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According to official news, Base disclosed at 00:27 Beijing time that the mainnet experienced an interruption due to block production issues. The team confirmed that the problem originated from an anomalous block interfering with the construction of subsequent blocks, and all funds are safe. At 1:53, the team announced that the new block ordering had been restored, and internal nodes were synchronizing normally. Teams running validation nodes need to restart Base nodes to restore synchronization. At 3:22, the team announced that block production had returned to normal, and various applications and infrastructure were gradually coming back online as nodes were restarted. The team has identified the root cause of this interruption and will prioritize releasing a complete post-incident analysis report.In addition, The Block reported that this interruption occurred on the same day that Base planned to conduct the Beryl upgrade at 02:00 Beijing time, but it is claimed to be unrelated to the scheduled maintenance.

According to Cointelegraph, a study based on 857,000 active users of Polymarket shows that about 60% of users who placed their first bets during the World Cup had never interacted with blockchain protocols before.Alvin Kan, Chief Operating Officer of Bitget Wallet, stated that prediction markets have changed the traditional logic for crypto users to get involved—users no longer need to understand blockchain technology first, but can participate directly because they have opinions on real-world events. This has made prediction markets a new entry point for some users into the crypto space.Data shows that the trading volume of Polymarket's World Cup champion contracts has exceeded $3.1 billion, with sports contracts contributing over $4.9 billion in trading volume to Polymarket in the past 30 days, and reaching $8.5 billion on Kalshi, becoming the main trading category on both platforms.

Blockchain data infrastructure startup Cambrian has completed a $6 million seed round financing, led by Franklin Templeton and Polychain Capital, with participation from Flow Traders, Selini Capital, Paper Ventures, Nomad Capital, and others.Cambrian also previously secured $5.9 million in pre-seed financing led by a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator, bringing the total funding to $11.9 million. It is reported that Cambrian was established in 2024 and currently provides APIs for institutions and AI Agents, covering real-time and historical on-chain data such as yield, risk, lending rates, trading activity, liquidity positions, and market sentiment, helping users allocate capital on-chain.The company plans to expand its existing APIs into a verifiable blockchain data oracle network, serving institutional financial clients, AI Agent builders, and protocols that need reliable data to control the flow of funds. Unlike traditional oracles that mainly provide price data, Cambrian aims to aggregate lending protocol data, DEX liquidity, social sentiment, developer activity, and historical market data.According to Cambrian, its platform has processed millions of API calls, currently indexing approximately $4.5 billion TVL across four major lending protocols, tracking 1,789 vaults under 895 curators, and monitoring over 320,000 DEX liquidity pools on Base and Solana. The company also plans to expand trading data support, adding Hyperliquid and richer perpetual contract data.

According to Fortune, New York blockchain data analytics company Allium announced the completion of a $40,000,000 Series B financing round, led by Amplify Partners, with participation from Kleiner Perkins and Theory Ventures.Allium focuses on cleaning and integrating complex on-chain data, providing services to institutional clients such as Visa, the Federal Reserve, Coinbase, and a16z's crypto division.

Du Jun from ABCDE Lianchuang stated that over the years of twists and turns, the crypto field has returned to the payment narrative in the Bitcoin white paper. He will continue to invest in the crypto field and still believes that blockchain will eventually reconstruct financial infrastructure.

NEAR officially announced the next major protocol upgrade SPICE (Separation of Consensus and Execution), which is a key step towards Nightshade 3. After the upgrade is completed, the NEAR block time will be reduced from the current 600 milliseconds to 200 milliseconds, achieving about a 3x speedup, approaching the maximum speed allowed by physical conditions. The core of SPICE is to decouple the consensus layer from the execution layer, allowing validators to complete block consensus without waiting for transaction execution, thereby reducing latency and supporting more complex, time-consuming transactions.NEAR stated that this upgrade will be the largest underlying architecture change since Stateless Validation in 2024. After the upgrade, the transaction experience of applications such as NEAR Intents and near.com will be further enhanced. Defuse Labs CEO Alex Shevchenko indicated that the final confirmation time for NEAR is expected to drop to about 0.4 seconds, faster than Visa's standard of about 3 seconds, achieving a payment experience close to "completed in the blink of an eye."NEAR also mentioned that faster block times are crucial for the AI Agent economy, enabling high-speed payments and complex transactions between agents, and allowing longer tasks to be executed across multiple blocks. Additionally, SPICE will pave the way for Nightshade 3 and lay the foundation for achieving cross-shard atomic execution in the future. The NEAR development team stated that this will help address the development complexity and potential vulnerabilities brought by asynchronous environments, improving network scalability and security.

According to The Block, payment company MoneyGram has become a validator on the Solana blockchain and joined the Solana Developer Platform, officially entering the Solana ecosystem. Solana is the third public blockchain where MoneyGram operates as an official validator, having previously operated validators on Tempo and Midnight Network.MoneyGram CEO and Chairman Anthony Soohoo stated that serving as a validator allows MoneyGram to stake SOL, process transaction blocks, and contribute to the security and performance of the Solana network. Joining the Solana Developer Platform enables it to gain tool support for building and issuing financial products alongside institutions like Mastercard.

Taiko posted on platform X stating that all Proposers (nodes responsible for producing new blocks) have suspended block production. Taiko mentioned that the team is currently investigating the breach of the chain state validation mechanism and is continuously assessing the scope of the incident's impact and subsequent response measures. Previously, Taiko confirmed that its chain state validation mechanism had been compromised and advised users to immediately withdraw funds from cross-chain bridges deployed on Taiko.

According to Defillama data, the 24-hour application revenue of the Solana blockchain reached $2.8 million, with Hyperliquid L1 at $1.37 million, Ethereum at $1.09 million, Polygon at $954,000, and Base at $346,000.

The People's Bank of China, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Financial Regulatory Administration, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, and the Shanghai Municipal People's Government issued the "Offshore Financial Action Plan for the Development of Shanghai International Financial Center," which points out that relying on the international operation center of the digital renminbi, it is necessary to build and operate the cross-border, offshore, and blockchain infrastructure of the digital renminbi under the premise of safety and controllability, steadily promote the interconnection with overseas financial infrastructure, and steadily advance the application and scenario expansion of the digital renminbi in offshore business.

U.S. stock-listed digital infrastructure developer and operator Blockchain Digital Infrastructure announced that it has raised an additional $8.25 million through a public offering of common stock. Investors purchased an additional 4,999,999 shares of common stock at a public offering price of $1.65 per share. The new funds are intended to support its artificial intelligence hosting and high-performance computing workloads, among other businesses.

According to mempool data, miners mined an empty block at Bitcoin height 954352 (that is, the block only contains a transaction for the block reward Coinbase), with only a 62-second time interval from the previous block height.Miners pack empty blocks out of economic considerations, and this is the wisest choice for miners. In order to make full use of this time for mining and avoid conflicts with transactions packed in the parent block, miners cannot fill the block with transactions, meaning miners can only attempt to mine empty blocks.

According to the "Web3 New Generation Talent Insight Report" released by Bitget, the core challenge currently facing the industry is not a shortage of talent, but rather the misalignment of recruitment barriers and employment channels. Data from a multi-regional survey based on the Blockchain4Youth (B4Y) initiative shows that 54% of respondents view the requirement of "prior experience" for entry-level positions as the biggest obstacle to entering the industry, while 52% point out that school education lacks practical skills.From the perspective of regional distribution and trends, Web3 continues to attract highly educated talent and emerging market talent. Nearly 46% of respondents are aged between 23 and 30, and over 58% hold a bachelor's, master's, or doctoral degree; in terms of career preferences, 61% of respondents consider "the integration of AI and blockchain" as the most desirable career path, while another 62% believe that guidance from industry veterans is the most helpful in accelerating career development.Currently, the number of registered students at the Blockchain4Youth Learning Center has surpassed 10,000, and students who complete the courses can obtain certificates and job opportunities, thereby closing the loop from learning to career paths and providing talent support for the next phase of industry growth.

According to a report by Fortune, Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, stated during an interview at the SuperAI Summit in Singapore that Asia will lead in the innovative integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain technology, ahead of the West. He pointed out that the crypto communities in Europe and America often tend to separate cryptocurrencies from AI, while the Asian market is more accepting of the combination of these two digital assets and technologies.Siu emphasized that AI and blockchain are closely connected at a fundamental level. To truly empower AI, it must be given access to funds so that it can conduct secure autonomous transactions on behalf of users, and blockchain is the infrastructure that can achieve this goal on a large scale. He predicts that in the future, there could be as many as 200 billion AI agents put into operation, and these agents will naturally tend to choose on-chain transactions that are faster and much cheaper for commercial interactions, rather than relying on traditional credit card payment networks that charge higher fees.

The Digital Renminbi International Operation Center announced that with the adjustment of the digital renminbi measurement framework and the overall upgrade of the infrastructure system, the three major business platforms of the digital renminbi cross-border digital payment platform, blockchain service platform, and digital asset platform have been upgraded to the "Shubi Da" cross-border settlement comprehensive service platform (Cross-border e-CNY Transfer Services, referred to as CBETS). Currently, service agreements for direct participants have been signed with the first batch of 26 financial institutions.

Bitget integrates Fireblocks Off Exchange, allowing institutional users to trade through on-chain MPC shared wallets without transferring assets, while retaining full control over their assets and fully accessing Bitget's liquidity and execution environment.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that for institutions, the way funds are deployed is equally important. This integration further enhances Bitget's institutional service capabilities under the UEX framework, bringing together trade execution, fund management, and risk control into a unified operational environment.Richard Astle, Vice President of the Fireblocks Network, pointed out that the separation of custody and execution is becoming the benchmark expectation for institutions participating in the digital asset market. This collaboration effectively reduces institutional clients' risk exposure by enhancing transparency, providing a more flexible and secure participation model for institutional-level funds.

According to The Block, the High Court of Australia unanimously ruled that the fixed income digital asset product Earner launched by Block Earner is classified as a regulated financial product, and providing this product requires holding an Australian financial services license. The court supported the appeal of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and overturned the previous ruling by the lower court that was more favorable to Block Earner.

According to official news, Tether has signed a memorandum of understanding with Dubai Multi Commodities Centre (DMCC) to explore cooperation in asset tokenization, digital asset education, and broader blockchain applications.According to the agreement, Tether plans to provide DMCC's business network with seminars, customized blockchain consulting, digital asset pilot projects, and tokenization programs, and explore the application of peer-to-peer digital communication and payment systems. Both parties will also assess cooperation opportunities in blockchain infrastructure, digital payments, educational activities, and hackathons.