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According to IT Home, ByteDance announced on July 30 the launch of an organizational structure adjustment focused on AI enterprise services. This restructuring merges the Feishu product team into the Doubao product team, under the unified management of Doubao head Zhao Qi; simultaneously, the Feishu GTM team will be integrated with Volcengine to establish a new ToB GTM organization "Creativity Service Platform", led by Volcengine head Tan Dai, who will oversee the marketing, sales, and customer service for ByteDance's cloud services including MaaS and SaaS. Following the restructuring, Doubao Enterprise Edition will natively integrate the Feishu ecosystem, covering all office scenarios such as documents, spreadsheets, meetings, and group chats, and has currently begun internal beta testing with selected Feishu customers.
Odaily Odaily News: The Bitcoin BIP-110 forced signaling window will open at block height 961632, expected around August 9, 2026. As of 8:40 AM (EDT) on July 27, the chain height is 959842, approximately 1790 blocks away from this activation block. The current BIP-110 signaling support rate is around 2.64%. BIP-110, officially named "Reduced Data Temporary Softfork," proposes to limit the size of certain data fields within Bitcoin transactions, targeting Ordinals-like inscriptions, large OP_RETURN payloads, and similar high-data-volume use cases. If activated, the restrictions will take effect at block 965664 and automatically expire after 52,416 blocks (approximately one year). Current signaling support primarily comes from Ocean, independent miners, and small-scale operators. Major mining pools such as Foundry, Antpool, ViaBTC, and F2pool have not yet switched to supporting the proposal. Foundry has requested clients to vote based on their average hashrate; only when “support” votes exceed 51% of the participating weighted hashrate will the pool switch all its blocks to signaling support. If the current signaling level persists until block 961632, nodes enforcing BIP-110 will reject blocks that have not signaled version bit 4 and will instead follow the minority of blocks that do signal. Unupgraded nodes will continue to accept both signaling and non-signaling blocks, and will follow the chain with the most cumulative proof of work.
CryptoQuant analyst Axel Adler pointed out in a weekly report analysis that the US 10-year Treasury yield has recently risen to approximately 4.7%, approaching the upper limit of the range over the past five years. The high-interest rate environment is tightening financial conditions, raising financing costs and asset discount rates, and increasing pressure on risk assets.
According to the official press release, Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy, and Strategy, nine leading financial institutions and Bitcoin companies, jointly announced the establishment of the Bitcoin Security Consortium on July 23, 2026. The members independently committed to contributing a total of $15 million over the next three years to support long-term security research for the Bitcoin network, with a focus on development work in the field of post-quantum cryptography. The consortium's daily affairs are coordinated on a voluntary basis by Brink Executive Director Mike Schmidt; it will not intervene in protocol development or specific change decisions and will regularly release Bitcoin security status reports to investors and the public.
Odaily Planet Daily reported that South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Coinone announced on July 22 that it had received approval from the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) to complete its major shareholder change declaration, formally establishing a new shareholder structure centered around Korea Investment & Securities, OKX Ventures, and Com2uS Holdings. Coinone stated that it will leverage the enhanced compliance and technical capabilities of its new shareholders to upgrade digital asset trading services and accelerate its transition into a comprehensive blockchain financial platform. (EDaily)
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.
Base announced that Cobalt will launch in September, with key features including Sponsorship, Batch Calls, and Session Keys. Among these, Sponsorship allows applications to sponsor transaction fees for users, enabling free Gas; Batch Calls supports bundling multiple transactions into one, reducing operational steps; Session Keys allow users to authorize applications to sign transactions on their behalf within a specific scope, reducing repeated authorizations.
It is reported that Bybit has officially launched the RLUSD holdings interest campaign. Holding a minimum of 1 RLUSD earns a fixed 7% APY, with no subscription required and no locking period. RLUSD is a USD-backed stablecoin issued by Ripple, natively issued on blockchains such as XRP Ledger and Ethereum. It is fully backed by independently custodied cash and cash equivalent reserves and can be redeemed for USD at a 1:1 ratio. Campaign Highlights: • No threshold to participate, earn simply by holding, and enjoy exclusive hidden benefits for long-term holdings • 7% fixed APY, automatically distributed daily • 50,000 RLUSD Trading Competition launched simultaneously: Participate in the ranking by trading with RLUSD as UTA margin This campaign stacks holding yields + trading competition prize pool + long-term benefits, enabling users to enjoy triple benefits simultaneously. Trading Competition: https://www.bybit.com/promo/campaign/RLUSD_Trading_Competition
David Sacks, Chairman of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, stated on the X platform that using regulatory uncertainty as a competitive tool is "completely unacceptable," and regulatory decisions should be based on facts, logic, and evidence, rather than deliberately creating fear and uncertainty (FUD). He is unsure whether venture capitalist and AI policy researcher Dean Ball is admitting to a "regulatory capture" strategy or merely predicting its occurrence, but in any case, leveraging regulatory agencies to issue "soft law" warnings, creating market panic, and thereby forcing regulated companies to stay away from Chinese open-source models should not be tolerated.David Sacks pointed out that Dean Ball believes there is no need to directly ban Chinese open-source models; simply guiding regulators to issue relevant warnings can influence corporate decisions by generating enough doubt and uncertainty, and these reasons "don't even need to be very solid."In response, Sacks argued that any regulatory decision must be well-founded, rather than implementing policies in disguise through "manufactured doubt." He warned that bypassing public deliberation processes in this way would not only erode the foundation of the rule of law but could also open the door to future regulatory abuses targeting any enterprise or individual.Sacks further stated that AI policy is currently at a critical turning point. Major closed-source labs, which have already formed a duopoly in AI model revenue, are now attempting to use government power to eliminate open-source competitors.He called on other companies and developers in Silicon Valley that still support open competition to take a clear stance and jointly safeguard an open ecosystem in the AI field.
Bitwise released a report stating that while crypto asset prices fell by approximately 36% in the first half of 2026, crypto-related stocks rose by 23%. This performance trailed only emerging market stocks, outpacing all other major asset classes. Bitwise Head of Research Ryan Rasmussen noted that the 30 crypto-related publicly listed companies in the Bitwise Crypto Innovators 30 Index outperformed the U.S. stock market by a factor of two, driven by factors including AI computing demand benefiting mining companies, stablecoin issuers, and asset tokenization platforms.Furthermore, according to Token Terminal data, the top ten crypto applications generated cumulative revenue of $5.9 billion over the past 12 months. PancakeSwap, Hyperliquid, and Aave ranked in the top three, with cumulative revenues of $923 million, $912 million, and $877 million, respectively.During the same period, the scale of tokenized real-world assets reached $33 billion in the second quarter, an increase of 45% from the beginning of the year; open interest in prediction markets hit an all-time high of $1.8 billion, with quarterly trading volume reaching $43 billion. (The Block)
Odaily News: Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas posted on platform X, stating that he interviewed the female head responsible for driving DTCC's work related to Trillions. The episode is scheduled to be released later today. He expressed a preference for a "tokenized" future, noting that this process will not happen overnight or be fully realized; DTCC's advancement on this matter is a significant development.
OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger posted on X that OpenClaw has officially released version v2026.7.1. This update was completed jointly by 532 contributors, with a cumulative total of 3,063 commits. Major updates include: comprehensive restructuring of the Web UI and new user onboarding process, significant optimization of iOS / Android / macOS clients, improved integration capabilities for Telegram, Slack, Discord, and iMessage, and added support for models such as GPT-5.6 and Muse Spark 1.1. In addition, this version simultaneously upgraded the Node version to fix automatic updater issues. If the automatic update fails, the upgrade can be completed manually via the Web installer.
"White-Haired Stock Guru" Serenity posted on X platform, pointing out that IBK Research released a report last month on the Boston Dynamics supply chain. The report indicates that Boston Dynamics plans to achieve an annual production capacity of 30,000 units only by 2028, while Chinese robot manufacturers are expected to reach a total production capacity of 100,000 units by the end of 2026. This may lead institutions to begin revaluing the humanoid robot sector.In terms of the competitive landscape, the U.S. camp includes Tesla, Figure, Apptronik, and Agility Robotics, while Boston Dynamics is controlled by South Korea's Hyundai Motor Group. Major Chinese players include Unitree Robotics, Fourier Intelligence, AGIBOT, UBTECH Robotics, and XPeng Robotics. European companies include Neura, Pal Robotics, Wandercraft, and Oversonic.Additionally, IBK Research estimates that Atlas shipments will reach 11,290 units by 2028, and will increase to 20,000, 30,000, 40,000, and 50,000 units respectively between 2029 and 2032. However, Serenity questioned this linear growth model, arguing that the actual volume ramp-up curve is more likely to follow an S-curve. Serenity predicts that shipments could reach 15,000 to 20,000 units by 2028, increase to 40,000 to 70,000 units by 2029, and further rise to 90,000 to 140,000 units by 2030.
According to a post by Vitalik Buterin (@VitalikButerin), Ethereum researchers recently held a meeting in Berlin to update the protocol's long-term development roadmap (strawmap.org). Vitalik pointed out that "Lean Ethereum" is not a single upgrade, but a series of improvements to be implemented in phases over the next three to four years. Its significance is comparable to "The Merge," almost covering the refactoring of every core module of the protocol. The main contents include: • Verification Mechanism: Introduce recursive STARKs to replace the existing direct re-execution method, becoming a first-class core component of the protocol • Quantum Safety: Priority significantly increased, all quantum-vulnerable components will be replaced, quantum-safe Blob design is already underway • Consensus Layer: Decouple availability chains and finality, achieve one to two rounds of finality, with better security and lower latency • State Layer: The existing dynamic state remains unchanged, but new types of state with stronger scalability will be added (such as UTXO storage, ring buffers, etc.). It is expected that by 2030, Ethereum will have 2TB of dynamic state + 100TB of new state. After migration of applications such as ERC20 and NFTs, gas fees can be reduced by more than 10 times • Privacy: Upgraded from an additional feature to a first-class goal, permeating designs such as Mempool and state trees • VM: In addition to EVM, leanISA or RISC-V will be introduced. The long-term goal is for the protocol layer to only directly
Odaily News: Fox Business crypto reporter posted on X platform, stating that the Major County Sheriffs of America has shifted to a "neutral" stance on the Clarity Act after recent ongoing discussions around parts of Section 604, i.e., the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. In a letter to leaders of the Senate Banking Committee, MCSA stated that based on its continued review of the bill, there remains an opportunity to further strengthen the legislation in a manner that supports responsible innovation and the practical needs of state and local law enforcement.
According to Zcash developer Sean Bowe (@ebfull) in a tweet, the Zcash Ironwood network upgrade has made significant progress: all consensus rule changes have been implemented and entered the audit phase, and relevant specifications (ZIPs) have been published and are close to final status; testnet activation is scheduled for July 4, and mainnet activation is expected to be completed around July 21. The team is concurrently conducting formal verification work to eliminate potential risks regarding supply integrity, and relevant results will be announced before mainnet activation. The only impact on the client side after the upgrade is the migration process for the legacy pool. Currently, sufficient hashrate has expressed support for the mainnet upgrade; while some wallets may not complete adaptation in time, the team stated they will not delay activation due to this, and ample alternative solutions and testnet time will be provided at that time.
It is reported that Bybit TradFi CFD has announced the completion of a major feature upgrade and now officially supports BYUSDT as margin for CFD (Contract for Difference) trading. This upgrade introduces a new capital strategy of "Hold BYUSDT + Trade TradFi CFD," aimed at helping investors maximize capital utilization and achieve dual returns of "earning interest while trading."
a16z crypto posted on the X platform, stating that prediction market open interest reached $1.48 billion in the week ending June 15, hitting a new all-time high for the second consecutive week. Unlike trading volume, which reflects daily activity, open interest tracks the funds participants have deployed and remain at risk. This metric has grown approximately sixfold over the past year, indicating that users are maintaining longer-term financial positions and that prediction markets are evolving into durable market infrastructure. Major events attract a large number of users, and more traders are staying to participate in a wide range of markets covering politics, economics, culture, crypto, and more.Previously, a16z crypto stated that multiple events, including the World Cup, synergized to push prediction market weekly trading volume to a new all-time high of $10.8 billion.
Odaily Odaily News: MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, and Mizuho Bank plan to jointly issue a fiat-pegged stablecoin by fiscal year 2026. They will establish a dedicated discussion group to explore practical business applications and operational mechanisms. The three banks are close to reaching a basic agreement. Since November 2025, the three banks have been conducting joint stablecoin issuance pilot tests under the support of Japan's Financial Services Agency. (Nikkei)
Byreal has officially launched its on-chain prediction market product, Byreal Predict. This product connects to Polymarket’s order book and liquidity, enabling users to trade predictions on real-world sports events. Byreal Predict initially covers major events including the 2026 FIFA World Cup, the NBA Finals, and Major League Baseball (MLB), supporting trades on outcomes such as individual match results, group-stage qualification, and tournament champions. Future updates will introduce AI-powered prediction market analytics, automated trading, and referral commission features.