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Polygon Labs announced that it has completed a SOC 2 Type 1 examination for the Polygon Open Money Stack API and dashboard, covering the security trust services criteria. The independent auditing firm Schellman & Company, LLC determined that Polygon has implemented appropriate security controls.SOC 2 is an auditing framework established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A Type 1 examination assesses whether the design of the control system is correct at the time of the examination, while a Type 2 examination is ongoing and will test the execution of relevant controls over several months of actual operation. The report states that complementary user entity controls are not necessary for Polygon to fulfill its service commitments.Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron stated that as a technology provider handling real funds, it is essential to meet the standards of financial institutions, and most crypto infrastructure has never been audited against this standard for systems actually integrated by customers. Type 1 confirms that the control design is correct, and Type 2 will confirm its daily operation.

According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the Solana ecosystem meme coin PLSTACIO briefly surpassed $12 million, currently reported at about $11.9 million, with an intraday increase of over 300 times.In terms of narrative, PLSTACIO originates from a character newly created by artist Marcello. Marcello is a meme artist and content creator, whose X account @Marcello_695 has about 6,500 followers, and has long been creating meme-style characters like Pepo, noting works such as Swassie and Spepo in his personal profile.Meme coin prices are highly volatile and can be easily influenced by social media commentary and market sentiment; please be aware of trading risks.

On August 21, 3D storage-computing integrated chip company Qianhe Yibang announced that its self-developed global first 4-layer 3D DRAM stacked storage-computing integrated chip successfully returned to the wafer and was powered on, marking the transition of this technology from validation to the engineering implementation stage. This chip adopts a three-dimensional integrated native computing architecture, with data access and storage bandwidth improved by an order of magnitude compared to traditional solutions, while access and storage power consumption, latency, and single data processing costs have all decreased by an order of magnitude.Qianhe Yibang was established in January 2024, incubated by NetEase, and recently completed over 2 billion yuan in Series B financing.

According to BBX data, yesterday global US stock, Hong Kong stock listed companies, and asset management giants disclosed the latest developments in digital asset injection, compliance trust listings, and institutional-level custody, with the core information as follows:ZeroStack received a $1 billion Memecore token injection: 0G Treasury Company ZeroStack Corp. (NASDAQ: $ZSTK) announced that Puple AI Inc. and Blockcat Pte. Ltd. have reached an agreement to inject a total value of $1 billion in Memecore tokens (M) into the company. In exchange, ZeroStack will issue 3,500,000 shares of common stock, as well as pre-financing warrants to purchase up to 36,198,293 additional shares of common stock (with an issue price of $25.19 per share, more than 12 times the recent market price).Grayscale advances Zcash Trust listing on the NYSE Arca market: Grayscale submitted the fourth amendment of the registration statement for Grayscale Zcash Trust (ZEC) to the SEC, intending to list it on the NYSE Arca market (code: ZCSH). After listing, it will support authorized participants to continuously purchase and redeem shares (previously traded only on OTCQX and not redeemable). As of June 30, 2026, the trust holds approximately 2.3% of the circulating supply of ZEC, with a net asset value (NAV) of approximately $155.2 million; additionally, a subsidiary of Grayscale's parent company DCG is negotiating to purchase trust shares with approximately 200,000 ZEC.OSL Group's enterprise-level stablecoin USDGO connects to Ceffu institutional custody: Hong Kong listed company OSL Group (00863.HK) announced that its compliant enterprise-level stablecoin USDGO has officially become one of the custodial assets of the institutional digital asset custody platform Ceffu. Qualified Ceffu institutional clients can now directly deposit, hold, and withdraw USDGO through their exclusive custody accounts.

U.S. President Trump stated that the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) may surpass that of the internet and anything humanity has ever seen, calling for enhanced regulation while avoiding restrictions on the development of the AI industry. Trump claimed that the U.S. currently leads the world in the field of AI, and the government should promote the construction of AI infrastructure, including accelerating the development of data centers and supporting power facilities.He noted that AI companies are building new power generation facilities to supply data centers rather than relying on outdated power grids. Trump also urged state governments and local officials to support AI data center projects, believing they will bring a large number of jobs, tax revenue, and investment. However, he also acknowledged that the AI industry faces public image pressure, as some regions are opposing due to the electricity consumption, water resource usage, and environmental impact caused by data centers.

Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali stated that the Satoshi Upgrade I hard fork has been successfully completed, and the network's level of decentralization has further improved with the launch of the new signer.Regarding Binance's "Observation Label," there are currently no concerns about delisting risks or liquidity, but we still need to wait for the next round of formal assessment.

According to The Elec, Samsung Electro-Mechanics' investment schedule for semiconductor glass substrates has been delayed due to bottlenecks in the reliability assessment of customer prototypes. As a result, the construction schedule for the production line of GlaSSEM, the glass core joint venture between Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Dongyu Fine Chem, has also been postponed, and the timeline for ordering related equipment has become uncertain.The report states that GlaSSEM has failed to communicate the equipment order schedule to its partner manufacturers. Previous orders have been postponed from December last year to March and June this year, and this has happened more than three times. After June, no further schedule guidance has been provided. Industry insiders believe that the main reason is that global communication semiconductor customers have not passed the reliability assessment certification for glass substrate prototypes. Samsung Electro-Mechanics is still producing prototypes at its Sejong plant, and most of the suppliers for key processes required for building the mass production line, such as deposition, etching, laser drilling, and inspection, have already been selected.Since the prototypes need to be remade and resubmitted, the originally planned investment schedule will inevitably be further delayed. Samsung Electro-Mechanics had set a target for mass production in the second half of 2027 when establishing GlaSSEM earlier last month, but during last month's financial report meeting, this timeline was adjusted to 2028, and now the mass production time is expected to be further postponed.

The 10-Q document submitted by 0G Treasury Company ZeroStack to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows that as of June 30, the company had a cash balance of $2.6 million, a working capital of negative $600,000, a cumulative loss of $339.1 million, and confirmed a fair value loss of $82.5 million on digital assets, expecting a net loss of $61.3 million in the first half of 2026.The financial report indicates that as of June 30, ZeroStack held 75.1 million 0G (Zero Gravity) tokens, with a total cost of $163.3 million, but a fair value of only $15.2 million, representing a decrease of about 91% from the book cost. The company stated that its current operations mainly rely on 0G staking rewards and token sales, and its future financing ability will also depend on the price performance of 0G and market trading liquidity.Public information shows that ZeroStack is a publicly listed treasury company with 0G as its core reserve asset, and is not the official or development team of the 0G project. The company participates in the ecosystem through large-scale holdings and staking of 0G, and its operational status is highly correlated with the price trend of the 0G token.

AI infrastructure chiplet platform company TYLsemi announced the completion of a $43 million early financing round, led by Matter Venture Partners, with participation from Viola Ventures, GHOVC, Egis Technology, and others. The company launched a standardized chiplet portfolio covering IO interconnect, power management, and memory, and offers chiplet-based custom XPU design and packaging, as well as integrated supply chain services, claiming to reduce the time and cost of custom AI chips from architecture to mass production by up to 50%.The first batch includes TYL.IO for high-bandwidth interconnects such as PCIe, ESUN, and UALink, the TYL.Power integrated voltage regulation chiplet aimed at XPU, and the planned memory connection product TYL.Mem, providing custom AI silicon solutions for leading customers through the TYL.Forge full-stack platform.

Fluidstack, a cloud computing startup focused on AI computing power leasing Neocloud, announced that it completed an $830 million Series A funding round in January, with a valuation of $7.5 billion. The round was led by the Situational Awareness fund of former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, with participation from multiple investors.According to reports, Fluidstack builds infrastructure for AI laboratories, aiming to become the company that can deploy hundreds of gigawatts of computing power the fastest in the world.

According to a report by Reuters, informed sources revealed that the PayPal board believes the $53 billion acquisition offer from competitor Stripe and Advent International undervalues the company and faces regulatory and financing hurdles. The sources stated that PayPal has not formally responded yet, and the board is evaluating the trade-offs between the offer and the management's strategy to turn around the company, initially considering that the offer of $60.5 per share, while a premium over recent stock prices, does not fully reflect the company's future potential.The acquirers have secured approximately $50 billion in financing commitments from JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley, along with $17 billion in equity raised by Stripe and Advent, to support the $53 billion acquisition offer. If antitrust regulations are violated, the acquirers have considered remedies such as divesting the Braintree business to Advent. Block was initially involved but withdrew before the latest offer submission. Investors will be paying attention to PayPal's earnings report on July 28.

According to CoinDesk, hardware wallet company Ledger has launched an open-source toolkit called Ledger Agent Stack, which supports AI agents to interact with crypto wallets by reading balances, preparing transactions, and suggesting actions, with all transactions requiring user approval on Ledger hardware devices.Ledger stated that this release is the first step in its AI roadmap, aiming to integrate hardware-based security mechanisms into AI-driven crypto applications and to prevent autonomous agents from transferring funds or accessing sensitive credentials without human approval.

Starknet announced the opening of its privacy development stack to developers, launching a privacy SDK and privacy wallet API, allowing applications, wallets, and protocols to integrate private balances, private transfers, and related DeFi interaction features based on STRK20.

At the WebX 2026 conference held in Tokyo, Japan, B.AI announced the latest developments of its platform for global developers and innovators, focusing on showcasing its full-stack capabilities that encompass cutting-edge AI models, highly scalable APIs, and developer tools. B.AI is committed to lowering the application threshold of advanced AI technology, helping businesses and individual developers conveniently and efficiently access cutting-edge intelligence through continuous iteration of products and services. We sincerely invite partners from all sectors to visit the B.AI booth to learn more about the latest developments and explore AI-driven innovation opportunities together.

According to CoinDesk, Christian Lopez, head of blockchain and digital assets at investment bank Cohen & Company Capital Markets, stated that as investors rotate funds into other sectors and macro uncertainty continues to suppress risk appetite, the crypto IPO market has noticeably slowed down.Lopez pointed out that although the successful listings of Circle and Bullish had raised high expectations for crypto IPOs in 2026, the subsequent weakening of market conditions, declining trading volumes, and underperformance of some post-listing stocks have dampened enthusiasm for new issuances. Several crypto companies, including Kraken's parent company Payward, Consensys, Ledger, and Grayscale, have postponed their IPO plans, waiting for market improvement; however, Blockchain.com and FalconX are still advancing their listing processes.Lopez believes that the uncertain interest rate outlook and global deleveraging pressures are making investors more cautious about high beta assets like crypto. He expects that the window for crypto companies to go public may not substantially reopen until next year. Additionally, he stated that regulatory clarity is no longer the primary obstacle for crypto companies going public; rather, the ability to access capital and business diversification are more critical.

According to official news, Circle announced the open-source Agent Stack startup kit, allowing developers to integrate wallets, USDC payments, and on-chain operations into AI Agents, supporting mainstream AI Agent development frameworks such as OpenAI Agents SDK, Anthropic Agent SDK, LangChain Deep Agents, Mastra, Vercel AI SDK, and Google ADK.Circle stated that developers can directly clone example projects based on the framework they are using and start building AI Agent applications.

According to official news, N1 announced the acquisition of 01.xyz. This acquisition means that N1 now has a complete trading stack, the core members of the 01 team will join N1, and the 01 points will be fully recognized on the N1 platform.In addition, the N1 2.0 upgrade is about to be launched.

South Korean fintech company Toss announced a partnership with Optimism and Sunnyside Labs to jointly explore a stablecoin pegged to the Korean won.In the coming months, the three parties will conduct a proof of concept (PoC) test to assess the feasibility of building compliant blockchain digital financial infrastructure based on the OP Stack, providing technical validation for applications related to the Korean won stablecoin.

According to Bloomberg, the strategic Bitcoin reserve plan promoted by U.S. President Trump is facing legal and jurisdictional issues, with the core dispute being whether the U.S. Treasury has the authority to legally manage the reserve. Trump proposed the establishment of a strategic Bitcoin reserve early in his presidency, with the main funding source being Bitcoin already held by the U.S. government through criminal or civil forfeiture, along with a separate digital asset inventory.The relevant executive order also requires the Treasury and Commerce Departments to develop a "budget-neutral" Bitcoin acquisition strategy, meaning it should not increase taxpayer costs. However, informed sources say that discussions around the reserve have now shifted to whether it should be placed under the Commerce Department rather than managed by the Treasury. Another point of contention is whether the U.S. government can hold BTC "indefinitely" given Bitcoin's price volatility. White House spokesperson Liz Huston stated that the Trump administration is still evaluating the best structure for the strategic Bitcoin reserve and the U.S. digital asset inventory to fulfill its vision of making the U.S. a global center for cryptocurrency and cutting-edge technology.