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Netherlands Crypto Asset Trading License (STP)
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The list spans staking infrastructure, a token wrapping contract, five exchange wallets, two layer two ( L2) bridges, and one address unlabeled on Etherscan but identified through Arkham Intelligence. Together, they show where concentrated $ETH sits across the network, and why two of the top spots are not “holders” in the traditional sense. Beacon Contract Tops the List, But It Is Not a Whale As of this weekend, the Ethereum Beacon Deposit Contract holds 88,289,814 $ETH, equal to 73.16% of the top 12 wallets combined. The contract does not belong to a person, fund, or company. Every validator staking $ETH to secure the network through proof-of-stake (PoS) sends funds through this single address, which functions as protocol-level escrow rather than discretionary holdings. Curiously, the Beacon Deposit Contract also holds $109,690 worth of the ERC-20 token PIKA, after 7.112 trillion of the coins found their way into the address. It also holds roughly $8,500 worth of USDT for reasons that remain unclear, alongside dozens of largely meaningless ERC-20 tokens. The Wrapped Ether contract ranks second with 2,443,063 $ETH, or 2.02% of the total. It works the same way. $ETH gets locked as collateral so it can circulate as an ERC-20 token called WETH across decentralized

A day after taking over Coinbase‘s trading products and the Base App, its new lead didn’t reach for talking points. Instead, Cobie delivered a blunt internal diagnosis that most exchange executives avoid in public. Coinbase, he said, has been distant from crypto-native users for a long time. The assessment came in response to a question about how the Base App could attract onchain users after trust in the ecosystem was damaged, according to the original report from WuBlockchain. Cobie stressed he is not responsible for the Base network itself, only the app and trading products. But the distinction hardly matters to users who experience Coinbase and Base as one surface. The admission lands when the exchange is fighting a multi-front battle over regulation, market structure, and now internal credibility. A flurry of last-minute bank lobbying against a landmark crypto bill in the Senate only adds to the sense that centralized platforms can no longer coast on brand alone. The trust deficit hits both Coinbase and Base Cobie didn‘t sugarcoat the damage. He said both Coinbase and Base have severely eroded user trust through a series of avoidable mistakes, including what he described as “today’s incident.” The nature of that incident wasnt spelled out
The $XRP community is counting down to a major fix upgrade with 11 days left for mainnet activation. The FixCleanup3_2_0 amendment entered a 2-week activation period this week, achieving majority with 85.71% consensus and 30 “yes” votes. This FixCleanup3_2_0 amendment is a set of fixes for Single Asset Vaults, the Lending Protocol, the permissioned DEX, Multi-Purpose Tokens, and permissioned domains. The upgrade adds precision and rounding fixes for Single Asset Vaults and the Lending Protocol. It also fixes the ValidPermissionedDEX invariant firing on a valid offer deletion. The upgrade also validates non-canonical Multi-Purpose Token amounts and adds a zero DomainID check for permissioned domains. In addition, it adds an invariant AccountRootsDeletedClean, which checks that a deleted account doesnt leave any directly accessible artifacts behind. According to XRPScan data, the fix upgrade is expected to be activated on $XRP Ledger mainnet on July 29, 2026 at 09:57:00 AM UTC, which is about 11 days from now. The FixCleanup3_2_0 amendment was introduced in Version 3.2.0 of xrpld, the reference server implementation of the $XRP Ledger protocol, released in mid-June. $XRP news $XRP Ledger accounts surpassed 8 million in a major milestone this week. The current count is 8,005,586, according to popular $XRP explorer XRPL Services. $XRP momentum is