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According to the Wall Street Journal, Robinhood is in talks with Crypto.com to collaborate on prediction market services. If the partnership is established, the prediction market provided by Crypto.com will be integrated into Robinhood, allowing users to participate in Crypto.com's prediction market through Robinhood.Previously, Robinhood mainly relied on partners such as Kalshi and Interactive Brokers' ForecastEx and Rothera to provide prediction market contracts. This move may lead to more direct competition between Robinhood and Kalshi.

According to official news, OKX, in collaboration with Elliptic, SlowMist, and OttoSec, has released the "Web3 Security and Risk Control Report for the First Half of 2026." The report points out that the focus of Web3 attacks is gradually shifting from smart contract code to more complex scenarios such as signature processes, user devices, operational infrastructure, and AI Agents.Data shows that in the first half of 2026, the OKX risk control system intercepted over 5.7 million high-risk transactions, including approximately 2.41 million transactions related to hacking and theft, about 1.48 million transactions related to phishing, and around 990,000 transactions related to fraud. The OKX Web3 on-chain intelligence label library currently has over 1 billion labels, covering more than 420 chains, and has integrated capabilities such as address screening, transaction monitoring, and sanction address control into infrastructures like DEX and Exchange OS.In addition, in terms of user protection, OKX has intercepted over 7 million visits to risky websites, completed over 200,000 device risk assessments, identified over 60,000 high-risk apps, and intercepted or alerted on over 4 million high-risk signature operations. The report also introduces the "risk control pre-positioning" design in scenarios such as Exchange OS, Outcomes, RWA, and Agentic Wallet.

ForeGate, in collaboration with ecological partners such as OKX, HTX, WEEX, Interlace, OneBullEx, and Billion Live, jointly launches the special event "Final Showdown 48 Hours · Predictions Never Sleep" for the World Cup finale. The event features multiple activities centered around the World Cup final, including AI predictions, match odds, live interactions, and X Space AMA, along with benefits such as red envelope rain, live broadcast lucky bags, and goal airdrops, with a total prize pool of 8 million USDT.The event will last until July 20 at 21:30 (UTC+8). During the event, users can watch the live broadcast of the World Cup final on Billion Live, obtain AI pre-match predictions on ForeGate, participate in match predictions and odds interactions, and engage in recap sharing, AMA discussions, and announcement of winners through X Space.This event is themed "AI vs Mysticism vs Human Judgment." ForeGate AI will provide match outcome predictions, championship probability analysis, and post-match recaps for the World Cup final, comparing various prediction methods such as Tarot and astrology, exploring the performance of different prediction systems in major events, and offering users an engaging and interactive World Cup viewing experience.

The National Development and Reform Commission officially released the "Action Plan for the Cooperative Development of Artificial Intelligence," aimed at building an open, shared, secure, orderly, and collaboratively governed global artificial intelligence ecosystem. The plan clearly outlines eight core actions, comprehensively promoting deep international cooperation in the AI field from multiple dimensions, including data, computing power, algorithms, talent, and governance. At the foundational level of data and computing power, the action plan emphasizes the need to promote cross-border data flow and build a trustworthy cross-border data space, collaboratively constructing a high-quality corpus; at the same time, it promotes the interconnection of intelligent computing facilities, providing inclusive intelligent computing services to developing countries, and creating low-carbon intelligent computing infrastructure driven by green energy.In terms of industrial empowerment and ecological sharing, the plan encourages the co-construction of an international open-source community for artificial intelligence, promoting the sharing of general large models, basic algorithms, and tool components, and supporting countries in conducting localized innovation based on open-source models. By deepening "Artificial Intelligence +" cooperation, it aims to build a cross-national industrial cooperation platform, promoting the deep application and empowerment of AI technology in fields such as science, manufacturing, healthcare, education, agriculture, and governance. In addition, the plan also proposes the establishment of a joint training mechanism for top digital talent, collaboratively formulating occupational standards and skill certification systems, comprehensively enhancing public literacy, and jointly addressing the structural impacts of AI on employment.Regarding industry rules and technical security, the action plan advocates for the co-construction of rules and standards and collaborative governance for security. All parties will strengthen information sharing on cybersecurity threats and emergency response cooperation, researching ways to enhance the explainability, transparency, and safety of artificial intelligence. Finally, the plan emphasizes adherence to the technological ethics principle of "AI for Good," collaboratively constructing an ethical guideline system dedicated to eliminating algorithmic biases in the forms of racism, discrimination, and others. By promoting international governance cooperation in AI research, it aims to contribute public scientific products to the Global South, effectively serving the United Nations' 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.

According to a report by Reuters, payment company Stripe, in conjunction with private equity firm Advent International, has made a takeover offer to PayPal Holdings (PYPL.O), offering $60.5 per share, with a total valuation of over $53 billion, representing a premium of about 28% over PayPal's closing price on Tuesday. The offer has received approximately $50 billion in bank commitment financing support, with both parties intending to hold 50% equity each, without splitting the company.The acquisition proposal was submitted earlier this month, following preliminary contact between the two parties in early April. No response has yet been received from PayPal, and Stripe and Advent hope to reach an agreement by the end of the month. There remains uncertainty as to whether the deal will ultimately be finalized.

The TRON DeFi Summer S1 event jointly launched by JustLend DAO and Binance Wallet has officially started and will last until August 5 at 7:59:59 Singapore time. It is reported that users can participate in the JustLend DAO ecological pool through the DeFi feature of Binance Wallet to subscribe for assets such as TRX, USDD, JST, and SUN. During the event, participating users can receive Boost APR incentives and share a total exclusive prize pool of 2.15 million USD.

DeSci Protocol Bio Protocol announced the launch of OpenLabs, positioned as a collaborative coordination layer between humans and agents in scientific research, aimed at transforming scientific ideas into funded execution projects.Bio stated that DeSci has proven over the past few years that the community can coordinate capital and data at internet speed, and agents have also become real scientific collaborators, capable of reading papers, running queries, drafting hypotheses, and designing experiments.OpenLabs consists of five interconnected layers: posts and discoveries, projects, agent collaboration, Web3 incentive layer, and bounty system. In terms of the incentive layer, OpenLabs plans to adopt a financing mechanism based on USDC yields to fund agent reasoning and tool usage. Users can deposit USDC and choose to support projects, with funds deployed to audited yield vaults like Morpho and Aave, generating yields that flow to projects for computation, querying, and simulation, with the principal not bearing risk. Once projects reach the stage requiring real capital, they can issue tokens through the Bio launchpad or conduct private placements and follow traditional biotech paths.

According to a report by the Financial Associated Press, Nvidia announced a new AI infrastructure collaboration model on July 1 local time. Through revenue-sharing and credit-support mechanisms, it will jointly build large-scale, multi-tenant AI factories with AI cloud service providers, helping startups, model developers, enterprises, and research institutions to access AI computing power more quickly, while creating a sustainable revenue stream for Nvidia linked to computing power usage.According to the plan, AI cloud vendors will deploy AI factories based on the Nvidia DSX AI Factory architecture to provide cloud computing services. The first batch of partners includes Sharon AI and Firmus. Among them, Sharon AI plans to deploy up to 40,000 NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB300 GPUs; Firmus will build a DSX AI factory park on Batam Island, Indonesia, with plans to expand to a power scale of 360 megawatts and deploy up to 170,000 Nvidia GPUs.

According to official news, the ForeGate supercomputing database, in collaboration with football legend Michael Owen, OneBullEx, OKX, and WEEX, has officially released the "ForeGate 2026 World Cup Winning Guide" match research report.This report focuses on the progress of the 2026 World Cup schedule in the US, Canada, and Mexico, conducting a systematic analysis of the qualification probabilities, advancement paths, championship probabilities, win-draw-loss trends, and betting tendencies of the 48 participating teams. The report combines the ForeGate AI prediction model with OKX data path simulations and continuously updates based on real-time match results, team conditions, and potential matchup changes. Currently, the comprehensive prediction accuracy of the related models has reached 93.8%, demonstrating strong data analysis capabilities in aspects such as match result response, point calibration, and advancement path judgment.ForeGate stated that during the World Cup, it will continuously update prediction content based on match results, team conditions, and model simulation results to help users understand the probabilistic logic behind schedule changes. Meanwhile, the ForeGate World Cup million-dollar prediction event is also in full swing, where users can participate in match predictions to share in the million-dollar rewards.As the World Cup schedule continues to progress, OneBullEx will combine the match data and related content from the report to keep a close eye on the dynamics of the matches, further enriching community participation and match discussions during the World Cup, providing users with more reference perspectives for observing match trends.

According to Jinshi, IBM's stock rose 2% after hours, after the company announced a collaboration with OpenAI to launch artificial intelligence products related to enterprise network security defense.

Micron Technology and Anthropic announced a new agreement, covering collaboration in memory and storage AI architecture design, supply and demand coordination, Micron's internal adoption of Claude, and Micron's strategic investment in Anthropic's Series H financing.

According to CoinDesk, the long-established asset management company Baillie Gifford from Edinburgh, Scotland (founded over 118 years ago) announced on Monday in collaboration with global custodian giant BNY the launch of a tokenized fixed income fund—Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY), deployed simultaneously on the Ethereum and Solana public chains.The fund is denominated in US dollars and operates under an open-ended investment company (OEIC) structure within the UK regulatory framework, targeting qualified investors from the UK, Switzerland, and the Cayman Islands. It offers an actively managed short-duration corporate bond portfolio, with a current yield of approximately 7%.Unlike most tokenized products on the market, Baillie Gifford's Head of Digital Assets Theo Golden emphasized that BAGEY is not a traditional fund wrapped in a token shell, but rather a fund issued directly on-chain, with the blockchain itself serving as the rights registry, allowing investors to directly hold shares and enjoy direct recourse.BNY will provide tokenization and wallet infrastructure for the fund, with NatWest acting as the custodian. The Global Head of Investor Solutions at BNY stated that this issuance marks the transition of tokenization from concept to real application, as regulated fund structures evolve towards a more digital and interconnected market.

According to the Federal Reserve's official website, the Federal Reserve Board is seeking public comments on a proposal that would require certain payment stablecoin issuers to establish and maintain effective Customer Identification Programs (CIP). This proposal was jointly issued by the Federal Reserve and four other agencies.According to the proposal, the relevant stablecoin issuers must comply with Customer Identification Program standards similar to those for banks and credit unions. The comment period is 60 days after the proposal is published in the Federal Register.

According to The Block, cryptographic technology company Zama, DeFi lending protocol Morpho, and Steakhouse Financial announced a joint launch of the Steakhouse Confidential USDC Prime vault.It is reported that this is the first DeFi yield product for privacy stablecoins on Ethereum. This product allows users to directly deposit privacy token cUSDC, which has been fully homomorphically encrypted (FHE) by Zama, into the Morpho vault to earn yields.

According to BBX data, yesterday's interest rate hike in Japan coincided with the Federal Reserve's decision window, creating the most intense macroeconomic shock point of the week. The latest results of institutional stablecoin research were released on the same day, with the core dynamics as follows:Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350), as the largest corporate BTC reserve holder in Asia and the third largest publicly traded company holding Bitcoin globally (holding 40,177 BTC at an average price of about $104,000, with a target of 100,000 BTC by the end of 2026), faced a dual-edged sword pressure from the exchange rate yesterday: after the Bank of Japan announced a 25 basis point increase in the policy interest rate to 1.0%, the yen strengthened, superficially lowering the book value of BTC denominated in yen, but Bitcoin subsequently rose against the trend (CoinDesk's headline on the same day: "Bitcoin rallies after Japan rate increase"), with actual improvements in USD-denominated holdings. The company's current holdings are approximately $2.64 billion (estimated at $65,750/BTC), with the latest capital move being the issuance of 8 billion yen (about $55 million) for the 20th bond (EVO FUND) on April 24 for additional BTC purchases. Analysts warn that if the BOJ's interest rate hike triggers large-scale unwinding of "Yen Carry Trade," global risk assets including BTC may suffer systemic deleveraging shocks—however, Metaplanet holds physical BTC rather than leveraged positions, with its main risk being the exchange rate conversion effect rather than forced liquidation.OSL Group (Hong Kong Stock Exchange: 0863.HK) and the School of Business at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University jointly released a white paper on June 16 (The Block included it on the same day at 9:01 am EDT), titled "Cross-Border Trade Payments Will Drive the Adoption of Regulated Corporate Stablecoins." The core conclusion is that the demand for corporate-level cross-border trade payments is the main path to drive the large-scale adoption of regulated stablecoins, with importance surpassing retail consumption scenarios. OSL Group holds the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission licenses 7 (automated trading services) and 1 (securities trading), making it one of the few compliant exchanges globally with both institutional custody and practical experience in stablecoin settlement. Previously, it provided institutional clients with approximately $130 million in USDGO stablecoin settlement services in April 2026. This white paper provides an industrial basis for the stablecoin policy framework of Hong Kong's financial regulatory authorities, and, together with Visa's stablecoin settlement of $7 billion annualized scale, SoFi SoFiUSD's launch, and Western Union's USDPT layout, constitutes multiple points of evidence accelerating the global adoption of corporate stablecoins.

Bitget, in collaboration with Block Scholes, released the RWA perpetual contract liquidity report. The data shows that since 2026, the tokenized stock and commodity markets on Bitget have continued to mature. Taking Nvidia NVDA-USDT as an example, as of mid-May, the order book liquidity within its ±2% price range is approximately $4.1 million, reaching about 75% of the depth of the Bitget Bitcoin spot market.During the high volatility period triggered by geopolitical conflicts in February 2026, although the price spread briefly widened, the liquidity in the related markets quickly returned to normal levels within a few days, demonstrating strong resilience. Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that the core competitive point of the current tokenized market has shifted from "access" to "efficiency," and liquidity is becoming one of the important indicators for measuring the tokenized market.