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According to Bloomberg, European Central Bank Executive Board Member Isabel Schnabel stated that central banks should introduce central bank money into blockchain to innovate the execution of monetary policy.Implementing "on-chain" not only maintains the status of money as the "settlement cornerstone," but also allows central banks to utilize the programmable features of distributed ledgers to modernize the execution of monetary policy, collateral management, and liquidity provision, thereby promoting financial stability.

According to monitoring by Blockaid, its vulnerability detection system has found suspicious activity on the Base chain related to Moonwell. Attackers manipulated the MAMO collateral price to borrow cbBTC from the mCBTC market.The currently observed impact is the transfer of 50.6 cbBTC (worth over 4 million USD).

Piero Cipollone, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, stated in an interview with the Italian media ilsussidiario.net on August 10 that the digital euro will provide the highest level of privacy protection achievable with current technology. Offline payments will be made directly between individuals, with transaction details visible only to the payer and the payee; during online payments, the euro system will not be able to identify the payer or payee, only the commercial banks involved in the transaction will be able to identify them, including for anti-money laundering purposes.The European Parliament reached a negotiating position on the regulation of the digital euro in July, with the negotiation goal with member states to reach an agreement by the end of 2026. The European Central Bank has designated 36 payment service providers, including Deutsche Bank, UniCredit, and Revolut, to participate in a 12-month pilot starting in the second half of 2027, with the first issuance targeted for 2029. Meanwhile, the "21st Century Road Act" signed in July in the United States prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing central bank digital currency before the end of 2030, unless explicitly authorized by Congress.

European Central Bank (ECB) Executive Board member Piero Cipollone stated in a recent interview that the digital euro will provide stronger privacy protection than regular bank transfers. He pointed out that the euro system is structurally unable to associate specific individuals with their digital euro transactions, whether online or offline.Cipollone stated that offline payments will be conducted entirely directly between individuals, with transaction details visible only to the payer and payee, equivalent to cash transactions; only banks participating in online transactions will be able to identify user identities, and this will only be used for anti-money laundering purposes. He also refuted concerns that the digital euro would replace physical cash, citing the ECB's recent public consultation on the design of the new euro banknotes as an example, stating, "If institutions intend to eliminate cash, it makes no sense to do so."Cipollone's remarks come at a time when public opposition to the digital euro is rising. Civil society groups such as the Austrian digital rights organization Epicenter.works warned in a joint statement earlier this month that the privacy protections of the digital euro "over-rely on institutional commitments rather than technical execution," and that legislative commitments may be weakened in implementation, reinterpreted in court, or even broken. The digital euro regulation was approved by the European Parliament last month, with plans to launch in 2029. ECB President Lagarde previously stated that the digital euro will coexist with physical cash.

The cryptocurrency platform Bitcoin.com announced that it will integrate USDU into the self-custody Bitcoin.com Wallet, aimed at millions of wallet users. USDU, issued by Universal Digital Intl Limited (Universal), is the first dollar stablecoin registered as a foreign payment token by the Central Bank of the UAE (CBUAE).USDU is an Ethereum ERC-20 token, with each token backed 1:1 by liquid dollar reserves held by a UAE-regulated bank. The related reserves are independently verified monthly by a third-party accounting firm, with reports published on Universal's official website. The Bitcoin.com Wallet web and mobile versions will support self-custody holding, sending, and receiving of USDU. Bitcoin.com will accept USDU payments for designated services and plans to support payments between users and merchants within its products. The wallet will also provide stablecoin education and Learn-to-Earn content. Exchange and trading features will be launched after support from third-party service providers, with specific availability varying by jurisdiction.

Due to the tight supply of upstream materials such as copper foil substrates and semi-cured sheets, along with continuously rising costs, the price increase trend in the PCB industry continues. Manufacturers such as Kinwong, JINGPENG, Dingying Investment Holdings, and YaoHua have already raised their quotes by approximately 5% to 30% this year, with the benefits of these price increases gradually becoming apparent starting from the third quarter.Industry insiders point out that major CCL manufacturers have raised their product prices by about 20% to 30% in the first half of the year, and there will still be pressure for price increases in the second half of the year through 2027. The supply of high-end electronic fabrics is also tight, with the supply-demand gap for Low DK second-generation fabrics estimated to exceed 60%, and the upward trend may continue until the first half of 2027. The IC substrate market is also continuing the price increase trend, with demand for AI GPUs and ASICs driving prices up, and there is still double-digit room for price increases in the third and fourth quarters, benefiting companies like Unimicron, Kinsus, and Nan Ya. PCB manufacturers indicate that they will adjust prices in a timely manner based on changes in material costs in the second half of the year.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is reviewing the rule change application submitted by Cboe BZX Exchange, involving six leveraged commodity ETFs that track the benchmark's daily performance by three times. The initial review period set by the SEC is 45 days after publication in the Federal Register.Volatility Shares LLC is the sponsor of the relevant funds, which include 3x Gold, Silver, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crude Oil, and Natural Gas ETFs, all intended to operate under a commodity pool and not classified as investment companies. Among them, the Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs will primarily invest in near-month and next-month futures contracts on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), rather than directly holding Bitcoin or Ethereum, and will allocate cash and cash equivalents as collateral or margin.Before the relevant products are listed, the SEC must approve the exchange rule changes, and the trust's Form S-1 registration statement must also become effective. Each fund must have at least 100,000 shares at the time of listing, and authorized participants can subscribe or redeem cash at a rate of 1,000 shares per 10,000 shares.

Cboe BZX Exchange is seeking approval from the U.S. SEC to list a set of leveraged commodity ETFs, including daily leveraged products that provide 3x long exposure to Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to the proposed rule change document submitted on Friday, Cboe plans to launch the 3x Gold ETF, 3x Silver ETF, 3x Bitcoin ETF, 3x Ether ETF, 3x Crude Oil ETF, and 3x Natural Gas ETF.These funds will primarily achieve their objectives by holding CME or COMEX futures contracts and using cash and cash equivalents as collateral, aiming to deliver 3x returns corresponding to the daily performance of the underlying assets. Since the related products do not comply with the exchange's general listing standards regarding leveraged products, Cboe needs to apply for approval through special rules. Such highly leveraged funds are typically aimed at sophisticated investors for short-term tactical trading and are not suitable for long-term holding.The document also indicates that these funds will operate in the form of a "commodity pool," subject to CFTC regulation, rather than as an investment company under the 1940 Act regulated by the SEC, like many traditional ETFs. Commodity pools typically aggregate funds from multiple investors to trade derivatives or other commodity-related instruments.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL: LOS vs. paiN Gaming - CBLOL Regular Season" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "LOS" option in the sub-market "First Blood of the First Game" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL: Leviatan Esports vs RED Canids - CBLOL Regular Season" on the prediction market Polymarket, the option "Leviatan Esports" in the sub-market "First Blood in Game 1?" experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, plummeting from 99.95% an hour ago to the current 50.05% (a fluctuation of 49.9%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Vivo Keyd Stars vs. Fluxo W7M - CBLOL Regular Season," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Both sides kill a dragon" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Bitcoin Treasuries.NET posted on platform X that the French Bitcoin treasury company Capital B ALCPB has been listed on Cboe Europe, the largest pan-European stock exchange.This move further expands institutional investors' access to Capital B shares.

The Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India dismantled the dark web drug network Team Kalki. Binance and the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) provided blockchain analysis and wallet tracking to assist investigators in tracing cryptocurrency flows, identifying associated wallets, and freezing relevant crypto assets.Investigators stated that Team Kalki used the encrypted communication platform Session, the dark web forum Dread, and "dead drop" delivery methods to distribute drugs from international suppliers. Law enforcement seized thousands of drugs from domestic and international packages associated with the network. S.B. Seker, head of Binance Asia Pacific, stated that the transparent infrastructure of blockchain enables law enforcement to more effectively track and investigate illegal transactions. Binance CEO Richard Teng posted on X that Binance and DSCI are assisting the NCB in combating this dark web drug network by tracking on-chain fund flows.

The Shanghai Branch of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has collaborated with ICBC Singapore Branch to successfully implement the country's first cross-border payment business between China and Singapore based on the digital renminbi cross-border settlement comprehensive service platform "Digital Currency Express" (CBETS). This transaction, involving nearly ten million yuan in import shipping fees, was fully paid using digital renminbi, with funds arriving in the Singapore recipient's account on the same day, achieving "zero time difference" and "high transparency" in cross-border fund transfers. The service targets subsidiaries of central enterprise group trade platforms that regularly need to procure iron ore from abroad and pay for shipping fees, with high frequency and large amounts of cross-border settlements."Digital Currency Express" is a cross-border settlement infrastructure built by the International Operation Center of Digital Renminbi under the guidance of the People's Bank of China's Digital Currency Research Institute. Overseas participants can access services through the Hong Kong access point "One Point Access", compatible with both centralized and blockchain systems, and the message standards comply with ISO20022. On June 16, 2026, the first batch of 26 financial institutions signed direct participant service agreements. This business marks a significant breakthrough for ICBC in leveraging the infrastructure of the International Operation Center of Digital Renminbi to establish an integrated cross-border clearing system for domestic and foreign branches, achieving comprehensive coverage of two-way digital renminbi payment and receipt services with Singapore and Laos.

According to DigitalToday, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and the Ministry of Science and ICT have launched the "Deposit Token Payment Infrastructure Expansion Project," which will extend the results of South Korea's CBDC pilot "Project Hangang" into the private payment sector.The project is overseen by the Financial Settlement Agency, with participation from 9 banks, 8 payment gateways, and 2 large demand-side entities, with a total budget of 9.6 billion KRW, aimed at reducing payment fees for small and micro merchants. The project utilizes existing payment systems rather than building new infrastructure, allowing users to complete payments through bank deposit token wallets without requiring merchants to change terminals.The government also plans to apply deposit tokens to a pilot for official travel expenses and explore a treasury fund management model linked with dBrain. Approximately 3 billion KRW of the total project budget will be invested in the development, operation, and promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, and IT companies, while participating banks will separately advance about 4.5 billion KRW in related businesses.

According to the Korea Herald, the second phase of South Korea's central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project "Han River Plan" is about to officially launch. The Bank of Korea and commercial banks are making final preparations for the real transaction testing of deposit tokens in the second phase. If the system development and participant recruitment preparations are completed as planned, actual transactions are expected to begin as early as September.In the first phase transaction testing from April to June last year, 81,000 people participated through electronic wallets and conducted 114,880 transactions using deposit tokens. The first phase examined the deposit token payment system, while the second phase focuses on exploring commercialization. Additionally, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea announced in its economic growth strategy for the second half of the year released on the 15th that next year it will implement a pilot project for the tokenization of government bonds linked to the central bank's institutional-level central bank digital currency (CBDC).

According to CoinPost, JCB has reached a partnership with a Circle affiliate, planning to test USDC payments at a store in Tokyo that attracts many foreign tourists within the year and evaluate the promotion to more franchise merchants.The pilot aims to reduce the currency exchange process for tourists and lower payment transaction fees. JCB has previously tested USDC and JPYC offline payments with Digital Garage, Resona Holdings, and others; Japan has also accelerated stablecoin merchant payment trials recently, including Lawson's plan to test JPYC in-store settlements in August.

On July 7, WEEX Exchange announced that the TCCBSC zero-fee event has now started: new users who complete their first deposit and first spot trading task can unlock a reward of 3-10 USDT; both new and existing users can receive a 1 USDT contract bonus for daily TCCBSC spot trading volume reaching 50 U; inviting friends to participate in the event can earn up to 1,000 USDT in rewards. Event time: 7/6 17:00 - 7/13 17:00 (UTC+8).

According to BBX data, yesterday traditional derivatives giant made a high-profile entry into the prediction market, and a counter-cyclical signal appeared for digital asset reserve companies. The core dynamics are as follows:Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: $CBOE) announced yesterday the re-launch of binary options products benchmarked to the S&P 500 index ("Yes/No" structure, providing fixed returns or zero at expiration based on contract conditions). This marks Cboe's first return to this category since it withdrew about ten years ago, directly entering the prediction market track pioneered by Polymarket and Kalshi, which has become "one of the fastest-growing areas on the internet." This move signifies that one of the largest regulated derivatives exchanges in the U.S. officially recognizes binary options/prediction markets as an independent asset class, entering the competition with the compliance endorsement of a traditional exchange and institutional distribution capabilities, rather than holding a regulatory exclusion attitude towards this model. For cryptocurrency concept stocks, Cboe's entry has dual implications: first, it further validates the market size and legitimacy of prediction markets; second, Cboe's institutional channels and Coinbase (the only licensed prediction market FCM by the CFTC) will compete in parallel under the same regulatory framework, leading to an increase in the valuation and policy attention of the entire track.Strive, Inc. (NASDAQ: $ASST) was cited in a market analysis report yesterday (pending independent confirmation from the official SEC 8-K document), stating that the company recently increased its holdings by approximately 759 BTC at an average price of about $65,850; based on this calculation, the company's BTC holdings have increased from 19,032 disclosed in the SEC 8-K on June 5 to about 19,791 (approximately $1.17 billion). This increase occurred against the backdrop of Bitcoin continuously declining from the $65,000 to $66,000 range. Strive and Strategy (which also increased its holdings by 520 BTC during the same period) are among the few DAT companies that maintained active purchases during the reporting period; CEO Matt Cole previously positioned the continuous increase in BTC as a "differentiated catch-up" to Strategy's scale advantage rather than a pure directional bet on price. The company holds approximately $139.2 million in cash, and the capital balance between the 9.5% annual dividend obligation of preferred stock (SATA) and BTC purchases is currently the most noteworthy balance sheet risk point.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. President Trump refused to sign a bipartisan housing bill that includes a four-year ban on the central bank digital currency (CBDC), temporarily canceling the scheduled signing ceremony and demanding that Congress first pass his proposed SAVE AMERICA ACT election bill.The CBDC provision in the housing bill would prohibit the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital dollar before the end of 2030, which was originally seen as an important advancement by the cryptocurrency industry.