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According to official news, OKX, in collaboration with Elliptic, SlowMist, and OttoSec, has released the "Web3 Security and Risk Control Report for the First Half of 2026." The report points out that the focus of Web3 attacks is gradually shifting from smart contract code to more complex scenarios such as signature processes, user devices, operational infrastructure, and AI Agents.Data shows that in the first half of 2026, the OKX risk control system intercepted over 5.7 million high-risk transactions, including approximately 2.41 million transactions related to hacking and theft, about 1.48 million transactions related to phishing, and around 990,000 transactions related to fraud. The OKX Web3 on-chain intelligence label library currently has over 1 billion labels, covering more than 420 chains, and has integrated capabilities such as address screening, transaction monitoring, and sanction address control into infrastructures like DEX and Exchange OS.In addition, in terms of user protection, OKX has intercepted over 7 million visits to risky websites, completed over 200,000 device risk assessments, identified over 60,000 high-risk apps, and intercepted or alerted on over 4 million high-risk signature operations. The report also introduces the "risk control pre-positioning" design in scenarios such as Exchange OS, Outcomes, RWA, and Agentic Wallet.

According to South Korean media outlet Chosun Ilbo, Morgan Stanley was not selected as the sole lead underwriter for SK Hynix's American Depositary Receipts (ADR) listing. The transaction size is approximately $26.5 billion (about 40 trillion Korean won), making it the largest IPO for foreign capital in the U.S. The commission, calculated at a 0.5% underwriting fee rate, is about $130 million. The final underwriting syndicate consists of Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan Chase. Industry insiders generally believe that Morgan Stanley's exclusion is related to its repeated issuance of bearish reports on South Korean semiconductors.The report's author is Korean-American Managing Director Shawn Kim, who has repeatedly downgraded the stock ratings of memory stocks such as Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and Micron in research reports published in 2017, 2021, 2024, and on June 6 of this year, with the 2021 report titled "Memory, Winter is Coming." Additionally, Morgan Stanley has recently faced setbacks in South Korea: as a co-underwriter for the SpaceX IPO, Korea's Mirae Asset applied for $1.14 billion in subscriptions but received zero allocation; the sale of IGIS Asset Management, promoted in conjunction with Goldman Sachs, also ended in failure. Morgan Stanley's largest shareholder is Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), which holds approximately 24% of the shares.

According to the Bitwise "Q3 2026 Staking Report," Q2 2026 presents a divergent pattern of "increased on-chain activity and decreased fee revenue," with the core driving factor being various protocols actively reducing block space costs.In terms of core data across chains, Ethereum's active staking volume reached a historic high of 40.2 million ETH (accounting for 33% of the total supply), while network revenue decreased by 51% year-on-year to $64 million, although it rebounded in ETH terms quarter-on-quarter; Solana's Q2 Real Economic Value (REV) dropped to $51 million, significantly down from the peak of $812 million in Q1 2025, but non-voting transaction volume reached 9.8 billion, maintaining resilience in on-chain activity; Hyperliquid's Q2 total protocol revenue was $174.8 million, with perpetual contract trading volume reaching $65.2 billion, and the proportion of non-crypto assets (commodities, stock indices, etc.) rose to 32%; Avalanche C chain's transaction volume grew approximately fourfold year-on-year to 236 million transactions, but network revenue plummeted due to a significant drop in fees, leaving only $330,000; NEAR saw a dramatic 75% drop in on-chain transaction volume to 77.7 million transactions due to the collapse of Kai-Ching application activity, but the Intents execution layer generated fees approximately 68 times that of the base chain.In terms of institutional adoption, BlackRock launched an Ethereum staking ETF (ETHB), Coinbase and Circle each staked 500,000 HYPE, and Bitwise, 21Shares, and Grayscale successively launched HYPE spot ETFs. Additionally, the stablecoin payment chain Tempo, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, processed $386 million in transfers in its first quarter, while the global payroll platform Deel distributed approximately $30 million to 7,200 contractors through this chain.

The PPP prediction market tool monitoring shows that the probability of "the next Claude Opus model being released on July 23, 2026" on Polymarket is currently reported at 61%, up 51% in the last 24 hours. In addition, the probability of "being released before July 24" is currently reported at 9%; the probability of "being released before July 25" is currently reported at 5%.This event will settle based on the date (Eastern Time) when Anthropic's next Claude Opus model is made publicly available. Only models explicitly named "Opus" by Anthropic are valid, and they must be open to the public (including public testing or open waiting lists). Other models such as Sonnet and Haiku are not included, and the final settlement will primarily rely on official information from Anthropic.

The Robinhood Chain token launch platform Pons will release version 2, planning to introduce multiple feature updates. It is reported that Pons v2 will introduce a Bonding Curve mechanism priced in ETH, remove trading restrictions for non-developer wallets, and support custom trading pairs, including RWA assets such as USDG, NVDA, AAPL, and HOOD.In addition, Pons will adopt a redesigned fee structure using Uniswap V4 pools and Hook, with creators defaulting to receive fees in ETH; when the token value reaches 4.2 ETH, it will automatically graduate to a permanently locked full-range position on Uniswap V4. Other updates include the addition of a CTO feature with a 3-day time lock, support for collecting fees in stablecoins or other tokens, and the introduction of an optional tax mechanism for each buy and sell transaction.

Gate officially released the 2026 Wealth Management Semi-Annual Report. The report shows that the overall cryptocurrency market faced pressure in the first half of the year, with BTC and ETH dropping approximately 33.1% and 47.1%, respectively, and market risk appetite continued to decline. Against this backdrop, user demand for stable returns and high liquidity assets has continued to rise.Gate's Yubi Treasure position size remained stable at 2 billion USDT, with funds gradually shifting towards demand for liquidity management. At the same time, the GUSD minting rate has stabilized, with funds mainly flowing into on-chain earning scenarios, continuously demonstrating the value of income-generating stable assets. In terms of advanced wealth management, Gate's dual-currency investment maintains an industry-leading advantage, with the low-buy strategy achieving a 0-day term APY of up to 295%, significantly higher than the market average of 166%. Gate's quantitative fund continues to perform steadily, with the interstellar hedge (USDT) achieving a cumulative return of 18.7%. In asset allocation, Gate's stock holdings continue to optimize, with the proportion of Korean stocks rapidly increasing following their launch, accounting for about 75% of the overall holdings by the end of June. The top ten holdings are mainly concentrated in semiconductor and technology growth assets, with SK Hynix holding the largest position. Additionally, Gate's GUSD minting annualized rate reached 3.8%, supporting users to participate in diverse ecological scenarios such as Launchpool and Pre-IPOs; Yubi Treasure USDT wealth management VIPs can enjoy an annualized return of 4.0%.In the future, Gate will continue to improve its wealth management system covering stable wealth management, enhanced returns, and multi-asset allocation, providing more flexible and efficient asset appreciation solutions for users with different risk appetites, helping users achieve long-term value growth amid market cycle changes.

The Chinese AI large model company Dark Side of the Moon is accelerating its capitalization process, planning to start the final round of pre-IPO financing negotiations in August, with a target pre-investment valuation of $50 billion. Reports indicate that Dark Side of the Moon expects to complete a round of financing soon, corresponding to a valuation of approximately $31.5 billion. After completing this round of financing, the company will immediately engage in discussions for the next round of financing with potential investors, which may become its last private placement before entering the Hong Kong capital market.Market participants believe that if the financing plan proceeds smoothly, Dark Side of the Moon could initiate the process for a Hong Kong stock listing as early as this year. One of the key driving factors for this valuation increase is the company's recent release of the new generation large model Kimi K3. It is reported that Kimi K3 has a parameter scale of 28 trillion, supporting a context window of millions of tokens, making it one of the largest open-source models in the world by parameter scale. After the model was released, it quickly attracted market attention, prompting the company to adjust its new user subscription arrangements to ensure the user experience for existing customers.As the competition in generative AI enters a phase of comparison in computing power, user scale, and commercialization capabilities, large model companies are accelerating their search for capital support. Dark Side of the Moon's financing plan also reflects the market's ongoing interest in leading AI foundational model companies. However, the $50 billion valuation target also implies higher commercialization requirements. In the future, investors will focus on Dark Side of the Moon's revenue growth, control of computing costs, and whether the Kimi series models can form a stable business model. If the financing and listing plans proceed smoothly, Dark Side of the Moon may become an important case of capitalization for Chinese AI large model companies.

TRON recently officially released GreatVoyage-v4.8.2 (Pyrrho). The new version further enhances compatibility with Ethereum Pectra and the Osaka upgrade, adds CLZ instructions, secp256r1 signature verification precompilation, and migrates fastjson to Jackson, while unifying node monitoring metrics from InfluxDB to Prometheus.This upgrade further strengthens TRON's capabilities in smart contract compatibility, interface processing, node monitoring, and operational management. The official reminder states that this version is a mandatory upgrade, and node operators must complete the update by August 16, 2026, 23:59 (Singapore time) to avoid affecting block synchronization. The Event Plugin is also upgraded to v3.0; nodes using the official plugin must upgrade the plugin first before updating the node version; nodes using self-developed plugins should also complete adaptation as soon as possible.

The Web3 fitness protocol BRT.Fit has released a transparency statement, currently in the product testing and ecosystem validation phase. Application functions and validation methods may be adjusted based on testing results. The test token tBRT is only used for economic model validation and does not represent the official token value, nor does it constitute an investment product or guarantee of future returns. Its "mandatory exercise protocol" is an incentive and commitment mechanism that users voluntarily join, helping to develop exercise habits through verifiable data, without physical compulsion.After the official mainnet launch, core functions such as token staking, rewards, and burning will be executed through on-chain smart contracts, with contract addresses and audit reports to be disclosed gradually. The project plans to support mainstream wearable devices such as Apple Watch, WHOOP, and Xiaomi, Huawei, and will continue to optimize the anti-cheating system. The project team reminds that digital assets carry significant volatility risks, participation does not guarantee returns, and users should refer to official announcements, remaining vigilant against counterfeiting and phishing activities.

According to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, influenced by the escalation of geopolitical risks and changes in the AI competitive landscape, all three major U.S. stock indices fell last week, energy prices rose significantly, and the trends of safe-haven assets like gold and U.S. Treasuries diverged. The cryptocurrency market continued its structural trend, with Bitcoin and Ethereum rising by 1.5% and 3.6%, respectively, while both spot BTC and ETH ETFs maintained net inflows.In terms of industry development, regulation and real-world applications continued to be the focus this week. Japanese convenience store giant Lawson, in collaboration with Netstars, is advancing a stablecoin payment pilot, further promoting the use of stablecoins in everyday consumption scenarios; South Korea plans to officially incorporate digital assets into its national asset management framework and explore the tokenization of government bonds and state-owned assets, with the construction of RWA infrastructure continuing to accelerate. In Europe, after the transition period of MiCA ended, the total number of licensed institutions increased to 294, although the number of new licenses has slowed down, institutional participation remains strong.In terms of investment and financing, the cryptocurrency industry recorded a total of 16 financing events last week, highly concentrated in the infrastructure sector: among them, Alpaca completed a $135 million financing to enhance tokenized securities and AI financial infrastructure; Flex completed a $70 million financing to further expand its stablecoin cross-border payment network, continuously confirming the capital market's long-term optimism towards digital financial infrastructure. Gate Ventures believes that as the global regulatory framework gradually improves and the integration of traditional finance and blockchain deepens, the digital asset ecosystem is expected to enter a more mature and diverse development stage.

The JUST ecosystem officially released the Q2 2026 quarterly report, disclosing the core performance and key progress of the past quarter, from protocol operations, capital management to ecological development.The fourth buyback and burn of JST has successfully concluded, with the cumulative burn amount now accounting for 17.29% of the total supply, further solidifying the deflationary value foundation of the token; at the same time, the regular buyback and burn in Q2 is being advanced in parallel with the new USDJ stability fee special burn, and the funding sources for buyback and burn are continuously expanding, providing a more solid support for the long-term sustainable operation of the mechanism.All businesses within the JUST ecosystem maintain steady growth, and JustLend DAO will continue to enhance governance transparency through the quarterly report mechanism, continuously strengthening the foundation of community trust.

According to official news, SpaceX will release its financial and operational performance for the second quarter of 2026 on August 4, 2026, and will hold a financial report live stream, which will be broadcast simultaneously on the X platform.

FTX announced that the fifth round of bankruptcy distributions will begin on July 31, distributing approximately $900 million to eligible creditors. Only claim holders of categories 5A, 5B, 6A, 6B, and category 7 who complete claim verification, KYC verification, tax form submission, and sanctions screening by the deadline of June 16, and successfully onboard with BitGo, Kraken, or Payoneer, are eligible for the distribution. Funds will be credited within one to three business days starting from July 31.Currently, creditors from 45 jurisdictions are excluded due to the lack of available distribution service providers, including China, Russia, Ukraine, Cuba, Iran, and others. FTX stated that the coverage of service providers may change, but even if it opens in the future, payments on July 31 cannot be retroactively applied. FTX warned that creditors who do not successfully complete onboarding within six months from July 31 may lose their right to the distribution for that claim.As of now, the cumulative distribution ratios announced by FTX are 105% for categories 5A and 5B, 103% for categories 6A and 6B, and 120% for category 7, but these percentages are based on the claim amounts approved by the court rather than the current market value.

TRON officially released GreatVoyage-v4.8.2 (Pyrrho). The new version further enhances compatibility with Ethereum Pectra and the Osaka upgrade, adds CLZ instructions, secp256r1 signature verification precompilation, and migrates fastjson to Jackson. Node monitoring metrics have been uniformly migrated from InfluxDB to Prometheus. This upgrade further strengthens TRON's capabilities in smart contract compatibility, interface processing, node monitoring, and operation management.The official reminder states that this version is a mandatory upgrade. Node operators must complete the update by August 16, 2026, 23:59 (Singapore time) to avoid affecting block synchronization. The Event Plugin is also upgraded to v3.0.0; nodes using the official plugin must upgrade the plugin first before updating the node version; nodes using self-developed plugins should also complete adaptation as soon as possible.

According to CNBC, AMD has officially launched its first rack-scale AI system for artificial intelligence, Helios, which is seen as AMD's important product to compete with NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin AI systems. It has been adopted by enterprise customers such as Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle, attempting to initiate more direct competition with NVIDIA in the AI infrastructure market.Microsoft announced that it will deploy the AMD Helios system in its Azure data centers, becoming the latest customer to adopt this platform. AMD stated that Helios is expected to start delivering to customers later this year and will be used to support cutting-edge AI model inference, Azure AI services, and enterprise-level AI applications.Market analysis firm Futurum Group data shows that NVIDIA currently holds over 95% of the data center GPU market share, while AMD accounts for about 4.5%. Analysts believe that if Helios is deployed successfully, AMD has the opportunity to capture 20%-25% of the market share in the future, corresponding to a potential market space worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

According to the latest report released by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), FATF conducted the seventh special assessment of the implementation of Recommendation 15 (R.15) across global jurisdictions. The report indicates that since the last update in 2025, countries have continued to advance in the regulation of virtual assets (VA) and virtual asset service providers (VASP), including conducting risk assessments, improving licensing and registration frameworks, implementing travel rules, and strengthening law enforcement actions.However, the report also points out that significant gaps still exist, mainly reflected in: the difficulty in effectively translating risk assessment results into mitigation measures, insufficient implementation of licensing and registration frameworks, challenges in identifying VASP activity subjects, and inadequate effectiveness of risk-based supervision and law enforcement. In terms of emerging risks, the report focuses on the following areas: the exacerbation of the "industrialization" trend of organized crime groups using virtual assets to commit fraud, the rising risk of stablecoin abuse, risks associated with non-custodial wallet peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions, offshore VASPs operating outside of regulation, and ongoing challenges in the DeFi sector. FATF calls for the public and private sectors to jointly strengthen the implementation of R.15, enhance risk mitigation capabilities, and deepen domestic, international, and public-private cooperation mechanisms.

According to market news, Goldman Sachs reported on July 18 that the Dark Side of the Moon released the Kimi K3 model, with 28 trillion parameters, surpassing Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol on the Arena.ai programming leaderboard, reaching a new high for Chinese models with an API pricing of $2.3 per million tokens. Two days after the release, Zhiyu fell by 28%, MiniMax dropped by 16%, the Nasdaq 100 index futures fell by more than 1.8%, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index has cumulatively dropped by more than 18% from its peak.Goldman Sachs believes that Kimi K3 marks a turning point: a Chinese laboratory that cannot match the largest pre-trained computing power in the West has rapidly narrowed the gap with top American models through architectural innovation and reinforcement learning, proving that "scaling" is no longer the only winning path. Goldman Sachs warns that the "era of computing power expansion" may be coming to an end, and the investment logic for AI infrastructure built around "the more computing power, the better" needs to be rewritten. Goldman Sachs maintains a buy rating on MiniMax and a neutral rating on Zhiyu. Future attention will focus on the intensive release of 20-50 trillion parameter models such as Zhiyu GLM, Alibaba Qwen, and MiniMax M3 Pro.

Moonshot tweeted a reminder that some users received a phishing email with the subject "View Recent Activities." This email did not come from Moonshot, and no signs of account compromise have been found so far. The official team is investigating this matter.Moonshot advises users to delete the email and not to click on any links. If you have clicked on a link or entered a verification code, please contact the official support through the in-app support.

Michael Saylor, the founder and executive chairman of Bitcoin Strategy Company, has once again released information related to the Bitcoin Tracker and stated, "What's next?"According to previous patterns, Strategy usually discloses changes in Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.

According to ETNews, the South Korean government has released the "Korean Won Internationalization Roadmap," aiming to transform the Korean won from a regulated currency to a freely convertible currency and to establish an offshore Korean won settlement network.It is reported that the Bank of Korea will launch the "Offshore Korean Won Settlement Network" (tentative name), which is expected to undergo trial operation in September this year and officially start in January next year. At the same time, it will also build digital asset payment infrastructure to lay the foundation for the issuance, distribution, and trading of Korean won-denominated stablecoins, with plans to launch a pilot project next year to promote the tokenization of government bonds linked to the central bank digital currency (CBDC) of the Bank of Korea.In addition, South Korea will officially join the cross-border digital payment project "Agora," led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and involving the central banks of eight countries.