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On the first anniversary of the signing of the GENIUS Act, the prospects of Tether USDT in the U.S. market face uncertainty. The act has a three-year compliance grace period, with about two years remaining, after which non-compliant stablecoins will not be able to trade on U.S. crypto platforms.According to Tether's latest disclosure, about 25% of USDT reserves are still allocated to assets such as precious metals, loans, and Bitcoin, which do not meet the requirements of the GENIUS Act. The act requires issuers to fully back their stablecoins with high liquidity assets such as cash and U.S. Treasury bonds. Tether CEO Ardoino promised compliance last year, and the company has launched the USAT stablecoin for the U.S. market through Anchorage Digital this year, but usage remains low.There is a divergence in the legal community regarding the compliance timeline for foreign issuers. Some lawyers believe that foreign issuers must immediately comply with freezing and seizure orders when the act takes effect (expected next January), but they have about two years to meet the remaining requirements. The policy director of Anchorage Digital stated that institutional users will transition to compliant stablecoins before the 2028 deadline. Currently, federal regulators have not finalized the implementation details of the GENIUS Act, and companies have no specific regulations to follow. Tether has not responded to CoinDesk's request for comments on compliance progress.

According to the official announcement, the second phase of Gate Pre-IPOs project OpenAI (OPENAI) subscription will officially start on July 15 at 15:00 (UTC+8). This phase supports participation in both USDT and GUSD, with a total subscription value of approximately 20 million USD, issuing a total of 27,700 OPENAI asset certificates, with a subscription price of 1 OPENAI = 722 USD.This subscription will last until July 17 at 15:00 (UTC+8), with a minimum single subscription amount of 100 USDT or 100 GUSD, waiving implied fees and custody costs, and will open pre-market trading in the Pre-IPOs area on July 20 at 16:00 (UTC+8). In terms of the allocation mechanism, the platform uses "average locked amount per hour" as the basis for asset certificate allocation; the earlier the user participates and the longer the lock-up time, the higher the allocation weight.At the same time, Gate is launching multiple subscription benefits, including GT Sunshine Reward, exclusive airdrop activities for VIP users and super agents, and more. Users who successfully subscribe for more than 10,000 USD will receive a reward of 1 GT each; users who subscribe for less than 10,000 USDT can share a 2,000 GT prize pool; in addition, participating in the subscription using GUSD can also enjoy an annualized minting yield of 3.8%.

According to BBX data, the cryptocurrency market was under short-term pressure yesterday due to geopolitical shocks, but institutional capital flows showed a clear divergence from price trends. The core dynamics are as follows:BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: $BLK) subsidiary iShares Bitcoin Trust (NASDAQ: $IBIT) experienced a decline in Bitcoin on July 13 due to the renewed tensions between the U.S. and Iran (with $253 million in leveraged positions being liquidated). However, according to CoinDesk's daily report, ETF capital flows maintained a net inflow trend, continuing the trend of capital returning after breaking a 10-day net outflow streak on July 4. On July 4, the single-day net inflow reached $221.7 million, the largest in nearly two months, with Fidelity FBTC attracting $166 million in a single day and ARK Invest ARKB attracting $91.8 million. Subsequently, IBIT exhibited a structural divergence of "price decline but no significant capital outflow" amid macroeconomic uncertainty, interpreted by analysts as a signal of institutional capital continuously accumulating at the bottom of the range rather than panicking. Today's June CPI will be announced at 8:30 AM ET; if inflation is lower than expected, it will provide the most direct macro trigger for a new round of daily net inflows into IBIT. Breaking the $64,000 resistance level for BTC will be a key technical node for the market to confirm a bottom rebound and for institutional capital to accelerate its return to IBIT. CryptoSlate analysis points out that this level is the starting point for "retesting the June 15 high of $67,250."SoFi Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: $SOFI) subsidiary SoFiUSD stablecoin (launched on May 27 as the first built-in stablecoin by a national bank in U.S. history, covering approximately 14.7 million members and supporting Ethereum and Solana chains) is facing a critical timeline for the implementation of the GENIUS Act: regulators must establish specific compliance guidelines for the customer identification program (CIP) rules in the GENIUS Act by July 18, 2026, determining which stablecoin issuers can legally operate within the U.S. This deadline is only 4 days away------if the CIP rules are implemented on time, SoFiUSD, as a stablecoin directly issued by a national bank regulated by the OCC (SoFi Bank, N.A.), is expected to automatically obtain the clearest compliance recognition, compared to Tether (USDT, registered in the British Virgin Islands) which has a first-mover compliance advantage under the U.S. regulatory framework; if the CIP rule details are vague or delayed, it will create short-term regulatory arbitrage opportunities for all non-bank stablecoin issuers. SoFi's Q1 cryptocurrency trading revenue was $121.6 million, with a net income of $852,000 after deducting costs from the cryptocurrency department.

The TRON DeFi Summer event, jointly created by JustLend DAO and Binance Wallet, is entering the final 3-day countdown and will officially launch on July 6 at 08:00 (Singapore time). The total prize pool is as high as $4.5 million, and exclusive Boost APR yield enhancements are offered.Users only need to hold any of the assets TRX, USDD, SUN, or JST in their Binance Wallet, or enter the JustLend DAO ecological pool in Binance Wallet DeFi to participate in the prize pool distribution.

The official dYdX X account has been continuously releasing countdown teasers, and it is now in the final 1 day. Since June 25, dYdX has successively released countdown content for "5 days", "4 days", "3 days", "2 days", and "1 day". Previously, dYdX stated that "the most powerful market in the world is accessible without permission" and announced that the countdown has officially begun, with relevant news expected to be announced tomorrow.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, SpaceX is about to go public within 48 hours, and the whale "0x9cc" has opened a long position of 23,056 SPCX with 2x leverage, worth 3.69 million dollars.

Project Eleven today awarded the Q-Day prize to researcher Giancarlo Lelli, who successfully derived a 15-digit elliptic curve private key from a public key using publicly accessible quantum hardware, marking the largest scale demonstration of its kind to date, a 512-fold increase from the 6-digit demonstration in September 2025.Lelli used a variant of Shor's algorithm for the elliptic curve discrete logarithm problem, which is the mathematical foundation of the Bitcoin signature scheme, with the awarded hardware featuring approximately 70 qubits. Currently, no known quantum computer can crack real Bitcoin wallets, and the security of Bitcoin's 256-bit elliptic curve remains far beyond current quantum capabilities. Notably, Google lowered its resource estimates for ECDLP-256 on March 31 and set a target for the migration to quantum cryptography after 2029, followed by Cloudflare, and the UK's NCSC also set migration milestones from 2028 to 2035.On-chain data shows that approximately 6.93 million BTC are at potential quantum risk due to exposed public keys. The Bitcoin community has proposed BIP 360 and BIP 361 to promote the migration to quantum-resistant output types, but the coordination challenges of a decentralized network remain the biggest hurdle.

According to official social media news, the HTX Genesis Hackathon, hosted by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-hosted by TinTinLand and OpenCity, has entered a 1-day countdown. The event gathers industry VCs, builders, and leaders of top ecological projects. High-quality projects that stand out in the HTX Genesis Hackathon will receive ongoing computing power support, technical ecological integration, joint promotion, and deep cooperation from TRON, HTX, and B.AI.Huobi HTX global advisor Sun Yuchen and HTX DAO ambassador Molly will deliver keynote speeches at the opening ceremony. Sun Yuchen will share the latest judgments on the future development direction of the industry, focusing on the trend of AI × Web3 integration; Molly will interpret the ecological progress and collaborative path of HTX and HTX DAO.

The themed forum "Crypto 2026: From Cryptocurrency to Smart Economy", sponsored by Monera Digital and co-hosted by ChainCatcher and RootData, is now in the final 5-day countdown. This forum has received joint support from partners such as Tencent Cloud, HashKey Chain, Alchemy Pay, Kite AI, Sentient, Sign, Predict.fun, Monad, Brevis, UXLINK, OneBullEx, SVP Chain, OmenX, TurboFlow, LOTUS, Mentis, NeoSoul, Swap315, and is scheduled to be held on April 19 from 14:00 to 18:00 (GMT+8) in Hong Kong.As one of the important peripheral activities of the "Hong Kong Web3 Carnival", this forum will focus on the paradigm shift under the deep integration of AI technology and cryptocurrency networks, engaging in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge tracks such as AI Agent economy, smart payments, RWA, and cryptocurrency infrastructure. At the intersection of technological leap and economic form reconstruction, this themed forum is not only an insight into the current state of the industry but also a forward-looking reflection on the future intelligent economic system.Event registration: https://luma.com/18v6vwpf

On April 8, the Frontier Digital Intelligence Ecosystem 2026 Asia-Pacific Summit will be held at the Anxiang Ruilai Ke Hotel in Hangzhou Xiaoshan, gathering 500 core practitioners from the Asia-Pacific region to focus on the deep integration of AI and Web3, and to jointly explore the next growth pole of the digital intelligence ecosystem.FRONTIER is a Web4.0 decentralized prediction market platform initiated by a subsidiary of Hard Rock International, built on the X208 protocol. With a "win-win" mechanism, it breaks the traditional single gameplay of prediction markets, and the golden track, heavily invested in by giants like Binance, Coinbase, and Robinhood, is welcoming new definers.

Aave DAO on Monday passed a preliminary proposal with nearly unanimous support to deploy the next-generation lending protocol Aave v4 on the Ethereum mainnet. v4 still needs to go through a subsequent formal vote, and initially, it will adopt conservative parameters and a streamlined asset allocation, prioritizing safety.The advancement of v4 previously sparked controversy within the DAO. The two main contributors, Bored Ghosts Developing and Aave Chan Initiative, announced that they would not seek to renew their contracts this year, partly due to Aave Labs' proposal to pause v3 optimization work and adjust lending parameters to encourage user migration. Labs later withdrew that proposal, committing not to enforce migration.Currently, Aave v3 remains the largest lending protocol in DeFi, with user deposits exceeding $25 billion. Labs stated that v4 adopts a hub-and-spoke architecture, which can support customized lending markets without fragmenting liquidity, significantly enhancing the DAO's revenue potential.

The "AI vs Human 1v1 Duel" trading competition hosted by Bybit has entered the final 9 days of the sprint. As of March 17, data shows that the AI legion is performing impressively: Gemini and Qwen are vying for the top spot, maintaining a return rate of around 38%, while two versions of DeepSeek have entered the top five, both surpassing a win rate of 52%.Despite the strong performance of AI, human traders, with their keen intuition and years of experience, are still holding onto an insurmountable moat in the duel. This afternoon at 4 PM, Bybit has invited NOFA.ai CEO Marc and two other founders to share AI trading strategies live on the Bybit APP. Users can click on the APP to participate in the hourly competition and witness the ultimate clash of technology and experience, sharing a prize pool of 362,388 USDT.