Decrypt - 2026-07-20
9 items collected.
1. Bank of Korea Scales Up CBDC Pilot With Half a Million Users
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/20/2026, 9:12:03 PM
Categories: Business
Phase 1 of Project Hangang opened 81,000 wallets with 42% of them using the CBDC. Phase 2 is bigger, and this time it moves real government money.
2. Russia's First Comprehensive Crypto Law Is Two Votes Away From Passing
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/20/2026, 8:02:33 PM
Categories: Coins
The bill licenses exchanges, caps retail investors at about $3,800 a year, and creates a legal pathway for Russian companies to pay foreign partners in crypto—bypassing Western sanctions.
3. Cardano Triggers Hard Fork With First Community-Voted Upgrade
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/20/2026, 6:50:48 PM
Categories: , Coins
For the first time in Cardano's history, no company flipped the switch on a major protocol update.
4. Bitcoin ETFs Are Green Again—Here’s Why Investors Should Zoom Out
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/20/2026, 5:59:51 PM
Categories: , Markets
Two consecutive weeks of inflows ended the worst sustained outflow streak in Bitcoin ETF history. Here's why patience may be required from investors.
5. Tom Lee's Bitmine Taps the Brakes on ETH Buys, Pivots $86M Into Stock Buyback
Author: Decrypt Staff
Published: 7/20/2026, 4:12:36 PM
Categories: , Business
"The reduced pace of buys reflects that Bitmine repurchased 5.5 million common shares," Bitmine Chairman Tom Lee said in a statement.
6. Strategy Pads Cash Reserve By $225M With MSTR Sale, Bitcoin Stash Remains Untouched
Author: Jose Antonio Lanz
Published: 7/20/2026, 3:57:29 PM
Categories: , Business
For the second consecutive week, Saylor's company sold MSTR stock instead of BTC to pad its reserves to $3.2 billion.
7. Allbridge Pauses Cross-Chain Protocol After $1.65M Flash Loan Attack
Author: Decrypt Agent
Published: 7/20/2026, 1:47:06 PM
Categories: , , Coins
An attacker used a flash loan to distort the bridge's Solana stablecoin pools before moving the proceeds to Ethereum, security firms said.
8. Morning Minute: Hyperliquid Opens Prediction Markets to Anyone in HIP-4 Upgrade
Author: Tyler Warner
Published: 7/20/2026, 12:00:02 PM
Categories: , Opinion
Plus, a selloff in Oil has markets looking green into the Monday open. And PUMP is leading all alt movers on the week at a surprising time.
9. Strategy's Michael Saylor Makes 110-Point Case Against Bitcoin's BIP-110
Author: Decrypt Agent
Published: 7/20/2026, 11:12:57 AM
Categories: , Coins
The Strategy chairman argued that the soft fork is a 'bad idea,' warning that it would cause more harm than the problem it aims to solve.