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Odaily News: The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated its Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) registration list on July 31, adding 12 new companies. This marks the fourth update since the July 1 transition deadline, bringing the total number of authorized Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASPs) under MiCA to 321. The newly added entities include three German cooperative banks—Volksbank Raiffeisenbank Oberbayern Südost, VR Bank Schleswig-Holstein Mitte, and VR-Bank Landau-Mengkofen—as well as Spain's Basque Pay and Fintech Payments, and France's Finary, Woorton, Blockchain Process Security, and Shares Financial Assets. ESMA has also added Cervo Rendisco, Flandenzo, and Corona Fondenza to its list of non-compliant entities, with the relevant flags coming from Italy's securities regulator, the Commissione Nazionale per le Società e la Borsa (CONSOB). The non-compliant entities list currently contains 167 entries. This update did not involve any other changes to MiCA-related registration lists. The number of authorized Electronic Money Token (EMT) issuers remains at 41, while the registration list for Asset-Referenced Token (ART) issuers currently has no entities.
Odaily News - According to official sources, OKX Jumpstart Lite will launch RE (Re Protocol) "Staking Rewards" from August 11, 2026, 15:00 to August 17, 2026, 15:00 (UTC+8). During the campaign period, users can subscribe by locking BTC, RLUSD, OKB, or RE, and share a total reward pool of 700,000 RE airdrop rewards.Additionally, users can subscribe in advance starting today, with rewards calculated from the official start of the campaign. Users can view and participate in the campaign via the "Jumpstart" entry at the top of the Explore page on the OKX App.
Odaily News: Bybit has announced the official launch of HYPEUSDT options contracts, further enriching the platform's derivatives product matrix.Launch schedule:- August 4, 8:00 UTC: Initial listing of HYPEUSDT options contracts with expiration dates of August 5 and August 7, allowing short-term traders to position quickly.- August 6, 8:00 UTC: Expanded listing of six additional expiration dates — August 8, 9, 14, 21, 28, and September 25 — covering a range of short-, medium-, and long-term strategy needs.- Starting August 7: HYPE options contracts will enter a regular rolling generation mechanism to continuously ensure liquidity and trading depth.HYPE is a highly watched asset in the recent on-chain ecosystem, characterized by significant volatility, making it well-suited for directional trading or volatility strategies via options. This launch provides users with more flexible tools for risk management and yield enhancement.
Reality, the licensed RWA issuance platform under Bitget, announced a deepened cooperation with US audit firm The Network Firm. Following the upgrade, The Network Firm will provide daily Proof of Reserve (PoR) audit reports for the US stock token rToken issued by Reality based on attestation standards established by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), aiming to verify that each issued rToken matches the corresponding stock or ETF assets in the custody account. The relevant underlying stocks and ETFs continue to be custodied by Alpaca Securities LLC, a US securities broker-dealer registered with FINRA and protected by SIPC, forming a transparent architecture with three independent parties: issuance, verification, and custody. The US stock token rToken issued by Reality currently supports 634 tokenized stocks and ETFs and is deeply integrated with the Bitget ecosystem, and can be used in core scenarios such as unified account margin and staking and lending. Previous data shows that the Assets Under Management (AUM) of Bitget stock token rToken exceeded $100 million one month after launch.
the official interface shows predict.fun has launched a prediction market for the rise/fall of the SSE Composite Index. Users can participate in daily markets predicting whether the Shanghai Composite Index will go up or down. Currently, the probability of the SSE Composite Index rising on August 6, 2026, is provisionally reported at 50%.
According to the official announcement, HTX listed the UNITREE/USDT perpetual contract on August 5, with a maximum leverage of 10x.
据 Bloomberg 报道，德国芯片制造商英飞凌科技（Infineon Technologies AG）于 8月 5 日发布季度业绩指引，预计截至 9 月的第四财季营收约为 47 亿欧元（约 54 亿美元），高于分析师平均预期的 46 亿欧元，超预期幅度约 2%。 公司表示，业绩提升主要受益于数据中心 AI 芯片需求持续攀升及产品价格上调。
According to NADA NEWS, the Japan Financial Services Agency announced on August 5 that it will officially establish the "Crypto Assets and Stablecoins Division" on August 7, placing it under the jurisdiction of the newly established Asset Management and Insurance Supervision Bureau. This organizational restructuring marks a substantive upgrade of Japan's crypto asset regulatory system—relevant functions previously dispersed among multiple affiliated bodies such as the "Crypto Assets, Blockchain, and Innovation Counselor Office" and the "Crypto Assets Monitoring Office" are now formally integrated into an independent division-level department. The newly established division comprises three sub-departments: the "Crypto Assets Monitoring Office" responsible for exchange supervision, the "Innovation Promotion Office," and the "Digital Payment Planning Office." The Financial Services Agency stated that this restructuring aims to address new challenges more precisely, such as the rapid development of digital technology in the financial sector and the strengthening of regulation over financial institutions.
According to Fortune, as Chinese open-source AI models such as DeepSeek V4 Flash, GLM-5.2, and Kimi K3 continue to make breakthroughs, the core conflict of the global AI competition is shifting from "US-China confrontation" to a contest of "open source vs. closed." DeepSeek V4 Flash's performance lags behind GPT-5.6 Luna by only one intelligence index point, but the cost per task remains 60% lower even after OpenAI's 80% price cut. US export controls on China were originally intended to restrict China's AI development, but instead compelled Chinese enterprises to innovate deeply at the algorithm architecture level, accelerating the rise of the open-source model. Currently, trends in the US tech industry are shifting; former "AI Czar" David Sacks and others publicly support the open-source route, and Anthropic has also softened its stance against open source.
Odaily News: Aave founder Stani Kulechov published a lengthy post stating that Ethereum's EIP-8361 progressive issuance burn proposal has systemic issues. The proposal aims to gradually burn consensus layer issuance rewards, reducing the net staking yield to zero when the total amount of staked ETH reaches 60.25 million, approximately 50% of the total supply. Stani Kulechov believes that the second-order ripple effects of this proposal have not been fully modeled and could damage the foundations of the Ethereum ecosystem across multiple dimensions. He stated that a zero-yield mechanism may exacerbate staking centralization, with home validators being the first to exit due to fixed costs such as hardware and electricity, while non-yield-driven entities like ETF issuers, exchanges, and corporate treasury funds will remain. MEV rewards, which are unaffected by the proposal, would also expand the advantages of top professional operators. He also noted that individual stakers could face tax and operational risks. If tax authorities calculate taxes based on the full issuance amount and classify the burned portion as a capital loss, home node operators could experience after-tax losses. With penalty standards for faults remaining unchanged, the node recovery period after a fault could be extended by up to 14 times as net yields decline. Stani Kulechov stated that staking yields serve as the pricing benchmark for on-chain ETH interest rates. A decline in yields could cause DeFi lending and fixed-income markets to lose their pricing anchor, potentially driving on-chain capital toward stablecoins offering 4% to 5% annual returns. For institutional investors, predictable yields are a core competitive advantage of ETH relative to BTC. If yields fall to zero while volatility increases, ETH's differentiation in the store-of-value track would diminish. He also pointed out that after the proposal is implemented, MEV's share of total validator revenue could rise from the current 7% to nearly 30%, potentially incentivizing operators to prioritize relay nodes that support censorship, thereby weakening Ethereum's credible neutrality. If an MEV burn mechanism is subsequently added, validator revenue could be nearly eliminated. Stani Kulechov suggested that the proposal's authors release after-tax yield assessments for individual node operators, tax opinions from major jurisdictions, and cascade risk models for the DeFi ecosystem, while setting a non-zero net yield floor. He believes that staking centralization should be addressed directly with targeted measures, rather than by suppressing validator yields across the board.
According to CNBC, Joel Shulman, co-founder of investment firm ERShares, stated that if xAI successfully deploys data centers in space, its AI model Grok could establish a competitive moat stronger than those of Anthropic and OpenAI. Shulman believes that xAI's strategic layout combining artificial intelligence, aerospace infrastructure, and satellite communications could create a unique advantage. In the future, space computing infrastructure may become a new direction for AI competition, enabling xAI to gain long-term barriers distinct from traditional AI companies. Meanwhile, Joel Shulman is more bullish on SpaceX than Tesla, believing that SpaceX has greater development potential in the fields of commercial aerospace and satellite communications, and remains optimistic about the company's long-term value. As demand for AI computing power continues to grow, companies capable of mastering energy, computing infrastructure, and data transmission networks may gain an advantage in the next stage of AI competition.
Eliza Labs founder Shaw Walters announced the official "death" of the ai16z/ElizaOS token, and the relevant foundation will close. This stems from a class-action lawsuit initiated by the law firm Burwick Law on behalf of holders. Unable to bear litigation costs, the foundation chose to settle and pay out all remaining treasury funds. Shaw stated he never sold ai16z tokens or profited from them, receiving only a base salary equivalent to engineers, and is currently living off savings. He emphasized he will continue developing Eliza's underlying technology but clearly stated no tokens will be associated with Eliza going forward. He advised holders to dispose of their tokens independently, as the foundation will not provide any buyback support.
predict.fun announced on X platform that it has launched a new market, predicting which tokens CZ's public wallet will buy before October 2026.
据官方公告，Upbit 将上线 GRVT 韩元、BTC 及 USDT 交易对。
According to The Paypers, embedded investment platform InvestiFi announced the completion of a $20 million financing round, led by Vibe Credit Union, with participation from BankTech Ventures, Idaho Central Credit Union, Navari (formerly CUSG), United Financial Credit Union, Coastal Credit Union, Mid Minnesota Credit Union, Truity Credit Union, and Southpoint Credit Union. The InvestiFi platform enables credit unions and community banks to offer digital investment services directly within their existing online banking environments, covering features such as fractional share investing in stocks and ETFs, guided investing, IRA retirement accounts, cryptocurrency trading, and stablecoins. Its feature within a core patent application, "direct investing from checking accounts," allows users to complete investment operations without transferring funds to external brokerages.
According to the official announcement, Bitget has listed 5 stock and ETF perpetual contracts: PEP (PepsiCo), BKNG (Booking Holdings), SSPC (2x Short SPCX ETF), SPCH (2x Long SPCX ETF), and GFS (GlobalFoundries). The above contracts are all settled in USDT, supporting up to 20x leverage and 7×24 hour trading. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
According to monitoring by blockchain security company SlowMist (@SlowMist_Team), its threat intelligence system MistEye detected a large-scale npm supply chain attack targeting the Keyv/Cacheable ecosystem. The attackers published over 2,000 malicious package versions in total, involving core components such as [email protected]. As a widely used key-value storage abstraction library, Keyv supports multiple backends including Redis, SQLite, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB, with weekly downloads reaching approximately 127 million, posing significant downstream supply chain exposure risks. This attack method is highly similar to the previous Shai-Hulud npm worm activity, characterized by high automation and scale. Potential risks include credential theft, environment variable leakage, CI/CD key leakage, remote payload delivery, and lateral penetration. SlowMist recommends security teams immediately investigate and remove affected package versions, upgrade to verified secure versions, review dependency lock files and build logs, monitor suspicious outbound connections, rotate exposed credentials, and rebuild relevant environments from trusted sources if intrusion is suspected.
According to TechFlow Research, Palantir's Q2 revenue was $1.95 billion, up 93% year-over-year, beating market expectations by 7%, with the after-hours stock price rising 15% following the earnings release. U.S. commercial business grew 150% year-over-year, accelerating further from 133% in the previous quarter. U.S. government business grew 90% year-over-year, also higher than 84% in Q1. Average revenue from the top 20 customers was $124 million (up 67% year-over-year), total contract value was $2.1 billion (up 118% year-over-year), and net revenue retention rate was 157%. Goldman Sachs raised its 12-month price target from $183 to $204, maintaining a Neutral rating, implying approximately 62% upside potential. Goldman Sachs believes enterprise AI deployment is shifting from single models to multi-model combinations, and sovereign AI demand is creating incremental opportunities. Palantir helps enterprises embed AI into workflows while retaining data control, and this positioning could become a growth catalyst for the next phase. Goldman Sachs also raised revenue forecasts for 2026 to 2028, with main concerns being that commercial business growth may slow down during a macro downturn.
Currently, Hollywood giants such as Disney, Universal, and Warner Bros. Discovery have filed lawsuits against MiniMax for unauthorized use of copyrighted content to train AI models. The U.S. court rejected MiniMax's application to withdraw the lawsuit in May this year, and the case is currently under review. H3 officially released model weights on August 3, supporting the generation of videos up to 15 seconds long with 2K resolution, and ranks first on the video editing leaderboard of the benchmark platform Artificial Analysis.
Binance will open 10 bStocks trading pairs, including Astera Labs (ALABB), ASML (ASMLB), AST SpaceMobile (ASTSB), BitMine Immersion Technologies (BMNRB), Coherent (COHRB), Credo Technology (CRDOB), IREN (IRENB), Netflix (NFLXB), Super Micro Computer (SMCIB), and USA Rare Earth (USARB), on August 5, 2026, at 20:00, simultaneously supporting spot algorithmic trading bots and Binance Convert zero-fee trading.