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According to Decrypt, the Bitcoin payment processing project BTCPay Server has warned users of a serious vulnerability in its servers that is currently under active attack. Attackers may exploit this vulnerability to gain unauthorized access and cause financial loss. Administrators are required to upgrade to version 2.4.2 immediately and confirm that the server footer shows the update is complete.If an upgrade cannot be performed in a timely manner, the official recommendation is for users to temporarily shut down BTCPay Server to prevent further attacks. Additionally, BTCPay Server advises users to change any potentially exposed macaroons credentials, recreate the macaroons.db file, and refresh the authentication strings for other Lightning Network backends.

VeChain Foundation announced the entry into the next phase of the Renaissance roadmap, Interstellar. Previously, Galactica completed the EVM foundational upgrade, and Hayabusa completed the transformation of consensus and token economics. Interstellar aims to deepen the EVM compatibility of VeChainThor with the Ethereum ecosystem and expand developer capabilities.The first upgrade proposal, VIP-255, will introduce execution layer improvements compatible with Ethereum versions such as Cancun, Prague, and Osaka, including transient storage, MCOPY instruction, and cryptographic support for BLS12-381 and secp256r1. Voting will take place from August 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC to August 17, 2026, 00:00 UTC via the VeVote platform, allowing validators and eligible StarGate NFT holders to participate. This upgrade does not affect the VET and VTHO token economics, and regular holders do not need to take any action.

Starknet announced that it has completed the quantum-resistant signature transfer test, where a wallet account using a quantum-resistant signature mechanism completed a real transfer on the Starknet mainnet, with a transaction fee of about 6 cents, and can be queried through the block explorer. This account is currently an experimental, unaudited version, mainly used for research testing. StarkWare stated that this transfer benefits from the design of the Starknet account model.Unlike most blockchains that fix the signature algorithm at the protocol layer, each account on Starknet is a smart contract that can autonomously define the accepted signature schemes, allowing users to upgrade their wallets from traditional elliptic curve signatures to quantum-resistant signatures without hard forks, asset migrations, or changing addresses. StarkWare pointed out that most blockchains face quantum computing risks because wallet signatures and underlying verification systems rely on elliptic curve cryptography. Once large-scale quantum computers appear, running Shor's algorithm could potentially break the related encryption systems. Currently, the Starknet ecosystem supports a quantum-resistant signature scheme based on Falcon-512, which is part of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization process, with relevant implementations promoted by ecosystem teams and organizations such as OpenZeppelin.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has upgraded the stock spot (rToken) fee structure. While maintaining a base fee rate of 0.05%, high-level VIP and PRO users can enjoy lower tier exclusive rates; using BGB to offset fees also provides a 20% discount.Among them, after applying the BGB offset, the VIP user Maker rate is as low as 0%, and the Taker rate is as low as 0.024%; the PRO user Maker rate is as low as 0.008%, and the Taker rate is as low as 0.01752%. During regular trading hours for U.S. stocks, orders will be routed to the underlying market via StockRoute and charged uniformly at the Taker rate; during weekends and holidays, internal matching periods will differentiate between Maker and Taker rates.

Bitget's licensed RWA issuance platform Reality announced a deepened cooperation with the American auditing firm The Network Firm. After the upgrade, The Network Firm will provide daily Proof of Reserve (PoR) audit reports for the rToken, a U.S. stock token issued by Reality, based on the attestation standards set by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The aim is to verify that each issued rToken corresponds to the stocks or ETF assets held in the custody account. The underlying stocks and ETFs continue to be held by the FINRA-registered and SIPC-protected U.S. brokerage firm Alpaca Securities LLC, forming an independent and transparent structure for issuance, verification, and custody.The rToken issued by Reality currently supports 634 tokenized stocks and ETFs and is deeply integrated with the Bitget ecosystem, allowing for core scenarios such as unified account margin and collateralized lending. Previous data showed that the assets under management (AUM) of Bitget's stock token rToken exceeded $100 million one month after its launch.

Morgan Stanley has upgraded the rating of the South Korean stock market to "Overweight," with a target price of 9,000 points, implying a 36% upside from the current level.Morgan Stanley believes that the previous severe deleveraging is nearing its end, and the KOSPI valuation has fallen to historically low levels, providing investors with a more attractive entry point. Their data shows that hedge funds have completed about 75% of their deleveraging, leveraged ETFs have evaporated 70% from their peak, and the chip structure has significantly improved.Shawn Kim, head of Morgan Stanley's Asia Technology team, pointed out three recent catalysts for South Korean chip stocks in the report.First, capital expenditure. The capital management trends of Samsung Electronics and SK hynix are seen as the most important recent catalysts. The market is waiting for specific announcements from both companies regarding their "value enhancement" plans and capital returns, with the timing still unclear, but the expectations themselves have already formed a potential catalyst.Second, HBM4 pricing. Samsung Electronics recently stated that HBM4 will account for about 60% of its total HBM sales by the end of next year. If HBM4 prices reach the market expectation of over $3 per Gb, it will positively catalyze overall DRAM pricing from 2026 to 2027.Third, the iPhone 18 release cycle. The mobile segment still accounts for 30% to 40% of global DRAM demand and 25% to 30% of NAND demand. According to feedback from members of the Korean Apple supply chain (such as LG Innotek), Apple has a positive outlook on the iPhone 18 cycle, expecting a year-on-year shipment increase of 5% to 10%. The iPhone 18 will be released in September, with the first models being the Pro series (including Pro, Pro Max, and foldable), and if sales perform well, it will positively drive Samsung Electronics and SK hynix.

Bitget announced a comprehensive upgrade to its BGBTC, adding daily coin-based earnings, large-scale rapid redemption, and institutional-level risk management. This upgrade also introduces an independent Curator mechanism, with the DeFi risk management agency Gauntlet responsible for supervising the underlying earnings strategy and risk management, adding independent strategy reviews beyond asset custody to strengthen portfolio monitoring, risk control, and long-term earnings sustainability. Currently, BGBTC supports the deployment of earnings strategies on the Morph chain, further expanding multi-chain earnings channels and application scenarios.At the infrastructure level, Bitget uses Chainlink CCIP as the official cross-chain solution for BGBTC and continues the Chainlink Proof of Reserve program, providing real-time transparency and verifiable reserve guarantees for its 1:1 pegged Bitcoin. The upgraded BGBTC can still be used for contract margins, loan collateral, and participation in Launchpool and PoolX while obtaining earnings, further enhancing capital efficiency while retaining asset liquidity.

According to Jinshi reports, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that for users who wish to heavily utilize the new AI products, Apple will provide an "upgrade option."

According to official news, the prediction market Polymarket announced a significant adjustment to its settlement mechanism for cryptocurrency price fluctuation markets starting from August 7, to protect market integrity. From midnight UTC on that day, the affected markets will no longer settle based on a single price snapshot at a specific time but will instead use a time-weighted average price.Markets of different durations correspond to different TWAP windows: all cryptocurrency 5-minute markets will use a 30-second TWAP, 15-minute markets will use a 60-second TWAP, and 4-hour markets will also use a 60-second TWAP. The previous single snapshot settlement method was prone to price manipulation during periods of low liquidity, and this change is a proactive reinforcement of the market integrity system by Polymarket after facing regulatory scrutiny.To support this transition, Polymarket will inject $1 million in liquidity rewards into all affected markets throughout August. On the technical side, Chainlink TWAP testnet data streams are now available, and mainnet data streams along with Polymarket real-time data stream services will go live on August 4, at which point developers can access TWAP prices directly through Chainlink Data Streams or Polymarket's public WebSocket.

According to official news, Websea has completed a major upgrade of the contract insurance airdrop rules on July 30, 2026. After the upgrade, the insurance α pool will airdrop a fixed amount of 1 USDT for new nodes each period, and the insurance β pool will airdrop a fixed amount of 0.7 USDT for new nodes each period, with a maximum of 100 airdrops for both pools, and the total amount is fixed and transparent.Websea's contract insurance aims to provide an additional risk buffer for every opening position, helping users reduce risk concerns amid fluctuations in the derivatives market. This upgrade focuses on simplifying the rules and enhancing transparency, allowing users to calculate the amount for each period, the number of airdrops, and the total cumulative amount in advance, without facing fluctuating variables.

According to Jinshi reports, SpaceXAI announced that on August 5, it will upgrade Grok-Voice-Latest from version 1 to version 2.

According to VentureBeat, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has received its largest update since its launch in November 2024, managed by the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF) under the Linux Foundation. This update completes the transition to a fully stateless architecture, allowing MCP servers to be deployed behind standard load balancers without relying on "sticky routing" or shared session state, thereby simplifying large-scale cloud-native and Kubernetes deployments.In terms of security, the new version of MCP enforces validation of the issuer (iss) parameter for OAuth and OpenID Connect to prevent mix-up attacks and introduces enterprise-hosted authorization extensions to support unified identity governance for enterprises. The protocol also establishes a formal deprecation policy, ensuring that features are announced for deprecation at least 12 months before their earliest removal. MCP Apps and MCP Tasks have also been upgraded to official extensions, supporting servers in providing interactive interfaces to AI clients and executing interruptible, resumable long-running asynchronous tasks through persistent task handles. According to MCP co-creator David Soria Parra, the related SDK's weekly download volume has reached approximately 250 million, doubling in the past six months.

Binance announced that it will support the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network upgrade and hard fork.To accommodate this arrangement, the platform will suspend deposits and withdrawals for this network starting from July 30, 2026, at 05:55 (UTC), and wallet maintenance will begin at 06:00 (UTC), expected to last for about 1 hour.

Zcash activated the Ironwood NU6.3 network upgrade at block height 3,428,143, launching a new shielded pool to enhance network security and allow for the independent verification of ZEC circulating supply.After the upgrade, the original Orchard pool was restricted, and new funds are not allowed to enter. Existing funds must be migrated out through a turnstile before re-entering Ironwood, ensuring at the protocol level that pool expenditures do not exceed verifiable income. Ironwood is based on a revised protocol that has been formally verified and independently audited, aimed at preventing similar risks to the previous Orchard declarative vulnerabilities. Wallets supporting Ironwood (such as Zodl 3.8.0) have provided migration paths, allowing users to transfer funds from Orchard to the new pool without changing addresses.

Coinbase posted on the X platform that it is upgrading the Coinbase DEX experience, allowing users to immediately find and trade after Base or Solana tokens go live on the chain, now available in the new Launches tab.

Ethereum's largest liquid staking protocol Lido announced the launch of the largest protocol upgrade since the V2 upgrade in 2023, which will integrate over 8 million staked ETH (approximately $16.5 billion) and migrate to the new validator architecture following the Ethereum Pectra upgrade. This migration is expected to reduce the number of Ethereum network validators by about one-third, lowering the load on the consensus layer.Lido stated that after the upgrade is completed, the number of attestation messages per epoch across the entire Ethereum network is expected to decrease by about 29%, thereby improving network operational efficiency. This upgrade will migrate professional node operators to the Curated Module v2 (CMv2) architecture. Unlike before, which mainly relied on operator reputation and historical performance, CMv2 requires Lido-selected node operators to lock ETH as collateral for the first time, providing economic guarantees for node operational performance.Lido indicated that all 34 selected node operators are expected to complete the migration, and no operators have exited due to the new collateral requirements. Lido's staking lead Isidoros Passadis stated that this upgrade will streamline the validator set supporting Lido's core staking business while enhancing security through capital constraints. Lido expects that this migration will result in a decrease of approximately 0.28% in annual staking yields for the protocol. Validators will continue to earn rewards before exiting the migration, with any yield loss likely occurring only during the brief period before balances are transferred to the new validators.

The Ethereum staking protocol Lido stated on platform X that the stETH Rebase has been completed as expected, and the missed ETH earnings due to insufficient calculations have been compensated, corresponding to an annual percentage rate (APR) of approximately 2.29%. At the same time, the protocol's oracle has been updated and passed the audit, with the new version improving report processing speed and helping to quickly identify the cause of similar issues in the future.Regarding the abnormal earnings calculation that occurred, Lido stated that contributors are currently conducting a root cause analysis, and more investigation details will be announced on the official forum and social media platforms. Throughout the entire incident, user funds have not faced any risk. The preliminary judgment is that the issue may stem from a special edge case: a validator in a pending deposit state was omitted from the earnings report, resulting in some staking earnings not being included in the calculations. Lido stated that a complete post-mortem report will be released in the coming days to further explain the cause of the issue, corrective measures, and subsequent improvement plans.

Web3 asset data platform RootData announced the completion of the stock perpetual contract leaderboard feature upgrade. This upgrade significantly enhances the weight ratio of trading volume and position amount, and adds dimensions of leverage multiples and market share for each exchange, aiming to provide more refined data references for the market.The latest data shows that Binance, Hyperliquid, OKX, MEXC, and Bitget rank among the top five exchanges in the stock perpetual contract market share, collectively accounting for 74.8%. RootData stated that the leaderboard currently includes data from nearly 30 exchanges, welcoming listed exchanges to supplement and完善 information, and also inviting unlisted exchanges to proactively submit data for inclusion in the ranking system.

Gate gStocks' tokenized securities service has undergone a comprehensive upgrade, officially launching five major financial functions: collateralized borrowing, idle asset management, unified accounts, leveraged trading, and stock dividends, further expanding the integrated application scenarios of stock assets from trading, yield management to liquidity management.Currently, gStocks supports over 58 global tokenized securities, covering various assets such as U.S. stocks, Korean stocks, unlisted equity, and ETFs, and employs a 1:1 native stock reserve mechanism to provide users with a transparent and trustworthy asset holding experience. At the same time, gStocks supports 24/7 trading with a minimum investment of 1 USDT, lowering the participation threshold. After this functional upgrade, users can release liquidity through collateralized borrowing without having to sell their held gStocks assets; idle stock assets can also participate in yield management through idle asset management. In addition, gStocks has deeply integrated into the Gate unified account system, supporting tokenized stock assets as trading collateral and providing features such as leveraged trading, long and short strategies, and stock dividends, further enhancing asset utilization efficiency.

Base announced that Cobalt will be launched in September, with key features including Sponsorship, Batch Calls, and Session Keys.Among them, Sponsorship allows applications to sponsor transaction fees for users, achieving free Gas; Batch Calls support bundling multiple transactions into one, reducing operational steps; Session Keys allow users to authorize applications to sign transactions on their behalf within a specific scope, reducing repeated authorizations.