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Binance founder CZ responded on the X platform to the recent controversy regarding Giggle Academy selling donation tokens, stating that he personally "has not communicated with the Giggle team regarding the recent sale," and that the address is not managed by him personally. He pointed out that Giggle Academy has a practice of "exchanging most donation tokens for BNB at the end of each month" to fund free education programs for children worldwide, which have benefited over 1 million children in less than two years.CZ further stated that when sending or donating tokens to others, if there is no prior agreement, one should not expect the recipient to act according to the donor's wishes (such as destroying the tokens), as "that would only add extra work for the recipient." He emphasized that "if it is called a donation, one should expect them to use it," and questioned, "if one expects them to destroy it, how can it be called a donation?" Additionally, CZ expressed support for all meme coins and revealed that "he may buy or sell one or two (meme coins) in the coming weeks to test some new things."

According to Fortune, the prediction market platform Polymarket has established the Polymarket Institute, a new organization dedicated to researching prediction market information discovery and forecasting mechanisms, fully funded by Polymarket but without disclosing the specific amount.The institute will set up a "Scientific Scholarship" program to fund doctoral researchers conducting research in related fields, initially recruiting 12 researchers, each of whom will receive a one-time grant of $10,000. To ensure research independence, researchers are prohibited from trading on platforms like Polymarket during their tenure and retain the unconditional right to publish any research findings (even if unfavorable to Polymarket). The funding will adopt a university donation model rather than commissioned research to avoid Polymarket having editorial influence over the results.Polymarket's Chief Data Officer Kai Brusch will serve as the Managing Director of the institute, and Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor of Economics and Technology Brian Jabarian will serve as the Scientific Director. To avoid conflicts of interest, Jabarian will not receive personal compensation for this role.

According to the New York Daily, the decentralized data infrastructure project Permacast based on Permaweb announced the completion of its Series A funding round on January 15, 2025, raising over $5 million. Combined with the previously completed seed round and Pre-A round, the total funding raised by the project has reached $8.9 million.This round of financing received support from several leading Web3 funds, technology investment institutions, and strategic angel investors. Seed round investors include OKX Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, ChainVision, Foresight Research, and Digital Humanism (DRF); Pre-A round investors include ClearingPoint, 7 O'Clock Capital, Cipholio Ventures, SilverFox Foundation, and a number of private investors; Series A round investors include CoinSummer, angel investor Tomasz Boryniec, Waterwood Investment (Tsinghua), Scorpio VC, and a number of private investors.Permacast stated that as AI models reshape the way information is created and utilized, the demand for trustworthy, permanent, and verifiable data infrastructure is growing. The new funds will be used to accelerate protocol development, expand decentralized network infrastructure, strengthen ecological cooperation, and expand the engineering and product teams. The team stated that a permanent, verifiable, and open data network will become the foundational infrastructure for future intelligent applications.

According to Caixin, Zhao Yao, a special researcher at the Payment and Clearing Research Center of the Financial Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, stated that recent offshore digital asset platforms have launched on-chain trading products around Chinese technology companies such as Changxin Technology. This indicates that global digital financial platforms are creating trading exposure around high-quality Chinese technology assets, organizing price expectations, trading liquidity, and cross-border capital entry in advance. Although these products do not correspond to A-share equity, they are synthetic perpetual contracts or pre-market perpetual contracts settled in stablecoins such as USDC and USDT. However, if offshore platforms take the lead in forming a continuous trading market for technology assets, it may weaken the pricing dominance of domestic capital markets over technology assets.Zhao Yao suggested accelerating the construction of digital financial infrastructure for the renminbi, promoting the coordinated development of tokenized deposits by commercial banks, wholesale CBDC, and tokenization of technology assets, and exploring pilot projects for technology asset tokenization in Hong Kong to enhance the capital organization capability and international pricing power of the renminbi in global technology financial competition.

Gate US officially announced that Gate AI and Alpaca will collaborate on the development vision of Agentic Trading, promoting the integration of AI infrastructure and trading system capabilities to provide underlying support for the next generation of intelligent trading applications.Alpaca has built a trading API that is developer and AI Agent friendly, with its community continuously transforming trading ideas into actual projects, covering research processes, simulated trading systems, and Agentic workflows that connect market data, analysis, and execution logic. Gate AI focuses on building an infrastructure layer for AI Agents and developers, where the GateRouter unified API helps developers quickly access over 25 mainstream AI models and balances cost and performance through intelligent routing.Both Gate AI and Alpaca agree that AI trading Agent developers should not have to choose between high-quality trading execution infrastructure and AI infrastructure, but should be able to obtain support for both in a smoother manner. Next, Gate AI will explore how its model routing and Agent infrastructure can connect to trading workflows built on APIs like Alpaca, supporting developers in integrating market data, AI reasoning, and trading execution into Agentic systems.Gate AI and Alpaca also plan to promote knowledge sharing and best practice exchanges between their developer communities, continuously lowering the development threshold and complexity of AI-native trading applications. Gate AI and Alpaca will continue to explore collaborative efforts around the construction of the Agentic Trading ecosystem, providing foundational support for developers to build more efficient and scalable next-generation intelligent trading applications.

The Polygon Foundation posted on the X platform that the Ithaca hard fork has been successfully deployed on the Amoy testnet and will go live on the Polygon mainnet at block height 50,185,000 (expected at 22:00 Beijing time on July 29).This upgrade aims to enhance payment reliability: automatic failover during rare stalls of block producers ensures smooth transactions, new protective mechanisms intercept transactions that may cause the network to slow down or become unstable, while providing node operators with clearer visibility to ensure seamless integration of underlying operations. All node operators are required to upgrade as soon as possible to ensure compatibility and network security.

According to a report by CCTV Finance, Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, stated that the daily Token call volume in our country has surged from about 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to 140 trillion by the end of March 2026, an increase of over a thousand times.Intelligent agents are giving rise to a brand new economic form, known as the "Token economy." Token, in Chinese, is called 词元, and it is an important unit for large models to process information and measure model invocation costs. Its growth rate is the most intuitive barometer of industrial development.In the era of intelligent agents, a single user command may trigger multiple rounds of model calls and resource consumption, directly driving an explosion in demand for artificial intelligence computing power. With the large-scale application of intelligent agents, a series of new models surrounding Token measurement, scheduling, pricing, and trading are beginning to take shape.

According to a report by businesswire, AI and tokenized financial infrastructure Alpaca announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $135 million, led by Peak XV, with follow-on investments from Elefund, BNP Paribas's venture capital arm Opera Tech Ventures, and Unbound among others. To date, its total financing has reached $435 million.The new funds will be used to accelerate the construction of its AI-native brokerage infrastructure and API-first prime brokerage business, helping fintech companies, banks, brokerages, wealth management institutions, and crypto financial platforms to build investment products in both traditional and on-chain markets, and to connect with more global crypto exchanges, asset tokenization platforms, and financial institutions.

Abracadabra Finance announced that it has recognized the depegging issue of the MIM stablecoin and is taking emergency measures. Starting today, it will gradually increase the interest rates of all Cauldrons (including deprecated markets) to encourage debt repayment and reduce the circulating supply of MIM. The current depegging provides borrowers with a natural incentive to repay their debts at a discount, which helps accelerate supply contraction. Direct incentives and Curve bribes will be suspended until MIM regains its peg. The team stated that it is evaluating additional recovery plans and will announce them in a timely manner.Data shows that MIM is currently priced at $0.5027, with a 24-hour decline of 36.65%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Dplus KIA Challengers vs T1 Academy - Asian Masters Playoffs," the "Odd" option in the sub-market "Total Kills Odd/Even" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 51% an hour ago to the current 90.5% (a fluctuation of 39.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $50,400 in a single bet on the "Ecuador vs. Curacao - More Markets" event for "O/U 2.5". Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win rate for this bet is 63%.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale has made a single purchase of $64,983.04 on "Ecuador vs. Curacao" for "Curacao." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 94.5%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "LoL: T1 Academy vs KT Rolster Challengers - Asia Masters Playoffs" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Match Winner" sub-market option "T1 Academy" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, dropping from 69.5% an hour ago to the current 28.5% (a fluctuation of 41%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: KT Rolster Challengers vs Nongshim Esports Academy - Asian Masters Playoffs," the "Yes" option win rate for the sub-market "Both teams kill a dragon" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, soaring from 50.5% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 39.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Dplus KIA Challengers vs T1 Academy - Asia Masters Playoffs," the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Both teams kill Baron Nashor" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 49.5% an hour ago to the current 73% (a fluctuation of 23.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "LoL: Nongshim Esports Academy vs T1 Academy Asian Masters Playoffs," the "Odd" option in the sub-market "Odd/Even Total Kills" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in win rate, soaring from 49.5% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $50,744.77 in a single transaction regarding the "Germany vs. Curacao" event. Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 97.75%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event "Germany vs. Curacao More Markets" on Polymarket, the "Over" option in the sub-market "Germany Second Half O/U 0.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 71% an hour ago to the current 88.5% (a fluctuation of 17.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Germany vs. Curacao more markets" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Over" option for the sub-market "Germany second half greater than 0.5 goals" has experienced significant fluctuations in winning probability, dropping from 87.5% an hour ago to the current 71.5% (a fluctuation of 16%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.