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According to the Q2 2026 report released by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation on Wednesday, Safe smart accounts processed nearly 130 million transactions in the second quarter, setting a quarterly historical record with a 5.7% quarter-over-quarter growth. The total number of accounts reached 63.4 million, a year-on-year increase of 20%, and the monthly active accounts in June rose to 2.73 million. The transaction volume in April alone reached 55.4 million, the highest in history. The quarterly transfer amount reached $39.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8%, and the self-custodied assets at the end of the quarter amounted to $27.24 billion (including $6.48 billion in stablecoins), with project revenue of $1.98 million, a year-on-year increase of 42%.Co-founder Lukas Schor stated that Safe is evolving from a mere asset holding tool to a broader range of use cases, with usage continuing to grow at a compound rate in a weak market. The Safenet Beta, launched on April 2, attracted 54.8 million SAFE staked (with 539 stakers) in its first quarter and has checked over 500,000 transactions, operated by six validators including Greenfield and Gnosis. Additionally, after the KelpDAO attack incident, Aave-led DeFi United coordinated approximately $300 million through Safe smart accounts to help restore rsETH support, with over 142,000 wallets participating. The SAFE token rose 4.2% in the past 24 hours.

On July 29, Tibo, the product lead for OpenAI Codex, announced on X that all usage limits for ChatGPT Work and Codex users have been reset, and released a statement regarding the issue of rapid consumption of GPT-5.6 Sol usage.In the previous weeks, a large number of users reported that the consumption speed of Codex limits exceeded expectations. OpenAI emphasized that it has not reduced the usage quotas of any subscription plans. After investigation, several reasons were found: Sol is more inclined to work for longer periods, execute more tool calls, and coordinate complex workflows than previous models; it consumes more tokens at the same reasoning level; programmatic tool calls (code mode) allow Sol to execute tool calls in parallel, resulting in more responses and higher usage per round; the distribution of impact is extremely uneven, with median user efficiency being acceptable, but heavy users handling complex tasks consuming far more than expected.OpenAI stated that multiple improvements have been completed, and it is expected that usage endurance will be extended by about 18% in typical usage scenarios. Tomorrow, the five-hour limit that was paused during the investigation will be restored. OpenAI acknowledged that "capabilities and efficiency do not always improve synchronously, and some issues only become apparent after large-scale real-world use; we should have realized this earlier."

According to a report by CCTV Finance, Tesla will start limiting employee spending on artificial intelligence tools from the 6th of this month. Similar measures have also been adopted by several other American tech companies.It is reported that Tesla has issued an internal memo to employees announcing that starting from July 6, the spending limit for each employee on AI tools will be $200 per week, and any excess must be approved by a supervisor. However, spending by Tesla employees on the Grok model from xAI, owned by Musk, will not count towards the $200 limit.It is understood that Grok has low acceptance among Tesla employees, with most still choosing to use Claude from Anthropic.

Regarding the suspected attack on the Aztec Router contract on the Ethereum chain, Aztec Labs has officially launched an investigation and clarified that Aztec Connect was deprecated three years ago. Aztec Labs does not hold any administrator keys or control over the system, and currently cannot pause or upgrade it. Therefore, the community is reminded to be vigilant against false "support" accounts and private messages.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated at a Senate Finance Committee hearing that the Treasury is steadily advancing the establishment of a strategic Bitcoin reserve. At the same time, Scott Bessent urged lawmakers to support the digital asset regulatory bill Clarity Ac and expressed hope that the bill could pass this summer to bring the best practices of the U.S. to the domestic market, making the U.S. the capital of global innovation. Regarding the strategic Bitcoin reserve, Scott Bessent pointed out that although the process is complex, it is moving forward, ensuring that best practices are adopted in the complex process so that it can be sustainable in the future.

GoPlus issued a security alert stating that the Korean version of Liangxi, contract live broadcast KOL Xibajie @jadoodoo_'s X account has been hacked, and is crazily sending phishing links to fans under the guise of collaboration. Several KOLs have already fallen victim, with total losses amounting to approximately $5,000. Please do not click on links to connect wallets or download malware.

The co-founder of the crypto platform Forsage, Olena Oblamska, pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud after being extradited from Thailand to the United States. Forsage launched in January 2020, marketing itself to retail investors worldwide as a smart contract-based DApp investment platform. The U.S. Department of Justice accused the platform of using smart contracts on Ethereum, Tron, and BNB Chain to automatically redirect funds from new participants to early investors, constituting a Ponzi and pyramid scheme.Blockchain analysis shows that over 80% of Forsage investors received less cryptocurrency than they deposited, and over 50% received no returns at all. The scam defrauded victims from the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America of approximately $340 million. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission had previously filed a civil lawsuit against those involved in August 2022.

According to Cointelegraph, White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt stated that the CLARITY Act will meet about 90% of the regulatory needs of the crypto industry.

According to The Block, Olena Oblamska, a Ukrainian citizen accused of co-founding the crypto investment platform Forsage, was extradited from Thailand to the United States and pleaded not guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in federal court in Portland, Oregon. She is the first of four defendants to appear in a U.S. court, while the other three Russian defendants are still at large.Prosecutors allege that Forsage is a Ponzi scheme based on Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Tron smart contracts, involving approximately $340 million. Blockchain analysis shows that over 80% of Ethereum project investors received less ETH than they deposited, and more than half of the investors received nothing. If convicted, Oblamska faces up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The U.S. Department of Justice stated that Olena Oblamska, a Ukrainian national accused of operating the cryptocurrency investment platform Forsage, was extradited from Thailand to the United States last week and appeared in federal court in Oregon, pleading not guilty to the charge of "conspiracy to commit wire fraud."Prosecutors claim that Forsage operated under the guise of an investment project based on Ethereum blockchain "smart contracts," but in reality constituted a Ponzi and pyramid investment scheme, involving approximately $340 million. Currently, Olena Oblamska is being held in custody awaiting trial, with jury proceedings expected to begin on July 14, 2026; if convicted, she could face up to 20 years in federal prison.

CoinList announced the launch of Passage, positioned as the "access layer" for on-chain capital markets, aimed at providing compliant distribution, capital access, allocation, and infrastructure support for tokenized assets.CoinList stated that as tokenized stocks, funds, yield products, and Pre-IPO assets gradually migrate on-chain, the current market still faces fragmentation issues among issuers, chains, and compliance rules, and that "asset tokenization does not equal effective distribution." Passage will connect issuers, platforms, and investors, helping tokenized assets achieve large-scale on-chain circulation.According to reports, Passage is built on CoinList's existing infrastructure. CoinList claims that since 2017, its platform has covered over 160 countries and has completed more than $1.2 billion in asset distribution.

The OpenAI official status page shows that OpenAI is investigating multiple service outages, with the Codex 5.5 engine experiencing a high error rate, particularly affecting free users. All Codex users have also seen an increase in latency for gpt 5.5.In addition, the Realtime API's SIP/WebRTC process has experienced interruptions, which has been officially marked as "under investigation," and the related issues have persisted for several hours. The official website notes that the impact of the outage varies depending on subscription level and the models and features used.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated on Wednesday at the Code With Claude developer conference in San Francisco that the company's revenue in the first quarter saw an 80-fold increase alongside customer AI usage, which took the company by surprise. He mentioned that the company had originally planned for a 10-fold annual growth, but the actual growth rate far exceeded expectations, leading to a tight supply of computing power.Anthropic's annualized revenue increased from nearly $1 billion at the end of 2024 to $9 billion by the end of the year, and by early April this year, it had surged to $30 billion. The strong demand for Claude Code and work agents allowed it to nearly meet its annual forecast ahead of schedule last month. To alleviate the pressure on computing power, Anthropic signed contracts for a total of 10 gigawatts of computing power supply with Amazon and Google over the past month, and announced on Thursday that it will utilize all the computing power of xAI's first data center, Colossus 1, located in Memphis, within the next month. Amodei stated that the company will continue to acquire more computing power as much as possible.

According to The Block, Patrick Witt, the executive director of the White House Digital Asset Advisory Committee, stated at the Consensus conference that the goal is to pass the crypto market structure bill into law before the deadline. He believes the Senate may advance the legislation in June, allowing enough time for the House to pass its version as well.The main obstacle for the bill in the Senate Banking Committee is the handling of stablecoin rewards. The compromise language released last week seems to have resolved this issue, but the banking industry association believes there are still "insufficiencies." Additionally, ethical provisions have become a new focus. New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand stated that she would not support the bill without ethical provisions. Witt mentioned that discussions with Democrats are progressing well, and the rules will apply equally to new interns in the White House and Capitol Hill, without targeting specific individuals.

Fox Business reporter Eleanor Terrett posted on the X platform that U.S. Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks issued a joint statement regarding the compromise proposal on stablecoin earnings in Section 404 of the CLARITY Act. The statement may indicate that the relevant agreement is close to being finalized.The statement said that the two have discussed concerns from various stakeholders about the banking industry's worries regarding deposit outflows, and the related compromise proposal will prohibit stablecoin rewards similar to bank deposit interest while allowing crypto companies to offer other forms of customer rewards.

Gate announced the launch of the GateRouter enterprise account feature, enhancing enterprise-level management capabilities based on the existing AI model gateway, providing an integrated AI usage and governance solution for team and institutional users. GateRouter supports quick access to over 30 mainstream models such as GPT, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini through a single API, and automatically matches models based on task complexity. By intelligently routing and automatically selecting cost-effective models, GateRouter can help enterprises significantly reduce costs and achieve more efficient scalable applications.The launch of the GateRouter enterprise account feature optimizes three aspects: cost, permissions, and data. It achieves unified billing through a shared quota pool and controls budgets with a three-tier quota mechanism based on organization, members, and API Key; it supports up to 4 levels of organizational structure and a multi-role permission system for refined management; it also provides multi-dimensional statistics such as per capita usage, model distribution, and API Key, making AI usage traceable and analyzable. The overall design connects model invocation with organizational management, providing foundational support for the scalable implementation of AI within enterprises.

According to Jinshi citing CCTV news reports, sources from the United States indicate that based on ship tracking data, as of the afternoon of the 19th British time, no vessel passage records were observed in the Strait of Hormuz on that day.It is reported that on the 18th, at least 13 oil tankers changed course and turned back while attempting to leave the Persian Gulf, abandoning their plans to continue through the strait.