Strategy selling Bitcoin made headlines. But it wasn't even the biggest seller of 2026.

MARA dumped 15,133 BTC ($1.1B) — 40% of the entire sell-off. Bitdeer, Cango, Riot all followed. The full six-month picture, on one chart.

Strategy just sold Bitcoin for the first time ever. The "never sell" company offloaded 3,588 BTC ($216M) to fund dividends. So we asked: who else quietly sold BTC in 2026?

Turns out — a lot of them. 7 public companies, ~37,700 BTC, ~$2.66B in six months. Here's the full list.

Sony's online banking unit has received conditional approval to establish Connectia Trust, N.A., a U.S. national trust bank that could support the issuance and management of USD-denominated stablecoins.

The New York-based subsidiary will launch with $40M in capital and be fully owned by Sony Bank. However, operations and any stablecoin issuance remain subject to final regulatory approval from the OCC.

The move comes as stablecoin adoption accelerates, with monthly transaction volume reaching a record $1.79T. Sony has previously explored using stablecoins for gaming and anime-related payments, signaling broader Web3 ambitions.

The company joins a growing list of firms, including Circle, Paxos, and Bridge, seeking federal trust bank structures under the evolving U.S. stablecoin regulatory framework.

Swift has launched a blockchain-based shared ledger for a tokenized deposit pilot involving 17 banks across six continents, marking its first live use case for the technology.

The pilot includes major institutions such as Citi, HSBC, UBS, BNP Paribas, Standard Chartered, Wells Fargo, BNY, DBS, and MUFG Bank. Swift says the ledger will let banks transfer tokenized deposits around the clock, including overnight and on weekends, while final settlement still happens through existing systems.

The move adds to Swift’s growing push into tokenized finance and follows earlier work with Chainlink and UBS on tokenized fund workflows.

Gauntlet has closed a $125M Series C led by SBI Holdings as it pushes deeper into onchain finance and institutional infrastructure.

The company says the new capital will help expand its platform, grow the global team, and broaden stablecoin coverage beyond USD and EUR to include MXN, JPY, and more. Gauntlet currently curates more than $1.5B in supplied assets across its vaults and works with over 150 fintechs and institutions.

SBI said the investment aligns with its long-term strategy to bridge traditional finance with digital assets, including plans for a yen-denominated stablecoin in 2026.

Aave Labs is introducing Stable Vaults, a new all-in-one infrastructure layer for embedding fixed-rate stablecoin yield into consumer products.

The system is already powering the Aave mobile savings app and is now open for any business to build on. Stable Vaults aim to solve one of DeFi’s biggest challenges: turning volatile onchain lending rates into a predictable rate users can actually rely on.

With Stable Vaults, companies can integrate Aave-powered yield, or any ERC-4626 vault strategy, without building yield infrastructure from scratch. The operator decides which stablecoins to support, which strategies to use, and what fixed rate to offer.

Stable Vaults enable businesses to easily offer fixed-rate stablecoin yield across use cases ranging from neobanks and payment platforms to exchanges and fintechs.

The production-ready infrastructure is already deployed in the Aave App and supports secure cross-chain functionality via Chainlink Price Feeds and CCIP.

🔎 Recent Updates & Developments

– Robinhood launched its Layer 2 on Arbitrum

– Kraken is pursuing a European banking license

– Coinbase obtained a U.K. MiFID license

– GRVT set July 21 for its token launch

– BNB Chain unveiled an AI-focused Layer 1

– Ethereum scheduled Glamsterdam with up to 78% lower fees

– Tether is bringing native USDT back to Bitcoin via RGB99

The EU's crypto rulebook fully kicked in on July 1. One week later, the regulated market has a clear #1: Kraken.

$416M in spot liquidity — nearly half of all MiCA-regulated liquidity, and 2.4x its closest rival. Kraken alone runs deeper than Coinbase and Crypto com combined.

The exchanges that went all-in on EU compliance early now own the market. In regulated Europe, being big globally means nothing. Being licensed and liquid means everything.

Zapper, one of DeFi's earliest portfolio dashboards, will wind down on August 3, 2026 — closing its website, mobile apps and API. CEO Seb Audet said the team weighed its options and chose an orderly shutdown.

At its peak Zapper served ~2 million monthly users and processed over $13 billion in transactions, after raising roughly $16.5M from Framework Ventures, Sound Ventures and others since 2019.

Audet admitted the goal of making DeFi truly accessible fell short, but said Zapper still helped make the onchain economy far easier to navigate for a great many people.

World.xyz, a decentralized prediction market that debuted on Solana barely a week ago, is migrating to Robinhood Chain — the new Layer 2 that Robinhood only launched on July 1.

The team called it a “tactful pivot” made after 24 hours of deliberation, thanking the Solana foundation and community on its way out. Solana diehards weren't impressed — Raydium mocked the exit, and Phantom simply replied: “i still like solana.”