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The decentralized spot and perpetual contract trading platform RISEx announced that on August 3, an unauthorized withdrawal occurred related to the RWA strategy associated with the XLP treasury, involving 673,011.56 USDC. This issue stemmed from a configuration error since the deployment on July 13. The team discovered and fixed it within minutes and has fully compensated XLP depositors using part of the fees generated in July, with no impact on user funds.RISEx stated that the platform, RISE cross-chain bridge, and XLP treasury all have withdrawal limit mechanisms in place, and this amount was below the threshold. The team has reviewed the relevant transactions and configurations, confirmed that there are no other similar issues, and is tracking the funds, attempting to contact the relevant addresses to request a return. A post-analysis report will be released later.

According to CoinDesk, American Bitcoin (ABTC), a Bitcoin mining company associated with the Trump family, announced that President and interim Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Matt Prusak will leave on August 4 to join AI and energy infrastructure company Giga Energy as Chief Business Officer and interim CFO.Prusak stated that after "years of building the Bitcoin business," he will shift to the upstream energy infrastructure sector, focusing on the current power supply issues that limit the development of Bitcoin mining and AI computing.American Bitcoin was co-founded by Eric Trump and supported by Hut 8, and it is a publicly traded Bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ. Prusak was previously responsible for driving the company's Bitcoin accumulation strategy, including expanding hash power and increasing the BTC holdings per share.Giga Energy, headquartered in Houston, primarily develops power equipment and AI data center infrastructure. The company stated that it has delivered over 6.5GW of power infrastructure and is developing over 500MW of AI data center capacity.Industry insiders believe that Prusak's transition reflects the accelerating migration of the Bitcoin mining industry towards the AI infrastructure sector. As competition in the mining business intensifies and profit margins are pressured, more mining companies are beginning to leverage their own power resources, land reserves, and data center capabilities to enter the AI computing infrastructure market.As large tech companies compete for power and data center capacity, energy supply has become a core bottleneck for the expansion of AI computing, and companies with the ability to integrate power resources are gaining more attention.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 100 BTC from BitMEX, worth approximately 6.34 million USD;Another wallet associated with the same person received 5.055 BTC, worth approximately 318,500 USD, totaling a withdrawal of 105.055 BTC, worth approximately 6.66 million USD.

According to The Block, the Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4 billion in transactions since May 2024 and serves as a hub connecting Iranian gambling websites, the Central Bank of Iran, and entities related to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.At least $676 million has been transferred from addresses associated with Shelbit to Binance, including approximately $540 million that was transferred after Dubai regulators fined the unlicensed exchange in January 2025. The report could not independently determine who controls Shelbit within the Iranian government, nor could it ascertain whether the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps directly operates the broader network.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Fidelity's associated wallet transferred 260,000 ETH (approximately $500 million) into three wallets, which were initially funded by Fidelity six months ago.The funds are divided into 95,000 ETH (approximately $183 million), 87,000 ETH (approximately $167 million), and 78,000 ETH (approximately $150 million).

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Fidelity-associated wallet transferred 260,000 ETH (approximately $500 million) into three wallets, which were first funded by Fidelity six months ago.The funds are divided into 95,000 ETH (approximately $183 million), 87,000 ETH (approximately $167 million), and 78,000 ETH (approximately $150 million).

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 on-chain analyst Emmett Gallic, Bitcoin addresses associated with Bitminter founder Geir Harald Hansen recently transferred 829 BTC, some of which had not moved for 8 years.Hansen's Bitminter was one of the early mining pools, at its peak accounting for nearly 10% of the Bitcoin network's hash rate, having mined a total of 208,232 BTC.

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 Caixin, Zhao Yao, a special researcher at the Payment and Clearing Research Center of the Financial Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated that recent offshore digital asset platforms have launched on-chain trading products around Chinese technology companies such as Changxin Technology. This indicates that global digital financial platforms are creating trading exposure around high-quality Chinese technology assets, organizing price expectations, trading liquidity, and cross-border capital entry in advance. Although these products do not correspond to A-share equity, they are synthetic perpetual contracts or pre-market perpetual contracts settled in stablecoins such as USDC and USDT. However, if offshore platforms take the lead in forming a continuous trading market for technology assets, it may weaken the pricing dominance of domestic capital markets over technology assets.Zhao Yao suggested accelerating the construction of digital financial infrastructure for the renminbi, promoting the coordinated development of tokenized deposits by commercial banks, wholesale CBDC, and tokenization of technology assets, and exploring pilot projects for technology asset tokenization in Hong Kong to enhance the capital organization capability and international pricing power of the renminbi in global technology financial competition.

The OKX Wallet officially launched the OKX social login wallet on July 21, 2026. Users can easily create and log in to the wallet using their social accounts, supporting Google, Apple, Email, and more. Up to 50 accounts can be derived, covering multiple mainstream public chains. Welcome to experience it.

According to SoSoValue data, the cryptocurrency market sector has generally rebounded, with the DeFi sector performing outstandingly, rising 2.28% in 24 hours. Among them, Hyperliquid (HYPE) increased by 3.55%, DeXe (DEXE), Uniswap (UNI), and Lido DAO (LDO) rose by 4.96%, 5.32%, and 11.80% respectively. At the same time, Bitcoin (BTC) rose by 0.80%, breaking through $65,000; Ethereum (ETH) increased by 1.88%, surpassing $1,900.In other sectors, the RWA sector rose by 2.02% in 24 hours, with Maple Finance (SYRUP) increasing by 6.13%; the PayFi sector rose by 1.00%, with Telcoin (TEL) increasing by 2.62%; the Layer1 sector rose by 0.62%, with NEAR Protocol (NEAR) increasing by 4.40%; the CeFi sector rose by 0.22%, with NEXO (NEXO) increasing by 1.85%; the Meme sector rose by 0.17%, with Bonk (BONK) increasing by 15.22%; the Layer2 sector rose by 0.04%, with Arbitrum (ARB) increasing by 2.14%.Only the SocialFi sector slightly declined by 0.96%, with Gram (GRAM) decreasing by 0.76%, but Chiliz (CHZ) rose by 3.06%.The cryptocurrency sector indices reflecting historical market trends show that the ssiDeFi, ssiRWA, and ssiDePIN indices rose by 2.38%, 2.14%, and 1.59% respectively.

Social Capital founder Chamath Palihapitiya stated on the X platform that the current cryptocurrency market, especially Bitcoin bulls, is facing two major issues: first, marginal liquidity is more inclined to flow into prediction markets and stock markets; second, the marginal energy used for Bitcoin mining, if reallocated to serve AI token-related demands, could be valued 10 to 20 times higher. Chamath noted that these changes appear to be structural, but there is also a possibility of misjudgment.In response, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said that the first point "seems more like a temporary phenomenon," while the second point may be more enduring. However, the computing power or energy flow used for Bitcoin mining does not directly determine Bitcoin prices, as the network difficulty will automatically adjust to maintain the same block production pace when miners exit. He also stated that, in the long run, Bitcoin prices reflect more of people's concerns about inflation, and there are no signs that the trend of democratic governments around the world continuing to expand fiscal deficits is coming to an end.

According to Cointelegraph, Consensys introduced a software developer earlier this year through a "reputable third-party service provider," who was later found to have connections to North Korea. The developer had approximately one month of access to the Consensys system under the alias Tyler Knapp.Consensys General Counsel Matt Corva stated that the developer was not an employee of Consensys but collaborated as a consultant. After discovering the threat, the company immediately terminated access and launched a comprehensive investigation, confirming that no assets or data were stolen, no malicious code was deployed, and user security was not affected. Consensys stated that it would reevaluate its practices regarding outsourcing engineering and development work.

According to Axios, Kevin McGurn, the interim CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group, stated that the company will launch a backend interface allowing financial services companies to pay for access to real-time data from Truth Social.McGurn mentioned that this is the company's first expansion of its media business into the data licensing field. The newly launched Truth API will provide customers with real-time access to content published by the top ten trending accounts on the platform.McGurn stated that customers willing to pay higher fees in the future will also gain access to more accounts' data. These accounts include important decision-makers who influence policy-making and geopolitical trends, such as former President Trump, the White House, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Dan Scavino, and U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, U.S. government-related addresses transferred 5,939 ETH to Coinbase Prime, worth $11.15 million.

According to CoinDesk, as the competition for tokenization in the capital markets heats up, the Securities Transfer Association (STA) recently submitted a letter of opinion to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), warning that stock tokens issued by third-party organizations may undermine market integrity and calling on regulators to prioritize support for tokenized securities authorized by publicly listed companies in future rule-making.The STA represents several Wall Street transfer agents, whose members believe that true tokenized stocks should be formally authorized by the issuing company and recorded in the official shareholder register, rather than created as "packaged" token products by independent platforms.The association pointed out that third-party stock tokens may confuse investors about the actual rights they hold and expose them to risks related to platform credit, custody, and operations, without establishing a direct legal relationship with the publicly listed company. Therefore, any innovative exemptions, pilot projects, or permanent regulatory frameworks for tokenized securities should prioritize the issuer-supported model.The STA also urged the SEC to reform the existing Direct Registration System (DRS), arguing that the current U.S. securities custody system is inadequate to meet the real-time transfer and settlement needs of on-chain securities, and suggested that regulators collaborate with the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) to optimize the digital securities infrastructure.Currently, the global market for tokenized stocks, valued at approximately $2 billion, is primarily dominated by third-party models, including products launched by Ondo Finance and Kraken, while organizations like Securitize and Figure adopt the issuer authorization model.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, the K3Capital associated wallet (0x4352...3b4f) withdrew 10,000 ETH from Binance, worth $178 million; Abraxas Capital withdrew 6,948 ETH from Binance and Bitfinex, worth $124 million.