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B.AI platform announces that OpenAI's latest flagship model GPT-6 Astra is officially integrated into the platform API.As OpenAI's latest flagship intelligent model, Astra achieves SOTA levels in fields such as computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, scientific research, and professional work. The model supports a context window of 1.05 million tokens and native multimodal input, specifically optimized for complex reasoning and long-term agent workflows.B.AI API is now open for calls, enjoying a 10% exclusive discount.

The LayerZero research team, in collaboration with Oblivious Labs and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, has published a paper proposing a new automated market maker mechanism called OTTER, aimed at enhancing resistance to Maximum Extractable Value (MEV).OTTER employs a batch clearing mechanism similar to VCG auctions, making it a dominant strategy for traders to report valuations and budgets truthfully, while weakening the ability of block builders to profit through transaction ordering, sandwich attacks, or injecting false bids.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "GTA VI First Week View Count" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "20-22M" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 56.5% an hour ago to the current 81% (a fluctuation of 24.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

OpenAI stated that its upcoming Astra model can autonomously discover previously unknown software vulnerabilities and convert them into usable attack vectors without human intervention, making it the company's first model to reach the "Critical" cybersecurity capability level threshold. In a blog post released on Tuesday, OpenAI mentioned that according to its Preparedness Framework, reaching this level means the model can discover zero-day vulnerabilities and develop usable exploit code in hardened real systems without human involvement, or design and execute attacks based solely on a high-level objective.In testing, Astra achieved a 100% score in benchmark tests for developing exploit code based on known vulnerabilities and discovered two previously unknown vulnerabilities in another internal test. Additionally, the model successfully broke through a hardened browser sandbox and executed commands on the host machine, while gaining root access by exploiting multiple weaknesses in the operating system. OpenAI stated that it has delayed some of Astra's development progress to enhance security measures and plans to make its advanced cybersecurity capabilities available only to selected testers.This capability is particularly relevant to the cryptocurrency industry, as software vulnerabilities can be converted into financial losses within minutes. CoinDesk reported in June that increasingly powerful AI models can compress the process of searching code, discovering misconfigurations, and assembling attacks from days or weeks to machine speed. Security researchers noted at the time that the significant change was not the emergence of new categories of attacks, but rather the dramatically increased speed at which existing vulnerabilities are discovered and exploited.

The automated market maker Aquifer on Solana was attacked, resulting in a loss of approximately $2.5 million. Aquifer subsequently issued a "white hat" offer on-chain, requesting the attacker to return at least 80% of the stolen assets to the designated Solana and Ethereum recovery addresses by September 3 at 22:00, and may retain up to 20% as a bounty.If the attacker complies, the project team promises not to file a civil lawsuit against them.

Li Auto announced its unaudited financial performance for the second quarter of 2026. During the quarter, a total of 98,330 vehicles were delivered, a year-on-year decrease of 11.5%; vehicle sales amounted to 24.1 billion RMB, a year-on-year decrease of 16.7%, but a quarter-on-quarter increase of 11.8%; total revenue was 25.7 billion RMB, a year-on-year decrease of 15.1%, with a quarter-on-quarter increase of 11.7%. The vehicle gross margin was 9.4%, with a total gross profit of 2.8 billion RMB and a gross margin of 11.0%. The operating loss was 2.3 billion RMB, the net loss was 1.7 billion RMB, and the non-GAAP net loss was 1.5 billion RMB.As of June 30, 2026, Li Auto had 495 retail stores in China, covering 160 cities, as well as 536 service centers and authorized stores, covering 220 cities, with 4,097 supercharging stations and 22,593 charging piles. In the second quarter, the company repurchased approximately 41.23 million Class A shares and 9.49 million ADSs. CEO Li Xiang stated that in the first half of the year, Li Auto remained the leading domestic brand in the market for new energy vehicles priced above 200,000 RMB in China, having completed the L series upgrade and advanced the renewal of its pure electric product line. CFO Li Tie mentioned that the gross margin improved quarter-on-quarter and is expected to further expand in the second half of the year with product mix optimization and efficiency improvements.In recent developments, Li Auto launched the delivery of the new Li Auto L8 in June 2026 and started the delivery of the new Li Auto L6 in July, with 30,468 vehicles delivered in July alone. The company emphasized that it will continue to focus on user-oriented products, self-developed technology, and global expansion, while balancing growth and profitability.

Digital asset management company Bitwise announced the launch of a Tokenized Stock Automated Portfolio (ATP), allowing eligible investors to hold and automatically rebalance a basket of U.S. stocks directly in their crypto wallets. These products utilize tokenized U.S. stocks recently launched by Coinbase, with rebalancing executed by portfolio technology provider Glider based on a model designed by Bitwise, currently available only to qualified investors outside the U.S.The first portfolios cover configurations focused on AI, robotics, and an expanded version of the "Big Seven" U.S. stocks, which includes weighted allocations to Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Tesla, along with SpaceX. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan stated that for over a century, accessing professional models meant handing assets over to funds, whereas ATP allows investors to keep their assets in their own wallets while the model actively seeks them out.The announcement came a day after Coinbase launched tokenized stocks for Apple, Nvidia, Meta, and Alphabet on the Base network. Bitwise is an asset management company managing approximately $9 billion in assets and has recently ventured into on-chain asset management businesses such as DeFi treasury curation. Glider is a specialized firm in automated portfolios and earlier this year collaborated with Ondo Finance to provide personalized portfolios using its tokenized stock products.

According to The Block, Bitwise has launched Automated Token Portfolios, allowing eligible non-U.S. users in supported jurisdictions to automatically replicate and rebalance professionally designed Coinbase tokenized U.S. stock portfolios while maintaining self-custody in their own wallets.The portfolio is supported by Coinbase and implemented through Glider, initially focusing on themes such as Mag 7, SpaceX, leading companies in robotics, and AI. The product charges a 0.15% methodology access fee, excluding transaction fees and platform fees.

Tesla announced that it will hold the Cybercab launch event in Austin, Texas, USA on September 3, 2026. In April of this year, Tesla's autonomous electric vehicle Cybercab officially went into production in North America. The vehicle is powered by AI and does not require a steering wheel, pedals, or rearview mirrors.

Uber launches Baidu's fully driverless Apollo Go in Dubai, marking the birth of the world's first multi-party cooperative autonomous driving network.

AWS announced that the Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments service is officially fully available (GA). This service collaborates with Coinbase and Stripe, enabling AI agents to autonomously pay for paid APIs, MCP, and content services with just a few lines of code. AgentCore payments integrates Coinbase and Stripe Privy wallets, supporting small transaction payments in USDC stablecoin. Users can recharge the agent wallet and authorize the agent to spend using credit cards or USDC.The service supports the x402 protocol and MPP protocol, with a new "upto" payment scheme that allows agents to set spending limits instead of fixed prices, enabling dynamic billing based on actual reasoning usage. It includes built-in payment session limits (maximum spending per interaction and expiration time), which will be rejected if exceeded, and integrates AgentCore Observability to provide visual dashboards for transaction audit logs, success rates, and average transaction values.Related features have been integrated with CDNs such as Amazon CloudFront and Cloudflare, and clients such as Anchor Browser, SpreadX, and Travala are already using this service. AgentCore payments is now available in multiple regions, and developers can integrate it through the console, CLI, and open-source frameworks like LangGraph and OpenClaw. The launch of this service is a key step in the evolution of AI agents from "reasoning and action" to "autonomous transactions."

Lido tweeted that the NEST automated LDO buyback mechanism has been launched on the mainnet. NEST is a rules-based LDO buyback mechanism, where 50% of the surplus will automatically buy LDO through CoW Swap when the DAO's staking income exceeds the baseline of 40 million USD.If the income in a certain period does not meet the baseline, the corresponding gap will be accounted for in subsequent calculations and must be made up by new surplus before purchases can resume. The daily purchase limit is 50,000 USD, and the annual limit is 10 million USD, with all purchased LDO belonging to the DAO.

Uniswap founder Hayden posted on the X platform stating that they had not anticipated that the tokens created during the pools.trade testing period would be discovered. They have waived all creator fees generated during the Uniswap employee testing period and transferred them to the automatic buyback and burn contract.They are currently considering making it a feature available for other deployers to use.

On July 17, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot submitted Bill No. 921 to the Senate, proposing to incorporate the Crypto Asset Reporting Framework (CARF) established by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) into French law and to automatically exchange encrypted data with 48 countries that have signed related agreements.The exchanged information includes specific transactions, user names, addresses, tax identification numbers, places of residence, and the cumulative transaction value during the reporting period. EU member states have prepared to conduct relevant data exchanges based on the DAC-8 directive, which will take effect on September 30, 2027. After the bill is approved, the French government will accelerate the collection of encrypted data. A Chainalysis report indicates that by 2026, France had recorded 30 publicly known violent robberies of crypto assets; the report states that a tax official in the Paris region is suspected of selling data on high-net-worth crypto holders.

The cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Coldcard has released an update on its customer data retention policy. Due to legal compliance requirements arising from the security incident disclosed on July 30, the company has temporarily suspended its original automatic customer data deletion mechanism.Previously, Coldcard's standard practice was to automatically clear customer records after 120 days, retaining only the user's email address and country information, while allowing customers to request early deletion of data at any time after product delivery. Coldcard stated that due to the security incident involving ongoing and potential legal proceedings, the company is obligated to retain records that may be relevant to litigation. Therefore, customer data that was originally scheduled for deletion will be temporarily retained until the law permits the resumption of normal processes.However, users can still request Coldcard to handle their personal information according to the original data retention policy. If users wish for their data not to be included in this legal retention scope, they can contact official customer service to make a request. Coldcard emphasizes that the retained data will be strictly protected, accessible only to authorized personnel, and will not be used for any purposes other than fulfilling legal obligations. The company will restore the previous automatic data deletion mechanism once legally permissible.

Uniswap founder Hayden posted on the X platform stating that the technical design of automatic compounding liquidity is his personal contribution to pools.trade. The way it works is: liquidity positions are deposited into a smart contract, with the rule that anyone can withdraw all unclaimed fees from that position, provided they increase the size of that liquidity position by 0.2%. Therefore, the fees will grow over time, and when the value of the fees exceeds 0.2% of the liquidity, seekers will naturally be incentivized to add 0.2% liquidity to the pool and claim the fees. This mechanism is based on the Uniswap token jar and can also be used for automatic compounding of regular Uniswap LP positions, so this feature will be added to the roadmap.

MetaMask launched the self-custody wallet Agent Wallet on Thursday, allowing AI agents to execute on-chain transactions within user-defined limits, aimed at traders and developers using AI agents to monitor the market, identify opportunities, and autonomously execute trades. Users can set spending limits, approve specific protocols, choose risk settings, and select different levels of automation between Guard Mode and Beast Mode.Agent Wallet supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenCode, as well as Hyperliquid and Ethereum Virtual Machine compatible networks. Agent Wallet supports gas abstraction, allowing users to pay network fees with the assets being transferred, without needing to hold the corresponding native tokens of the network. MetaMask stated that supported transactions will undergo transaction simulation, threat scanning, and smart trading MEV protection, and if qualifying transactions incur losses after passing security checks, they can receive up to $10,000 in Transaction Protection coverage per month.

Lido Finance officially released a governance update, and Lido DAO has officially opened on-chain voting for the NEST automated buyback mechanism, with the voting window from August 5 to August 8 at 14:00 UTC.NEST is a set of automated, rule-based on-chain mechanisms that directly link the performance of the Lido protocol with the LDO token. The relevant design and parameters were approved through Snapshot voting in May. The core logic of NEST is to systematically buy back LDO tokens in decentralized markets through protocol revenue or liquidity controlled by the protocol, thereby continuously capturing the value growth of the protocol at the token level. The execution of the mechanism will revolve around the liquidity pair of LDO and wstETH, and specific implementation details are still being updated in the community forum.If this on-chain vote is approved, Lido will shift from a buyback plan driven by periodic governance to a continuous, predictable automated value distribution model.