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Nine financial institutions and Bitcoin companies announced the joint establishment of the Bitcoin Security Alliance, with founding members including Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity, Galaxy, and Strategy, covering the entire chain of institutions such as custody, trading, infrastructure, payments, and asset management.The alliance commits to providing a total of $15 million in funding over the next three years to support developers and researchers in the field of Bitcoin security, including long-term work to prepare Bitcoin for the future era of quantum computing. Each member independently decides which developers, researchers, or organizations to direct their funding towards. The daily operations of the alliance are coordinated on a voluntary basis by Brink Executive Director Mike Schmidt, with Brink being a nonprofit organization that funds Bitcoin open-source developers.The alliance clearly states that it does not formulate or direct Bitcoin protocols, does not express opinions on specific protocol changes, and does not represent Bitcoin or its developers—Bitcoin development continues to be carried out by a globally decentralized community of contributors. Its positioning is to emulate the model of industry organizations that have long supported open-source software, providing resources and attention to developers without controlling the underlying work.Strategy CEO Phong Le stated, "As long-term holders, ensuring the security of Bitcoin for generations is our greatest incentive"; BlackRock's Global Head of Digital Assets Robert Mitchnick pointed out that the work of Bitcoin core developers is "extremely important," and this commitment will provide "significant additional funding" for Bitcoin's long-term security needs. The alliance will also serve as a reliable source of information for investors, the public, and the media in the field of Bitcoin security, with plans to publish and continuously update materials related to Bitcoin security in the coming months.

According to Jinshi reports, Mitsubishi UFJ Bank analyst Derek Halpenny stated in a report that the dollar may not be significantly affected by the latest round of trade uncertainties in the U.S. in the short term. He pointed out that the impact of Trump's new tariff plan on exchange rates should be limited.Currently, the market expects the U.S. to raise interest rates and the risks in the Middle East are high, providing some support for the dollar. However, if trade uncertainties escalate, investors' concerns about policy unpredictability and damage to the U.S. economy may lead to a sell-off of the dollar.

GoPlus Security issued a security alert stating that a user signed a malicious Permit transaction 183 days ago, resulting in approximately $1,625 of USDC being transferred by a phishing attacker.Since the user did not revoke the relevant authorization afterwards, the attacker again used that authorization to transfer approximately $75,780 of USDC.

According to Decrypt, Galaxy Digital has officially launched the "Bitcoin Quantum Readiness Program," which has three core pillars: providing up to $5 million in post-quantum cryptography research grants to developers, publishing special research reports through Galaxy Research, and establishing a quantum advisory committee composed of scholars from several top universities.The program aims at "Q-Day"—the critical moment when quantum computers use Shor's algorithm to break Bitcoin's elliptic curve encryption, forge signatures, and steal wallet assets. Project Eleven predicts that quantum computers capable of cryptographic threats may appear as early as 2030, at which point approximately 6.9 million BTC will be at risk of exposure.The Coinbase Quantum Advisory Committee has also called for developers to immediately begin migration efforts. Meanwhile, Trump has signed an executive order setting the deadline for the U.S. federal government to complete its post-quantum cryptography migration by December 2031.

According to official news, the ENS DAO has approved the proposal to activate a new security committee, with a term of two years. The committee consists of eight members and has veto power, allowing it to cancel proposals during the waiting period after malicious proposals are passed but before execution. The committee's authority is limited to canceling transactions within the time lock and cannot access treasury funds, submit proposals, or rewrite approved proposals.The committee can only exercise its power under emergency conditions specified in its charter. ENS points out that governance itself may become an attack surface—voting rights can be borrowed to initiate attacks, proposal codes can hide malicious behavior, and credential leaks can be used to push harmful transactions. The new committee adopts a 5-of-8 multi-signature, requiring at least five members' agreement to cancel a proposal, and must seek DAO voting for extension after the two-year term.

According to The Block, Grayscale has submitted a registration statement for the Grayscale Worldcoin ETF to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund will hold the native token WLD of the World Network as a passive investment tool, aiming to make the value per share reflect the value of the held WLD minus fees and liabilities.If approved, the ETF will be listed on Nasdaq, with BNY Mellon serving as the transfer agent and BitGo Bank & Trust serving as the custodian.

This week, the focus of the U.S. stock market will shift to the second-quarter earnings reports of tech giants such as Alphabet, Tesla, and Intel, while also paying attention to leading indicators, initial jobless claims, and PMI preliminary values. The market will primarily examine AI capital expenditures, consumer resilience, and interest rate expectations. Key events include: on Monday, the release of leading indicators and DPZ's earnings report; on Tuesday, attention to earnings reports from GM, SCHW, and others; on Wednesday, GOOGL and TSLA will release their earnings reports; on Thursday, initial jobless claims data will be released, along with INTC's earnings report; on Friday, PMI preliminary values and new home sales data will be announced.WEEX Labs believes that this week, AI infrastructure, semiconductors, EVs, and the financial sector may become the main directions of market volatility. Investors need to focus on corporate earnings guidance and the signals released by employment data, managing their positions rationally.

Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed an executive order to coordinate the regulation of virtual assets, strengthen cooperation among the country's financial, tax, and capital market institutions, and address the fragmentation of digital asset regulation. The executive order establishes a virtual asset committee composed of heads of Nigeria's main financial regulatory agencies, responsible for guiding relevant policies. The Nigerian tax authorities will update digital asset policies and provide more details on their impact on taxpayers.The President's Special Adviser Bayo Onanuga stated that the executive order does not establish new regulatory bodies nor transfer power between institutions; each agency retains its statutory responsibilities and independence, and registration requirements will be determined based on the nature of the activities and the assets involved. A report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in June indicated that since 2019, Nigeria has accounted for about 60% of the stablecoin inflows to sub-Saharan Africa; from July 2023 to June 2024, the country's cryptocurrency inflows are estimated to be around $59 billion.

According to the official website of the Brazilian Securities Commission (CVM), the CVM officially established the Security Tokenization Working Group (GTT) on July 17, 2026, aiming to conduct research, testing, and regulatory framework development around Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), covering aspects such as the registration, custody, trading, and clearing of securities.The initial operating period of the working group is 120 days, which can be extended by 30 days, gathering representatives from 14 departments within the CVM, and will invite government agencies, self-regulatory organizations, and market experts to participate. The first task is to submit an experimental regulatory framework proposal for security tokenization to the CVM committee within 60 days of its establishment. CVM Chairman Otto Lobo stated that tokenization is one of the most important structural changes in the capital market and requires equally innovative regulatory responses.

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Uniswap founder Hayden posted on the X platform that Uniswap has just submitted two governance proposals for final on-chain voting, including enabling v2 and v3 protocol fees on the Robinhood Chain, as well as enabling v4 protocol fees on Ethereum, Base, Arbitrum, Robinhood, BNB, Polygon, and Optimism. The remaining third proposal related to v4 chain is about to be submitted.Both proposals will direct all new protocol fees into the existing UNI burn mechanism. Based on the current trading volume, especially the trading volume related to Robinhood, the impact on UNI burn is expected to be significant.

U.S. Congressman Bryan Steil expressed optimism on Fox News that the CLARITY Act is expected to pass in the Senate next week, emphasizing that the U.S. needs to establish a regulatory gold standard in the digital asset space. Bryan Steil currently serves as the Chairman of the House Administration Committee and also chairs the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Inclusion within the Financial Services Committee.

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.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Jefferson stated that he is firmly committed to restoring inflation to the target of 2%, which is consistent with the Federal Reserve's dual mandate.

Cryptocurrency trading and liquidity service provider Cumberland announced on platform X that its Singapore subsidiary Cumberland SG Pte. Ltd. has obtained the MPI license issued by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), allowing it to provide Digital Payment Token (DPT) services and cross-border money transfer services.

Injective stated that it has submitted a transfer agent registration application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The transfer agent is responsible for maintaining the official ownership records of securities and handling transfer changes, a function typically maintained by specialized institutions off-chain in traditional markets.This application aims to migrate this core market function on-chain, allowing the tokens themselves to serve as ownership records, thereby enabling the registration and transfer of tokenized securities to be completed in seconds and reducing intermediary verification steps.

The Crypto Innovation Committee (CCI) announced that Etherealize, Hyperliquid Policy Center, and Tools for Humanity (TFH) have officially joined. CCI stated that the new members will enhance its technical expertise in on-chain finance, institutional finance, and digital identity to better support policy-making.Etherealize stated that as the application of Ethereum in institutional scenarios accelerates, a prudent policy framework is of great significance for unlocking the potential of the next generation of financial infrastructure.

BlackRock's revenue in the second quarter increased by 31% year-on-year to $7.1 billion, and adjusted operating income rose by 39% year-on-year to $2.9 billion, with AUM reaching $15.3 trillion and net inflows of $868 billion over the past 12 months.BlackRock has submitted two registration statements for tokenized money market funds to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), one of which aims to create a tokenized share class for existing funds on Ethereum, while the other is for a digital-native strategy. The AUM of BlackRock's iShares ETF platform exceeds $6 trillion, with net inflows of $178 billion in the second quarter. Its AUM related to digital assets is approximately $110 billion, with iShares Bitcoin Trust, Ethereum Trust, and BUIDL remaining the largest products in their respective categories. BlackRock also manages a $60 billion reserve for stablecoin issuer Circle. The company has raised its stock buyback plan for 2026 to $2 billion, having repurchased $450 million in stock in the second quarter.