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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%.
Odaily News: According to official sources, OKX Dual Currency Investment has now added support for five tokenized stock products — xSKHY, xGOOGL, xAMD, xMETA, and xEWY — and the relevant products are now open for subscription. Users can go to "Explore > Dual Currency Investment" in the App to select the relevant products and choose a strategy to subscribe.It is reported that OKX Dual Currency Investment had previously launched multiple tokenized stock products. The addition of these 5 new products further expands the coverage of its tokenized stock offerings.
According to EU-Startups, Cyprus-based enterprise AI customer service company Omilia announced the completion of a €58.1 million (approximately $67 million) Series B financing round led by Expedition Growth Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate business expansion in North America and globally, with plans to open its first U.S. office in the second half of 2026. Founded in 2002, Omilia focuses on providing self-learning agent CX solutions for enterprise call centers using its proprietary voice AI technology, and the platform supports compliance standards such as FedRAMP, PCI-DSS, SOC 2, HIPAA, and GDPR.
据期权分析师 [email protected]（@BTC__options）发布的 8月 7 日期权交割数据，3.2 万张 BTC 期权到期，Put Call Ratio 仅为 0.26，最大痛点 64,000 美元，名义价值 20.6 亿美元；17.7 万张 ETH 期权到期，Put Call Ratio 为0.77，最大痛点 1,900 美元，名义价值 3.4 亿美元。 比特币自 5 月以来持续在 64K 附近震荡逾两个月，65K 上方为年初上涨成交密集区，当前热点不在加密领域，投机资金难以流入，方向或偏向下行。加密货币市场已历经 9 个月熊市，整体隐含波动率（IV）维持低位已逾一季度，若 Q3 仍无增量资金流入，市场存在潜在较大风险暴露的隐忧。
According to the official announcement, Huobi HTX listed KO/USDT, RDDT/USDT, and CASHCAT/USDT perpetual contracts on August 7, supporting 1-10x long and short trading. Meanwhile, from now until August 11, 15:00 (UTC+8), Huobi HTX is launching a new token contract trading competition. Users who complete registration, participate in contract trading of participating tokens, and reach specified thresholds will have the chance to share a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX.
According to TechFlow Research, JPMorgan's August 6 research report cites LightCounting's latest forecast that the data communication market CAGR from 2025 to 2030 will reach 28%, with the scale increasing from $20 billion to over $70 billion. 1.6T products are the largest growth driver, with a CAGR of about 120%, contributing about $40 billion by 2030. After the NPO/CPO market is included in the addressable market calculation, it will exceed $18 billion by 2030, accounting for more than 25% share of the data center communication market. The telecom and data center interconnect market CAGR is 18%, reaching $9 billion by 2030. In terms of short-term financial reports, JPMorgan believes COHR has the highest earnings certainty, with revenue and profit margins expected to continue improving; market concerns over LITE are excessive, with valuation corresponding to only 22x 2028 EPS, leaving room to exceed expectations; FN needs September quarterly guidance to boost confidence. In terms of customer landscape, Google is expected to become the largest optical component purchaser by 2030, and Meta will lead NPO/CPO deployment. For Nvidia, short-term share rebounds to 25% due to 1.6T, but long-term share is expected to drop from 18% to 12%.
Odaily News - As a pioneer in tokenized stock innovation, multiple Gate gStocks have delivered standout performances in a single day. According to the latest data from Gate, the top three gainers in the gStocks tokenized stock sector are: Fluence Energy (FLNCG/USDT) surging 19.23% in 24 hours, now trading at $13.30; MiniMax (MINIMAXG/USDT) rising 15.38% in 24 hours, now at $43.89; and AXT Semiconductor (AXTIG/USDT) gaining 13.46%, now at $77.54. As market attention continues to heat up, Gate gStocks keeps expanding its global tokenized stock asset ecosystem, offering users more diversified opportunities for market participation.Gate gStocks employs a 1:1 fully-backed native stock reserve mechanism, where each tokenized security corresponds to an equivalent amount of native stock as underlying asset support. It also supports 7×24-hour trading, unified account management, and fractional share trading with a minimum investment of 1 USDT. Users can participate in global popular stock investments with greater flexibility, achieving one-stop allocation between digital assets and traditional securities. As the tokenized securities ecosystem continues to grow, Gate gStocks will keep expanding its offerings with more high-quality stocks and ETF targets, providing users with an even broader range of global asset allocation options.
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Volcengine officially launches the Seedance 2.5 API. Compared to Seedance 2.0, the new version demonstrates significant improvements in instruction following, long-form narrative, character consistency, human likeness, lighting and texture, and audio performance, natively supports direct generation of 30-second videos and up to 50 multimodal asset references, and is compatible with over ten languages.
According to the Financial Times, as Chinese companies continue to narrow the gap with top US artificial intelligence labs, ByteDance is training an AI model whose scale may approach Anthropic's most advanced Mythos system. According to three people familiar with the matter, the Chinese tech giant is currently in the early stages of training a super-large-scale model, with a parameter count potentially reaching the 10 trillion level, approximately three times that of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 model, the largest released model in China to date.
Odaily News, According to the official announcement, Gate's DEX infrastructure platform, Gate DexBuilder, has officially launched its first event contract Builder and initiated a $3 million funding program. It is now open to collaboration with global project teams, developers, communities, and Web3 applications to drive the development of the event contract market ecosystem.The event contract Builder aims to lower the barrier to entry for product development in this market, providing partners with integrated infrastructure services covering market creation, trading, liquidity support, settlement, and operational management. Through infrastructure services such as APIs and SDKs, partners can rapidly deploy branded event contract products without having to build underlying trading and settlement systems from scratch.Currently, the program is open for applications from brokers and integrated trading platforms, crypto wallets, Web3 applications, media and information platforms, AI Trading, AI Agent, quantitative trading platforms, as well as sports, esports, and entertainment products. Selected projects can receive up to $3 million in funding and ecosystem resources, covering product development, technical integration, liquidity building, marketing, and user growth.Jason Fung, Head of Gate DexBuilder and Head of Global Partnerships, stated that the development of the event contract market requires more application scenarios and infrastructure support. Gate DexBuilder hopes to lower the barrier to entry through the event contract Builder, helping more partners explore innovative applications in the event contract market. In the future, Gate DexBuilder will continue to open up its event contract market infrastructure capabilities, working hand-in-hand with global Builders to explore more innovative application scenarios and further promote the development of the market ecosystem.
According to official news from the decentralized stablecoin USDD, DeFi protocol Pendle has integrated PT-sUSDD into its PT Looping module. Users can complete looping operations with one click through the Pendle interface without the need for cross-platform operations. Currently, the looping APY for PT-sUSDD in the Morpho/USDT market can reach up to 20.87%. According to the introduction, the PT Looping module is based on the PT-sUSDD/USDT and PT-sUSDD/USDC markets on Morpho. This integration aims to significantly enhance capital efficiency for USDD holders, combining the fixed income and borrowing capacity of PT-sUSDD to form a robust yield portfolio. The official team reminds users to participate according to their own risk preferences.
The Moscow Exchange is preparing to launch an independent digital depository institution for crypto assets, with operations expected to commence by the end of 2026 or early 2027. The platform will not be affiliated with existing trading or national settlement depository systems and will operate as a standalone structure, with specific crypto asset accounting and custody solutions still under discussion.
Monitoring by the PPP Prediction Market Tool shows that in Polymarket's "When will the Strait of Hormuz resume normal navigation?" prediction market, a wallet with a 93% win rate (0xa52b785a5510117ac3ae03d75d029f89a36c9480) purchased positions worth $158,000 betting that navigation will not resume before August 15, with an average entry price of 98.6¢ and a total of 160,003.1 shares bought.According to US media reports, Oman has agreed to reach a framework agreement with Iran to temporarily reopen the Strait of Hormuz. However, the agreement has not yet been officially announced, and whether the US will support it still depends on the final details.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay ahead and seize the opportunity.
According to the latest trading data disclosed by Ark Invest, funds under Cathie Wood sold a total of 109,492 shares of Palantir (PLTR) on August 4 and 5, valued at approximately $17 million based on the latest closing price.Palantir previously reported second-quarter revenue of $1.94 billion, up 93% year-over-year, and raised its full-year guidance, driving the stock up nearly 30% in a single day after the earnings release. In addition, Cathie Wood has recently increased positions in Circle (CRCL), SpaceX (SPCX), and NVIDIA (NVDA), while reducing holdings in Shopify (SHOP) and Roblox (RBLX). (The Street)
Odaily News: Japanese Bitcoin treasury company Remixpoint has released its crypto operations performance report. As of July 31, 2026, the company's Bitcoin lending principal stood at approximately 1,501.27 BTC, with cumulative loan fees of about 12.44 BTC (approximately ¥133 million) earned from February to July. Additionally, it has staked approximately 901.45 ETH and 13,920 SOL, with total staking rewards amounting to roughly ¥28.89 million.
BIP-110 supporter Dathon Ohm stated that forced signaling for BIP-110 is expected to begin after approximately 290 blocks, equivalent to about 48 hours. At that time, miners must indicate readiness for BIP-110 through block signaling, otherwise relevant blocks may be deemed invalid and discarded. He also suggested miners and users upgrade to Bitcoin Knots nodes, and stated that continuing to run Bitcoin Core after forced signaling activates will pose security risks.