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Recently, the gold and silver markets have continued to show strong performance, with trading activity in the metals sector steadily increasing. According to market data from the Gate platform, gold (XAU) is currently priced at $4087.68, with a 24-hour increase of 1.51%; silver (XAG) is currently priced at $58.52, with a 24-hour increase of 1.77%. According to CoinGlass data, the open interest for Gate XAU contracts has reached $192 million, and the open interest for Gate XAG contracts has reached $72.509 million, both ranking in the top two in the industry.Gate has pioneered the trading sector for perpetual contracts and CFD contracts for metals, covering mainstream trading targets such as gold, silver, and platinum, and supports 24/7 trading with USDT settlement. Relying on Gate's innovative unified account system, users can configure diverse assets such as stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities without the need for cross-platform operations, helping users achieve a more flexible and efficient one-stop global asset strategy layout in volatile markets.

Tencent's official X account stated that its research agent Hyra collaborated with the Hy3 model to explicitly prove an issue that has troubled the mathematical community for over 50 years: the optimal growth rate exponent of the size of the sum set |A+A| and the size of the difference set |A-A| for a finite integer set A is exactly 2. The theorem from 1969 provided an upper bound of 2, but for the following 50 years, the best constructed exponent was only slightly above 1.1.This achievement demonstrates the potential of AI agents in the field of pure mathematical reasoning. Tencent stated that Hyra is an AI research agent developed in-house, specifically designed to assist in the exploration of complex mathematical and scientific problems. This conclusion still requires confirmation through peer review by the mathematical community.

According to Aave founder Stani Kulechov, after completing a comprehensive review, Aave will gradually phase out 50 low adoption rate asset reserves across multiple deployment environments and orderly stop deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos, involving an additional 25 asset reserves.In addition, 21 expired Pendle PT assets will also be eliminated and replaced by new expiring assets. This adjustment involves approximately $98.1 million in supply assets and $15.6 million in debt. Stani stated that this move aims to reduce the economic and technical risks of the protocol based on the new Aave risk framework and technical asset listing framework, and Aave will continue to assess the risks of assets in each deployment environment.

Rob Nichols, the President of the American Bankers Association, stated in an interview that the banking industry's lobbying group hopes for the passage of the CLARITY Act, but issues surrounding stablecoins still need to be resolved.The bill is about 600 pages long, and the banking industry only suggests making minor and precise modifications to two sections to prevent stablecoins from replacing bank deposits. They are referred to as payment stablecoins for a reason, not deposit stablecoins. However, he does believe that the cryptocurrency industry and the banking industry can coexist.

According to i24NEWS, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on Gulf Maritime Insurance Company and HormuzSafe Maritime Services Administration, which provide insurance policies approved by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz and accept payments in digital assets such as Bitcoin to evade sanctions.OFAC also sanctioned eight vessels of a shadow fleet transporting Iranian crude oil and petroleum products and their affiliated companies, including Well Sail, Lily, Al Salmi, Breeze V, Natsumi, Crystal, Nireta, and Yehope. Since the beginning of this year, OFAC has sanctioned over 100 vessels related to the Iranian shadow fleet.

According to Jinshi reports, local officials stated that explosions were heard in Lviv, western Ukraine.

According to Gate market data, before the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision announcement, spot gold and spot silver hovered near their intraday highs, reported at $4,046 per ounce and $57.9 per ounce, respectively, while the dollar index DXY retreated to 101.32.

Binance will launch commodity options on July 29, 2026, at 18:00. Users can trade gold (XAU USDT) and silver (XAG USDT) options using USDT.During the event, all commodity options trades will enjoy zero Maker fees and lower Taker fees, with the specific fee rates being: Maker 0%, Taker 0.02%.

Binance will launch gold and silver European options through the Nest Exchange regulated by ADGM, settled in USDT. Before the product launch, there has been strong demand for Binance's metal perpetual futures.The new contracts are based on a benchmark composed of multiple third-party price sources. Retail investors can buy call and put options but cannot sell options, with their downside risk limited to the premiums paid. Binance stated that metal options are part of its plan to provide compliant, crypto-native traditional asset exposure. Binance plans to expand its options product line and may allow retail investors to sell options with limitations under stricter regulations.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rising by 1%, the S&P 500 index up by 0.2%, and the Nasdaq down by 0.2%. SK Hynix fell by 8.98%, and Micron Technology dropped by 8.85%. SanDisk's stock price fell by 14%, down more than 50% from the historical high it reached a month ago.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed up by 1.08%, with NetEase rising nearly 3%.

Justin Ryan Schmidt, the founder of the cryptocurrency investment fund Translunar Crypto LP, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison by a U.S. court for tax evasion. The U.S. Department of Justice stated that the 46-year-old Schmidt pleaded guilty this year in federal court in Austin, Texas, where he was accused of underreporting income, declaring less than $5,000 in income from 2020 to 2022, while prosecutors claimed he actually earned over $7 million through fund operations from 2019 to 2022.It is reported that Schmidt founded Translunar in 2017, primarily investing in blockchain startups, with funding mainly coming from investors in the Austin area of Texas and Aspen, Colorado. He was arrested by the IRS Criminal Investigation Division on February 23, 2026, and has been in custody since then.

According to official news, Base Build announced the launch of Base Verify Onchain to address the issue of witch attacks in the blockchain ecosystem. This feature has been launched on the Base Sepolia test network, allowing developers to implement the "one real user, one claim" rule in smart contracts. Base Build stated that traditional airdrop mechanisms are easily manipulated by bulk wallets, and a large number of rewards are often obtained by professional airdrop farmers, while users who genuinely participate in product development can only receive limited benefits.Base Verify Onchain helps project teams identify multiple wallets controlled by the same user by generating a stable identity hash for each real user, without needing to obtain users' names, account information, or other private data. Users can complete verification through existing accounts such as Coinbase, Instagram, X, and TikTok. The system then returns a verified identity credential to the smart contract, which automatically enforces rules such as claim limits, voting restrictions, or quota controls. Currently, Base Verify has been used over 300,000 times and serves collaborative projects such as Base App, Cody, Scratch, and Bracket. Base Build stated that Verify Onchain will provide fairer airdrops, token distributions, governance voting, and user incentive mechanisms for decentralized applications. Developers can use this technology to limit the number of claims per real user, allocate rewards based on real identities, or convert real-world signals into on-chain credibility, thereby reducing the impact of bots and multi-wallet manipulation on the fairness of Web3 applications.

On July 22, Pennsylvania State Representative Tarik Khan introduced HB 2711, co-sponsored by 24 bipartisan legislators (20 Democrats and 4 Republicans), which has been submitted to the House Consumer Protection, Technology, and Utilities Committee. The bill aims to prohibit the provision of prediction market services to Pennsylvania residents while engaging in gambling activities in the regular business of liquidity providers or market makers, extending the restrictions to parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures, and prohibits prediction platforms from sharing revenue with gambling companies.This move could impact sports betting groups like DraftKings (which has acquired CFTC-registered Railbird Technologies and launched its own DKeX exchange) and Flutter, which are entering the prediction market-making field. The bill also sets a minimum age limit of 21, prohibits contracts involving high school sports, events with minor participation, and death markets, and requires platforms to establish anti-fraud and insider information abuse protection mechanisms.The bill does not establish a licensing system, and enforcement authority is granted to the state Attorney General. Previously, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2:1 in April that the federal Commodity Exchange Act takes precedence over state gambling laws, but Pennsylvania has joined a coalition of 40 states advocating for sports contracts to be subject to state-level regulation.

According to BeInCrypto, El Salvador's two major opposition parties, ARENA and FMLN, have nominated Maytee Iraheta and Rafael Aguirre, respectively, as candidates for the presidential election in February 2027, challenging the re-election campaign of current President Nayib Bukele. Both candidates have not supported Bukele's Bitcoin strategy and have publicly criticized it as a financial failure.Bukele's New Ideas party has nominated him to run, with his approval rating reaching as high as 94% in recent polls, but this support mainly comes from improvements in public safety rather than Bitcoin policy—polls show that only 2.2% of Salvadorans believe Bitcoin is their biggest failure. Bitcoin is no longer mandatory legal tender in the country following the IMF loan agreement in February 2025, with the dollar resuming its status as the only official currency for daily transactions. However, the El Salvador Bitcoin Office continues to buy Bitcoin, acquiring about 1 BTC daily, and as of July 27, its holdings have risen to approximately 7,730 BTC. The IMF has repeatedly warned that the Bitcoin strategy poses financial and governance risks and has not significantly improved financial inclusivity for unbanked residents. The next president will decide whether this accumulation continues.

Recently, the gold and silver markets have continued their upward trend, with high trading activity in the metals sector. According to market data from the Gate platform, gold (XAU) reached a 24-hour high of $4116.37, currently reported at $4096.54, with a 24-hour increase of 0.89%; silver (XAG) reached a 24-hour high of $60.16, currently reported at $59.51, with a 24-hour increase of 1.74%. According to CoinGlass data, the open interest for Gate XAU contracts reached $219 million, and the open interest for Gate XAG contracts reached $58.7915 million, both ranking among the top two in the industry.

According to News.bitcoin, data released by the Central Bank of El Salvador shows that in the first half of 2026, only 35.4 million dollars in external remittances were channeled into the country through digital currency. This figure accounts for only 0.7% of the total remittances to the country in 2026 (over 5 billion dollars). Nevertheless, the amount of cryptocurrency remittances is still significantly higher than the level in the first half of 2025, when the cryptocurrency remittance amount was 25.4 million dollars, an increase of 39.1%.

According to South Korean media Daily NK, North Korean authorities arrested an elite hacker group on July 12, which is suspected of infiltrating the internal networks of the North Korean central bank and foreign trade bank, stealing national trade funds and laundering money through cryptocurrency. Sources say the group's leader is a veteran from the cyber warfare unit under the North Korean Reconnaissance General Bureau, who recruited talented IT graduates from Kim Chaek University of Technology and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, using encrypted communications and wireless devices to commit crimes.They split the stolen funds into small amounts and transferred them to overseas cryptocurrency wallets, exchanged them for cash through intermediaries, and then converted them into dollars and other currencies in border areas. Pyongyang officials launched an investigation after discovering anomalies in foreign currency payment approvals and records of overseas IP access, ultimately raiding a safe house and arresting suspects who were laundering money, seizing equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. This case has caused a stir among the elite and military circles in Pyongyang, with senior officials in the Reconnaissance General Bureau and the science and education sector worried about being implicated. North Korea has long been accused of stealing billions of dollars in cryptocurrency assets through hacker organizations like the Lazarus Group, but this incident rarely shows that its own financial system has also become a target of internal attacks.

Well-known trader Killa (@KillaXBT) posted that the Bitcoin cycle is accelerating, with the last cycle taking only 476 days from the bottom to a new ATH, much faster than the previous two cycles. It is expected that this cycle will also reach a new high before the next halving.Killa, as a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on platform X. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and switched to long during the market-wide decline on June 5.

Recently, the silver market has experienced increased volatility, with prices undergoing a pullback adjustment. According to market data from the Gate platform, silver (XAG) reached a high of $60 in the past 24 hours and is currently reported at $57.37, with a 24-hour decline of 4.29%. According to CoinGlass data, the open interest for Gate XAG contracts has reached $60.6241 million, firmly ranking among the top two in the industry.