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Vitalik Buterin stated that he has compared the 2023 Ethereum roadmap with the current Strawmap, and while there is still a high degree of overlap in the overall direction, some priorities and technical paths have been clearly adjusted. This includes elevating the priority of quantum security, downplaying VDF and certain EVM improvements, and replacing old designs with unified binary trees, PBT, new state types, and other solutions.He pointed out that the most significant change in the current Strawmap is the emergence of several new topics not included in the 2023 roadmap, reflecting a shift in the focus of Ethereum's development. These new focal points include: stronger native privacy support, aggressive scaling in a post-quantum context, streamlined specifications for formal verification, Blob and Gas futures, native Rollup, and a more open design space around the future form of EVM.Vitalik also emphasized that Ethereum's scaling approach is shifting from "broadly scaling all activities" to "designing more easily scalable dedicated mechanisms for specific high-load scenarios," and views STARK proofs and AI-accelerated formal verification as important foundations for the protocol's future. Overall, this update indicates that the Ethereum roadmap is evolving towards quantum security, privacy-first, censorship resistance, high performance, and more simplified protocol design.

Grayscale Research Director Zach Pandl stated that the global alternative asset market has grown nearly 7 times since the 2008 financial crisis, with the share of private equity, private credit, hedge funds, physical assets, and cryptocurrency in global portfolios continuing to rise. According to the data he cited, within alternative assets, private equity accounts for about 29%, hedge funds about 23%, and cryptocurrency about 13%.Zach Pandl mentioned that differences in intergenerational allocation preferences may further strengthen this trend. According to a Bank of America survey of high-net-worth individuals, investors aged 21 to 43 allocate about 53% of their assets outside of traditional stocks and bonds, while the proportion for those aged 44 and above is 26%. With over $100 trillion in wealth expected to transfer to younger generations in the coming years, their stronger preference for alternative assets may provide ongoing tailwinds for cryptocurrency.He added that the lowering of entry barriers to alternative assets is one of the reasons for this shift, with cryptocurrency developing along similar paths; regulated products like Bitcoin ETPs and institutional-grade market infrastructure provide more convenient access to exposure.

GSR's latest report indicates that most DAOs in the crypto industry have structural defects in treasury management, with about 70% of treasury assets concentrated in the project's native tokens.GSR states that this asset structure may create a pro-cyclical negative feedback loop: when the price of the native token falls, the value of the treasury shrinks, while protocol revenue and market activity are affected, further increasing the financial pressure on the project.Project teams typically seek to hedge only after the token price has dropped, but by this time, the market's implied volatility has often risen, significantly increasing the cost of risk protection.GSR suggests that DAOs should separate operational reserves from long-term token holdings and consider using collar strategies to build downside protection, reducing the impact of market declines on the treasury and extending the project's funding usage cycle during bear markets.GSR believes that in the short term, more projects adopting hedging strategies may drive growth in trading volume in the crypto options market, but the impact on spot prices is limited; in the medium term, if the structure of DAO treasuries improves, it is expected to reduce systemic selling pressure in the market.

According to Financewire, AI-native startup studio Inevitable AI Group (IAIG) announced the completion of a $6 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by Aleph. IAIG plans to reshape the software development model using artificial intelligence, creating and launching dozens of AI-native SaaS companies.IAIG was founded by tech entrepreneurs Nimrod Lehavi and Ofer Bar-Or, with the core philosophy that as AI technology rapidly evolves, small teams can develop, launch, and scale software products at lower costs and with higher efficiency.Since its establishment in January this year, IAIG has incubated and launched 5 companies and plans to roll out dozens of AI-native software projects by the end of this year. The company focuses on software areas with validated market demand, enhancing product efficiency, accessibility, and pricing competitiveness through AI.

According to Jinshi reports, senior Iranian sources indicate that Iran is unlikely to accept any alternative solutions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz.

According to Jinshi reports, Russia stated on Monday that it is strengthening the protection of vessels in the Sea of Azov - Black Sea region while developing alternative shipping routes.Due to hostile drone attacks on maritime vessels leading to heightened tensions in the Sea of Azov, Russia has established a special working group to study new transportation routes and will shift some cargo to other transportation methods.The Russian Ministry of Transport stated that it will implement additional measures in conjunction with the Ministry of Defense to ensure navigation safety and protect commercial vessels in the Sea of Azov - Black Sea area.

According to Jinshi reports, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that the company is evaluating all options regarding memory supply to find alternative component suppliers.

SK Hynix's leader, Choi Tae-won, stated that South Korea must become an "AI-native country," adding, "The goal is for everyone to have at least one AI agent." He said, "If this goal is achieved, South Korea will become a global AI testing ground, allowing various AI technologies to be experimented with and applied here."Choi Tae-won mentioned that SK Group will provide more opportunities for AI development through continuous R&D investment. He also emphasized that reducing AI costs is crucial. He stated, "Currently, AI costs are too high." "We must find various ways to lower costs so that more people around the world can enjoy the benefits brought by AI."Choi Tae-won indicated that South Korea can lower AI costs by expanding the production scale of memory chips and building more AI data centers, creating a global AI data center hub that connects the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Zilliqa stated that there is a serious random number generation vulnerability in the Zilliqa Ledger application, affecting the Schnorr signatures of native non-EVM Zilliqa transactions. Attackers can recover the signer's private key from the biased temporary random numbers using only publicly available on-chain data.Any account that has signed and broadcasted about 5 or more native transactions through the Zilliqa Ledger application should be considered compromised. Since the related signatures are permanently recorded on the chain, subsequent updates to the application cannot eliminate the risk, and the affected private keys must be deactivated. EVM transactions and development tools such as zilliqa-js, gozilliqa-sdk, and pyzil are not affected.The vulnerability arises from the application selecting the wrong 32 bytes when copying the random number, retaining 8 bytes of zero padding and losing 8 bytes of entropy, resulting in each random number having a maximum of 64 bits fixed to zero. Attackers can use 5 or more affected signatures to recover the private key within seconds using ordinary hardware. Zilliqa observed suspected active exploitation on July 19 and confirmed the root cause on July 21.Zilliqa has suspended native transactions to prevent further loss of funds and is preparing a revised application with Ledger. However, the revised version cannot protect the exposed keys, and affected users should not transfer assets on their own but wait for the official announcement of a coordinated disposal plan.

The AI Agent no-code operating platform X-Agent based on Web3 social networks has officially become a merchant in the OKX Agent Marketplace, launching three production-level risk analysis MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, and deeply integrating with OKX Onchain OS and OKX Agentic Wallet, promoting the evolution of AI Agents from mere software logic to entities with autonomous economic behavior capabilities.The first batch of three pay-per-use MCP tools:X-Agent encapsulates the underlying risk assessment capabilities verified by the platform into standard MCP services for other Agents within the ecosystem to automatically discover and call:Token Security Scan: Identifies Rug Pull, Pi Xiu schemes, and contract restriction risks (0.03 USDT / use).Wallet Reputation: Evaluates the historical behavior of counterparties and "smart money" (0.01 USDT / use).Portfolio Health: Analyzes position concentration and volatility risks (0.01 USDT / use).Deep integration with the OKX ecosystem architecture, enabling machine micropayments:x402 machine-native settlement: Combines gas-free USDC settlement based on EIP-3009 with the Coinbase x402 protocol, achieving minimal per-use payments as low as 0.01 USDT on OKX X Layer, without the need for pre-deposit or manual approval.OKX TEE hardware-level custody: Integrates with OKX Agentic Wallet, storing private keys within OKX TEE (Trusted Execution Environment), with X-Agent authorized only through short-term session signatures, ensuring asset security from the source.Idempotent automated execution: Introduces Pre-Broadcast protection and idempotent state machines to prevent duplicate charges or state conflicts in on-chain autonomous tasks.Building a "two-way cycle" Agent economy:This collaboration marks the realization of a full-path connection in the X-Agent architecture from "identity - payment - execution - monetization - distribution." Agents can autonomously procure external services through OKX Agentic Wallet and package their capabilities into paid MCP tools to earn revenue, truly achieving a value closed loop for a decentralized Agent economy.

According to tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the Robinhood Chain native CDP protocol Arrow Finance has been the project with the most new followers among X (Twitter) Top personalities. New influential figures following this project include well-known analyst 0xWizard (@0xcryptowizard), SpiderCrypto (@SpiderCrypto0x), and well-known KOL 0xSun (@0xSunNFT).

The issuer of USDH, Native Markets, announced that the USDH official website exchange portal has been discontinued. After the portal is disabled, the USDH exchange service will be migrated to the official Bridge channels. In the coming months, Bridge will continue to provide 1:1 redemption and exchange services for USDH, but users will need to complete a separate account registration and access process on the Bridge platform.

Ledger announced the expansion of support for Celo, having integrated Celo's CIP-64 fee abstraction feature into Ledger Live. After the upgrade, users can pay on-chain transaction gas fees using 18 types of Celo native assets, without needing to use the native token CELO exclusively.The assets that can be used to pay gas include USDT, USDC, USDm, EURm, GBPm, JPYm, CADm, AUDm, CHFm, BRLm, NGNm, PHPm, COPm, KESm, ZARm, XOFm, GHSm, and WETH. CIP-64 is a core mechanism introduced by Celo in the July 2023 Gingerbread hard fork, allowing transaction fees to be paid directly with approved ERC-20 tokens.According to official disclosures, nearly half of the transactions on the Celo chain are currently settled with US dollar stablecoins instead of CELO for transaction fees. Ledger had previously supported the sending, receiving, and exchanging of CELO and Celo native stablecoins in Ledger Live as of December 2025.

On July 10, HSBC announced that it has completed the issuance of its first digital native structured product in Hong Kong, which is a private placement of structured notes denominated in US dollars. The notes are issued directly on the blockchain rather than being digitized after issuance. Asia-Pacific digital market infrastructure operator Marketnode acts as the tokenization agent and digital payment agent, managing the payment process between the issuer and investors.Marketnode is supported by Euroclear, HSBC, SGX Group, and Temasek. HSBC positions this transaction as a pilot project aimed at demonstrating how tokenization can improve the issuance, settlement, and ongoing servicing of products throughout their entire lifecycle. HSBC did not disclose the issuance scale, reference assets, note duration, investor identities, or the blockchain used. This issuance continues HSBC's years of efforts in the field of tokenization, having previously issued digital native bonds through the HSBC Orion platform and launched retail gold tokens in Hong Kong.

Tether is preparing to natively issue USDT on the Bitcoin network based on the RGB v0.11.1 protocol, with commercialization and distribution handled by UTEXO. This will mark the return of USDT to the Bitcoin main chain after many years since it first landed on Bitcoin via the Omni protocol in 2014. Viktor Ihnatiuk, co-founder of UTEXO, stated that the company has received support from Tether to promote the implementation of native Bitcoin USDT.The RGB protocol employs client-side validation and integrates with the Lightning Network, enabling instant, low-cost, and private transactions of USDT while inheriting the security model of Bitcoin UTXO. In the future, users will be able to hold USDT directly through native Bitcoin addresses and complete transactions using Lightning Network wallets that support RGB, without relying on other public chains or intermediaries. Compared to the account model networks where USDT is primarily circulated, such as TRON and Ethereum, RGB naturally supports one-time addresses using the UTXO model and facilitates off-chain payments through the Lightning Network, effectively enhancing transaction privacy. Additionally, UTEXO is deeply integrated with Tether, reducing intermediary fees and data collection, and users can also convert USDT between different public chains at low cost through its already launched cross-chain bridge.

According to official news, the crypto-native cross-border financial platform Offramp, primarily aimed at freelancers in Latin America, will cease operations.As of July 1, functions such as transfers, QR code payments, deposits, and investments have been disabled. Starting July 31, Offramp will stop fiat currency deposits and withdrawals as well as cryptocurrency deposits, and will disable physical and virtual cards and stop the operation of the mobile application. On September 30, Offramp will stop cryptocurrency withdrawals, and by December 31, the remaining functions will be disabled, officially ceasing operations.

The decentralized perpetual contract exchange AvoDex's native token AVO has officially launched and is now open for spot trading.According to market data, the opening price of AVO was $1.5, and the current increase is 100%.AvoDex stated that the launch of AVO marks a new development stage for the project. In the future, AvoDex will continue to expand its products around on-chain trading, automated trading strategies, prediction markets, and community ecosystem development.

According to official news, OpenClaw announced the launch of the native mobile version of the OpenClaw app on the Apple App Store and Google Play Store. Users can pair their phones with the private OpenClaw gateway to achieve localized AI assistant functions, including chat, voice calls, approval management, and device-aware automation. The app adheres to the "local first" principle, with all keys, configurations, and permissions controlled by the user, and device permissions enabled as needed.