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According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Counter-Strike: MIBR vs Alliance FISSURE PLAYGROUND Playoffs" on Polymarket, the "Map 1 Total Rounds: Over/Under 21.5" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 51% an hour ago to the current 76.5% (a fluctuation of 25.5%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, a significant capital movement is predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $219,096.66 in the "Counter-Strike: Alliance vs magic (BO3) - FISSURE PLAYGROUND Group B" event, targeting the "Match Winner." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 56%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Alliance vs TYLOO," the "Map 2 Total Rounds: Over/Under 21.5" sub-market's "Over" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, dropping from 49% an hour ago to the current 32.5% (a fluctuation of 16.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Legacy vs Alliance - FISSURE PLAYGROUND Group B" shows that the "Legacy" option in the sub-market "Map 1 Winner" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 63.5% an hour ago to the current 97.05% (a fluctuation of 33.55%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

Imran Khan, co-founder of Alliance, stated that Coinbase founder Brian Armstrong and Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev are leveraging their respective backgrounds to carve out different tracks in the cryptocurrency market.Vlad has built Robinhood into a platform centered around retail trading, deeply understanding the psychology and trading motivations of high-risk tolerant retail investors, which will give him an advantage in controlling retail speculation and trading in the future; while Brian has dedicated the past decade to popularizing Bitcoin and the cryptocurrency value system, deeply rooted in the Silicon Valley tech startup ecosystem, which determines that Coinbase and Base are more inclined to build underlying financial infrastructure aimed at changing the real world.Imran believes that although there is overlap in their businesses, the market space is large enough, and one party's activity in speculative trading does not mean the other party will fail. Both will lead millions of new users into the on-chain world from completely different entry points.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, the predicted market on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Alliance vs FaZe (BO3) - FISSURE PLAYGROUND Group B," the win rate of the "Over" option in the sub-market "Total Rounds on Map 2: Over/Under 21.5" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 29.5% an hour ago to the current 50% (a fluctuation of 20.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

Co-founder of Alliance, Imran Khan, tweeted that for most people, the public chain itself will become secondary; the key is the products that serve end users at the upper layer. Launch platforms are being commoditized, and platforms with the deepest network effects or those that occupy niches through differentiation (such as stock trading pairs) are more likely to succeed.The on-chain front end is weakening the stickiness of single venues and community identity, as it can connect various venues through the same window, reducing switching costs; this is also true for lending, exchange routing, cross-chain bridges, and most trading infrastructure, where stickiness will shift to the party that controls user relationships.

The United States and the United Kingdom announced the establishment of the first joint law enforcement alliance aimed at combating fraud centers involving cryptocurrency and online investment scams. The U.S. Department of Justice stated that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia, the UK Crown Prosecution Service, and the UK's National Crime Agency have signed a memorandum of understanding to conduct parallel investigations on common objectives, share intelligence on organized crime groups, and negotiate jurisdictional prosecution rights for specific cases.This alliance expands upon the "Fraud Center Task Force" initiated by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro in November 2025, focusing on Chinese organized crime networks primarily located in Southeast Asia that are involved in cryptocurrency investment scams, which are often linked to human trafficking and money laundering. The task force includes the FBI, U.S. Secret Service, IRS Criminal Investigation Division, Homeland Security Investigations, and the Department of Justice, and collaborates with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the State Department, and private enterprises to dismantle fraud operations and recover victims' funds.The U.S. Department of Justice pointed out that losses reported due to cryptocurrency investment scams in the U.S. continue to rise, with losses reported to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center increasing from $4.57 billion in 2023 to $8.65 billion in 2025. Previously, international law enforcement agencies had conducted joint operations, with a raid led by Dubai police on April 29, involving the FBI and the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, resulting in the arrest of 276 individuals and the closure of at least 9 cryptocurrency scam centers. Several Southeast Asian countries are also strengthening domestic legislation, with Myanmar's military government releasing a draft on May 15 proposing a 10-year to life imprisonment for digital currency fraud, and the death penalty if a victim dies due to being coerced to work at a scam center; this bill was passed by parliament on July 28.

According to monitoring by BitcoinTreasuries.NET, investment bank Alliance Global Partners, which manages $2.3 billion in assets, has given Strategy (stock code: MSTR) a buy rating for the first time, with a target price of $217. This indicates a 75% upside potential.

The bankers' associations from 39 states in the United States have jointly formed the BankChain alliance, planning to build an industry-owned blockchain network for tokenized deposits, stablecoins, smart payments, and automated settlements, with the goal of launching in 2027. The alliance is currently still selecting technical partners and has not yet become an operational payment network.The BankChain alliance states that the 39 member associations represent 3,283 banks, with total assets of $21.8 trillion. The board of the alliance is chaired by Kathy Kraninger, president and CEO of the Florida Bankers Association. Howard Headlee, president of the Utah Bankers Association, stated that governance is a differentiated advantage, and BankChain aims to allow member banks to "equally access a network owned by them and have their voices heard."The area that BankChain is entering has a bank tokenization deposit project led by The Clearing House, which was announced in June and aims to facilitate on-chain clearing and settlement of tokenized commercial bank money, connecting the RTP and CHIPS payment networks. In contrast, BankChain's product range is broader, covering stablecoins and automated settlements, but it is still in the early stages and needs to first identify technology suppliers and convert association-level support into commitments from member banks.

The American Bankers Association announced plans to create a nationwide financial infrastructure based on blockchain to optimize industry collaboration and settlement efficiency.

Vitalik Buterin and Etherealize co-founder and CEO Vivek Raman, supported by the Ethereum Foundation, warned that Wall Street's renewed enthusiasm for private, permissioned "consortium chains" is recreating a fragmented system, undermining the interoperability and liquidity that blockchain should bring, akin to "race to the bottom." He pointed out the rise of gated networks such as Digital Asset's Canton Network, Circle's ARC, and Stripe's Tempo, reminiscent of the R3 and Hyperledger consortium chains 2.0 from years past, where institutions will ultimately find themselves in a situation of competing consortium chains, needing permission or membership to participate.Raman emphasized that the Ethereum mainnet should serve as a globally open, permissionless foundation layer similar to HTTP, where institutions can overlay permission and privacy features at the application layer or L2 to achieve maximum interoperability and liquidity. Etherealize is committed to attracting TradFi to embrace Ethereum, which has already hosted billions of dollars in tokenized assets and supported a large amount of DeFi settlements. The company received seed funding from Buterin and the foundation in January 2025 and completed a $40 million Series A financing in the same year.He cited examples such as BlackRock's new fund based on Ethereum, stating that once regulations are clear, institutional funds are more inclined towards open network tracks that are not proprietary; choosing consortium chains would require paying the consortium and being bound by its rules, with incentives for non-early members quickly fading. Christian Catalini, founder of the MIT Cryptoeconomics Lab, also pointed out that if permissioned networks driven by enterprise sales become mainstream, some competitive benefits of blockchain may not be realized.

During the Circle Q2 earnings call, Citigroup analyst Pete Christensen asked about the competitive landscape following the launch of the Open USD Alliance, inquiring how Circle would compete for distribution channels given that reserve revenue sharing is gradually becoming an industry standard and Circle is constrained by its existing economic arrangements with Coinbase.Co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire responded that Circle has signed distribution cooperation agreements with over 150 companies and often collaborates with Coinbase on distribution efforts. An example of this is the revenue-sharing arrangement that Circle and Coinbase have jointly established with Hyperliquid. He added that about 70% of the companies expressing interest in participating in such alliance projects are already partners in the Circle network. On the day of the earnings report, Circle also announced that Visa and Mastercard would expand their cooperation as key infrastructure partners for Arc.

According to The Block, NEAR co-founder Illia Polosukhin proposed the establishment of a NEAR sovereign fund, intending to hold the protocol treasury and revenue in the form of NEAR tokens, generate returns, and partially use it to fund security and public goods, with a long-term goal of reducing inflation.

SK Hynix announced at the FMS 2026 conference the joint release of the first High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) standard specification with Sandisk, just about 6 months after the establishment of their alliance in February this year. The standard is publicly available through OCP and covers key specifications such as capacity (up to 512GB), bandwidth (divided into three levels, with a maximum of approximately 3.0TB/s), and the use of the UCIe interconnect interface. Google and Tenstorrent have confirmed their participation in the HBF alliance.The HBF technology is positioned as a new storage tier between HBM and SSD, combining HBM-level high-speed transmission with NAND's large capacity expansion capabilities. SK Hynix publicly showcased the 10th generation (V10) 375-layer 4D NAND wafers and products for the first time during the exhibition, achieving a 2.5 times improvement in energy efficiency compared to the previous generation, with mass production expected early next year. During the conference presentation, SK Hynix executives proposed using a "Tiered Memory" architecture to address the data processing challenges of the AI inference era.

According to official news, Alliance has launched Onchain Atlas, an experimental encyclopedia of on-chain mechanism design. It currently covers 462 records from 2011 to 2026, organizing hundreds of blockchain experiments from 2011 to the present along a timeline, covering core areas such as AMM, liquid staking, stablecoins, and NFTs.Each product includes its complete history: what was done right, what was done wrong, and an interactive simulator where users can adjust key variables and see the product's response in real-time. The project aims to promote the birth of the next generation of on-chain unicorns by reviewing historical inspirations. Atlas prioritizes primary sources such as contract code, official documents, and founder retrospectives, with all entries compiled and analyzed by AI research agents, published after quality audits and editorial checks.

According to Jinshi reports, Saudi Arabia has formed a maritime defense alliance aimed at protecting shipping in the Red Sea, with 13 other countries participating.

According to the Korea Herald, the South Korean government and industry have established the AI Data Center (AIDC) alliance, planning to cultivate AI data centers into the next generation of export industries through public-private cooperation.