Bitchat, the censorship-resistant messaging app linked to Jack Dorsey, drew fresh attention after India’s cybercrime authorities sought to restrict access to its GitHub repositories during a period of student protests and reported connectivity disruptions. The app is built to work without phone numbers, user accounts, central servers, or even internet access in its local mode, using Bluetooth mesh networking and falling back to Nostr relays when connectivity is available. According to Bitcoin Magazine, India’s Indian Cybercrime Coordination Centre issued a notice on July 24, 2026, asking GitHub to restrict access to three Bitchat repositories within three hours. The notice argued that the app’s architecture, which allows communication during internet shutdowns and without centralized logging, could hinder interception and attribution by law enforcement. Jack Dorsey posted the notice on X the same day. The repositories remained accessible in the immediate aftermath, while developers and users shared mirrors, including on Radicle. TechCrunch, citing Sensor Tower data and echoed by multiple outlets, reported that India accounted for about 85% of the app’s global downloads between July 17 and July 23, with more than 91,000 downloads in India over five days and daily active users topping 330,000 at peak. Bitcoin Magazine framed the episode as another real-world test of cypherpunk-style tools during politically tense moments.

A BlockTempo opinion article argues that the crypto market’s most durable narratives are no longer being driven by crypto-native projects, but by traditional financial institutions and regulated market infrastructure. Citing Tiger Research’s month-by-month list of 2025 themes, the piece says only three narratives have kept real momentum into the present: tokenized stocks, stablecoins, and prediction markets. In each case, the article points to established players such as Robinhood, Nasdaq, DTCC, Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Stripe, Kalshi, and ICE. The article links that shift to Washington’s policy turn, including the GENIUS Act’s path for stablecoins and the pending CLARITY Act in the U.S. Senate. It then lays out three additional narratives it expects to gain traction in the second half of 2026: deposit tokens, CBDCs outside the U.S., and competition among cross-border financial alliances led by central banks, banks, and payment groups. Projects mentioned include Agora, Guardian, Acacia, Han River, Pax, CIPS, and mBridge. For Taiwan, the author’s argument is not to compete by launching a Taiwan dollar stablecoin. Instead, the piece says Taiwan’s real strategic leverage lies in semiconductors, AI compute, and a possible compute-pricing and settlement stack built around tokenized GPU-hour capacity and stablecoin-based settlement.

Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings has issued a ¥10 billion blockchain bond that offers investors XRP rewards along with fixed interest. The bond will be issued on BOOSTRY's ibet for Fin platform, bypassing traditional settlement systems.

CJP says it never launched a token, yet an unofficial $CJP is already trading on Pump.fun and has fallen sharply from its peak as the group faces X restrictions and Instagram hack claims.

The Cockroach Janta Party staged a protest at Delhi's Jantar Mantar with hundreds attending and Sonam Wangchuk present. A separate Solana-based $CJP token, with no official link to the movement, has fallen from a $506,000 peak market cap to $29,800.

The CJP meme coin, linked to a satirical Indian political group, briefly reached a $506K market cap. However, it has no confirmed connection to the movement's creator, posing extreme speculative risk.

A new report by RWA.io highlights tokenized deposits as a cornerstone of next-gen digital finance, with global customer deposits reaching $103 trillion. Major banks like J.P. Morgan, Citi, and BNY are pioneering experiments. The future envisions a multi-layered ecosystem combining tokenized deposits, stablecoins, and CBDCs.

RWA.io report, backed by 15 top financial institutions, highlights tokenized deposits as a key pillar of next-gen digital finance. With $103 trillion in global deposits, banks like JPMorgan, BNY, Citi are already experimenting.