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According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "LoL Hanwha Life Esports vs T1," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Any Player Pentakill" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 26% an hour ago to the current 43.5% (a fluctuation of 17.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

ESMA has included 14 new cryptocurrency companies, including Ripple Payments Europe, in its MiCA registration list, bringing the total number of licensed cryptocurrency service providers to 294.

According to Jinshi reports, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard stated that a facility housing U.S. troops was destroyed in Iran's missile attack on Jordan's Prince Faisal Air Base.

Michael Saylor posted on the X platform, stating that fiat currency is the problem, and strengthening companies, institutions, securities, and technologies related to Bitcoin is part of the solution. People can discuss viewpoints, and allies should not be mistaken for enemies.

On July 17, Interlace and BlockSec jointly held the summit "The Next Decade of Payments: Digital Currency, AI Agents, and the New Global Financial Order." The event brought together industry guests from AI, Web3, security, and payments to discuss the development trends of stablecoin payments, security compliance, AI agents, and global payment infrastructure.BlockSec co-founder Zhou Yajin and Interlace founder and CEO Michael Wu delivered keynote speeches on "Security and Compliance in Crypto Payments" and "Agentic Payment and the New Infrastructure of Global Finance," respectively, sharing their latest observations on the development trends of digital asset payments. As the scenarios for stablecoin payments continue to expand, the security compliance system and the construction of a new generation of payment infrastructure are becoming key supports for driving industry development. In the future, payment infrastructure will not only serve the function of capital flow but will also further evolve into a programmable, trusted, and verifiable value transfer system, providing underlying support for the connection between digital assets and real-world commerce.At the event, Interlace also officially released the white paper "The Value Transmission Layer of the AI Economy: From Concept to Implementation." The white paper was jointly initiated with ecosystem partners such as Bitget, BlockSec, Cobo, Conflux, Stable, Xagent, and Hetu, systematically defining the architecture, standards, and implementation paths of Agentic Payment infrastructure, providing a reference for value transfer in the era of the AI economy.

The cross-chain bridge project Across posted that it encountered an attack on the Solana side, but user funds are safe, and all existing cross-chain transactions have been completed. Only the funds of the relay nodes operated by Risk Labs may be affected. Across has suspended deposits in the Solana direction, and other functions of the protocol are operating normally.The project team is tracking the related attack addresses with SEAL_911 (including one Solana address and two Ethereum addresses) and will release more details and a complete review later. They remind users to only pay attention to information released by this official account and to be wary of phishing links.

According to Xinhua News Agency, the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference released the "Global Artificial Intelligence Innovation Index Report 2026," which quantitatively evaluates the AI innovation development of 46 countries from five dimensions: foundational support, resources and environment, scientific and technological research and development, industry and applications, and international cooperation and exchange.The report points out that AI infrastructure continues to expand, and energy supply has become a new variable for future development; the focus of large model industrialization is shifting from general-purpose to vertical, from training to inference, driving the complete business process reshaping, with enterprises showing characteristics of heavy asset investment; at the same time, the global demand for AI governance is accelerating, and China is promoting global governance and inclusive cooperation from multiple dimensions.

According to Coinglass data, on July 17 at 16:29, 39.0914 million USDT was detected being transferred from an unknown wallet to Binance.

According to official news, the current staking scale of Gate GUSD has exceeded 230 million. As a yield asset supported by U.S. Treasury RWA and stablecoins, GUSD currently has a minting yield of 3.8%. Users holding GUSD can not only continuously earn yields but also participate in various ecological activities such as Launchpool and Pre-IPOs, enhancing the efficiency of fund utilization.To further improve the liquidity experience, Gate officially launched the GUSD no-loss quick redemption feature on July 17 at 14:00 (UTC+8). Users can redeem GUSD minted with USDT, USDC, or USD1 within the no-loss exit limit of the corresponding currency, enjoying real-time 1:1 crediting of the original currency without redemption fees, achieving flexible fund turnover while enjoying yields and maintaining asset liquidity.

According to Jinshi reports, gold prices have fallen below $4,000 per ounce and are expected to record a weekly decline of over 3%. The escalating hostilities between the United States and Iran have heightened market concerns, with rising energy prices potentially keeping inflation elevated and prompting the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.Soojin Kim, an analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, stated that recent price trends indicate that the market is placing greater emphasis on the possibility that U.S. interest rates will remain high for a longer period, rather than the traditional safe-haven demand for gold.

According to Gate market data, Netflix fell 9.2% in pre-market trading, as the company expects third-quarter revenue and profit to be below market expectations.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "Spain vs Argentina - Exact Score" event is currently among the hottest trades on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $6.4688 million. The option with the highest market consensus is "Spain 1 - 1 Argentina," corresponding to an estimated probability of about 15.5%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Number of Elon Musk Tweets from July 10 to July 17, 2026" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "160-179" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 54.5% an hour ago to the current 72.5% (a fluctuation of 18%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Argentinian federal judge Marcelo Martinez ordered the identification and freezing of a group of wallets related to Libra, after the federal police's cybercrime technology department tracked the flow of related funds across multiple cryptocurrency networks since May. The investigation involves 8 wallets marked as "Libra team," which are directly related to the token issuance.Reports indicate that 4 of these wallets had previously pooled nearly $57 million into one address, which had been frozen and then unfrozen by the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. On May 10, the related funds were transferred to a Tron address through an interoperability protocol, amounting to nearly $500,000. At least 10 of the 17 transactions passed through Binance, with 8 wallets associated with Bybit, 2 with OKX, and 2 with Bitfinex.Some users of the related $8.2 million in funds may be identifiable through the KYC rules of centralized exchanges. The remaining funds are currently managed by Libra Trust, which plans to allocate them as funding to Argentine companies before November, with 71 applications pending approval.

According to Coinglass data, the current holdings of whales on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $5.402 billion, with long positions totaling $2.665 billion, accounting for 49.33% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $2.737 billion, accounting for 50.67%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$122 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is $32.1452 million.Among them, the whale address 0x0ddf..02 has shorted ETH with a 3x leverage at a price of $1700.06, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$658.17 thousand.

AI Agent Economic Settlement Agreement AEON announced that its payment network has connected to Egypt's four major mainstream mobile wallets: Vodafone Cash, Orange Cash, e& money, and WE Pay. Users can complete payments using cryptocurrency, while merchants receive payments in Egyptian pounds (EGP).Through this integration, AEON further enhances and expands the local payment settlement network in Africa and the Middle East, providing infrastructure support for the future localization of AI Agent's payments and settlements in real commercial scenarios.

DeFi infrastructure company Enso disclosed in a report a type of malicious liquidity pool called "toxic pools," which manipulates trading simulations to return false optimal quotes to wallets and DEX aggregators, and alters logic during actual on-chain execution. Enso stated that the relevant malicious contracts can identify read-only simulation environments and return optimized prices, but once the trades are broadcasted on-chain, they execute at worse prices or result in transaction failures.A manipulated Curve pool processed over 129,000 exchanges, resulting in approximately $225,000 in inflated quotes, with over 37,000 transactions rolling back and consuming nearly $30,000 in gas fees. On Polygon, a malicious Uniswap v4 hook attracted routing systems with false exchange rates, subsequently triggering a 99.1% transaction failure rate. Enso stated that it has updated its execution protection product Enso Shield to detect false quotes in Ethereum and Polygon environments.