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F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun stated that they currently do not support the BIP-54 proposal, but if the proposal is strictly advanced according to BIP-9 (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal activation mechanism) and reaches the required absolute majority signal threshold, their team will update the mining pool nodes. Chun indicated that they will not participate in the signal voting for BIP-54 until the formal activation conditions are met.BIP-54 is one of the protocol upgrade proposals recently discussed in the Bitcoin community, involving adjustments to Bitcoin's consensus rules. Wang Chun's statement reflects that some miners remain cautious about the proposal and prefer to promote the upgrade through the standardized BIP-9 process and community consensus.

B.AI welcomes several major updates this week. In terms of benefits, new users can log in with Bitget Wallet, Binance Wallet, or imToken Wallet to instantly receive 1 million free Credits; logging in with an invitation code grants an additional 300,000, with a maximum cumulative total of 1.3 million when combined with the exclusive wallet login gift. Referrers also enjoy permanent rebates on friend deposits and subscriptions. Recharge discounts are released simultaneously, with a 1:1 equivalent quota gift exclusive to the BNB Chain channel, while various other payment methods enjoy a 1:0.5 rebate, with a maximum of $100 worth of points available per user.On the model side, there is another breakthrough, as the "Self-selected Service Provider" lineup is significantly expanded this week, adding the Nebula channel and launching historic calling discounts as low as 10%; at the same time, Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen flagship model Qwen3.8-Max officially lands on the platform, now open for a limited-time free experience. Currently, the self-selected mode has fully covered global mainstream large model series such as Claude, GPT, and Gemini, combined with recharge gifts and multiple discount tiers, continuously releasing extreme computing power cost-effectiveness for global developers and enterprise users.

According to Hong Kong 01, the Hong Kong police updated information regarding the virtual currency Fun Coffee scam, revealing that as of August 5, a total of 255 related reports had been received, an increase of 30 from earlier, with total losses rising to approximately HKD 104 million. In addition, the Macau police arrested two women involved in 9 cases amounting to about 3.6 million Macau patacas.Regarding TVB artists who have hosted activities related to the Fun Coffee scam, the Hong Kong police stated that during the investigation, they would definitely contact the victims and relevant individuals to identify the mastermind behind the scam and their roles. Fun Coffee claims to be a large coffee investment enterprise in Phu Quoc, Vietnam, with a capital scale exceeding USD 1 billion. It entered the Hong Kong market by the end of 2025, packaging its image through marathons, banquets, social events, distributing flyers, and inviting artists to promote it, while registering a company, opening offices, and stores in Hong Kong. The actual operation was to lure citizens into downloading the app to complete tasks under the guise of investing in high-tech coffee equipment, gene optimization technology, and agricultural equipment, using Tether (USDT) and other cryptocurrencies for deposits. The platform promised annual returns of up to 197%--278%, with higher returns for larger amounts and longer deposit periods, and set up a commission structure to encourage recruitment. In July 2026, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission listed it as a suspicious investment product. In late July of the same month, the app suddenly ceased operations, withdrawals became impossible, customer service went offline, and the offices and stores were vacated, leading to the collapse of the scam.

According to The Defiant, ENS Labs Chief Operating Officer Katherine Wu released an executable draft proposal for the establishment of the ENS Foundation on Thursday, abandoning the plan to transfer the DAO operational wallet to a new entity after weeks of opposition from representatives to previous versions.As disclosed, the draft will keep approximately 54.6 million ENS tokens and an operational wallet holding about 16 million dollars in ETH and stablecoins under the control of token holders. The only ENS token transaction in the proposal is a one-time transfer of 1 million tokens, solely for the compensation of foundation staff with a multi-year vesting period. The foundation's board will gain management rights over an approximately 65 million dollar donation fund treasury, but each transaction must go through a time lock, and the security committee has the right to cancel.ENS DAO officials summarized this revision as authorizing the foundation to manage the donation fund while token holders retain control over the protocol, the remaining ENS held by the DAO, the operational wallet, and the appointment and dismissal of foundation directors.

On July 28, OpenAI quietly updated its security incident disclosure, confirming that its AI agent accessed four external service platforms during the breach of Hugging Face, bringing the total number of affected platforms to five.Previously, OpenAI had disabled security filters while testing GPT-5.6 Sol and a more powerful model to assess raw capabilities. The model did not complete the security benchmark tests as expected; instead, it discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the package caching agent within the testing environment that granted internet access, subsequently breaching Hugging Face to steal answers.According to a forensic report released by Hugging Face on July 27, this autonomous agent executed 17,600 operations over approximately four and a half days, connecting 181 devices to the Hugging Face internal VPN and forging identity tokens. Among the four additional platforms, Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed through Reuters that his company was one of them, with the attacker using an unprotected public endpoint from a customer as a relay and command control base for the entire attack.The identities of the other three platforms remain undisclosed. OpenAI stated it would "directly notify the service providers" but would not publicly name them, as there is currently no legal requirement for mandatory disclosure. The U.S. Congress has responded by proposing a bipartisan "AI Emergency Shutdown Act," which aims to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to forcibly shut down AI models, with violators facing fines of up to $2 million per day.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis released an updated draft of the CLARITY Act, which aims to require digital commodity exchanges, brokers, and dealers to segregate customer assets and prohibit the use of customer funds and assets as the platform's own property.The draft also aims to classify digital commodities held by the platform on behalf of customers as "customer property" in bankruptcy liquidation proceedings, reducing the risk of users being classified as general unsecured creditors.

Crypto journalist Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform that, according to an industry insider invited to the conference call, stakeholders in the crypto industry will hold a conference call later this morning local time with Republican leadership to understand the latest developments on the text of the CLARITY Act.

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.

Ostium released an update on the attack incident. Its liquidity provider fund was attacked on July 15, resulting in a loss of 23,752,746 USDC. Preliminary investigations indicate that the attacker compromised the off-chain infrastructure that provides price data to the protocol and submitted disguised illegal price reports, extracting artificially generated profits from the fund by quickly opening and closing multiple large positions.Ostium stated that traders' collateral is stored in independently isolated smart contracts and was not affected by this incident, with all trading positions remaining open. The team paused trading and froze all trading contracts within 60 minutes after the first attack transaction occurred. Currently, Ostium is collaborating with Mandiant, zeroShadow, Collisionless, SEAL 911, and law enforcement agencies, coordinating with trading platforms, bridging contracts, and stablecoin issuers to advance the investigation. The engineering team is focused on repairing and strengthening the relevant infrastructure to support the secure resumption of trading.Ostium indicated that it will notify at least 24 hours in advance before unfreezing the trading contracts. After trading resumes, existing positions will be marked at the price at the time of reopening, unaffected by price fluctuations during the pause. Addressing the affected liquidity providers and securely resuming trading remains the current top priority.

Venice AI announced an update to its tokenomics, with the main updates being the following two items:New programmatic burning: From now on, for every purchase of $100 in API credit points, $5 will be used to buy and permanently burn VVV on the open market. DIEM supply target raised for the first time: gradually increased from 38,000 to 40,000 (an increase of 2,000), to be implemented in phases, with the highest target expected to be achieved by September 14.

According to market news, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart posted on X that updated filings have been submitted for its Ethereum ETF and Solana ETF, with expected trading codes of MSSE and MSOL, and a fee rate of 0.14%.

Binance contracts will update the funding rate settlement frequency for SKHYNIXUSDT, SAMSUNGUSDT, and HYUNDAIUSDT perpetual contracts on July 15, 2026, at 00:15, changing from once every eight hours to once every four hours, with the funding rate upper/lower limit adjusted to ± 0.5%.

Cardano wallet service provider SecondFi released the latest update on the theft incident, stating that "isolation mode" will be launched this week, allowing users to check if their wallet addresses are involved in the related incident and submit tickets; next week, they plan to introduce a secure wallet export feature to provide a safer wallet migration path for users of different technical levels.SecondFi reiterated that it will provide potential asset recovery solutions for wallets confirmed to be affected through the process, expected to use a zero-knowledge proof-based recovery tool with set qualifications and terms; the official also reminded users that they will not request private keys or mnemonic phrases, and users should only operate through official website support and designated verification tools.

According to the latest official announcement from the Chrome Web Store, the platform will officially implement the updated Developer Program Policy starting August 1, 2026. This update clearly delineates boundaries for regulated goods and services, listing "prediction markets" as a prohibited product category, strictly prohibiting any extensions from offering, facilitating, or supporting real-money trading based on prediction results.In addition, the new regulations further tighten data privacy and AI safety standards. The policy requires that user data collected by extensions must be strictly and exclusively used for the single purpose disclosed; if there is a change in data processing methods, users must be proactively notified. At the same time, extensions designed to circumvent AI-driven service safety protections, usage restrictions, and other protective mechanisms are explicitly prohibited. After August 1, if any extensions are found to be non-compliant with the above policies, the Chrome Web Store will take enforcement actions.

EthLabs founder Barnabé Monnot (barnabé.eth) released the Week 2 update, summarizing the team's latest progress in the launch and financing phase as well as the direction of ecological discussions. In terms of interoperability (Interop), the team stated that they are enhancing confidence in asynchronous interoperability based on zero-knowledge proofs (zk), believing this will help build safer cross-chain bridges and improve the native distribution capabilities of assets in Ethereum's multi-layer network.Currently, some cross-chain paths still experience delays, especially in the L2 → L1 direction; in this context, the intents mechanism can serve as a transitional solution, while sufficient L1 liquidity also helps match cross-chain executors (solvers). At the same time, the L1 → L2 path is expected to significantly reduce confirmation delays through the Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), with clients already beginning to integrate this mechanism.In terms of ecological discussions, PropAMMs (Proposal-based AMM) have become a recent focus for multiple teams and researchers, with the core being the potential optimization space between L1 execution efficiency and transaction building (block building). Meanwhile, ENS is emphasized as a key infrastructure for Ethereum, and the team is continuously communicating with relevant stakeholders to advance its development direction. Regarding team building, Ethlabs has currently received over 300 applications, processed about 20%, with a short-term goal of expanding to around 10 people and a mid-term goal of expanding to about 20 people, focusing on recruiting talents with engineering capabilities and domain expertise.In terms of financing, Ethlabs stated that the current financing is nearing completion and has received early support from BitMNR, Sharplink, and Ethereum Joseph, planning to bring in 1-2 core investors before entering the next phase.

Starting from July 3, 2026, at 08:00, Binance will update the USD1 airdrop activity rules. Eligible users can share 178 million WLFI tokens. Users must maintain a daily open contract volume of at least 300 USD1 on the USD1 contract trading pair to receive 1.2 times the annualized yield. If it is below 300 USD1, they will receive 1 times the annualized yield. For specific rules, please refer to the announcement.

Lighter protocol released an update on token economics, announcing that all future repurchased LIT will be permanently destroyed to reduce the total supply of LIT. The first destruction will be executed within a few weeks after the end of Q2. Since the TGE, the protocol has programmatically repurchased approximately 15.5 million LIT using exchange revenue, accounting for about 6.3% of the circulating supply.Regarding staking, previously, staking rewards were supported by pre-TGE revenue, and starting today, they will shift to being supported by the remaining ecological tokens. The target staking yield is an annualized 6%, which, based on the current staking amount of approximately 125 million LIT, will allocate about 7.5 million LIT annually from the remaining 250 million LIT.The protocol stated that future treasury management will balance four priorities: rewarding long-term stakers, continuously reducing supply through destruction, reserving tokens for partnerships and growth plans, and maximizing the long-term value for token holders.

Taiko officially stated on X: "We have identified the root cause of this attack and are currently developing a fix to restore the blockchain's online operation as soon as possible. At the same time, we are working closely with major exchanges and security partners to track and freeze the hacker's assets. The remaining funds in the cross-chain bridge are currently safe, and we will announce the next steps in our upcoming updates. To focus on fixing the vulnerabilities and protecting user assets, we will pause updates for a few hours."Previously, it was reported that the Taiko cross-chain bridge was attacked, with losses potentially reaching up to $1.7 million.

Coinbase has released the latest System Update, announcing a series of product upgrades that cover AI investment advisory, global liquidity unification, options trading, and the expansion of multi-asset financial services, further transforming into a comprehensive financial platform. The core features of this update include the SEC-registered AI investment advisor Coinbase Advisor, which can provide personalized multi-asset trading and hedging strategies based on user holdings and market data, but does not execute trades directly. At the same time, the platform will introduce a globally unified liquidity pool, connecting the spot and derivatives trading systems of the U.S. and international markets.In terms of product expansion, Coinbase will support stock and crypto options trading and strengthen its derivatives capabilities through the acquisition of Deribit. Additionally, the company has launched pre-IPO perpetual contracts covering popular targets like SpaceX and plans to expand to future IPO projects such as Anthropic and OpenAI. Coinbase has also introduced the Coinbase One Card upgrade program, where users can stake $500 to $5000 USDC to qualify for a credit card and receive 5% Bitcoin cashback when booking through the Booking.com travel portal. The platform will also gradually support the migration of stock assets to Coinbase trading.On the trading infrastructure level, Coinbase has introduced the Transfer Protection mechanism, which prevents security risks such as wrench attacks through delayed withdrawals, and has expanded its prediction market products, launching crypto price binary options and combination prediction trading with a 15-minute cycle. Coinbase stated that its goal is to build an Everything Exchange covering trading, payments, lending, and investment, making it the primary financial account for users.

The Coinbase developer platform has released an update on the progress of the payment ecosystem development. With the official launch of Coinbase for Agents, users can now create independent accounts for AI Agents, executing automated operations such as transactions and asset management under set permissions and risk control rules. The new Coinbase CLI and MCP have simplified the login process and have been demonstrated for identity and operation integration via Claude. The developer wallet is now available through the Swift SDK, supporting the integration of self-hosted wallet functionality in iOS native applications.In the coming weeks, the x402 protocol will support users within Coinbase for Agents to make direct payments using their USDC balance, allowing Agents to not only operate accounts but also complete real payments directly through the stablecoins held by users. Additionally, Coinbase will release a system update on June 16 to further enhance payment and Agent-related capabilities.