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According to The Defiant, Geoff Kendrick, the Global Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered Bank, stated that the previously set target price of $100 for UNI by the end of 2030 may be too low. Kendrick pointed out that the protocol fee burn rate for Uniswap on the Robinhood Chain exceeded previous expectations.Data shows that from July 27 to August 12, the average daily income of the Uniswap protocol was approximately $244,000, annualizing to about $89.1 million, all of which was used for repurchasing and burning UNI. Based on the current price of about $3.53, the annualized burn amount accounts for approximately 4% of the circulating supply (624.2 million tokens). Kendrick described this burn rate as "clearly unsustainable," and even with his target price of $6.5 by the end of 2026, the annualized burn rate would still reach 2.2%, which is also difficult to maintain in the long term, and does not account for more collaborations similar to Robinhood.In the recent 7 days, the total income of the Uniswap protocol was approximately $1.55 million, with the Robinhood Chain contributing about $925,000, accounting for about 60%. Uniswap has deployed v2, v3, v4, and UniswapX on this chain, becoming a major public AMM.

The Monaco government submitted Bill No. 1131 to the National Council, intending to replace Law No. 1.528 passed in 2022, and to align the regulatory framework for crypto assets more closely with the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) and the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards.The proposed regulation will clarify the crypto asset services that can be conducted in Monaco and enhance corporate governance, prudential safeguards, and professional conduct requirements. Service providers must obtain prior approval from the Commission de Contrôle des Activités Financières (CCAF), and the relevant licenses must also be jointly reviewed by the Autorité Monégasque de Sécurité Financière and the Agence Monégasque de Sécurité Numérique. The bill also expands the supervisory and enforcement powers of the CCAF. If approved by the National Council, Monaco will further develop supporting implementation rules; Monaco has been placed on the FATF grey list starting in the summer of 2024 and has been included in the European Commission's list of high-risk countries for money laundering.

According to ChianCatcher news, GSR Content Director Frank Chaparro tweeted that Nasdaq is hiring a RWA Principal Protocol Engineer, who will serve as the primary technical author for the "Nasdaq Token Design Standard."This standard is the authoritative specification for the on-chain representation of publicly traded stocks. Responsibilities include issuance, compliance, corporate actions, chain selection, and institutional trading infrastructure. The base salary ranges from $155,000 to $287,000, plus bonuses and equity.

According to The Block, Standard Chartered Bank's subsidiary Anchorpoint officially launched the first phase of the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP on Wednesday, opening test access to institutional distributors and professional investors.Anchorpoint was jointly established by Standard Chartered Bank, HKT, and Animoca Brands, and received a stablecoin issuance license from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) in April this year, making it one of the first licensed institutions.

According to official news, Aster announced that AOS-2 is officially in effect. Previously, AOS-1 opened up the listing of spot tokens to projects that meet public standards, and AOS-2 extends the same principle to the perpetual market, which traditionally relies on private negotiations for listings.According to AOS-2, eligible applicants must stake 1,000,000 ASTER, lock it for four years without an early exit option, and then apply to enter the on-chain validator voting phase. If the vote passes, the Aster risk control team will complete market allocation, and the perpetual contract will go live on T+1; if it does not pass, the full staked amount will be returned.The leverage and other risk parameters for each market are set by the Aster risk control system, with rules made public and decisions recorded on-chain. AOS-3 will be launched subsequently.

Standard Chartered Bank set a target price of $200 for the Chainlink token LINK by the end of 2030, indicating significant upside potential from the current level of around $8.The bank believes that the development of asset tokenization will continue to increase the demand for reliable on-chain data, and Chainlink is expected to play a key role in the infrastructure of traditional finance and decentralized finance.

According to CoinPost, the Financial Services Agency of Japan has announced a partial revision of the "Comprehensive Supervision Guidelines for Major Banks and Others," which will unify the reporting format for cybersecurity incidents across 17 regulatory areas, including cryptocurrency exchange operators.A new "Common Format for Other Cyber Attacks and Related Incidents" has been added, which, along with the existing formats for DDoS attacks and ransomware, constitutes a three-category reporting distinction system. As a transitional measure, non-specific social infrastructure operators may continue to use the old reporting format until the end of March 2027, with the deadline for public comments set for September 7, 2026.

According to the Financial Times, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap with the top AI labs in the United States, ByteDance is training an AI model that may be close in scale to Anthropic's advanced Mythos system. According to three insiders, this Chinese tech giant is currently in the early stages of training a large-scale model, which may have a parameter count reaching the trillions, approximately three times that of the largest model released in China, the Kimi K3 model under the Moonlight brand.One insider stated that ByteDance's model is currently undergoing pre-training, a phase that typically takes three to six months. If all goes well, it will then undergo fine-tuning and be released. The specific scale of the model will be determined later. Anthropic has not publicly disclosed the parameter scale of its models, but industry estimates suggest that its advanced Mythos 5 model has a parameter count of about 8 trillion, while Fable 5 has around 5 trillion.It is important to note that the number of parameters determines the model's basic capacity for storing information or memory limit, but the actual capabilities of the model also depend on other factors, including data quality and training methods.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a joint statement outlining the discussions from the U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group meeting held on July 8 in London. The regulatory agencies from both sides expanded their collaboration in areas such as digital assets, stablecoins, payment modernization, AI, financial stability, capital markets, and cross-border financial cooperation. Participants included the finance departments of both countries, the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, and several U.S. financial regulatory agencies.The U.S. side introduced the implementation progress of the stablecoin GENIUS Act and the market structure for digital assets, while the UK side presented the digital strategy for wholesale financial markets. Both sides support comparable regulatory standards for stablecoins, including cross-border use, comparable treatment of similar risks, and that stablecoins used as currency should be backed by high-quality liquid assets at least on a one-to-one basis. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has proposed implementation standards for the GENIUS Act, covering reserves, redemption, capital, liquidity, risk management, custody, and safekeeping.The Bank of England has released a draft rule for stablecoins that could achieve systemic scale in the UK economy, including a temporary issuance cap of £40 billion for each systemic stablecoin, unrestricted use by individuals and businesses, and reserve requirements. The Financial Regulatory Working Group is expected to hold another meeting in early 2027.

SK Hynix announced at the FMS 2026 conference the joint release of the first High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) standard specification with Sandisk, just about 6 months after the establishment of their alliance in February this year. The standard is publicly available through OCP and covers key specifications such as capacity (up to 512GB), bandwidth (divided into three levels, with a maximum of approximately 3.0TB/s), and the use of the UCIe interconnect interface. Google and Tenstorrent have confirmed their participation in the HBF alliance.The HBF technology is positioned as a new storage tier between HBM and SSD, combining HBM-level high-speed transmission with NAND's large capacity expansion capabilities. SK Hynix publicly showcased the 10th generation (V10) 375-layer 4D NAND wafers and products for the first time during the exhibition, achieving a 2.5 times improvement in energy efficiency compared to the previous generation, with mass production expected early next year. During the conference presentation, SK Hynix executives proposed using a "Tiered Memory" architecture to address the data processing challenges of the AI inference era.

The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Bithumb has published an update on its IPO preparation progress. Bithumb stated that it is collaborating with leading domestic accounting firms to advance the construction of its risk management system, converting accounting standards from K-GAAP to internationally accepted K-IFRS, and strengthening internal compliance and internal control processes. The company is also restructuring its business by spinning off Bithumb Asset and clarifying the responsibilities and boundaries of each business segment; at the same time, it is promoting business model diversification and liquidity asset reserves to enhance financial stability.Bithumb claims it will maintain transparent operations by regularly disclosing financial status, operational matters, and cryptocurrency asset holdings, and will collaborate with large domestic and international securities firms, law firms, and accounting firms to assess corporate value and legal risks, as well as to formulate strategies for the pre-listing review.Regarding the timeline, Bithumb plans to complete the upgrade of its internal control system and K-IFRS conversion preparations by 2026, submit the pre-listing review and undergo audits in 2027, and complete the IPO in 2028, with specific timelines potentially adjusted based on market conditions and regulatory review progress.

Standard Chartered Hong Kong and Greater China and North Asia CEO Mary Huen announced that there will be an official announcement regarding the issuance of the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HKDAP. At the same time, a distribution agreement will be signed, with its subsidiary Dingdian Financial acting as the issuer of the stablecoin, adopting a business-to-business-to-consumer (B2B2C) model. It will not connect directly with end users but will distribute through recognized distributors to its relevant corporate and institutional client base, including small and medium-sized enterprises, traders, service providers, fund companies, and individual users, for cross-border settlement. Other application scenarios also include tokenized assets.

According to CCTV News, the international standard led by China, "Technical Framework and Functional Requirements for Blockchain as a Service in Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology," has recently been successfully initiated by the International Organization for Standardization. Countries such as Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and Uganda will send representatives to participate in the formulation.This standard will clarify three aspects of technical requirements: in terms of infrastructure and network, it will standardize the construction and operation and maintenance of underlying resources and blockchain networks. In terms of service management and smart contracts, it will unify the platform service catalog and the contract lifecycle management process. In terms of data interaction and security protection, it will clarify on-chain data access, privacy protection, and security compliance mechanisms.

According to Gate market data, Standard Chartered Group (02888.HK) has seen a rise of 5% in Hong Kong stocks.

RoboStrategy disclosed on platform X that it led a $200 million Series C financing for the robotics company Standard Bots, with a post-investment valuation of $1 billion. RoboStrategy stated that industrial robotic arms were invented in the United States, but the U.S. has lost its dominance in this industry, and the existing product architecture has been frozen since the 1980s, making it difficult to adapt to AI real-time control and variable scenarios.Standard Bots has redesigned the robotic arm from scratch, optimizing each component for AI, achieving joint-level torque sensing, 2 kHz real-time feedback closed-loop, and ease of teaching for workers to complete in one day, while utilizing a domestic supply chain. Its product line includes Spark, Core, Thor, and Bolt dual-arm robots (in testing phase), with Thor having a payload of 30 kg and a working radius of 2 meters. Compared to FANUC CRX and UR10e, Core achieves a higher payload and tighter repeatability accuracy at a lower price. The company's goal is to capture 10% of new industrial robot deployments in the U.S. within a year, with plans to achieve full-process American manufacturing from metal raw materials to robots by 2027.

Visa announced its third-quarter financial report for fiscal year 2026, with revenue of $11.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14%. Payment transaction volume, cross-border transaction volume, and processed transactions all achieved double-digit growth. In the earnings call, Visa outlined its stablecoin strategy, stating that it is actively investing in various levels of the stablecoin stack, including blockchain, issuance, wallets, infrastructure, and applications. The company announced its membership in the OpenStandard alliance, which plans to issue the OpenUSD stablecoin for global capital flow.The Visa stablecoin platform will provide partners with stablecoin settlement, on-chain wallet-as-a-service infrastructure, and exchange services between fiat and stablecoins, initially supporting OpenUSD. The platform will also integrate with Pismo to provide tokenized deposit support for financial institutions and plans to introduce third-party tokenized deposit infrastructure providers in the future. Visa views stablecoins and AI as complementary technologies, believing that "agent commerce will expand the reachable market and drive future growth." Cross-border transaction volume increased by 13% year-on-year, while processed transaction volume grew by 10%.

According to the latest report released by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), FATF conducted the seventh special assessment of the implementation of Recommendation 15 (R.15) across global jurisdictions. The report indicates that since the last update in 2025, countries have continued to advance in the regulation of virtual assets (VA) and virtual asset service providers (VASP), including conducting risk assessments, improving licensing and registration frameworks, implementing travel rules, and strengthening law enforcement actions.However, the report also points out that significant gaps still exist, mainly reflected in: the difficulty in effectively translating risk assessment results into mitigation measures, insufficient implementation of licensing and registration frameworks, challenges in identifying VASP activity subjects, and inadequate effectiveness of risk-based supervision and law enforcement. In terms of emerging risks, the report focuses on the following areas: the exacerbation of the "industrialization" trend of organized crime groups using virtual assets to commit fraud, the rising risk of stablecoin abuse, risks associated with non-custodial wallet peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, offshore VASPs operating outside of regulation, and ongoing challenges in the DeFi sector. FATF calls for the public and private sectors to jointly strengthen the implementation of R.15, enhance risk mitigation capabilities, and deepen domestic, international, and public-private cooperation mechanisms.

On the first anniversary of the signing of the GENIUS Act, the prospects of Tether USDT in the U.S. market face uncertainty. The act has a three-year compliance grace period, with about two years remaining, after which non-compliant stablecoins will not be able to trade on U.S. crypto platforms.According to Tether's latest disclosure, about 25% of USDT reserves are still allocated to assets such as precious metals, loans, and Bitcoin, which do not meet the requirements of the GENIUS Act. The act requires issuers to fully back their stablecoins with high liquidity assets such as cash and U.S. Treasury bonds. Tether CEO Ardoino promised compliance last year, and the company has launched the USAT stablecoin for the U.S. market through Anchorage Digital this year, but usage remains low.There is a divergence in the legal community regarding the compliance timeline for foreign issuers. Some lawyers believe that foreign issuers must immediately comply with freezing and seizure orders when the act takes effect (expected next January), but they have about two years to meet the remaining requirements. The policy director of Anchorage Digital stated that institutional users will transition to compliant stablecoins before the 2028 deadline. Currently, federal regulators have not finalized the implementation details of the GENIUS Act, and companies have no specific regulations to follow. Tether has not responded to CoinDesk's request for comments on compliance progress.