The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has agreed to pay $150,000 to settle a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit tied to records from its Ethereum-related regulatory investigation. In a joint status report filed on July 22, the SEC and plaintiff History Associates Inc. said they had reached a settlement and asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to dismiss the case. Under the agreement, the agency will continue producing the remaining responsive documents and pay a fixed amount to cover the plaintiff’s legal fees. The lawsuit was filed in June 2024 by History Associates on behalf of Coinbase and sought records linked to the SEC’s review of Ethereum, including files related to Zachary Coburn, Enigma MPC, and internal discussions about Ethereum’s shift from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake. The case had already led to the release of thousands of records and brought renewed attention to deleted text messages and wiped mobile data involving former SEC Chair Gary Gensler and other senior officials.

Vitalik Buterin outlined a governance model where personal AI agents vote for users in DAOs, with zk proofs, MPC, and TEEs protecting privacy in group decisions.

Binance Wallet Extension now integrates Uniswap directly, allowing users to swap over 10 million crypto assets across 18 blockchains without leaving the plugin interface. The move complements existing PancakeSwap support, creating a unified DeFi trading desk.

Crypto custody firm Copper is reportedly in early talks about a public listing, with Goldman Sachs, Citi and Deutsche Bank potentially involved. The company says it is not planning an IPO at this time.

Coinbase has laid out a three-part plan to prepare for the risks posed by quantum computing, according to a post by Chief Information Security Officer Jeff Lunglhofer on July 23. The company said it has started building PQ-CoreKMS, a post-quantum version of its in-house key management system CoreKMS, with delivery targeted within one year. The system is designed to combine secure enclaves, secret sharing and threshold cryptography in an automated signing pipeline that can support any post-quantum signature algorithm once blockchains adopt such standards. Coinbase is also inventorying its broader cryptographic infrastructure, ranking systems by criticality, exposure and migration difficulty, while defining quantum-computing milestones that would trigger actual migration. Base is included in that plan and will follow Ethereum layer-1’s post-quantum roadmap while adding measures specific to Base. Separately, Coinbase said it will co-host its first Bitcoin developer workshop with Stanford University in August to discuss migration options, and as a founding member of the Bitcoin Security Alliance, it will donate to a fund supporting quantum-safety work for Bitcoin developers and contribute engineering resources to proposals including BIP-360.

CryptoComLearn explains how MPC wallets divide a private key into shares, produce one on-chain signature, and reduce single-point-of-failure risk compared with single-key and multisig wallets.

Armani Ferrante, CEO of Backpack, says Solana is moving from speculative NFT and gaming hype to serious financial infrastructure, with tokenized assets accelerating onchain and strong institutional interest.

Mixin has launched USDT-margined perpetuals inside its chat-based app, combining up to 200x leverage, private group trading features, copy trading, and a non-custodial wallet structure.