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According to CoinDesk, cryptocurrency custody company Copper's CEO Amar Kuchinad has resigned as the company seeks to sell and negotiations have entered their fourth month. Kuchinad joined Copper as CEO in October 2024, following the departure of the company's founder and CEO Dmitry Tokarev. Kuchinad previously worked at Goldman Sachs and served as an advisor at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.Copper has been looking for buyers since May of this year and has hired Cantor Fitzgerald to assist with the sale, initially asking for $500 million. CoinDesk reported last month that the company received offers of about $200 million, while Copper's valuation at its peak exceeded $2 billion.Recently, Copper also added two executives: Elin Cherry as Chief Compliance Officer and Sean Bowen as Chief Operating Officer. As of the time of publication, neither Copper nor Kuchinad has responded to requests for comment.

X-Agent announced that the X-Agent AI MCP Hackathon 2026 will officially launch on September 2, calling for global developers and teams to submit practical, verifiable Agent and MCP applications. This event is an online global competition supported by OlaXBT.The hackathon features two tracks: the Open Innovation Track encourages participants to develop any practical API-driven Agent or MCP capabilities around AI, crypto assets, data, automation, and Agent infrastructure; the OlaXBT × X-Agent Trading Challenge allows participating teams to access the OlaXBT Nexus MCP, supporting their use of strategy development, backtesting, performance analysis, and market data capabilities to validate trading strategies and build related Agent or MCP applications.The total rewards for this event include USDT and X-Points. The first-place team in each track will receive a reward of 500 USDT; the top five teams in each track will collectively earn X-Points. X-Points can be used to participate in the X-Agent airdrop token $XAGT exchange. Award-winning and selected projects will also have the opportunity to receive support for MCP standardization, ecological exposure, market integration, and paid call commercialization. The registration and development period for the event is from September 2 to September 19, with technical reviews and evaluations taking place from September 20 to October 1, and the winners' list is expected to be announced between October 2 and 4. Participating projects must be submitted through the official GitHub repository.

The Taiwanese prosecutors stated that they are investigating the global leading chip substrate and printed circuit board manufacturer, Unimicron Technology Corporation, which is a key supplier for NVIDIA, Intel, Google, and Amazon. The investigation targets the company for allegedly mislabeling parts made in China as being produced in Taiwan, which may violate laws prohibiting the laundering of origin.Unimicron Technology Corporation is one of the world's top printed circuit board manufacturers, and this investigation occurs against the backdrop of the United States cracking down on transshipment.

According to The Block, former Coinbase Chief Technology Officer and former general partner at a16z Balaji Srinivasan has relaunched Network School in Kazakhstan. Less than a month prior, the project was halted in Malaysia by local authorities.The new campus is established in collaboration with the Kazakhstan government. Network School, driven by Balaji, is positioned as an educational and community experimental project centered around the concept of network states, aimed at gathering entrepreneurs and tech talent for learning and collaboration.

Yushu Technology officially launched online and offline subscriptions on August 10, with an issue price of 150.80 yuan per share. The total market value after issuance is approximately 60.993 billion yuan, with total fundraising of nearly 6.1 billion yuan, and the issuance price-to-earnings ratio is 219.23 times, significantly higher than the industry average of 38.56 times.Meituan holds a total of 9.65% of Yushu's shares before issuance through its three subsidiaries, making it the largest external institutional shareholder; Sequoia China holds a total of 7.11%, ranking second. Based on the issue price, the two institutions will receive substantial paper returns. Sequoia first participated in the capital increase in December 2019 with 15 million yuan, at which time the post-investment valuation was only 150 million yuan.A fund under DJI planned to invest 10.1286 million yuan in 2018 for a corresponding shareholding of about 17%, and completed the business registration, but chose to withdraw its investment in 2019. If this investment had been retained until now, the corresponding market value would be approximately 3.7 billion yuan based on the issue price. DJI did not explain the reason for the withdrawal, but in 2019, the company announced an anti-corruption notice, disclosing the handling of 45 employees suspected of corruption, which led to a complete halt of the investment department's work.Among other major shareholders, Jingwei Venture Capital holds 5.45%, Shunwei Capital holds 4.42%, and CITIC Securities holds a total of 4.49%. In terms of strategic placement, DeepSeek received 933,400 shares (subscription of 141 million yuan), and Shanghai Qishan Investment, a subsidiary of Tencent, received 903,300 shares. CITIC Securities, as the sole sponsor, will receive approximately 145 million yuan in sponsorship underwriting fees and will be allocated 808,900 shares through co-investment. Yushu also reminds that the issuance price-to-earnings ratio is significantly higher than the industry average, posing a risk of stock price decline. The deadline for payment for successful applicants is August 12.

On August 5, WEEX Exchange announced that the platform launched Ant.fun (ANTFUN) on August 3 at 18:00 (UTC+8) and has initiated a limited-time zero transaction fee promotion, allowing users to share a 20,000 USDT airdrop for participating in trading. Activity period: 8/4 18:00 - 8/11 18:00 (UTC+8).During the event, all users with an ANTFUN spot trading volume ≥ 100 USDT can participate in sharing a 10,000 USDT prize pool based on their trading volume rankings, with the user ranked first receiving an exclusive reward of 800 USDT.

According to a report by a financial magazine, multiple trading insiders revealed that the large model company DeepSeek has restarted its second round of financing, planning to raise 50 billion yuan, with a pre-investment valuation of approximately 500 billion yuan, and plans to complete the signing by late August.Several investors mentioned that DeepSeek's second round of financing had at least started in mid-July, but was suddenly paused at the end of July. At that time, some investors on the negotiation standby list were informed that the plan to sign the financing agreement was postponed. According to media reports on July 26, DeepSeek paused its second round of financing, one reason being that DeepSeek's founder Liang Wenfeng was dissatisfied with widely circulated comments online, which mainly revolved around the suspected leak of the "transcript of the investor meeting."DeepSeek and the investors at the negotiation table hope that this financing can proceed discreetly after the restart. Currently, some investment institutions that had previously been actively in contact have stated that they have not received news of DeepSeek restarting the financing, and the channel remains in a paused state.

As TRON DeFi Summer S1 enters its final sprint phase, JustLend DAO announces that it will hold a "Highlight Night" in-depth roundtable discussion on July 28 at 20:00 (SGT) in X Space. This event will feature several heavyweight industry guests, focusing on JustLend DAO's lending and borrowing market, Staked TRX, and energy leasing, among other core product matrices, comprehensively analyzing the synergistic effects of assets such as USDD, SUN, and JST within the TRON DeFi ecosystem. At that time, guests will guide you to unlock the triple play of "asset yield, liquidity release, and on-chain resources" in one go, aiming to help DeFi participants at different stages clearly outline the multiple application scenarios and value flows of TRON's core assets. Please stay tuned for the official X Space on July 28 at 20:00 (SGT) to jointly explore the highlights of the TRON DeFi ecosystem.

OKX will launch the SLX (Solstice) Flash Earn Lite event on July 31, 2026, at 15:00. Users can participate by subscribing to BTC, OKSOL, OKB, or SLX to share a reward pool of 2,000,000 SLX.Users can start subscribing on July 27 at 15:00, and the event will end on August 5 at 15:00.

According to the official announcement, the second phase of Gate Pre-IPOs project OpenAI (OPENAI) subscription will officially start on July 15 at 15:00 (UTC+8). This phase supports participation in both USDT and GUSD, with a total subscription value of approximately 20 million USD, issuing a total of 27,700 OPENAI asset certificates, with a subscription price of 1 OPENAI = 722 USD.This subscription will last until July 17 at 15:00 (UTC+8), with a minimum single subscription amount of 100 USDT or 100 GUSD, waiving implied fees and custody costs, and will open pre-market trading in the Pre-IPOs area on July 20 at 16:00 (UTC+8). In terms of the allocation mechanism, the platform uses "average locked amount per hour" as the basis for asset certificate allocation; the earlier the user participates and the longer the lock-up time, the higher the allocation weight.At the same time, Gate is launching multiple subscription benefits, including GT Sunshine Reward, exclusive airdrop activities for VIP users and super agents, and more. Users who successfully subscribe for more than 10,000 USD will receive a reward of 1 GT each; users who subscribe for less than 10,000 USDT can share a 2,000 GT prize pool; in addition, participating in the subscription using GUSD can also enjoy an annualized minting yield of 3.8%.

Sharplink Research Director Steven Ehrlich published an analysis pointing out that Ethereum started strong in July 2026, with an increase of about 11% so far this month. Historical data suggests that investors should pay attention to ETH's performance in July. Steven Ehrlich noted that the core advantage of ETH's July performance is not merely volatility, but the asymmetry between rises and falls: when July sees an increase, the average rise is about 43%, while in years of decline, the average drop is only about 5% (from 2020 to 2025).Historically, months of significant gains for ETH are usually driven by "Ethereum-specific catalysts + supply-demand imbalance." The current market environment also presents similar opportunities, such as: institutional infrastructure is being built, the Ethereum roadmap is continuously upgrading, and corporate funds are consistently increasing their holdings of ETH. Currently, Ethereum is entering a new development phase, where institutional adoption, technological upgrades, and capital allocation may become important factors driving ETH's market performance.

According to the official announcement from NEAR Chain Status, the NEAR mainnet version 2.13.0 has been released, introducing post-quantum transaction signature schemes and dynamic sharding features.Voting will begin at 8:00 AM Beijing time on July 20. Former NEAR core developer Vadim introduced that this upgrade includes features that would typically require a ten-year roadmap for most blockchains: the post-quantum signature ML-DSA-65 becomes the third key type in the protocol after ed25519 and secp256k1, allowing accounts to hold keys that cannot be forged by quantum computers, with only a 32-byte hash recorded on-chain; dynamic sharding enables the chain to automatically monitor the status and size of each shard and to split and re-shard at epoch boundaries without the need for protocol upgrades or manual intervention; Gas Keys provide critical functionality for the proxy economy, allowing a single account to run a batch of proxies to send transactions simultaneously without nonce conflicts.

According to the official website of the Shanghai Stock Exchange, Chinese storage giant Changxin Technology disclosed its IPO prospectus and "Issuance Arrangement and Preliminary Inquiry Announcement" for the Sci-Tech Innovation Board on July 9, officially starting the IPO issuance process for the Sci-Tech Innovation Board. The announcement revealed that the offline subscription date and online subscription date for the company's new shares are both July 16, 2026. The announcement also indicated that Changxin Technology's stock code/offline subscription code is "688825," and the online subscription code is "787825." The announcement shows that the proposed public offering will issue 668,808.8608 million shares (before the exercise of the over-allotment option), and the issuer grants China International Capital Corporation an over-allotment option not exceeding 15.00% of the initial number of shares issued. If the over-allotment option is fully exercised, the total number of shares issued will increase to 769,130.1608 million shares.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the Ethereum treasury company Sharplink, which has not purchased ETH for 8 months, has resumed accumulation today, receiving 5,000 ETH (7.85 million USD) from FalconX 6 hours ago. It currently holds 876,000 ETH (1.37 billion USD), with an average cost of 3,609 USD, resulting in an unrealized loss of 1.789 billion USD (-56%).

Fortitude Mining Holdings and HeartSciences today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement to complete a business combination through an all-stock transaction.It is reported that Fortitude Mining Holdings is a vertically integrated digital asset mining platform focused on Zcash mining.The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026. Upon completion of the transaction, the merged company will continue to use the Fortitude brand and will be operated by the existing management team of Fortitude, including Fortitude CEO Andrea Childs. The new company plans to list on the NASDAQ capital market, with the stock ticker expected to be "TUDE," but it still requires NASDAQ approval.