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According to ChainCatcher, Guangdong Province's first special financial product for the token economy, "Token Loan," was launched in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou. Taking Bank of China Guangzhou Branch as an example, a dedicated financing product specifically developed for small and micro enterprises in Haizhu's computing power sector—the Computing Power Token Loan—has been introduced. The credit limit is determined based on the contract/token consumption amount and can provide guarantees mainly through credit, accounts receivable pledges, and order financing. It can also combine guarantees, mortgages, and other forms of collateral to further expand the credit limit. New companies can apply for financing based on orders if they provide continuous operation proof materials from their original operating enterprises or offer guarantees. It is reported that the initial credit funding from Bank of China has reached 28 million yuan.

According to a report by Reuters, influenced by multiple factors such as the tense Sino-U.S. relations, China's push for domestic software alternatives, and U.S. export controls, Microsoft has closed at least 15 branches and joint ventures in China over the past five years, executing a strategic contraction. In 2023, the company internally considered exiting the Chinese market, as some executives believed that "the geopolitical risks outweighed the limited economic returns," but ultimately did not proceed with the exit. Microsoft disclosed in 2024 that its business in China accounted for only about 1.5% of its global revenue.The report states that Microsoft's final decision to remain in China was primarily due to the establishment of a profitable path—providing Azure cloud and AI services to Chinese companies like ByteDance and Shein, helping them operate compliantly in overseas markets. Additionally, the company believes that retaining its business in China remains strategically significant for acquiring engineering talent. However, analysts question the sustainability of this AI business model: the service relies on third-party models like OpenAI, and Chinese companies are increasingly adopting domestic alternatives like Kimi, which offer comparable performance at lower costs.Microsoft's research and development presence in China is also contracting. Its predecessor, Microsoft Research Asia, has successively established new labs in Vancouver, Singapore, and Tokyo. In 2024, the company offered job opportunities to 1,000 top engineers to relocate to the U.S. and three other countries, but only about one-third accepted, with most senior engineers moving to domestic universities and tech companies. A Microsoft spokesperson responded that the company will continue to commit to the Chinese market but did not comment on specific decision details. ByteDance and Shein did not respond to related inquiries.

U.S. stock index futures were little changed after the economic data was released.

In July, the US CPI rose by 0.1% month-on-month and 3.4% year-on-year, while the core CPI increased by 2.5% year-on-year, overall in line with market expectations. As the market continues to assess the Federal Reserve's subsequent policy path, the impact of macro changes on asset allocation and trading strategies is continuously strengthening, further enhancing institutions' focus on liquidity management and trading execution efficiency.Against this backdrop, Gate institutions are continuously improving professional trading infrastructure. According to the transparency report released by the platform in July, Gate CrossEx added one mainstream exchange and 23 trading pairs, launched RPI Orders, reduced the highest fees of multiple exchanges by 50%, and introduced new APIs for market data, funding rates, batch order cancellations, and several WebSocket features; by optimizing concurrent order placement and execution feedback delays, system performance improved by 50%, while the launch of Colo services further reduced trading latency.In addition, SuperLink continues to optimize Fireblocks Gas management and settlement processes, further enhancing institutions' cross-platform asset management and trading collaboration capabilities. In the future, Gate institutions will continue to advance infrastructure upgrades around core capabilities such as trading execution, liquidity, and cross-platform collaboration, providing professional investors with more efficient and stable institutional-level trading services.

According to Cointelegraph, Hyperliquid will expand a deployer-controlled scaleWei function for HIP-1. This function can proportionally adjust the balances of a certain token among all holders, equivalent to an on-chain version of a stock split, and can also be used to handle airdrops, dividends, repricing, and reverse mergers.According to the announcement, during the execution of the rescheduling, unfilled orders will be canceled and replaced according to the effective rescheduling ratio, rounded down, while totalWei is allowed to be negative, enabling reverse rescheduling. The initiating address can be a system address from Core to EVM, or a treasury address specified and signed by the deployer.

According to Bloomberg, the AI code review platform CodeRabbit announced the completion of a $143 million financing round, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. This round of financing was co-led by Atomico and Smash Capital, with participation from institutions such as BMW i Ventures and Datadog. So far, CodeRabbit has raised over $200 million in total financing.CodeRabbit primarily utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically review software code, helping developers identify code defects, security risks, and potential issues. Its product can automatically review both AI-generated and manually written code during the development process, providing developers with feedback on problems and suggestions for improvement.

According to CoinDesk, data from Blockware Intelligence shows that publicly listed Bitcoin miners held a total of 127,000 BTC at the beginning of the year, which has now decreased to 99,000 BTC, with a cumulative sale of approximately 28,000 BTC this year, valued at about $1.78 billion at current prices.Analysis indicates that although the scale of this sell-off is smaller than the net outflow of over $4.4 billion from U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs, the continuous and stable marginal selling pressure in the context of a declining market and weak buying interest is often underestimated in its impact on prices. BTC has fallen a total of 27% since the beginning of 2026, underperforming major assets including the S&P 500. Additionally, due to narrowing mining profits (the current average production cost per BTC is about $74,300), an increasing number of miners are transitioning to AI computing power businesses. Meanwhile, the overall mining difficulty has decreased by about 18% from its peak in November, resulting in an approximate 18% increase in mining revenue for remaining miners, reshaping the competitive landscape of the industry.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "National Bank Open: Naomi Osaka vs. Elena Rybakina," the option "Naomi Osaka" in the sub-market "National Bank Open: Naomi Osaka vs. Elena Rybakina" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 62.5% an hour ago to the current 47.5% (a fluctuation of 15%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to the disclosure from the Common platform, Sushi DAO has released an RFC proposal to comprehensively restructure the SUSHI token economic model. The proposal suggests replacing the current xSUSHI fee distribution mechanism with a more balanced framework, specifically including: reducing the xSUSHI buyback scale to a sustainable level, establishing a protocol reserve (SUSHI Reserve) through weekly regular purchases of SUSHI, and allocating the remaining protocol revenue to Sushi Ops for operations and growth.In addition, the proposal also plans to migrate part of the protocol liquidity deployment to the Robinhood Chain. Currently, the proposal is in the RFC (Request for Comments) stage, pending community discussion and governance voting.

Web3 security company CertiK released the report "Intel3D: PSAV and Brazil's New Security Standards." The article points out that as the deadline for authorization applications set by the Central Bank of Brazil (October 30 of this year) approaches, local virtual asset service providers (PSAV) are facing a round of concentrated compliance adjustments, and compliance and security certifications issued by independent third parties are transitioning from industry best practices to important requirements for market access.According to the report, CertiK is currently conducting independent external audits based on the Central Bank of Brazil's Normative Instruction No. 701. As one of the markets with the highest adoption of crypto assets globally, the impact of this regulatory transformation in Brazil may far exceed the local market. The report shows that Brazil currently ranks fifth in the world for actual crypto asset adoption rates. From June 2024 to June 2025, the on-chain asset value received by Brazil reached $318.8 billion, accounting for nearly one-third of on-chain activity in South America during the same period. Stablecoins have become an important infrastructure in the local digital asset market, accounting for about 80% of the trading volume in crypto asset transactions reported to the Federal Revenue of Brazil.

White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett stated that he would not succeed Lisa Cook if the Federal Reserve Board member were to be removed from her position due to related allegations.Hassett mentioned that the allegations against Cook are matters under investigation by law enforcement and expressed, "I hope Cook is innocent." Previously, Cook had been challenging the Trump administration's attempts to remove her from her position as a Federal Reserve Board member.Regarding monetary policy, Hassett indicated that if he were involved in decision-making, he would lean towards maintaining the current interest rate levels or implementing rate cuts. He believes that inflation in the United States is easing, while the growth momentum on the supply side remains strong, providing room for a more accommodative policy environment.

The fintech company and crypto-friendly bank Revolut announced that it has obtained a banking license in France, becoming the second full banking license the company has acquired in the EU after Lithuania. The license was jointly reviewed by the French Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR) and the European Central Bank, and approved by the Governing Council of the European Central Bank. After obtaining the license, Revolut Bank S.A. will be able to offer a wider range of banking services in France, including loans, mortgages, and regulated savings products. France is one of Revolut's largest markets in Western Europe.Previously, the company primarily operated in France under its Lithuanian banking license, mainly providing payment and financial services. Following this licensing, Revolut will gradually migrate its French operations to the new French banking entity and plans to subsequently expand to Germany, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. Revolut stated that it has invested over 1 billion euros in the Western European market over the past few years and has created over 600 new jobs locally, with plans to establish its Western European headquarters in Paris by 2027. However, the license comes with regulatory conditions. Reports suggest that the European Central Bank may impose restrictions on new products for Revolut's French operations, similar to the regulatory measures previously implemented on its Lithuanian entity, which may affect the speed of launching loan and savings products.This year, Revolut has continued to advance its global regulatory expansion. The company obtained a full banking license in the UK in March 2026 and a full banking license in Australia in July. Currently, Revolut covers 40 markets, with its valuation rising to $115 billion after secondary stock trading in 2026.

Christopher Smith, founder of the blockchain startup Quantus, stated that the first quantum attack may manifest as a series of unexplained thefts of cryptocurrency wallets, rather than directly stealing the approximately $63 billion worth of dormant Bitcoin expected from Satoshi Nakamoto. He pointed out that sufficiently powerful quantum computers could derive private keys from public keys exposed on the blockchain, allowing attackers to transfer funds without needing to breach wallets, devices, or internal systems of exchanges.In theft incidents at highly secure institutions, the only forensic evidence may be the absence of intrusion traces. Smith indicated that the initial targets of quantum attacks could be military systems and national secrets; in the blockchain space, the minting keys of stablecoin issuer Tether may be of greater value. Attackers could mint tokens out of thin air through managed wallets and sell them off before the issuer responds. Google has accelerated its post-quantum migration timeline to 2029; Smith believes the probability of quantum computers breaking modern cryptography around 2028 is "50-50." Relevant blockchains have begun migrating to post-quantum signatures.

According to SlowMist monitoring, the decentralized exchange Atomic protocol was attacked due to a signature replay vulnerability, resulting in a loss of approximately 29,984 USDC.The vulnerability originated from contract 0xa806010f, which lacked binding of position ID, position manager, caller, nonce, deadline, and chain ID in the signature hash, allowing the same manager's signature to be replayed on 21 different position IDs, executing unauthorized full LP destruction under flash loan price manipulation, and without TWAP or slippage checks.

The Financial Services Agency of Japan announced personnel appointments. As part of an organizational restructuring, the agency has established a new "Department of Crypto Assets and Stablecoins," specifically responsible for regulating crypto assets and stablecoins. Toshiaki Adomi has been appointed as the first section chief.Toshiaki Adomi graduated from Osaka University Faculty of Law in 2002 and then joined the Financial Services Agency. He later obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Birmingham in the UK and a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics. He has held positions in bank supervision and policy coordination, and from July 2025, he will serve as a councilor in the Comprehensive Policy Bureau. Until August 1, 2026, he served as the councilor overseeing postal savings and insurance supervision.