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The founder of Arbitrum, Steven Goldfeder, and Solana co-founder, Toly, engaged in a debate over the fee model of Robinhood Chain. Toly claimed that the 10% revenue share paid to Arbitrum by Robinhood Chain is sufficient to cover four times the transaction fees on the Solana chain, suggesting that if deployed on Solana, user gas fees could significantly decrease. In response, Goldfeder stated that Robinhood could retain about 90% of gas revenue under the Arbitrum architecture, thus choosing Arbitrum to "be the landlord, not the tenant."Toly countered that Robinhood could charge fees at the application front end while utilizing a lower-cost underlying network; Goldfeder, however, indicated that a large amount of on-chain activity does not go through the Robinhood front end, and if it were merely a "tenant" of the underlying network, Robinhood would not be able to capture the revenue generated from these peripheral activities.According to market news, Robinhood evaluated both Solana and Arbitrum during the product initiation phase and ultimately chose Arbitrum, which allows for independent chain deployment.

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko stated that the revenue share paid by Robinhood to Arbitrum is sufficient to cover about 4 times its trading fees on Solana, allowing Robinhood to provide users with a completely gas-free trading experience on Solana.

According to GMGN data, the market value of the Meme coin SLINK on the Robinhood Chain briefly plummeted to 1.6 million USD and is currently reported at about 1.5 million USD.It is understood that the narrative of SLINK originates from the Neuralink-supported social experiment ShivoLink. This project connects multiple Neuralink implant recipients to the same X account, allowing them to publish content through a brain-machine interface. Neuralink co-founder Shıvon Zilis publicly expressed support for the project, after which Elon Musk responded to related tweets, attracting community attention. According to market news, the price of Meme coins is highly volatile, and the official relationship between SLINK and the ShivoLink project has not yet been confirmed. Users are advised to pay attention to asset safety and participate with caution.

According to Decrypt, the latest records from the UK Electoral Commission show that BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo donated £4 million (approximately $5.4 million) to the Reform Party of the UK twice in April this year, bringing his total donations to the party this year to £8 million (approximately $10.8 million), second only to Tether equity investor Christopher Harborne (who has donated a total of £15 million, approximately $20.25 million).These two donations accounted for 75% of the party's total donations for the corresponding quarter and were also the largest two single donations received by any political party in the UK during that quarter. The UK has prohibited political donations in the form of cryptocurrency since March, so all donations were made in cash.It is reported that BitMEX co-founder Ben Delo revealed in April that he had donated $5.4 million (approximately £4 million) to the Reform Party of the UK led by Nigel Farage, with the donations occurring before the new regulation setting a £100,000 cap on donations from overseas expatriates was introduced.

Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon and CEO of the foundation, stated that today he initiated a cryptocurrency campaign to support the people of Nepal and donate to the Nepalese Prime Minister's Disaster Relief Fund, with the donation link provided. This pathway utilizes blockchain technology to ensure that funds enter the government relief fund in the local currency.The campaign is supported by Polygon's Open Money Stack, Coinme, and Cross River Bank. Blockchain for Impact has pledged to donate $100,000. Nailwal mentioned that stablecoins are suitable for use when funds need to be quickly delivered to those in need.Nailwal stated that he was born in the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, India, adjacent to Nepal, and his maternal family also hails from that area. Communities on both sides of the Indonesia border have been connected for generations through family, culture, faith, food, trade, and daily life. India and Nepal are often referred to as having a familial and shared life bond known as "roti-beti ka rishta." He hopes that people will participate in Nepal's relief and reconstruction using stablecoins.

According to Bloomberg, after NVIDIA acquired the AI platform Hugging Face for about $13 billion, the three French co-founders—38-year-old Clément Delangue, 42-year-old Julien Chaumond, and 41-year-old Thomas Wolf—each saw their net worth rise to about $1.8 billion, marking their debut on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.The deal is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, and the three co-founders will continue to serve under a six-year retention agreement. NVIDIA has committed that Hugging Face will remain an open platform, allowing users to freely upload and download AI models and datasets. Hugging Face was founded in 2016, initially starting in Paris and now headquartered in Brooklyn.

According to the official account of UXUY, Mr. Xu Zhihong, co-founder of UXUY, passed away in his sleep last week.UXUY stated that Mr. Xu Zhihong played an important role in the establishment and development of the company, leaving a profound impact on brand building, team, and ecological development. Mr. Xu Zhihong's farewell ceremony will be held on September 12, 2026, at the OneX AI Entrepreneur Space in Chaoyang, Beijing.

Numa Lunah, co-founder of the crypto project Refi Hub, stated that he was hacked after installing a transcription application using a download link provided in the Claude chat window. The link pointed to a counterfeit website and bundled malware that attempted to steal all information from his device upon execution. Numa Lunah mentioned that he cleared and reinstalled the affected laptop and found no sensitive information leaked.Subsequently, he discovered a contaminated Claude Code skill file SKILL.md in his backup, which disguised itself as a style guide written by him and contained instructions to re-download the malware and steal credentials every time it was loaded. Microsoft Defender Experts had warned that attackers had shifted from search engine optimization poisoning to large language model response poisoning, with related tactics including recommending download links controlled by attackers, AI brand impersonation installers, and contaminated code libraries and proxy skills. Crypto industry practitioners may hold irrevocable credentials such as mnemonic phrases, private key files, hot wallet JSON, exchange API keys with withdrawal permissions, and deployer keys.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Barret Zoph, co-founder of Thinking Machines Lab, will join Google as Vice President of Research. Zoph suddenly left the startup to join OpenAI after a dispute with CEO Mira Murati earlier this year, and after a brief tenure at OpenAI, he changed employers again.Previously, Zoph served as Chief Technology Officer at Thinking Machines Lab and led efforts to sell artificial intelligence products to enterprises during his time at OpenAI. Google has confirmed this appointment. Recently, Google has lost several high-profile researchers in succession.

According to CoinDesk, Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng (CZ) and He Yi used the cartoon characters from "The Simpsons," with the aliases "Homer" and "Marge," in company meetings and internal communications. He Yi currently serves as co-CEO of Binance alongside Richard Teng, and according to people who have worked with her at Binance, she still uses the alias "Marge" in meetings and chats. The skin color of the Simpsons characters is yellow, which coincidentally echoes the corporate primary color scheme of Binance's logo and marketing.CZ resigned as CEO of Binance in November 2023, after the U.S. Department of Justice charged him with violating the Bank Secrecy Act. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison in April 2024. In October 2025, President Trump granted him a pardon. According to Forbes data, Zhao Changpeng is the richest person in Canada, with a net worth of approximately $111.1 billion as of April 2026. He Yi previously served as Binance's Chief Marketing Officer for a long time and has been the head of YZi Labs (formerly Binance Labs) since August 2022. Following the news, the crypto meme coin ecosystem quickly created a meme token in tribute to this "Simpsons alias" couple.

The Sui development team co-founder of Mysten Labs, Kostas Kryptos, stated that Havenex is undergoing Series A financing and is about to complete it. All necessary license applications and some additional license applications have been submitted, and the financing amount is also close to being fully allocated.Havenex is not positioned to become another Coinbase, Binance, Bybit, or Kraken, but rather to provide infrastructure for financial institutions, enabling them to offer digital assets and traditional financial assets to clients while meeting regulatory, custody, security, and transparency requirements. Havenex plans to support a multi-chain architecture, verifiable custody, continuous solvency proof, default multi-signature, quantum-resistant keys, hardware two-factor authentication wallets, as well as self-custody and key loss protection mechanisms; in regions where regulations allow, it will also support privacy assets and RWA. The project will use Sui technology in suitable scenarios while integrating assets, bridging protocols, and foundational components from other ecosystems.The concept of Havenex was proposed by him, and he will currently participate as an advisor, but Mysten Labs and Sui remain his main focus. He stated that the project aims to establish transparency and security standards different from those of FTX and Mt. Gox, and to reduce the serious vulnerability risks caused by code generated by large language models recently.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, a wallet cluster suspected to be associated with Bitkub co-founder and former chairman Sakolkorn Sakavee has removed privacy protection and transferred a total of 34,100 ZEC to Hyperliquid in the past 24 hours, worth approximately 26.1 million USD.Subsequently, the address has sold 24,100 ZEC, worth about 18.5 million USD, and purchased 238 BTC. Currently, there are still about 10,000 ZEC on Hyperliquid, valued at approximately 7.6 million USD, with related sell orders priced around 780 USD.Note: This is currently just a speculation on wallet associations by an on-chain data analysis platform, and there is no official information confirming that these addresses belong to Sakolkorn Sakavee.

Towns co-founders Ben and Pat announced that after five years of collaboration with Brian, they have completed the transfer of protocol operations to the Towns Foundation located in Switzerland. The new experienced leadership team will continue to manage the protocol, drive the next phase of growth, and will gradually appear through official channels. The protocol will continue to operate as a decentralized communication protocol, supporting on-chain community ownership, end-to-end encrypted messaging, programmable identities, and native value transfer.According to reports, Towns has accumulated over 1.6 million users and over 400,000 communities, with users expected to earn over $40 million through the protocol by 2025, and has completed listings on multiple mainstream exchanges. The protocol also supports real-time messaging, payments, governance, and $TOWNS network incentives. The team pointed out that building a sustainable company and building a protocol are different challenges, and in response to changes in the market environment, they chose to hand over the protocol to the appropriate team for continuation rather than shutting it down.Both parties expressed their anticipation for the foundation to promote the development of Towns in the intersection of decentralized communication and AI. Pat and Ben will engage in new ventures while continuing to support the transition part-time, thanking the team, investors, node operators, exchange partners, developers, $TOWNS holders, and community members.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun's address may have reduced some ETH in the past 3 days of the rising market to lower leverage.The address first transferred 12,765 ETH (approximately 28.73 million USD) to Binance, and then withdrew 87.68 million USDC to repay its loan on Spark.Currently, the address still holds approximately 65,000 ETH (about 159 million USD) and 1,000 WBTC (approximately 77.18 million USD).

Cronos Labs CEO Ryan Wyatt posted that the token economics of CRO need to be re-evaluated. In the coming months, the team has a lot to discuss and plan. In particular, the buyback and burn mechanism corresponding to Cronos App revenue, community burns, and other related arrangements.These topics have been included in the project's Q4 roadmap, and the complete plan will be gradually announced at that time.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun stated, "The bear market is over."Previously, ChainCatcher reported that Wang Chun gradually bottomed out approximately 70,600 ETH (about $11.7 million) and 966 WBTC (about $6.029 million) in June, but during the market rebound in July, Wang Chun transferred 36,600 ETH and 160 WBTC to Binance, expecting to profit $3.4 million.

According to the official announcement from the CFTC, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York has issued a supplemental consent order against former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and former Alameda/FTX co-founder Gary Wang. Ellison has been imposed a 5-year trading ban and a 10-year registration ban, while Wang has been imposed a 5-year trading ban and an 8-year registration ban, with the bans effective from the date of the initial consent order on December 23, 2022.Given that both individuals provided substantial cooperation in the CFTC investigation and related criminal proceedings—including pleading guilty in the criminal case and jointly bearing a $11.02 billion criminal forfeiture order—the CFTC stated that it is not currently seeking additional restitution, recovery, or civil penalties, and this supplemental order formally concludes the CFTC's enforcement actions against the two.

According to CNBC, OpenAI President and Co-founder Greg Brockman responded to concerns about the recent frequent departures of executives from the company, stating that the personnel changes are not unusual. The heightened attention from the outside world is mainly because OpenAI has long been in the spotlight.Greg Brockman stated that compared to other organizations, every departure at OpenAI is subject to stricter scrutiny, and "every departure is magnified," but he believes this situation "is actually not uncommon." OpenAI is still focused on advancing artificial intelligence technology and believes that the level of attention on executive turnover is related to the company's industry influence.

ChianCatcher news, Terence Lee, one of the early co-founders of BitMart (GBM Global Holding Company Limited), stated, "In recent years, I have not been responsible for the main business of the exchange, and my work has mainly focused on exploring new products and new business. I will withdraw from all company affairs on July 31, 2026, and will not participate in any operations, management, or asset-related matters of the company or any of its affiliated entities. The procedures for resigning from relevant positions and canceling registrations are currently being processed. I deeply regret the difficulties and impacts caused to users by the platform's cessation of operations. However, I currently have no authority to handle matters related to platform assets, accounts, or user funds, nor can I answer questions related to platform operations or asset disposal. Relevant requests should be made through the channels indicated in the official announcement and through legal means. Recently, my identification information, photos, and several false pieces of information have been circulated, and I have reported this to law enforcement and reserved the right to pursue legal responsibility. This statement is my only public explanation regarding this matter, and I will no longer respond to related inquiries individually."

ChianCatcher news, Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder tweeted that Arbitrum has been ahead of its time in several aspects. The team strongly advocated for interactive proof design (which was controversial at the time and has now become the standard for optimistic Rollups); chose to establish a business when the business model was still highly controversial; focused on DeFi when most people had not yet understood perpetual contracts and many had given up on DeFi; and launched a dedicated blockchain when the industry generally believed that more chains were unnecessary.Facing backlash each time, but now the industry is aligning with the direction they set from day one: building robust and high-performance financial infrastructure. Goldfeder is proud of the Offchain team for delivering world-class products at an incredibly fast pace and stated that they will continue to deliver, even if most people currently do not understand its necessity; the industry will soon understand.