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Bitcoin developer Chris Guida has reset the PoW change code written by Bitcoin developer Luke Dashjr in 2017 onto the recent Bitcoin Knots codebase. The code has not yet been scheduled for activation, and Guida stated that it serves as a contingency plan and is not an imminent fork. BIP-110 is a temporary soft fork proposal that aims to restrict arbitrary data embedded in Bitcoin transactions within approximately one year, including restoring the OP_RETURN 83-byte consensus limit. The proposal requires 55% miner signaling support, meaning 1,109 blocks out of 2,016 blocks, to achieve early lock-in. If the threshold is not met, the forced signaling window will begin at block 961,632, expected to occur around August 8 or 9. Nodes implementing BIP-110 will subsequently reject blocks that do not emit a support signal, with lock-in expected no later than block 963,648 and activation targeted at approximately block 965,664. As of 8:15 AM Eastern Time on August 7, 2026, the chain tip height is 961,425, with 207 blocks remaining until the forced window begins. Only 47 out of 1,818 blocks have emitted a BIP-110 support signal, with the current signaling rate at approximately 2.59%.
Odaily News, According to official sources, USDC has been natively deployed to X Layer, and OKX Wallet now supports native USDC on X Layer. Users can send, receive, pay, and conduct on-chain transactions with USDC directly within OKX Wallet, and leverage CCTP for 1:1 lossless cross-chain transfers, further improving the efficiency of cross-chain capital flows. Additionally, native USDC on X Layer can be directly used in on-chain applications such as DeFi within the X Layer ecosystem, helping users achieve seamless asset movement across multi-chain ecosystems.
Odaily News - Karia Samaroo, founder and former CEO of Canadian crypto company WonderFi, recently stated that the company's acquisition by US trading platform Robinhood Markets for CAD 250 million was not due to a lack of growth potential, but rather because Canada's market environment has restricted local tech companies from continuing to scale.Samaroo said that WonderFi was founded in 2021. After several years of development, the company consolidated Canada's fragmented crypto market, built a nationwide brand, and survived the QuadrigaCX collapse, the FTX crash, and Canada's strict crypto regulatory environment. By 2023, WonderFi had become a leading crypto platform in the Canadian market.However, he believes that succeeding in Canada was not the company's ultimate goal. WonderFi had originally hoped to grow into a global enterprise, and Robinhood saw WonderFi as a strategic gateway into the Canadian market, which led to the CAD 250 million acquisition. Samaroo pointed out that Canada has long faced structural issues that limit companies' ability to scale, including insufficient venture capital, weak public markets, regulatory fragmentation, and declining attractiveness of entrepreneurial returns.For the crypto industry, the challenges are even more pronounced. Samaroo noted that after the QuadrigaCX incident, Canadian regulators established one of the world's strictest crypto regulatory frameworks. While the original intent was to protect investors, it also increased operational costs for businesses. International trading platforms including Binance, OKX, Bybit, and Gemini all entered the Canadian market previously and then exited. He believes that Canada's crypto regulations are not only strict but also compounded by fragmented securities regulatory systems, leading to higher financing costs, increased operational complexity, and diminished interest from overseas investors.Samaroo said that WonderFi is not an isolated case—many Canadian tech companies have followed a similar trajectory: growing domestically until hitting market ceilings, then ultimately seeking overseas capital or strategic buyers. Shopify founder Tobi Lütke has also previously criticized Canada for repeatedly "nurturing important companies only to send them abroad." Restricting corporate sales can easily become a political statement, but the real key to solving the problem lies in building a business environment that supports companies in financing, expansion, and competing globally.Robinhood previously announced the acquisition of WonderFi for approximately CAD 250 million. This deal also reflects the accelerating consolidation in the North American crypto industry, as US platforms expand into other markets through M&A. (Fortune)
Sharplink CEO Joseph Chalom (former Head of Digital Assets Strategy at BlackRock) posted that the EIP-8363 "decreasing issuance burn" proposal currently being discussed in the Ethereum community will gradually reduce validator staking yields by about 2.75%, until yields reach zero when staking volume reaches about half of the total supply; validators will then rely solely on transaction tips, accounting for 15% of current yields, to maintain operations. Chalom strongly opposes this, listing four major reasons: 1. Harms DeFi: Staking yields are the benchmark interest rate for on-chain lending; cutting them will raise on-chain capital costs and compress the collateral value of liquid staking tokens (approximately $35 billion TVL); 2. Weakens institutional appeal: ETH's native productivity is a core advantage distinguishing it from BTC; EIP-8363 will erase this difference, affecting institutional capital inflows such as ETPs and DATs; 3. Destroys ecosystem capital circulation: Issuance rewards are not "leakage," but flow to node operators, client development teams, and ecosystem builders; burning them will cut off the return of capital; 4. Extremely poor timing: Top institutions such as Robinhood, BlackRock, and BNY have successively chosen Ethereum; on-chain stablecoin scale reaches $159 billion, RWA exceeds $15 billion; modifying the underlying economic logic at this moment carries extremely high risk. Chalom expressed support for ETH's long-term deflationary goal, but believes the existing base fee burn mechanism (EIP-1
Odaily News: Starknet announced the completion of a quantum-resistant signature transfer test. A wallet account using quantum-resistant signature mechanisms completed a real transfer on the Starknet mainnet, with transaction fees of approximately 6 US cents, and the transaction can be queried via a block explorer. This account is currently an experimental, unaudited version intended primarily for research and testing.StarkWare stated that this transfer was made possible by Starknet's account model design. Unlike most blockchains that fix the signature algorithm at the protocol layer, each Starknet account is a smart contract that can autonomously define which signature schemes it accepts. As a result, users can upgrade their wallets from traditional elliptic curve signatures to quantum-resistant signatures without a hard fork, without migrating assets, and without changing their addresses.StarkWare pointed out that most blockchains face quantum computing risks because both wallet signatures and the underlying verification systems rely on elliptic curve cryptography. Once large-scale quantum computers emerge, running Shor's algorithm could break the associated cryptographic systems. Currently, the Starknet ecosystem already supports a quantum-resistant signature scheme based on Falcon-512, which is part of the NIST post-quantum cryptography standardization framework. The relevant implementation has been advanced by ecosystem teams and organizations such as OpenZeppelin.
Bitget PoolX launches project 2U2.ai (2U2). Users can lock ETH or 2U2 to share 4.2 million 2U2 airdrop. Among them, the ETH locking pool airdrop total is 3.8 million 2U2, with an individual locking limit of 1,500 ETH; the 2U2 locking pool airdrop total is 400,000 2U2, with an individual locking limit of 35 million 2U2. The locking period is from August 7, 20:00 to August 11, 20:00 (UTC+8). Additionally, users with a positive net ETH deposit amount during the event can receive a 3% ETH interest rate boost coupon after the PoolX event ends; users participating in PoolX for the first time who meet the net deposit condition can receive a 12% ETH interest rate boost coupon.
Odaily News: Bitget PoolX has listed Lagrange (LA). Users can stake LA to share in an airdrop of 260,000 LA tokens, with a personal staking cap of 6 million LA. The staking window opens from August 7, 20:00 to August 12, 20:00 (UTC+8).
Odaily News: Bitcoin mining company and mining service provider BitFuFu has released its unaudited Bitcoin production and operational data update for July 2026. The company stated that during July, it strategically acquired additional future hash rate resources by selling a portion of its Bitcoin holdings, with this hash rate expected to come online in August. Combined with the hash rate resources acquired in June, BitFuFu anticipates its managed hash rate will recover to approximately 20 EH/s by mid-August.Additionally, BitFuFu's Bitcoin production in July totaled 112 BTC (40 from cloud mining and 72 from self-operated mining), with an average daily production of 3.6 BTC, both down month-over-month. Its Bitcoin holdings decreased from 1,671 BTC in June to 1,314 BTC. (WSJ)
The U.S. Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (CLARITY Act) failed to seize a critical advancement window before the Senate's summer recess, and the market is now focusing on whether the U.S. crypto industry can continue to develop even if the bill ultimately fails.Analysts believe that if the CLARITY Act fails to pass, it would be a significant setback for the crypto industry, but not a fatal blow. The bill was designed to clarify the boundaries between securities, commodities, and other categories of digital assets, determine the agencies responsible for overseeing related businesses, and grant the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) clearer regulatory authority over crypto commodity trading.Currently, the bill's progress has stalled, and the likelihood of comprehensive crypto market structure legislation being enacted before the end of the year is declining. This means the U.S. may still lack a clear digital asset regulatory framework, particularly regarding oversight of trading in major crypto assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH), where jurisdictional gaps remain between the CFTC and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).However, industry insiders point out that even if the CLARITY Act fails, the SEC and CFTC are still likely to continue advancing industry development through policy statements, regulatory guidance, and existing enforcement authority.In recent years, both agencies have issued multiple pieces of guidance clarifying the regulatory boundaries of business models such as crypto mining, Meme coins, and staking rewards. One of the most significant measures among these is the digital asset taxonomy framework, which seeks to establish standardized regulatory classifications for different types of digital assets. (CoinDesk)
Odaily News - Hyperliquid Policy Center (HPC) announced that it has submitted a policy statement regarding the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Agricultural Advisory Committee meeting, supporting U.S. users' participation in the on-chain derivatives market and calling on regulators to adopt a gradual path to promote the development of innovative products such as Perpetual Futures.HPC stated that the U.S. derivatives market originated in agriculture. In the 19th century, grain exchanges in the U.S. Midwest used futures contracts to help farmers and traders discover prices and manage future delivery risks. Since 1922, the U.S. futures market had been regulated under the Department of Agriculture for a long period, until Congress established the CFTC in 1974, placing oversight of the agency under the jurisdiction of the Senate and House Agriculture Committees. Modern derivatives regulation should still revolve around the actual users of the market. Agricultural producers and processors have always been important constituents served by the CFTC, and market participants' needs for product choice, risk management tools, and market innovation should also serve as important references for the evolution of regulatory policy.HPC noted that perpetual futures are now becoming an important innovative derivative in the digital asset era. The committee's discussions on product choice, risk management gaps, and market modernization are highly relevant to current regulatory efforts to explore a regulatory framework for on-chain derivatives. In the submitted statement, HPC put forward three key points:1. Market choice is crucial for risk management. Users in agricultural and other derivatives markets need more tool options. Past experience with restricting innovative products suggests that closing off market choices without adequate evaluation can impose costs.2. A phased approach by the CFTC to regulating perpetual futures is a reasonable direction. HPC stated that the development of new derivatives should be driven by end-user demand rather than relying solely on regulatory presuppositions.3. Public blockchains can enhance the efficiency of financial infrastructure. HPC believes that blockchain technology can modernize clearing and settlement systems, improve collateral liquidity, while continuing to comply with the Commodity Exchange Act's requirements regarding market integrity and risk protection.
Odaily News - Investment firm Bernstein recently released a report assigning different ratings to two major Bitcoin miners transitioning to AI infrastructure: maintaining an "Outperform" rating on CleanSpark with a price target of $24, and initiating coverage on MARA Holdings with a "Market-Perform" rating and a price target of $17.Bernstein analysts stated that the core reason for the valuation divergence between the two companies lies in their differing progress in executing AI infrastructure transitions. CleanSpark has already signed an anchor tenant agreement for an AI data center and commenced construction, while MARA is still awaiting its first commercial AI contract.Regarding CleanSpark, the company previously announced the signing of a 20-year triple-net lease agreement with a global high-investment-grade technology firm, covering 175MW of IT capacity at its Sandersville, Georgia project. The agreement also includes exclusive cooperation arrangements for CleanSpark's total 885MW asset portfolio in Texas. Bernstein believes that CleanSpark's collaboration with tenant-designated engineering and construction contractors helps mitigate risks associated with its first large-scale AI infrastructure deployment. The first data center hall is expected to become operational in the fourth quarter of 2027.In contrast, Bernstein's assessment of MARA is more cautious. Analysts pointed out that the first commercial AI contract will serve as a key catalyst for a re-rating of MARA's stock, noting that company management previously indicated expectations of signing at least two AI lease agreements by the end of this year. (The Block)
Odaily News: Coinkite, the manufacturer of the hardware wallet Coldcard, stated that it is currently focusing on assisting customers affected by the security incident and will release a post-mortem of the multi-day attack after the full investigation is completed. At this stage, it will not speculate on the scale of customer losses. Coinkite noted that due to the privacy-focused design of its products, the company cannot independently verify external estimates of the stolen amounts; recent external research has raised the relevant loss estimates to approximately $130 million.
据官方公告，Bitget 已上线 IPO 盘前永续合约 MOONSHOT/USDT，支持最高 10 倍杠杆及 7×24 小时交易。 据悉，月之暗面是中国人工智能研究与应用企业，以 Kimi 系列产品闻名，获得阿里巴巴、腾讯等机构投资，也是中国大模型赛道市场关注度较高的潜在 IPO 标的之一。
Odaily News: Coldcard stated that due to legal record-keeping obligations related to the security incident disclosed on July 30, the company has temporarily suspended the automatic deletion of customer data. Under its original policy, customer records were typically automatically deleted after 120 days, retaining only information such as email addresses and countries of residence. Currently, such records will be retained until further notice. Coldcard noted that customers may contact official support to request continued processing under the original data retention policy, and the company will resume the automatic deletion mechanism once permitted by law.
Bybit 今日新增 奥驰亚（MOUSDT）、易贝（EBAYUSDT）、Cipher 数字矿业（CIFRUSDT）3 个美股永续合约，最高支持 25 倍杠杆。上线同期享限时手续费优惠：限价单费率 0%，市价单费率 5 折。
Odaily News: According to official sources, Bybit has listed the MOONSHOTUSDT Pre-IPO perpetual contract, supporting up to 10x leverage.Moonshot AI, a top-tier domestic AI large model company, has officially launched on Bybit's Pre-IPO section. Moonshot AI is the parent company of the well-known AI assistant Kimi, and investors can now participate in pre-listing trading opportunities for this AI unicorn through Bybit.
According to Cointelegraph, Bridge Building, the Luxembourg entity of Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge, has officially joined the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) registry. Previously, on July 2, Bridge obtained Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization under the MiCA framework and an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license issued by the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission (CSSF). Bridge Head of Product Mai Leduc Blount stated that the aforementioned approvals will allow EU enterprises to build stablecoin and payment products within a compliant framework. According to the latest update from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Bridge's inclusion brings the total number of authorized Electronic Money Token (EMT) issuers in the EU to 42; during the same period, three institutions from Germany newly received CASP authorization, raising the total number of authorized CASPs in the EU to 324.
According to Bloomberg, Nomura Holdings economists Sonal Varma and Si Ying Toh released a research report noting that India, serving as a back-office service center for many global enterprises, is currently becoming a key sample for evaluating the impact of AI on the employment market. The report analyzed 69 cases in Asia (mainly covering the period from 2022 to August 2026), with conclusions showing that the growth rate of hiring for AI-related roles in India has currently exceeded the scale of layoffs and hiring freezes caused by AI. Nomura believes that, by virtue of its massive labor force, India is bearing the "largest absolute impact" under the AI wave and is the most representative "frontline" for observing the impact of AI technology on employment.
Odaily News: Bridge, Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure company, has joined the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) register through its Luxembourg entity Bridge Building, after receiving regulatory approval from Luxembourg. The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) update on Wednesday shows that with Bridge's inclusion, the number of MiCA-authorized electronic money token (EMT) issuers in the EU register has increased to 42. Bridge announced on July 2 that it had obtained the MiCA Crypto Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization and Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license from the Luxembourg Financial Industry Supervisory Commission. Bridge product lead Mai Leduc Blount stated that the approvals allow EU companies to build stablecoin and payment products within a regulated framework. The same ESMA update also added three new German CASP entries, including Volksbank Die Gestalterbank, VBU Volksbank im Unterland, and VR-Bank Erding, bringing the total number of authorized CASPs in the EU register to 324. Asset-referenced token (ART) authorizations remained unchanged, with no ART issuers currently listed.
According to BeInCrypto, a latest report jointly released by CoinShares and Token Terminal shows that over the past year (Q2 2025 to Q2 2026), the deposit volume of tokenized real-world assets (RWA) in the DeFi sector increased from $2.3 billion to $7.4 billion, a year-on-year increase of more than twofold, while total DeFi deposits declined by approximately 15% during the same period. The growth was primarily concentrated in yield-bearing products, including tokenized treasury bonds and multi-strategy funds (such as JTRSY, BUIDL, sUSDS), with Aave, Morpho, and Kamino providing the deepest liquidity. Meanwhile, on-chain RWA spot trading volume increased by approximately 220% year-on-year, while native crypto spot trading volume on decentralized exchanges fell by approximately 70%.