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According to informed sources, Anthropic PBC has reached a deal worth $9.1 billion with cloud computing company Riot Platforms. This deal highlights Anthropic's efforts to meet customer demands and ensure access to sufficient computing resources.Recently, Riot disclosed that the company has signed a 20-year agreement with a business to provide 191 megawatts of computing capacity from its facility in Rockdale, Texas.

According to official news, the global instant delivery track RWA project CCC (Courier Cycle Coin) completed a deep strategic signing ceremony for cross-shareholding with Binance's ALPHA zone Anome on August 5, 2026, achieving deep cooperation. At the same time, both parties jointly launched the three-party co-branded card pre-sale signing ceremony with the global Caishendao organization, completing the inaugural signing ceremony.It is reported that CCC integrates RWA and DeFi, puts the cash flow of electric vehicle rental business on-chain for rights confirmation, and realizes the same source of currency and stock through token dividends, driving business expansion and ecological market value growth with physical profits, thereby building a complete closed-loop operation system.

Tether officially announced that its asset tokenization platform Hadron by Tether has reached a strategic cooperation with the Saudi fintech company First Advanced Data for Artificial Intelligence (First Data) and BKN301. The cooperation will use Hadron as the core technology platform to promote the tokenization of institutional-level real estate assets in Saudi Arabia.According to the cooperation agreement, First Data will act as the issuer of tokenized real estate assets and will also undertake primary market operations; Hadron will provide asset issuance, management, and full lifecycle infrastructure; BKN301 will be responsible for banking system integration, payment, compliance, and operational integration.Tether stated that this project aligns with Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030," and future business is expected to expand into other real-world asset (RWA) areas such as energy and infrastructure.

Bitget recently signed a cooperation agreement with the Gelephu Mindfulness City Authority (GMCA) of Bhutan. According to the framework of the agreement, Bitget will establish a legal entity in Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) and prepare relevant financial service license applications under the regulatory framework of the Gelephu Financial Services Office (GFSO), while collaborating with GMCA on workflows related to operations, regulation, and ecosystem development. According to the plan, Bitget will also gradually establish offices locally and conduct local recruitment to support local talent development and long-term construction.As a special administrative region in southern Bhutan, GMC is being developed as the next-generation international financial and innovation center, with its virtual asset system governed by the Financial Services Act of 2025. Jigdrel Singay, a board member of the Gelephu Mindfulness City Board, pointed out that introducing partners like Bitget helps bring global expertise while promoting local capabilities and the broader financial ecosystem development.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury issued a joint statement outlining the discussions from the U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group meeting held on July 8 in London. The regulatory agencies from both sides expanded their collaboration in areas such as digital assets, stablecoins, payment modernization, AI, financial stability, capital markets, and cross-border financial cooperation. Participants included the finance departments of both countries, the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the UK's Financial Conduct Authority, and several U.S. financial regulatory agencies.The U.S. side introduced the implementation progress of the stablecoin GENIUS Act and the market structure for digital assets, while the UK side presented the digital strategy for wholesale financial markets. Both sides support comparable regulatory standards for stablecoins, including cross-border use, comparable treatment of similar risks, and that stablecoins used as currency should be backed by high-quality liquid assets at least on a one-to-one basis. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has proposed implementation standards for the GENIUS Act, covering reserves, redemption, capital, liquidity, risk management, custody, and safekeeping.The Bank of England has released a draft rule for stablecoins that could achieve systemic scale in the UK economy, including a temporary issuance cap of £40 billion for each systemic stablecoin, unrestricted use by individuals and businesses, and reserve requirements. The Financial Regulatory Working Group is expected to hold another meeting in early 2027.

Bitget's licensed RWA issuance platform Reality announced a deepened cooperation with the American auditing firm The Network Firm. After the upgrade, The Network Firm will provide daily Proof of Reserve (PoR) audit reports for the rToken, a U.S. stock token issued by Reality, based on the attestation standards set by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The aim is to verify that each issued rToken corresponds to the stocks or ETF assets held in the custody account. The underlying stocks and ETFs continue to be held by the FINRA-registered and SIPC-protected U.S. brokerage firm Alpaca Securities LLC, forming an independent and transparent structure for issuance, verification, and custody.The rToken issued by Reality currently supports 634 tokenized stocks and ETFs and is deeply integrated with the Bitget ecosystem, allowing for core scenarios such as unified account margin and collateralized lending. Previous data showed that the assets under management (AUM) of Bitget's stock token rToken exceeded $100 million one month after its launch.

According to Cointelegraph, at the 13th U.S.-U.K. Financial Regulatory Working Group (FRWG) meeting held in London on July 8, both the U.S. and U.K. reaffirmed their commitment to strengthening financial regulatory cooperation and discussed topics such as stablecoin regulation, digital asset market structure, tokenization, and the U.K. wholesale financial market digitalization strategy.The joint statement indicated that the U.S. informed the U.K. about the implementation progress of the GENIUS Act and related work on digital asset market structure, expressing support for "responsible" digital asset innovation while emphasizing financial stability and international regulatory cooperation. On July 14, the "Transatlantic Taskforce on Future Markets" (TTMF) further released preliminary recommendations on stablecoins and a joint statement, laying the foundation for continued U.S.-U.K. leadership in the digital asset and capital markets sectors.

According to Jinshi reports, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Baghaei stated that Iran is cooperating with Oman to establish a temporary security corridor in the Strait of Hormuz.

According to Jinshi, the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission jointly announced new measures to deepen practical cooperation and closely coordinate development between the two markets, covering various areas such as listing financing, index cooperation, futures products, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), internationalization of financial institutions, green finance, and facilitation of professional qualifications.

According to Jinshi reports, the spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry stated that any country cooperating with or conspiring to attack Iran will face Iran's legitimate defense.Countries providing bases or military and logistical facilities to the aggressor will be regarded as aggressors.

According to NexBlock, the trading volume in South Korea's virtual asset market continues to shrink, and the competitive landscape among the five major won exchanges is changing. During this market downturn, funds are further concentrating on platforms with leading liquidity, while small and medium-sized exchanges are seeking breakthroughs through partnerships with securities companies, institutional market layouts, and operational restructuring. In the future, the focus of competition will no longer be solely on trading volume, but also on stablecoin liquidity, traditional financial cooperation, institutional market expansion, and regulatory compliance capabilities.Data shows that in the first half of this year, the five major won exchanges in South Korea (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, Gopax) had a total trading volume of approximately $366.58 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 54.6%.From July 1 to 27, the five major exchanges had a cumulative trading volume of about 17.34 trillion won, a decrease of 16.9% compared to the same period last month. Among them, Upbit's trading volume was approximately 11.69 trillion won, which, although down 10%, increased its market share from 62.3% to 67.4%; Bithumb's trading volume fell to 4.71 trillion won, with its share dropping from 30.7% to 27.1%, widening the gap between the two to 40.3 percentage points.

According to The New York Times, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance quietly adjusted its law enforcement cooperation policy last April, requiring law enforcement agencies in various countries to forward relevant requests to foreign government agencies for processing, which must go through international treaty procedures, significantly extending the response time.Police representatives from five European countries reported at a law enforcement meeting in the Netherlands that, except for urgent cases involving child sexual abuse, terrorism, or threats to life, the vast majority of requests were forwarded to the UAE government, where Binance is registered, severely hindering investigations.Meanwhile, several senior employees from Binance's compliance team have left one after another, further intensifying external concerns. Binance denied slowing down cooperation, stating that this move aims to ensure compliance with data privacy regulations.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI announced an official partnership with Meituan LongCat and has launched the LongCat-2.0 model under Meituan. Global developers and AI Agent builders can now access this model through the DGrid decentralized AI Gateway, providing low-cost and highly available access.LongCat-2.0 is designed for Agentic Coding in real-world scenarios, featuring a 1.6T parameter architecture with approximately 48B activations, supporting efficient long-context reasoning of 1 million tokens, and enhancing the processing speed of long text workflows through LongCat Sparse Attention. The model integrates agent, reasoning, and interaction capabilities, excelling in code understanding, generation, and execution.DGrid is a decentralized AI infrastructure that aggregates mainstream AI models globally, currently integrating over 200 models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, MiniMax, and GLM, enabling one-stop access through a unified API. The integration of LongCat-2.0 marks another expansion of DGrid on the model supply side. As more high-quality models continue to be launched, DGrid is becoming a unified entry point for AI developers to access diverse model capabilities, providing more open and flexible infrastructure support for the next generation of intelligent applications.

According to Jinshi reports, Nvidia announced on Friday that it will collaborate with South Korea's SK Group on an AI project worth over $500 billion, covering large-scale AI data center construction and next-generation memory technology.The plan includes establishing a long-term partnership with SK Hynix, aimed at ensuring Nvidia secures next-generation memory supplies and jointly developing high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI training, AI agents, and physical AI applications.SK Telecom plans to build an AI data center with a capacity of up to 2 gigawatts (GW), which will use Nvidia's Vera Rubin chips and SK Hynix's HBM4 high-bandwidth memory, with the first facility expected to be operational by 2027.

According to Jinshi reports, Nvidia (NVDA.O) announced that it will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet and cloud service provider Naver for its AI data center project under construction in Korea.Nvidia stated that this funding will allow Naver's data center to expand more than twice its current size. The project is jointly developed by Naver and the American private equity firm Brookfield Group, and will be fully equipped with Nvidia AI computing hardware.In addition, Nvidia has reached a cooperation agreement with SK Group to plan the construction of an AI data center cluster in Korea with a total computing power exceeding 2 gigawatts, which can roughly meet the electricity needs of 1.5 million households.Nvidia revealed that the first AI computing factory built by SK Telecom will be put into operation next year. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated, "Korea is entering a golden development period. The country's semiconductor industry and industrial sector are thriving, and it has the complete capability to build AI infrastructure for the world."

The National Development and Reform Commission officially released the "Action Plan for the Cooperative Development of Artificial Intelligence," aimed at building an open, shared, secure, orderly, and collaboratively governed global artificial intelligence ecosystem. The plan clearly outlines eight core actions, comprehensively promoting deep international cooperation in the AI field from multiple dimensions, including data, computing power, algorithms, talent, and governance. At the foundational level of data and computing power, the action plan emphasizes the need to promote cross-border data flow and build a trustworthy cross-border data space, collaboratively constructing a high-quality corpus; at the same time, it promotes the interconnection of intelligent computing facilities, providing inclusive intelligent computing services to developing countries, and creating low-carbon intelligent computing infrastructure driven by green energy.In terms of industrial empowerment and ecological sharing, the plan encourages the co-construction of an international open-source community for artificial intelligence, promoting the sharing of general large models, basic algorithms, and tool components, and supporting countries in conducting localized innovation based on open-source models. By deepening "Artificial Intelligence +" cooperation, it aims to build a cross-national industrial cooperation platform, promoting the deep application and empowerment of AI technology in fields such as science, manufacturing, healthcare, education, agriculture, and governance. In addition, the plan also proposes the establishment of a joint training mechanism for top digital talent, collaboratively formulating occupational standards and skill certification systems, comprehensively enhancing public literacy, and jointly addressing the structural impacts of AI on employment.Regarding industry rules and technical security, the action plan advocates for the co-construction of rules and standards and collaborative governance for security. All parties will strengthen information sharing on cybersecurity threats and emergency response cooperation, researching ways to enhance the explainability, transparency, and safety of artificial intelligence. Finally, the plan emphasizes adherence to the technological ethics principle of "AI for Good," collaboratively constructing an ethical guideline system dedicated to eliminating algorithmic biases in the forms of racism, discrimination, and others. By promoting international governance cooperation in AI research, it aims to contribute public scientific products to the Global South, effectively serving the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

According to official news from SBI Holdings, it will reach a strategic cooperation with the Solana Foundation, aimed at promoting the construction of the on-chain financial market in Japan. As part of the cooperation, the Solana Foundation will participate in SBI R3 Japan, which plans to be renamed SBI Solana Global, and will jointly promote related growth strategies with shareholders SBI Holdings and SMFG.The announcement stated that SBI Solana Global will be based on the Solana network in the future, focusing on promoting the issuance and circulation support of stablecoins such as JPYSC, the formation and circulation of tokenized RWA (including corporate bonds, commercial paper, funds, and real estate), the construction of cross-border payment infrastructure, on-chain financial services aimed at institutional investors, and the development of next-generation payment infrastructure for the AI Agent era.