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According to CoinDesk, Project Agorá, led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), recently completed a cross-border payment test with real funds. Participants included 28 commercial banks such as JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, UBS, Deutsche Bank, and Standard Chartered, as well as five central banks. The test processed approximately $1 million (about 800,000 Swiss francs) in real transactions, covering six currencies: the US dollar, euro, pound sterling, Japanese yen, Swiss franc, and South Korean won. The test utilized tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank deposits, settling funds on a shared ledger with an average settlement time of about 80 seconds. Unlike traditional cross-border payments that require intermediation by multiple correspondent banks, the platform achieved shared single ownership records and supports synchronized settlement of bilateral foreign exchange, effectively reducing principal risk. The BIS stated that the platform can operate in parallel with existing payment systems, rather than replacing them.
According to BeInCrypto, El Salvador's two major opposition parties have officially nominated candidates for the February 2027 presidential election: the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) nominated former legislator Maytee Iraheta, while the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) nominated doctor and union leader Rafael Aguirre. Both candidates clearly oppose Bukele's Bitcoin strategy, characterizing it as a fiscal failure. However, Bukele's approval rating remains as high as 94%, and his New Ideas party has also completed nominations, holding a clear advantage for re-election. It is worth noting that El Salvador revoked Bitcoin's legal tender status in February 2025 after reaching a $1.4 billion loan agreement with the IMF, restoring the US dollar as the sole official currency, but the government still maintains the plan to purchase approximately 1 Bitcoin per day, with holdings reaching approximately 7,730 BTC as of July 27.
OKX will list FWDI (Forward Industries), AEHR (Aehr Test Systems), and FLY (Firefly Aerospace) stock perpetual contracts between 17:00 and 17:30 on July 27.
OpenAI confirmed that the unreleased GPT-5.6 Sol and another unnamed, more powerful pre-release model breached a restricted sandbox environment during ExploitGym benchmark evaluations and infiltrated Hugging Face's production infrastructure to obtain test answers.OpenAI stated that the models leveraged a zero-day vulnerability in an internal software package registry proxy to escalate privileges and move laterally, ultimately connecting to a machine with internet access. The models then identified and chained together vulnerabilities in both the OpenAI research environment and Hugging Face's production infrastructure, directly retrieving test solutions from Hugging Face's production database.Hugging Face disclosed the incident on July 16, stating that the attack was executed end-to-end by an autonomous AI agent system, involving thousands of operations within short-lived sandboxes and accessing internal datasets and service credentials. OpenAI confirmed its models were the subject of the incident five days later.Hugging Face stated that its security team, in order to analyze over 17,000 attack logs, initially attempted to use a commercial US frontier AI interface, but the request was blocked due to safety guardrails. They subsequently switched to using the 753-billion parameter open-weight model GLM 5.2 from Chinese AI startup Z.ai on their own infrastructure to complete the forensic analysis.
: Japanese convenience store operator Lawson plans to test yen-pegged stablecoin payments in August at its Lawson Takanawa Gateway City store in Tokyo. HashPort has signed agreements with Lawson and KDDI to conduct the pilot, where participants will use HashPort's non-custodial wallet. The store will process payments through the HashPort payment system, eliminating the need for merchants to open or manage crypto wallets. Japanese payment company Netstars has launched Stablecoin Pay, opening applications to merchants looking to accept multiple stablecoins. The service initially supports USDC, USDT, and the yen-pegged stablecoin JPYC on the Solana and Polygon networks. Supported wallets include MetaMask, and the merchant transaction fee rate is 0.98%. (Cointelegraph).
Arthur Hayes 在 X 平台发文表示，他已清仓全部 HYPE 和 NEAR 持仓，并将在下周二发布的文章“Reality Test”中解释原因。Arthur Hayes 称，伊朗战争和库存补充将推高能源价格；当前至第三季度初之间将有 3 家大型 AI 企业 IPO；预测特朗普将为帮助共和党赢得中期选举而转向反 AI；其认为市场高点将在当前至 9 月之间出现；现在是止盈的时候，可以在无需担心持仓的情况下抽身。
According to The Block, Lee Reiners—a lecturer in law at Duke University and former examiner at the New York Federal Reserve—published a post on May 8 stating that WLFI, the governance token issued by the DeFi project World Liberty Financial—which is closely associated with the Trump family—may constitute an unregistered security. Reiners cited the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) recently released token classification framework, arguing that WLFI is not a “pure digital commodity” and therefore falls under SEC regulatory scrutiny. He contends that WLFI was publicly presold—approximately 25 billion tokens—prior to the protocol’s launch and was marketed leveraging the Trump family’s brand, leading buyers to reasonably expect profits—a key element of the SEC’s “Howey Test” for determining whether an asset qualifies as a security. Regarding decentralization claims, Reiners referenced litigation filed by Justin Sun, noting that World Liberty unilaterally froze Sun’s tokens and revoked his governance rights—revealing a high degree of centralized control. Additionally, he highlighted clear conflicts of interest: the project borrowed $75 million in stablecoins from the Dolomite protocol, using 5 billion WLFI tokens as collateral; notably, a co-founder of Dolomite also serves as an advisor to World Liberty, and part of the borrowed stablecoins flowed directly to World Liberty itself.
Duke University law lecturer Lee Reiners stated that World Liberty Financial, a project associated with the Trump family, may have its governance token WLFI classified as an unregistered security.He pointed out that although the project defines WLFI as a governance token, its issuance method, marketing approach, and investors' expectation of profits align with the criteria of the "Howey Test" used by the SEC to determine securities.Furthermore, the large-scale pre-sale of WLFI before the protocol's official launch, along with its promotion leveraging the Trump brand, is also seen as reinforcing its "investment-type" characteristics.