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ENS DAO has voted to approve the proposal "Next Era of ENS DAO" and completed on-chain execution, officially establishing the ENS Foundation to promote the ENS ecosystem into a new governance phase.According to the proposal, the ENS Foundation will become a fully operational organization, equipped with a full-time executive director, a professional team, and a board of directors consisting of 5 members, responsible for undertaking institutional work related to ENS in areas such as law, policy, standard-setting, and brand protection.ENS stated that over the past nearly ten years, ENS has developed into an important infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem, with millions of registered domain names, and has been integrated by numerous wallets, applications, and Layer 2 networks. However, the DAO itself lacks legal entity status, making it unable to effectively participate in the governance of the internet naming system, sign institutional cooperation agreements, hire full-time employees, maintain trademark rights, or engage in regulatory discussions. The establishment of the ENS Foundation aims to fill this gap. In the future, the foundation will be responsible for:Representing ENS in internet standard organizations such as ICANN, IETF, and W3C, promoting the recognition and management of the ".ens" top-level domain (TLD);Participating in policy discussions as a legal entity, communicating with regulatory agencies and government departments;Holding and protecting ENS trademarks and intellectual property, combating phishing and impersonation;Hiring full-time employees responsible for ecosystem operations, funding programs, and fund management;Becoming a formal cooperation entity between traditional institutions such as registrars and standard organizations and the ENS ecosystem.

According to Vietnamese media An Ninh Tien Te, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam proposed to expand the scope of electronic identification subjects in the draft of the "Electronic Identification and Authentication Law," incorporating data, applications, digital assets, and various other assets. The draft stipulates that electronic identification subjects include not only institutions, organizations, and individuals but also extend to physical entities such as products, goods, and equipment, as well as digital resources and digital assets like databases, documents, images, and videos. The identification of digital assets is executed in accordance with the provisions of the Digital Technology Industry Law.The draft also establishes mechanisms for the suspension, restoration, and cancellation of electronic identities and identification codes. The Ministry of Public Security stated that the current electronic identification primarily serves the digital construction of citizens and the government, but in the context of the rapid development of the digital economy and digital society, a unified identification mechanism needs to be established, covering various entities in both physical and digital environments.

Mirae Asset has completed the acquisition of Korea's earliest cryptocurrency exchange Korbit at 97.15% and has renamed it Digital X.The company plans to develop Digital X into a smart investment platform, integrating real-world assets, security tokens, stablecoins, traditional assets, and digital assets within the same ecosystem. Mirae Asset stated that it will not directly compete with dominant exchanges like Upbit and Bithumb, focusing instead on investor education, research, strict compliance standards, and institutional-grade infrastructure.

Hong Kong, July 23, 2026 - PhotonPay, a next-generation global financial operating system built on a stablecoin-native architecture, has been recognized in the CNBC 2026 World's Top Fintech Companies rankings, Payments category. The list, compiled jointly by CNBC and Statista, covers 500 leading fintech companies worldwide. PhotonPay supports unified fiat and stablecoin transactions with real-time settlement, serving tens of thousands of enterprises globally. Customers have reduced fund transfer costs by over 75% and improved finance team efficiency by 60% (as of December 2025).

According to the official announcement, BitRing has announced a gradual brand upgrade starting today, and its fitness, AI, and Web3 ecosystem will uniformly adopt a new global brand "BRT.Fit".The announcement pointed out that after this brand adjustment, the name "BitRing" will be retained, continuing to focus on wearable hardware and health technology innovation as a dedicated smart ring brand. The official statement indicated that this brand upgrade marks a new stage in the project's global expansion.

Z.AI Co., Ltd. announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that its English name has been changed from Knowledge Atlas Technology Joint Stock Company Limited to Z.AI Co., Ltd.The company's Chinese name "北京智谱华章科技股份有限公司" will remain unchanged.

According to International Cyber Digest (@IntCyberDigest), the core domain name t[.]me of Telegram has been set to serverHold status by the .me registry, causing the domain to go offline from the global DNS, making all t.me links inaccessible. Currently, Telegram, the .me registry, and the backend operator Identity Digital have not provided any public explanation.Analysts have pointed out that .me is the country code top-level domain for Montenegro, which is currently in the process of negotiating EU membership. This blockade may be related to the advancement of EU regulatory matters.

The Japanese corporate bond issuance and purchasing platform operator Siiibo Securities announced that it plans to change its name to "Metaplanet Securities Inc." on July 13, 2026, and officially join the Metaplanet Group.Siiibo Securities stated that this name change requires approval from a temporary shareholders' meeting. The company previously operated with the mission of "creating free, transparent, and fair direct finance," providing an online private bond issuance and purchasing platform aimed at emerging enterprises and individual investors, and holds a first-class financial instruments business license in Japan.With the integration into the Metaplanet Group, Siiibo will further expand its business direction in the future, planning to leverage its parent company's experience in Bitcoin (BTC) asset operations to develop and offer BTC-based financial products to individual investors, creating a "BTC × Finance" platform.It is understood that Siiibo Securities was established in 2019 and currently operates an online securities platform focused on corporate bonds, providing private bond issuance and investment services. The platform has covered approximately 40 companies and over 100 types of bond products. After joining the Metaplanet Group, it will no longer be limited to the venture debt field but will explore more innovative income products that meet investor return demands.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a wallet named Ansem-2 (0x6f5...D3F5) spent $233,000 in the past 3 hours to buy 2.79 million CASHCAT.This wallet is associated with a Solana wallet (CLM6...Kg1Q), which currently holds 10.5 million ANSEM, worth $2.7 million, and has made a profit of $2.6 million through ANSEM.

According to Vietnam's Youth Newspaper, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam recently held a press conference to report the latest investigation results of the ONUS cryptocurrency platform fraud case. More than 350 kilograms of gold and silver have been seized, transactions involving 8 properties valued at 20 trillion Vietnamese dong have been frozen, and transactions of over 300 involved bank accounts have been suspended.On March 23 of this year, the police filed criminal charges against 8 defendants, accusing them of using computer networks and telecommunications networks to commit property appropriation and money laundering. Since 2018, the individuals involved have taken advantage of the public's lack of understanding of cryptocurrency, creating digital accounts through applications and packaging them as virtual currency. They established trust and attracted investment through circular buying and selling among affiliated companies, thereby committing fund appropriation, with a total sale of cryptocurrency valued at over 70 trillion Vietnamese dong from 2018 to 2021.The case involves numerous individuals and users, with approximately 5 million user accounts opened. The police have received over 2000 reports from citizens. The public security authorities are investigating the possible accomplice responsibilities of KOLs and other internet celebrities and continue to make every effort to recover the embezzled funds.

According to Cointelegraph, Australia officially implemented the "travel rule" for local compliant cryptocurrency trading platforms starting in July. All transactions involving the sending and receiving of cryptocurrency assets must provide the name of the recipient or payer and the name of the platform. This rule is enforced by the financial intelligence agency AUSTRAC and applies to any amount, with no minimum threshold, and requires users to confirm that the address belongs to them when withdrawing to a self-custody wallet. Exchanges like Swyftx state that users can reuse the information after submitting it once, while Kraken and CoinJar have already begun implementation in advance. The regulatory goal is to enhance the traceability of on-chain funds to combat money laundering, terrorist financing, and fraud activities.

According to CoinDesk, FundBank has been renamed IRACE Digital and has acquired Tenet Bank in the Cayman Islands. This transaction will incorporate digital asset banking operations and fintech-focused clients into IRACE's existing institutional banking business.Former Zodia Custody CEO John Cronin has been appointed as the Global CEO, and IRACE is expanding into the areas of custody, liquidity, and trading infrastructure.

According to The Block, Story, which focuses on on-chain intellectual property infrastructure, has been renamed DATA Foundation, shifting its business focus to AI training data and launching the on-chain data registration and auditing platform Trace. The native IP token of Story will be migrated to the new DATA token at a 1:1 ratio, and holders do not need to take any action; specific timing and guidance will be announced later.DATA also announced a deep integration with the AI training data marketplace Kled, bringing over 1.5 billion pieces of user-contributed data into the DATA network. Through Trace, each data contribution will generate an on-chain receipt, recording the data source, authorization method, contributor consent, and payment information, supporting settlement to contributors in stablecoins or fiat currency.

The Chief Information Security Officer of Slow Fog, 23pds, stated that researchers have exposed a high-risk vulnerability in CI/CD called Cordyceps, affecting the open-source repositories of major companies such as Microsoft, Google, Apache, and Cloudflare. Attackers do not need corporate accounts or any system permissions; they can simply register a free GitHub account, submit a malicious PR, and leave a comment to forge approvals, steal server keys, and push malicious code, completely taking control of the corporate code repository.

According to reports from two Meta employees cited by The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg has instructed a small internal team to develop an independent prediction market application codenamed "Arena," which will operate separately from existing products like Facebook and Instagram.The initial design uses a game-like points system instead of real money betting, but the possibility of introducing real money models in the future has not been ruled out. Following the announcement, the stock prices of Robinhood and DraftKings fell in early trading this week. Meta's applications have 3.56 billion daily active users, and their distribution scale far exceeds the total of all existing prediction market platforms; if they officially enter the market, it will directly impact crypto-native platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.The prediction market is currently in a rapid growth phase, with Polymarket's trading volume surpassing $10 billion for the first time in March this year. On the regulatory front, the CFTC is engaged in litigation regarding federal jurisdiction over prediction markets and state-level betting laws. Meta's points system design temporarily sidesteps this issue, but its scale means that any shift towards real money betting will immediately become a significant regulatory event.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale sold $54,399.99 on the "Counter-Strike: Spirit vs G2 - IEM Cologne" event, targeting the "Match Winner." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win rate for this item is 68%.