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The Jito Foundation has signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Korean digital asset custodian KODA to explore providing institutional custody and staking support for JitoSOL in the Korean market.According to a Monday announcement, the agreement covers the promotion of institutional investors and the development of compliant custody and staking pathways. This move comes as the Korean Financial Services Commission is expected to finalize the digital asset regulatory framework later this year. In February, the Jito Foundation began exploring the launch of the JitoSOL ETF in Korea with Hanwha Asset Management, but it is still pending regulatory approval. KODA is supported by investors such as KB Kookmin Bank and holds a VASP license and ISMS certification, providing custody infrastructure such as cold storage and MPC key management.

According to News1, the stablecoin issuer Circle has partnered with Dunamu, the operator of South Korea's largest virtual asset trading platform Upbit, to collaborate in the field of stablecoins and other digital assets.Dunamu stated that it has signed a comprehensive memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Circle and is discussing cooperation plans in the digital asset sector, including stablecoins, such as jointly promoting educational projects. This initiative aims to enhance market participants' access to information, thereby increasing the trustworthiness of South Korea's digital asset ecosystem.In particular, Dunamu plans to promote "healthy innovation" in the South Korean digital asset market through collaboration with Circle, which has consistently complied with U.S. regulations and continues to expand its business.

Tencent Cloud officially released the "Lobster" memory service ------ TencentDB Agent Memory, adding a layer of long-term memory capability to OpenClaw. Currently, Agent Memory is seamlessly integrated into Tencent Cloud Lighthouse, ClawPro, and other products in the form of a plugin, supporting free one-click activation.

According to CoinDesk, President Trump has removed Attorney General Pam Bondi from her position and appointed his former personal lawyer, current Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, as acting Attorney General. Blanche previously represented Trump in handling criminal cases in New York, and after taking office as Deputy Attorney General, he ordered the dissolution of the Justice Department's national cryptocurrency enforcement team and signed a memorandum instructing prosecutors not to pursue regulatory violation cases in the cryptocurrency industry.According to disclosed documents, Blanche held various cryptocurrencies valued between approximately $159,000 and $485,000 when he signed the enforcement memorandum, including Bitcoin, Solana, Cardano, Ethereum, Polygon, Polkadot, Quant, and Coinbase stock, violating ethical rules and his prior commitment to divest assets before handling cryptocurrency-related matters.

Polygon announced the launch of the Private Mempool, a private transaction submission entry that protects each transaction from front-running and sandwich attacks.Simply replace the RPC address with the corresponding private entry to use this feature, with no additional operations required.

According to Jinshi reports, U.S. memory stocks generally fell, with Micron Technology down 5.28%, SanDisk down 2.7%, and Seagate down 4.4%.

AI visual memory startup Memories.ai announced a partnership with NVIDIA to build a visual memory infrastructure for wearable devices and robots using NVIDIA's Cosmos-Reason 2 visual language model and Metropolis video search platform.The company was co-founded by former Meta Ray-Ban glasses AI team members Shawn Shen and Ben Zhou in 2024 and has completed $16 million in funding, led by Susa Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp, Fusion Fund, and Crane Venture Partners. The company launched its Large Visual Memory Model (LVMM) in July 2025 and has partnered with Qualcomm, planning to run the model on Qualcomm processors later this year.

According to Theblock, Hana Financial Group and SC Group have signed a memorandum of understanding to engage in in-depth cooperation in the global financial business and digital asset sectors. The two institutions will strengthen their collaboration in global financial areas such as investment banking (IB), capital markets, and foreign exchange. At the same time, both parties plan to jointly explore growth opportunities in future financial fields such as digital assets.Hana Financial Group Chairman Ham Young-joo stated that both sides will leverage their respective global networks and financial expertise to enhance global competitiveness through synergies in areas such as digital assets. SC Group CEO Bill Winters remarked that South Korea is a core hub of the Asian financial market, and this cooperation is an important milestone for its global network business.

The two major financial regulatory agencies in the United States, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), committing to enhance collaboration in the regulation of crypto assets and the launch of new digital asset products to support legitimate innovation and protect investors.According to the statements from both parties, the MOU aims to "guide coordination and cooperation between the two agencies," focusing on supporting legitimate innovation, maintaining market integrity, and ensuring investor and customer protection. The two agencies also plan to jointly promote the development of a federal-level policy framework to establish a "fit-for-purpose regulatory framework" for emerging technologies such as crypto assets. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins stated that the long-standing disputes over regulatory authority, redundant registration requirements, and differing regulatory rules between the SEC and CFTC have somewhat stifled innovation and prompted some market participants to turn to other jurisdictions.Under the MOU, the two agencies will also coordinate to address regulatory barriers that hinder the legitimate launch of new financial products, including those related to crypto assets. While MOUs typically do not have legal binding force, the market generally views the formal commitment of the SEC and CFTC to enhance policy coordination as a positive signal for the digital asset industry. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig stated that the reason the U.S. financial markets lead globally is their ability to continuously adapt to investor needs, and the regulatory system must evolve in tandem to achieve more unified and comprehensive market oversight.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin recently published a series of technical articles discussing the future roadmap of Ethereum. In the latest article, he focused on analyzing the potential centralization risks in the block building pipeline and proposed solutions such as expanding the FOCIL mechanism and introducing encrypted mempools to enhance the network's censorship resistance.According to the plan, Ethereum will launch the Glamsterdam upgrade in the first half of 2026, which will introduce the enshrined Proposer-Builder Separation (ePBS) mechanism. This mechanism allows block proposers to outsource block construction to a permissionless open market, reducing the centralization risk at the staking level. However, Buterin pointed out that while ePBS can prevent the concentration of block building rights among a few staking pools, the block construction itself may still become concentrated among a few high-tier participants due to specialization and maximizing MEV, leading to a new trend of centralization.To address this issue, Ethereum developers plan to simultaneously launch the FOCIL (Forward Obligatory Commitment to Inclusion Lists) mechanism in the Glamsterdam upgrade. The initial version will randomly select 16 witnesses and mandate that specific transactions must be included in the block; otherwise, the block will be rejected. Buterin stated that even if block construction is controlled by a single malicious entity, FOCIL can still ensure that transactions cannot be completely censored.Additionally, Buterin explored the possibility of expanding the scale of FOCIL ("big FOCIL") and introducing encrypted mempools to further mitigate the issues of information asymmetry and power concentration in the block building process. Recently, Buterin has been vocal about topics such as the quantum resistance roadmap, execution layer improvements, and block building mechanisms, indicating that the core Ethereum development team is conducting systematic design and risk assessment for the next phase of protocol upgrades.

The Japanese yen stablecoin issuer JPYC has signed a strategic cooperation memorandum of understanding with Sony Bank and its Web3 subsidiary BlockBloom. The two parties plan to provide real-time bank account transfer functionality on the "JPYC EX" platform, allowing users to purchase JPYC directly from their Sony Bank accounts without manual remittance.In addition, both parties will explore collaborations with entertainment IPs such as music and gaming, applying JPYC to digital content purchases and fan rewards.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Shanghai Municipal Data Bureau, and the National Blockchain Technology Innovation Center of China today jointly signed the "Memorandum of Cooperation on Digitalization of Freight Trade and Finance between Shanghai and Hong Kong" to further promote in-depth cooperation between Shanghai and Hong Kong in the fields of digital empowerment of freight trade and finance, leveraging Hong Kong's unique advantages as a "super connector" and "super value creator" to facilitate internal and external connectivity, and supporting Shanghai in connecting with the international data ecosystem through Hong Kong.According to the "Memorandum of Cooperation," the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Shanghai Municipal Data Bureau, and the National Innovation Center will jointly research innovative cooperation in digital technology and applications, promoting innovation in the application of digital technology in freight trade, finance, and other fields. The parties will jointly explore the use of digital technology to build a "cross-border platform," carry out cross-border financial cooperation in the Ensemble project, study how to apply electronic bills of lading, and promote integration with commercial data connectivity and CargoX, using freight and trade data to drive trade financing between the two regions.

Anthropic is accused of launching a prompt tool for "exporting ChatGPT memory data," helping users transfer historical memory information to its model Claude, which has drawn industry attention.According to public content, the tool allows users to export their memory data from OpenAI's ChatGPT by copying and pasting specific prompts, and then import it into Claude. Related discussions suggest that this move is seen as directly weakening the user stickiness and switching costs that ChatGPT relies on through its "memory function."Market views consider the memory mechanism as an important moat for large model products— the longer users engage, the deeper the model understands their preferences, context, and historical conversations, thereby increasing the migration costs. If third-party tools can facilitate easy data migration, it may change the current user lock-in logic of AI products.Meanwhile, reports also mentioned that Anthropic was previously restricted from use by relevant systems of the U.S. Department of Defense, but the company's popularity and attention have quickly surged, topping some application rankings.Currently, the specific compliance of the aforementioned tool and the platform's response have not been clarified. The industry generally believes that competition among large models has extended from performance comparisons to ecological and data sovereignty aspects, with user data portability potentially becoming a key variable in the next stage.

CZ stated on social media platform X that The New York Times has reported on his upcoming memoir "Freedom of Money," but the media based its report on an early draft and without authorization.CZ's lawyer Teresa Goody Guillén stated in a statement that the content cited in the relevant report is neither in the final manuscript nor expressed by CZ himself. She expressed hope that readers will wait to read the complete version once the new book is officially published.CZ also revealed that the new book is still in the editing process, with each revision typically taking 2 to 3 weeks, and the official release date will be announced separately.

According to the tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the decentralized AI memory layer Unibase has been the project with the most unfollows by top figures on X (Twitter). The newly unfollowed influential figures on X include BroLeon (@BroLeon), 0xAA (@0xAA_Science), and 0xAA (@0xAA_Science).In addition, the project with the most unfollows by top figures on X also includes Kaito.

The Nasdaq-listed company Addentax Group announced that it has signed memorandums of understanding with two investment institutions to issue common stock at a price of $1.50 per share to raise a total of $200 million, in order to support business growth in the fields of artificial intelligence (AI) and cryptocurrency financial services.The company proposed a long-term investment and holding strategy for crypto assets last year, planning to acquire up to 12,000 bitcoins, as well as cryptocurrencies like TRUMP.