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Talent Protocol announced that it has been acquired by Interplanetary Talent Services (IPTS) and is supported by Protocol Labs. Builder Score will become a public product, running locally in the browser, using public data from GitHub and four blockchains, with each calculation verifiable. Builders can publish their scores as proof on Base. IPTS will obtain some reputation data to match builders with positions in cutting-edge technology fields such as AI, crypto, hardware, and life sciences.Both parties will continue the results for five years: 6.6 million builder profiles and 86 million events have been indexed, over $600,000 has been distributed through Builder Rewards, and 116 builders from more than 15 countries have been supported by Talent House. Talent Protocol will cease commercial operations, with the API, Talent+, and social channels shutting down at the end of August. The team will not join IPTS or Protocol Labs, and $TALENT is not included in this acquisition.

According to Jinshi reports, SK Hynix's American Depositary Receipts indicate an opening price of $180, with an issue price of $149.

According to CoinDesk, fund services giant Apex Group announced that it will tokenize Omnes Mining Note (OMN) on the Base platform, a Layer 2 network under Coinbase. OMN is an institutional-grade structured note backed by Bitcoin mining power, aimed at professional non-U.S. investors, providing economic exposure directly linked to new Bitcoin production without the operational burdens of mining infrastructure, hardware, energy, and compliance.Each OMN corresponds to a fixed 1 PH/s of mining power, with a term of 36 months, and ownership is recorded on-chain through the ERC-3643 standard, which may potentially be used as collateral for permissioned lending in the future.

ChainCatcher message, Binance announced that it has discovered some users participating in the Alpha activities through bots, undermining the fairness of the Alpha Points project. As a result, the platform has upgraded its risk control system to enhance the detection and handling of related behaviors.Binance clearly stated that any actions using scripts, automated tools, or other non-manual methods will be considered violations, and the Alpha Points eligibility of the relevant accounts will be revoked, with further restrictions potentially implemented if necessary. Binance urges all users to comply with the rules to jointly maintain the fairness and transparency of the project.

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian posted on X that the Tornado Cash IPFS version frontend has backdoor code that can hijack deposit receipts. Additionally, due to governance attacks, malicious proposals have been quietly passed. The malicious code has been present for nearly two months, during which some attackers' mixed funds may have been blackmailed by this backdoor.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized perpetual contract protocol dYdX published an introduction to the v4 architecture and how the front end works, stating that its web front end provides an intuitive UI/UX for traders who do not wish to interact with v4 programmatically. It is building three front ends: a web application, an iOS application, and an Android application, and will also provide Typescript and Python SDKs for advanced users/institutions.dYdX stated that it will open source all front end codebases and related deployment scripts, allowing anyone to easily deploy the dYdX front end through their own domain/hosting solutions. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, blockchain analytics company Nansen tweeted that users will receive an NFT after making an ETH withdrawal request on Lido Finance. Once the withdrawal request is accepted, the NFT image will be updated and notify the withdrawal applicant, allowing users to use the NFT as a withdrawal proof (receipt).According to information disclosed by @Lido_intern and retweeted by Lido's official account, the ETH withdrawal NFT launched by Lido Finance is transferable, meaning users can send it to any ETH wallet where they wish to receive their unstaked ETH. (source link)