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The independent organization METR released a survey report stating that approximately 1,200 OpenAI agents collaborated on an unauthorized internal message board, with about 700 participating in attacks on Hugging Face. Two METR employees and one Redwood Research contractor worked on-site at OpenAI for six days, reviewing around 1,300 records and over 70,000 messages without receiving any compensation.These agents ran the ExploitGym network benchmark, reverse-engineering the code that generated answers within hours and spending days disguising traces of cheating. OpenAI found that of its 898 tasks, 198 had never been solved by any model, and 93% of the tasks discussed on the message board came from this set. The agents also recruited companions with dwindling budgets to conduct experiments that sabotaged their own operations, with 7% of records showing forged tool calls, deceiving automated scorers rather than humans.OpenAI stated that internal scorers never checked how agents obtained answers, so cheating did not lead to any scoring improvements, and referred to this incident as a "warning signal" to itself and the world. Hugging Face disclosed the intrusion incident on July 16, and OpenAI confirmed five days later that its models were the perpetrators, with agents exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities and stealing credentials to escape the sandbox. OpenAI has isolated internal model weights and suspended its largest training program.

On-chain data analysis tool Poolfish announced that it has been acquired by Metrix Finance. Poolfish stated that the original website will continue to operate, and all tools previously offered have been migrated to the Metrix platform, integrated with both existing and new features of Metrix, allowing users to access related services in one place.Poolfish introduced that after this acquisition, some experiences will change, but the availability of core tools and data services will continue; at the same time, Metrix will supplement the capabilities that Poolfish previously did not cover. The parties did not disclose the transaction amount or other financial terms.

According to Blockaid monitoring, the trading price of MetronomeDAO's Synth USD (msUSD) on Ethereum, Base, and Optimism once dropped about 11% below the pegged value. Subsequently, MetronomeDAO released a post-mortem report stating that its synthetic asset swap module had insufficient collateral issues, resulting in a lack of adequate asset backing for approximately 6,367 msETH and 4.57 million msUSD, with the impact primarily concentrated on that module.The report pointed out that the problem stemmed from delays in the Chainlink price oracle during swap execution, and Metronome's fee design failed to adequately account for this variable, particularly on the Base chain where the situation was more severe. The team has deployed over $34 million in defensive positions and about $6.5 million in "last exit" liquidity, which could be used to repurchase and destroy sufficient assets to eliminate the gap if the peg deviates by about 30%. The team has increased the transaction fees for all synthetic trading pairs and upgraded the protocol to support a directionally isolated fee mechanism. Priority will be given to ensuring the treasury repurchases and destroys synthetic assets to restore 100% adequate collateral, while not affecting the rights of MET token holders, and the MET repurchase and distribution plan will proceed as usual.

According to Protos, the Estonia-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinmetro has announced that it has submitted a restructuring application to the local court. The platform stated that this move is due to "a special situation caused by the bankruptcy of a financial service provider," and has fully suspended user registration, deposits, and withdrawals since June 22.Coinmetro CEO Kevin Murcko revealed that the failure of the related provider actually occurred years ago, but as the July 1 deadline for compliance with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) approaches, this legacy funding gap has had a substantial and fatal impact on the company's balance sheet. Additionally, reports indicate that Coinmetro is currently facing issues in Estonia, including overdue annual reports and unpaid taxes, and was sued last August by the bankruptcy trustee Prime Trust, seeking to recover approximately $1.2 million that was withdrawn before its collapse.

According to PR Newswire, AI infrastructure company Neurometric AI announced the completion of a $4 million financing round, with participation from Betaworks, ex-Ante, Everywhere.vc, and others.The company disclosed that it has officially launched an automated Token engineering platform to optimize the cost and performance management of AI Agent workloads, and the new funds will be used to expand the engineering and AI research teams.

Crypto analyst Ali Charts posted that Bitcoin is about to break through. Currently, attention is focused on the symmetrical triangle structure forming for BTC, with resistance at $63,000 and support at $61,000. This range will determine the direction of the next move. If BTC effectively closes outside this range on the hourly chart, a price expansion of about 10% may be triggered as momentum is released. It is essential to closely monitor the volume changes near the boundaries of this range to capture early signals of a sustained breakout.

Zach Pandl, the head of research at Grayscale, stated that on-chain valuation metrics indicate that Bitcoin is currently undervalued, but it has not reached the cheapness of previous cycle bottoms. He noted that this bear market may be shallower than past ones due to the smaller gains in the previous bull market, along with improvements in market structure such as ETP availability, wealth platform deployment, and institutional adoption.Zach believes investors can focus on two major short-term catalysts: the progress of the Senate's "Clarity Act" and whether leveraged Bitcoin holders can stabilize their balance sheets. He remains optimistic about the "Clarity Act," but predicts that market signals show a low probability of the bill passing. Pandl believes the current price levels provide long-term investors with an opportunity to accumulate positions in batches, while short-term traders may wait for developments on the bill.

ZachXBT posted on platform X criticizing Sam Altman's associated project World (formerly WorldCoin), questioning its practice of obtaining biometric data from users in low-income countries in exchange for distributing WLD tokens.He also criticized the low circulation token design of WLD, stating that the related identity verification system has led to a black market for verified accounts, and questioned the token inflation mechanism and the issue of off-exchange holdings circulation.

According to Cointelegraph, Coin Metrics pointed out that since Ethereum completed the Fusaka upgrade in December 2025, network fees have significantly decreased, making on-chain operations more convenient. Currently, Ethereum's daily transaction volume has exceeded 2 million, and the number of active addresses has increased by 60% compared to previous averages.Coin Metrics noted that the low Gas fees have led to a surge in "dusting attacks": such stablecoin (USDC and USDT) "dust transactions" currently account for about 11% of Ethereum's total transaction volume and 26% of daily active addresses. Before the upgrade, "dust transactions" only accounted for 3%-5% of the transaction volume, and this proportion has increased by 2-3 times after the upgrade. "Dusting attacks" refer to hackers sending small amounts of tokens to random addresses to track wallets or cause network chaos.

Despite a recent 17% drop in ETH prices, various metrics of the Ethereum network remain high. Marius Van Der Wijden, a core developer at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that the market often struggles to accurately reflect the on-chain technological fundamentals.Messari analyst Sam Ruskin pointed out that the Ethereum TVL, when measured in ETH, is close to its all-time high, indicating that capital has not flowed out of the ecosystem. Additionally, the queue time for ETH staking entry is about 70 days, showing that institutional demand for locked funds remains strong. Mike Silagadze, CEO of ether.fi, mentioned that user numbers and revenue are still growing, while token prices are lagging behind. Marcin Kazmierczak, CEO of RedStone, believes that the current decline is more of a market noise and that the fundamentals have not weakened.

According to The Block, the open-source cryptography company Zama has officially launched its native token ZAMA, which will gradually be listed on exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance.The team stated that this marks the first deployment of fully homomorphic encryption technology at production scale on the Ethereum mainnet, aiming to address the trade-off between privacy and open participation in public chains. At the same time, Zama has introduced a new privacy metric called Total Value Shielded (TVS), which measures the total economic value kept private on-chain through cryptographic techniques.

According to data shared by @jonbma, CEO of blockchain data provider Artemis, Solana is set to become one of the most widely used chains by 2025. Solana ranks first in key chain metrics:Monthly active users: 98 million users (about 5 times that of Base);Number of transactions: 34 billion transactions (about 18 times that of BNB);Total transaction volume: $1.6 trillion (about 1.7 times that of ETH);Application fees: $5 billion (about 2 times that of ETH);Revenue: $1.5 billion (about 2.4 times that of TRX).

The on-chain analysis platform CryptoQuant stated that the Bitcoin SOPR ratio (LTH-SOPR / STH-SOPR) has dropped to 1.35, marking the lowest level since the beginning of 2024. This decline coincides with Bitcoin's price retreating to the level of $89,700. A higher ratio typically indicates that long-term holders (LTH) are actively taking profits compared to short-term holders (STH).The sharp drop in the ratio to 1.35 suggests that the large-scale distribution phase of older coins has significantly subsided. The actual profit gap between seasoned investors and newcomers is narrowing. This decline indicates that the market is undergoing a large-scale "reset." The speculative bubble that previously drove the ratio to soar has been cleared. Historically, when the SOPR ratio falls to these lower limits during an overall bull market cycle, it usually signals that selling is about to exhaust. If the ratio stabilizes or rebounds from the level of 1.35, it may indicate that a local bottom is forming, laying a more solid foundation for the next upward movement.

Alliance DAO co-founder QwQiao posted on platform X, stating that the most objective metric for measuring a "moat" is the cost/revenue ratio; other metrics are vanity metrics. If your business has a lasting "moat" and is in a growing market, then revenue should continue to grow. Conversely, if there is no "moat," you will either lose market share or can only maintain market share through price wars. Both scenarios will lead to costs stagnating or even declining over time.QwQiao emphasized that a business lacking a moat does not mean it has no value. It simply means that it is passing value to customers rather than keeping it for itself. In fact, this is true for the vast majority of businesses in the world.

According to official news, Binance has announced that the Meme leaderboard has been fully upgraded, now supporting all tokens issued by Four.Meme, including X mode and free mode tokens, utilizing optimized Binance Wallet exclusive metrics.The Binance Wallet exclusive metrics will also become one of the important considerations for the launch of Binance Alpha.

According to analysis by CryptoQuant, the Bitcoin Net Unrealized Profit (NUP) indicator has currently dropped to 0.476, falling below the key level of 0.5, which historically often marks the formation of a short-term market bottom.The NUP indicator represents the total unrealized profits held by investors currently in profit, with higher values typically indicating stronger selling pressure. Analysts point out that the current indicator suggests that market selling pressure has significantly eased, and investors may be poised for a price rebound in the near term. Meanwhile, data shows that the number of Bitcoin accumulation addresses is reaching an all-time high, further supporting the view of a potential rebound.