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WEEX announced the launch of the Robinhood ecosystem reward program, covering seven related concept tokens: WISHBONE, HOODRAT1, JUGGERNAUT, VEXAI, HOODON, INDEX, and PONS. Users can participate in sharing a total prize pool of $100,000 by trading any of the activity tokens. The event runs from July 15 at 17:00 to July 25 at 17:00 (UTC+8).

An independent home miner mined Bitcoin block 957382 using a portable Bitaxe device through Public Pool, receiving a total block reward of 3.1382 BTC, which includes a block subsidy of 3.125 BTC and approximately 0.0132 BTC in transaction fees, valued at around $200,000 at the time.The device has an average hash rate of 995.2 GH/s and submitted the winning share after running for about 8 hours. Bitaxe is an open-source single-chip Bitcoin miner based on the Bitmain BM1370 chip, with the Gamma series having a default hash rate of about 1 to 1.3 TH/s, a power consumption of 15 to 21 watts, and typically sells for $60 to $150.

According to Cointelegraph, Real Vision's chief cryptocurrency analyst Jamie Coutts stated that Bitcoin may be entering the later stages of a bear market, with the downward momentum beginning to slow.Coutts pointed out that compared to the previous market cycle, Bitcoin's volatility has decreased by about 50%, indicating that the current decline may not be as severe as past bear markets. However, Coutts also warned that markets rarely follow historical patterns so perfectly. "They basically move at their own pace. Currently, all trend indicators are clearly bearish." The good news is that some early technical signs suggest that selling pressure is easing. "I am starting to see momentum indicators showing bullish divergence on longer time frames. This indicates acceleration, or more precisely, that negative momentum is slowing down, but that does not mean that we have technically exited the bear market."

According to Bitcoin News, a Bitaxe ASIC miner equipped with a single chip mined Bitcoin block number 957,382, earning the full block reward of 3.1382 Bitcoins, valued at approximately $200,580. This miner has a hash rate of about 1 TH/s and is the only device at that address.Since mining was done through a public mining pool (with a fee of 0%), the miner's owner retained 100% of the block reward and transaction fees. The mining difficulty of this block reached 294.14T, which is more than 2.2 times the required difficulty of 133.87T. With a hash rate of 1 TH/s, the average probability of mining a block is about once every 16,000 years, making this an extremely rare event.

Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that AI 2040 and its critics have incompatible worldviews regarding the speed and significance of AI progress. AI 2040 believes that unless strong measures are taken to completely prevent it, some form of superintelligence will emerge in various scenarios by 2040; critics argue that AI 2040 underestimates human coordination capabilities and threatens freedom, but do not view ASI itself as a risk of power concentration.He believes that if he were convinced that the current form of AI is just an ordinary technology, he would be closer to the critics' camp; if he were convinced that superintelligence would inevitably arrive by 2030, he would be closer to the AI 2040 camp. At the same time, due to significant uncertainty, he remains open to the idea of slowing down or pausing, and feels uncomfortable with the stance proposed by some large AI companies and intellectuals that "open source is detrimental, and the ideal outcome is to maintain global control dominance."Vitalik stated that an important reason he supports the d/acc platform is that directions such as formal verification, cryptography, secure and open hardware, pandemic resilience, defensive biotechnology, food and basic resource security, public cognitive systems, and non-concentrated power physical security are worth promoting under both worldviews. He also mentioned that the 2040 plan has increasingly supported open source and incorporated the idea of "mutual assured destruction of computational power," which is an improvement compared to allowing a few participants to selectively deprive their identified subjects of rights.There is no way to avoid trade-offs regarding whether to slow down or pause, and Vitalik believes that trigger conditions can be preset, allowing for a more open attitude towards slowing down or pausing when sufficient conditions are met within a specific timeframe.He also stated that if he were Elon Musk or Zuck, he would significantly transform Twitter into a platform that helps identify and facilitate such large win-win agreements, encouraging more people to participate in discussions, but he thinks this might also be naive. Currently, he does not see any non-naive ASI transition response plans, so he tends to show some tolerance towards those who are trying.

According to Decrypt, the AI-driven decentralized finance infrastructure project TrueDAO announced the completion of a $10 million strategic financing round, led by Brevan Howard Digital, with participation from Zee Prime Capital and Jump Capital.The funds raised will primarily be used for the development of core AI protocols, the construction of AI risk control systems, security audits, compliance work, and the expansion of ecosystem partnerships. After the financing is completed, TrueDAO will advance the launch of the testnet, developer tools, and ecosystem integration plans.

According to BBX data, yesterday the global US stock market and companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange made significant moves in the accumulation of digital asset reserves. The latest updates from two core companies are as follows:GPUS core treasury breaks the 1,000 mark: Artificial intelligence data center company Hyperscale Data, Inc. (NYSE American: $GPUS) officially announced that the number of bitcoins held in its treasury has officially exceeded 1,000. Management stated that the company will continue to closely align with market conditions and existing capital allocation opportunities, supported by its core data center business, to continuously manage and expand its bitcoin reserve scale.Metaplanet raises $137 million through targeted private placement: Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: $3350) announced that it will issue new shares to specific institutional investors through the Third-Party Allotment mechanism under Japanese securities law, aiming to raise approximately $137 million (equivalent to 21.4 billion yen), with all funds to be used for purchasing bitcoin. The company accumulated 2,823 BTC in Q2 this year, and as of June 30, its total holdings have reached 43,000 BTC (valued at approximately $2.67 billion). Based on the current market price of about $62,000 per coin, this lightning private placement is expected to add approximately 2,210 BTC to its reserves, helping it strive towards its ultimate goal of 100,000 BTC by the end of the year.

According to reports, the U.S. "Digital Asset Market Clarity Act" (CLARITY Act) is expected to enter the next stage of the legislative process on July 4, 2026. As the regulatory framework for digital assets continues to improve, the market's expectations for the development of stablecoin payments have become clearer, providing businesses with more explicit policy references for adopting stablecoins for global payments.In this regard, WasabiCard CEO Ray Yang stated, "For businesses, regulatory transparency is more important than regulatory leniency. Companies can adapt to strict compliance requirements, but it is challenging to formulate long-term development plans in an environment where regulations are unclear. The advancement of the CLARITY Act will create a clearer and more predictable development environment for stablecoin payments."As an enterprise-level stablecoin global payment infrastructure platform, WasabiCard continuously enhances its compliance capabilities and global payment network, establishing a risk management system covering KYB, KYC, KYT, and AML, and holds U.S. MSB and MTL licenses, providing businesses with one-stop payment solutions for global card issuance, stablecoin payments, global remittances, and fund distribution.Regarding the development prospects of stablecoin payments, Ray Yang believes, "As the global regulatory environment continues to improve, stablecoin payments will accelerate their integration into the global payment systems of enterprises. WasabiCard will continue to help businesses conduct global operations more robustly through compliant and reliable payment infrastructure."

Sharplink disclosed on the X platform that it received 449 ETH staking rewards this week, bringing the total staking earnings to 22,991 ETH to date.

Jack Yi stated that the weekly level of Bitcoin is still in a downtrend, and in the short term, attention should be paid to whether it can effectively break through 68,000 USD.He believes that only by strongly standing above 68,000 USD can a more significant reversal in the market occur; if the breakout fails, the price may once again test the bottom, and there is a risk of falling below 47,000 USD that needs to be monitored.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD announces that the TRON DeFi Summer officially begins. It has launched the Summer Earning Program in collaboration with Binance Wallet and JustLend DAO. This event will run from now until August 5 at 07:59 (Singapore time), and participating users can share a total reward of $900,000.Among them, users who complete designated deposits or subscribe to specified activity treasury assets through Binance Wallet can share a total value of $300,000 TRX exclusive airdrop; by subscribing to USDD through JustLend DAO, in addition to enjoying the basic APY, they can also participate in sharing a $600,000 USDD prize pool.It is reported that the official has released a beginner's participation tutorial and provided a full gas fee subsidy for the event to encourage user participation, with the current total yield rate at approximately 14.27%.

According to Jinshi, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) stated that traders' overall positioning sentiment towards the dollar has risen to the most optimistic level since 2015.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Governor Waller stated that if the forward guidance is "too rigid or inflexible," it may become an obstacle to policy implementation.

Web3 security company CertiK released the "Hack3D: First Half of 2026 Report." The report shows that in the first half of 2026, the Web3 ecosystem experienced a total of 344 security incidents, with cumulative losses of approximately $1.32 billion. Although this figure represents a 46.8% decrease compared to the same period last year, if we exclude the impact of the $1.45 billion security incident encountered by Bybit, the loss scale in the first half of this year has actually increased by about 28% year-on-year, indicating that the overall security environment in the industry has not seen substantial improvement.The report points out that wallet theft has become the largest type of attack causing financial losses, resulting in approximately $450 million in losses in the first half of the year; meanwhile, although the number of phishing attacks has decreased by over 50% year-on-year, the amount of losses has only decreased by about 10.8%, reflecting that attackers are increasingly targeting high-net-worth individuals and institutional targets, implementing more focused high-value attacks.In addition, code vulnerabilities remain the most frequently occurring type of attack, with related incidents reaching 204. CertiK believes that attackers are increasingly targeting long-running and outdated smart contracts that lack re-auditing.The report also shows that large-scale attack incidents continue to dominate industry losses, with the Kelp DAO and Drift Protocol incidents collectively causing approximately $577 million in losses, accounting for 44% of the total losses in the first half of the year. From the perspective of incident quantity, the impact of single attacks, and changes in attack patterns, the Web3 industry is facing increasingly complex and continuously escalating security challenges.

According to CryptoSlate, South Korea's Bitcoin treasury company Bitplanet has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Nasdaq-listed company Antalpha and its partners, planning to introduce 15 billion Korean won worth of Bitcoin mining equipment and to launch full-scale mining operations this month. The Bitcoin mined in the future will be recognized as operating income and managed as a long-term financial asset.The plan indicates that the first phase of equipment is expected to produce over 7 BTC per month, with an annual output of more than 80 BTC (subject to equipment utilization and electricity prices). The mining equipment will be deployed in overseas regions with competitive electricity costs, including Oman and Paraguay, and will adopt an overseas custody and joint operation model.

According to The Block, the publicly listed company Forward Industries (FWDI) purchased over 500,000 SOL in the fiscal quarter ending Tuesday, increasing its Solana inventory to approximately 7.55 million SOL, valued at about $776 million (approximately $576 million in the text, fluctuating with market prices), making it the largest SOL financial holder among the three publicly listed companies with Solana inventories.The company stated that it issued 93,642 shares through an ATM this quarter and repurchased shares when the stock price was below the net asset value per share of SOL, aiming to "maximize each SOL share and enhance long-term shareholder value." As a result, FWDI's stock price rose over 17% during the trading session, and the price of Solana also climbed to a January high of about $77.