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According to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will list Squid (QUID) on August 4. Eligible users can visit the Alpha event page to claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha points after Alpha trading opens. Specific details will be announced separately.
CSOP Asset Management issued an announcement regarding a total of 12 single-stock leveraged and inverse products under its management, linked to underlying individual stocks such as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in the Korean stock market, and Tesla, Nvidia, Coinbase, etc. in the US stock market. These products will adopt a flexible leverage structure on August 3. Under this structure, the leverage multiple of each leveraged product or each inverse product will be adjusted based on market conditions. The upper limit of the leverage multiple shall not exceed 2x (applicable to leveraged products) or 2x inverse (-2x) (applicable to inverse products).
Odaily News: According to official sources, MGBX will launch spot trading for AAOI (Applied Optoelectronics), ARM (ARM), AVGO (Broadcom), and BABA (Alibaba) at 18:00 (SGT) on August 3, 2026.Trading opening time: 18:00 (SGT) on August 3, 2026.
According to the official announcement, HTX listed GRVT/USDT, GILD/USDT, and UNH/USDT perpetual contracts on August 3, with a maximum leverage of 10x for all.
official data shows Gate's yield-bearing stable asset GUSD has surpassed $224 million in cumulative subscription volume. Currently, users holding GUSD can enjoy five-fold yield benefits, including deposit rewards, GUSD demand deposit subscription yield, 1:1 lossless redemption, and stacked rewards from Launchpool dual staking pools, offering multiple asset appreciation opportunities across various scenarios.Among these, Gate GUSD demand deposit treasury product supports users holding GUSD to earn an annualized yield of 3.8%, with yields distributed daily and supporting flexible deposits and withdrawals; the original subscribed currency can be redeemed 1:1 without loss, with no redemption fees. Additionally, new users participating in GUSD demand deposit treasury subscriptions can enjoy a limited-time 100% annualized yield.In terms of ecosystem yield, Gate Launchpool currently has multiple staking pools open simultaneously, including SPCX and ANTFUN. Data shows that the SPCX GUSD pool currently has a total liquid staking amount of 44,679,086.85 GUSD with an APR of 4.85%; the ANTFUN GUSD pool currently has a total liquid staking amount of 76,454,030.14 GUSD with an APR of 5.06%. After users stack GUSD demand deposit yield, the combined annualized yields of the two pools can reach 8.65% and 8.86%, respectively.In addition, Gate is launching a deposit trading carnival event from July 27 at 18:00 to August 11 at 18:00 (UTC+8). Users who complete designated net deposits and trading tasks can receive deposit rewards and participate in trading challenges, with a maximum reward of 8,938 USDT per individual.
PPP Prediction Market Tool monitoring shows that in Polymarket's "WTI Crude Oil Price Hit in August" prediction event, the probability of WTI crude falling to $75/barrel rose to 77%, up 11% in 24 hours; the probability of falling to $70/barrel rose to 45%, up 12% in 24 hours.Earlier, oil prices were driven up by escalating tensions in the Middle East, but after Trump announced a halt to military action against Iran and indicated that the U.S. and Iran would enter a new round of negotiations, market concerns over supply disruptions began to ease, causing the risk premium on crude to quickly retreat. WTI crude prices have now fallen to around $80/barrel.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
Odaily News — According to official sources, OKX.AI has announced that registration for its inaugural trading hackathon is now open. Following the previous Genesis hackathon for Agent Service Providers (ASP), this hackathon focuses on AI Agent live trading capabilities. Participants are required to deploy their trading strategies as Trading ASPs and conduct live trading with no less than 300 USDT in equivalent funds. Rankings will be updated in real time based on yield (PnL %). The total prize pool is $20,000, with the champion receiving a $5,000 reward.It is reported that OKX.AI is an economic system built specifically for Agents, where users and Agents can discover and utilize professional services provided by ASPs. This event supports two development frameworks: Onchain OS and Agent Trade Kit. Registration runs from July 31 to August 11 at 12:00 (UTC+8), and the competition will take place from August 11 to August 25.
Odaily News: According to an official announcement, Binance Futures will list the GIGADEVUSDT perpetual contract on August 3, 2026 at 13:30 (UTC+8), supporting up to 20x leverage and multi-asset mode.
: Bitgo CEO Mike Belshe deposited 100 BTC into a public Bitcoin address on August 1, worth approximately $6.3 million at the time, and invited Anthropic's Claude model to attempt to move the funds out of the address. On-chain records show the wallet received the funds on July 31, and the balance had not been transferred out as of August 2. Anthropic previously disclosed that during 141,006 cybersecurity assessment runs, 3 incidents were found, with 6 evaluation sessions involving 3 models inadvertently interacting with real organizational systems. The models involved include Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unreleased internal research model. The cause was a configuration error by third-party testing partner Irregular, which led to the test environment being connected to the internet. Anthropic stated that Claude Opus 4.7, during one evaluation, located a real website with the same name as a simulated company, exploited weak passwords and exposed services to recover infrastructure credentials, and accessed a production database containing hundreds of records. The company said the model was attempting to complete assigned tasks, not actively breaking constraints or pursuing independent goals. Belshe's challenge involves Bitgo's institutional custody platform, which uses multi-signature or multi-party computation technology to distribute signing authority across multiple independent keys. As of August 2, Anthropic had not publicly responded to the challenge.
Odaily News: In the Coldcard security incident involving hardware wallet company Coinkite, the amount of stolen bitcoin has risen to approximately 1,359.882 BTC. According to statistics from the Coldcard Sweep Watch dashboard, most of the identified bitcoin remains in a small number of addresses controlled by the attacker. On August 1, one of the attacker's holding addresses received a transaction containing an OP_RETURN message. The message publicly offered a 10% fee for "washing" bitcoin, KYC assistance, and withdrawal services for stolen funds, along with a Telegram contact. Coinkite has released an urgent firmware update to fix the weak random number generation issue that caused the original vulnerability. The company stated that the new firmware only protects wallets created in the future and cannot fix seeds already generated on affected versions. Some users have reported that after installing the update, their devices remain stuck on an error screen, fail to boot, or appear bricked. This mainly affects Mk4 and Q devices, though some Mk3 users have also reported similar issues. As of August 2, Coinkite has not publicly confirmed a widespread firmware defect.
Odaily News: HyperliquidNews announced on X that the 7-day (168-hour) TWAP orders went live at 09:00 UTC on August 1.
On August 2, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor posted "Bitcoin Drive engaged" along with a chart tracking the company's Bitcoin reserves. The chart shows that Strategy holds 843,775 BTC, with a market value of approximately $53.25 billion, an average cost of $75,653 per coin, and an unrealized loss of $10.58 billion. Strategy's real-time ledger shows that the company has had a total of 116 disclosed treasury events, purchasing 843,775 BTC for approximately $63.69 billion, at an average price of $75,476 per coin. The ledger also shows that Strategy recently sold a total of 3,588 BTC in two transactions—1,363 and 2,225 coins respectively—reducing its holdings from 847,363 to 843,775 BTC. Strategy disclosed in an SEC filing that the BTC sales were used to pay preferred stock distributions and replenish dollar reserves. Recent disclosures also show that the company did not purchase BTC during the week ending July 26, and increased its dollar reserves to approximately $3.75 billion, enough to cover about 2.1 years of preferred stock dividends and debt interest.
According to Yonhap News Agency, data released by the National Investigation Headquarters of the Korean National Police Agency shows that during the concentrated crackdown campaign in the first half of this year (March to June), a total of 5,203 drug suspects were caught and 1,039 were detained, representing a year-on-year increase of 1.8% and 7.8% respectively. Among them, suspects involved in online drug transactions reached 2,178, accounting for 41.9% of the total number of suspects caught, an increase of 300 people compared to the same period last year; there were 848 foreign nationals involved in drug-related activities, an increase of 114 people year-on-year, with supply-related crimes accounting for up to 47.2%. During this period, the police also successfully extradited Philippine drug lord Park Wang-yeol and recovered criminal proceeds of 3.84 billion Korean won. In the second half of the year (August to December), the police will focus on strengthening crackdowns on drug sales channels on social platforms such as Telegram, and establish a 41-member special tracking team for virtual assets, while jointly strengthening efforts to crack down on drug crimes involving foreign personnel with international law enforcement agencies.
Odaily News: OpenAI announced that as of the end of July, ChatGPT's global active users surpassed 1 billion, and the number of enterprise customers exceeded 2 million.Data shows that ChatGPT gained over 1 million registered users within just 5 days of its launch, after which its user base grew rapidly, surpassing 200 million, 500 million, and 800 million users in August 2024, August 2025, and October 2025, respectively. OpenAI had previously projected internally that its user count would exceed 1 billion by the end of last year, but growth subsequently stalled, with the addition of 100 million new users taking about 5 months.OpenAI is bolstering its service competitiveness through GPT-5.6 Sol, the agent tool ChatGPT Work, as well as the lower-priced models GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-5.6 Luna. OpenAI is also advancing the Stargate project in the U.S. with Oracle and SoftBank, and building data centers in South Korea with Samsung and SK.
Bitget launches Phase 8 of the Contract VIP "Ten Million Club" event. The event snapshot rules are "Calendar Month Cumulative Target Achievement + End-of-Month Status Confirmation". Based on account data from August 31, the platform will award esports-themed gift boxes of different tiers based on users' US Stock rToken trading volume or Contract trading volume from August 1 to August 31. Rewards include: Razer Gaming Chair, PS5 Pro, Colorful RTX 5090 Graphics Card, and other great gifts. Previously, Bitget announced an upgrade to its Contract VIP service system and launched the "Ten Million Club" plan. Eligible users can receive platform-customized high-end physical gift boxes on a monthly basis. Previous gifts to users have included Moutai, Hermes, Apple gift boxes, and Luk Fook Jewellery. Specific benefits are subject to the monthly announcement.
Odaily News: U.S. President Trump is weighing a bipartisan ethics counterproposal to the CLARITY Act, as Senate negotiators need to finalize crypto conflict-of-interest rules before the August 7 recess. The bill aims to establish a federal regulatory framework for crypto companies through a division of labor between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Republican Senator Thom Tillis and Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego submitted a state attorneys general enforcement plan to the White House on July 29. The plan allows state-level agencies to enforce the ban on federal officials issuing or sponsoring digital tokens, rather than leaving related violations solely to the Department of Justice. The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the bill on July 17 with 294 votes in favor and 134 against, with over 70 Democrats voting in favor. The Senate has not yet held a full floor vote, and the bill needs 60 votes to pass. If all Republicans support it, at least 7 Democrats would still need to vote in favor.
Odaily News, August 1: trade.xyz has announced the completion of compensation distribution for the Hynix contract pricing anomaly event that occurred on July 27. Users will receive their corresponding USDC compensation without any additional action required.According to the announcement, compensation amounts are calculated based on a reference price of $1,115.5. Users with compensation under 10,000 USDC will receive the full amount directly; for amounts exceeding that threshold, an initial distribution of 9,999 USDC will be issued, and users must contact support to complete due diligence before August 15 to claim the remaining balance.At 23:01 UTC on July 27, the marked price of the SK Hynix token on trade.xyz briefly dropped from $1,127.9 to $917.25, triggering forced liquidations across numerous long positions.
Bitget launches a new round of CandyBomb with a total prize pool of 3 XAUT. This event is open to new users of precious metals and commodities contracts. The participation period runs from July 30 to August 9. During the event, eligible users trading designated contracts such as XAUUSDT and XAGUSDT can receive corresponding candies upon reaching the cumulative trading volume target. Each user can receive up to 0.03 XAUT. For detailed rules, please refer to the official Bitget platform.
Odaily News, BIT Official released a weekly report stating that trading volume in the crypto market has fallen 80% from its peak, contracting approximately 60% from the Q4 2025 high, while the total crypto market cap has also dropped 50%. The report noted that without a meaningful recovery in volume, the market will struggle to form a sustained rebound.Despite the market still digesting the double headwinds of the Fed's hawkish policy stance and stalled progress on the CLARITY Act, Bitcoin has held within the $62,000 to $66,000 range. BIT Official expects Bitcoin to eventually break upward.The report stated that Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has recently adopted a "say less, do less" communication strategy, and the uncertainty surrounding his policy stance is unsettling the market. Warsh has been known for his hawkish position over the past two decades, but the market had previously anticipated that, with Trump's support, he might push monetary policy in a more dovish direction. If that shift materializes, it could be a positive catalyst for Bitcoin.Additionally, prediction market data shows that the probability of the CLARITY Act being signed into law by the end of 2026 currently stands at just 32%. Senate Majority Leader John Thune has indicated that the Senate will prioritize other issues, and with the August recess approaching, the remaining legislative window for the bill is further narrowing.
Bitget PoolX will launch the project Space and Time (SXT). Locking SXT allows sharing 2,500 UNI, with an individual locking limit of 80 million SXT. The locking channel opens from 18:00 on July 31 to 18:00 on August 5 (UTC+8).