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According to the Financial Times, impersonation scams targeting crypto users have increased after the transition period of the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) ended on July 1. Scammers impersonate staff from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF), or exchanges, using the pretext that platforms are unlicensed or assets require urgent migration to induce users to transfer assets to fake websites or wallets.
According to Globenewswire, Grayscale Investments announced on August 5 that it has completed the Q2 2026 review and rebalancing of its multi-asset funds, involving three products: the Grayscale Decentralized Finance Fund, the Grayscale Smart Contract Fund, and the Grayscale Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Fund, and disclosed the latest constituent assets and weights as of August 3, 2026.
According to reports from the Procuratorial Daily, an employee of a Shenzhen enterprise, under pressure from over 400,000 yuan in online loans, stole the company's core R&D data and disguised himself as an overseas hacker to demand a ransom of 0.88 Bitcoin and 90,000 USDT from the enterprise, and was ultimately sentenced to three years and three months for attempted extortion and fined 10,000 yuan.
Odaily News: The U.S. Senate has not yet indicated whether it will take up the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. With only two session days remaining before the summer recess, the Senate has also made no official statement on whether or when a vote on the bill will take place. The Senate could address the bill after returning to Washington in September, but limited working days remain before the final stretch of the 2026 midterm elections. The Senate may also extend the session, originally scheduled to end on August 7, to make room for a procedural vote on the Clarity Act.
According to Cointelegraph, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis stated that the Senate is expected to vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess. The bill previously passed the House of Representatives in July 2025, but currently still faces resistance in the Senate, including Democrats' demand to strengthen ethics provisions involving President Donald Trump's digital asset investments, as well as concerns from some Republican lawmakers and the banking sector regarding the relevant provisions.
Odaily News The U.S. Department of the Treasury released a joint statement on August 4, outlining discussions from the U.S.-UK Financial Regulatory Working Group meeting held in London on July 8. Regulators from both countries expanded collaboration in areas including digital assets, stablecoins, payment modernization, AI, financial stability, capital markets, and cross-border financial cooperation. Participants included finance ministries from both countries, the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the UK Financial Conduct Authority, and multiple U.S. financial regulatory agencies. The U.S. side provided updates on the implementation progress of the GENIUS Act for stablecoins and digital asset market structure, while the UK side presented its digital strategy for wholesale financial markets. Both sides support comparable regulatory standards for stablecoins, including cross-border usage, comparable treatment of similar risks, and requirements that stablecoins used as money be backed at least one-to-one by high-quality liquid asset reserves. The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has proposed implementation standards for the GENIUS Act, covering reserves, redemption, capital, liquidity, risk management, custody, and safekeeping. The Bank of England has published draft rules for stablecoins that could reach systemic scale in the UK economy, including a temporary issuance cap of £40 billion per systemic stablecoin, unrestricted use by individuals and businesses, and reserve requirements. The Financial Regulatory Working Group is expected to convene again in early 2027.
Odaily Odaily News: Bitcoin Red Team, a bitcoin security organization composed of 16 volunteers, stated that it identified nearly 5,000 potential issues during a rapid AI-assisted review of bitcoin ecosystem projects. The organization's members include AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton and bitcoin developer Calle, among others. Calle stated that Bitcoin Red Team used AI tools combined with manual review to scan for vulnerabilities in open-source code repositories related to bitcoin, discovering an average of approximately 1 critical vulnerability per person per hour. Calle disclosed that within 29.8 hours of launch, the team had identified 4,962 potential issues across 390 projects, of which as many as 720 were classified as high-risk or critical. Currently, 21.4% of the findings have been reproduced. The security review initiative was launched just days after the Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident, in which stolen bitcoin exceeded $100 million in value.
Odaily News: Nate Geraci, President of ETF Store, said in a post on X that the progress of the CLARITY Act highlights that the crypto industry needs to invest more effort in education.Nate Geraci noted that many politicians, key players in traditional finance, and mainstream financial media still do not truly understand the logic of the crypto industry's development.He stated that some may not understand crypto technology, while others may feel competitive pressure from it, but regardless of the reason, strengthening industry education will help improve the situation and foster a more accurate understanding in the market.
Sapiom 宣布完成 3500 万美元 A 轮融资，由 Dragonfly 领投，公司累计融资总额达到 5000 万美元。同时，Sapiom 对外发布其面向 AI 智能体 的生产基础设施，核心定位是在智能体执行操作时，实时决定其可调用的模型、工具、算力与支付行为，并对成本、权限、延迟、可靠性及合规要求进行控制。
Odaily News: U.S. Senate Digital Assets Subcommittee Chair Cynthia Lummis stated that the Senate will hold a vote on the CLARITY Act before lawmakers begin their August recess. The bill aims to divide federal crypto regulatory responsibilities and covers ethics, enforcement, consumer protection, and market certainty. Lummis said negotiations around the bill have been ongoing for 11 months, with Democrats proposing more than 300 pages of amendments. Current negotiations still involve sections related to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), enforcement provisions, and ethics rules for senior federal officials. On August 5, Democratic staff on the Senate Banking Committee listed five unresolved areas, including securities protection, illicit finance, national security, and presidential conflicts of interest. Donald Trump has received a bipartisan counter-proposal that would allow state attorneys general to enforce federal crypto ethics rules. Under the CLARITY Act, the CFTC and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would share regulatory oversight, establishing distinct pathways for qualifying digital commodities and securities. CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig and SEC Chairman Paul Atkins both support advancing clearer digital asset regulatory legislation.
Odaily News: Bitcoin News stated on the X platform that ZEUS has temporarily taken its infrastructure offline following a cybersecurity incident over the past few hours. ZEUS said the attack has been mitigated and services will remain offline until it completes a full security audit and resumes operations. ZEUS stated that no customer funds have been lost, and no customer funds are currently at risk. Customers whose Lightning Service Provider channels were closed will receive replacement channels once services are restored. Based on the current investigation, ZEUS said the incident appears to be limited to its own infrastructure, with no evidence yet suggesting it was caused by a vulnerability in Lightning node software. ZEUS added that it has been strengthening its infrastructure using trusted execution environments and the Validating Lightning Signer project, noting that the project is designed to mitigate such attacks in its upcoming architecture. ZEUS said it will continue to provide updates as the investigation progresses.
Senator Warren questioned the US government's decision to relax AI chip export policies to the UAE over the UAE's investment in the Trump family's crypto company, World Liberty Financial.
Odaily News: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has asked the U.S. Department of Commerce to explain its policy toward the UAE, following the U.S. granting the UAE greater access to AI chip exports after UAE-linked entities invested in Trump-family-backed crypto project World Liberty Financial. In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, it was mentioned that an Abu Dhabi entity invested $500 million in World Liberty Financial in January; another UAE-affiliated company used World Liberty's USD1 stablecoin to complete a $2 billion investment in crypto exchange Binance. The U.S. Department of Commerce previously reclassified the UAE as Country Group A:5, granting it greater access to license-free exports, including advanced chips. The department also stated it would "actively review" license applications involving exports of chips and servers to MGX, the UAE entity that completed the $2 billion Binance investment. Warren stated that the Commerce Department's actions raise significant questions about whether the president's crypto business interests could influence agency operations and national security. In June, several senators, including Warren, had already requested a hearing regarding the $500 million World Liberty Financial deal.
Senator Lummis stated that the Senate will vote on the Clarity for Digital Asset Markets Act before the August recess, but the bill still faces obstacles such as controversy over Democratic ethics provisions and the 60-vote threshold.
Odaily News: Michigan State Representative Donavan McKinney defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Shri Thanedar in the Democratic primary for Michigan's 13th Congressional District. As of Wednesday, McKinney held 51.9% of the vote, compared to Thanedar's 48.1%. In this primary, Protect Progress, a crypto-backed political action committee, spent over $2 million on media expenditures to support Thanedar's re-election and oppose McKinney. Protect Progress is affiliated with Fairshake, which is primarily backed by crypto companies Coinbase and Ripple. Thanedar previously voted in the House in favor of bills such as the GENIUS Act and the CLARITY Act. McKinney will face Republican candidate Taras Nykoriak in the November election.
Odaily News: According to journalist Eleanor Terrett, U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has filed a motion for cloture on a proposal to advance college sports-related legislation. This move is seen as an indication that a bipartisan consensus has yet to form around the CLARITY Act, which would establish a regulatory framework for the crypto industry.Previously, the market had hoped that Congress would push the CLARITY Act forward, providing a clearer legal framework for issues such as digital asset market structure and the division of regulatory authority. However, the latest developments show that divisions remain within the Senate.Analysts believe that if the two parties fail to reach an agreement on the CLARITY Act, the timeline for the bill's advancement could be further delayed. Nevertheless, supporters still argue that the bill is crucial for clarifying the boundaries of U.S. crypto asset regulation and reducing industry uncertainty.
Odaily News, Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan reiterated that the bank expects the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates three times in a row in September, October, and December.Moynihan stated that the U.S. job market remains strong, but inflation still needs to decline further, leaving room for the Fed to adjust monetary policy going forward. He also noted that consumption trends across different income groups in the U.S. are gradually converging, which is a positive signal of improving economic health.Previously, Bank of America's economics team had already anticipated that the Fed would begin its rate-cutting cycle in the second half of this year. The market is currently keeping a close eye on employment data, inflation trends, and consumer spending to gauge the pace of the Fed's policy adjustments.If the Fed follows through with consecutive rate cuts as expected, it could further lower financing costs and provide support to stock, bond, and risk asset markets.
Odaily News AMD, the semiconductor giant, announced the launch of its enterprise-grade AI programming platform, AMD Instinct Coder. The platform combines AMD chips, Supermicro servers, and Spectro Cloud software, aiming to help enterprises deploy AI coding assistants locally, reduce the cost of cloud-based AI models, and protect code and data security.AMD stated that Instinct Coder is an "out-of-the-box" end-to-end AI development platform, integrating AMD EPYC processors, AMD Instinct GPUs, Supermicro AI servers, Spectro Cloud PaletteAI Inference Launchpad software, and the AMD-optimized GLM-5.2 model. It can be used for software development scenarios such as code generation, application modernization, automated testing, and code review.AMD said that compared to relying on cutting-edge cloud-based AI models, Instinct Coder can help enterprises reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) by up to 70%, with the fastest payback period shortened to 6 months.AMD noted that more and more enterprises are looking to leverage AI to improve development efficiency, but face two major challenges: on one hand, the cost of invoking top-tier cloud models continues to rise; on the other hand, entrusting enterprise source code, intellectual property, and sensitive data to third-party services poses security and compliance risks.Through a local deployment model, Instinct Coder allows enterprises to maintain control over their data and code while providing more predictable infrastructure costs. The platform supports development tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Visual Studio Code, and Cursor, with each node supporting up to 50 users (30 concurrent users).Additionally, the PaletteAI Inference Launchpad provided by Spectro Cloud enables AI workload management, model routing, request auditing, and cost monitoring, and supports invoking external models such as Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, or xAI when needed.AMD stated that Instinct Coder aims to help enterprises break free from the high costs of cloud-based AI services, accelerate AI-driven software development processes while ensuring data security and autonomous control.
According to CCTV News reports, the helicopter carrying U.S. President Trump encountered a flight safety incident in Washington on the 4th. The White House stated that the incident did not pose a personal safety risk; however, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has launched an investigation. Reportedly, Trump departed from outside the White House on the afternoon of the 4th aboard the "Marine One" helicopter, heading to Joint Base Andrews, and then transferred to "Air Force One" to proceed to Los Angeles.
据 Cointelegraph 报道，万事达卡与稳定币编排网络 Borderless 启动试点项目，测试其 Crypto Credential（加密凭证） 框架在跨境稳定币支付中的应用。该试点旨在通过统一标准与验证信号，提升交易各方在审批、合规及风险管理流程中的确定性，降低跨境支付摩擦。