Vitalik Buterin has unveiled Lean Ethereum, a three to four year plan to rebuild Ethereum's consensus, cryptography and execution layers around quantum resistance, built-in privacy and steady scaling. Ethereum Foundation researcher Dankrad Feist and StarkWare's Eli Ben-Sasson both praised the vision but said the timeline is too slow.

BonkDAO says an attacker used a malicious governance proposal to drain an estimated $20 million worth of BONK from its treasury, and the DAO has already traced the exchange wallets used to buy voting power ahead of the vote.

Ripple picked up full MiCA authorization from Luxembourg's CSSF, becoming one of roughly 210 crypto firms cleared to operate across the EU's 30-country market after the bloc's licensing deadline shut out more than 1,200 competitors. The license, paired with its existing EU electronic money institution status, gives Ripple a single integration point for crypto and stablecoin payments across Europe.

Strategy sold 3,588 Bitcoin for $216 million between June 29 and July 5, its largest disposal ever, to fund dividends on preferred shares carrying obligations Grayscale estimates at $1.5 billion a year. Michael Saylor's public comments on AI and quantum computing remain measured, but the forced selling exposes a gap between the never-sell pitch and the cash needs of the capital structure built around it.