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According to the New Straits Times, Malaysian police recently dismantled an illegal Bitcoin mining operation located in Tronoh, arresting two men aged 40 and 52, and confiscating 73 cryptocurrency mining devices and related equipment.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Bitcoin July Price Prediction" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "62,500 USD" has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 28.25% an hour ago to the current 11.85% (a fluctuation of 16.4%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the Korea Herald, the Korea Exchange conducted an internal review on July 29 regarding the technical feasibility and system requirements for a temporary ban on short selling and narrowing the price limit (currently at 30%) to address the recent severe fluctuations in the stock market. Sources familiar with the matter stated that "only technical feasibility was confirmed," and it was not a prerequisite for implementation, but rather a screening process during the review of available emergency measures.Recently, the South Korean stock market has continued to plummet, causing increasing damage to individual investors. During a meeting of the National Assembly's Administrative Committee, several lawmakers urged authorities to consider a temporary ban on short selling and to restart the Securities Market Stabilization Fund. A national petition to suspend short selling garnered over 10,000 signatures within two days of being made public. However, the ban on short selling conflicts with South Korea's goal of being included in the MSCI developed market index; a previous 17-month short selling ban from November 2023 to March 2025 had led to MSCI downgrading South Korea's market accessibility rating. The exchange's officials stated that they have not received any related requests from the government and have not formally discussed a short selling ban.

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued a restriction notice to Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited, prohibiting it from handling or disposing of assets in customer accounts held by a certain entity, limited to HKD 125,247,000. This entity is suspected of participating in a fraudulent scheme aimed at creating a false or misleading appearance of demand for initial public offering shares. Futu is not the subject of the SFC's investigation, and this restriction notice will not affect Futu or its other clients.According to the notice, Futu must not dispose of or handle the relevant account assets in any way without the SFC's written consent, and must immediately notify the SFC if it receives any instructions related to the restricted assets. The SFC believes that issuing this restriction notice is in the interest of investors and the public. The investigation is still ongoing.

Cryptocurrency payment company Alchemy Pay recently obtained a Money Transmitter License (MTL) in the state of Michigan, increasing the number of state-level MTL licenses held in the U.S. to 19. Following the acquisition of the MTL in Illinois, this new license further expands Alchemy Pay's compliant payment coverage in key economic regions of the United States.

According to Jinshi reports, as the demand for AI computing power surges, the global storage chip market is facing a severe supply shortage. In Huaqiangbei, Shenzhen, affected by Nvidia's new round of price increase notifications, graphics card manufacturers have completely stopped bulk shipments, and the supply of spot goods has rapidly tightened.Statistics show that the prices of mainstream storage products and graphics cards continue to rise, with the price of a 1TB solid-state drive increasing from 410 yuan last September to 950 yuan, a rise of 132%; the price of 16G DDR5 memory has increased by 311%; the price of the RTX 5060 graphics card has risen by about 30%, and the price of the RTX 5080 has risen by about 50%.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "WTI Crude Oil July 2026 Price Prediction" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "Below $80" has experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 27.5% an hour ago to the current 11.5% (a fluctuation of 16%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to the official report from Ostium, the core of this attack lies in the intrusion of the off-chain price reporting system's permissions, unrelated to smart contract vulnerabilities. After gaining off-chain authorization, the attacker submitted forged prices (5,000 USD and 60,000 USD) to the BTC-USD market using the legally registered forwarding paths of the protocol, completing an atomic open-close arbitrage cycle within the same transaction, and starting with a rolling scale of 100 USDC. Through 8 transactions, they extracted 23.75 million USDC from the OLP treasury within 5 minutes, until the treasury's circuit breaker mechanism was triggered.The root cause is the lack of a multi-party approval mechanism at the same level as on-chain multi-signature in the off-chain infrastructure, creating a single point of permission vulnerability. The stolen funds have been converted to ETH and mixed through Tornado Cash, and tracking efforts are still ongoing.

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, Microsoft's fourth fiscal quarter revenue growth for AZURE and other cloud services, excluding the impact of exchange rates, increased by 43%, exceeding market expectations.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Bitcoin July Price Prediction" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option in the sub-market "below $62,500" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation, plummeting from 48.95% an hour ago to the current 25.55% (a fluctuation of 23.4%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

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 Jinshi reports, SpaceXAI announced that on August 5, it will upgrade Grok-Voice-Latest from version 1 to version 2.

According to Jinshi reports, Spacexai announced the launch of Grok Voice Think Fast 2.

According to Jinshi, Larry Kudlow, the Director of the National Economic Council at the White House, stated that we expect prices to face downward pressure.

According to official news, the institutional-level Ethereum ecosystem service organization Ethereum Institutional announced the completion of its initial ecosystem funding round and the formation of a supporter alliance, receiving support from over 100 ecosystem participants, led by BitMine, SharpLink, and Ethereum co-founders Joseph Lubin and Mihai Alisie, with the amount undisclosed. The organization stated that this funding will be used to support its accelerated efforts in tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain market infrastructure.Ethereum Institutional indicated that in the coming months, it will strengthen direct engagement with banks, asset management institutions, custodians, market infrastructure, fintech companies, and sovereign institutions to advance specific work related to tokenization, stablecoins, market infrastructure, and on-chain settlement, while expanding its core business areas such as institutional education, market intelligence, and ecosystem marketing; at the same time, it will continue to collaborate with a broader Ethereum ecosystem community, including L2, application teams, infrastructure, and custodial service providers.

According to The Block, Bernstein has lowered Circle's target price from $190 to $140 while maintaining an outperform rating. Analyst Gautam Chhugani stated that the threat posed to Circle by the Open USD Alliance, supported by over 140 institutions including Visa, Mastercard, and Stripe, is lower than market expectations. As of July 28, Circle's closing price was $64.32.The end-of-quarter supply of USDC for the second quarter was approximately $73 billion, down from $77 billion in the first quarter, with the average supply rising to about $76 billion. The average SOFR for the second quarter decreased to 3.62%, the reserve return rate fell to 3.46%, and reserve income rose to approximately $655 million. The USDC balance on Hyperliquid has increased from $5 billion in mid-May to over $6 billion, generating about $210 million in annualized gross reserve income, of which approximately $190 million is directed to the exchange according to the revenue-sharing agreement.Bernstein has reduced its forecast for USDC supply at the end of 2026 by 37% to $83 billion and lowered its 2028 forecast to $170 billion; the adjusted EBITDA forecast for 2026 has been cut by 12% to $602 million, and the earnings per share (EPS) forecast has been lowered from $1.98 to $0.92. However, the firm expects that by 2035, the total supply of stablecoins will reach $4 trillion, with Circle holding about a 30% share. Additionally, Circle received final approval from the OCC in July to establish Circle National Trust.

According to The New York Times, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange Binance quietly adjusted its law enforcement cooperation policy last April, requiring law enforcement agencies in various countries to forward relevant requests to foreign government agencies for processing, which must go through international treaty procedures, significantly extending the response time.Police representatives from five European countries reported at a law enforcement meeting in the Netherlands that, except for urgent cases involving child sexual abuse, terrorism, or threats to life, the vast majority of requests were forwarded to the UAE government, where Binance is registered, severely hindering investigations.Meanwhile, several senior employees from Binance's compliance team have left one after another, further intensifying external concerns. Binance denied slowing down cooperation, stating that this move aims to ensure compliance with data privacy regulations.

According to Jinshi reports, the Token expenditure price index further dropped to 1.4288, continuing the downward trend since the end of May and setting a new low since early March, indicating that the cash burn rate of AI companies continues to slow down. This indicator has now fallen 31% from its peak this year, but compared to the end of last year, it still retains an increase of about 15%.Note: The sale of Tokens is currently an important source of monetization for the AI industry, and its price is one of the signals measuring the current supply and demand situation for computing power. If the Token price remains high, cloud service providers will be motivated to purchase more GPUs, DRAM memory, and expand data centers; conversely, they need to be cautious of "consumption downgrade" by AI companies, which could become a leading indicator of the end of this hardware frenzy cycle. Token price data is sourced from top global AI models such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek.