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BSC and 0G ecosystem's largest AI economic infrastructure company NeoSoul announced plans to launch the world's first highly customizable Agentic Trading framework, helping users build AI Agents that can make autonomous decisions and trade independently.As AI capabilities rapidly improve, more and more traders are beginning to use Agents to assist in trading. However, currently, building a trading Agent that can operate stably over the long term still presents a high barrier to entry. NeoSoul hopes to lower the threshold for users to utilize autonomous trading Agents through its innovative Agent trading framework.NeoSoul chooses to focus on Trading because the financial market is the most direct scenario to test the capabilities of AI Agents. Compared to traditional AI applications that mainly provide information and advice, trading Agents need to continuously make judgments in a real environment and be validated by the market.NeoSoul's Agentic Trading Framework primarily addresses the following issues:Helping users create and customize their own AI trading AgentsOrdinary users who want to participate in AI trading often face technical and strategic barriers. NeoSoul allows users to create trading Agents that align with their goals without starting from scratch, and to accumulate professional trading experience and strategies through skills.Enabling users to determine whether the Agent truly possesses trading capabilitiesCreating an Agent is just the first step. Users also need to understand whether the Agent can consistently execute strategies and manage risks. NeoSoul provides verifiable performance records, allowing users to review the Agent's decision-making process and trading results.Allowing users to manage autonomous trading permissions more effectivelyWhen it comes to asset management, permission control is crucial. NeoSoul supports users in setting Agent permissions and understanding trading behavior in real-time.NeoSoul co-founder Kaelan stated:"AI Agents are moving from providing answers to participating in real economic activities. Trading is one of the most natural scenarios for Agents to enter economic activities, as each decision results in a clear outcome. NeoSoul hopes to help traders create operational AI Agents, enabling more strategies to be executed continuously."In the future, NeoSoul will continue to improve the Agentic Trading ecosystem, allowing more users to use AI Agents to participate in the global financial market.

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.

Bitcoin Treasuries.NET posted on platform X that SharpLink SBET obtained 420 ETH this week through staking rewards, currently holding a total of 888,521 ETH, making it the second largest ETH treasury company in the world.

Bitwise CEO posted on the X platform that one of the world's largest wealth management companies has opened the Bitwise Solana Staking ETF BSOL to its advisors and clients.

The 2026 Fortune Global 500 list was released on July 28, with the total revenue of the listed companies amounting to approximately $43.1 trillion, exceeding one-third of the global GDP, with a year-on-year growth of about 3.2%. Amazon topped the list for the first time, ending Walmart's twelve-year streak; State Grid ranked third. Alphabet took the title of "most profitable company in the world" from Saudi Aramco with a net profit of $132.17 billion. NVIDIA ranked second in profits, and TSMC was the only Chinese company to enter the top ten in profits.A total of 141 companies from the United States made the list, 122 from China (including Taiwan), and 40 from Japan. The total revenue of Chinese listed companies is approximately $10.4 trillion, with an average profit of $4.5 billion, about 40% of the average profit of U.S. companies ($11.24 billion). JD.com (41st) ranked first among private companies in mainland China, while Alibaba (56th), Tencent (97th, entering the top 100 for the first time), Pinduoduo (255th), and Meituan (311th) all saw improvements in their rankings.In the high-tech sector, 38 listed companies had an average profit of $21.98 billion. NVIDIA jumped 38 places to rank 28th, TSMC rose 44 places to rank 82nd, SK Hynix ranked 210th, and Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices returned to the list after many years. The automotive industry saw increased differentiation, with BYD ranking 91st, CATL significantly rising 43 places to rank 260th, and Chery Automobile making the list for the first time as a publicly listed company. The company with the largest increase in ranking was Wistron, which surged 298 places to rank 198th.

According to official news from the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), the public welfare project Game Changers Coalition (GCC) has expanded to Bangladesh, Indonesia, and Bolivia, increasing the number of countries covered globally to 11. As a strategic partner of the project, Bitget has been continuously providing resources such as digital education, artificial intelligence, and financial literacy to youth in emerging markets since 2025. So far, GCC has reached over 642,000 youth, parents, and teachers worldwide, with female participants accounting for 52%.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that the rapid growth exhibited by youth when given appropriate opportunities is encouraging, and Bitget hopes to help more young people build long-term digital skills through this collaboration. Sandra Visscher, Executive Director of UNICEF Luxembourg, stated that the expansion of the project not only means a further increase in the scale of educational coverage but will also help promote inclusive development, cultivate female leaders, and unlock the development potential of emerging markets.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, the Worldcoin multi-signature address transferred a value of $13.84 million in WLD to two new addresses 9 hours ago.The upstream address actually received 60 million WLD, and this time only transferred out 36.94 million WLD; the receiving addresses have not yet transferred or sold.

World announced that the project has entered the Phase 3 stage of its third year, focusing on advancing "proof of human" with World ID in more scenarios, including real-name participation in Zoom meetings, preventing bots in Tinder matches, and combating scalpers for concert tickets. Currently, the World ID network covers over 390 million users globally.World stated that the next phase will further expand proof of human to consumer platforms, enterprise client identity verification, and human identities linked to AI agents, with plans to launch a new version of the World ID app and introduce new developments this fall.

According to The Block, the World project’s foundation, World Foundation, raised $52.5 million through a strategic sale of WLD tokens, with all tokens locked for one year. This round of "initial delivery" was led by Pantera Capital, with participation from Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings (NASDAQ: ORBS), Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and others.The foundation stated that the WLD sold this time is only for internal use within the World Network and does not represent equity or revenue rights in Tools for Humanity. The funds will be used to expand the World ID technology aimed at enterprises, individuals, and AI Agents. Currently, World ID has been integrated with platforms such as Zoom, DocuSign, Okta, Vercel, and Tinder, with over 39 million people having joined the network, of which more than 18 million have completed Orb real-person verification. The current price of WLD is approximately $0.37, with a total market capitalization of about $1.31 billion.

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).

As the trading heat of the gold market continues to rise, the activity in the related derivatives market has further increased. According to CoinGlass data, the total open interest for gold (XAU) contracts across the network reached 880 million USD, with the Gate platform's open interest at approximately 238 million USD, ranking second among global exchanges. Meanwhile, the total open interest for Tether Gold (XAUT) contracts across the network reached 528 million USD, with the Gate platform's open interest at approximately 118 million USD, ranking third among global exchanges.

Artificial intelligence company World Labs, founded by Fei-Fei Li, announced the acquisition of robotics company SceniX, with the specific acquisition amount not disclosed. World Labs stated that robots are an important carrier for the implementation of spatial intelligence in the real world, and future robotic systems need to possess environmental perception, spatial understanding, behavioral reasoning, and reliable execution capabilities.After this acquisition, SceniX will be integrated into the World Labs team, and both parties plan to combine their respective strengths in spatial modeling and robotics technology to promote more application scenarios.

According to Protos, Grayscale's SEC filing for the Worldcoin ETF reveals that about 90% of the circulating WLD tokens are concentrated in 100 wallets, contrasting with the project's vision of "fairly distributing to as many people around the world as possible."The document also acknowledges that the World Chain's sequencer operates in a centralized manner, with upgrade functions coordinated and controlled by a few participants from the World Foundation, Tools for Humanity, and Optimism, and governance "is still primarily guided by the World Foundation."

In response to the accusations from Michael Kratsios, the Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, regarding Moonshot AI (Kimi) referencing Anthropic's Fable while developing the K3 model and building a large-scale distillation platform, Moonshot AI team member Randy Xia stated that Fable was released on July 1 and K3 went live on July 15, which means that the model research, distillation, training, and release were completed in just 15 days. He joked, "We trained a brand new cutting-edge model in just 15 days; this is practically a Guinness World Record."Kratsios had previously stated that Moonshot AI established an internal platform capable of large-scale distillation for U.S. models, switching between various access methods to evade detection, and had procured GB300 servers and accessed related equipment in Thailand for training. The U.S. side expressed support for legitimate distillation but opposed the theft of technology through secret industrial distillation methods.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov stated in a post on his personal channel that this summer will see "the largest deployment of non-custodial crypto wallets in human history." Telegram plans to integrate a native non-custodial Gram wallet into all its applications.Pavel Durov mentioned that the wallet will provide over 1 billion Telegram users with an instant, zero-fee cryptocurrency trading experience, further popularizing on-chain payments. He stated, "We are bringing the native non-custodial Gram wallet to every Telegram application."

According to data from The Block, in the days leading up to the World Cup final, the total open interest (OI) of Kalshi and Polymarket combined has decreased by 20% from a peak of about $2 billion in early July. When smoothed weekly, the total OI rose from about $1.2 billion at the end of May to nearly $1.8 billion in the week of July 5, before falling back to about $1.5 billion in the week of July 19.The decline in trading volume was even more severe: Kalshi's sports trading volume dropped from a peak of about $9 billion in the week of July 5 to about $4 billion (a decrease of about 55%), while Polymarket fell from about $2.3 billion to $740 million (a decrease of nearly 70%). During the event, sports-related trading accounted for about 80% of the total trading volume on both platforms. On July 19, Spain defeated Argentina 1-0 to win the World Cup.According to statistics from DeFiOasis, approximately 194,000 addresses participated in Polymarket's World Cup champion market trading, of which about two-thirds incurred losses, with 54 addresses making over $100,000 (including 5 over $1 million), and 43 addresses losing over $100,000. It is expected that the activity in the prediction market will remain low until the next major catalytic event (the U.S. midterm elections in the fall).

The 2026 World Cup has concluded, and Gate Prediction Market's World Cup section has simultaneously completed its event cycle services. As a one-stop prediction experience portal built around the World Cup, during this event, Gate Prediction Market recorded a total participation of 501,190 users, with a total trading volume exceeding 528 million USD and a total of 2,630,280 transactions, continuously demonstrating user engagement in the sports event prediction scenario. According to data from Polymarket Builders, Gate Prediction Market's trading performance continues to lead, with a single-day trading volume on July 19 ranking first in the Polymarket channel, and the cumulative trading volume for the past week and this month also ranking first in the Polymarket channel.Gate continues to expand its sports prediction scenarios, launching the "E-sports Peak Trading Season" event from July 20, 16:00 to August 10, 16:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of 200,000 USDT. During the event, users can sign up and participate in designated event prediction trading in the Gate Polymarket e-sports section to enjoy newcomer benefits, weekly trading tasks, and prediction trading leaderboards, sharing in generous rewards.As the first centralized trading platform to integrate with Polymarket, Gate has become an important entry point for users to participate in the prediction market. Users can directly access the prediction market through the Gate App, entering the Polymarket page from the homepage Alpha section, and conveniently participate in various event predictions using USDT in their accounts. Users can also utilize the "Smart Money" feature to track high-win-rate traders' positions and market judgments, gaining more reference for event predictions. Gate is continuously expanding the application scenarios of the prediction market, providing users with a diversified experience from event judgment to trading participation.

According to The Block, Grayscale has submitted a registration statement for the Grayscale Worldcoin ETF to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund will hold the native token WLD of the World Network as a passive investment tool, aiming to make the value per share reflect the value of the held WLD minus fees and liabilities.If approved, the ETF will be listed on Nasdaq, with BNY Mellon serving as the transfer agent and BitGo Bank & Trust serving as the custodian.

According to official data from NeoSoul, during the 2026 World Cup, the platform had approximately 28,000 AI Agents participating in predictions, completing a total of 294,000 predictions, with an overall prediction accuracy rate of 82%. Among them, 1,111 Agents maintained a perfect record after completing at least 10 predictions.It is reported that NeoSoul is the largest AI Agent cluster infrastructure on the BNB Chain and 0G ecosystem, dedicated to supporting Agents' autonomous decision-making, participating in real transactions, and promoting the development of the AI Economy network.