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According to CoinDesk, Ripple announced a partnership with the lending platform Clearpool and the credit management institution Cicada Partners to launch a credit fund aimed at institutions, which will provide working capital loans to fintech and payment companies in the form of the RLUSD stablecoin on the XRP Ledger.Cicada is responsible for borrower screening, loan term setting, and credit risk monitoring; Clearpool is responsible for building and managing the loan pool infrastructure; Ripple participates as a limited partner, contributing funds and enjoying the same terms as other institutional investors.

XCAD Network officially announced the cessation of operations. The project stated that there have been no updates since April, and there are currently no remaining funds. Continuing to stay on the exchange is a losing battle, and related products and services will no longer be maintained.The official statement mentioned that the company has been operating for five years, making it one of the few projects that have persisted for a long time without being listed on a tier-one exchange. The fan tokens failed to gain traction after retail investors exited, and the team attempted to pivot towards AI influencers but was unsuccessful and is now unable to continue. The team is considering making the code public for those in need to run it themselves, emphasizing that this is not a continuation of the company, nor a restart.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of Justice has filed charges against 17 hackers allegedly affiliated with Iran's Mabna Institute, accusing them of participating in years-long cyber attack activities, including the 2017 breach of U.S. cable network HBO, where they stole data and demanded approximately $6 million in ransom paid in Bitcoin. Prosecutors claim that the organization conducted hacking attacks on behalf of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and other Iranian government clients, targeting hundreds of universities, businesses, and government agencies worldwide, stealing at least 31.5 TB of academic data and intellectual property.The organization also targeted over 100,000 professor accounts, breaching about 8,000 accounts across 144 U.S. universities and 178 foreign universities. The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the whereabouts of five of the defendants. In recent months, the U.S. Treasury has imposed sanctions on several Iranian cryptocurrency exchanges and frozen over $131 million in cryptocurrency assets related to the Iranian central bank and the Revolutionary Guard.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Movistar KOI Fénix vs Team Heretics Academy - LES Playoffs," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both sides kill a dragon" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL Gen.G Global Academy vs HANJIN BRION Challengers," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both sides kill a dragon" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

Binance founder Zhao Changpeng stated at Binance Square: Too many people are trying to overinterpret "What does this mean?" Today, I tested Trust Wallet and found too many Meme tokens in the wallet, so many that it was hard to even find BNB, so I tried to burn some tokens. As a result, even this action sparked quite a bit of community discussion. I realized that I could never "clean up" the meme coins on this address. The more I burn, the more people will send coins to this address. The transparent nature of blockchain means that any action on this address will be overinterpreted by the community.I even considered asking the Trust Wallet team to create an "Ignore Coin" feature to avoid cluttering the interface, but 99.99% of people wouldn't use this feature at all. So the plan is as follows: I will donate BNB and the "Binance Life" tokens purchased with BNB to Giggle Academy. After that, I will stop using this address and turn it into a burn address.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the prediction market Polymarket for the event "LoL: T1 Academy vs DN SOOPers Challengers," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both sides kill a dragon" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "LoL: Nongshim Esports Academy vs Dplus KIA Challengers," the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Both sides kill Baron" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: DN SOOPers Challengers vs T1 Academy - LCK Challenger League Round 3-4 Challenge Group," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Both teams kill one dragon" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Cryptopolitan, the Kenya National Examinations Council has begun writing the country's academic records onto the Avalanche C-Chain for instant online certificate verification. Currently, over 15 million records have been put on-chain, and the system is expected to expand to about 35 million records, covering junior high school, high school, advanced diplomas, and teacher certification.Previously, verifying paper certificates took weeks to months and there were issues with forgery. The project is being implemented by a local tech company on the LegitDoc platform.

According to the official blog of Ava Labs, the Kenya National Examinations Council (KNEC) announced that through a local technology service provider, it has anchored national academic certification data to the Avalanche C-Chain, officially establishing a national electronic certification system.The system has already recorded over 15 million historical academic records on-chain, dating back to 1989, and nearly 1 million KCSE candidates' certificates for 2025 have now been exclusively issued through this platform.In the future, the system is expected to cover approximately 35 million verifiable records, encompassing various educational levels including primary school, secondary school, higher diplomas, and government teacher training certifications. The new system will significantly compress the verification time from the original weeks or even months to seconds, completely replacing the old processes that relied on manual reviews and traditional databases, effectively preventing fraud such as certificate forgery and counterfeit verification websites.KNEC CEO David Njengere stated that candidates can now securely access, download, and verify their KCSE certificates online without having to rely on physical certificates.

Binance founder CZ responded on the X platform to the recent controversy regarding Giggle Academy selling donation tokens, stating that he personally "has not communicated with the Giggle team regarding the recent sale," and that the address is not managed by him personally. He pointed out that Giggle Academy has a practice of "exchanging most donation tokens for BNB at the end of each month" to fund free education programs for children worldwide, which have benefited over 1 million children in less than two years.CZ further stated that when sending or donating tokens to others, if there is no prior agreement, one should not expect the recipient to act according to the donor's wishes (such as destroying the tokens), as "that would only add extra work for the recipient." He emphasized that "if it is called a donation, one should expect them to use it," and questioned, "if one expects them to destroy it, how can it be called a donation?" Additionally, CZ expressed support for all meme coins and revealed that "he may buy or sell one or two (meme coins) in the coming weeks to test some new things."

According to Fortune, the prediction market platform Polymarket has established the Polymarket Institute, a new organization dedicated to researching prediction market information discovery and forecasting mechanisms, fully funded by Polymarket but without disclosing the specific amount.The institute will set up a "Scientific Scholarship" program to fund doctoral researchers conducting research in related fields, initially recruiting 12 researchers, each of whom will receive a one-time grant of $10,000. To ensure research independence, researchers are prohibited from trading on platforms like Polymarket during their tenure and retain the unconditional right to publish any research findings (even if unfavorable to Polymarket). The funding will adopt a university donation model rather than commissioned research to avoid Polymarket having editorial influence over the results.Polymarket's Chief Data Officer Kai Brusch will serve as the Managing Director of the institute, and Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor of Economics and Technology Brian Jabarian will serve as the Scientific Director. To avoid conflicts of interest, Jabarian will not receive personal compensation for this role.

According to Caixin, Zhao Yao, a special researcher at the Payment and Clearing Research Center of the Financial Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated that recent offshore digital asset platforms have launched on-chain trading products around Chinese technology companies such as Changxin Technology. This indicates that global digital financial platforms are creating trading exposure around high-quality Chinese technology assets, organizing price expectations, trading liquidity, and cross-border capital entry in advance. Although these products do not correspond to A-share equity, they are synthetic perpetual contracts or pre-market perpetual contracts settled in stablecoins such as USDC and USDT. However, if offshore platforms take the lead in forming a continuous trading market for technology assets, it may weaken the pricing dominance of domestic capital markets over technology assets.Zhao Yao suggested accelerating the construction of digital financial infrastructure for the renminbi, promoting the coordinated development of tokenized deposits by commercial banks, wholesale CBDC, and tokenization of technology assets, and exploring pilot projects for technology asset tokenization in Hong Kong to enhance the capital organization capability and international pricing power of the renminbi in global technology financial competition.

Cascade announced on the X platform that the incident involving the withdrawal of CLS funds has been resolved, and the parties involved have cooperated to return all stolen funds.All users holding funds in CLS will be able to receive a 100% full compensation based on the value as of July 15, 2025, 21:08:00 UTC. The claims function will be opened in the coming days.ChainCatcher previously reported that MAX, the administrator of the multi-asset perpetual contract platform Cascade Discord, stated in the channel that the Cascade CLS treasury allegedly encountered a security vulnerability, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.3 million. The platform has currently suspended all trading and withdrawals and has invited SEAL 911 and other third-party security teams to investigate and handle the situation.

According to a report by CCTV Finance, Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, stated that the daily Token call volume in our country has surged from about 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to 140 trillion by the end of March 2026, an increase of over a thousand times.Intelligent agents are giving rise to a brand new economic form, known as the "Token economy." Token, in Chinese, is called 词元, and it is an important unit for large models to process information and measure model invocation costs. Its growth rate is the most intuitive barometer of industrial development.In the era of intelligent agents, a single user command may trigger multiple rounds of model calls and resource consumption, directly driving an explosion in demand for artificial intelligence computing power. With the large-scale application of intelligent agents, a series of new models surrounding Token measurement, scheduling, pricing, and trading are beginning to take shape.

On July 17, Interlace and BlockSec jointly held the summit "The Next Decade of Payments: Digital Currency, AI Agents, and the New Global Financial Order." The event brought together industry guests from AI, Web3, security, and payments to discuss the development trends of stablecoin payments, security compliance, AI agents, and global payment infrastructure.BlockSec co-founder Zhou Yajin and Interlace founder and CEO Michael Wu delivered keynote speeches on "Security and Compliance in Crypto Payments" and "Agentic Payment and the New Infrastructure of Global Finance," respectively, sharing their latest observations on the development trends of digital asset payments. As the scenarios for stablecoin payments continue to expand, the security compliance system and the construction of a new generation of payment infrastructure are becoming key supports for driving industry development. In the future, payment infrastructure will not only serve the function of capital flow but will also further evolve into a programmable, trusted, and verifiable value transfer system, providing underlying support for the connection between digital assets and real-world commerce.At the event, Interlace also officially released the white paper "The Value Transmission Layer of the AI Economy: From Concept to Implementation." The white paper was jointly initiated with ecosystem partners such as Bitget, BlockSec, Cobo, Conflux, Stable, Xagent, and Hetu, systematically defining the architecture, standards, and implementation paths of Agentic Payment infrastructure, providing a reference for value transfer in the era of the AI economy.