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The payment service provider license of CoolCash (Xiao Yi Payment), the parent company of Tianxu International Technology Co., Ltd., has been revoked by the National Bank of Cambodia and has entered liquidation proceedings. The company and its director, Pang Weizhi, were included in the UK government's sanctions list in March this year due to alleged ties with the Prince Group.The National Bank of Cambodia announced on the 10th that it revoked the payment service provider license of Tianxu International Technology on August 3. This license was issued on May 27, 2024, and was originally valid until 2030. The bank also appointed Morrison Kak MKA Audit Accounting Firm as the liquidator in accordance with Article 68 of the Law on Banking and Financial Institutions to handle liquidation matters and return relevant funds to the company's clients in accordance with the legal priority order.UK sanction documents indicate that Pang Weizhi holds Cambodian and Chinese nationality, with the Cambodian name Pang Visal, and serves as a director of Tianxu International Technology and the parent company of Elephant Delivery, U-Life KH Super App Company Limited. The UK side claims to have reasonable grounds to suspect his ties with the Prince Group and that he has provided financial services or funds, economic resources, goods, or technology to the group. The UK side alleges that the Prince Group is involved in operating scam centers in Cambodia, which include forced labor and serious human rights violations. Tianxu International Technology and Pang Weizhi have been listed as targets of sanctions in both corporate and personal capacities.

Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella stated that we need to accelerate AI development and expand the benefits brought by AI so that it can widely benefit different countries, communities, and businesses. This requires the establishment of a cutting-edge ecosystem that allows both closed-source and open-source models to thrive.

Cointelegraph reported that Morgan Stanley set a target price of $250 for Coinbase, implying an upside potential of about 43%, as its business expands beyond cryptocurrency.

According to NBC, North Korea is utilizing remote IT workers from third countries such as Iran and Lebanon to assist in infiltrating American companies and obtaining funds to finance its weapons programs. Alerts issued by the U.S. and several foreign agencies in July indicated that North Korean IT workers "seek to sign contracts with the intention of remitting salaries back to relevant North Korean agencies," while also posing internal threats to companies, involving data leaks, cryptocurrency theft, and sensitive information theft.As governments like the United States increase countermeasures, North Korea is increasingly leveraging third-country IT workers to secure job interviews, and after obtaining work contracts, the relevant positions are typically taken over by North Korean agents. Reports indicate that these foreign IT workers are scouted on LinkedIn, with some earning about $500 per month in cryptocurrency to work part-time as "interview assistants."Cointelegraph reported in May, citing data from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike, that state-affiliated North Korean hackers and threat actors caused cryptocurrency losses exceeding $2 billion in 2025, a 51% increase year-on-year. The Bank of Korea estimates that despite facing global sanctions, North Korea's GDP will still grow by 3.5% in 2025.

The central banks of the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom will announce their monetary policy decisions this week, with the market focusing on whether the Federal Reserve will initiate its first interest rate hike in three years.Iran and Gulf countries are negotiating shipping management in the Strait of Hormuz to address high crude oil prices.

According to GMGN market data, the Chinese meme coin Lobster's market capitalization has surpassed 115 million dollars, setting a new historical high, with a 24-hour increase of 180%, and a trading volume of 8.4 million dollars during the same period.Market news reminds users that the prices of related tokens are highly volatile, and users should invest with caution.

Community users discovered that Robinhood Crypto had previously launched an asset called "INDEX," but the development team seems to have confused it with another token, "Index Cooperative." Comparing the price charts of "Index Cooperative" within the Robinhood app and CoinGecko reveals that the trends of the two are not consistent, while the chart within the Robinhood app completely matches the recent all-time high and current price trend of the INDEX token.

The Smarter Web Company announced plans to launch the UK's first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock, subject to shareholder approval. The company expects to raise between $20 million and $34 million through a potential IPO to increase its Bitcoin holdings and acquire cash-generating operational businesses.

Japan-listed Bitcoin treasury company Metaplanet announced the establishment of a wholly-owned subsidiary, Metaplanet Asset Management Asia Limited, as the group's trading execution and asset management hub in the Asia region, with an initial investment of 1 million USD, expected to be established in September 2026.The company will operate in coordination with Metaplanet Asset Management Inc. (MAM), which was previously established in Miami, USA, primarily responsible for trading execution and risk management operations such as position and market dynamics monitoring during the Asian trading hours, focusing on investment targets including Bitcoin, Bitcoin-related stocks, and preferred securities issued by Bitcoin treasury companies. This move is part of Metaplanet's strategy to advance the "Project Nova" Bitcoin financial platform, and the company expects this matter to have a slight impact on the consolidated performance for the period ending December 2026.

According to Bloomberg, Italian bank UniCredit SpA is considering expanding its digital asset-related services, including the early-stage development of digital asset custody and brokerage capabilities.Insiders say the bank is screening technology providers to build infrastructure for holding digital assets and supporting buy and sell transactions.

According to TipRanks, Japanese gaming giant Gumi Inc. announced that it will recognize significant non-operating losses in the first quarter of the fiscal year ending April 2027 due to the decline in the fair value of crypto assets. Based on recent market fluctuations, the total valuation loss of crypto assets recognized by the company amounts to 1.537 billion yen (approximately 10 million USD), of which the parent company bears 675 million yen.This loss has been included in the financial report for the three months ending July 31, 2026. Following the announcement, Gumi's stock price fell by 19.1%.

The Japan Digital Agency stated that its servers suffered unauthorized access, and the personal data of approximately 246,000 individuals may have been leaked. The agency announced on Friday that in late June, it detected someone using a maintenance account to access a large number of files on its government solutions service network.Subsequent investigations revealed that someone exploited a virtual private network vulnerability, potentially stealing information from civil servants and other individuals using the system.

Former senior officials of the Bank of Japan warned that U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen's "unusual" intervention in Japan's monetary affairs could undermine the credibility of the Bank of Japan and trigger greater volatility in global markets.Markets expect the Bank of Japan to raise interest rates by 25 basis points at next week's meeting. Yellen claimed to have insider information about the intentions of the Bank of Japan, and Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki stated that her remarks were "a bit frightening."

The Danish central bank, Danmarks Nationalbank, stated that the current usage rate of stablecoins in Denmark is very low and does not pose an immediate threat to domestic financial stability. However, the rapid growth of dollar-pegged stablecoins globally may expose Denmark to indirect financial market volatility and liquidity risks. Currently, there are no stablecoins denominated in Danish kroner in circulation, and the use of stablecoins by consumers and businesses is quite limited.As commercial banks, financial institutions, and payment applications connect to stablecoin infrastructure, the scale of related usage may change. USDT and USDC dominate the global stablecoin market, and turmoil in the overseas stablecoin market could transmit to Denmark through global liquidity channels and the U.S. financial system. Danmarks Nationalbank is collaborating with the European Central Bank (ECB) to ensure that central bank money continues to serve as the primary settlement asset for interbank transactions.

Security researcher Shou Chaofan stated that he just purchased about 6TB of Fable model invocation data from a leading Chinese model relay station, which included sensitive credentials such as SSH keys, VPN configurations, Alibaba Cloud keys, and GitLab tokens. He claimed that the keys in this batch of data were sufficient for him to access the servers or internal systems of 19 leading Chinese companies, as well as 7 Chinese and CIS government-related agencies, including Huawei, Xiaomi, NIO, and MiniMax.The model relay station is positioned between users and models like Claude, so requests and responses pass through it first, allowing it to see the complete plaintext. Once developers insert SSH Keys, API Keys, VPN configurations, etc., into the Agent context, if the relay station saves or even sells these records, the company's system keys will also leak out. This is not the first time Shou Chaofan has warned about the risks of relay stations. A paper he participated in tested 428 LLM relay stations in April and found that 9 actively injected malicious code, 17 actually used AWS test keys deliberately placed by researchers to call AWS, and 1 directly transferred ETH from the test wallet.Shou Chaofan is a co-founder of the blockchain security company Fuzzland and has long been engaged in vulnerability and supply chain security research. At the end of March, he also first discovered that the source map in the Claude Code 2.1.88 release package accidentally exposed about 500,000 lines of TypeScript source code.

The yield on Japan's 10-year government bonds continued to rise, briefly touching 3%, reaching a new high in over a week.

China's largest DRAM manufacturer Changxin Storage (CXMT) has recently launched a bidding for equipment from partners for its new factory in Shanghai and is advancing capacity expansion in multiple locations. CXMT is currently mass-producing DRAM in Hefei Phase II and Beijing Phase I, with an estimated capacity of about 200,000 wafers per month, which may exceed 300,000 wafers per month by the end of the year.CXMT plans to open the new factory in Shanghai in the fourth quarter of this year, and the related equipment bidding has already started. Semiconductor equipment industry insiders say that the factory is planned to be expanded in two phases, with capacity significantly exceeding 100,000 wafers per month. Subsequently, there are plans to open a new factory in Hefei in the first half of next year and the earliest new factory in Beijing in the second half of next year, with another new factory in Hefei opening in the first half of the year after next.Equipment industry insiders say that CXMT has communicated with multiple parties regarding the timing of building factories in various locations. If all plans are realized, CXMT could add at least 70,000 to 80,000 wafers of capacity per month each year from this year until 2028, with a long-term goal of exceeding 600,000 wafers per month. Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix's DRAM capacities are estimated at about 700,000 wafers and 600,000 wafers per month, respectively.