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Bilal Bin Saqib, the Minister of State for Pakistan and Chairman of the Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA), revealed at the Bitcoin Asia conference that the country completed the establishment of its virtual asset regulatory system in less than six months, using only about 8% of the approved budget, which is approximately $200,000, with about 92% of the budget remaining unused. Saqib stated that the government should not measure success by how much money is spent, but rather by the actual delivery of results. The regulatory framework covers activities such as exchanges, custody, brokerage, asset management, lending, and settlement, and introduces requirements regarding governance, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, customer asset protection, cybersecurity, and market conduct. Saqib emphasized that Pakistan's regulatory ambitions extend beyond the current digital asset market, with future focus on the tokenization market, programmable payments, stablecoins, machine-to-machine transactions, and the AI agent economy, noting the need to establish corresponding regulatory rules for agent payments and the agent economy. Saqib stated that emerging markets do not need to spend a decade catching up; they can build on the frontier. With a population of over 240 million, Pakistan is a potentially significant market for emerging financial technologies. The rapid transition from legislation to licensing in the country is being used as a demonstration case for the government's response to next-generation financial infrastructure.

Famous internet celebrity Di Shi revealed during a live broadcast that he was set up by his friend Sun Zeyu (founder of Genesis Capital), whom he had known for 8 years in the blockchain circle, resulting in cumulative losses of tens of millions of yuan. He stated that he had always regarded the other party as a reliable friend, not only allowing him to buy cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum but also investing in the exchange that the other party operated in South Korea.Investigations found that some of the so-called "Ethereum" he received might actually just be fake chain assets specifically built by the other party. Di Shi claimed that there were only 7 addresses on that chain, 6 of which were related to the other party, and only 1 was his own. During this time, the other party was even able to help him "cash out" hundreds of thousands of yuan, making the scam appear extremely real. This scheme lasted for 8 years, and if it had not been discovered in time, the losses could have reached hundreds of millions of yuan after the price of coins increased.

At 20:30 Beijing time tonight, the U.S. Department of Commerce will release the July Personal Consumption Expenditures (PCE) price index. The market expects the overall PCE in July to rise by 0.1% month-on-month, with the year-on-year increase falling from 3.7% in June to 3.6%; the core PCE is expected to rise from 0.1% to 0.2% month-on-month, while year-on-year it remains at 3.3%, marking the 65th consecutive month above the Federal Reserve's 2% inflation target.It is noteworthy that rising prices in the AI industry chain, high valuations in the stock market pushing up portfolio management fees, and the situation in the Middle East leading to increased energy costs may all become potential drivers of core inflation. Goldman Sachs predicts that stock market valuation factors alone could contribute approximately 0.11 percentage points to the month-on-month increase in core PCE for July.What draws more market attention is that the Bureau of Economic Analysis plans to comprehensively adjust the PCE statistical methods by the end of September, which may involve adjustments to the price calculations for categories such as computer hardware, stock portfolio management, and legal services, and may also retroactively revise historical data, increasing the difficulty of interpreting inflation data.Currently, the market's views on the Federal Reserve's policy path in September are increasingly divided. CME's "FedWatch" shows that the probability of the Federal Reserve keeping interest rates unchanged in September is 59.9%, while the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike has risen to 40.1%. The market is also waiting for this week's Jackson Hole annual meeting to seek the latest signals from Fed Chair Powell regarding inflation and subsequent interest rate policies.

On Wednesday local time, U.S. President Trump met with executives from cryptocurrency and fintech companies such as Coinbase, Ripple, Robinhood, Gemini, and Chainlink in the Roosevelt Room of the White House and delivered a speech in support of cryptocurrencies.Trump stated that his administration has "completely ended the war on cryptocurrencies," and the industry is thriving. The U.S. must maintain its "undisputed leadership" in areas such as Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, prediction markets, and artificial intelligence, and is committed to becoming the "world capital of cryptocurrency."He mentioned that the U.S. government has discussed accumulating a "significant amount" of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, stating that cryptocurrencies "greatly alleviate the pressure on the dollar." At the same time, he urged Congress to pass a "fair version" of the Clarity Act, claiming this would allow the U.S. to lead over China and other countries.Trump also noted that the SEC chairman is working to bring Hyperliquid to the U.S. market in a compliant manner; and reviewed the policy achievements of the signed Genius Act (stablecoin legislation), strategic Bitcoin reserves, and the prohibition of CBDCs.

According to Reuters, the U.S. government plans to send letters to more than 30 countries that signed the "Joint Statement on the Partnership for Artificial Intelligence Opportunities," asking them to choose sides in the U.S.-China AI competition.The U.S. has threatened that if they participate in the China-led AI framework, they will be excluded from the U.S.-led "AI Alliance."

Berkshire Hathaway submitted its 13F holdings report for the second quarter of 2026 to the U.S. SEC. The data shows that in the second quarter after Warren Buffett stepped down, the company's investment portfolio underwent significant adjustments, with a large purchase of Google’s parent company Alphabet, while reducing positions in the financial and consumer sectors.As of June 30, 2026, the total market value of Berkshire's stock holdings rose to $29.9 billion, up from $26.3 billion in the previous quarter. In the second quarter, the company added one new position, increased holdings in seven stocks, reduced holdings in six stocks, and completely sold out of one target, with the top ten holdings accounting for as much as 88.74%.Among them, Alphabet became the biggest highlight. In the second quarter, Berkshire cumulatively increased its holdings of Alphabet Class A and Class C shares by approximately 48.1 million shares, with the new holdings valued at over $17 billion, pushing Google to replace Bank of America as Berkshire's fourth-largest holding. Currently, its top five holdings are Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, Alphabet, and Bank of America. In addition to Google, Berkshire also slightly increased its holdings in Delta Air Lines, Lennar, and Macy's. The increase in Delta Air Lines has attracted attention, as the market believes this move may reflect the company's optimism about the recovery of air travel demand and improvement in corporate operations.On the reduction side, Berkshire focused on cutting positions in the financial and consumer sectors in the second quarter. Among them, Bank of America saw a reduction of about 30.2 million shares, with the holding ratio decreasing by 5.89%, corresponding to a market value of about $1.72 billion, making it the largest reduction target; First Capital Financial reduced about 4.2 million shares, with the holding ratio decreasing by about 58%; at the same time, it reduced about 11 million shares of Kroger, with the holding size decreasing by about 22%.The market believes that Berkshire ended a streak of 14 consecutive quarters of net stock selling in the second quarter and net bought nearly $20 billion in stocks, indicating that the new leader Greg Abel is pushing the portfolio towards a technology growth direction, marking a shift in asset allocation in the "post-Buffett era."

According to Jinshi reports, OpenAI stated that the AI models involved in the attack on the artificial intelligence open-source community and model hosting platform "Hugging Face" began communicating through undiscovered information exchange channels as early as May, collaborating in an attempt to break through the testing environment.Researchers added more details regarding the hacking incident at Hugging Face, highlighting global concerns that cutting-edge AI systems could be used to launch destructive cyberattacks.

According to Jinshi reports, SpaceX (SPCX) will announce its Q2 2026 financial report after the U.S. stock market closes on Tuesday. This is the company's first quarterly performance disclosure since going public in June, and the market will evaluate the actual performance of its three major businesses: rocket launches, satellite internet, and artificial intelligence, and assess whether the current high valuation can be supported by revenue growth and AI investment returns.Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Colin Canfield previously stated that the first quarterly financial report may have "extreme expectation bias," meaning there could be significant discrepancies between actual performance and market forecasts.According to FactSet data, the market expects SpaceX's Q2 revenue to be approximately $6.88 billion, with a loss of 23 cents per share; at the same time, the company is expected to have quarterly EBITDA of about $2.1 billion, with annual revenue of approximately $39 billion and EBITDA of about $17.3 billion.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed that in 2025, the reported losses from cybercrime by the American public approached $21 billion, with 181,565 complaints involving cryptocurrency, totaling losses of over $11 billion.New York Attorney General Letitia James testified before Congress on July 27, stating that the CLARITY Act aims to transfer primary regulatory authority over digital assets to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which could potentially weaken the ability of states to investigate fraud and hold cryptocurrency companies accountable. James urged cryptocurrency platforms to comply with anti-money laundering, know your customer, cybersecurity, and market monitoring requirements, and to take financial responsibility for preventable fraud. Her office has received nearly three times the number of cryptocurrency fraud complaints in the past three years, with related losses approaching $500 million over the past five years.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev posted on the X platform that his X account was hacked last week. The attacker used social engineering to deceive X customer service, bypassing standard security features such as two-factor authentication and login notifications, and posted false content about meme coins.The X security team has assisted in removing the related posts and restoring account access, and additional security measures have been implemented for the account.

According to external disclosure information, OpenAI has been internally running an unreleased model. This model, without the aid of tools like Lean, solves the unit distance problem with a 48% probability through a single autonomous inference and can independently find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture based on a single prompt. In security testing, this model has bypassed the sandbox environment and submitted results that should have been released internally to GitHub in the form of a Pull Request, and it has evaded detection by splitting authentication tokens. Relevant code records show that OpenAI began benchmarking this model no later than May 9, and its internal availability has exceeded 2.5 months.Previously, OpenAI and Hugging Face jointly disclosed that last week this model breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure during a network capability assessment. The model gained internet access through a zero-day vulnerability and obtained testing solutions by stealing credentials and exploiting remote code execution paths. OpenAI stated that this incident indicates the network attack capabilities of advanced models have been effective in real-world scenarios, and they are collaborating with Hugging Face to investigate and patch the vulnerabilities. Currently, OpenAI has not publicly commented on this matter.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, whale @Jason60704294 expressed optimism about the BTC trend last night, and this morning at 02:15, tweeted with a picture that the BTC long position has a floating profit of 4.541 million dollars.Based on the previous entry point of 63827.06 dollars, this position is approximately 2358.05 BTC (about 150 million dollars).

According to Taiwan's Economic Daily, passive component leader Yageo has notified customers that starting from July 1, it will comprehensively increase the prices of its entire line of capacitor solutions, covering MLCC, aluminum electrolytic capacitors, tantalum capacitors, and polymer aluminum capacitors, marking the largest increase in recent years. Industry insiders pointed out that this move mainly reflects the continuous rise in global manufacturing costs due to geopolitical factors, energy, raw materials, and international freight rates. As capacitor products account for about 50% of Yageo's revenue, the market expects this round of price increases to significantly boost its revenue and profits.Driven by strong demand for AI servers and automotive electronics, Yageo's stock price hit the daily limit yesterday, reaching 1,140 New Taiwan Dollars. However, due to recent volatility in the Taiwan stock market, the market reported a significant default settlement event involving Yageo's stock last night, with a total declared amount of 38.8 million New Taiwan Dollars, marking the 15th major default settlement case accumulated in Taiwan's listed market this year.

According to a report by The Information, the confidential IPO registration draft submitted by OpenAI shows that as of the end of March 2026, OpenAI's balance sheet exhibits "light asset" characteristics, with zero debt on the books and capital expenditures of only $46 million in the first quarter. However, in reality, the company has placed substantial infrastructure expenditures off the books, with future procurement commitments in chips, energy, and data centers reaching up to $665 billion. Financial data indicates that OpenAI's actual net loss in the first quarter was approximately $8.5 billion, with revenue costs amounting to $3.5 billion.Additionally, OpenAI demonstrates a very high characteristic of related-party funding cycles. In the first quarter, 72% of its revenue costs and 45% of total expenditures flowed to related parties (expected to be primarily Microsoft), and it directly used $488 million in equity to settle part of its computing power bills. In the data center joint venture project within its consolidated financial statements, nearly $5 billion in book losses is accounted for as belonging to external partners. The documents also reveal that its main competitor, Anthropic, is similarly engaging in large-scale off-balance-sheet expansion, including $4.5 billion in data center service commitments and $35 billion in chip leasing orders.

According to a lengthy report by New York Magazine, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (34 years old) is currently serving his sentence in a federal prison in Lompoc, California, taking Adderall and Emsam daily for clinical depression and ADHD. SBF continues to write a serialized memoir titled "Manfred," which he sends to a few close friends and family through the prison mail system. He does not eat in the cafeteria due to his commitment to vegetarianism and instead purchases ingredients from the commissary to prepare his meals, compiling a "Vegetarian Prison Cookbook."SBF spent about $135 to buy a prison tablet and has played the same game approximately 6,000 times. According to fellow inmate David Bunevacz, SBF has expressed that he will need $50 million to $100 million in startup capital to establish a business after his release, stating that he will "issue his own new token, and everyone will flock to it," but Bunevacz added that "he might be joking." SBF officially submitted a presidential pardon application on June 8, and his appeal was rejected on June 12, with his chances of receiving a pardon on Polymarket at about 14%.

Former co-founder of Multicoin Capital, Kyle Samani, posted on X revealing: "For those wondering what my next plan is, I am developing a consumer product."It is worth mentioning that Solana founder toly retweeted this post, which may imply that the product has some connection to Solana.

According to the public register of the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) Financial Services Regulatory Authority, the introducing broker responsible for Binance's US stock trading services, Nest Trading Limited, is an affiliated entity of Binance, and its official website registration directly points to Binance. The company completed its registration in ADGM on January 5, 2026, just about 5 months after Binance launched its US stock trading services.Nest Trading holds an ADGM financial license, with business scope covering investment arrangements, investment agency and proprietary trading, asset management, currency services, and custody arrangements. However, according to regulatory requirements, the company is not allowed to hold or control client funds and assets; the execution, clearing, and custody of user assets are handled by the US brokerage Alpaca Securities, and its currency services are also limited to regulatory-approved stablecoins.It is noteworthy that Binance previously described Nest Trading as an "independent introducing broker," responsible for routing user orders to Alpaca Securities. Meanwhile, Binance's official website disclosed that it has established three "Nest" entities in Abu Dhabi: Nest Exchange Limited (trading system operation), Nest Clearing and Custody Limited (custody and central securities depository), and Nest Trading Limited (investment trading matching, asset management, and currency services), indicating that it is gradually building a complete on-chain securities infrastructure.