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According to official announcements, Ondo's tokenized U.S. Treasury yield note USDY (U.S. Dollar Yield Token) has now officially launched on BNB Chain, supporting instant minting/redemption and cross-chain bridging functionality. As a leading permissionless tokenized U.S. Treasury product, USDY's launch on BNB Chain, one of the largest and most active public chain ecosystems globally, marks the first time institutional-grade yield assets are accessible directly without permission. This launch is a significant step in USDY's multi-chain expansion, bringing yield-bearing USD asset exposure to millions of users and AI agents within BNB Chain's deep DeFi ecosystem, and achieving a dual improvement in capital efficiency and transaction speed through instant minting and redemption mechanisms. Users no longer need to bridge from other chains to directly hold yield assets backed by U.S. Treasuries within the BNB Chain native environment; for developers, USDY can also serve as high-quality collateral in on-chain lending, trading, and liquidity protocols, seamlessly integrating with BNB Chain native applications.
According to Bloomberg, AI cloud infrastructure company Volta Infra Holdings announced the completion of $300 million in venture financing, achieving a valuation of $2.4 billion, co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Altimeter Capital, with participation from NVIDIA and Michael Dell, founder of Dell Technologies. Additionally, Volta secured support from a $5 billion customer financing pool designed to help small and medium-sized AI enterprises lower the barrier to purchasing NVIDIA high-end chips. The company also disclosed it has signed a $10 billion, six-year cloud computing service contract with an unnamed leading AI developer. The contract will be fulfilled in partnership with Bitdeer, delivered via its 133 MW data center in Norway. Volta was co-founded earlier this year by former Brookfield Asset Management infrastructure executives Ricard Boada and Sofia Gumuzio. It has currently secured 1 GW of data center power resources and plans to develop new sites in Texas and Wyoming, aiming to deploy multi-gigawatt compute capacity before 2030.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC), the fourth-largest bank in the United States, announced it will launch tokenized deposit services for corporate and commercial clients this fall, becoming the latest major traditional bank to embrace blockchain technology. It is reported that the service will initially cover cross-border payment scenarios involving the US dollar and British pound. Customers can utilize digital tokens on the blockchain to enable 24/7 transfer, programmability, and real-time settlement of traditional funds, breaking through the time constraints of traditional financial systems.
According to the official announcement from Sequans Communications (NYSE: SQNS), the company released its preliminary financial report for Q2 2026 on August 4 and announced a gradual exit from its Bitcoin treasury strategy. The company continued to orderly reduce its Bitcoin holdings in Q2, holding 314 BTC at the end of the period, with a market value of approximately $18.4 million, a significant reduction from 1,514 BTC at the end of Q1; net gains from Bitcoin sales in Q2 amounted to $5.3 million. Meanwhile, with the full redemption of convertible bonds completed in May, the company officially entered a debt-free status, with cash at the end of the period reaching $20.97 million, nearly double the $10.6 million at the end of Q1.
: Evan Cheng, co-founder of Mysten Labs, the development entity behind Sui, stated that within the next four years, the scale of digital payments carried by Sui will be comparable to the combined scale of traditional internet bank card networks and bank payment rails. Mysten Labs was founded in 2021 by engineers who previously worked on Meta's discontinued Diem blockchain and the Move programming language. Cheng positions Sui as settlement infrastructure for stablecoins, remittances, and agent-to-agent commerce between AI systems. Since June 10, when Mysten Labs removed gas fees for stablecoin transfers at the protocol level, Sui has processed over $65 billion in stablecoin transfers. Since the beginning of 2024, Sui's cumulative stablecoin transaction volume has reached $2.27 trillion. Sui's Hashi testnet went live on July 22, allowing Bitcoin to be used as collateral for decentralized finance loans on Sui without being wrapped as a synthetic token. The bridge was built by Mysten Labs and the Sui Foundation in collaboration with more than 20 participating institutions.
According to official data from Gate, the platform's copy trading ecosystem continues to maintain strong growth momentum. In futures copy trading, the average daily number of new copy traders increased 191.0% month-over-month, nearly tripling; the average daily number of active copy trading participants grew 31.5%, daily futures copy trading volume increased 25.3%, and the proportion of copy trading in the platform's retail trading volume rose 23.0%. In CFD copy trading, the average daily number of new signal providers increased 58.7% month-over-month, with the signal provider ecosystem continuing to expand and user engagement heating up further.As the first platform in the industry to launch futures copy trading and CFD copy trading services, Gate has now pioneered a stock copy trading feature, becoming the world's first crypto platform to support stock copy trading. This feature applies the mature copy trading model to the stock market for the first time. After updating the Gate App to version V8.29.0, users can follow professional traders with one click and participate in US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, Korean stocks, and all-category ETF investments simultaneously, without needing to research complex trading strategies themselves, further lowering the barrier to global multi-market stock asset allocation.
According to the market weekly report released by market maker Wintermute (@wintermute_t), the macro and crypto markets experienced multiple shocks over the past week: On the macro level, the Federal Reserve maintained interest rates unchanged at 3.50-3.75% with a 9-3 vote. Officials Hammack, Kashkari, and Logan rarely voted together to support a 25bp rate hike, marking dissent at the second meeting since Chairman Warsh took office. The 30-year US Treasury yield once touched 5.24%, hitting a new high since July 2007, while the 10-year yielded 4.67%. The yield curve bear-steepened, indicating market doubts about the Federal Reserve's inflation credibility. On the stock market level, AI leveraged fund Situational Awareness (under Leopold Aschenbrenner) encountered margin calls due to leverage as high as 400%. Its size plummeted from $45 billion in early July to about $10 billion, forced to sell all public positions to Citadel at a discount. Long positions in AI infrastructure such as SK Hynix and CoreWeave fell sharply, partially explaining the reason for the continuous decline in chip stocks in July. On the crypto level, BTC fell 2.84% weekly and ETH fell 3.63% weekly, but Wintermute believes major sellers are nearly exhausted, and the painful trade direction has turned upward. ETH has outperformed BTC for two consecutive months,
据 The Block 报道，德克萨斯州州长 Greg Abbott 本周一下令要求公用事业委员会（PUCT）及电网运营商 ERCOT 对州内所有在队列中的数据中心项目展开审计，ERCOT 随即暂停了原定本月公布结果的"Batch Zero"大型用电审批流程。目前数据中心申请占 ERCOT 474GW 互联队列的约 90%。 Bernstein 分析师在周二发布的客户报告中指出，此次监管审查将抑制投机性开发、压缩新增电力容量供给，从而提升已获批电力容量的稀缺价值，利好现有比特币矿企及 AI 运营商。报告点名 Cipher Digital（CIFR）、CleanSpark（CLSK）及 Core Scientific（CORZ）受审计影响较大，因其近期扩张计划依赖德州电网接入；而 Terawulf（WULF）因电力资产分布于肯塔基、马里兰及纽约等多州，抗风险能力较强；Riot Platforms（RIOT）和 IREN 则因已在 ERCOT 拥有大规模获批运营资产而受益。
According to CNBC, the European Commission officially gained the power to investigate, restrict, and fine AI models this Sunday, marking the latest progress in the phased implementation of the 2024 EU AI Act. Under the new rules, the European Commission can require AI companies to submit assessments before publicly releasing models in Europe and has the authority to restrict their EU market access. Violating companies face fines of up to €15 million or 3% of annual turnover (whichever is higher). The new rules apply to all companies providing general-purpose AI models within the EU, regardless of their headquarters' location, and non-EU companies must designate an authorized representative within the EU. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are all covered by the new rules. Currently, the EU has been seeking access to Anthropic's Mythos model for several months and has entered into negotiations with OpenAI and Anthropic regarding cyber attack issues triggered by their AI models.
Odaily News The U.S. crypto market structure bill, the CLARITY Act, enters a critical week. According to Senate procedure, if lawmakers still hope to proceed into the August recess as planned, Senate Majority Leader and Republican Senator John Thune needs to file a motion to proceed on Tuesday to schedule a procedural vote for Thursday. John Thune said on Monday that the Senate may stay in session until it completes a series of pending matters, including a stopgap government funding measure, the Russia sanctions bill, nominations, the college athletics bill, and a procedural vote on the crypto market structure bill. Republicans are currently uncertain whether they can secure the 60 votes needed to begin debate and allow for amendment discussions.
Odaily News: Hardware wallet manufacturers Trezor and Foundation have warned that following the disclosure of a Coldcard firmware vulnerability, phishing attempts targeting hardware wallet holders have increased, with attackers soliciting recovery phrases and luring victims into downloading malware. Security firm Proofpoint has detected phishing emails impersonating Coldcard, inviting users to complete a "hardware audit" with links to a cloned website. After clicking, users download a batch file hosted on GitHub that installs the remote access tool ScreenConnect. Proofpoint stated that the fraudulent website also features a customer service chat window, where real people guide victims through the installation process. This remote access tool can provide attackers with a pathway to steal data and funds, or further deploy malicious programs such as ransomware. Galaxy Research has confirmed three rounds of theft since July 30, with high-confidence losses of 1,596 BTC, exceeding $100 million; if a fourth round not yet confirmed with victims is included, total losses could reach $130 million.
According to PR Newswire, crypto mining company and energy infrastructure platform Hut 8 Corp. (NASDAQ/Toronto Stock Exchange: HUT) released its second quarter 2026 earnings report. Key highlights are as follows: In terms of commercialization, the company completed the commercialization of its first gigawatt-scale AI data center campus, Beacon Point, and signed a second 352 MW IT lease after the quarter ended, with a total base period contract value of approximately US$26.6 billion, expected annual average Net Operating Income (NOI) to exceed US$1.75 billion, covering 949 MW of contracted IT capacity, with all lessors being investment-grade counterparties. In terms of financing, the company completed US$7.5 billion of investment-grade project financing in a single quarter, including US$3.3 billion for the River Bend campus and US$4.25 billion for Beacon Point Phase I, all being non-recourse non-dilutive financing, setting a precedent for investment-grade construction financing for single-sponsor data center projects. In terms of finance, total revenue for the second quarter was US$74.9 million, a year-over-year increase of 81% (US$41.3 million in the same period last year); net loss was US$177.1 million, primarily due to an unrealized loss of US$138.6 million on digital assets; adjusted EBITDA was US$10.45 million, a year-over-year increase of 149%. In terms of construction, the two major campuses, River Bend and Beacon Point, combined
Odaily News: According to official sources, Gate has launched UNITREE (Unitree Robotics) perpetual contract pre-market trading (USDT-settled), supporting 1-10x leverage.UNITREE (Unitree Robotics) is a global leader in legged and humanoid robots, and is the first company in the world to commercialize high-performance quadruped robots for large-scale retail sales.
According to the official announcement, Bithumb will list the QUID/KRW trading pair.
OneBullEx announces the launch of a TradFi perpetual contract position incentive campaign. The campaign period is from August 4, 18:00 to August 19, 18:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 40,000 USDT in contract trial funds. The campaign covers TradFi USDT-margined perpetual contracts including tech stocks, indices, and gold. After completing registration, users can receive rewards based on their daily average position value. The applicable reward rate is unlocked jointly by the total average position size of all registered users, with a maximum annualized reward rate of 21%. Of this, 35,000 USDT is allocated for position rewards; another 5,000 USDT is for new user first-trade bonuses. New users who have never completed contract trading on OneBullEx prior to registration can receive 10 USDT in contract trial funds if they complete a net deposit of no less than 100 USDT into their contract account during the campaign period and achieve 5,000 USDT in valid trading volume for designated TradFi contracts, limited to the first 500 users. The maximum annualized reward rate is calculated based on the maximum 50x leverage supported by designated contracts and the actual margin occupied, and does not constitute fixed income or a promise of returns.
According to the official announcement, Upbit will list QUID KRW, BTC, and USDT trading pairs.
Odaily News: OpenAI has issued a statement responding to Apple's previously filed trade secret lawsuit, calling Apple's allegations "hasty, aggressive, and factually flawed," and released email records as supporting evidence. OpenAI stated that Apple previously claimed it had contacted the company in February and received no response, but in reality, Apple's external counsel had sent the email to the wrong recipient due to a name mix-up. Additionally, Apple also acknowledged that it had not engaged in any relevant communication with OpenAI's General Counsel.Apple previously accused OpenAI of obtaining confidential information through former Apple employees Chang Liu and Tang Tan. OpenAI denied the allegations and stated that Apple employees proactively sought advice from Liu on documents and technical issues after his departure, because Apple had failed to promptly revoke the departed employees' system access. (Business Insider)
According to Bitcoin.com, Fireblocks released the 2026 "Financial Grid" survey report, covering over 600 executives. The report shows that 99% of Continental European institutions and 100% of UK institutions expect regulatory policies to support digital asset development. Influenced by the clarity of the MiCA regulatory framework, 53% of European institutions have completed capital commitments before 2026, higher than the global average of 42%; as the UK's regulatory framework is still being formulated, this proportion is only 36%, but an additional 59% of UK institutions plan to complete budget allocations within 2026. In terms of product strategy, European institutions lead in tokenized money market funds (62% vs 45%) and tokenized securities; the UK is more aggressive in stablecoin issuance, with 50% of institutions planning to issue stablecoins independently, higher than Europe's 40%. Both markets list 24/7 settlement and real-time payments as primary application scenarios.
According to CNN reports, U.S. Democratic Senators Warren and Blumenthal have requested the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to investigate the "TRUMP" Meme coin issued by Trump to confirm whether the project involves fraud or improper profit. In a letter to SEC Chairman Paul Atkins, the two stated that the Trump Meme coin project "may constitute an illegal scam," and requested the regulatory agency to investigate whether the token involves "illegal fraudulent conduct or facilitates improper profit acquisition." Warren and Blumenthal focused in the letter on whether the project resembles a "Rug Pull" (exit scam) in the crypto industry. They believe that even if it is not a sudden divestiture-style rug pull in the traditional sense, it may still belong to a "soft rug pull" that causes investor losses by gradually withdrawing market support. The SEC should investigate whether the Trump Meme coin poses fraud risks and prevent investors from continuing to suffer losses. As of now, the SEC has not commented on this.
Odaily News: U.S. Democratic Senator Alex Padilla plans to introduce new legislation that would prohibit presidents from offering paid services that provide users with early access to their public statements or social media posts. The bill targets a recently launched paid service by Trump Media & Technology Group that allows users to receive real-time alerts on posts from Trump and other figures on social platforms, some of which may involve information affecting financial markets.Alex Padilla stated that Trump's public remarks should not be sold as an "early trading advantage" to specific paid users. He believes that if market participants can gain faster notifications of presidential statements through payment, it could create an unfair information gap. As of now, Trump Media & Technology Group has not responded to the legislative proposal.