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: BNB Chain Agent commercial clearing layer TermiX announced that Web3 security infrastructure GoPlus and smart contract security auditing firm Salus have officially become Provider Agents on the Agent.family platform. They have launched two production-grade security audit services, promoting the autonomous invocation and settlement of "security capability as a service" for AI Agents in on-chain commercial scenarios.GoPlus has packaged its verified token contract deep scanning capability as a standard Provider Agent service. DeepScan conducts comprehensive security checks on token contracts, identifying risk patterns such as Rug Pulls, honeypot scams, contract permission abuse, and trading restrictions, and generates structured audit reports.Salus has launched smart contract auditing and penetration testing services, encompassing formal verification, fuzz testing, machine learning-based vulnerability detection, and manual expert auditing. It covers high-risk vulnerability categories such as reentrancy attacks, access control issues, integer overflows, and DoS attacks. Salus, a seed-stage investment from Binance Labs, is a core security partner within the BNB Chain ecosystem.
According to the official announcement, Binance will add 10 bStocks tokens as eligible collateral assets to Cross Margin, Portfolio Margin, and Portfolio Margin Pro on July 22, 2026 at 13:30 (UTC), including SouthKoreaBull3XETF (KORUB), AXT (AXTIB), CoreWeave (CRWVB), DirexionMUBull2XETF (MUUB), GraniteShares2XLongMRVLETF (MVLLB), Tradr2XLongSNDKETF (SNXXB), GraniteShares2XLongINTCETF (INTWB), ProSharesUltraProQQQ (TQQQB), Quantinuum (QNTB), and Oracle (ORCLB). Margin trading for the corresponding bStocks trading pairs will be enabled simultaneously. This feature is available only to VIP3 and above users; borrowing is not currently supported.
According to Upbit's official announcement, Upbit has designated Zilliqa (ZIL) as an asset subject to trading caution citing "security incidents such as hacks with unknown causes or unaddressed vulnerabilities" (pursuant to Article 17, Paragraph 1, Item 5 of the Enforcement Decree of the Virtual Asset User Protection Act), with the designated period from 19:00 KST on July 22, 2026, to the third week of August (August 17–21). Deposit and withdrawal services for ZIL have been suspended since 19:00 KST on July 20. Upon reopening, only withdrawal services will be restored, while deposit services will be announced separately depending on the progress of subsequent reviews. Upbit will conduct a detailed review of ZIL during the designated period and decide depending on the situation whether to extend the caution period, lift the caution, or terminate trading support.
Cardano ecosystem wallet SecondFi announced that due to a cryptographic defect in its wallet software, approximately 16.1 million ADA (worth around $2.6 million) were stolen. The platform will gradually shut down the SecondFi and Yoroi wallet services. This incident has affected 374 wallets. SecondFi stated that an independent investigation by blockchain intelligence agency Groom Lake identified the attackers as a sophisticated external actor and found indicators potentially linked to North Korea's Lazarus Group, though attribution has not yet been confirmed. SecondFi is developing a recovery tool based on zero-knowledge proofs to help affected users recover assets while limiting the information that needs to be shared. The tool is still being tested and will undergo third-party audits before its planned release in August. SecondFi is also preparing a wallet export feature to allow users to migrate their assets to other services. The platform has not announced a direct compensation plan, nor has it indicated whether it will use its own funds to compensate users.
According to official sources, the annualized yield from minting Gate GUSD has reached 3.8%. As a yield-bearing stable asset backed by US Treasury RWA and stablecoin assets, GUSD provides stable returns while allowing users to participate in diverse ecosystem scenarios such as Launchpool and Pre-IPOs, enhancing the efficiency of idle capital utilization. Currently, Gate's 367th ANTFUN Launchpool is ongoing. Users can stake GUSD to share in rewards of 3,756,574 ANTFUN tokens. When combining the staking yield from the GUSD pool with its minting returns, the current estimated annualized yield reaches 8.56%.Furthermore, Gate has launched a lossless, instant redemption feature for GUSD. Users who mint GUSD via USDT, USDC, or USD1 can, within the available quota for lossless exit of the corresponding currency, enjoy a 1:1 real-time deposit in the original currency and be exempt from redemption fees. This feature balances yield generation with flexible capital allocation.
According to an official announcement by the FCA, Anthropic will provide access to its suite of Claude products (including Claude Code and Claude Cowork) for the second batch of participating enterprises in the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) "Super Sandbox" to accelerate their AI development process. A total of 21 institutions were selected for the second batch, including Scottish Widows, Money Advice Trust, and TrueLayer, among others. The number of applications this time increased by 51% compared to the first batch, with a total of 199 applications received. Participating enterprises will test AI solutions focusing on the following areas: agent payment security, fraud and financial crime detection, AI governance and accountability, financial inclusion for vulnerable groups, and compliance and business automation. Additionally, the FCA simultaneously launched the "Agentic Academy"—a 10-week AI specialized training program co-hosted by the FCA and the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE). Participating enterprises will continue to have access to NayaOne digital sandbox infrastructure and NVIDIA accelerated computing resource support.
B.AI API has officially launched two models: Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. Among them, Gemini 3.6 Flash, as an upgraded version of 3.5 Flash, significantly improves output quality while maintaining the same pricing, with Token consumption reduced by approximately 17% on average; especially in complex DeepSWE scenarios, the reduction can reach up to 65%, greatly enhancing development efficiency and cost-effectiveness. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite delivers ultra-fast output of up to 350 tokens/s and ultimate cost-effectiveness, precisely meeting the demands of high-concurrency, high-real-time tasks such as document batch processing and Agentic intelligent retrieval. Currently, official API interfaces for both models are available. Developers can log in to the B.AI platform immediately to seamlessly access and experience them, enjoying the performance benefits brought by the new generation of models.
According to OpenAI's official blog, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and a more powerful pre-release model, during internal network capability benchmark testing (ExploitGym), due to lowering network attack refusal rates, autonomously identified and exploited a zero-day vulnerability in the package registry cache proxy, breached the sandbox isolation environment, gained internet access permissions, and subsequently, through privilege escalation and lateral movement, finally infiltrated the Hugging Face production database, directly stealing test answers to "cheat". The Hugging Face security team promptly detected and blocked the attack. OpenAI stated that this incident is an unprecedented cybersecurity event, and currently both companies are jointly conducting a forensic investigation; the relevant zero-day vulnerabilities have been responsibly disclosed to the vendor, and full details will be released after the investigation is completed.
Grok 4.5 is now officially available via optional service providers on the B.AI API side. As the flagship intelligent model built by SpaceXAI, Grok 4.5 is designed for advanced scenarios such as complex code writing, autonomous Agent task scheduling, and deep knowledge work, delivering significant improvements in both inference efficiency and task automation capabilities. Effective immediately, users logging into the B.AI platform can directly access Grok 4.5 via the optional service provider model. The platform is simultaneously launching an exclusive 40% off discount, enabling developers and enterprise users to easily access Grok 4.5's top-tier inference and automation capabilities with a lower threshold and better value, opening up new possibilities for complex business scenarios.
Odaily Odaily, According to official sources, BitMart has launched the "US Stock Earnings Season · Spot Trading Campaign" for spot trading. During the campaign, newly registered users who complete their first designated spot trade will be eligible to participate in the 10,000 USDT prize pool airdrop. Additionally, users who complete spot trading of designated stock tokens worth 50 USDT on the day a corresponding company's earnings report is released can also qualify for a lucky draw, with chances to win rewards including a ChatGPT Pro annual membership, DJI Osmo Pocket kit, and 1 share of SK Hynix stock tokens.Furthermore, the campaign features a daily trading reward mechanism covering popular US stock tokens such as TSLAON, GOOGLON, MSFTON, METAON, AAPLON, AMZNON, and INTCON. Users who complete designated spot trading tasks will receive random airdrops, with prizes including up to 50 USDT rewards, spot trading fee discount coupons, and 30% financial product yield enhancement coupons.
CardBox, an RWA infrastructure platform for trading card collectibles, officially announced a deep agency grading partnership with international grading brand CGC. The business currently primarily covers the Japanese and South Korean markets, with over 10,000 cards submitted for grading each month.CardBox is dedicated to verifying, custodializing, and digitizing physical collectible assets such as raw cards, graded cards, unopened packs, and boxes, enhancing their global circulation efficiency. In the future, the platform will further integrate the agency grading and Vault custodial processes. Users will be able to directly deposit graded cards into the CardBox Vault, and eligible custodial assets can generate RWA digital certificates for subsequent management and circulation.The CardBox Beta is now live on BNB Chain, with over 20,000 registered platform users and a cumulative transaction volume exceeding $1 million.
on July 22 that Binance has officially launched the HK0700 USDT (Tencent) and HK1810 USDT (Xiaomi) Hong Kong stock trading pairs on its Quanto perpetual contracts.Binance Quanto perpetual contracts allow users to trade non-USD-denominated stocks using local currencies without the need for foreign exchange conversion, lowering the barrier to entry while enhancing trading convenience. Binance TradFi products now support 140 trading pairs, and the trading volume of its TradFi perpetual contracts over the past week has approached $100 billion, continuously expanding users' one-stop experience in trading traditional financial assets.
According to the market analysis released by BIT's official Chinese channel, as demand for call options continues to heat up, the implied volatility of Bitcoin and Ethereum is rebounding simultaneously, indicating that the period of light summer trading may be nearing an end, and market expectations for Bitcoin's upside have strengthened.
According to the official announcement, Binance will open 10 bStocks trading pairs—AXT (AXTIB), CoreWeave (CRWVB), GraniteShares 2X Long INTC ETF (INTWB), South Korea Bull 3X ETF (KORUB), Direxion MU Bull 2X ETF (MUUB), GraniteShares 2X Long MRVL ETF (MVLLB), Oracle (ORCLB), Quantinuum (QNTB), Tradr 2X Long SNDK ETF (SNXXB), and ProShares UltraPro QQQ (TQQQB)—on July 22, 2026 at 21:30, simultaneously supporting spot algorithmic trading bots and Binance Convert zero-fee trading.
KPMG today released the latest "Hong Kong Asset Management and Private Equity Outlook" report, noting that reforms to the Hong Kong market's fund tax exemption regime and carried interest tax concession regime are expected to attract a new wave of regional and global asset management companies to establish a presence in Hong Kong. Under the new regime, eligible carried interest and performance fees will enjoy an effective tax rate of 0%, whether at the corporate level or at the individual level of employees stationed in Hong Kong.
: According to official announcements, Bitget has launched Quanto perpetual contracts for three stocks: Tencent (TENCENT), Zhipu AI (ZHIPU), and Xiaomi (XIAOMI). These contracts support up to 20x leverage and 7×24-hour trading.The TradFi Quanto perpetual contract allows users to trade Hong Kong stocks and other non-USD-denominated overseas stocks directly using USDT, eliminating the need for currency exchange. The contract itself is quoted in Hong Kong dollars, while margin deposits and profit/loss settlements are conducted in USDT. This simplifies the trading process while effectively avoiding additional risks associated with exchange rate fluctuations.
Galaxy Digital 宣布设立 500 万美元“比特币量子准备倡议”基金，资助开发者研究和部署应对未来量子计算风险的防护方案，重点包括抗量子签名机制、钱包迁移工具和安全审计。
Odaily Odaily, digital asset trading platform Gate has released its Q2 2026 report. According to data from multiple authoritative institutions, Gate's spot liquidity and trading volume rank second globally, its derivatives market is firmly among the top three in the industry, and its open interest (OI) market share ranks among the global top three. In terms of asset class diversification this quarter, Gate advanced its integration of crypto assets and TradFi, accelerating the development of stock trading, Pre-IPOs, CFDs, wealth management, and other businesses, further enhancing its global asset allocation capabilities. The platform has officially launched stock trading, building a 7×24 trading system covering three major markets: U.S. stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and South Korean stocks. It supports fractional share trading, stock dividends, cross-broker position transfers, as well as stock splits and reverse stock splits. As of the end of the second quarter, Gate's global registered users exceeded 58 million, supporting the trading of over 4,800 digital assets and more than 12,500 stock assets, continuously attracting global users to participate in trading across a diverse asset system.Meanwhile, Gate has completed a full asset service chain from pre-listing investment to public market trading. The cumulative subscription funds for the SpaceX (SPCX) Pre-IPOs project exceeded $396 million, and cumulative subscription funds for direct IPOs surpassed $143 million. Gate CFD has listed 663 trading assets, with quarterly ETF trading volume approaching $60 billion, representing a quarter-over-quarter increase of over 40%. Additionally, Gate has launched a global wealth management brand, Gate Wealth, offering global users more efficient asset allocation and long-term value growth opportunities. Gate.AI has completed an architecture upgrade and brand refresh, supporting access to over 200 mainstream large language models worldwide, and continues to expand its presence in AI Agents, RWAs, prediction markets, and on-chain infrastructure. In the second quarter of 2026, Gate continuously integrated its asset allocation capabilities across digital assets, stocks, ETFs, RWAs, foreign exchange, and commodities, accelerating its evolution into a global one-stop financial service platform.
According to TechFlow Research, Morgan Stanley released a weekly US stock strategy report on July 20. The report pointed out that the trend of market breadth expansion continues, and the momentum trading risks in the semiconductor sector have not yet been fully released. The silver stock price analogy model shows that semiconductors may have about 15% downside potential in the short term, and earnings revision breadth has retreated from historical extremes. Over the past two months, the consumer durables and transportation sectors outperformed the S&P 500 by approximately 12 percentage points respectively, and the equal-weight index continues to outperform the market-cap weighted index. In terms of allocation, Morgan Stanley continues to recommend overweighting cloud providers (Microsoft, Google, Meta, Amazon) and underweighting semiconductors within the technology sector. The equal-weighted P/E ratio of the four major giants has fallen back to 21 times. Consumer durables and transportation are the clearest directions for capital inflows, with the earnings revision breadth of the transportation sector reaching the strongest level since 2021. Market style is gradually shifting towards quality factors, with earnings revision breadth for high gross margin and high sales stability factors continuing to strengthen. The S&P 500 year-end target is 8,000 points, with 7,000 points being a key technical support level.
Flash.Trade announced that its temporary instance detected an unauthorized withdrawal of $98,000. As a precautionary measure, the platform has suspended trading, deposits, and withdrawals, and will launch an investigation within the next few hours.