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According to Bitcoin Magazine, the head of Coinbase Canada stated that the company is pushing to expand its business footprint in Canada, aiming to create a comprehensive exchange covering crypto assets, tokenized stocks, and prediction markets.The plan intends to leverage blockchain technology to provide a more efficient, round-the-clock trading experience, and Coinbase is currently coordinating with Canadian regulators regarding the launch of related products.

According to Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, the state is advancing the drafting of the "Maharashtra Land Token Asset Digitalization and Exchange Bill (DELTA Act)." Fadnavis chaired a related meeting, instructing officials to study global laws and regulations as well as best practices, and established an expert committee composed of representatives from SEBI, BSE, NSE, and professionals to formulate a complete legislative framework.According to the proposal, real estate will be tokenized through blockchain technology, with the entire transaction completed on-chain. This move aims to unlock the potential value of real estate, create new sources of revenue, and help Maharashtra achieve its goal of a $1 trillion GDP by 2030. If the legislation is implemented, Maharashtra will become the first state in India to introduce such regulations.

According to Cointelegraph, Vietnam issued Decree No. 284/2026/NĐ-CP on July 16, officially establishing an administrative penalty framework for cryptocurrency violations, providing a legal basis for the upcoming regulated cryptocurrency market.According to the decree, investors trading on unlicensed platforms face fines of up to 50 million Vietnamese dong (approximately $1,900); unauthorized issuance of crypto assets and serious anti-money laundering (AML) violations can incur fines of up to 200 million Vietnamese dong (approximately $7,700); authorities are also authorized to suspend related activities, revoke licenses, and confiscate assets.The decree will officially take effect on September 1. In terms of background, Vietnam opened applications for domestic cryptocurrency exchange licenses in January this year, and Deputy Minister Nguyen Duc Chi previously stated that the first batch of regulated activities is expected to launch in the third quarter.

Bitcoin Treasuries.NET posted on platform X that the Swedish public company Bitcoin Treasury Capital has launched Europe's first BTC-backed preferred stock on the Spotlight Stock Market, with the trading code BTC PREF.This product offers a 10% annual dividend, paid monthly.

According to The Block, Hyperliquid announced that it will introduce a permissionless deployment mechanism for the HIP-4 outcome markets in future upgrades. According to the disclosure plan, validators will vote on outcome templates to ensure market quality and clarity of expression.In addition, HIP-4 market deployers are required to stake 500,000 HYPE and can receive up to 50% of the fee share from the markets they create.

According to South Korean media KBS, the Financial Services Commission of South Korea has announced the results of virtual asset market regulation. Since the implementation of the "Virtual Asset User Protection Act" two years ago, approximately 40 investigations into unfair virtual asset trading have been completed, and more than 30 cases have been reported or notified to judicial authorities, focusing on cracking down on market disorder behaviors such as short-term manipulation and "pump and dump."In the future, the ability to monitor the market will be further strengthened, and an AI-based virtual asset regulatory system will be established, including real-time market monitoring, second-level price manipulation analysis, and automatic identification of suspicious accounts and trading intervals.

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.

The tokenization platform Tradable plans to bring up to $1 billion in private credit assets to the Stellar blockchain to expand institutional access to tokenized RWA. The initiative is expected to launch with $500 million in nominal value assets and will gradually increase to $1 billion over time. Tradable will utilize the Stellar network to support institutional functions such as compliance, investor onboarding, and asset lifecycle management, with the specific launch date yet to be disclosed.Tradable stated that it has tokenized $1.7 billion in private credit assets across nearly 30 institutional-grade private credit positions. Denelle Dixon, CEO of the Stellar Development Foundation, noted that the initiative reflects growing institutional interest in using the Stellar network for tokenized RWA. Stellar has recently continued to focus on tokenized RWA and has attracted institutional partners such as the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.

OKX will launch the SENT (Sentient) flash profit event on July 17, 2026, at 15:00. Users can participate by subscribing to BTC, OKSOL, OKB, or SENT to share a reward of 32,000,000 SENT.The event will run from July 17, 15:00 to July 27, 15:00 (UTC+8).

According to the official announcement from NEAR Chain Status, the NEAR mainnet version 2.13.0 has been released, introducing post-quantum transaction signature schemes and dynamic sharding features.Voting will begin at 8:00 AM Beijing time on July 20. Former NEAR core developer Vadim introduced that this upgrade includes features that would typically require a ten-year roadmap for most blockchains: the post-quantum signature ML-DSA-65 becomes the third key type in the protocol after ed25519 and secp256k1, allowing accounts to hold keys that cannot be forged by quantum computers, with only a 32-byte hash recorded on-chain; dynamic sharding enables the chain to automatically monitor the status and size of each shard and to split and re-shard at epoch boundaries without the need for protocol upgrades or manual intervention; Gas Keys provide critical functionality for the proxy economy, allowing a single account to run a batch of proxies to send transactions simultaneously without nonce conflicts.

According to the official blog, Brave officially released the Basic Attention Token (BAT) roadmap 4.0 on July 9. This update aims to address the new challenges brought by artificial intelligence and a cashless economy, fully integrating BAT, Brave Rewards, and Brave Creators into a transactional attention economy. The core initiatives of the roadmap include the launch of a new unified version of Brave Wallet that integrates traditional payment methods with self-custodied crypto assets, as well as the construction of a privacy payment protocol layer, BravePay, based on stablecoins, thereby providing foundational support for autonomous agent payment features such as x402 and Machine Payment Protocol (MPP) within the browser.In addition, the roadmap also plans several new products to expand the ecological boundaries. Brave plans to launch virtual and physical payment cards for Brave Rewards that support daily consumption and return BAT rewards, while also developing a new creator contribution protocol to ensure that creators receive micro-royalty compensation when their content is utilized by AI products. In terms of token economics, a portion of the net income generated from Brave Wallet's revenue features, payment cards, and the BravePay protocol will be directly used to repurchase BAT to support user rewards and ecological growth. With the advancement of the above new features, Brave will gradually phase out traditional advertising notification units by the end of 2026 and fully shift the user reward mechanism towards personalized offer walls and a new loyalty program.

WEEX Exchange Announcement: The platform has launched zero-fee trading for Prismevm (PP) and is offering a new user incentive activity. From July 7, 18:00 to July 14, 18:00 (UTC+8), new users can participate in the distribution of a total airdrop reward of 20,000 USDT by completing tasks during the event.It is reported that Prismevm (PP) is the 234th WE-Launch project of WEEX, which was officially launched on July 2 at 16:00 (UTC+8).

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 official news, Uniswap Labs has released a temperature check proposal, suggesting the activation of protocol fees in the v4 pool. This proposal follows the rapid governance process previously approved by UNIfication and will directly enter a five-day Snapshot voting period, followed by on-chain voting.Due to the Hook architecture of v4 making fee settings more complex than v2/v3, the proposal has designed the V4 Fee Controller system, which includes two core contracts: V4FeePolicy calculates the fees for any pool based on governance rules, and V4FeeAdapter is responsible for executing governance overrides and collecting fees into TokenJar. Fees are calculated hierarchically based on the family of the pool: first checking the specific trading pair rate set by governance, then the family default rate, and finally the global default rate.This proposal aims to activate fees for three types of pool families across 11 chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB Chain: static rate pools without Hooks, CCA pools after continuous liquidation auctions, and aggregator Hook pools. The rates for aggregator Hook pools are adjusted by a 25x multiplier, with a default of 10 bp for non-Base chains (3 bp for stablecoin pairs) and a default of 3 bp for Base chains (1 bp for stablecoin pairs). All fees will flow into each chain's TokenJar, and the amount of UNI burned on L2 and Alt-L1 will be cross-chain bridged to the Ethereum mainnet and sent to the 0xdead address.The Snapshot voting window is from July 7 to July 12, and on-chain voting will start during the week of July 13. Since GovernorBravo limits each proposal to 10 actions, two on-chain votes will be submitted in parallel to cover all chains.

According to the Industrial and Commercial Times, due to the soaring prices of key components such as memory and SSDs, the cost pressure for configuring high-capacity storage in mainstream laptops has greatly increased. Cost-effective mainland Chinese memory and storage components are gradually penetrating the PC supply chain, with brands such as Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Acer, and even the American brand Apple accelerating the certification, introduction, or platform tuning of related products.The report pointed out that Lenovo has expanded its use of mainland components this year, and recently flagship laptop models equipped with Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) SSDs have appeared on North American cross-border e-commerce platforms. The American brand Apple is also reported to be negotiating with the U.S. government to procure Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) memory to cope with the rising prices. In terms of Taiwanese board manufacturers, MSI recently announced that it is the first to complete the verification and tuning of Changxin Memory DDR5 chips on the AMD platform at DDR5-8000+, while Gigabyte has also adopted Changxin Memory chips in some motherboard models. ASUS and Acer have introduced memory modules from mainland manufacturers such as BIWIN through their own brand memory certification or OEM models.Industry analysts believe that although the short-term imbalance in supply and demand for storage has prompted non-mainland brands to accelerate related certifications, due to the limited production capacity of mainland manufacturers, brand Taiwanese manufacturers still emphasize that Korean original manufacturers with long-term contracts remain the main supply partners at present.

JPMorgan analysts stated that Michael Saylor's Strategy recently officially launched a Bitcoin selling policy, transforming the company from a pure BTC buyer into a potential seller, introducing "avoidable two-way risk" to the crypto market. Strategy's Bitcoin selling policy is called the BTC Monetization Program, allowing the company to sell Bitcoin to raise up to $1.25 billion in cash reserves for paying preferred stock dividends and interest expenses, or for repurchasing preferred stock and common stock to optimize its capital structure.JPMorgan believes that if Strategy may sell BTC in the future, it will increase market uncertainty and volatility regarding Bitcoin prices. Analysts noted that if the company instead supplemented future dividend payment reserves through equity issuance, this risk could have been avoided. Strategy currently has a minimum cash reserve target set to cover 12 months of preferred stock dividends and interest expenses, with the current $2.55 billion cash reserve approximately covering 17 months of dividends. JPMorgan believes the company should increase its cash reserves to cover 24 to 36 months of related obligations, even if this may lead to common stock trading at a discount to net asset value, it would reassure investors that the company will not be forced to sell Bitcoin in the short term.

According to the Financial Times, the U.S. government is in discussions with several AI companies and plans to introduce voluntary industry standards for the release of cutting-edge AI models as early as next week, to prevent advanced technologies from being misused by other countries. The standards will clearly define regulations regarding model performance benchmarks, release timelines, and domestic and international access permissions.Affected by recent tightening of regulatory policies, several leading AI companies have adjusted their operations. OpenAI has postponed the full release of GPT-5.6 at the government's request, allowing access only to a few partners that have passed qualification reviews; two top models from Anthropic have just had their export restrictions lifted after nearly three weeks; Google is also in close communication with the government while preparing a new generation of code models. Additionally, the report mentions that both OpenAI and Anthropic, which are currently under regulatory scrutiny, are actively preparing for their initial public offerings (IPOs).

According to the Korea Exchange (KRX) announcement on July 2, to further improve the KOSDAQ market system, KRX has officially revised the relevant listing rules and implementation details, aiming to strictly control the deviation of technology special listing companies from their main business.The new regulations clearly state that companies listed through technology exceptions that change their main business direction within 5 years after listing (excluding businesses similar to or subsidiary to the original main business) will be subject to substantial delisting review. KRX officials specifically cited an example where a related biotechnology company transferred its management rights to an overseas digital asset company after listing last year and illegally transformed into a "cryptocurrency vault" and other digital asset professional investment institutions. KRX emphasized that such behavior has caused the company to deviate from the technical and growth assessment basis approved at the time of listing, and therefore must undergo strict delisting review.In addition, the new regulations have added additional restrictions to the grace period for delisting conditions enjoyed by special listing companies (i.e., exemption from revenue insufficiency or large-scale losses within 3 to 5 years), requiring relevant companies to publicly disclose their "corporate value enhancement plans" during this period to ensure future growth and strengthen communication with investors. This revision of regulations also includes measures to optimize the capital market, such as expanding customized qualitative review standards for innovative companies and establishing a low PBR (price-to-book ratio) company disclosure system.

According to Bits.media, Fidan Tofidi, the head of the Financial Technology and Innovation Department of the Central Bank of Azerbaijan, stated that the regulatory bill for the country's virtual asset market has been drafted and submitted for review, with formal legislation expected within the year. The bill requires all companies engaged in cryptocurrency asset business to obtain a license issued by the central bank, and unauthorized operations within the country are prohibited. Licensed institutions will be subject to ongoing supervision. The regulatory framework will cover compliance requirements such as anti-money laundering, counter-terrorism financing, and customer identity verification (KYC), and will be incorporated into Azerbaijan's financial market development strategy for 2027-2030.