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U.S. Federal Judge Rita Lin issued a partial summary judgment in a 59-page ruling regarding Anthropic's lawsuit against the Trump administration, determining that the government's punishment of Anthropic for publicly refusing to allow the military to use its Claude large model for mass surveillance of U.S. citizens and lethal autonomous operations constituted illegal retaliation, violating the First Amendment, due process clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act. The judge also revoked the related designations and Defense Secretary Hegseth's injunction, issuing a permanent injunction.The controversy arose from the Pentagon's demand that Anthropic remove all usage restrictions and accept terms allowing "all lawful uses," while Anthropic maintained its last two bottom lines. On February 27, 2025, Trump ordered all federal agencies to cease using the company's technology, and Hegseth subsequently prohibited any military contractors from doing business with it. During this process, the government abandoned its core claims, acknowledging that Anthropic had no backdoor access to the deployed models and that the risks of Claude were no greater than those of other "black box" systems. Lin pointed out that the government's punishment under the guise of "national security" was not a blank check, and that the government had been operating under the preliminary injunction since March without indicating any harm.Anthropic did not achieve a complete victory, as its claim that Trump's directive exceeded presidential authority was dismissed. Anthropic informed the court that if the relevant measures continued, its defense-related revenue would decrease by 50% to 100%, resulting in a loss of billions of dollars in overall revenue by 2026.

According to Jinshi reports, Apple (AAPL.O) has applied to a U.S. judge for a preliminary injunction to prohibit two former employees and OpenAI from accessing, obtaining, using, or disclosing so-called confidential information, while the company continues to advance its lawsuit regarding trade secrets.Apple sued OpenAI and two former employees currently working at OpenAI last month, accusing them of stealing Apple's trade secrets to assist OpenAI in entering the consumer hardware market.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin dismissed the CFTC's request for a preliminary injunction to prohibit Wisconsin from enforcing sports-related event contracts on platforms such as Kalshi, Coinbase, Robinhood, Polymarket, and Crypto.com. The court found that the CFTC failed to demonstrate a likelihood of success on its claim—that the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) defines "swaps" to include sports event contracts—and that gambling regulation falls within the traditional police powers of the states, with federal law not clearly indicating an intent to preempt state law.Additionally, the court also denied the intervention requests from Kalshi, Crypto.com Derivatives North America (CDNA), and the American Gaming Association (AGA). The substantive litigation between the CFTC and the state of Wisconsin will continue to proceed.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Menendez in Minnesota ruled that the state law classifying the operation of prediction markets as a criminal offense likely violates the federal Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and granted a preliminary injunction to Kalshi, Polymarket, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), suspending the enforcement of the state law.The judge found that prediction market contracts structurally fall under the category of "swap" products regulated by the CFTC, and that federal law takes precedence over state law, with the three plaintiffs "likely to prevail in a formal trial." Additionally, the judge noted that failing to suspend the enforcement of the law would cause "irreparable harm" to Kalshi and Polymarket. This preliminary injunction will remain in effect until a final judgment is made in the case.

On July 20, the King County Superior Court in Washington State approved the preliminary injunction motion against KalshiEX, LLC (Kalshi), ruling that Kalshi's activities constitute illegal actions in violation of Washington State's gambling laws, and determined that the federal Commodity Exchange Act does not take precedence over state gambling laws.This ruling is an important precedent in the jurisdictional dispute between state regulatory agencies and federal regulatory prediction market platforms, following accusations from the CFTC chairman of illegal enforcement actions by states against federally regulated exchanges. The court made the ruling after reviewing multiple materials, including the oral arguments from July 10. The case number is 26-2-10264-3 SEA.

Privacy Agreement Zama founder Rand posted on platform X that the freezing measures against the cUSDC contract under Zama have been lifted, and all systems have returned to normal operation.According to his introduction, a U.S. court previously ordered Circle to temporarily freeze a contract worth $12.5 million in USDC held by Zama without prior notice. The court has now determined that the freezing measure was unreasonable and has lifted the temporary restraining order (TRO), and the related cUSDC contracts and assets have been fully restored. Rand stated that this incident did not affect the team's trust in USDC, and Zama still plans to launch the cUSDC product later this month.

According to the Korea Herald, a South Korean court partially approved Samsung Electronics' request for an injunction against the union's planned strike. Samsung turned from a decline to an increase, and the South Korean KOSPI index turned positive, reversing a previous decline of 4.68%.

Thibault Sottiaux, the head of OpenAI Codex, announced that the usage limits for Codex across all plans have been reset to align with the newly launched plugin system and to encourage users to experience it.The first batch of integrated plugins includes commonly used developer tools such as Slack, Figma, Notion, and Gmail, allowing users to utilize Codex capabilities in more application scenarios.

According to The Defiant, a court in the Cayman Islands issued an injunction this week to prevent Maple Finance from launching its yield-bearing Bitcoin product syrupBTC, highlighting the gap between DeFi products and traditional legal frameworks. Core Foundation accused Maple of breaching an exclusivity agreement by using information obtained during their collaboration on IstBTC to create a competing product, syrupBTC.Maple manages over $3 billion in assets and denies any wrongdoing, stating that syrupBTC was developed independently and that it will return 85% of the principal to BTC Yield lenders, with the remaining 15% to be released after the legal dispute is resolved.Experts point out that this case shows that even decentralized blockchain products must comply with real-world contracts and laws. Block Street CEO Hedy Wang stated: off-chain contracts are still important; DeFi is not a lawless territory. Axelar legal advisor Jason Rozovsky emphasized that assets should be stored in a bankruptcy-remote manner to protect user rights.

Core Foundation announced that the Grand Court of the Cayman Islands found that Maple Finance has "serious issues to be examined" regarding the alleged violation of confidentiality obligations and exclusive cooperation terms during the joint development of lstBTC.Core Foundation stated that since the beginning of their collaboration in early 2025, they have invested substantial resources in technology development, marketing, and product subsidies. However, Maple Finance has since been accused of using related confidential information to develop competing products, violating the 24-month exclusive cooperation agreement between the two parties. Regarding Maple Finance's announcement of the need to impair assets in the Bitcoin Yield product, Core Foundation pointed out that it remains unclear why Maple Finance is unable to return the lenders' bitcoins and emphasized that its actions reflect significant doubts about Maple Finance's business operations.

ZCash research expert c-node posted, "MPC, tFHE, and TEEs can build privacy applications that cannot be achieved with ZK, but the privacy strength is weaker. It is recommended to prioritize the use of pure ZK for payments, transfers, and voting."Vitalik Buterin replied, "ZK itself cannot provide coercion resistance, and in scenarios like voting, it still requires the combination of trusted parties, MPC, FHE, or TEE to achieve that feature. We can enhance system security through layered architectures like ZK + FHE; even if FHE is compromised, all privacy attributes except coercion resistance can still be retained. I suspect a similar situation applies to almost all other cryptographic application scenarios beyond zero-knowledge proofs."

Binance Alpha announced that it will launch the project Junction (JCT) on November 10 at 18:00 (Beijing time) and open Alpha trading. Users holding at least 235 Alpha points can claim an airdrop of 16,000 JCT tokens in advance, on a first-come, first-served basis. If the prize pool is not fully distributed within the specified time, the point threshold for claiming will automatically decrease by 5 points every 5 minutes.The official reminder states that claiming the reward will consume 15 Alpha points, and users must complete the confirmation on the Alpha event page within 24 hours, otherwise it will be considered a waiver of the claim.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple have jointly filed a request with the Manhattan District Court to lift the injunction in their lawsuit and to address the $125 million civil penalty held in escrow.According to the proposal, $50 million will be paid to the SEC, and the remaining funds will be returned to Ripple.

ChainCatcher news, according to Forbes business reporter Eleanor Terrett, the lawsuit between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple is in its final stages and may conclude soon.According to two insiders, the delay in reaching an agreement is due to Ripple's legal team negotiating the terms of last August's district court ruling, hoping to secure more favorable conditions.The ruling imposed a $125 million fine on Ripple and permanently prohibited it from selling XRP to institutional investors. Insiders indicate that Ripple believes if the new leadership at the SEC is clearing the enforcement records for all previously investigated cryptocurrency companies, then why should Ripple still be penalized. Accepting Judge Torres's ruling would essentially mean Ripple acknowledges wrongdoing, while now the SEC itself seems uncertain whether any violations occurred.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, court documents show: The U.S. court dismissed the preliminary injunction requested by Musk in the lawsuit against OpenAI.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer paulgrewal.eth posted on the X platform that Coinbase has just won a writ of mandamus petition in the Third Circuit Court. The court rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s order dismissing its rulemaking petition, which means the SEC must reconsider Coinbase's request and provide more substantial reasons for why they refuse to establish clear rules regarding cryptocurrencies.The judge stated, "The SEC's order is conclusory, lacking in reasoning, and therefore arbitrary and capricious. We partially grant Coinbase's petition and remand it to the SEC for a more comprehensive explanation."

ChainCatcher news, according to TechCrunch, Musk's lawyers have filed for a preliminary injunction against OpenAI, several of its co-founders, and its investors and close partner Microsoft to prevent OpenAI and other designated defendants from engaging in anti-competitive behavior. Musk is one of the co-founders of OpenAI and left the company in 2018 due to disagreements over its direction.The motion for the injunction was submitted late Friday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, accusing OpenAI, its CEO Sam Altman, President Greg Brockman, Microsoft, LinkedIn co-founder and former OpenAI board member Reid Hoffman, and former OpenAI board member and Microsoft Vice President Dee Templeton of engaging in various illegal activities and seeking to stop these activities. The allegations include:Preventing investors from supporting OpenAI's competitors, such as Musk's own AI company xAI;Benefiting from "improperly obtained competitive sensitive information" through the relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft;Transforming OpenAI's governance structure into a for-profit entity and "transferring any significant assets, including intellectual property owned, held, or controlled by OpenAI, its subsidiaries, or affiliates";Causing OpenAI to conduct business with organizations that have "significant economic interests" in any of the defendants.Musk's lawyers claim that if the injunction is not granted, it will result in "irreparable harm."

ChainCatcher news, Chen Yaowen, Chief Digital Officer and Financial Technology Innovation Director of the A-share listed company Sifang Jingchuang, stated in an interview that Hong Kong can play a pivotal role in tokenization and the subsequent secondary market in the future, by building a solid financial infrastructure. Sifang Jingchuang can develop more non-local token issuance under the compliance regulations of Hong Kong.Chen Yaowen added that currently, Sifang Jingchuang has developed solutions in the field of virtual asset applications that are integrated with banking applications and connected to banking systems such as East Asia Bank, which can facilitate tokenization operations. This will enable the banking industry to accelerate the adoption of related technologies for handling the issuance, custody, and payment of security token offerings (STO).