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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed that Tether's P2P technology team is developing a censorship-resistant and fault-tolerant decentralized peer-to-peer search engine called Unstoppable Search Engine. The architecture supports horizontal scaling across thousands of distributed nodes and employs a fault-tolerant structure for data self-organization to maintain high availability and censorship resistance.Ardoino stated that the research and development is progressing smoothly, and the complete archived data of Wikipedia has been distributed and stored across 100 distributed nodes in the testing environment, achieving millisecond-level retrieval with excellent performance.

According to Dealroom, the decentralized perpetual contract exchange in Singapore, Antarctic Exchange, has completed a $7 million financing round, with a valuation of $70 million. Investors include Valisa Capital Markets, Lucidity Capital, and Republic Crypto, as well as proprietary traders who are entering the crypto asset space for the first time.The platform targets retail derivatives traders and offers tools similar to centralized exchanges. The founding team consists of former executives from OKX, Binance, and MEXC.

Vitalik Buterin stated that recent discussions around transaction formats, including EIP-8141, the "future state" proposal, UTXO, PBT, key-controlled randomness, and recursive STARK memory pools, have helped the Ethereum community better understand the concepts of "actions" and "dependencies" in transactions. Dependencies can be processed in parallel, and some dependencies that do not require state access can be validated at the memory pool layer, potentially further compressing execution and data costs through STARK.Vitalik believes that Ethereum's future scalability needs to strike a balance between a dynamically flexible execution model and a more easily statically analyzable constrained model, providing lower gas costs for transactions and state access that can be statically analyzed. If EIP-8141 is designed properly, it will not only be a milestone achievement in a decade of account abstraction work but also prepare for decentralized-friendly large-scale scalability in the coming years.

Vitalik posted on the X platform, stating that recent research on transaction formats has led to a clearer understanding of "actions" and "dependencies" in Ethereum transactions, both of which can be optimized separately; signatures, UTXO's Merkle proofs, and ZK-SNARK or STARK belong to dependencies, while the call to send ETH belongs to actions.Dependencies can be processed in parallel, with state-related dependencies handled by the memory pool, while pure dependencies can be processed once at the memory pool layer and may be replaced by STARK proofs, thereby reducing execution and data processing. Vitalik pointed out that Ethereum's current scaling strategy needs to clearly distinguish between dynamic flexibility and static analyzability, with the latter achieving lower Gas costs; based on transaction volume, over 90% of Ethereum activities do not require dynamic flexibility. The EIP-8141 transaction type is developing towards a universal and minimalist call list, with new state types, recursive STARK memory pools, and key-controlled nonces also belonging to this direction.

At the 2026 Wyoming Blockchain Conference, Zhao Changpeng stated that Trump mentioned Hyperliquid and that Mike Selig, the chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will seek a path for the platform to enter the U.S. market.Zhao Changpeng believes that if this progress can be realized, it will be a significant boon for the entire cryptocurrency industry. Zhao stated that the outside world tends to view him as a supporter of centralized trading platforms due to his holdings in Binance, but the fundamental reason he entered the cryptocurrency industry is his belief in decentralization.He pointed out that some users choose Hyperliquid because the platform can be used through wallets without the need for traditional accounts and KYC processes; if Hyperliquid can operate in the U.S. in a compliant manner, it will open up space for perpetual contracts and more decentralized services to enter the U.S. market.He believes this is not only related to Hyperliquid itself. "Hyperliquid is just the tip of the iceberg; once this tip enters, other projects can follow suit." Related developments will benefit more decentralized products and their portfolio companies, and will also bring more liquidity to international centralized trading platforms, allowing U.S. users to obtain more competitive prices when buying and selling crypto assets.Zhao Changpeng stated that the current cryptocurrency market is far from saturated, so competition between platforms is not the main issue. Hyperliquid's entry into the U.S. will not only benefit itself but will also expand the market size of the entire industry, "what is beneficial for them will also be beneficial for us."

Arthur Hayes published an article "The Book of Genesis," using mythological narrative to explain the core concepts and tokenomics of his AI/crypto project Flop Labs. He pointed out that the current AI market lacks a unified pricing standard for computing power, with different models defining and pricing "tokens" differently.Hayes proposed building a decentralized computing power network Flop Network, with FLOP as the native token, representing a direct claim to computing power (FLOPs), allowing AI agents and humans to trade at a globally unified price per computing power. The FLOP token economy adopts a fair launch model, with the team self-funding and no pre-sale. Miners earn FLOP block rewards and inference fees by providing "Proof of Useful Inference" (PoUI), and AI agents can use $FLOP to purchase computing power ("food") and combine it with decentralized storage to achieve persistent memory ("personality"). Testnet participants will receive about 20% of the token supply (distributed over ten years). Hayes stated that if the AI agent economy predictions come true, the value of Flop Network could far exceed that of Bitcoin.

According to data from the official website, the Smart Allocator mechanism of the decentralized stablecoin USDD has generated a cumulative investment return of 25.353 million USD for users, demonstrating its strong self-sustaining ability and capacity to provide stable shared returns for holders, further strengthening its long-term competitiveness in the stablecoin sector. The Smart Allocator is the profit-sharing mechanism of USDD, which reasonably invests in high-quality projects to obtain returns such as interest and platform rewards, and returns the profits to users. All operations are transparent and publicly visible on the blockchain.

According to The Block, Curve founder Michael Egorov stated that the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) regulatory pressure on decentralized finance (DeFi) may prompt protocols to remove privileged access, upgrade risks, and the ability to intervene in user funds, thereby enhancing DeFi security and increasing decentralization.

The CEO of the World Gold Council recently stated that he personally believes Bitcoin will ultimately "go to zero," saying, "My personal view on Bitcoin is that it will go to zero." In response, Binance co-founder CZ posted that many people have made incorrect judgments about cryptocurrencies in the past, but understanding this field takes time, and he stated, "I also can't be 100% sure that I'm right, after all, we are all human."Analysis suggests that the view of Bitcoin "going to zero" has long existed in recent years, with critics mainly arguing that it lacks the cash flow support of traditional assets and has excessive price volatility; while supporters believe that Bitcoin possesses decentralization, scarcity, and digital value storage attributes, and may become part of the global financial system in the future.

Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali stated that the Satoshi Upgrade I hard fork has been successfully completed, and the network's level of decentralization has further improved with the launch of the new signer.Regarding Binance's "Observation Label," there are currently no concerns about delisting risks or liquidity, but we still need to wait for the next round of formal assessment.

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.

ChianCatcher news, the decentralized derivatives trading protocol AFX announced that a goodwill plan is being developed in response to recent security incidents and will be announced on August 3 (Monday).AFX stated that investors, the team, and early supporters have all been affected by this incident, and the community is asked to be patient while waiting for the final plan. Previously, AFX suffered a bridging vulnerability attack on July 22, resulting in a loss of approximately 24.15 million USDC.

According to the New York Daily, the decentralized data infrastructure project Permacast based on Permaweb announced the completion of its Series A funding round on January 15, 2025, raising over $5 million. Combined with the previously completed seed round and Pre-A round, the total funding raised by the project has reached $8.9 million.This round of financing received support from several leading Web3 funds, technology investment institutions, and strategic angel investors. Seed round investors include OKX Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, ChainVision, Foresight Research, and Digital Humanism (DRF); Pre-A round investors include ClearingPoint, 7 O'Clock Capital, Cipholio Ventures, SilverFox Foundation, and a number of private investors; Series A round investors include CoinSummer, angel investor Tomasz Boryniec, Waterwood Investment (Tsinghua), Scorpio VC, and a number of private investors.Permacast stated that as AI models reshape the way information is created and utilized, the demand for trustworthy, permanent, and verifiable data infrastructure is growing. The new funds will be used to accelerate protocol development, expand decentralized network infrastructure, strengthen ecological cooperation, and expand the engineering and product teams. The team stated that a permanent, verifiable, and open data network will become the foundational infrastructure for future intelligent applications.

Storj Labs voluntarily filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in the Northern District of West Virginia on July 26 to address historical debt issues while maintaining ongoing operations. Storj stated that services would not be affected during the reorganization, and customer obligations would continue to be fulfilled. The parent company Inveniam supports this reorganization, believing it is the right path to achieve sustainable development.Kaloyan Raev, the Director of Software Engineering at Storj, stated that the company's fundamentals are strong, and the constraints on growth are due to early legacy debts. After the reorganization, a "clean foundation" will be established, and there are plans for management, the token community, and investors to participate in the post-reorganization ownership distribution. Storj has previously focused its business on the core distributed storage field and is disposing of prior acquisitions and non-core businesses. This reorganization follows a significant governance adjustment faced by the company in the decentralized storage sector after Inveniam's acquisition of Storj in 2024.