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Here’s a quick recap of the crypto landscape for Wednesday (July 29) as of 10:00 a.m. UTC.
Bitcoin price update
Bitcoin (BTC) was priced at US$64,650.02, up by 1.6 percent over the past 24 hours.
Bitcoin price chart
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Bitcoin price performance, July 29, 2026.
Ether and altcoin price update
- Ether (ETH) was priced at US$1,9420.73, trading 1.8 percent higher over the last 24 hours.
- XRP (XRP) was priced at US$1.09, trading 3 percent higher over the past 24 hours.
- Solana (SOL) was trading at US$74.08, trading 1 percent higher over the past 24 hours.
Today’s crypto news to know
Morgan Stanley launches Ethereum, Solana staking ETPs
Morgan Stanley Investment Management expanded its digital asset offerings by launching Ethereum and Solana exchange-traded products (ETPs).
The Morgan Stanley Ethereum Trust and Morgan Stanley Solana Trust now trade on NYSE Arca with a 0.14 percent expense ratio. Both funds track asset prices, stake a portion of their holdings, and distribute the resulting rewards directly to investors.
“Since introducing our first ETFs in 2023, we’ve built a diversified suite of ETFs and ETPs that now exceed US$14 billion in assets under management,” Ally Wallace, Global Head of ETFs for Morgan Stanley Investment Management, said in the announcement. “The addition of MSSE and MSOL reflects the natural evolution of our product suite, which seeks to provide simplified access to digital assets through the ETP wrapper.”
This dual launch follows the April introduction of the firm’s spot Bitcoin Trust, which accumulated over US$381 million in assets by mid-July. Morgan Stanley now manages over US$14 billion across 22 products in its broader ETF and ETP suite.
The firm also introduced spot crypto trading for eligible E*TRADE clients through a partnership with Zero Hash.
Michael Saylor rejects Bitcoin protocol changes
Strategy founder Michael Saylor warned Bitcoin developers against altering the protocol’s core consensus rules.
“Bitcoin has won. Now it must survive victory. Its gravest threat is not an enemy at the gates, but corruption from within: factions that invent pretexts, rewrite the rules, and seize economic rights until freedom becomes permission and law becomes loot,” Saylor posted on X.
Saylor criticized proposals like BIP-110, covenant mechanisms, and larger block sizes for risking network stability and transaction censorship. He defined the consensus rules as Bitcoin’s constitution and urged developers to build complex features on voluntary higher layers.
Meanwhile, Strategy expanded its cash reserves by US$525 million to reach US$3.75 billion as of July 26. The company generated US$544.5 million in net proceeds through a Class A common stock sale during the week of July 20.
Strategy also spent US$25 million to repurchase shares of its Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Stretch Preferred Stock. The increased dollar reserves provide approximately 2.1 years of dividend and interest coverage while the firm maintains its 843,775 BTC stash.
Report: crypto exploits hit record count in H1 2026, total losses top US$1 Billion
Blockchain security firm Blockaid reported that crypto projects lost over US$1 billion to hacks during the first half of 2026.
The firm verified more individual exploit incidents in the first six months of 2026 than in all of 2025 combined. North Korea-linked hackers stole nearly US$600 million of the total, leading attacks through social engineering schemes against multisig signers. DPRK-linked actors carried out both the US$285 million Drift exploit and the US$292 million KelpDAO exploit.
Ethereum projects suffered the highest losses at US$332 million due to protocol code vulnerabilities, while Solana projects lost US$326 million through signer infrastructure attacks.
Alternative security reports from Immunefi and Quill Audits placed total H1 losses slightly lower at US$972 million and $935.3 million, respectively. Blockaid projected a rise in artificial intelligence-related exploits for the second half of the year following the US$216,000 exploit of Bankr.
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Securities Disclosure: I, Meagen Seatter, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
Securities Disclosure: I, Giann Liguid, hold no direct investment interest in any company mentioned in this article.
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