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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.
Odaily News Decentralized stablecoin USDD has released its treasury report for the second quarter of 2026. According to the report data, USDD's total revenue for the quarter reached $7.66 million, a 21.6% increase quarter-over-quarter, setting a new quarterly high; net profit stood at $7.63 million, with expenses of $24,800, a treasury balance of $7.63 million, and a total treasury balance of $21.54 million.Additionally, according to official website data, the current supply of USDD is $1.59 billion, with a TVL of $2.28 billion. The Smart Allocator has generated and distributed cumulative yields of $24 million.
The Hyperliquid platform has launched Unitree Robotics ($UNITREE) Pre-IPO trading, with an initial price of $73.33, total share capital of approximately 404 million shares, corresponding to an estimated initial market capitalization of approximately $29.7 billion (approximately RMB 212.9 billion).
Odaily News: According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will update the collateral rates and tiered collateral rates for certain assets under Portfolio Margin mode at 14:00 (Beijing Time) on August 7, 2026, and simultaneously adjust the leverage and margin tiers for multiple USDT-margined perpetual contracts. This adjustment involves assets such as UNI, PEPE, ASTER, HFT, and KMNO, as well as contracts including 0GUSDT, BERAUSDT, WUSDT, SUPERUSDT, TURBOUSDT, and 1MBABYDOGEUSDT, and is expected to be completed within 30 minutes to one hour. Please note that existing positions will be affected, and users are advised to adjust their positions in advance.
Odaily News: Hyperliquid has listed Unitree Technology (UNITREE) Pro-IPO and trading has commenced, with the current price at $75.02.
Odaily News: HyperliquidNews stated on the X platform that the HIP-3 page is sourced from loris.tools.
Odaily News: According to official sources, MGBX will list GSUSDT, SMHUSDT, and PYPLUSDT perpetual contract trading pairs at 18:00 (SGT) on August 4, 2026. Trading will open at 18:00 (SGT) on August 4, 2026, with support for up to 25x leverage.Goldman Sachs is a long-established financial institution founded in 1869, renowned as one of the world's leading investment banks. The SMHUSDT perpetual contract tracks the price of the VanEck Semiconductor ETF, one of the largest and most liquid exchange-traded funds (ETFs) focused on the semiconductor industry globally. Additionally, PayPal, spun off from eBay in 2015, focuses on online transactions, providing electronic payment solutions for merchants and consumers.
Odaily News The Ministry of Science and ICT and other relevant government agencies, together with industry players, established the AIDC Alliance on July 29, with plans to cultivate Korea's AI data center ecosystem as a national strategic industry. The initiative includes building 18.4GW of AIDC infrastructure, cross-ministerial financial support, and the formation of a working group to promote packaged exports for global industrialization. Morgan Stanley recently defined AI infrastructure as a system comprising seven value chain segments: semiconductor processes, NPUs, CXL and memory server components, server integration, networking, internal power and liquid cooling, and external power and grid infrastructure. The Korean proposal suggests placing government-funded research institutions at the center of AIDC full-stack technology development and comprehensive pilot projects, with organizations such as KIST, ETRI, KISTI, KIMM, KERI, and KIER covering areas including semiconductors, AI chips, supercomputing, liquid cooling, power grids, and distributed power generation. The proposal also recommends designating the "K-AIDC Full-Stack Integrated Pilot Project" as the first national strategic research task following the abolition of the PBS system, aiming to develop a liquid-cooled, NPU-integrated, grid-connected modular AIDC reference system with over 50% domestic NPU adoption within three years, while establishing a nationally certified pilot center.
Odaily News: SK Hynix and SanDisk have unveiled the first standard specification for High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a next-generation storage technology based on NAND flash. SK Hynix presented the specification at FMS 2026, held from August 4 to 6 in Santa Clara, California, USA.HBF stacks NAND flash vertically in a manner similar to High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) to enhance capacity and data transfer speeds. The specification defines two stacked configurations—8-layer and 16-layer NAND dies—with a maximum capacity of 512GB and bandwidth offered in three tiers, supporting 0.4TB to 3.0TB per second.HBF connects to processors using the industry-standard UCIe interface, enabling compatibility with different processor types such as GPUs and CPUs. The specification has been released through the Open Compute Project (OCP), and the HBF Consortium currently includes Google and AI semiconductor company Tenstorrent.SK Hynix will also showcase its in-development 10th-generation (V10) 375-layer 4D NAND wafers and products for the first time at this event, with plans to begin mass production of high-performance, high-capacity enterprise SSDs (eSSD) utilizing this technology early next year.
Solana Governance Proposal SGP-0002 "Double Disinflation" has entered the support phase. The proposal, submitted by Helius, aims to increase the annual inflation decay rate from 15% to 30%, accelerating the rate of inflation decline while keeping the initial inflation rate and the terminal inflation rate of 1.5% unchanged. If the proposal passes, the time for Solana to reach the terminal inflation rate is expected to be shortened from approximately 5.7 years to approximately 2.8 years, and the SOL issuance over the next 6 years is expected to decrease by approximately 18.9 million tokens.
Odaily News: Former U.S. Representative George Santos has reached a settlement with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). According to the July 31 order, Santos must disgorge $17,569.98, pay a $17,500 civil monetary penalty, and is prohibited from trading on any CFTC-regulated entity for three years. The CFTC found that Santos made misleading public statements and material omissions while trading event contracts on the prediction market platform Kalshi related to whether he would attend President Donald Trump's State of the Union address. Santos neither admitted nor denied the findings or conclusions in the order. Trading records show that Santos opened an account on February 11 and traded only that contract, first purchasing Yes contracts and profiting $3,448.43, then continuing to publicly state he would attend after flights and trains were canceled, while purchasing No contracts. That position ultimately earned $14,390.57. Kalshi stated that it had detected the related activity, frozen the account, and provided evidence to the CFTC.
According to TechFlow Research, Goldman Sachs' July AI Adoption Tracker Report shows that the U.S. corporate AI adoption rate rose to 21.5%, an increase of 0.9 percentage points from the previous month, and is expected to reach 24.3% in six months. The Gallup survey shows that 47% of U.S. employees stated that their organizations have adopted AI, higher than 41% in the previous quarter. Semiconductor revenue is expected to reach $834 billion by the end of 2026; AI-related hardware investment has surpassed 2022 levels, reaching $463 billion, accounting for 1.4% of GDP. Data center-related construction jobs have increased by 290,000 since 2022, with an average monthly increase of about 14,000. Layoffs caused by AI cumulatively reached 102,000 in the first half of the year. Goldman Sachs believes that AI is moving from the proof-of-concept stage to the actual deployment stage, economic penetration is accelerating, but the labor impact remains concentrated in specific industries. Academic research shows that AI boosts productivity by an average of about 23%, and industries with higher adoption rates have shown signs of accelerated productivity growth. Goldman Sachs' judgment is that AI is reshaping the economic structure, and the market may be underestimating the depth of AI's integration into the economic system. Goldman Sachs Research Report Analysis: Corporate AI adoption rate rose to 21.5%, data center construction jobs increased by 290,000.
The overseas open-source AI Coding Agent platform OpenCode stated in a post: DeepSeek V4 Flash is currently experiencing capacity issues due to unprecedented traffic, and errors may be encountered; emergency fixes are underway. Some users also posted: The DeepSeek V4 Flash official API was almost unavailable this morning, similar to the situation when Kimi K3 was just released. Domestic model capabilities have caught up, but usability and capacity still have room for improvement.
Odaily News: The Enforcement Decree of South Korea's "Special Act on Strengthening the Semiconductor Industry Competitiveness and Support" was reviewed and approved by the State Council on August 4, and will officially take effect on August 11. The Act is being advanced under a presidential-level mechanism, detailing the composition of a special committee, procedures for designating semiconductor clusters, support for talent development, and the operation of a dedicated accounting system.According to the Enforcement Decree, applicants seeking designation as a semiconductor cluster must submit a construction plan that includes basic objectives, development direction, name, location, area, current local industry and infrastructure status, as well as talent cultivation and research infrastructure plans. Non-capital regions will receive priority consideration in cluster designation.Construction and operation costs for industrial infrastructure required by semiconductor clusters may be covered by the national and local governments for 50% to 100% of the total project cost. Among these, facilities for redundancy (dualization), supply chain stabilization, and industrial security-related infrastructure are eligible for full support.The Enforcement Decree also stipulates that priority support may be provided for employment linkage and retraining of local professionals in non-capital region semiconductor companies, and specifies the criteria and procedures for designating institutions dedicated to cultivating semiconductor industry professionals. South Korea's Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy, Kim Jung-kwan, stated that the ministry will cooperate with relevant departments to advance the key policy tasks stipulated by the law.
Odaily News, RWA.xyz's tokenized stock dashboard shows that as of August 3, the number of holding addresses for tokenized stocks, including exchange-traded funds, approached 967,000, with a distributed value of $2.16 billion. In late July, the number of related addresses had reached 759,000, a 92% increase over 30 days and a 522% increase since early 2026.The above data counts blockchain addresses, not verified individual investors. A single user may control multiple wallets, and custodian addresses may also represent multiple clients.Jupiter stated that year-to-date, its platform's monthly tokenized stock trading volume during hours when the Nasdaq and New York Stock Exchange are closed has grown by 360%, with over 65% of stock token activity occurring outside regular trading hours. Demand for semiconductor and memory chip-related stock products is high, involving companies such as Nvidia, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix.Market commentator David Alexander estimates that Robinhood Chain has gained 325,000 new holders within four weeks of its launch. Robinhood's related tokens provide economic exposure to the underlying securities but do not grant investors direct legal ownership or beneficial ownership of these stocks.
KIOXIA officially announced its first GP series SSD, the KIOXIA GP1, supporting GPU direct access to high-speed flash memory. This product achieves ultimate random read performance of 100M IOPS. KIOXIA stated that the KIOXIA GP1 series aims to support emerging AI storage architectures that incorporate high-speed flash media into video memory systems. This method enables AI systems to access larger datasets at a cost far lower than adding HBM, while improving GPU utilization.
According to TechFlow Research, Goldman Sachs released the monthly update of its US Stock Conviction List on August 3, adding Applied Materials (AMAT), Delta Air Lines (DAL), Microsoft (MSFT), O'Reilly Automotive (ORLY), Viking Holdings (VIK), and UPS (United Parcel Service), and removing Broadcom (AVGO), Dick's Sporting Goods (DKS), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), and ServiceNow (NOW). In July, the S&P 500 Equal Weight Index outperformed the S&P 500 Index by approximately 435 basis points, and index correlation fell to a near-decade low. Goldman Sachs believes the stock selection environment is improving following the unwinding of AI momentum, with new additions spanning six sectors: semiconductor equipment, aviation, logistics, auto parts, cruise lines, and enterprise software. MSFT and AMAT carry the AI computing power logic, while the four non-AI stocks bet on economic and consumer resilience. The four removed stocks still maintain a Buy rating; their removal reflects the committee's view that there are more attractive opportunities on the current list.
According to the official announcement, Bithumb will list META2 and USDG KRW trading pairs.