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Odaily News: MetaMask on Thursday launched the self-custodial wallet Agent Wallet, which allows AI agents to execute on-chain transactions within user-defined limits. It targets traders and developers who use AI agents to monitor markets, identify opportunities, and execute trades autonomously. Users can set spending limits, approve specific protocols, choose risk settings, and select between Guard Mode and Beast Mode for different levels of automation. Agent Wallet supports Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Hermes, OpenCode, as well as Hyperliquid and Ethereum Virtual Machine-compatible networks. Agent Wallet supports gas abstraction, allowing users to pay network fees using the asset being transferred, without needing to hold the network's native token. MetaMask stated that supported transactions will undergo transaction simulation, threat scanning, and smart transaction MEV protection. Eligible transactions that still incur losses after passing security checks may be covered by Transaction Protection of up to $10,000 per month.
Odaily News Stablecoin issuer Tether has announced that its asset tokenization platform Hadron will provide real estate asset tokenization technology for institutional investors in Saudi Arabia, bringing traditional real estate assets on-chain.Tether stated that it will collaborate with local Saudi partner First Data and fintech company BKN301 to provide institutional clients with infrastructure support for the issuance, management, and digitalization of real estate assets. In the future, this model could expand to other real-world asset (RWA) sectors such as energy and infrastructure financing.This move is Tether's latest initiative to expand from its stablecoin business into the real-world asset tokenization space. Tether launched the Hadron platform in 2024 to streamline the asset tokenization process, and is currently one of the world's largest issuers of tokenized gold assets, with its gold token XAUT reaching approximately $2.6 billion in size.In recent years, banks and asset management institutions have been exploring the tokenization of traditional assets such as money market funds, private credit, real estate, and equities on blockchain to improve settlement efficiency, broaden investor reach, and optimize capital utilization. Citigroup previously forecast that the tokenized securities market could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030.Saudi Arabia is actively exploring the application of blockchain technology in financial services, government, and supply chains as part of its economic diversification strategy under Vision 2030.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that with the digital transformation opportunities brought by Vision 2030, Saudi Arabia is an ideal market to demonstrate the value of the Hadron platform. (CoinDesk)
Odaily Odaily News: AI personal assistant startup Pally has announced the completion of a $5.2 million funding round, led by Cyber Fund and Y Combinator, with participation from Pioneer Fund, Founders Inc, 468 Capital, and angel investors. The company is valued at $30 million and primarily provides AI personal assistant services through an SMS interface. Pally was launched in 2025, with its latest version released in June, and can sync with platforms such as Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Granola, and Notion. After user authorization, Pally can book flights, manage inboxes, reply to messages, and reserve restaurant tables. Pally uses Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, as well as open-source models such as Kimi K3 and GLM 5.2. Co-founder Haz Hubble stated that the company will not sell user data or use related data to train models. (Business Insider)
Odaily News: US Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott stated that the CLARITY Act, which addresses cryptocurrency market regulation, will face a vote before the congressional recess — "there is no doubt it will come to a vote."In an interview with Fox News, Scott said the Senate may extend its working hours beyond the next two days to advance progress on related legislation. He noted that Republicans are building consensus on the bill internally and believe that establishing a crypto regulatory framework "serves America's interests."Tim Scott said: "We will get this done."The CLARITY Act aims to further clarify the US digital asset regulatory framework by delineating the respective oversight responsibilities of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in the crypto market. Supporters argue the bill would provide clearer rules for the industry and help the US maintain competitiveness in the digital asset space.Currently, the bill still faces disputes within Congress over consumer protection, regulatory authority, and market risk. If ultimately passed, it would mark a significant step forward in building the US crypto regulatory system. (Beincrypto)
The Ethereum Foundation (EF) is globally recruiting Protocol Security Researchers (Remote Full-time), a role within the Protocol Security team. The team is responsible for identifying and intercepting vulnerabilities before they reach mainnet, with work covering Execution Layer/Consensus Layer security reviews, AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, fuzzing, specification audits, and coordinating vulnerability disclosure. Candidates are required to have deep experience with the Ethereum protocol, be familiar with EL/CL specifications and client implementations, and be proficient in languages such as Go, Rust, Java, C#, Nim, or Python. There are no hard requirements on years of work experience, with technical depth being the core consideration.
Odaily News U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren stated that she supports advancing cryptocurrency-related legislation, but does not back the current CLARITY Act, arguing that the bill fails to adequately address key issues such as corruption, consumer protection, national security, and economic risks.Warren noted that the crypto industry needs a clear regulatory framework, but any regulatory approach must ensure investor protection and the safety of the financial system. She believes the CLARITY Act falls short in preventing conflicts of interest, safeguarding consumers, and mitigating potential systemic risks.The CLARITY Act aims to further clarify the division of regulatory responsibilities for U.S. digital asset markets, establishing a clearer legal framework for crypto asset trading, issuance, and market participants. Supporters argue that the bill would enhance industry certainty and drive innovation.However, some Democratic lawmakers, including Warren, have previously expressed concerns about crypto regulation legislation, arguing that certain proposals could weaken regulatory authority and create regulatory arbitrage opportunities for large crypto firms.Warren has long maintained a cautious stance on crypto assets, focusing on consumer protection, financial stability, and risks related to illicit activities in the crypto market. Her latest remarks indicate that U.S. crypto regulation legislation continues to face contention between the two parties and various interest groups. (CoinDesk)
Rarible announced its official launch on Solana, featuring Claynosaurz as the platform's first highlighted NFT collection. In the coming days and weeks, Rarible will continue to onboard more Solana ecosystem NFT projects. Rarible stated that the team has spent the past several months on development, testing, and launch preparation, while also engaging with multiple NFT communities within the Solana ecosystem to understand the stories, cultures, and community needs of different projects. The feedback received has already influenced several current product decisions on the platform. Rarible noted that the previously launched Gacha Station on Solana was not a standalone feature, but rather an early attempt ahead of this launch. Rarible said that the current launch content is only a foundational version, and will continue to add projects, features, marketplace experience optimizations, content, and community activities in the future, working together with the Solana ecosystem to advance platform development.
According to Spark's official report, Spark Protocol released its financial report for the second quarter of 2026. Quarterly total protocol revenue reached $40.6 million (QoQ +29%), net protocol revenue $4.31 million (QoQ -38%), and net protocol surplus $710,000 (QoQ -79%). Distribution rewards became the largest net revenue source this quarter at $4.53 million, with sUSDS contributing $2.63 million to rank first. The average deployed capital of Spark Liquidity Layer (SLL) increased to $2.56 billion, but dragged down by narrowing DeFi lending spreads and capital costs from Spark Savings USDT market expansion, SLL net revenue recorded -$810,000, with the capture spread dropping from 0.64% in Q1 to -0.13%. SparkLend USDT balance reached $528 million at the end of the quarter, becoming one of the largest USDT lending platforms on Ethereum. The protocol treasury balance at the end of the quarter was $48.5 million, with $1.31 million worth of SPK token buybacks completed during the quarter. Despite facing spread compression pressure, the protocol remained profitable every month this quarter.
According to The Information, OpenAI has acquired some patent assets from AI chip startup Rain AI, following negotiations between the two parties regarding the acquisition that ultimately failed to close. Rain AI is a startup focused on AI chip research and development, founded approximately 8 years ago, with investors including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. The report states that due to the failure of the acquisition plan, Rain AI has nearly ceased operations recently, and most employees have left the company. This patent acquisition indicates that although some companies personally invested in by Altman may have business collaborations with OpenAI, this does not mean that all invested companies will receive direct support from OpenAI. Rain AI was previously dedicated to developing specialized chips for artificial intelligence computing, hoping to reduce AI model operating costs through customized hardware and enhance edge computing capabilities. As competition in AI infrastructure intensifies, chips, computing power, and energy have become core strategic resources for large AI companies. Industry insiders believe that OpenAI's acquisition of Rain AI's relevant patents may be aimed at absorbing its technical assets to strengthen its own positioning in the fields of AI hardware and computing infrastructure.
Western Digital Chief Product Officer Ahmed Shihab published a long article pointing out that as AI infrastructure expands rapidly, the core competition in the storage field should not be simply reduced to a contest between Flash and Hard Disk Drives (HDD), but lies in whether an AI storage architecture with long-term economic scalability can be built. The AI industry is currently facing a key question: whether the storage architecture chosen this year can support future data scale growth to the PB level or even the EB level. Many AI infrastructure designs do not fail due to insufficient performance, but fall into cost dilemmas after data scale expands. Ahmed Shihab added that Flash and HDD are not in a competitive relationship, but are complementary technologies for different workloads. High-performance scenarios, such as model weights, GPU spillover, KV cache, etc., require low-latency Flash support; while long-term storage needs such as training datasets, logs, checkpoints, compliance records, and large-scale historical data are more suitable for adopting HDDs with cost advantages. Storage architecture in the AI era will be more layered, rather than relying on a single storage medium. "Flash handles performance at critical moments, HDD handles data lifecycle. The direction of future AI storage development is not 'Flash replacing HDD', but precise layering based on different data lifecycles and business requirements." "True infrastructure is not about pursuing dazzling performance, but a reliable foundation capable of supporting long-term AI growth." US stock market trends show, Western Digital
Odaily News: According to market sources, the Optimism Foundation has announced its OP supply plan, projecting the addition of 343 million tokens over the next year,
Odaily News: AI-native startup studio Inevitable AI Group (IAIG) has announced the completion of a $6 million Pre-Seed funding round, led by Aleph. IAIG plans to leverage artificial intelligence to reshape the software development model, building and launching dozens of AI-native SaaS companies.IAIG was founded by tech entrepreneurs Nimrod Lehavi and Ofer Bar-Or. The company's core philosophy is that with the rapid advancement of AI technology, small teams can develop, launch, and scale software products more cost-effectively and efficiently. Since its inception in January this year, IAIG has incubated and launched five companies, with plans to roll out dozens of AI-native software projects by the end of the year. The company focuses on software sectors with validated market demand, using AI to enhance product efficiency, accessibility, and pricing competitiveness. (Financewire)
Odaily News Jiaxian Communication related personnel responded to Tongyu Communication's clarification announcement, stating that in March 2026, NVIDIA's AI-RAN technical team visited Jiaxian Communication, and both parties exchanged views on the AI-RAN technology roadmap. During the exchange, NVIDIA recommended that Jiaxian Communication use the CUDA Aerial open-source platform for AI-RAN base station system R&D. Since then, Jiaxian Communication has initiated pre-research and validation of AI-native 5G and 6G base station technologies based on the CUDA Aerial ecosystem, and related work has been steadily progressing for nearly six months.The aforementioned personnel stated that both parties have now established a regular technical working group to maintain communication on related technology R&D and validation. More than ten technical personnel from NVIDIA, from regions including Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore, are participating in the working group. (Jiemian)
Odaily News: Bitcoin's BIP-110 will enter the enforcement phase after block 961,632, where nodes will reject blocks that do not signal support. Monitoring page data shows that among the 1,674 blocks counted in the current cycle, only 41 blocks support BIP-110, putting the miner signal support rate at 2.45%. BIP-110, officially named "Reduced Data Temporary Softfork," plans to tighten certain data rules in Bitcoin transactions within approximately one year, restricting the size of certain data elements used by Ordinals inscriptions and multiple token protocols. The proposal is primarily distributed through Bitcoin Knots, and Bitcoin Core has not adopted it. Major mining pools such as Foundry, Antpool, F2pool, and Viabtc have not issued support signals. If BIP-110 nodes execute as planned, the network could see two transaction histories, with the majority of miners and Bitcoin Core users expected to continue using the existing rules. Australian Bitcoin exchange Hardblock stated that BIP-110 activation is expected around August 7-8 and may temporarily suspend buying, selling, deposits, and withdrawals. Lightning Network tools and analytics provider Amboss has warned of a fork risk in early August, and Australian Bitcoin exchange Bitaroo plans to freeze deposits and withdrawals as the mandatory signaling deadline approaches.
Odaily News: AI research startup Mirendil has entered into a multi-year partnership agreement with Google Cloud to secure large-scale computing resources in support of its "Self-Improving AI" research and development. Under the agreement, Mirendil will gain access to TPU and NVIDIA GPU computing resources provided by Google Cloud, as well as managed AI training clusters, to develop AI systems capable of continuously optimizing their own capabilities. It is reported that Mirendil is focused on advancing "Recursive Self-Improvement" AI, in which AI systems enhance their own performance through iterative refinement, self-learning, and optimization. This direction is also a research area of interest among some of the top AI laboratories today.Benham Neyshabur, co-founder and CEO of Mirendil, revealed that the total value of the agreement exceeds $100 million, roughly equivalent to half of the $1 billion valuation seed funding round the company completed at the end of June. (TechCrunch)
According to Bloomberg, AI company Anthropic announced a partnership with global hedge fund giant Millennium Management to jointly develop an AI-powered risk analysis tool and expand the application of Anthropic Claude models within the fund. According to statements from both parties, Anthropic engineers will collaborate with Millennium's technology and risk management teams to build a digital AI risk analysis tool that will assist human risk managers in making investment decisions, extract new risk insights across asset classes, help the team enhance risk identification capabilities, and provide support for portfolio management through automated analysis of complex market data.
Odaily News: According to the official page, Robinhood has listed CASHCAT.
Odaily News Tether officially announced that its asset tokenization platform, Hadron by Tether, has reached a strategic partnership with Saudi fintech company First Advanced Data for Artificial Intelligence (First Data) and BKN301. The collaboration will leverage Hadron as the core technology platform to drive the tokenization of institutional-grade real estate assets in Saudi Arabia.Under the terms of the agreement, First Data will act as the issuer of tokenized real estate assets and manage primary market operations; Hadron will provide asset issuance, management, and full lifecycle infrastructure; BKN301 will handle banking system integration, payments, compliance, and operational integration. Tether stated that this project aligns with Saudi Arabia's "Vision 2030," and future business is expected to expand into other real-world asset (RWA) sectors such as energy and infrastructure.
Odaily News Russia's Moscow Exchange (MOEX) is preparing to launch a digital custody platform (digital depository institution) for cryptocurrency trading. Sources say the project is still in the development stage and is expected to go live as early as late 2026 to early 2027.It is reported that the digital custody platform will not be built on the foundation of the Moscow Exchange itself or its subsidiary, the National Settlement Depository (NSD), but will operate as a brand-new independent structure. As Russia's digital currency regulatory framework is expected to partially take effect on September 1, the market still lacks a clear solution for crypto asset custody and registration mechanisms. Several technical models are currently being discussed within the industry. One approach involves establishing multiple crypto asset liquidity hubs, where brokers can either connect to the Moscow Exchange's digital custody platform or conduct related business through their own digital custody systems. Another approach could see trading platforms handle order matching, while the storage and registration of crypto assets are completed by digital custodians under banks or brokers.Previously, several major Russian banks, including Sberbank, VTB Bank, T-Bank, and Alfa-Bank, have all expressed plans to launch digital custody services. With the Moscow Exchange entering this arena, competition among traditional financial institutions is expected to intensify, potentially driving further improvements in crypto asset services. (RBC)
Odaily News: Blockchain data analytics platform Arkham has announced support for the x402 standard, developed by Coinbase and governed by the Linux Foundation, enabling AI Agents to make real-time payments in USDC when calling Arkham APIs.Arkham stated that by combining Coinbase Agentic Wallet with the Arkham API, traders can allow AI Agents to automatically track fund movements of large on-chain holders, identify whale accumulation or distribution behavior, and analyze changes in wallet fund flows in real time.