Crypto M&A Hits $9.66B as July Deal Count Leads
July's transaction-count lead broadens the consolidation signal beyond the unusually large deals driving value.
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July's transaction-count lead broadens the consolidation signal beyond the unusually large deals driving value.
The divergence points to a more concentrated market, with large strategic buyers still closing major deals as smaller acquirers slow.
Deal flow recovered from April's trough, but June's 17 announcements remained below the 18–23 monthly range seen through much of H2 2025.
The deal would dwarf Ondo's entire $34M lifetime raise and signals that RWA tokenization has moved from niche infrastructure to a strategic acquisition category for crypto's scaling players.
Glide is MoonPay's sixth acquisition of 2026, and the onramp giant is absorbing a four-person team that built crypto-native deposit rails for fintechs and neobanks.
Dunamu and Naver Financial push their merger close to end-2026, citing the country's first comprehensive crypto framework as the binding variable for the deal.
Quarterly capital deployed through crypto M&A went from $272M in Q4 2025 to $7.23B in Q2 2026, a curve that mirrors the early institutional ramp into spot BTC and ETH ETFs.
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has flagged that the bank's 2026 expense base could rise by an additional $1 billion beyond…
The real asset on the block isn't the balance sheet — it's ClearLoop, the in-custody DvP settlement network that already routes for dozens of institutions and $50B in monthly notional.
The deal folds a regulated transfer agent serving 2,500 companies and 20 million shareholders into Bullish's stack — one of the largest crypto-linked acquisitions ever, ranking above Coinbase's…