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According to official news, Uniswap Labs has released a temperature check proposal, suggesting the activation of protocol fees in the v4 pool. This proposal follows the rapid governance process previously approved by UNIfication and will directly enter a five-day Snapshot voting period, followed by on-chain voting.Due to the Hook architecture of v4 making fee settings more complex than v2/v3, the proposal has designed the V4 Fee Controller system, which includes two core contracts: V4FeePolicy calculates the fees for any pool based on governance rules, and V4FeeAdapter is responsible for executing governance overrides and collecting fees into TokenJar. Fees are calculated hierarchically based on the family of the pool: first checking the specific trading pair rate set by governance, then the family default rate, and finally the global default rate.This proposal aims to activate fees for three types of pool families across 11 chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and BNB Chain: static rate pools without Hooks, CCA pools after continuous liquidation auctions, and aggregator Hook pools. The rates for aggregator Hook pools are adjusted by a 25x multiplier, with a default of 10 bp for non-Base chains (3 bp for stablecoin pairs) and a default of 3 bp for Base chains (1 bp for stablecoin pairs). All fees will flow into each chain's TokenJar, and the amount of UNI burned on L2 and Alt-L1 will be cross-chain bridged to the Ethereum mainnet and sent to the 0xdead address.The Snapshot voting window is from July 7 to July 12, and on-chain voting will start during the week of July 13. Since GovernorBravo limits each proposal to 10 actions, two on-chain votes will be submitted in parallel to cover all chains.

According to Zcash developer Sean Bowe (@ebfull), the Zcash Ironwood network upgrade has made significant progress: all consensus rule changes have been implemented and have entered the audit phase, and the related specifications (ZIPs) have been released and are nearing final status; the testnet activation is scheduled for July 4, and the mainnet activation is expected to be completed around July 21.The team is simultaneously conducting formal verification work to eliminate potential risks regarding supply integrity, and the relevant results will be announced before the mainnet activation. The only impact on users after the upgrade will be the migration process of the old funding pool. There is already sufficient hashing power expressing support for the mainnet upgrade, although some wallets may not be able to complete adaptation in time, but the team has stated that this will not delay the activation, and ample alternative solutions and testnet time will be provided.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, the WLFI unlocking activation portal has been open for two weeks. A total of 45.9 billion WLFI has been transferred to the unlocking contract, with a progress of 73.8% and a total value of 2.81 billion USD.The WLFI team and related stakeholders have burned 3.2 billion WLFI, valued at 194 million USD. The current price of WLFI is 0.06137 USD, an increase of 18% compared to the low point at the beginning of the month.

The stablecoin one-stop wallet UU Wallet today announced the launch of the 15-day "UU Travel Season" event. During the event, users who complete their first travel-related purchase using the UU Visa virtual card or physical card will receive a $5 cashback. Supported platforms include major global travel and transportation service providers such as Uber, Grab, Booking.com, Airbnb, and Trip.com.In addition, to lower the access threshold for users, UU Wallet will implement a limited-time policy of waiving the card activation fee for virtual cards during the event. New users can activate and use the card for free after completing real-name authentication, and existing users can also activate their accounts without upfront costs during this period.It is reported that UU Wallet is committed to providing global payment and remittance services centered around stablecoins, and has already launched Visa card and cross-border remittance functions. This event is a core initiative to promote the "daily use of on-chain dollars" and user growth in the second quarter of 2026. In the future, the platform will continue to enhance its product matrix around payment, exchange, and wealth management services related to stablecoins.

According to Whale Alert monitoring, a dormant Bitcoin whale address that has been inactive for 13.7 years has just been activated, containing 2,100 BTC (worth $147 million), which were only valued at $13,685 in 2012.

Aave founder Stani.eth announced on the X platform that Aave has released the Aave V4 Ethereum mainnet activation governance proposal. Aave V4 will introduce a modular architecture, where the liquidity center Liquidity Hubs holds shared liquidity, while Spokes define independent lending environments with governance restrictions. This version is also expected to launch a topology, promotion paths, implementation and control models, as well as an initial asset range for risk parameterization. Once the community reaches a consensus on this proposal, a Snapshot will be submitted for voting.

The decentralized confidential computing project Acurast has announced the ACU token economics. The total supply of ACU tokens is 1 billion, of which 24% will be used for community activation (early computing providers, Cloud Rebellion airdrop, listing incentives, CoinList token issuance), 11.5% will be used as operational funds, 24% will be allocated to the community treasury, 24% will be distributed to the team and advisors, 10% will be used for liquidity, and 6.5% will be allocated to early supporters.

According to records from forkcast org, the 172nd Ethereum Consensus Layer Core Developer Conference (ACDC) mainly discussed: successful activation of BPO2, Blob Target increased to 14, Limit increased to 21; EIP-8070 (Sparse Blob Pool) confirmed to be included in Glamsterdam; the proposal process for the Hegota headline proposal has been opened.

The Ethereum treasury company Bitmine has once again deposited 82,560 ETH into the Ethereum staking system, bringing its total staked ETH amount to 544,064, valued at approximately $1.62 billion at current prices.Due to Bitmine's recent acceleration in staking, the current Ethereum validator queue has increased to about 977,000 ETH, with new validators expected to wait nearly 17 days. The amount of ETH waiting to be withdrawn in the exit queue exceeds 113,000.Ethereum network data shows that over 35.5 million ETH have been staked at this stage, accounting for about 29% of the total supply, with an annualized staking yield close to 2.54%.

Data analyst jpn memelord stated that one major effect of Uniswap enabling the fee switch is that fraudulent liquidity pools (such as honeypots and automated rugs) can disappear overnight, as these pools rely on a protocol fee rate of zero.According to rough estimates, half of the trading volume on Uniswap on Base may belong to such pools. The official unfiltered data shows that the trading volume of Uniswap on Base in 2025 is $208.07 billion, but after adding some filtering criteria, the non-fraudulent trading volume is only $77.38 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to whale_alert monitoring, a wallet address that has been dormant for over 14 years has just been activated, containing 4,000 BTC (worth $442 million), which were valued at only $67,724 in 2011.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim published a summary of the 167th Ethereum Core Developers Consensus (ACDC) conference call. This week, developers preliminarily finalized the mainnet activation timeline for the Fusaka upgrade. Fusaka activation (December 3, 2025), BPO 1 (December 17, 2025), BPO 2 (January 7, 2026); developers also decided to maintain the design of the "Proposer-Builder Separation Mechanism" (ePBS) in the Glamsterdam upgrade; the Fusaka development network -3, Holesky, and the recently upgraded Sepolia testnet have no unresolved vulnerabilities.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, currently out of the total supply of 100 billion WLFI tokens, only 20% is clearly unlocked at TGE from the public sale rounds one and two, with a total of 25 billion tokens sold in the public sale.Assuming all participants have transferred their tokens to Lockbox and activated them, the TGE circulation will be 5 billion tokens (5% of the total supply), which, based on the current Binance contract price of $0.3858, would result in a sell-off of $1.93 billion.However, Tokenomist found that the corresponding share of early presale users in the WLFI smart contract is only 1.843 million tokens (with 6.57 billion tokens not accounted for). If this is true, the TGE circulation under the same conditions will decrease to 3.68 billion tokens, resulting in approximately $1.42 billion in sell-off.As of 8 PM tonight, the WLFI Lockbox contract has received a total of 16.395 billion tokens, meaning only 65.5% of the presale tokens have been activated. Therefore, the actual TGE circulation will ultimately depend on the total number of tokens deposited by investors.Based on the current Binance contract price of $0.3858, the FDV of WLFI is $38.58 billion, which is 1.62 times that of LINK's FDV. DWF Labs previously invested $25 million to acquire 250 million tokens at a cost of $0.1, and is also a market maker at USD1, thus DWF Labs will become the market maker for WLFI tokens.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the RWA infrastructure NEXA EXWORTH has launched the Visa Entity U Card (Super Business Black), which supports direct payment with cryptocurrency assets at Visa merchants worldwide, both online and offline, without the need for prior conversion; at the same time, the project team disclosed that they will launch a limited-time free virtual card activation event, aimed at quick card issuance and covering common online subscription and payment scenarios.NEXA is committed to becoming the "Nasdaq of the RWA field," is advancing its private placement round and ecological construction, and will hold an online meeting for the Chinese community on August 29 at 8 PM, inviting a PhD from the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a senior blockchain expert to share insights.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 native AI agent platform WORLD3 officially launches the Pre-TGE airdrop event, allowing users to automate their Web3 experience through AI agents.The "Pre-TGE Agent Activation" event launched by WORLD3 will showcase its innovative Influencer Agent feature, which can autonomously execute social media marketing strategies, including content creation, community interaction, and KPI tracking.This event allows users to experience WORLD3's long-term operational expert agent system, which works 24/7 in dedicated VMs and truly understands on-chain realities. Participants can earn rewards by completing various tasks, including testing agent functionalities and providing feedback.In addition to the Influencer Agent, WORLD3 will gradually launch a complete ecosystem of Web3 expert agents, including DocuWriter (document creation), DataComposer (data analysis), and Xscriber (X Space to text) among other specialized agents.Users can join by visiting the WORLD3 platform and participating in the "Pre-TGE Agent Activation" event. This event serves as a warm-up for the upcoming TGE, marking an important milestone for WORLD3 in building the next generation of Web3 automation experiences.

ChainCatcher news, Bitget has officially opened the unified account function to all institutional users, while also opening an application channel for eligible individual investors. This function allows users to manage spot, contract, and leveraged trading under a single margin pool, achieving unified profit and loss calculation and margin sharing, effectively enhancing capital efficiency and risk control capabilities.Institutional business is one of Bitget's core strategies for 2025. Since the beginning of the year, the platform has launched the Bitget PRO program and upgraded its institutional lending services and liquidity incentive mechanisms, further improving the professional trader ecosystem.As of the first half of 2025, over 90% of top institutional traders have connected to Bitget, with institutional users contributing over 50% of the platform's total trading volume. Recently, Bitget has further deepened its cooperation with liquidity providers such as DWF Labs, Kronos Research, Veles, and Da Vinci Trading.

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by the DeFi protocol Resolv, announced that starting this month, Resolv will begin accumulating protocol fees------allocating a portion of daily profits for long-term value creation and RESOLV stakers.The protocol fees will be gradually activated starting this month. The fee increment plan is as follows:Week 1 → 2.5% of daily profitsWeek 2 → 5%Week 3 → 7.5%Week 4 and ongoing → 10%Protocol fees are only charged when positive returns are generated. No fees will be charged on days with zero or negative returns. This is a performance-based system------sharing profits when the protocol is profitable and not charging fees when it is not. This is not a reduction of profits, but a shift from a 100% user payment model to a shared growth model, activating the RESOLV flywheel.

ChainCatcher news, according to 10x Research analysis, 8 dormant Bitcoin wallets from the Satoshi era that had been inactive for 14 years were reactivated on Friday, involving a total transaction amount of $8.6 billion. These "vintage" wallets have been a potential selling pressure in the market and are one of the key reasons why Bitcoin has struggled to achieve significant gains over the past six months, although there are currently no clear signs that these specific wallets intend to sell.The "super whales" group, composed of early Bitcoin miners and long-term holders, is gradually reducing their holdings, while the demand from crypto ETFs and corporate treasuries continues to increase. This hidden tug-of-war may determine Bitcoin's short-term trend.