Awesome Crypto Digest: July, Week 4

Made by: ddadybayo — research & strategy of @unstoppablebyhs & @officer_cia

🔒 Protocols Are Fragile. Power Is Persistent.

Here’s what the week revealed:

💣 Existential threat to Satoshi’s coins
A proposal to freeze quantum-vulnerable UTXOs — yes, including Satoshi’s — has hit GitHub. → [jlopp/bip-post-quantum-migration]

Crypto Crime: Mid-Year Stats Drop

→ [Blockscope Report]
→ [Elliptic Report]
→ [QuillAudits Report]

Code & CI/CD are still broken
Wiz: Secrets leaked, access controls weak, devops infra riddled with holes.
→ [State of Code Security 2025]

Agent goes rogue
Ex-National Crime Agency officer jailed for stealing $5.9M in BTC from Silk Road 2.0.
Déjà vu of corrupt feds from the original SR.
→ [Read on The Block]

How flagged funds get unfrozen
Nefture exposes how launderers bypass CEX freezes.
→ [Blog post]

🕳 Another dark market exit scam?
Abacus vanishes with user funds. History repeats.
→ [CyberSecurityNews]

🧠 GENIUS Act passes
Legal shift incoming. Who wins, who bleeds?
→ [Unchained]

📤 $520K lost via 1inch Router
Carnontec uncovers silent exploit draining mis-sent tokens.
→ [Carnontec Blog]

🌀 The Reentrancy Riddle
The bug that broke Ethereum, dissected in full.
→ [0x00auditor write-up]

Infra Moves

🎭 Evasion Tactics

🧪 Halmos v0.3.0
New fuzzing tools for smart contract invariants & more.
→ [a16z Release Note]

🏛 Aave x Kraken: White-label DeFi
Aave DAO votes to allow Kraken-backed Ink Foundation to fork the protocol.
→ [The Block]

🚀 Kaito Launchpad Incoming
Web3-native fundraising kicks off this week.
→ [The Block]

MyDoge eyes ZK upgrade
Proposal drops in Dogecoin’s GitHub.
→ [Proposal]

FBI drops Kraken probe
Devices returned. Case closed.
→ [Jespow tweet]

Hayes goes full bull
BTC to $250K. ETH to $10K.
“Maelstrom is doing all things degen powered by ERC-20 shitcoins.”
→ [CryptoHayes blog]

Bitcoin is the New Strategic Reserve. From quiet French telcos to Trump’s executive orders — everyone’s stacking. In just one month, top public entities added over 56,000 BTC to their treasuries — that’s >$6.8B worth of conviction.

Biggest Accumulators:

1️⃣ Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company
+30,021 BTC — 🧨 largest single buy this cycle
An unknown U.S. firm goes full Bitcoin Standard. No hedge, no diversifiers. Just conviction.

2️⃣ Donald J. Trump (Strategic Reserve)
+18,430 BTC
Backed by Trump’s March 2025 executive order: a U.S. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve funded by seized assets. Bitcoin enters geopolitical territory.

3️⃣ Strategy aka MicroStrategy
+6,220 BTC this month → 607,770 BTC total
Now holds 2.89% of all BTC in existence. Just 22,000 BTC away from hitting 3%.
Funded via convertible notes + preferred equity.
YTD BTC yield: +20.8%
Saylor’s still playing the infinity game.

4️⃣ Sequans
+1,264 BTC → New entrant from Europe
France’s semiconductor firm makes a bold entrance into the Bitcoin arena.
Already ranked top-20 globally.

5️⃣ Volcon eVehicles
+280 BTC
EV maker joins the race:
“We trust code more than fiat.”

Other Strategic Players:

+325 BTC → Total: 1,600 BTC
Self-funded, one of the highest BTC-per-employee ratios.
YTD BTC yield: +48.1%

+240 BTC → Total: 4,240 BTC
Once a car finance platform, now fully pivoted into mining and BTC accumulation.
One of the few active Chinese buyers.

+210 BTC → Total: 4,846 BTC
Aggressive treasury move via equity issuance.
YTD BTC yield: +75.2%

📊 Macro View:
Top 100 public companies now hold: 917,599 BTC
That’s ~4.37% of total supply
The U.S. is leading the charge — but Europe and Asia are quietly joining in
Bitcoin’s role is shifting from alternative asset to sovereign-grade collateral
This is no longer just “corporate adoption”
— it’s the early innings of monetary realignment.

Tether Portfolio Leaked
$13.7B in profits → 120+ companies.
No USDt reserves touched.
→ [Paolo tweet]

Uncle Sam holds 198,000 BTC
4 months idle. Bulk seized from Silk Road, Bitfinex hackers.
→ [Arkham post]

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Awesome Crypto Digest: July, Week 4