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The U.S. SEC is reviewing Grayscale's application to rename the Grayscale Litecoin Trust to "Grayscale Litecoin Trust ETF," which is planned to be listed on NYSE Arca under the stock ticker LTCN.

Coinbase announced that it has renamed the Base App to Coinbase Wallet, reversing the renaming decision made a year ago, shifting the focus of the self-custody application towards trading and broader multi-chain access. Ryan Kass, the product lead for Coinbase Wallet, stated that the wallet will serve as a "test kitchen" for products and assets not yet offered by the centralized exchange Coinbase, with the first case being perpetual contracts supported by Hyperliquid. The wallet also supports long-tail assets and plans to gradually integrate as new chains go live.The wallet also supports prediction markets and tokenized stocks. Coinbase stated that the Base App has evolved into a broader multi-chain trading platform, making the restoration of the Coinbase Wallet name a reasonable move. Coinbase promotes the wallet with the selling points of "no KYC, no waiting, borderless," allowing users to start trading within minutes after downloading the app, although some features are still subject to regional restrictions. The wallet will automatically detect and hide scam or malicious tokens, and new markets and asset classes must undergo strict product and compliance reviews before going live.In terms of background, Coinbase renamed Coinbase Wallet to Base App in July 2025, positioning it as a "universal app" that integrates social, mini-apps, messaging, payments, and trading. CEO Brian Armstrong admitted in March this year that the social experiment was "not very successful," after which Base founder Jesse Pollak handed over leadership of the app to Jordan "Cobie" Fish.

The re-staking protocol Renzo Protocol announced its name change to Renzo Finance and launched its first on-chain structured yield product Renzo Basis, which will go live on Hyperliquid, initially supporting BTC and HYPE. Lucas Kozinski, founder of Renzo Labs, stated that basis trading earns funding rate income by simultaneously holding a spot long and a perpetual contract short. Since the long and short positions hedge each other, asset price fluctuations do not affect the yield, and users earn the fees paid by perpetual traders every hour.Renzo stated that the product achieves automation through a triple protection mechanism, including hedge protection, yield protection, and safety buffer. Currently, the product does not use AI automation but instead conducts trading and strategy monitoring through Hyperliquid's proxy wallet (API wallet) with user authorization, without holding user funds. The relevant protection parameters can be customized by users. Renzo emphasized that its product differs from competitors such as Ethena and Bitwise's Superstate in that it is fully on-chain, self-custodied, and allows depositors to choose their own assets, trading venues, and risk parameters.Renzo Basis plans to support all assets on Hyperliquid that have both spot and perpetual markets and expand to other DeFi platforms, with the next stop being Lighter on Robinhood, where on-chain stock perpetual basis trading will be introduced.

As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, the world's leading digital asset trading platform Gate has launched a limited edition gift box themed around the festival, specifically for global partners and VIP users. As an important traditional festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival carries cultural meanings of reunion, gathering, and good wishes. Gate also takes this opportunity to extend sincere greetings to global users and partners, further strengthening interactions with the community and ecological partners.The design of this gift box incorporates visual elements such as the moon and space travel, along with outdoor lifestyle products like picnic mats and inflatable sofas, extending the "moon viewing" imagery of the Mid-Autumn Festival into a more modern outdoor setting. It is worth mentioning that the lunar elements naturally resonate with the long-standing "To the Moon" culture in the cryptocurrency industry: on one end is the bright moon symbolizing reunion and good wishes in Mid-Autumn culture, while on the other end is the cryptocurrency industry's expression of exploration, breakthroughs, and future visions.From holiday gifts to brand cultural expression, Gate's Mid-Autumn gift box integrates the festival's meaning of reunion, outdoor lifestyle, and cryptocurrency culture into a single scene, conveying the spirit of the festival while also strengthening emotional connections with global users and partners in a more industry-specific manner.

The cryptocurrency trading platform Bitget announced that the 2026 King’s Cup Global Invitation Tournament (KCGI) has officially started. This event integrates three major tracks: cryptocurrency contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), using the same venue, prize pool, and ranking, with a total prize pool of 3 million USDT.Currently, over 1,300 teams are participating, with a total of 37,000 participants, and users can still register during the competition period. The UEX Arena offers a maximum reward of 2 million USDT, covering team earnings, trading volumes across all tracks, and individual earnings rankings; the UEX Treasure Map offers a maximum reward of 600,000 USDT, with an additional 100,000 USDT incentive for team captains. Registration ends on September 22.

The Bitget 2026 King Cup Global Invitation Tournament KCGI has opened registration on August 26. As of now, the event has formed 1,122 teams, with a total of 30,337 participants.This tournament is the first to integrate three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot rToken, all in the same arena, with the same prize pool and ranking, totaling a prize pool of 3 million USDT. Registration ends on September 22, and the team and individual competitions will take place from September 9 to September 22.

Recently, Sun Yuchen launched a batch of real-name complaints against the self-media that criticized him. Sun Yuchen filed multiple complaints against several self-media accounts, including Luke Wen Studio and "Luo Serious," on the grounds of "defamation/commercial reputation/invasion of privacy/portrait rights."The complaint materials requested the platform to deal with articles that used qualitative expressions such as "cutting leeks" and reinforced negative personas, and stated that he has entrusted a lawyer to secure evidence.

Telegram has set its self-hosted Gram wallet as the default wallet in user settings, while renaming Wallet in Telegram to Walt. Telegram founder Pavel Durov previewed the Gram wallet in July, planning to introduce a native non-custodial wallet for each Telegram app.The Gram wallet will serve as the transaction layer for transfers and payments on Telegram, supporting the purchase of Telegram Collectibles (including gifts, usernames, and phone numbers) as well as services and daily consumption payments. The Gram wallet remains connected to Walt, which allows users to recharge their Gram wallet with multi-chain crypto assets.The renaming of Wallet in Telegram reflects that its services have surpassed the initial positioning primarily for purchasing and holding Gram (formerly Toncoin). Walt supports recharging, holding, and withdrawing over 300 crypto assets across 4 blockchains, as well as trading more than 200 assets, and offers over 100 tokenized stocks, ETFs, and metals. The product also includes crypto yield services and perpetual contracts. The Open Platform (TOP) and Walt founder and CEO Andrew Rogozov stated that they initially started as a simple wallet for purchasing TON, but over the past four years have grown into a full-scale crypto platform within Telegram, launching Earn, real-world assets, and perpetual trading.

The Bitget 2026 King Cup Global Invitation Tournament KCGI has opened registration on August 26. As of now, 796 teams have been formed, with a total of 20,801 participants. Early bird benefits are also available; users who join a team and complete the specified requirements among the first 10,000 users before August 30 can compete for an early bird prize pool of 200,000 USDT.It is reported that this year's KCGI has been fully upgraded, with "UEX Panoramic Competition" as the core highlight, for the first time integrating three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot (rToken), achieving the same competition field, the same prize pool, and the same ranking, providing a multi-asset competitive scenario for users with different trading preferences, with a total prize pool of 3 million USDT. The registration period for the tournament ends on September 22, and more details can be found on the Bitget official platform.

Matthew Gould, the founder of Unstoppable Domains, stated that the company did not submit an application for its Web3 top-level domains in ICANN's 2026 expansion round and will refund customers who purchased related domains. Gould mentioned that the compliance, application, and bidding costs of incorporating Web3 domains into the ICANN system exceeded the company's expected recoverable sales. This move ends the company's commitment since 2019 that domains like .crypto and .wallet would eventually be resolvable in standard browsers.The application window for this round of ICANN opened on April 30 and closed on August 12, receiving over 1,600 major applications. Gould stated that customers have been notified via email, but the list of affected extensions and refund terms have not been disclosed. Some holders questioned the scope of the refunds, claiming they held the domains based on Unstoppable's commitment to advance the ICANN application. Gould responded that Web3 domains will still serve as on-chain assets for cryptocurrency transactions.Unstoppable continues to participate in ICANN activities as a service provider and previously announced a partnership with Telegram to apply for the .gram domain. Meanwhile, ENS has chosen a different path, with token holders approving the restructuring of the ENS Foundation to pursue the .ens top-level domain in ICANN, but ENS will not apply for .eth, as it is reserved for ISO 3166-1 country codes.

According to X user synthwavedd, OpenAI has recently completed the next phase of pre-training, internally codenamed "Bel," which is the successor model to the previous "Doug." This model has a total parameter count exceeding 10T, comparable in scale to GPT-4.5. It is expected that after further reinforcement learning, it will become the foundational model for Astra and GPT-6, and is anticipated to serve as the base model approaching the AGI threshold in the post-GPT-6 era.Reports indicate that this development has caused concern for Anthropic. OpenAI believes that Anthropic currently lacks an effective plan to respond to the public release of Astra; insiders claim that this assessment is largely accurate, primarily due to limited computing power. Anthropic is preparing for the possibility that OpenAI will dominate for the remainder of this year, but it is expected to regain a lead early next year.

Bitget today announced the schedule for the 2026 KCGI King Cup Global Invitational. This year's event has been fully upgraded, connecting three major tracks: crypto contracts, TradFi contracts, and stock spot rToken, with a total prize pool of 3,000,000 USDT.The event timeline is as follows:• Registration Phase: August 26, 00:00 -- September 26, 23:59 (UTC+8)• Early Bird Benefits: August 26, 00:00 -- August 30, 23:59 (UTC+8)• Join a Team: August 26, 00:00 -- September 9, 23:59 (UTC+8)• Delayed Team Formation Phase: September 9, 00:00 -- September 17, 23:59 (UTC+8)• Team Competition / Individual Competition: September 9, 00:00 -- September 22, 23:59 (UTC+8)• Reward Announcement and Honor Live Draw: To be held after the competition ends, specific time to be determined by official announcement.

The Berachain Foundation announced that its stablecoin HONEY has completed a rebranding and is now named Bera USD (BUSD). The contract address and the token itself remain unchanged, with only the name and symbol being modified.Due to the token name participating in the EIP-712 domain separation design, permits or off-chain authorizations originally signed based on the HONEY name will automatically become invalid and need to be re-signed.Berachain stated that the BUSD-related updates will soon be fully launched across various integration partners, and more updates will be released in the future.

On this day 18 years ago, Bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto registered the domain bitcoin.org. This domain subsequently became an important platform for early information dissemination and community collaboration for Bitcoin.On August 18, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto completed the registration of bitcoin.org; in October of the same year, he published the Bitcoin white paper through this channel, and in January 2009, he mined the genesis block, launching the Bitcoin network. bitcoin.org has long hosted the Bitcoin protocol documentation, client download guides, and foundational educational content, making it one of the iconic online assets in the process of Bitcoin's transition from concept to global adoption.

ENS DAO has voted to approve the proposal "Next Era of ENS DAO" and completed on-chain execution, officially establishing the ENS Foundation to promote the ENS ecosystem into a new governance phase.According to the proposal, the ENS Foundation will become a fully operational organization, equipped with a full-time executive director, a professional team, and a board of directors consisting of 5 members, responsible for undertaking institutional work related to ENS in areas such as law, policy, standard-setting, and brand protection.ENS stated that over the past nearly ten years, ENS has developed into an important infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem, with millions of registered domain names, and has been integrated by numerous wallets, applications, and Layer 2 networks. However, the DAO itself lacks legal entity status, making it unable to effectively participate in the governance of the internet naming system, sign institutional cooperation agreements, hire full-time employees, maintain trademark rights, or engage in regulatory discussions. The establishment of the ENS Foundation aims to fill this gap. In the future, the foundation will be responsible for:Representing ENS in internet standard organizations such as ICANN, IETF, and W3C, promoting the recognition and management of the ".ens" top-level domain (TLD);Participating in policy discussions as a legal entity, communicating with regulatory agencies and government departments;Holding and protecting ENS trademarks and intellectual property, combating phishing and impersonation;Hiring full-time employees responsible for ecosystem operations, funding programs, and fund management;Becoming a formal cooperation entity between traditional institutions such as registrars and standard organizations and the ENS ecosystem.

According to Vietnamese media An Ninh Tien Te, the Ministry of Public Security of Vietnam proposed to expand the scope of electronic identification subjects in the draft of the "Electronic Identification and Authentication Law," incorporating data, applications, digital assets, and various other assets. The draft stipulates that electronic identification subjects include not only institutions, organizations, and individuals but also extend to physical entities such as products, goods, and equipment, as well as digital resources and digital assets like databases, documents, images, and videos. The identification of digital assets is executed in accordance with the provisions of the Digital Technology Industry Law.The draft also establishes mechanisms for the suspension, restoration, and cancellation of electronic identities and identification codes. The Ministry of Public Security stated that the current electronic identification primarily serves the digital construction of citizens and the government, but in the context of the rapid development of the digital economy and digital society, a unified identification mechanism needs to be established, covering various entities in both physical and digital environments.

Mirae Asset has completed the acquisition of Korea's earliest cryptocurrency exchange Korbit at 97.15% and has renamed it Digital X.The company plans to develop Digital X into a smart investment platform, integrating real-world assets, security tokens, stablecoins, traditional assets, and digital assets within the same ecosystem. Mirae Asset stated that it will not directly compete with dominant exchanges like Upbit and Bithumb, focusing instead on investor education, research, strict compliance standards, and institutional-grade infrastructure.

Hong Kong, July 23, 2026 - PhotonPay, a next-generation global financial operating system built on a stablecoin-native architecture, has been recognized in the CNBC 2026 World's Top Fintech Companies rankings, Payments category. The list, compiled jointly by CNBC and Statista, covers 500 leading fintech companies worldwide. PhotonPay supports unified fiat and stablecoin transactions with real-time settlement, serving tens of thousands of enterprises globally. Customers have reduced fund transfer costs by over 75% and improved finance team efficiency by 60% (as of December 2025).