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According to Russian media bits.media, Igor Runets, the founder of Russia's largest mining company BitRiver, has been transferred from house arrest to detention pending trial by the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow due to allegations of fraud amounting to 100 million rubles. He will be held in custody for at least two months. The charges are based on Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation—"particularly large-scale fraud committed by an organized group."The investigation claims the case involves the supply of mining equipment, causing nearly 100 million rubles in losses to the metallurgical and energy companies under the En+ Group. Investigators requested the detention of Runets on the grounds that he might influence witnesses, and the court approved this request. Representatives of BitRiver and Runets' lawyer have not yet commented on the court's ruling, and the progress of the case will depend on the equipment appraisal and witness testimonies from En+. In February of this year, Russian law enforcement suspected Runets of concealing assets to evade taxes, leading to his arrest and house arrest on charges of tax evasion. BitRiver is facing bankruptcy and ownership risks, with its owner Fox Group having debts of approximately 9.2 million dollars, and assets insufficient to repay the debts, prompting a bankruptcy application.

Robinhood released its Q2 2026 financial report, with net revenue of $1.31 billion, a year-on-year increase of 32%, exceeding analysts' expectations of $1.28 billion; net profit of $573 million, a year-on-year increase of 48%; diluted earnings per share of $0.62, a year-on-year increase of 48%. Adjusted EBITDA was $741 million, a year-on-year increase of 35%, exceeding the expected $629 million. Net deposits reached a record high of $21.7 billion, with Gold subscription users reaching 4.8 million, a year-on-year increase of 39%. Cryptocurrency revenue was $100 million, exceeding the expected $86.6 million; options revenue was $342 million, a year-on-year increase of 29%. ARPU reached $187, a year-on-year increase of 24%.The company expects adjusted operating expenses and equity incentives for the full year to be $2.675 to $2.775 billion, lower than previous guidance and market expectations. During the period, Trump account registrations exceeded 7 million, with deposits nearing $1.5 billion; Robinhood Chain mainnet launched; Singapore obtained a capital markets services license; completed the acquisition of WonderFi. After the financial report was released, Robinhood rose about 4% in after-hours trading.

According to Jinshi, the Director of the National Economic Council of the White House, Hassett, stated that our confidence in Federal Reserve Chairman Waller has never been stronger.

On-chain yield platform Altura announced that it originally planned to purchase USDT using fiat funds from its Altura bank account through over-the-counter trading partners, but the bank account holding the relevant funds has been temporarily frozen by the bank. Screenshots show that the frozen amount is approximately £16.446 million, about $21.88 million, and this plan has therefore been hindered.Altura stated that it has communicated with the bank regarding this matter, and the bank has requested that it wait for the review to be completed, stating that it will contact them separately if additional materials are needed. The current situation is completely beyond Altura's control, and they must wait for further responses from the bank. Altura also announced that due to limited team resources, it will suspend community chat functions to focus on addressing the current issues, and it promises that subsequent developments will be promptly communicated through its official X account, Telegram channel, and Discord, while urging the community to avoid speculation until official confirmation is received.

SlowMist announced that a new recruitment scam targeting Web3 practitioners has recently been discovered. Attackers impersonate recruiters, luring victims to install an AI meeting software called "Relay," which is actually an information-stealing malware.This malware targets both macOS and Windows users and can steal sensitive information such as browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallet-related data, Keychain data, Telegram sessions, and more. SlowMist has completed sample analysis and disclosed how this attack chain operates. SlowMist reminds that when participating in online interviews or recruitment processes, one should be cautious about installing unfamiliar software, avoid running unverified applications, and pay attention to unusual installation requests or system password prompts.

Co-founder of the crypto wallet Solflare, Vidor, posted on the X platform that operations have been halted due to the solvency issues of the card issuer partner Kulipa, and the Solflare Card has suspended services. Vidor emphasized the safety of user funds, as the Solflare Card uses an end-to-end self-custody model—funds are deducted directly from the user's wallet without the need for deposits or top-ups, and no user funds are held by the card issuer.The team had made efforts to help Kulipa find a buyer and explore continuity solutions, but to no avail. A new version of the Solflare Card is in development, which will include features such as Apple Pay and Google Pay, higher limits, and cashback, while still maintaining self-custody, and is expected to launch in a few weeks.

According to DealRoom, the Web3 integrated consumption platform Beezie announced the completion of a $4 million financing round, with Psalion participating through its early-stage fund Psalion VC Fund III.The platform generates on-chain digital twins of physical goods, enabling programmability, tradability, and cross-scenario combinations. Through gamification mechanisms, it transforms physical asset transactions into interactive consumption experiences. The new funds will be used for global market expansion.

According to a report by Z Finance, Tencent's AI-native desktop intelligent agent platform WorkBuddy entered public beta on March 9, achieving a monthly active user count of 20 million across all platforms within 3 months, with daily active users surpassing 13 million, including over 2 million daily active users on the PC side, and a DAU/MAU ratio stabilizing between 65%-75%. The product is led by Liu Yi, Vice President of Tencent Cloud, with a core team of about one hundred people, classified internally as one of the highest priority AI projects. The team claims they are currently only "temporarily ahead by half a position."WorkBuddy is derived from Tencent's previously launched AI programming assistant CodeBuddy, which has already covered about 12,000 engineers within Tencent. The product completed prototype development on January 17, and after the public beta in March, it has undergone a total of 43 iterations, gradually integrating capabilities related to QClaw developed by the Tencent PC Manager team based on an open-source framework. The product adopts a multi-model access strategy, with the underlying self-developed Harness engine for unified scheduling.In terms of commercialization, at the end of April, Tencent Cloud adjusted its pricing: the SaaS enterprise version was raised from 78 yuan/person/month to 198 yuan, and the private cloud enterprise version was raised from 158 yuan to 316 yuan. Market information indicates that it has acquired thousands of enterprise clients and over one hundred thousand paid seats, with an estimated annual revenue of about 300 million yuan. Third-party evaluations show that the product scored an average of 2.31/4 points on 70 questions (Word category 2.85 points, Design category 1.45 points), indicating that it is still some distance from producing stable results without manual modifications.

Solana Optimistic Network (SOON) announced that the security incident discovered on July 12 has been investigated and resolved. The incident did not involve vulnerabilities in the SOON protocol, sequencer, or user-facing smart contracts, and no user funds were lost. SOON stated that this incident originated from security issues in the off-chain operational environment.According to an investigation by the third-party security company BlockSec, external attackers gained unauthorized access through misconfigured services and further entered part of the internal environment due to insufficient access controls. The impact of the incident was limited to certain operational infrastructure and related processes, and did not involve on-chain user assets, user smart contracts, or SOON network security. After the incident, SOON suspended the sequencer and some services, and initiated a comprehensive security review. During this period, functions such as NFT minting, token claiming, and on-chain withdrawals were temporarily shut down. Currently, SOON has restored NFT minting and token claiming functions, and has resumed mainnet RPC services and block production. The network is now operating normally.

According to Cointelegraph, the Binance Android app has recently become unsearchable or unavailable for download in some EU countries' Google Play stores, indicating a regional change in its availability in the EU market.Currently, users in Spain have confirmed that the app has disappeared from the Google Play store, but it is still displaying normally in Poland, suggesting that this situation does not cover the entire EU market.Market attention is focused on whether Binance meets the licensing requirements of the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Previously, Binance withdrew its MiCA application in Greece and notified some EU users before and after the transition period that certain services would be restricted, but the withdrawal function remains available.

EPIK creator Mando posted that the total supply of EPIK is 1 billion tokens, of which he has personally repurchased 356 million tokens and destroyed 154 million. Additionally, the liquidity pool (LP) has destroyed 81 million tokens.He stated that nearly 60% of the supply has disappeared and mentioned that he did not acquire 50% of the tokens through airdrops, but instead spent 3 years and seven figures to purchase a large number of tokens.

The South Korean blockchain gaming platform WEMIX has updated the situation regarding abnormal transactions and response measures. The investigation results show that the contract ownership related to WEMIX was compromised, and the attacker unauthorizedly issued approximately 5,225,525 WEMIX, which was subsequently exchanged for about 30,736 WEMIX and 724,198.27 USDC.e.The stolen USDC.e was transferred to Ethereum and BSC via a bridge, exchanged for assets such as ETH and USDT, and partially deposited into centralized exchanges. The attacker's wallet and fund flow have been tracked, and applications for freezing are being made to exchanges and stablecoin issuers. The exact cause is still under investigation, and the team is conducting a comprehensive review with external experts while examining related and similar contracts. Market data shows that the price of WEMIX tokens has dropped by 16.65% in the last 24 hours.

The Ethereum staking protocol Lido stated on platform X that the stETH Rebase has been completed as expected, and the missed ETH earnings due to insufficient calculations have been compensated, corresponding to an annual percentage rate (APR) of approximately 2.29%. At the same time, the protocol's oracle has been updated and passed the audit, with the new version improving report processing speed and helping to quickly identify the cause of similar issues in the future.Regarding the abnormal earnings calculation that occurred, Lido stated that contributors are currently conducting a root cause analysis, and more investigation details will be announced on the official forum and social media platforms. Throughout the entire incident, user funds have not faced any risk. The preliminary judgment is that the issue may stem from a special edge case: a validator in a pending deposit state was omitted from the earnings report, resulting in some staking earnings not being included in the calculations. Lido stated that a complete post-mortem report will be released in the coming days to further explain the cause of the issue, corrective measures, and subsequent improvement plans.

The South Korean media Digital Asset conducted a survey of the top 50 overseas derivatives exchanges ranked by CoinMarketCap and found that at least 29 of them have been removed from the Korean Google Play Store, including OKX, Bybit, MEXC, KuCoin, BingX, Gemini, BitMEX, Backpack Exchange, and others.

The AI agent toolkit Bankr developer deployer posted a reminder on platform X that all Bankr users should enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) within their Bankr accounts, as enabling MFA only on X or other social login accounts is insufficient to ensure the security of account funds.Previously, deployer posted on X stating that the Bankr X account had been compromised and false airdrop links were published, even though the account had previously been protected by device-side Passkey. deployer stated that they have requested the removal of the related false posts from platform X and are assisting in investigating the cause of the account compromise.

Cascade announced on the X platform that the incident involving the withdrawal of CLS funds has been resolved, and the parties involved have cooperated to return all stolen funds.All users holding funds in CLS will be able to receive a 100% full compensation based on the value as of July 15, 2025, 21:08:00 UTC. The claims function will be opened in the coming days.ChainCatcher previously reported that MAX, the administrator of the multi-asset perpetual contract platform Cascade Discord, stated in the channel that the Cascade CLS treasury allegedly encountered a security vulnerability, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.3 million. The platform has currently suspended all trading and withdrawals and has invited SEAL 911 and other third-party security teams to investigate and handle the situation.

Citrini analyst Jukan published a response to the recent market rumors regarding bearish notes on NAND and negative news about QLC price negotiations. It is not surprising that SanDisk accepted a price lower than the initial offer when signing a long-term agreement with Meta, as SanDisk is one of the most proactive NAND manufacturers in pursuing LTAs, planning to allocate over 50% of its total shipments to such agreements. Based on this strategy, it is naturally willing to accept LTA prices lower than the current quarterly contract price, and it cannot be inferred that "SanDisk cannot seamlessly resell all orders to higher-bidding North American customers."In response to rumors that Chinese module manufacturers were rejected by domestic CSPs when promoting eSSD, Jukan explained that Chinese CSPs have direct procurement channels with Yangtze Memory Technologies and that the issue is not a lack of demand. Regarding the claim that large-scale cloud providers are driving down prices for QLC eSSD, leading to some volumes not being sold, he believes that new cloud providers have sufficient demand to absorb these volumes.Jukan concluded by stating that negative headlines are more easily amplified when storage stocks perform poorly, but the fundamentals have not shown substantial deterioration. He reiterated that he remains bullish on storage. Previously, Jukan had stated that DRAM contract prices still have about a 40% upside potential until the end of 2027, and HBM supply continues to be tight. This clarification on the NAND side further solidifies his bullish stance on the entire storage sector.

According to the official status page of OpenAI, the widespread issues that ChatGPT and Codex experienced have been resolved, with the error rate remaining elevated for over 1 hour.

According to on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), "Machibigbrother" (@machibigbrother) has once again faced liquidation. To raise funds to maintain an ETH long position, he sold Bored Ape #6801 for 8.61 ETH two hours ago, while the purchase price of the NFT three years ago was 23.5 ETH. This sale resulted in a loss of approximately 14.89 ETH (about $28,000).