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According to South Korean media Daum, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) of South Korea has announced that it has completed the draft of the "Digital Asset Framework Bill." Currently, only a few matters remain to be coordinated, and as the agenda for the second half of the year is determined by the South Korean National Assembly, efforts will be made to expedite the legislative process.It is reported that South Korea is considering including legal provisions related to AI Agent payments in the "Digital Asset Framework Bill" to address the trend of AI becoming a subject of small and high-frequency payments in the future. It is suggested to provide legal authorization for regulatory frameworks, including establishing customer identity verification (KYC) for AI Agent payments, defining payment responsibilities, foreign exchange declaration for cross-border transactions, and programmable payment standards.

According to Hyperliquid News monitoring, a certain whale recently migrated $7.29 million from Ostium to Hyperliquid and opened 10,124 long positions in the S&P 500, worth approximately $74.33 million.This position currently accounts for 13.03% of the market's open contracts.

According to the Financial Times, Situational Awareness, an AI-themed hedge fund founded by 25-year-old former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, is seeking new funding following significant losses due to a sharp correction in AI-related stocks.In recent communications, Aschenbrenner acknowledged the increased market volatility, describing it as a new investment opportunity and encouraging investors to inject new capital. The fund's heavy investments in AI data centers, power, storage, and GPU cloud-related assets have seen significant declines during this round of AI capital expenditure deal pullback.

According to data from The Block, the graduation rate of the Pump.fun token reached 6.7% last Friday, about 8 times the average level of June. The average for the previous four days was also 4.7%, significantly higher than the 2.5% of the previous week. The increase in the graduation rate is directly related to the newly launched BOOST default launch mechanism of Pump.fun.BOOST targets what Pump.fun refers to as dead liquidity—previously, about 20% of the migration liquidity was permanently locked in the PumpSwap pool during token graduation migration. Now, this portion of funds will automatically execute a series of market buy orders within five minutes after migration, and all purchased tokens will be destroyed. BOOST takes effect only after the token is bound and does not mechanically increase the graduation rate; instead, it incentivizes traders to more actively push the token to reach the graduation threshold by ensuring immediate buying pressure and supply destruction after migration.Meanwhile, the PUMP token has risen over 10% year-to-date, with an increase of nearly 60% in the past month, outperforming Bitcoin's approximately 25% decline this year. Its current market capitalization is about $850 million, with a fully diluted valuation of over $1.8 billion.

Meta released its Q2 2026 financial report, with revenue of $60.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 28%, slightly above the market expectation of $60.3 billion; net profit of $15.85 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 14%; earnings per share of $6.18, a year-on-year decrease of 13%. Advertising revenue was $59.36 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27%, with ad impressions increasing by 14% and average price rising by 12%. Operating profit decreased by 8% year-on-year to $18.78 billion, and the operating profit margin fell from 43% to 31%. Total costs and expenses surged by 55% year-on-year to $42 billion, which includes $2.4 billion in legal litigation expenses and $1.18 billion in layoff costs.The revenue guidance for Q3 is $61 billion to $64 billion, with a midpoint of $62.5 billion, below the market expectation of $63.2 billion. The full-year capital expenditure guidance has been adjusted from $125 billion to $145 billion to $130 billion to $145 billion. Free cash flow was only $784 million, significantly shrinking year-on-year, reaching a nearly four-year low. Meta also narrowed its full-year expense guidance for 2026 to $165 billion to $169 billion, maintaining the expectation of "operating profit above 2025." Zuckerberg stated, "AI is accelerating our core business, and the results are beginning to show." After the financial report was released, Meta's after-hours stock price briefly fell over 10%.

According to Jinshi reports, Microsoft announced a series of financial guidance, causing the after-hours increase in US stocks to expand to 8%.

According to Gate market data, Arm's decline in after-hours trading has expanded to 8%.

According to Gate market data, after the earnings report was released, Meta Platforms (META.O) is currently down 6%, Microsoft (MSFT.O) is up 3%, and Qualcomm (QCOM.O) is down 4.6%.

According to Jinshi reports, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and ARM will announce their Q2 2026 financial reports after the US stock market closes.

According to Gate market data, after the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision was announced, non-US currency pairs strengthened. The euro against the US dollar (EUR/USD) rose about 30 points, reaching a high of 1.1431; the British pound against the US dollar (GBP/USD) rose 50 points, reaching a high of 1.3346; the US dollar against the Japanese yen (USD/JPY) fluctuated nearly 40 points, hitting a low of 163.44.

According to Gate market data, after the Federal Reserve's interest rate decision was announced, the declines of the three major U.S. stock indices narrowed, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 1.09%, the S&P 500 down 0.15%, and the Nasdaq Composite turning to an increase.

According to The Block, Tether's compliant stablecoin USA₮ (USAT) has officially launched on the Celo mainnet, marking its second mainnet deployment after Ethereum. The token is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and can be natively minted and redeemed on Celo, and can be directly used for on-chain gas payments through Celo's fee abstraction mechanism.USAT launched in January this year, with a current market capitalization of approximately $185 million.

According to TNW, the Cyberspace Administration of China has released a draft of regulations for combating cyberbullying and is seeking public feedback. The draft requires platforms to establish classifiers for detecting and categorizing online violence content, provide users with a "one-click protection" feature, and implement blacklist management and regular reporting mechanisms for violating accounts.Notably, the draft explicitly includes AI-generated deepfake images and synthetic harassment texts within the scope of regulation. The Q&A platform Zhihu has already responded by restricting the use of anonymous accounts.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain whale opened a 3x long position of 37,200 SKHX, valued at 37.3 million USD, and has currently made a profit of 778,000 USD.However, this whale previously incurred losses of over 1 million USD on each of the last 3 trades.

According to Cryptopolitan, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has released a draft of regulatory rules for the cryptocurrency market, covering the registration and operational requirements for cryptocurrency exchanges, digital custodians, and token issuers. The draft stipulates that the minimum net assets for digital custodians must be between 50 million and 250 million rubles (approximately 600,000 to 3 million USD), with the specific amount depending on the nature of the business.These rules will complement the "Digital Currency and Digital Rights Law" passed by the State Duma of Russia earlier this month, which is expected to officially take effect on September 1, 2026. Under the new framework, non-qualified investors can only purchase mainstream assets such as BTC, ETH, and USDT up to a limit of 4,000 USD per year; industry participants will have a transition period until March 1, 2027, to complete compliance and approval procedures.

After SpaceX completed its IPO last month, Solana and Hyperliquid became one of the most active venues for trading SpaceX's tokenized stocks and perpetual contracts.Both are competing for a share of the billions of dollars in perpetual contract and tokenized stock trading volume, engaging in competition around related trades.

On July 29, Tibo, the product lead for OpenAI Codex, announced on X that all usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex users have been reset, and released a statement regarding the issue of rapid consumption of GPT-5.6 Sol usage.In the previous weeks, a large number of users reported that the consumption speed of Codex limits exceeded expectations. OpenAI emphasized that it has not reduced the usage quotas of any subscription plans. After investigation, several reasons were found: Sol is more inclined to work for longer periods, execute more tool calls, and coordinate complex workflows than previous models; it consumes more tokens at the same reasoning level; programmatic tool calls (code mode) allow Sol to execute tool calls in parallel, resulting in more responses and higher usage per round; the distribution of impact is extremely uneven, with median user efficiency being acceptable, but heavy users handling complex tasks consuming far more than expected.OpenAI stated that multiple improvements have been completed, and it is expected that usage endurance will be extended by about 18% in typical usage scenarios. Tomorrow, the five-hour limit that was paused during the investigation will be restored. OpenAI acknowledged that "capabilities and efficiency do not always improve synchronously, and some issues only become apparent after large-scale real-world use; we should have realized this earlier."

According to Gate market data, Seagate Technology's stock rose over 8% in after-hours trading, with its revenue guidance exceeding market expectations.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a trader opened a 4x leveraged long position of 23,251.544 SKHX (worth 24.67 million USD) today at 14:38, with an entry average price of 1106.8 USD, and is currently facing an unrealized loss of 1.074 million USD.This wallet has now become the TOP2 holding address for SKHX on Hyperliquid.

According to The Block, the Central Bank of Russia has released a regulatory draft for "organized trading" of digital assets and digital rights, aiming to set access and operational rules for cryptocurrency exchanges and digital custodians. The draft requires exchanges to determine trading processes through their own rulebooks and to calculate market prices and weighted average prices; it proposes the establishment of digital custodians responsible for bookkeeping, with registered capital ranging from 50 million to 250 million rubles, and must involve high liquidity and high credit quality assets.Electronic platform operators must also meet similar capital requirements and undertake the settlement functions of nominal accounts for digital financial assets. This draft has entered the regulatory impact assessment stage, connecting with the previously passed cryptocurrency market bill, and continues to provide a framework for compliant retail trading while prohibiting cryptocurrency payments within the country.