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According to Jinshi reports, U.S. President Trump has ordered restrictions on the export of critical mineral waste.

The Binance research report shows that in the first half of 2026, the on-chain market contracted overall rather than experiencing capital rotation. The total locked value in DeFi across the entire chain decreased by $43.4 billion, a decline of 38%; the total market capitalization of the six major mainstream Layer 1 public chains covered in the report decreased by $246.5 billion, a decline of 42%. The Ethereum spot ETF holdings dropped from over 6 million ETH to 5.2 million, while the holdings of digital asset reserve companies increased from 6 million to 7.7 million, indicating a change in marginal holding structure.The report also pointed out that after the increase in Ethereum's Gas limit, the average Gas price decreased by 75% compared to 2025, and the number of transactions grew by about 50%, but the annual on-chain revenue is still expected to decline by 53%. User activity on Layer 2 general networks significantly weakened, with user operations dropping by about 77% from January to June 2026. The Solana network's REV fell from $40 million in January to $14 million in June.On the other hand, BNB Chain performed outstandingly in the field of tokenized stocks and tokenized real-world assets, with the market share of on-chain tokenized RWA increasing from 9.8% to 13.5% in the first half of the year. The report also mentioned that prediction markets, DEX, lending, and tokenized RWA remain among the few major directions that maintain activity.

According to Jinshi reports, the Secretary-General of the European Commission stated that Russia's war against Ukraine is escalating to an unprecedented level, and the situation of war in the Middle East is similar. He called for all parties to sit down and begin working towards a sustainable, realistic, and long-term peaceful solution.

According to Gate market data, on July 29, Asian stocks generally rose, with China's Shanghai Composite Index closing up 15.15 points, an increase of 0.4%, at 3,828.47 points; the Shenzhen Component Index rose 148.76 points, an increase of 1.1%, at 13,658.44 points; and the Hong Kong Hang Seng Index rose 497.07 points, an increase of 1.96%, at 25,807.92 points.Most European and American stock markets fell, with Germany's DAX30 index down 34.71 points, a decrease of 0.14%, at 25,457.88 points; and the Dow Jones index down 1,152.18 points, a decrease of 2.19%, at 51,594.14 points.

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 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 DefiLlama data, the Ethereum chain random NFT acquisition protocol Fake World Assets, developed by the two-person team Token Works, surpassed the daily revenue of Collector Crypt on Solana within four days of its relaunch on July 20.On July 25, the peak daily revenue reached $447,604, with total fees of $1.6 million, and approximately 90,000 transactions including about 35,000 draws, with a trading volume of around 2,000 ETH. After that, activity declined, with revenue in the past 24 hours dropping to $167,869, ranking second in daily revenue among Ethereum protocols, only behind Sky ($464,303), and ahead of Aave ($105,282) and Uniswap ($76,028).In this protocol, depositors list NFTs along with their pledged ETH collateral (similar to Uniswap V2 trading pairs), where the collateral determines the weight of each NFT and provides depositors with irrevocable continuous bids to reacquire the NFT. Anyone can pay the acquisition price generated by the liquidity pool to obtain a randomly selected NFT.The pool has accumulated over 1,500 NFTs including CryptoPunks, with randomness provided by Chainlink VRF. The token emission incentives expire 15 days after launch, and daily fees have decreased by about half from their peak. Collector Crypt on Solana remains the leader in this sector, with users spending over $209 million on its card packs in June alone.

Anthropic announced that the Claude Mythos Preview model has made breakthroughs in cryptographic research, discovering improved attack methods against the post-quantum digital signature candidate HAWK. HAWK is a post-quantum signature candidate solicited by NIST to combat quantum computer attacks, which has already passed two rounds of expert review. However, Claude reduced the effective key strength of HAWK-256 from 2^64 to 2^38 in just 60 hours, significantly lowering the theoretical cost of cracking. HAWK has not yet been deployed in practice, and this attack currently does not affect any production systems.Claude also discovered an improved attack against 7-round AES, achieving a speed increase of 200 to 800 times. During the research process, Claude independently completed literature reviews, mathematical reasoning, and experimental validation with limited guidance from cryptographers. The HAWK attack took about 60 hours and had an API cost of approximately $100,000; the AES attack was completed independently by Claude, which generated about 1 billion tokens before proposing core innovative ideas. Anthropic researchers then spent hundreds of hours validating the results. Anthropic stated that AI models can now help identify significant flaws in cryptographic algorithms, and the cryptography community may face bottlenecks similar to those in the software vulnerability field—AI-generated research results far exceed human verification capabilities. Anthropic has collaborated with academic institutions to launch the CryptanalysisBench benchmark and coordinated disclosures with NIST authors and government partners. The research team has achieved preliminary results on algorithms such as LEA and Serpent-128. Anthropic warns that as AI capabilities improve, actual attacks against deployed systems may be discovered in the future, necessitating the establishment of response mechanisms in advance.

According to on-chain analyst PeckShield (@PeckShieldAlert), the Solido Money protocol suffered a vulnerability attack, resulting in approximately 293.7 million SUPRA being stolen, of which about 220 million SUPRA has been transferred to a deposit address suspected to belong to Gate exchange.According to the official report from Solido Money, about 90% of the compromised funds belong to the foundation's holdings.

Currently, the bill is stalled in the Senate, with Democrats demanding stronger ethical constraints regarding the conflict of interest related to the Trump family's cryptocurrency. As the congressional recess approaches, there is little time left in the legislative window.

GLC Research stated on X that Hyperliquid's "priority fee" mechanism has achieved great success, having generated over $5 million in revenue to date.Based on the average levels over 14 days and 30 days, the annualized buyback scale supported by this revenue has exceeded $30 million, accounting for about 7% of HYPE's total revenue. Considering that the "priority fee" is still in a very early stage, this figure is expected to continue to grow, with the annualized scale of this revenue likely to reach between $50 million and $100 million by the end of the year.

According to on-chain detective Specter monitoring, Wemix Network may have experienced a vulnerability exploitation event exceeding $700,000, with the related address being 0xC921...7EA2.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Generali Open: Alexander Bublik vs. Quentin Halys," the option "Alexander Bublik" in the sub-market "Generali Open: Alexander Bublik vs. Quentin Halys" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 57.5% an hour ago to the current 38.5% (a fluctuation of 19%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Bitcoin News, the latest Senate draft of the CLARITY Act includes a provision that encourages ethical hackers, specifically "white hat" hackers, to responsibly disclose cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The proposal would authorize rewards for individuals who identify and report security flaws, aiming to enhance the protection of digital asset infrastructure before malicious actors exploit these vulnerabilities. This provision incorporates the views of former CFTC Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, who has long supported innovation in digital assets and market resilience.

U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis released an updated draft of the CLARITY Act, which aims to require digital commodity exchanges, brokers, and dealers to segregate customer assets and prohibit the use of customer funds and assets as the platform's own property.The draft also aims to classify digital commodities held by the platform on behalf of customers as "customer property" in bankruptcy liquidation proceedings, reducing the risk of users being classified as general unsecured creditors.

According to Slow Fog monitoring, the decentralized finance protocol Lien Finance was attacked. The attacker exploited a smart contract vulnerability to mint uncollateralized bond tokens and stole approximately $542,000 USDC.Using this vulnerability, the attacker successfully minted new non-anomalous BondTokens without destroying the corresponding input bonds and exchanged USDC through a pre-authorized address, ultimately transferring about 542,144.63 USDC from the victim's address. Analysis indicates that this incident was essentially due to a validation flaw in the bond token exchange logic, allowing the attacker to bypass asset collateral constraints and mint unsupported assets.

According to the Bitwise "Q3 2026 Staking Report," Q2 2026 presents a divergent pattern of "increased on-chain activity and decreased fee revenue," with the core driving factor being various protocols actively reducing block space costs.In terms of core data across chains, Ethereum's active staking volume reached a historic high of 40.2 million ETH (accounting for 33% of the total supply), while network revenue decreased by 51% year-on-year to $64 million, although it rebounded in ETH terms quarter-on-quarter; Solana's Q2 Real Economic Value (REV) dropped to $51 million, significantly down from the peak of $812 million in Q1 2025, but non-voting transaction volume reached 9.8 billion, maintaining resilience in on-chain activity; Hyperliquid's Q2 total protocol revenue was $174.8 million, with perpetual contract trading volume reaching $65.2 billion, and the proportion of non-crypto assets (commodities, stock indices, etc.) rose to 32%; Avalanche C chain's transaction volume grew approximately fourfold year-on-year to 236 million transactions, but network revenue plummeted due to a significant drop in fees, leaving only $330,000; NEAR saw a dramatic 75% drop in on-chain transaction volume to 77.7 million transactions due to the collapse of Kai-Ching application activity, but the Intents execution layer generated fees approximately 68 times that of the base chain.In terms of institutional adoption, BlackRock launched an Ethereum staking ETF (ETHB), Coinbase and Circle each staked 500,000 HYPE, and Bitwise, 21Shares, and Grayscale successively launched HYPE spot ETFs. Additionally, the stablecoin payment chain Tempo, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, processed $386 million in transfers in its first quarter, while the global payroll platform Deel distributed approximately $30 million to 7,200 contractors through this chain.

Zilliqa stated that there is a serious random number generation vulnerability in the Zilliqa Ledger application, affecting the Schnorr signatures of native non-EVM Zilliqa transactions. Attackers can recover the signer's private key from the biased temporary random numbers using only publicly available on-chain data.Any account that has signed and broadcasted about 5 or more native transactions through the Zilliqa Ledger application should be considered compromised. Since the related signatures are permanently recorded on the chain, subsequent updates to the application cannot eliminate the risk, and the affected private keys must be deactivated. EVM transactions and development tools such as zilliqa-js, gozilliqa-sdk, and pyzil are not affected.The vulnerability arises from the application selecting the wrong 32 bytes when copying the random number, retaining 8 bytes of zero padding and losing 8 bytes of entropy, resulting in each random number having a maximum of 64 bits fixed to zero. Attackers can use 5 or more affected signatures to recover the private key within seconds using ordinary hardware. Zilliqa observed suspected active exploitation on July 19 and confirmed the root cause on July 21.Zilliqa has suspended native transactions to prevent further loss of funds and is preparing a revised application with Ledger. However, the revised version cannot protect the exposed keys, and affected users should not transfer assets on their own but wait for the official announcement of a coordinated disposal plan.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), the Summer Fi vulnerability attacker has transferred most of the stolen funds. The attacker obtained 6.017 million DAI from the vulnerability on July 6 and has since continued to mix and transfer funds through Tornado Cash.Currently, two related addresses still have a small amount of funds remaining: the original wallet (0x7bf7...bdca) has 11.3 ETH (approximately $21,600) left, and the second wallet (0x46e0...eba7) has 282.9 ETH (approximately $543,500) left.