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Odaily News: Aptos mainnet has now launched Confidential APT. This feature allows users to selectively enable privacy protection for compliance scenarios, suitable for applications such as salary payments, treasury management, and enterprise-to-enterprise settlements.
According to official news, decentralized exchange RISEx stated that at 07:21 UTC today, the Real World Asset (RWA) strategy associated with the XLP vault experienced an unauthorized withdrawal due to a configuration error, involving 673,011.56 USDC. The issue had existed since deployment on July 13; the team detected the anomaly within minutes of the incident and completed the fix at 08:09 UTC.
Blockchain media ChainCatcher recently released the report "Options Market Enters New Paradigm: 2026 H1 Landscape Evolution and Key Features," systematically reviewing the global crypto options market in the first half of 2026 based on data from platforms such as CoinGlass, with Bybit's options business listed as a core case for focused analysis.
According to The Nation, the Nigerian Tax Authority issued the "Virtual Asset Tax Guidelines", explicitly incorporating income from virtual asset transactions such as cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, utility tokens, security tokens, and non-fungible tokens into the existing tax system. The guidelines stipulate that gains generated from asset disposal, exchange, and transfer, as well as income derived from mining, staking, airdrops, token rewards, etc., must be taxed in accordance with the law. Virtual asset service providers are also required to fulfill obligations regarding tax registration, transaction information reporting, and suspicious transaction reporting to strengthen tax compliance and regulatory transparency in the country's digital asset sector.
NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin submitted a proposal to "Establish a Protocol Sovereign Fund" in the community, suggesting that current and future protocol reserves, historical protocol revenue, and future protocol revenue be included in the fund reserves, and that fund returns be used to fund ecosystem public goods. The proposal is currently still in the community discussion phase.
According to The Block, a Telegram spokesperson stated that Telegram has been relisted on the Apple App Store and will soon be open to all users again.
Bitget launches the 9th CFD King Championship, with a total prize pool of 75,000 USDT. The event runs from August 3 to August 17. During the event, completing specified CFD trading tasks grants blind box draw opportunities, ensuring a 100% chance to win USDT cash vouchers. Additionally, inviting new users to complete trading tasks allows both new and existing users to receive USDT rewards; users ranked in the top 470 by cumulative CFD trading volume can also jointly unlock a 47,400 USDT ranking prize pool, with the champion receiving 4,000 USDT. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.
According to Reuters, sources familiar with the matter revealed that CXMT is considering building a second 12-inch DRAM fab in Beijing Yizhuang and is discussing financing support with the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area and several state-owned technology enterprises. Negotiations are currently still in the early stages, and the financing scale and structure have not yet been finalized. The proposed project may be located at the company's existing Beijing facility, but production capacity plans and total investment amount have not yet been disclosed.
Odaily News: Zcash founder Zooko Wilcox stated on platform X that he supports the new slogan proposed by community member Jeremiah Rogers: “Zcash is not cryptocurrency; it is money.”
Odaily Odaily News: TokenWorks announced on the X platform that the initial distribution phase of Fake World Assets has been completed, and external purchases will officially open at 3:00 PM EST on August 4.Previously, to prevent external capital from affecting the protocol's early development, Fake World Assets only distributed tokens to participants. TokenWorks stated that going forward, the 50% portion of protocol fees originally allocated to TokenWorks will be redirected to a buyback mechanism.Under the new mechanism, tokens repurchased will be distributed proportionally: 70% to buyers, 10% to depositors, and 20% burned. Additionally, the platform will reduce the purchase fee from 5% to 2.5% and increase the depositor bid ratio from 85% to 90%.TokenWorks stated that these parameters will be continuously adjusted based on protocol performance in the future to drive the protocol toward long-term sustainable development.
Odaily News – On August 3 local time, U.S. President Trump answered reporters' questions at the White House, stating that negotiations with Iran are currently underway. Trump said that regarding talks with Iran, the first phase is the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, and the second phase is denuclearization. Trump emphasized that the U.S. maintains a firm stance: Iran cannot possess nuclear weapons. Additionally, Trump disclosed progress in the negotiations concerning the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Trump stated that the Strait of Hormuz could potentially be reopened as soon as tomorrow. He also noted that the talks were initiated at Iran's request, with support from Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and several other countries. He said that originally, "the U.S. was going to strike Iran with overwhelming force—more severe than any previous attack," but then Iran called, and Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar also called. Iran did not want to be hit, so it said it wanted to negotiate; they wanted to discuss the issue of the strait. Trump said, "This is Iran's last chance." Trump also said he would not allow Iran to charge fees for vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz. (CCTV News)
Odaily Planet Daily Report: Bitcoin hardware wallet manufacturer Coinkite disclosed in late July 2026 that a firmware build error introduced in March 2021 caused some Coldcard wallets to generate mnemonics from a smaller range, reducing the randomness of user private keys. Galaxy Research analysts stated that the Coldcard exploit occurred in multiple rounds, with observed Bitcoin losses rising from approximately $88 million to nearly $114 million within days. Researchers warned that other vulnerable addresses could still become targets, prompting many Coldcard users to move their Bitcoin. Coldcard is a Bitcoin-only wallet that supports offline signing via microSD card and optional QR codes. Launched in 2017, it has long been regarded as one of the security-focused Bitcoin hardware wallets.
Odaily News: Brian Armstrong posted on X, stating that the CLARITY Act is a bipartisan effort aimed at establishing clear rules for cryptocurrency in the United States. Brian Armstrong noted that the bill will provide more tools for consumer protection, enabling law enforcement to crack down on bad actors, and bringing cryptocurrency within the scope of U.S. regulation. Brian Armstrong also stated that the bill includes multiple pages of new authorizations for banks to integrate stablecoins and cryptocurrency, adding that this will help the U.S. maintain its position as a financial and technological hub, driving economic growth, job creation, and tax revenue. He mentioned that this week will reveal which members of the Senate will vote in support of the bill.
Odaily News: Coinbase announced on X that it is bringing the world's largest crude oil benchmarks to Coinbase. WTI and Brent crude oil perpetual futures are now available for eligible non-U.S. traders, featuring 24/7 trading, USDC settlement, and no expiration date.
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform, stating that Boltzhq has indefinitely suspended its swap service after reporting an increase in AI-assisted attacks and multiple contained exploits. Due to its non-custodial design, user funds were never at risk, but wallets relying on Boltz for Lightning Network swaps, including AquaBitcoin and BULLBITCOIN, experienced service disruptions while alternative infrastructure is being deployed.
Odaily News NVIDIA has released Vera CPU storage benchmark results, showing that its NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage processor can significantly improve encryption, compression, integrity verification, and data recovery performance in AI-native storage, helping enterprises address the growing data processing demands of the Agentic AI era.NVIDIA stated that as AI agents perform knowledge retrieval, call tools, manage long-term memory, and handle larger context windows, storage systems are no longer just simple data read/write components, but have become a critical link in the AI inference pipeline. Large volumes of data need to be encrypted, compressed, verified, and recovered along the storage path, tasks typically handled by the CPU, which can become a performance bottleneck for AI infrastructure. Benchmark results show that the BlueField-4 STX storage processor equipped with the Vera CPU delivers performance improvements over a comparison x86 CPU across multiple storage tasks: AES-128 encryption performance improved by up to 1.43xAES-128 decryption performance improved by up to 1.29xReed-Solomon data recovery performance improved by up to 3.26xCRC32C integrity check performance improved by up to 3.67xCompression performance improved by up to 3.29xDecompression performance improved by up to 1.72xCompression + encryption multi-stage storage pipeline performance improved by up to 3.21xNVIDIA said that while traditional CPUs typically require adding cores, power consumption, and cooling costs to scale storage processing capabilities, AI-native storage needs to maintain low latency under higher concurrency and larger data volumes. By improving per-unit CPU resource processing capability, Vera helps storage systems support more AI agent workloads without significantly increasing infrastructure costs.
Odaily News: Tether Gold (XAU₮) investor holdings grew 9.5% in Q2. As of 23:59 UTC on June 30, 2026, 612,823.66 XAU₮ tokens had been sold, an increase of 53,225.02 tokens from the end of Q1, corresponding to an additional 1.66 tonnes of ownership in the physical gold reserves already held. As of the end of Q2, XAU₮ physical gold reserves stood at 707,747.139 troy ounces, approximately 22.01 tonnes, with a total market value of approximately $2.837 billion. Each XAU₮ is backed 1:1 by at least one troy ounce of physical gold. The reserves include 1,759 London Good Delivery gold bars and smaller bars, all stored in Switzerland. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that while gold experienced its largest quarterly pullback in 13 years during Q2, investors continued to increase their XAU₮ holdings. Tether International SA de CV purchased approximately 27.1 tonnes of gold in the first half of the year through June 2026, averaging 4.5 tonnes per month.
According to TechCrunch, AI startup June has officially announced its emergence from stealth mode, completing a $20 million pre-seed financing round led by Marc Benioff's Time Ventures, with participation from tech industry notables including Michael Dell, Aaron Levie, and George Kurtz. June was co-founded by former Salesforce executive Efrat Rapoport and three co-founders; the team previously founded speech-to-text company Bonobo AI, which was acquired by Salesforce in 2019. June's core product automatically scans existing enterprise systems, identifies business process bottlenecks, and generates a complete roadmap for the step-by-step deployment of AI Agents, helping enterprises achieve AI implementation in complex legacy system environments such as Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Workday, without relying on high-cost Frontline Deployment Engineers (FDE).
Odaily News According to global experience, the rise of many leading tech companies has been supported by venture capital. In the first half of this year, investment in high-tech industries grew by 4.6% year-on-year. Behind this figure, the activity of venture capital has been steadily recovering. Industry insiders generally believe that the development of AI technology is the core driver of this recovery in the venture capital market, with funds rapidly flowing into areas such as AI, quantum technology, and computing power. Data shows that in the first half of 2026, total financing for Chinese AI startups exceeded 300 billion yuan, already surpassing the full-year figure for 2025. The influx of capital has led to a rapid rise in valuations, making "grabbing allocation" a key theme in the primary market. (CCTV Finance)
According to Forbes, Siemens' latest "Infrastructure Transformation Monitor" (ITM) shows that against the backdrop of rising operating costs and stricter ESG compliance requirements, digital infrastructure and AI are gradually becoming core tools for commercial real estate portfolio management. The report shows that 52% of commercial real estate leaders expect digital technology to bring significant productivity improvements, and 59% of respondents expect AI to deeply reshape building operation models within the next three years, with main application scenarios covering predictive maintenance, HVAC optimization, automatic fault detection, and energy management. However, currently only 37% of organizations have reached maturity in digital system integration, and 36% of organizations stated they are scaling AI and digital twin technology; fragmented data environments and insufficient system interoperability remain the main bottlenecks. The report cites the practical case of the Pennsylvania Convention Center: the center reduced energy consumption by 18% through digital transformation, achieving approximately $686,000 in operating savings, and successively obtained LEED Gold and GBAC STAR certifications, confirming the substantive role of digital investment in reducing operating costs and enhancing the long-term value of assets.