain an ecosystem over time on its own. The piece points to a burst of meme activity on the chain, growing attention from X-based KOLs, and a notable detail: some of the users entering through these trades are said to be first-time blockchain users coming from Robinhood’s traditional stock-trading base. With 24 million users on hand, that audience is viewed as a major reserve of potential crypto participants. Infrastructure has already benefited. According to the article, Uniswap recorded more than $500 million in 24-hour volume on July 8, topping every chain other than Ethereum mainnet, while new DEXs, token launchpads, prediction markets, and perpetual trading venues have also begun appearing on Robinhood Chain. Still, the core argument is that meme activity can only take a network so far. The real test is whether Robinhood can move retail users from short-term speculative products toward RWA, especially tokenized stocks. That, the article says, is where a durable business model may exist, though questions remain around long-term user demand, whether 24/7 stock trading is truly a retail need, and how access constraints for U.S. users can be resolved.

Prediction market platform Kalshi has officially opened its professional trading terminal, Kalshi Pro, in beta to the public, according to CNBC. The product is aimed at high-frequency and professional users who trade multiple markets at once and participate in real-time event trading. Kalshi Pro includes a live public tape, order book depth views, multi-leg contract analysis and order management tools. It also adds terminal-style charting and position risk management features for perpetual futures. Andy Chang, Kalshi’s head of product, said active traders have started trading prediction markets and perpetual futures in the same way Wall Street traders approach stocks and bonds. He said the goal of Kalshi Pro is to offer an institutional-grade terminal for professional traders.

The UK government is stepping up efforts to move financial market tokenization forward, according to CoinDesk. A total of 54 financial institutions, including BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, HSBC and UBS, have joined a wholesale digital markets working group backed by HM Treasury. The initiative is supported by the City of London Corporation and will spend the next year examining practical tokenization use cases across UK financial markets. Its initial focus will be tokenized repo transactions. Chris Woolard, HM Treasury’s head of wholesale digital markets, said in a report that tokenized financial markets amount to a "network race" and that the UK needs to move as fast as possible or risk missing a role in building global digital financial infrastructure.

Bernstein data shows Robinhood Chain recorded about $3.1 billion in on-chain decentralized exchange volume in the first week after its July 1 launch, placing the network among the top five blockchains globally by DEX trading volume. The data also says the chain drew 65,000 users in its first week, accumulated about $300 million in stablecoins on-chain, and hosted $13 million worth of tokenized stock assets. The figures were cited by Odaily and attributed to a report from The Block.

Tensions between OpenAI and Apple are reportedly worsening, and the dispute could affect both OpenAI’s upcoming hardware launch and its path to the public market. According to The Information, Apple’s lawsuit may cast a shadow over OpenAI’s first hardware product, which could be released as early as February next year. The report said the legal fight may also complicate the company’s IPO plans by adding uncertainty for prospective investors. OpenAI has also reportedly confidentially filed IPO paperwork with regulators, though no listing date has been set.