Well, look at you, surviving another week in crypto. That’s already a win. Summer’s melting your focus, and your brain is doing whatever it wants. So let’s feed it, here’s your Friday dopamine hit with the best news you didn’t know you needed.
Top Gainers and Losers
Top Gainers of the Week
- Story Protocol (IP) led the charge with a +15.16% gain, climbing to $5.94.
- Conflux (CFX) followed closely with a +14.39% boost to $0.2118. The China-based Layer-1 is back on traders' radars.
- XDC Network (XDC) posted a solid +11.56% increase, reaching $0.09762 — slow and steady for the enterprise segment.
Top Losers of the Week
- Fartcoin (FARTCOIN) took the biggest hit, down -27.23% to $0.9913.
- Bonk (BONK), Solana’s favorite meme dog, dropped -23.32% to $0.00002639.
- Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) sank -20.49% to $1.22, proving once again that not all metaverse plays are vulnerable.
Meme of the Week
Bitcoin Finally Learns New Applications
So, Bitcoin, the digital gold everyone now knows about. But let’s be real, for years, BTC’s been a bit… boring. That’s changing.
Tap Protocol, an Ordinals-based solution, introduced smart contracts on the base layer with no bridges, no wrapping, and no trusting random protocols. It’s Bitcoin’s way to DeFi.
Now, you can stake, swap, and trade without leaving the comfort of Bitcoin’s native security. Tap doesn’t ask Bitcoin to change its code or miners to jump through flaming hoops. It just slides right in with miner incentives and cross-chain liquidity support.
The benefit of this is that Bitcoin miners now have additional income. NAT tokens, handed out based on hash power.
If you’re wondering if people are actually using this thing, there’s already a decentralized exchange (DEX) called Hypermall running on Trac Network (built with Tap tools), where you can trade Tap-based BTC assets with near-instant finality.
Microsoft’s Copilot Wants to Read Your Tabs and Judge You
Over in AI-land, Microsoft dropped Copilot Mode for Edge. The browser with an overachieving brain wants to summarize your videos, analyze your charts, read all 34 tabs you forgot to close, and stop you from doomscrolling.
You open Edge, and instead of the usual blank tab, you get a screen where you can either type a URL or just talk to Copilot.
It uses OpenAI tech, so it’s basically ChatGPT wearing a Microsoft name tag.
What are the new features?
- It can analyze visuals on the fly (like TradingView charts), so you don’t have to copy-paste screenshots into Discord, asking “bullish or bearish?”
- It gives you video summaries, but don’t get too excited. It just reads the captions.
- It curates news if you ask very nicely. Vague prompts will send you to 2021.
- It understands multiple tabs at once, so finally, someone knows what all those open pages are for.
Is it perfect? Nah. Is it better than the last version? Definitely. Copilot won’t pay your taxes or ghostwrite your break-up texts. But for a free AI browser that actually helps, it’s a solid start.
Traditional Stocks Are Going Full DeFi Tokenized, Thanks to eToro
Meanwhile, eToro is launching tokenized versions of the top 100 US stocks and ETFs as ERC-20 tokens. You’ll be able to trade Apple, Tesla, and your favorite stocks 24/5 like on Uniswap.
Additionally, these tokens will be portable. Buy them on eToro, move to your own wallet, use them in DeFi protocols, stake, lend, or flex them on-chain. And then, if you’re feeling traditional, roll them back into eToro.
CEO and co-founder of eToro, Yoni Assia, said:
“Our mission has always been to open the global markets. Extended hours trading was the first step, 24/5 takes it a step further, however tokenization brings 24/7 accessibility. Tokenization removes boundaries, providing transparency and control. It has the potential to democratize finance, making assets more accessible to more people.”
Some context: tokenized stocks currently only represent about $418 million in value. The broader RWA market is $21.3 billion at the time of writing. So yeah, the safety margin is huge.
But eToro isn’t alone in this. In June, Robinhood launched a new L2 built on Arbitrum for tokenized stocks (only for Europeans). Then Backed Finance started listing tokenized Netflix, Meta, Tesla, and even Coinbase across Kraken, Solana DeFi, and ByBit.
Hong Kong Stocks Are Now Blockchain-Savvy
Pyth Network started publishing live, on-chain prices for 85 of Hong Kong’s biggest stocks. They’re doing it across 100+ blockchains with updates every 400 milliseconds.
That includes companies across banking, insurance, energy, and Big Tech from the Mainland. Altogether, it’s over $3.7 trillion in market cap now pumped into DeFi.
Why is this a big deal? Before, most of this data was stuck behind outdated platforms like Yahoo! Finance or locked behind license fees that only hedge funds could stomach. Now it’s freely available to fintech apps, traders, and average DeFi users.
Pyth already has 1,700 price feeds live, covering everything from US equities and commodities to crypto, available across nearly all major EVM chains — Ethereum, BNB, Avalanche, and others.
Also speaking of real-world assets going digital, Centrifuge partnered with S&P Dow Jones this month to put the S&P 500 Index on-chain for the first time. Now you can build fully smart contract-powered index funds that use official S&P data legally, transparently, with no TradFi control.
To sum up the above, just another week in crypto where the market moves enough to make you wonder if you should actually be paying attention. Catch you next week.
Gunel Ismayilova
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