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According to official news, AI-assisted development of the Web3 infrastructure layer Canopy has completed a $8.5 million seed round financing, with participation from Arrington Capital, Fenbushi Capital, Borderless Capital, and SNZ Capital.The raised funds will be used to support its mainnet launch, expansion of the engineering team, and the development of native AI development tools.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve official Kashkari stated that in the short term, the development of artificial intelligence is clearly a factor driving inflation.

According to Business Insider, Worldcoin developer Tools For Humanity previously hired two law firms to investigate internal financial irregularities, employee classification, and whether there were violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act in its operations in Thailand.The report also stated that the investigation involves allegations of senior management approving large payments to foreign companies to boost the performance of Worldcoin tokens. The company stated that after the investigation, it has terminated its relationships with Thai partners and strengthened internal compliance policies and due diligence processes, and currently has not found sufficient evidence to prove that the company or its employees violated relevant anti-bribery laws.

According to reports from two Meta employees cited by The New York Times, Mark Zuckerberg has instructed a small internal team to develop an independent prediction market application codenamed "Arena," which will operate separately from existing products like Facebook and Instagram.The initial design uses a game-like points system instead of real money betting, but the possibility of introducing real money models in the future has not been ruled out. Following the announcement, the stock prices of Robinhood and DraftKings fell in early trading this week. Meta's applications have 3.56 billion daily active users, and their distribution scale far exceeds the total of all existing prediction market platforms; if they officially enter the market, it will directly impact crypto-native platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi.The prediction market is currently in a rapid growth phase, with Polymarket's trading volume surpassing $10 billion for the first time in March this year. On the regulatory front, the CFTC is engaged in litigation regarding federal jurisdiction over prediction markets and state-level betting laws. Meta's points system design temporarily sidesteps this issue, but its scale means that any shift towards real money betting will immediately become a significant regulatory event.

According to official news, Lightning Labs has released Taproot Assets v0.8 and its accompanying SDK. The new SDK supports developers in quickly integrating stablecoin functionality on the Bitcoin network, adding features such as backup and recovery, multi-asset liquidity control, and faster proof verification, aimed at improving infrastructure efficiency. Lightning Labs stated that the future of multi-asset Bitcoin has arrived and encourages developers to start building.

B.AI ecological insights show that the daily token throughput reached a historical peak of 12.09 billion, with API calls accounting for 99.2%. B.AI has fully integrated into business workflows, becoming a necessary infrastructure.On-chain recharge accounts for 71.8%, with the TRON chain becoming the preferred recharge channel for global developers due to its high settlement efficiency and low cost. The "Agent Finance" AI productivity payment network has been fully operational.MiniMax M3, with its stability in long text, continues to lead in consumption during complex multi-agent collaboration. The hundred billion-level high throughput engineering foundation is a core barrier in the industry, and B.AI will continue to provide solid support for global teams.

Taiko official announcement, the root cause of the attack has been thoroughly investigated, and the team has developed a remediation plan to safely restore blockchain operations in the coming days.Priority will be given to addressing the issues of affected users, and discussions will be held with the DAO council to explore the best solutions. Yesterday, Taiko's ERC20 Vault on Ethereum was attacked, resulting in losses exceeding 1 million dollars.

Backpack CEO Armani Ferrante responded on X regarding the discussion about the project's delay in TGE, stating that if the project team is only looking for an exit opportunity, delaying TGE is fine; but if the goal is to build long-term and win the market, "TGE should have been done yesterday"; if there are concerns about market panic (FUD), then tokens should not be issued at all.Ferrante claims to be a "habitual offender of bear market minting and TGE," believing that market timing is actually irrelevant. This statement responds to user @AleyProbably's viewpoint, who argued that if all projects that delayed TGE had completed their airdrops on time, the market conditions would be much better, because "the market needs liquidity, and airdrops are one of the best ways to obtain liquidity."

According to CoinDesk, Bitcoin developers are discussing the removal of the explicit Replace-by-Fee (RBF) signal from the Bitcoin Core wallet. Developer rkrux stated that since full-RBF has become the standard strategy, the BIP 125 RBF signal has become redundant and may leave unnecessary wallet chain fingerprints.Community member Murch noted that stopping the sending of replaceability signals is not simply about removing "fingerprints," as each sender still has to choose a sequence number for each input; currently, about 75% of transactions have used specific sequence numbers, primarily MAX-2. rkrux indicated that the default input sequence number should adopt best practices recognized by a broader wallet community.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced that the Bitcoin mining development kit has been upgraded to version 0.2.0, achieving its first complete end-to-end open-source operation. The latest version supports the full open-source deployment and operation of the entire Bitcoin mining machine development stack, and can display the mining machine's hash rate output data in real-time. Developers can directly launch the system and observe the real-time generation of the actual mining machine's hash rate on the interface. Its goal is to build a foundational technology framework that connects intelligent systems with physical infrastructure.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) participated in an exclusive interview on the Galaxy Brains podcast with Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn. CZ stated that he is no longer operating the trading platform, allowing him more time to communicate with developers, and he is excited about some new features of BNB Chain. He mentioned that BNB Chain is developing the next version, which will be faster, cheaper, and include more privacy controls.CZ also advised blockchain developers not to make major upgrades during a bull market, but to push forward significant updates during the quieter times of a bear market. CZ said that he was skeptical about RWA (Real World Assets) about a year to a year and a half ago, uncertain whether the related assets would be traded or could develop. However, the speed of RWA's development surprised him, as stablecoins, oil futures, AI stocks, and others have gained good acceptance in the crypto community. This indicates that many people globally have been looking for access to these assets.Crypto should not be seen as an independent industry, but rather as a new technological tool that makes financial transactions faster, cheaper, and more transparent. He believes that traditional financial institutions can use blockchain, and crypto companies can also provide services similar to traditional finance, such as loans, savings, stock trading, remittances, and payments. In the future, there should not be a clear distinction between traditional finance and crypto, but rather a more globalized, faster, and lower-cost financial industry.

The AI Identity and Agent Infrastructure Project Billions has released its latest strategic roadmap, announcing a focus on advancing the infrastructure construction related to Agent commerce and Agent payments, promoting the evolution of AI Agents from information processing tools to participants in economic activities.Billions stated that as Agents begin to autonomously complete service calls, payment settlements, product purchases, and task executions, AI is gradually entering the Agent economy era. In the future, Agents will not only need identity and permission management capabilities but also the ability to participate in real commercial activities and value exchanges.Currently, Billions has launched payment-related components based on the x402 protocol, including Agent Skill, server-side extensions, and SDK. The team indicated that they will continue to expand product capabilities around Agent authentication, authorization management, payment execution, and commercial collaboration scenarios, building an infrastructure network aimed at the Agent Economy.Billions believes that the automated value exchange between Agents and between Agents and services will become the next stage of AI development, and the Agent commercial network is expected to become an important part of the future digital economy.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced that the Bitcoin mining development kit has been upgraded to version 0.2.0 and achieved its first complete end-to-end open-source operation. The latest version supports the full open-source deployment and operation of the entire Bitcoin mining machine development stack, and can display real-time mining power output data. Developers can directly launch the system and observe the real-time generation of actual mining power on the interface. Its goal is to build a foundational technology framework that connects intelligent systems with physical infrastructure.

According to Rest of World, in order to significantly reduce operating costs, American developers and startups are accelerating the adoption of Chinese AI models such as DeepSeek, Minimax, and Kimi. Due to their high cost-effectiveness in handling common tasks like code writing, the market share of Chinese AI models is rapidly increasing. Data shows that in May, the Token usage share of DeepSeek on the service provider Vercel platform surged from less than 1% to 17%. Additionally, it is reported that Microsoft is also exploring the use of DeepSeek or other open-source models as a low-cost alternative for Copilot.However, despite the popularity of Chinese AI models in the market due to their price advantage, many American companies and developers choose to access these models indirectly through local servers or American cloud service providers, constrained by domestic political scrutiny and data security concerns. This has led to Chinese AI companies facing high usage rates while still struggling to effectively convert traffic into substantial direct revenue and long-term enterprise-level customer trust in the U.S. market.

The Ministry of Commerce and seven other departments officially released the "Implementation Opinions on Accelerating the Development of 'Artificial Intelligence + Consumption'," proposing 17 specific measures around five major areas: commodity consumption, service consumption, business innovation, and promotion guarantees. The aim is to address structural bottlenecks on both the supply and demand sides, promoting the accelerated integration of artificial intelligence technology into households and businesses.The "Opinions" clearly state that in the commodity sector, the supply of smart terminals will be expanded, a new track for humanoid robot consumption will be established, and a "people, vehicles, homes" full-scene interactive ecosystem will be created. It also promotes the deep integration of AI with cutting-edge technologies such as brain-machine interfaces and augmented reality. In the service sector, the focus will be on five major scenarios: home care, elderly care, and cultural tourism, researching the inclusion of smart homes in the "good housing" construction guidelines, and equipping elderly care institutions with smart nursing and rehabilitation robots. Furthermore, the "Opinions" also plan to embed AI technology in retail, e-commerce, and logistics to enhance circulation efficiency, and propose the establishment of "Artificial Intelligence + Consumption" aggregation areas and experience centers, requiring close alignment with existing consumption promotion policies such as "trade-in for new" for digital products, thereby shifting the logic of consumption growth in our country from reliance on external stimuli to gradual empowerment through technology.

According to the official announcement, Binance Wallet has launched the Web3 API, which is a comprehensive set of API endpoints that allows developers, institutions, and advanced on-chain traders to access on-chain trading and market data through a single integrated programming interface.The API supports multiple chains (including Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Plasma, Arbitrum, Polygon, Base, Monad, Optimism, Linea, and Solana), providing real-time market data, aggregated exchange quotes, and on-chain trading execution capabilities.Key features include: market data API (real-time token prices, K-line data), trading API (aggregated quotes, token exchanges, built-in MEV protection), non-custodial architecture (does not hold private keys, user local signing), and enterprise-level reliability.Currently, there are zero service fees and zero slippage fees, with all price improvements returned to users. This API is suitable for developers building DApps, on-chain trading bots, and AI agents.

According to CoinDesk, Ethereum developers have entered the final development phase of the Glamsterdam upgrade, running a developer network (devnets) that includes all planned EIPs, which will then be deployed to the public testnet. Parithosh Jayanthi, a core developer at the Ethereum Foundation, stated that this is the final stage before codebase hardening and testnet launch, and although there is no fixed timeline, significant progress has been made. Glamsterdam is expected to launch on the mainnet in the second half of this year and is described as "the largest upgrade since the merge," which will change many assumptions about Ethereum and lay the groundwork for larger-scale expansions in the future.Key features include EIP-7732 (built-in proposer-builder separation), which incorporates a separation mechanism for block construction and proposal into the core protocol to reduce MEV manipulation opportunities; and EIP-7928 (block-level access lists), which allows blocks to declare in advance the accounts and contract data they will access, improving execution efficiency. Glamsterdam also includes a series of gas repricing that will significantly change the operational costs on Ethereum: high-computation operations will become cheaper, while state management costs will increase.

According to The Rage, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) has approved the government's pre-trial plan, confirming that a retrial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm for conspiracy to commit money laundering and conspiracy to evade sanctions will take place this fall.Meanwhile, the Rule 29 post-trial motion filed by Storm is still awaiting a court ruling. This motion challenges the evidence and legal theories that were the basis for last August's conviction, and if the ruling is favorable to Storm, it may prevent the retrial from proceeding.