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According to the Financial Times in the UK, scammers are exploiting the new EU MiCA regulations to target users who are forced to withdraw assets from unlicensed crypto platforms after the licensing deadline. The fraudsters impersonate regulatory agencies and crypto exchanges to lure users into transferring funds to fake accounts.

According to Jinshi reports, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Office issued a notice on August 6 stating that a tanker sailing in the Strait of Hormuz reported hearing two explosions, and currently both the vessel and crew are safe. The incident occurred 9 nautical miles southeast of Kumzar, Oman, and the report was received at 19:18 UTC on the 5th (03:18 Beijing time on the 6th). The notice did not provide further details.

According to Jinshi reports, from 12:21 AM to 12:33 AM local time on August 5, multiple rounds of strong explosions were heard in the capital city of Kyiv and the Brovary direction of Kyiv Oblast. The Ukrainian Air Force stated that the Russian military is launching a new round of ballistic missile attacks on the city of Kyiv.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform stating that Coinkite claims the vulnerability exists at the boundaries of two unrelated firmware submodules, rather than in its Bitcoin or crypto code, allowing it to evade manual and AI-assisted code reviews for years.Coinkite stated that after the incident, the company tested cutting-edge AI models including Kimi K3, Claude Fable, and Codex 5.6, none of which identified the flaw. Coinkite is currently urging security-critical projects to specifically audit build systems and submodule boundaries, warning that AI-assisted development may leave similar blind spots in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

According to Jinshi reports, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Office stated that an incident occurred 20 nautical miles northeast of Seeb, Oman. The captain of a tanker reported hearing an explosion near the vessel.

According to Jinshi reports, on August 2 local time, Moscow Mayor Sobyanin stated on social media that the explosion incident at a restaurant in the city on August 1 was a terrorist attack, resulting in 3 deaths and 21 injuries. Sobyanin mentioned that law enforcement agencies are investigating the specifics of the incident.The Russian National Anti-Terrorism Committee reported that the incident was caused by the explosion of a homemade explosive device.

According to a report by Hong Kong 01, "Fun Coffee," which claims to be rooted in Vietnam, just entered Hong Kong at the end of 2025 and was warned by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in July 2026 for being a suspicious investment product. The company appears to be investing in the coffee business, but in reality, it is a virtual currency investment scam with annual interest rates as high as 222%, ultimately "collapsing" at the end of July.The victim group has over 370 people, with each person defrauded of hundreds of thousands of dollars. Multiple investment groups combined have a total of 4,000 people involved, with funds exceeding 1 billion Hong Kong dollars. A middle-aged woman in her 50s claims that she unknowingly became a shareholder and director of one of Fun Coffee's Hong Kong registered companies, and she has over a hundred "downlines." After being contacted by reporters, she has gone to the police to report the case. The police have received 115 reports, which have been handed over to the Commercial Crime Bureau's fraud investigation team for follow-up.The report states that Fun Coffee held a marathon event in Hong Kong at the end of last year, inviting artist Yuen Siu Cheung to host and distributing anti-fraud leaflets for promotion in various districts. The company's headquarters in Kowloon Bay and its storefront in Mong Kok are now empty, with notices of unpaid rent posted. The Securities and Futures Commission issued a warning on July 13, and the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Security also warned in May that it is suspected to be a Ponzi scheme.

According to Jinshi, on July 31 local time, explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Previously, Kyiv had sounded the air raid sirens. Kyiv Mayor Klitschko reported that the city's air defense system is operational to respond to the Russian military drone attacks.

According to Jinshi reports, explosions were heard at the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan (one of the main U.S. military bases in the Middle East).

According to Jinshi reports, local officials stated that explosions were heard in Lviv, western Ukraine.

According to Jinshi reports, local witnesses said that explosions were heard in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a new article introducing a novel cryptographic obfuscation technology called Diamond iO. This technology aims to address the extremely low efficiency of traditional indistinguishable obfuscation schemes, allowing programs to run while hiding internal logic and critical data. Although traditional iO technology possesses strong privacy protection capabilities, its operational costs are prohibitively high, making it nearly impractical. Diamond iO, by adopting more aggressive new cryptographic assumptions, enhances computational efficiency from "universe-level time consumption" to "planet-level time consumption," bringing it closer to practical application.Diamond iO is built on technologies such as Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). By encrypting programs, it allows users to execute the encrypted programs and obtain correct outputs without being able to view the internal code or hidden keys. This solution introduces a new input encoding mechanism and conditional decryption method, reducing computational complexity while ensuring the program logic remains hidden. Its core application scenarios include protecting programs that contain private keys, enabling secure software licensing, constructing trustless cryptographic services, and supporting blockchain and artificial intelligence systems with stronger privacy protection.However, Diamond iO is still in the early research stage, and its security relies on new cryptographic assumptions, including All-Product LWE and Evasive LWE, which require further research validation. At the same time, the technology still faces efficiency challenges such as high computational overhead and circuit depth limitations. Researchers believe that by optimizing underlying hash functions, improving homomorphic encryption schemes, and reducing security parameter requirements, Diamond iO is expected to become an important direction for advancing practical program obfuscation technology in the future.

According to Jinshi reports, Goldman Sachs analysts pointed out in a report that the Federal Reserve is expected to maintain the federal funds rate unchanged at this week's meeting. The impact of this decision will depend on how Federal Reserve Chairman Waller explains this decision and the future policy path.Analysts stated that if the Federal Reserve fails to provide sufficient economic outlook or policy response guidance, it may lead to volatility risks for the currently stable long-term U.S. Treasury yield curve and inflation risk premium. Currently, the money market pricing shows a 31.5% probability of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve this week, but the mainstream market expectation remains that interest rates will stay unchanged.

According to on-chain detective Specter monitoring, Wemix Network may have experienced a vulnerability exploitation event exceeding $700,000, with the related address being 0xC921...7EA2.

Gate US officially announced that Gate AI and Alpaca will collaborate on the development vision of Agentic Trading, promoting the integration of AI infrastructure and trading system capabilities to provide underlying support for the next generation of intelligent trading applications.Alpaca has built a trading API that is developer and AI Agent friendly, with its community continuously transforming trading ideas into actual projects, covering research processes, simulated trading systems, and Agentic workflows that connect market data, analysis, and execution logic. Gate AI focuses on building an infrastructure layer for AI Agents and developers, where the GateRouter unified API helps developers quickly access over 25 mainstream AI models and balances cost and performance through intelligent routing.Both Gate AI and Alpaca agree that AI trading Agent developers should not have to choose between high-quality trading execution infrastructure and AI infrastructure, but should be able to obtain support for both in a smoother manner. Next, Gate AI will explore how its model routing and Agent infrastructure can connect to trading workflows built on APIs like Alpaca, supporting developers in integrating market data, AI reasoning, and trading execution into Agentic systems.Gate AI and Alpaca also plan to promote knowledge sharing and best practice exchanges between their developer communities, continuously lowering the development threshold and complexity of AI-native trading applications. Gate AI and Alpaca will continue to explore collaborative efforts around the construction of the Agentic Trading ecosystem, providing foundational support for developers to build more efficient and scalable next-generation intelligent trading applications.

According to Slow Fog monitoring, the decentralized finance protocol Lien Finance was attacked. The attacker exploited a smart contract vulnerability to mint uncollateralized bond tokens and stole approximately $542,000 USDC.Using this vulnerability, the attacker successfully minted new non-anomalous BondTokens without destroying the corresponding input bonds and exchanged USDC through a pre-authorized address, ultimately transferring about 542,144.63 USDC from the victim's address. Analysis indicates that this incident was essentially due to a validation flaw in the bond token exchange logic, allowing the attacker to bypass asset collateral constraints and mint unsupported assets.

Bitget appeared as a sponsor at the WikiFX exhibition. Bitget CFD Chief Analyst Lewis Huang delivered a speech titled "One Account, Invest Globally: The Cross-Asset Trading Revolution in the UEX Era," pointing out the core pain points faced by active traders today: "Opportunities are global, but capital is fragmented."In response to this situation, Bitget proposed the concept of the panoramic exchange UEX. Lewis Huang stated that what traders need is not more apps, but a highly integrated trading ecosystem. Relying on the Bitget UEX architecture and cross-asset margin mechanism, users only need one account, one KYC verification, and a unified capital pool to configure diverse assets such as cryptocurrencies, U.S. stocks, foreign exchange, precious metals, and global indices. This helps traders quickly seize opportunities when macro trends arise, achieving a global, cross-asset one-stop layout.

According to the latest episode of the Gatecast podcast, Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han shared his thoughts on the future of AI, Web3, and the cryptocurrency industry in an interview themed "The Future of AI, Web3, and the Cryptocurrency Industry."Dr. Han stated that the way users will interact with cryptocurrency products will undergo profound changes due to AI in the future. Currently, the cryptocurrency market has millions of assets and tens of thousands of DApps, and the high cost of choice and usage barriers limit user entry. However, AI is expected to become an important gateway connecting users with the Web3 ecosystem. When discussing the combination of AI and trading, Dr. Han mentioned that AI can help users efficiently acquire information, analyze market signals, and assist in decision-making, but it still cannot completely replace human judgment. "AI + human intelligence" will become a more effective approach in the future.Dr. Han also pointed out that Gate is continuously utilizing AI to optimize product experiences, reducing users' learning costs through intelligent tools, and encouraging more users to enter the Web3 world. Currently, Gate is building an AI product system around the Intelligent Web3 strategy, which includes Gate AI, GateClaw, and Gate for AI Agent, accelerating the integration of AI technology into the trading ecosystem. In the future, Gate will further lower the barriers to using Web3 through intelligent products and services, enhance user experience, and drive more users into an open and intelligent Web3 world.