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Web3 security company CertiK released the "2026 First Half Wrench Attack Report." The report shows that in the first half of 2026, a total of 52 publicly verified wrench attack incidents were recorded globally, an increase of 33.3% year-on-year; related losses amounted to approximately $124 million, an increase of about 11.8 times compared to the same period last year.The report points out that attackers are shifting from exploiting technical vulnerabilities to targeting asset holders and their real-world relationship networks, with home invasion incidents rising from 1 in the first half of 2025 to 20, accounting for 41% of the total incidents during the same period. Europe has become a high-frequency attack region, with 33 incidents occurring in France, accounting for 63.5% of global cases.CertiK states that as real-world risks become a significant challenge for digital asset security, businesses and high-value individuals need to establish a more comprehensive protection system. CertiK has launched operational security services to help identify risks related to the exposure of information such as identity, home, residence, and travel trajectory; at the same time, through CertiK Security Workspace, it correlates off-chain intelligence, on-chain transactions, and AML risk signals to support institutions in tracking and analyzing cybercrime activities.In addition, CertiK is strengthening cooperation with international law enforcement agencies such as Interpol and Europol to provide technical support for cross-border attack investigations and security policy research.

Fireworks AI released an evaluation report comparing the open-source model Kimi K3 and the closed-source model Fable 5 across approximately 1030 agent tasks (covering scenarios such as SWE, terminal operations, algorithms, multilingual coding, and legal matters). The results showed that the accuracy rates for the two models on the SWE benchmark were 92.4% and 92.6%, respectively, indicating similar overall performance, but each model has its strengths in specific areas: K3 leads in symbolic mathematics and development tools, while Fable excels in web and data visualization; in long-cycle terminal tasks, K3 independently tackled 11 tasks that Fable could not solve.The report pointed out that adopting a task-level routing strategy can dynamically allocate between the two, achieving an accuracy rate of 93%, surpassing either single model. Additionally, due to K3's significant cost advantage on the Fireworks platform, costs for long-cycle agent tasks can be up to 50 times lower than Fable. The report recommends using the open-source model as the default option and continuously learning the optimal match between tasks and models through routers to balance quality and cost.

OpenAI's programming agent Codex and office agent ChatGPT Work have a combined weekly active user count of 10 million. Just 9 days ago, it was 6 million. OpenAI subsequently reset the usage limits for paid users of both products.In March of this year, Codex had only 2 million weekly active users, and now the combined total for both products has expanded to 5 times.OpenAI had previously promised that for every additional 1 million users from 3 million to 10 million, the usage limits would be reset. This is the final milestone of this commitment.

GoPlus Security issued a security alert stating that a user signed a malicious Permit transaction 183 days ago, resulting in approximately $1,625 of USDC being transferred by a phishing attacker.Since the user did not revoke the relevant authorization afterwards, the attacker again used that authorization to transfer approximately $75,780 of USDC.

According to SEC Form 4 documents, Circle President and former CFTC Chairman Heath Tarbert has sold CRCL stock a total of 10 times since June 2025, with a total reduction amounting to approximately $30.77 million. Publicly disclosed documents indicate that his transactions mainly involve stock sales and option exercises, and he currently still holds about 503,000 shares of the company, with no records of increased holdings in the open market.Previously, in an interview with FOX Business, Tarbert responded to the drop in CRCL stock price from around $260 to about $62 by stating that the company is focused on long-term development, and mentioned that if Circle can achieve its mission of building internet financial infrastructure, the stock price will ultimately provide the answer (The stock will take care of itself).

According to SolanaFloor data, Solana regained the top position among all blockchains in terms of daily network revenue (on July 18), marking the first time in nearly five months.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that the outflow of stablecoins from Binance and Bybit in the past 30 days exceeded $2.3 billion, leading to a depletion of Bitcoin liquidity. Bitcoin has been testing the critical price level of $60,000 for nearly 165 days. Although it briefly broke through $80,000 in May, it failed to maintain or reignite the upward momentum of Bitcoin.One of the reasons for this situation is the lack of new liquidity flowing into the market. Whether through direct investment in Bitcoin or investment in the entire crypto market, new demand has been difficult to realize. Observing the changes in stablecoin reserves at exchanges, the situation has been particularly poor since the beginning of the year, with a nearly continuous decline, reflecting that outflows are significantly exceeding inflows. In just the past 30 days, Binance's stablecoin reserves have decreased by $1.55 billion, while Bybit lost $786 million during the same period. The decline in reserves sends a clear signal: demand and liquidity are shrinking, and investors seem inclined to withdraw stablecoins from exchanges or even exit the market entirely. Therefore, it is this still overly pessimistic overall market sentiment that continues to deprive Bitcoin of the resources needed to break through the current consolidation range.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Dota 2: BetBoom Team vs. Vici Gaming (BO3) - Esports World Cup Playoffs," the option "Yes" in the sub-market "Ends During the Day" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90.05% (a fluctuation of 40.05%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to a report by CCTV Finance, Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, stated that the daily Token call volume in our country has surged from about 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to 140 trillion by the end of March 2026, an increase of over a thousand times.Intelligent agents are giving rise to a brand new economic form, known as the "Token economy." Token, in Chinese, is called 词元, and it is an important unit for large models to process information and measure model invocation costs. Its growth rate is the most intuitive barometer of industrial development.In the era of intelligent agents, a single user command may trigger multiple rounds of model calls and resource consumption, directly driving an explosion in demand for artificial intelligence computing power. With the large-scale application of intelligent agents, a series of new models surrounding Token measurement, scheduling, pricing, and trading are beginning to take shape.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of SOL Meme coin Jimothy has surpassed 10 million USD, currently reported at 9.9 million USD, with an intraday increase of over 59 times, continuing to set a new historical high.Meme coin prices are highly volatile, largely driven by market sentiment and hot events, lacking actual value support, and investors need to be aware of the risks.

Glassnode data shows that the sentiment in the BTC options market is gradually turning positive. As prices rebound, the BTC implied volatility index DVOL has decreased from 48 to 40, indicating that the panic premium accumulated in June is partially retreating. However, the current volatility is still higher than the May low, suggesting that while market uncertainty has eased, it has not completely dissipated.Meanwhile, the BTC options open interest Put/Call ratio has dropped to about 0.59, reaching a six-month low, indicating that traders are significantly reducing downside hedging and re-establishing bullish exposure. Glassnode believes that this change reflects a constructive improvement in options market sentiment.From the position structure, BTC is currently hovering around $63,000, still below the dense negative gamma range of $68,000 to $70,000. If the price further enters this range, it may trigger stronger pro-cyclical market maker hedging behavior and amplify market volatility.

According to "Intelligent Emergence," multiple independent sources reported that by July 2026, China's leading large model company, Zhipu, had achieved an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $1 billion. Insiders revealed that between January and July 2026, Zhipu's ARR surged 15 times in just six months. The growth from $100 million ARR to $1 billion took Zhipu only 5 months, surpassing the 15 months it took the American AI lab Anthropic to reach a similar stage. As of the time of publication, Zhipu has not responded to the aforementioned financial data.The rapid rise in Zhipu's revenue is primarily attributed to its concentrated investment in coding and reasoning capabilities. Financial reports show that in the first quarter of this year, even though the API call price for GLM increased by approximately 83%, its overseas subscription prices approached those of Anthropic's Claude Code, yet its total call volume still grew by about 400% against the trend. In June of this year, Zhipu launched its latest open-source large model, GLM-5.2, which has matched or even surpassed mainstream cutting-edge models on several core metrics.Currently, AI coding and video generation have become the fastest commercialized and most revenue-generating tracks for large models globally. As the demand in the coding market becomes more certain, industry competition is intensifying. Domestically, MiniMax released the M3, which focuses on enhancing coding capabilities, in June, while the Dark Side of the Moon launched the K3 open-source model with 2.8 trillion parameters on July 16; internationally, with OpenAI merging ChatGPT and CodeX, it has also shown a momentum to catch up with Anthropic in the coding field, and the global battle for AI productivity tools continues to escalate.

According to GMGN market data, the Robinhood ecosystem token Index saw a short-term increase of over 400%, with a market capitalization peaking above 60 million USD, currently reported at approximately 33 million USD.This increase may be influenced by the attention of Robinhood co-founder to its X account. The price of this token is highly volatile and susceptible to market sentiment and trending events, please be aware of trading risks.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Base chain meme coin BRIAN briefly exceeded $18 million, currently reported at about $15 million, with a short-term increase of over 27 times.This increase may be influenced by the change of the X avatar by the Coinbase CEO. The price of meme coins is highly volatile and easily affected by market sentiment and trending events, please be aware of trading risks.

The privacy blockchain Zano announced that Zenith has entered the implementation phase, with plans for a network transition in 2027, depending on the results of testing, analysis, and review. Zano has not yet announced an activation date, and the proposed operating parameters still require verification at the network level.Zenith will transition Zano from a hybrid PoW and PoS mechanism to a privacy-protecting pure PoS protocol, with the block time proposed to decrease from about 1 minute to about 15 seconds, and the recommended number of confirmations reduced from 10 blocks to 4 to 6 blocks, with a typical confirmation time of about 60 to 90 seconds. Zano co-founder and core developer Andrey Sabelnikov stated that Zenith is based on over 12 years of privacy research and aims to provide the network with the advantages of modern PoS while retaining the privacy protection that Zano users expect.PoW miners currently receive about 720 newly issued ZANO daily, which amounts to approximately 21,600 monthly and 262,800 annually. After the activation of Zenith and the end of PoW mining, this portion of issuance will be canceled; Zano will also launch the official Zano Forum for technical discussions and community support.

According to Jinshi reports, the White House stated that President Trump will not allow Iran to launch attacks in the Strait of Hormuz without facing consequences. The United States can strike Iran at any time and in any place.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event on Polymarket for "Dota 2: PARIVISION vs Rune Eaters - Esports World Cup Playoffs," the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Ends During the Day" has experienced significant fluctuations in win probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a newly created wallet deposited 5 million USDC into Hyperliquid and went long on 194,175 shares of CXMT (worth 1.38 million USD) with 2x leverage, with a liquidation price of 4 USD.