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Odaily News: Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has launched USD-settled BTC and ETH options on Kraken Pro, initially available via Request for Quote (RFQ), with the European market to follow soon. Kraken plans to further expand the product through an order book, broader regional coverage, and additional assets. It noted that existing crypto options products are primarily geared toward institutional investors, with insufficient retail participation.
Michael Saylor, founder of Bitcoin treasury company Strategy, has once again posted information related to the Bitcoin Tracker, captioned "What's next?". According to previous patterns, Strategy typically discloses information on increasing its Bitcoin holdings the day after relevant news is released.
According to The Wall Street Journal, following Moonshot AI's release of the low-cost, high-performance large model Kimi K3, Wall Street has once again seen concerns about a "DeepSeek-style shock," with the AI chip sector facing selling pressure. Morgan Stanley stated that the market may experience AI industry turbulence similar to that triggered by DeepSeek in early 2025, where the rise of low-cost, high-performance AI models could challenge top U.S. model developers such as OpenAI and Anthropic, while simultaneously weakening demand for the large-scale compute infrastructure underpinning the U.S. AI investment boom.
According to South Korean media ETNews, the South Korean government released the "Korean Won Internationalization Roadmap," proposing to promote the transformation of the Korean Won into a freely convertible currency and build an offshore Korean Won settlement network. According to the plan, the Bank of Korea plans to trial run the "Offshore Korean Won Settlement Network" this September and officially launch it next January; simultaneously, it will advance digital asset payment infrastructure construction to support the issuance, distribution, and trading of Korean Won-denominated stablecoins.
: The South Korean government today released a "Roadmap for the Internationalization of the Korean Won," aiming to transform the won from a regulated currency into a freely convertible currency and to establish an offshore won settlement network. The Bank of Korea will launch a system tentatively named the "Offshore Won Settlement Network," which is expected to begin trial operations in September this year and officially launch in January next year. South Korea will also build digital asset payment infrastructure to lay the foundation for the issuance, distribution, and trading of won-pegged stablecoins, and plans to launch a pilot project next year to promote the tokenization of government bonds linked to the central bank digital currency (CBDC) of the Bank of Korea. Additionally, South Korea will officially join Project Agora, a cross-border digital payment initiative led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) that brings together the central banks of eight countries.
Clem Chambers stated China's LLMs catching up to OpenAI and Anthropic does not signify the end of the AI boom, as LLMs are only one part of the AI industry. He believes that free or open-source models will not diminish AI demand, as enterprises and governments still require higher-level AI capabilities. He draws an analogy between AI infrastructure demand and Bitcoin mining, stating that both revolve around kilowatt computing power and kilowatt-hour costs. Hardware, energy, cooling, and turbines cannot be provided for free, and the related value chain is constrained by resources and upgrade cycles. Chambers points out that AI demand drives continuous iteration of hardware and software, and equipment may face replacement cycles similar to crypto mining. He argues that the cost base of AI comes not only from the models themselves but also from computing power allocation and infrastructure investment. (Forbes)
According to Bloomberg, AI company Moonshot AI has reportedly informed investors that the company plans to go public within six months at the earliest. Sources revealed that Moonshot AI has officially distributed shareholder resolution documents to investors, seeking shareholder support for its listing in Hong Kong. Initiating this notification process means that the company could complete the IPO within the next six months at the earliest. Moonshot AI is currently completing a round of financing, and the company's valuation could exceed $30 billion post-financing. They stated that the company believes now is the right time to go public because its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR, a key metric measuring future sales capability) reached $300 million in June.
Michael Saylor posted on X platform, stating that many Bitcoin supporters he respects are backing the BIP 110 proposal. He understands and agrees with these individuals' desire to protect Bitcoin, but believes that the solution proposed by this proposal is "more dangerous than the problem itself." Bitcoin requires guardians who uphold network neutrality, and he claimed that he will present "110 reasons" to explain why Bitcoin must adhere to the principle of neutrality. The key to protecting Bitcoin lies in maintaining its fundamental attributes as a global, open, decentralized monetary network, rather than resolving short-term disputes through methods that could weaken network consensus.
: Qiming Venture Partners has released the "2026 Qiming Venture Partners Top 10 AI Outlook," which focuses on four major directions: foundation models, embodied intelligence, AI infrastructure, and AI applications, predicting the development trends of the artificial intelligence industry over the next 12 to 24 months. In terms of AI infrastructure, the demand for AI computing power is shifting from the training phase to the inference phase. Segments such as storage, advanced process technology, and advanced packaging will continue to face structural shortages. Over the next two years, computing power asset reserves will become a crucial strategic resource for AI companies. The competition in AI infrastructure will also evolve from competition centered on single chips to system-level competition encompassing chips, interconnects, cooling, power supply, and other components. In the next 12 to 24 months, the commercialization of AI applications will focus more intensively on vertical industries and high-paying users. Applications that improve enterprise efficiency will take off first. Meanwhile, as token costs decrease and interaction models innovate, phenomenal AI consumer applications are also expected to gradually emerge.Furthermore, Qiming Venture Partners anticipates that AI-Native organizations will move from concept to practical implementation. Some companies are expected to achieve several times the per capita productivity improvement compared to traditional organizations.
According to Odaily, as of June 23, 2026, Foundry Digital, AntPool, ViaBTC, and F2Pool collectively control over 70% of the Bitcoin network's hashrate, with shares of approximately 31%, 18%, 13%, and 10% respectively. Foundry Digital is a US-based mining pool backed by Digital Currency Group, primarily serving large institutions and publicly listed mining companies. In the first half of 2026, D-Central reported a Nakamoto coefficient of 3, meaning that just three mining pools would be enough to produce more than half of the blocks. ViaBTC faced stricter regulatory scrutiny in 2026, prompting some miners to shift to alternative pools like EMCD.
: The South Korean government plans to invest approximately 4 trillion won next year to procure 10,000 of NVIDIA's latest Vera Rubin GPUs, aiming to support the expansion of public-facing services such as "AI for All" and the construction of a national-level AI infrastructure. The Ministry of Science and ICT plans to extend the "Project for Strengthening the Foundation for Utilizing AI Computing Resources" and configure all GPUs introduced next year as Vera Rubin. This project entrusts private companies, such as cloud service providers operating data centers, with the entire process of GPU procurement, construction, and service provision, funded by the government budget. Over the past two years, through this project and other means, the South Korean government has secured over 30,000 GPUs, providing them to both the public and private sectors. Compared to the previous generation Blackwell architecture, the Vera Rubin offers up to a 6-fold improvement in training performance and over an 8-fold improvement in inference performance. A source from the Ministry of Science and ICT stated that the specific GPU procurement plan and budget size have not yet been finalized. Industry insiders mentioned that current data center space is insufficient, making it challenging to secure large-scale new resources by next year. The government is currently evaluating various alternative plans.
According to CoinDesk, Zcash has released the full node software Zakura 1.0.0, a new client refactored based on Zebra that supports pruning, snapshot synchronization, and compatibility mode with the legacy zcashd, capable of reducing new node startup time to within two minutes. The project is maintained by Zcash zero-knowledge cryptography founding member Sean Bowe and Valar Group head Dev Ojha, aiming to lay the foundation for Zcash's subsequent scaling to throughput capabilities approaching those of Visa and Mastercard.
: Zcash has launched a new full node, Zakura, maintained by a team independent of the Zcash Foundation. It is released as a fast-sync branch that is a trimmed version of Zebra and is compatible with the legacy zcashd client, whose lifecycle will end on July 18th. Zakura is part of Zcash's scaling efforts, working in conjunction with Project Tachyon and private information retrieval research. The goal is to increase network throughput to the level of Visa and Mastercard by reducing verification data and eliminating wallet performance bottlenecks. Zakura also supports the Ironwood (NU6.3) upgrade, which will be activated on July 28th. This upgrade introduces a turnstile mechanism to limit withdrawals from the Orchard shielded pool and to control the creation of counterfeit ZEC that could be generated by potential long-term soundness bugs.
U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren on July 16, 2026, asked President Donald Trump to release a full financial disclosure through July 15, covering his cryptocurrency income. The Senate is currently reviewing the CLARITY Act, a crypto market structure bill. The U.S. Office of Government Ethics released Trump's 2025 annual public financial disclosure on June 30, 2026. Warren stated the report shows Trump's crypto-related revenue at approximately $1.4 billion, more than double his total income in 2024, with crypto businesses accounting for the vast majority of his disclosed income. The disclosure documents show that Trump family members hold a 30% ownership stake in DT Marks Defi LLC, an entity whose assets include a Coinbase account valued at over $100 million, as well as a 38.25% interest in WLF Holdco LLC. DT Marks Defi LLC generated over $590 million in revenue in 2025. Trump stated on July 2 that the related income "is not illegal in any way, nor is there any problem," adding that his involvement in cryptocurrency predates his second term. He said he does not personally track profit details and noted that large institutions manage his investments.
Odaily News: Headline: "Loss of 23.75 Million USDC: Ostium Price Data Attacked". According to Ostium's monitoring, Ostium has released an update on the security incident. Its liquidity provider treasury was attacked on July 15, resulting in a loss of 23,752,746 USDC. Preliminary investigations indicate that the attacker compromised the off-chain infrastructure that supplies price data to the protocol, submitting disguised, fraudulent price reports. By rapidly opening and closing multiple large positions, the attacker extracted artificially generated profits from the treasury. Ostium stated that trader collateral is stored in separate, isolated smart contracts and was unaffected by this incident; all trading positions remain open. The team paused trading and froze all trading contracts within 60 minutes of the first attack transaction. Currently, Ostium is cooperating with Mandiant, zeroShadow, Collisionless, SEAL 911, and law enforcement agencies, and is coordinating with trading platforms, bridge contracts, and stablecoin issuers to advance the investigation. The engineering team is repairing and strengthening the relevant infrastructure to support a safe resumption of trading. Ostium stated it will notify at least 24 hours in advance before thawing the trading contracts. Once trading resumes, existing positions will be marked at the price at the time of reopening, unaffected by price fluctuations during the suspension.
据韩媒 NATE 报道，三星证券发布报告称，韩国 ETF 市场正兴起“集中型”投资趋势，减少持仓数量、提高龙头企业权重的 ETF 成为新热点，投资者倾向通过 ETF 集中押注各主题中的核心龙头企业。
Michael Saylor believes that the proposal does not fix clear consensus failures such as inflation, double-spending, or signature verification, but instead attempts to address disputes regarding the uses of valid paying transactions at the consensus layer, which may constrain future upgrade flexibility, increase activation coordination risks, and set a precedent for excluding specific use cases via consensus rules.
one year after the US House of Representatives passed the CLARITY Act, the bill has still not moved forward in the Senate. On July 17, House members held a hearing at Federal Hall National Memorial in New York to discuss how the bill could establish clearer rules for the digital asset market. House Majority Whip Tom Emmer stated that nearly 80 Democrats joined Republicans in passing the CLARITY Act, but the Senate has yet to make measurable progress. Participants in the hearing included representatives from Nova Labs, Bullish, WisdomTree, and Coin Center. House Financial Services Committee Chairman French Hill noted that even with the GENIUS Act and dollar-backed stablecoin laws in place, without a market structure bill, the digital asset ecosystem still lacks the rule system needed to support its operation. Senator Cynthia Lummis said on July 14 that the Senate version of the CLARITY Act is ready, and the text of the bill will be released within days.
Odaily Strategy founder Michael Saylor published a lengthy post on July 18, listing 100 reasons to oppose BIP 110. He stated that the proposal would impose restrictions on a currently valid but controversial class of transactions through Bitcoin's consensus rules, constituting governance intervention in certain use cases. BIP 110, full name "Reduced Data Temporary Softfork," was marked as Complete on Github on June 25, 2026. The proposal is planned to run for approximately one year and introduces seven new consensus restrictions, including an 83-byte limit on OP_RETURN outputs, a 256-byte cap on certain payloads and witness items, as well as restrictions on some Taproot-related structures. Michael Saylor pointed out that BIP 110 adopts a 55% miner signaling threshold, lower than the 95% threshold in the standard BIP 9 process, and removes the regular timeout and FAILED status. He believes that using a lower threshold for controversial rule changes increases the probability of a chain split and could potentially affect miner fee revenue and long-term network security. He argued that existing Bitcoin relay and mining strategy tools already allow node operators and miners to restrict unwanted transaction types without the need to change the network's consensus rules. Michael Saylor also stated that Bitcoin's base layer should remain conservative and opposed the use of consensus soft forks to regulate controversial use cases.
Bitcoin News posted on X platform stating that Dathon Pwn claims to have discovered a late-upgrade consensus vulnerability in BIP 110. This could cause nodes upgraded from older software to retain chain history, while newly deployed BIP 110 nodes would reject this history, potentially resulting in a hidden chain split.