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The perpetual contract trading platform Ostium on Arbitrum is suspected to have been attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 12 to 18 million USDC, accounting for about 35% of its over 34 million dollar treasury size.The attacker allegedly compromised the oracle signer’s private key, utilized the registered PriceUpkeep relayer to submit favorable prices for future times, and looped opening and closing positions to deplete the treasury funds. Currently, Ostium officials have not responded.

According to Techcrunch, Nous Research, the developer of the open-source agent Hermes, is finalizing a new round of financing, expected to be led by Robot Ventures, with participation from institutions like USV. The company's valuation is approximately $1.5 billion. Sources indicate that the scale of this round of financing is at least $75 million.Its core product, Hermes, as an open-source local AI agent, has accumulated 214,000 stars and nearly 40,000 forks on the GitHub platform. It supports users in deploying and running locally on personal computers and virtual servers, with autonomous execution capabilities such as web retrieval and code generation.

The decentralized derivatives trading platform 01 Exchange officially announced that the retroactive points claim is now live. If users have traded during the testing phase, they can now claim additional points. Starting this Tuesday, bonus points will be distributed daily, and traders will receive the corresponding additional points over the next two weeks.Previously, 01 Exchange announced that it has been acquired by N1 Chain, a project supported by Founders Fund.

The AI Agent no-code operating platform X-Agent, based on the Web3 social network, officially releases its core "Litepaper V1" to the world. The white paper details how it reconstructs the decentralized AI agent ecosystem and commercialization path through no-code deployment and secure sandbox technology.The core technologies and solutions are as follows: 1) Speak to Build (no-code deployment): Allows users to create and deploy professional-grade AI agents to Telegram, WhatsApp, or the web in minutes using pure natural language. 2) SRE Cryptographic Sandbox (physically isolated security): A unique physically isolated operating environment that perfectly protects user private keys and sensitive credentials while enabling agents to have enterprise-level autonomous asset changes and on-chain collaboration capabilities.Market performance and latest data: X-Agent has surpassed 1,000,000+ cumulative global users, and the AI agents have autonomously completed over 1,100,000 actual business tasks, consuming/destroying over 8.4 billion model tokens. The project has previously raised $1.8 million in funding and has a highly cohesive localized community in Japan and South Korea. The native token $XAGT serves as the network's settlement hard currency, directly used for SRE computing Gas fee settlement, transaction commission payment, and staking endorsement. The team and investors have a strict 12-month Cliff lock-up. The community quota is completely non-inflationary and can only be unlocked through actual sandbox task consumption algorithms, ensuring that each token is supported by real business demand. According to the latest roadmap, X-Agent will open a new no-code public portal in Q3 2026 and launch a decentralized Agent Store in Q1 2027.

According to official news, the blockchain investment institution TBV announced its investment in the decentralized on-chain trading system Universe Pro to support the development and construction of its unified on-chain trading infrastructure.Universe Pro is committed to integrating spot trading, perpetual contracts, on-chain analytics, and liquidity mechanisms within a non-custodial framework. The core system module of the platform is the UNAI engine, which is mainly responsible for coordinating DEX liquidity participation, MEV-related execution, market-making scheduling, and payment settlement. This collaboration will further assist Universe Pro in optimizing its core infrastructure, product architecture, execution system, and on-chain verification capabilities.

Blockstream co-founder Adam Back commented on the controversy within the Bitcoin community regarding BIP 110, stating that he understands and sympathizes with the concerns of those supporting BIP 110, who hate spam transactions and want to protect the network. However, the proposal is essentially an act of "trying to monitor others," which would erode Bitcoin's decentralization, security, and neutrality, fundamentally conflicting with the spirit of Bitcoin.In response, Michael Saylor retweeted and stated, "There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam. BIP 110 turns the spam controversy into a consensus change, which will invalidate some currently valid transactions that have paid fees. This precedent is the real danger, and we should focus our energy on the truly important threats."Previously, David Bailey, chairman of the Bitcoin Treasury Company Nakamoto and chairman of Bitcoin Magazine, stated that the failure of the so-called "BIP-110" long-standing controversy constitutes an "extreme benefit" for Bitcoin and believes this further validates the network's resistance to attacks and splits.

According to Decrypt, the AI-driven decentralized finance infrastructure project TrueDAO announced the completion of a $10 million strategic financing round, led by Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Zee Prime Capital and Jump Capital.The funds raised will primarily be used for the development of core AI protocols, the construction of AI risk control systems, security audits, compliance work, and the expansion of ecosystem partnerships. After the financing is completed, TrueDAO will advance the launch of the testnet, developer tools, and ecosystem integration plans.

The decentralized AI protocol Prime Intellect has completed a $130 million Series A financing round, led by Radical Ventures, with participation from NVIDIA Ventures, Intel Capital, Dell Technologies Capital, and existing investors, bringing the total funding to over $150 million to build an open superintelligent stack.Founded in 2024, Prime Intellect is dedicated to building an "open superintelligent stack" that provides enterprises with a full-stack AI agent development infrastructure covering computing, large-scale reinforcement learning, sandboxing, evaluation, and deployment. Its clients include over 6,000 enterprises and startups such as Ramp and Zapier, with an annual revenue exceeding $100 million. The company plans to expand its computing clusters and reinforcement learning scale, and is betting on cutting-edge directions such as long-cycle agents, recursive language models, and continuous learning.

BitTorrent officially announced that it will fully launch a long-term BTT token buyback plan in the third quarter of 2026. According to the plan, 100% of the revenue generated by BitTorrent's decentralized services will be used quarterly for BTT token buybacks, aiming to inject long-lasting and stable liquidity support into the token ecosystem.At the same time, after each buyback is completed, the official will release a detailed on-chain audit report to ensure that the flow of funds and the entire execution process are open and transparent. The launch of this milestone initiative not only strengthens BTT's value anchoring as the core asset of the ecosystem but also marks the official entry of the BitTorrent ecosystem into a new stage of sustainable development driven by revenue and value feedback.

According to Cryptopolitan, the decentralized lending protocol Goldfinch, supported by a16z, announced it will gradually shut down. Last Friday, an anonymous investor, Edward Morra, publicly accused the protocol of mismanagement, leading to over $50 million in user fund losses, stating that borrower defaults and failed loan restructurings made it nearly impossible for depositors to recover their funds. Just a day after the post was published, the project announced it would enter a gradual shutdown phase.The protocol's native token GFI fell from a peak of $32.94 in January 2022 to below $0.07, a decline of 99.8%, with its market capitalization dropping from over $390 million to less than $6 million. Goldfinch was founded in 2021 by former Coinbase employees, aiming to connect crypto capital with credit enterprises overlooked by traditional banks, with a16z leading its $25 million financing in January 2022. Problems began to emerge months after the funding: the Kenyan motorcycle financing company Tugende Kenya defaulted, two underlying positions in the $2 billion loan from the U.S. credit fund Stratos nearly went to zero, and the Singapore borrower Lend East could only repay 58% of the principal. As the loan portfolio deteriorated, the protocol turned to institutional credit funds but ultimately could not turn the situation around.

Bittensor co-founder const posted on the X platform, detailing the current state of decentralization of the project, future roadmap, and goals. Bittensor has not yet achieved decentralization at the economic incentive layer, which is still led by the core team, including const himself, two engineers, and a core group of contributors. The project has been live for over 5 years, with no pre-mining, and has 128 subnet teams and over 20 core validator teams, achieving decentralization at the ownership distribution level. The team chose to rapidly iterate at the cost of "maintaining centralization" rather than slowly advancing "democratic" decision-making.Regarding future update plans, Bittensor will promote validators to re-enter the competitive mechanism while opening liquidity pools for two-way investment to symmetrize the market and prevent on-chain signals from being manipulated. Additionally, a belief mechanism will be introduced to grant voting rights to Alpha token holders. In the coming weeks, updates will also be made to TaoFlow and its derivatives, further fine-tuning the issuance distribution algorithm to optimize the distribution method of inflation. Const expects to complete the construction of core mechanisms within the next year and a half, at which point the three pillars of incentive alignment, value optimization, and true ownership will operate in synergy, ultimately achieving complete decentralization by abandoning centralized control.

According to the official announcement, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange Satori Finance, supported by Coinbase Ventures and Jump Capital, has announced that due to a prolonged market downturn leading to unsustainable revenue, it has decided to gradually shut down the platform.All services of Satori will officially terminate at 19:59 Eastern Time on July 16, 2026. The official reminds users to close positions and withdraw all assets as soon as possible before this deadline, as funds may become inaccessible after the deadline. It is reported that the platform completed a $10 million financing in 2022, with a historical cumulative trading volume of nearly $99 billion.Recently, due to a significant correction in the crypto market, several industry startups (such as Botanix, Syndicate Labs, etc.) have announced shutdowns.

BTTInferGrid has officially launched, opening a new chapter in the decentralized AI (DeAI) track for the ecosystem. As a significant ecological upgrade to the existing BTFS services, this platform aims to break traditional computing power barriers through a trustless multi-validator consensus mechanism, establishing a solid guarantee of computational integrity. With the $BTT token serving as the foundational option for unified incentives and settlements within the ecosystem, it seamlessly and efficiently connects idle GPU resources with a wide range of AI developers. Under this network architecture, BTTInferGrid not only provides ultra-cost-effective, elastically scalable on-demand computing services for AI inference, lowering the threshold for large model inference and operation; it also empowers global hardware nodes, allowing the supply side to easily convert idle GPUs into high-value earnings through a transparent reward mechanism based on performance weight. BTTInferGrid is leading the AI infrastructure into a new round of paradigm revolution towards decentralization, relying on a strong consensus of cryptoeconomics.

Hyperbridge Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol Hyperbridge announced the completion of a comprehensive architecture reboot, re-launching after completing security audits, bug bounty incentives, and system reconstruction, and officially transforming into a "hyperstructure." The protocol was suspended after the security incident on April 13, during which it completed a joint audit with organizations such as SRLabs and paid over $150,000 in bounties to security researchers.The team stated that this upgrade removed the original centralized management keys, transitioning to a fully permissionless network of validators and provers, achieving full-stack decentralized operation.This reboot also introduced the "Hyper Fungible Token (HFT)" standard, making each cross-chain asset an independent application layer structure, with issuers autonomously controlling cross-chain behavior rules, including pause mechanisms and throttling strategies. Hyperbridge also released the OFT (Omnichain Fungible Token) adapter, which is compatible with existing cross-chain protocols like LayerZero, allowing assets to be migrated to a zero-knowledge proof-based transport layer by simply modifying configuration parameters, without the need to redeploy contracts.In addition, the protocol's business model has shifted from a pay-per-use model to a subscription model, allowing cross-chain applications to pay a stablecoin fee of $50 to $1,000 per month for bandwidth services. The official statement indicated that this upgrade marks Hyperbridge's transition from an early cross-chain bridge project to a fully decentralized infrastructure protocol, aiming to provide a unified interoperability layer for a multi-chain ecosystem without the need for trusted intermediaries.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI today released its latest research paper "PoQ-Judge," proposing a multi-architecture quality assessment framework that does not require reference answers. This means that in real deployment environments, there are often no standard answers for comparison, yet the protocol can still reliably score the quality of model responses and allocate incentives accordingly. This is a key piece that has long been missing in DGrid's decentralized LLM inference quality assessment system.PoQ (Proof of Quality) is a consensus mechanism independently developed by DGrid, designed to prevent model providers from deploying low-quality models, fabricating data, or hiding computational costs at the protocol level, thereby ensuring service quality and pricing transparency. The DGrid team has been continuously working on PoQ and has published four research papers to date. The newly released PoQ-Judge has trained three assessment models covering different quality and cost scenarios, achieving a correlation of up to 0.747 with human scoring on the retention test set, significantly outperforming all previous reference answer-based evaluators, while reducing assessment costs by over 72% through cascading evaluation and online weight calibration.With the implementation of PoQ-Judge, the entire process from quality assessment → scoring → incentive allocation has completely eliminated reliance on reference answers, thus establishing a closed loop for the quality of decentralized LLM inference.DGrid AI is a decentralized AI intelligent network dedicated to building an open, transparent, and community-driven AI infrastructure. Focusing on model invocation and application experience, DGrid has launched several core products: the AI Gateway that aggregates mainstream large models globally, the one-click deployment platform for AI agents DClaw, the anonymous model competition platform AI Arena, and the intelligent model recommendation assistant Dori, providing one-stop services for developers and users. It is reported that DGrid AI's revenue has surpassed 20 million dollars in six months.

According to official news, the decentralized futures exchange MNX, aimed at the AI economy, has completed a $6.4 million financing round, with participation from Village Global, Cambrian, Relay Digital, North Island Ventures, and others.MNX aims to build AI-native derivatives infrastructure, covering GPU leasing prices, data center electricity cost futures, valuation markets for private labs such as OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, AI benchmarks and financial forecasting markets, as well as global stock perpetual contracts related to AI. The platform supports leverage, portfolio margin, and batch auction fair execution, with settlement conducted in a completely non-custodial manner on MegaETH, and the mainnet is scheduled to officially launch this summer.

The decentralized AI infrastructure network DGrid AI announced an official partnership with MiniMax. Both parties will provide low-cost, high-availability access to MiniMax models for global developers and agents through the DGrid decentralized AI Gateway, jointly promoting its adoption in a broader ecosystem.DGrid is a decentralized AI infrastructure that aggregates mainstream AI models from around the world. It currently connects over 200 models, including Claude, GPT, and Gemini, enabling one-stop access through a unified API. The platform is aimed at developers and AI agent builders, offering high-availability, low-latency model access services, and is committed to lowering the entry barriers and usage costs for AI applications.MiniMax is a global leader in general artificial intelligence across all modalities and is one of the few AI companies capable of self-developing models for text, voice, video, music, and other modalities. This official collaboration with MiniMax represents another significant expansion for DGrid on the model supply side, marking a new step in connecting mainstream model vendors and building a decentralized AI ecosystem. With the integration of more high-quality models, DGrid is becoming a unified entry point for AI developers to access diverse model capabilities, providing more flexible and open infrastructure support for the next generation of intelligent applications.As part of the initial collaboration, MiniMax's flagship model M3 has been launched on DGrid, and DGrid Premium users can enjoy a 55% discount directly.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin stated that he will no longer write regular blog posts and has decided to try writing some science fiction stories on the theme of decentralized governance.According to the link he posted, he has completed the first and second chapters of the science fiction novel.