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According to Cointelegraph, AI company Higgsfield has completed $400 million in funding at a valuation of $5.4 billion. This round was jointly supported by Goldman Sachs and Intel, with news sourced from the UK Financial Times (FT).
Odaily News, DefiLlama founder 0xngmi, of the crypto data analytics platform, stated that the team spent months asking Apple to remove phishing apps impersonating DefiLlama from the App Store, which delayed the mobile app's launch until all such counterfeit apps had been removed. 0xngmi noted that after the team downloaded one of the malicious apps and documented a small crypto wallet being stolen, Apple removed it within days. In 2024, the App Store also saw counterfeit apps impersonating Rabby Wallet and Curve Finance; in November 2023, a fake Ledger Live app on the Microsoft Store siphoned off $588,000 across 38 transactions. (Cointelegraph)
Dubai cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has launched pre-market perpetual contracts linked to Chinese robotics company Unitree and AI startup Moonshot AI. The contracts are denominated and settled in USDT and do not involve ownership of shares in the respective companies. Bybit stated that its traditional finance perpetual contract product lineup has grown to over 200 since its launch in April, covering stocks, ETFs, commodities, indices, and pre-market companies. Unitree received approval from Chinese securities regulators in July to list on the Shanghai STAR Market. RWA.xyz data shows that the distribution value of tokenized stocks has reached $2.38 billion, with 1.31 million holders, a 123.62% increase in the latter over the past 30 days. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News Robinhood's blockchain project, Robinhood Chain, has seen its total value locked (TVL) approach $1 billion. According to Standard Chartered analyst Geoffrey Kendrick, nearly all of its liquidity is provided by Uniswap V2, V3, and V4, making it the fastest-growing blockchain by this metric. Protocol fees generated by Robinhood Chain through Uniswap have now become the largest source of UNI burns. Since the Robinhood-related fee switch was activated on July 27, the annualized UNI burn rate has reached approximately $90 million. At roughly $3.50 per token, this equates to burning 25 million UNI annually, representing slightly more than 4% of the circulating supply. Robinhood Chain launched on July 1, with a focus on bringing real-world assets on-chain, and reached 194,000 daily active users within its first week. The partnership allows Robinhood to directly leverage mature DeFi infrastructure to provide liquidity for blockchain expansion. Robinhood is expanding its business into cryptocurrency, prediction markets, and tokenization. The company reported record second-quarter revenue and earnings, though cryptocurrency trading volumes and related revenue both declined. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: Andre Cronje, founder of DeFi platform Flying Tulip and creator of Fantom Network, stated that most DeFi protocols are no longer truly decentralized, with only a few niche areas still qualifying as DeFi. He believes DeFi has evolved into "on-chain finance" or "open finance." He pointed out that true DeFi should possess characteristics such as decentralization, immutability, and the absence of intermediaries, whereas the intermediaries in most current protocols have become corporations, taking on traditional financial institution roles such as decision-makers and risk committees. Cronje noted that this does not mean true DeFi has completely disappeared, as some protocols are still innovating. Data from DefiLlama shows that the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi has dropped from $167 billion in early October 2025 to $75 billion at the time of the original report over the past 10 months, a decline of more than half. In a working paper published in March, the European Central Bank (ECB) analyzed Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth, and Uniswap, finding that based on holding snapshots from November 2022 and May 2023, the top 100 addresses holding governance tokens in these protocols each controlled over 80% of the token supply. The ECB consequently questioned the level of decentralization of these DAOs and whether they should continue to be regarded as "fully decentralized" services exempt from the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News: U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has added an S&P 500 index perpetual product to its proprietary trading program, offering funded traders around-the-clock access to the benchmark U.S. stock index. The product is priced based on an oracle tracking the S&P 500, with no expiration date and no need for rollovers. The S&P 500 index is the second traditional market listed on Kraken Prop, following the Nasdaq 100 index; Kraken plans to add commodities in the future. Users can trade this market in both evaluation accounts and funded accounts, with up to 5x leverage and a maximum notional exposure of $1 million. Kraken Prop users must first purchase an evaluation plan, and after meeting the program's requirements, they can trade using Kraken's capital. Evaluation plans start at $20, with funded account sizes ranging from $5,000 to $200,000. (Cointelegraph)
据 Cointelegraph 报道，欧洲证券和市场管理局（ESMA）于本周三更新 MiCA 注册名单，斯洛文尼亚电子货币机构 Dinaro 正式加入电子货币代币（EMT）发行方名单，成为斯洛文尼亚首家进入该名单的机构。Dinaro 受斯洛文尼亚银行监管，提供包括发卡、收单在内的支付服务，并持有 Mastercard 主要成员资格。 此次更新后，EMT 注册总数达 43 家，资产参考代币（ART）名单仍为空，不合规实体名单维持 167 家不变。加密资产服务提供商（CASP）注册方面，本次新增捷克 Partners Banka 及德国 Volksbank Beilstein-Ilsfeld-Abstatt，注册总数升至 325 家；此前于 7 月初入列的捷克公司 Altlift 则已从名单中移除。
Odaily News: Dinaro, an electronic money institution regulated by the Central Bank of Slovenia, has been included in the European Union's Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) register of electronic money token (EMT) issuers, making it the first Slovenian issuer to be listed on the register. The latest update to the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) register also added two crypto-asset service providers (CASPs): Czech lending institution Partners Banka and Germany's Volksbank Beilstein-Ilsfeld-Abstatt, bringing the total number of registered entities to 325. According to Dinaro's official website, it offers payment services such as card issuing and acquiring, and holds Mastercard principal membership. Czech company Altlift is no longer listed on the CASP register. The company first entered the register in early July this year, authorized to execute and transmit client orders and provide crypto-asset advice. With Dinaro's inclusion, the EMT register now contains 43 entries; the asset-referenced token (ART) register remains empty, and the list of non-compliant entities stands at 167. (Cointelegraph)
据 Cointelegraph 报道，比特币政策研究所（BPI）联合 Anchorage Digital、BitGo、Bitwise、Blockstream、Kraken、Ledger、MARA、Trezor 等多家加密机构，发布公开信敦促各大前沿 AI 实验室为比特币及开源软件开发者建立或扩展可信访问计划。 信中指出，Bitcoin Core 等开源维护者目前缺乏对 AI 实验室网络安全程序的访问渠道，被迫依赖能力较弱的开源模型，而比特币网络当前保护着逾 1 万亿美元资产，任何开源基础设施漏洞均可能危及用户毕生积蓄。BPI 同时披露，已收到多份报告显示包括潜在境外势力在内的复杂攻击者正借助先进 AI 能力持续发动攻击。
Odaily News: Standard Chartered Bank's Head of Global Digital Assets Research, Geoff Kendrick, stated that as the tokenization of Real World Assets (RWA) accelerates, the price of Chainlink (LINK) tokens could rise to $200 by the end of 2030, representing an increase of over 25 times from its current level of approximately $8.In his latest report, Kendrick predicts that the scale of tokenized RWA will reach $4 trillion by the end of 2028. As more traditional assets are brought on-chain, the demand for secure and reliable off-chain data is expected to increase significantly, which could further boost Chainlink's fee revenue and drive up LINK's valuation.The report also projects that by the end of 2030, the scale of tokenized assets and crypto-native assets deployed in decentralized finance (DeFi) will grow approximately 37-fold to reach $2.7 trillion. Kendrick believes these assets require trusted data, cross-network interoperability, privacy-preserving compliance mechanisms, and integration with the existing financial system—infrastructure that Chainlink currently has the capability to provide.Demand for RWA tokenization has continued to grow recently. Data shows that trading volume of tokenized RWAs on decentralized exchanges (DEXs) hit an all-time high of $14.1 billion in July, up 19.5% month-over-month, driven primarily by public market assets such as tokenized stocks.Currently, Chainlink remains one of the largest decentralized oracle service providers in the crypto industry, with a Total Value Secured (TVS) of approximately $34.4 billion—significantly higher than second-ranked Chronicle's $7.36 billion.However, Kendrick also noted that the prediction of LINK reaching $200 still faces risks, including institutional tokenization projects progressing slower than expected, intensified competition from specialized oracle service providers, and potential technical issues. (Cointelegraph)
According to Cointelegraph, BTCPay Server has temporarily restricted public remote connections to Lightning Network nodes due to attackers exploiting a critical vulnerability in LND (Lightning Network Daemon) to steal node credentials and transfer funds. Version 2.4.2 has upgraded to LND 0.21.1 and automatically rotates macaroon credentials in standard installations. The project team reminds operators to check for abnormal payments, channel closures, and balance changes as soon as possible; if nodes are exposed via self-built reverse proxies, Tor services, or port forwarding, relevant credentials must also be manually replaced. Currently, Foundation and Citadel21 have reported node fund losses, but the specific scale of losses has not yet been disclosed.
According to Cointelegraph, Bridge Building, the Luxembourg entity of Stripe's stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge, has officially joined the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) registry. Previously, on July 2, Bridge obtained Crypto-Asset Service Provider (CASP) authorization under the MiCA framework and an Electronic Money Institution (EMI) license issued by the Luxembourg Financial Sector Supervisory Commission (CSSF). Bridge Head of Product Mai Leduc Blount stated that the aforementioned approvals will allow EU enterprises to build stablecoin and payment products within a compliant framework. According to the latest update from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Bridge's inclusion brings the total number of authorized Electronic Money Token (EMT) issuers in the EU to 42; during the same period, three institutions from Germany newly received CASP authorization, raising the total number of authorized CASPs in the EU to 324.
According to Cointelegraph, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) updated the Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) registration list on July 31, adding 12 new Crypto-Asset Service Providers (CASP), bringing the total number of authorized institutions to 321. The newly added institutions include 3 cooperative banks in Germany, as well as multiple companies in Spain and France.
Galaxy Digital Head of Research Alex Thorn stated that based on new victim reports received following the incident, the number of attackers exploiting the Coldcard vulnerability has reached at least 15.Thorn noted that information provided by victims helped the research team uncover previously unidentified attack activity. Unlike thefts from centralized exchanges, correlations between the attackers in this vulnerability exploit require confirmation through on-chain analysis and victim feedback.He added that a single victim reporting less than 1 BTC stolen helped the team discover a previously unknown attack, which siphoned approximately 12 BTC from 126 addresses.According to Galaxy Research's earlier estimates, the Coldcard vulnerability has led to at least three rounds of attacks, with losses amounting to approximately $100 million in BTC. Additionally, Galaxy has identified a suspected fourth round of attacks, which could bring total losses to approximately $130 million.Meanwhile, the incident has also sparked discussions regarding the security of Bitcoin self-custody. Dragonfly Managing Partner Haseeb Qureshi stated that "AI security hardening costing around $2" could potentially have prevented this vulnerability, and noted that some AI models were able to rediscover related vulnerabilities within a relatively short timeframe. However, industry insiders pointed out that current claims about the speed of AI discovering vulnerabilities lack rigorous blind testing and verification.Researchers believe that as AI model capabilities improve, the costs of vulnerability discovery and attacks in the crypto industry may continue to decline, requiring wallet developers to further strengthen code audits and security protections. (Cointelegraph)
According to Cointelegraph, Coinkite, the manufacturer of Coldcard hardware wallets, disclosed that its devices have contained a random number generator (RNG) vulnerability persisting for up to five years since March 2021. The vulnerability stemmed from a firmware upgrade that mistakenly routed wallet seed generation to a less secure MicroPython pseudo-random number generator (PRNG), rather than the originally designed true random number generator (TRNG). Since code reviews only verified the existence of TRNG code without confirming whether it was actually invoked, the vulnerability remained undetected for a long period. To date, over 4,500 addresses have been compromised, with nearly $90 million worth of Bitcoin stolen. Kraken Chief Security Officer Nick Percoco stated that this incident should serve as a "wake-up call" for the hardware wallet industry, calling for the introduction of independent third-party testing mechanisms to mandate verification of whether the entropy sources actually invoked by production firmware are certified. Coinkite has suspended all device shipments and destroyed affected inventory after confirming the vulnerability, and stated it will cooperate with law enforcement agencies across multiple countries to trace the responsible parties.
Odaily News: Affected by a sharp decline in artificial intelligence (AI)-related stocks, investment firm Situational Awareness suffered a severe drawdown in July, with the fund's net value falling 67% in a single month. Aschenbrenner previously gained attention for publishing the research report "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead" on AI development trends, which discussed topics such as AI capability advancement, industrial competition, and AI safety over the next decade. This significant fund drawdown also highlights the challenges facing AI-themed investing: even with a long-term bullish view on technological transformation, concentrated bets on a few high-growth tech assets can still lead to剧烈 short-term volatility.The fund's founder and AI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner acknowledged that market performance in July fell far short of expectations and said in a letter to investors: "We let you down."The Situational Awareness fund previously attracted attention for its bets on long-term AI industry growth, with an investment strategy focused on AI infrastructure, AI chips, and related technology companies. However, the AI sector underwent significant adjustments in July, with high-valuation tech stocks facing sell-offs that dragged down the fund's performance.This drawdown reflects the high volatility risk within the AI investment boom. Although the market remains optimistic about the long-term development of artificial intelligence, some AI-related assets that had previously seen rapid valuation gains underwent noticeable corrections amid changes in interest rates, earnings expectations, and capital flows. (Cointelegraph)
据 Cointelegraph 报道，加拿大比特币硬件钱包制造商 Coinkite 警告 Coldcard Mk3 用户立即迁移资金，受影响固件版本为 2021 年 3 月发布的 4.0.1 至最终版本 5.0.3，Mk4、Q 及 Mk5 不受影响。与此同时，比特币安全专家正在调查一起涉及 594.48 枚 BTC（约 3830 万美元）的异常清仓事件，涉及 1324 个 UTXO 在三个区块内通过 500 笔交易被转移，所有地址均为单签名地址。
According to Cointelegraph, Bhutan's special administrative region Gelephu Mindfulness City (GMC) announced it has commissioned Canadian digital asset management company 3iQ to manage a portion of its Bitcoin treasury, with the specific scale undisclosed. This collaboration is a continuation of the plan announced by Bhutan in December 2025—at that time, Bhutan announced it would allocate up to 10,000 BTC from its state-held Bitcoin to support the development and construction of Gelephu City. Under the latest agreement, 3iQ will manage the relevant assets institutionally and establish a long-term operational presence locally, investing in local talent development and knowledge transfer.
据 Cointelegraph 报道，美国财政部外国资产控制办公室（OFAC）宣布制裁两家伊朗海运公司——波斯湾海洋保险公司（Persian Gulf Marine Insurance Company）及霍尔木兹安全海事服务局（HormuzSafe），指控两者系伊朗伊斯兰革命卫队（IRGC）支持的海运保险网络核心成员，强制要求过境霍尔木兹海峡的商业船只购买其认可的保险。 OFAC 指控 HormuzSafe 接受 BTC 及其他加密资产以规避西方制裁，并代表 IRGC 获取收入。此前 5 月，HormuzSafe 网站曾公开提供可用比特币支付的"数字保险"服务，伊朗官方媒体法尔斯通讯社称该平台潜在收入规模逾 100 亿美元。此次制裁还涉及与伊朗"影子船队"相关的 8 家公司及 8 艘船只。
据 Cointelegraph 报道，澳大利亚互联网监管机构对 Telegram 提起法律诉讼，指控其未能移除支持恐怖主义的内容。