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According to official news, Gate will upgrade the Gate Card points reward program on August 14, 2026. After the upgrade, the assets that can be redeemed with Gate Card points will expand from primarily supporting USDT and GT to include USDT, GT, BTC, ETH, GUSD, as well as tokenized stock assets such as NVDAG, AAPLG, GOOGLG, SPCXG, TSLAG, MUG, SNDKG, and SKHYG, corresponding to Nvidia, Apple, Google, SpaceX, Tesla, Micron Technology, SanDisk, and SK Hynix. The newly added tokenized stock assets cover several popular fields such as AI, semiconductors, and consumer technology. After earning points through eligible daily spending, users can redeem mainstream crypto assets like BTC and ETH according to their preferences, or they can redeem corresponding tokenized stock assets like Nvidia, Apple, Tesla, and SpaceX. In addition, Gate Card points will also support the redemption of gold-backed stablecoins (XAUT), effectively enriching users' options for point redemption.The redemption ratio for Gate Card points remains at 100 points = 1 USDT equivalent asset, and points are permanently valid, with other core rules unchanged. Users can still earn cashback points through eligible Gate Card spending, with the cashback ratio continuing to be calculated based on the user's T0--T5 / VIP level. This upgrade will not affect the existing point acquisition mechanism but will provide users with more asset choices at the redemption end, expanding the application scenarios for Gate Card points. By upgrading the points reward program, Gate Card will further connect payment consumption with asset accumulation, offering users richer rights options and a more flexible asset management experience.

After the overseas CEX Apps like Bybit and OKX were removed from the local Google Play in South Korea, the country is further tightening the process of transferring crypto assets to overseas platforms. According to the latest amendment to the Enforcement Decree of the Specific Financial Information Act, South Korean trading platforms will need to determine whether to allow transfers based on the risk level of the overseas platforms; when transferring to certain overseas trading platforms or personal wallets, users may be required to prove that the account belongs to them and explain the purpose of the transaction and the source of funds. If the information is insufficient, the transfer may be delayed or refused.Transactions reaching 10 million Korean won or more will also be included in the suspicious transaction monitoring system established by the exchanges, and the relevant regulations will be implemented six months after their announcement.

According to a report by Cryptonomist, GSR's market director Spencer Hallarn stated in an interview that the hype around tokenization has surpassed the actual usage on many platforms. The issue lies not in the market's demand for tokenized assets, but in the design of the platforms themselves. He pointed out that many walled garden-style tokenization platforms with strict KYC requirements generally lack meaningful trading volume, as cumbersome access and compliance processes limit activity.Hallarn believes that the real opportunity is not in tokenizing for the sake of tokenization, but in fixing the underlying pipelines of traditional banking and settlement systems, specifically the infrastructure for transferring funds and assets between institutions. This would make tokenization more of an infrastructure repair rather than merely a narrative of crypto products.He also mentioned that the stagnation in the crypto market this year is largely due to funds shifting towards AI infrastructure, with large tech companies raising substantial amounts of capital for AI infrastructure through equity financing, tightening the liquidity of various assets, and crypto is no exception. Its clients are also shifting from chasing short-term momentum to long-term budget planning, over-the-counter hedging, and RWA. If AI investment cools down and the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates, liquidity is expected to improve and support Bitcoin prices.

FlashRescue co-founder @DarcyAri posted on the X platform that on July 28, 2026, the funding project ODY targeting victims in China issued an additional 10 billion tokens and absconded with approximately 15 million USDT from the trading pool. Currently, it is known that there are over 10,000 victims, and the case has been accepted and is under investigation.Including subsequent transfers and transaction fees, ODY has aggregated at least 15,669,118 USDT. Further tracking revealed that the same main aggregation address previously received 5,383,428 USDT transferred from the KXG wallet, confirming that ODY and KXG share a common fund pool.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence posted on the X platform that a cluster of compromised websites has been found using ClickFix and EtherHiding technologies to spread malware, with attacks targeting thousands of enterprise and consumer devices worldwide every day.Attackers inject Base64 encoded JavaScript to connect to the BNB Smart Chain RPC gateway, obtaining the next stage instructions stored by smart contracts. Since the contract content can only be modified by the deployer's wallet, traditional takedown methods are difficult to counter. The attack deceives users into opening a run dialog box with fake verification codes, pasting clipboard content, and executing commands from the attacker, while also involving the abuse of various system tools such as conhost, cmd, PowerShell, and mshta, as well as command obfuscation techniques. Successful execution may lead to credential exposure, persistence establishment, lateral movement, and even ransomware attacks.Microsoft recommends that enterprises enable Defender's multi-layer protection, restrict command line tools, enable PowerShell script logging, and remind users not to paste commands from unknown sources into the run window or terminal for execution.

Federal Reserve's Musalem stated that the future growth of AI productivity is highly uncertain, with risks leaning towards high inflation.

According to CoinDesk, RedotPay responded to the lawsuit filed by Binance, stating that it will actively defend itself. The company stated in a statement that it is aware of the legal proceedings initiated by Binance and will mount a strong defense against all allegations, denying the related accusations against the company and its co-founders, claiming that these allegations are baseless.Previously, Bloomberg reported that a Binance-affiliated entity filed a lawsuit in Hong Kong against RedotPay's co-founder, accusing him of breaching the agreement by directing over 470,000 Binance users to the RedotPay platform, resulting in approximately $473 million in losses. Binance stated in the lawsuit that it discovered in March 2026 that RedotPay allowed and encouraged the use of Binance Pay funds for unauthorized purposes without isolation, including recharging the RedotPay card. Binance's Chaintecs also filed a lawsuit against RedotPay affiliates in Singapore, with a related hearing scheduled for this Friday.Public information shows that Binance and RedotPay first reached a commercial cooperation in November 2023, which was terminated less than six months later due to Binance's claim that its funds were used for recharging RedotPay prepaid cards. The two parties reached a second agreement in March 2025, requiring Binance funds to remain isolated, allowing Binance users to exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat currency on RedotPay, conduct in-app transfers, and purchase RedotPay branded merchandise, but not to recharge the RedotPay card. Binance terminated the agreement in April 2026, stating it was part of a merchant partner review. RedotPay had previously planned to go public in the U.S. with an estimated valuation of about $4 billion, intending to raise over $1 billion.

According to Counterpoint Research analysis, if the proposed import ban on Chinese optical modules by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in the United States is implemented, it will primarily impact American cloud providers rather than Chinese suppliers. InnoLight leads the global data center optical module revenue with approximately 27% market share, while Coherent ranks second with about 17%. Chinese manufacturers collectively account for about two-thirds of the global unit supply and approximately 60% of the optical communication module revenue.The analysis points out that Western suppliers like Coherent and Lumentum lack sufficient cleanroom capacity, automated packaging infrastructure, and yield scale in the short term, making it impossible to fill the capacity gap left by Chinese manufacturers within 12-24 months. This could lead to delays in AI cluster deployments by several quarters and increase material costs for cloud providers. At the same time, Chinese module manufacturers rely on high-end 800G/1.6T module revenue from North American hyperscale customers for over 90%, but have achieved partial capacity relocation by establishing factories in Thailand.Counterpoint emphasizes that the optical module supply chain is a highly interdependent system. Chinese manufacturers heavily procure DSP chips from Broadcom and Marvell, as well as lasers and optical chips from Lumentum, Coherent, and Mitsubishi Electric. A forced separation would disrupt the entire ecosystem.

According to a report by Fortune, stablecoin issuer Circle announced the acquisition of nearly 1,000 blockchain-related patents from IBM. Circle officially characterized this acquisition as an important measure to "advance the global internet-native financial infrastructure." Following the announcement, the company's stock price rose by about 2%.However, analysts are cautious about this acquisition—IBM's own blockchain business has essentially declared failure, and its patent portfolio reflects more of a patent application technique rather than true technological innovation.There are concerns that Circle may use this batch of patents to initiate lawsuits against competitors, collect patent licensing fees, or pressure startups, and it is also possible that they could transfer them to patent troll companies for extortion-style protection.

Bearingpoint's latest survey shows that 23% of Swiss adults use cryptocurrency at least occasionally, significantly higher than Austria's 18% and Germany's 11%. In addition, 37% of Swiss respondents believe that cryptocurrency is worth investing in, 45% think it could serve as an international trade or reserve currency in the future, and 44% are willing to use central bank digital currency (CBDC), with these figures all higher than those in Germany and Austria.The report points out that since the implementation of the DLT law in Switzerland in 2021, a mature crypto ecosystem has formed, with Crypto Valley housing 1,749 blockchain and DLT companies. Meanwhile, Germany plans to promote crypto asset services through traditional banking channels such as DZ Bank and Dekabank to narrow the gap in adoption with Switzerland.

According to Jinshi reports, due to the expectation that the situation in the region may escalate, the U.S. air force base in Bahrain is undergoing evacuation.

According to a report by Hong Kong 01, "Fun Coffee," which claims to be rooted in Vietnam, just entered Hong Kong at the end of 2025 and was warned by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in July 2026 for being a suspicious investment product. The company appears to be investing in the coffee business, but in reality, it is a virtual currency investment scam with annual interest rates as high as 222%, ultimately "collapsing" at the end of July.The victim group has over 370 people, with each person defrauded of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Multiple investment groups combined have a total of 4,000 people involved, with funds exceeding 1 billion Hong Kong dollars. A middle-aged woman in her 50s claims that she unknowingly became a shareholder and director of one of Fun Coffee's Hong Kong registered companies, and she has over a hundred "downlines." After being contacted by reporters, she has gone to the police to report the case. The police have received 115 reports, which have been handed over to the Commercial Crime Bureau's fraud investigation team for follow-up.The report states that Fun Coffee held a marathon event in Hong Kong at the end of last year, inviting artist Yuen Siu Cheung to host and distributing anti-fraud leaflets for promotion in various districts. The company's headquarters in Kowloon Bay and its storefront in Mong Kok are now empty, with notices of unpaid rent posted. The Securities and Futures Commission issued a warning on July 13, and the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security also warned in May that it is suspected to be a Ponzi scheme.

According to the Q2 2026 report released by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation on Wednesday, Safe smart accounts processed nearly 130 million transactions in the second quarter, setting a quarterly historical record with a 5.7% quarter-over-quarter growth. The total number of accounts reached 63.4 million, a year-on-year increase of 20%, and the monthly active accounts in June rose to 2.73 million. The transaction volume in April alone reached 55.4 million, the highest in history. The quarterly transfer amount reached $39.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8%, and the self-custodied assets at the end of the quarter amounted to $27.24 billion (including $6.48 billion in stablecoins), with project revenue of $1.98 million, a year-on-year increase of 42%.Co-founder Lukas Schor stated that Safe is evolving from a mere asset holding tool to a broader range of use cases, with usage continuing to grow at a compound rate in a weak market. The Safenet Beta, launched on April 2, attracted 54.8 million SAFE staked (with 539 stakers) in its first quarter and has checked over 500,000 transactions, operated by six validators including Greenfield and Gnosis. Additionally, after the KelpDAO attack incident, Aave-led DeFi United coordinated approximately $300 million through Safe smart accounts to help restore rsETH support, with over 142,000 wallets participating. The SAFE token rose 4.2% in the past 24 hours.

According to The Block, Tether's compliant stablecoin USA₮ (USAT) has officially launched on the Celo mainnet, marking its second mainnet deployment after Ethereum. The token is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and can be natively minted and redeemed on Celo, and can be directly used for on-chain gas payments through Celo's fee abstraction mechanism.USAT launched in January this year, with a current market capitalization of approximately $185 million.

Antpool mined Bitcoin block 941,881 at 15:49:35 UTC, and Foundry USA mined another version at the same height 12 seconds later, leading to a brief formation of two competing chains on the Bitcoin blockchain.Subsequently, ViaBTC extended block 941,882 on the Antpool version, and Foundry USA continued to extend its own branch. Foundry USA then consecutively mined blocks 941,883 to 941,886, with its branch accumulating more work. Nodes then reorganized to the Foundry USA version, and the blocks mined by Antpool and ViaBTC were orphaned. Relevant miners lost the corresponding block rewards and transaction fees, and transactions not confirmed on the winning chain re-entered the memory pool and were confirmed in subsequent blocks.

On July 29, Tibo, the product lead for OpenAI Codex, announced on X that all usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex users have been reset, and released a statement regarding the issue of rapid consumption of GPT-5.6 Sol usage.In the previous weeks, a large number of users reported that the consumption speed of Codex limits exceeded expectations. OpenAI emphasized that it has not reduced the usage quotas of any subscription plans. After investigation, several reasons were found: Sol is more inclined to work for longer periods, execute more tool calls, and coordinate complex workflows than previous models; it consumes more tokens at the same reasoning level; programmatic tool calls (code mode) allow Sol to execute tool calls in parallel, resulting in more responses and higher usage per round; the distribution of impact is extremely uneven, with median user efficiency being acceptable, but heavy users handling complex tasks consuming far more than expected.OpenAI stated that multiple improvements have been completed, and it is expected that usage endurance will be extended by about 18% in typical usage scenarios. Tomorrow, the five-hour limit that was paused during the investigation will be restored. OpenAI acknowledged that "capabilities and efficiency do not always improve synchronously, and some issues only become apparent after large-scale real-world use; we should have realized this earlier."

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. disclosed the latest real data on digital asset treasury construction, technology patent acquisitions, and on-chain ecological positioning. The core dynamics are as follows:Strive's total Bitcoin holdings officially surpassed 20,000 coins: According to Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST)'s latest 8-K filing submitted to the U.S. SEC, the company purchased 79 Bitcoins at an average price of approximately $65,723 between July 20 and July 24, 2026. As of July 24, Strive's total Bitcoin holdings officially reached 20,000 coins. In addition, the company's balance sheet also holds 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (fair value approximately $43.88 million) and about $154 million in cash, ensuring ample liquidity.Circle (NYSE: $CRCL) acquires IBM's core blockchain patent portfolio: Circle Internet Group officially announced the completion of its acquisition of the core assets of IBM's blockchain patent portfolio, covering over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 granted patents across fields such as blockchain infrastructure, financial services, supply chain, and secure cloud operations. This acquisition makes Circle the company with the most blockchain patents in the U.S., and the patent library will fully empower the construction of on-chain infrastructures such as USDC, Circle Payments Network, and Arc. The two parties will also engage in deep commercial cooperation in the future.BitMine increased its holdings by nearly 10,000 ETH last week, with treasury staking revenue reaching $254 million: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: $BMNR) disclosed that it increased its holdings by 9,946 Ethereum last week. As of July 26, 2026, its Ethereum holdings rose to 5,787,414 ETH (approximately 4.8% of the total circulating supply). Currently, the total value of the cryptocurrencies, cash, and equity held by the company is approximately $11.8 billion (including $268 million in cash/securities, 208 BTC, and equity in Beast Industries). Among them, staked ETH reached 4,917,189 coins (85% of the total, valued at approximately $9.6 billion), with annualized staking revenue reaching $254 million.The9 maintains a holding of 1,686 BTC and advances its AI strategy: Nasdaq-listed internet company The9 Limited (NASDAQ: $NCTY) officially stated that its total Bitcoin holdings are currently 1,686.39 coins. The company will continue to steadily promote its digital asset treasury strategy while leveraging its existing computing power and capital base to accelerate the business growth of its AI-driven platform.

In response to the accusations from Michael Kratsios, the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, regarding Moonshot AI (Kimi) referencing Anthropic's Fable while developing the K3 model and building a large-scale distillation platform, Moonshot AI team member Randy Xia stated that Fable was released on July 1 and K3 went live on July 15, which means that the model research, distillation, training, and release were completed in just 15 days. He joked, "We trained a brand new cutting-edge model in just 15 days; this is practically a Guinness World Record."Kratsios had previously stated that Moonshot AI established an internal platform capable of large-scale distillation for U.S. models, switching between various access methods to evade detection, and had procured GB300 servers and accessed related equipment in Thailand for training. The U.S. side expressed support for legitimate distillation but opposed the theft of technology through secret industrial distillation methods.

According to a report by CCTV Finance, Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, stated that the daily Token call volume in our country has surged from about 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to 140 trillion by the end of March 2026, an increase of over a thousand times.Intelligent agents are giving rise to a brand new economic form, known as the "Token economy." Token, in Chinese, is called 词元, and it is an important unit for large models to process information and measure model invocation costs. Its growth rate is the most intuitive barometer of industrial development.In the era of intelligent agents, a single user command may trigger multiple rounds of model calls and resource consumption, directly driving an explosion in demand for artificial intelligence computing power. With the large-scale application of intelligent agents, a series of new models surrounding Token measurement, scheduling, pricing, and trading are beginning to take shape.