Shares of Circle (CRCL), a leading crypto-concept stock in U.S. equities, slumped 17.55% on Tuesday to $62.63, nearing all-time lows. Two negative catalysts emerged simultaneously: the new stablecoin project Open Standard announced support from over 140 companies, including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Coinbase, Google, and BNY Mellon, with its Open USD stablecoin slated for a 2026 multi-chain launch on Base, Solana, Stellar, Polygon, and Ripple; and the Russell Indexes removed CRCL from its Russell 1000 Growth and other growth indices after the June 26 close, triggering forced selling by passive funds tracking these benchmarks. The dual blows have intensified market concerns over Circle's competitive positioning and index-driven outflows.

A newly created wallet purchased 9,876.38 ETH ($15.4M) at an average price of $1,559.82 and immediately staked all as wstETH, signaling strong bullish sentiment from a whale.

Phantom announced that Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia, and Aris Samad, the three co-founders of Ventuals, have joined the company. Ventuals built one of the most sophisticated perpetual futures products on Hyperliquid, achieving over $1 billion in annualized trading volume. Their backgrounds include Airbnb, Brex, and Paradigm. This move accelerates Phantom's push into perpetual futures and its vision of connecting the world to open markets.

Phantom wallet announced that Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia, and Aris Samad — the core team behind Ventuals, a sophisticated perpetuals product on Hyperliquid with over $1B in annualized trading volume — have joined the company. Their backgrounds include Airbnb, Brex, and Paradigm. As the largest distribution partner in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, Phantom aims to deepen its perpetuals capabilities and redefine what a wallet can offer in open markets.

The mysterious teaser project 'World' has been disclosed by Phantom as a non-custodial prediction market protocol on Solana, offering order routing and oracle settlement support. No team, token, funding, or full product details have been released. The industry is watching its potential market impact.

A report by crypto research firm Decentralised.co (DCo) indicates that the core driving force of Web3 is moving from asset speculation to practical applications centered on stablecoins and asset tokenization. Last year, global on-chain stablecoin transaction volume reached $33 trillion, with particularly strong demand for digital dollars in emerging markets like Latin America. Improved infrastructure has lowered the barrier for building on-chain neobanks, while Kraken and other major players are actively integrating tokenized assets to enable global trading of traditional financial instruments such as U.S. stocks. Meanwhile, the growing share of AI agents in network traffic is positioning stablecoins as the underlying payment network for instant settlement, creating new demand for agent-specific payment and risk assessment services.

Phantom wallet has hired three core members of the Ventuals team—Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia, and Aris Samad—to its trading and data division. Ventuals was a Hyperliquid-based decentralized perpetual contract platform that processed over $650 million in volume before shutting down in mid-June. Phantom's CEO Brandon Millman stated that the move aims to speed up product expansion in native derivatives trading and infrastructure, leveraging the team's deep experience in open markets. Phantom has become Hyperliquid's largest distribution partner over the past year.

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