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According to Jinshi News, Amazon employees have discovered that due to errors in the company's deployment of AI and a lack of expenditure control measures, some projects have experienced "catastrophically high" cost overruns. A senior engineer stated at an employee meeting that attempts to shift tasks from traditional programming to using AI models have resulted in "unplanned" expenditures.Amazon expects its capital expenditures to reach $200 billion this year, primarily invested in AI and data center infrastructure construction.

According to South Korean media reports, the Bank of Korea participated in the real transaction testing of the global payment settlement project "Agora Project" led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), successfully completing transactions using tokenized reserve funds.A total of 28 institutions participated in this test, including the Bank of Korea, central banks from various countries, and private financial institutions, covering six currencies: Korean won, US dollar, euro, British pound, Swiss franc, and Japanese yen. Domestic participating institutions in South Korea include KB Kookmin Bank, NongHyup Bank, Shinhan Bank, Woori Bank, and Hana Bank. The participating institutions conducted real transaction tests valued at approximately 800,000 Swiss francs, covering multiple currencies and testing 17 different transaction scenarios. The Bank of Korea stated, "In the future, the Agora Project plans to conduct more real transaction tests by identifying transaction types and scenarios not covered in this test."

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.

According to Jinshi reports, Iranian media Fars News reported that local crisis management authorities stated that an enemy projectile hit Iran's West Azerbaijan Province.

Doge prototype Shiba Inu Kabosu's owner Atsuko Sato clarified in a post that a series of CATE tokens circulating in the market recently have no connection to her. She stated that she had only posted a dynamic on Instagram previously, but that content was subsequently used by others without authorization to issue false tokens, creating the illusion of a connection with her. She expressed regret about this and pointed out that some accounts involved in spreading related information even include users with significant influence on the X platform.She emphasized that the only project currently authorized by her and responsible for managing her intellectual property is Own The Doge. She introduced that Own The Doge acquired Doge NFT in 2021 and launched the DOG token, while also being responsible for hosting Doge Day events, supporting charitable causes, and managing her intellectual property. In 2025, both parties collaborated to launch the COCORO token on the Base network.She stated that the profits obtained from the aforementioned projects will be used to care for her pet family members and support animal protection public welfare activities carried out by withkabosu. She urged the public to rely on officially released information and to remain vigilant about any unauthorized projects or tokens issued in her name, to avoid being misled by unrelated cryptocurrency projects.

According to monitoring by PeckShield, the attacker’s marked address has returned 331.8 ETH, approximately 623,900 USD, to the Across Protocol Hub Pool Owner multi-signature address.

According to Bitcoin.com News, the Zimbabwe Securities and Exchange Commission (SECZ) has approved seven fintech companies to enter its regulatory sandbox testing framework, including the blockchain financing platform "Zimbabwe Startup Exchange," the asset tokenization platform Ndarama Standard, the synthetic trading platform Questview Brokers, the crowdfunding platform Crowdaxe Capital, as well as three institutions focused on asset, infrastructure, or securities tokenization: Procode Platforms, Financial Securities Exchange, and Colmin Resources Zimbabwe.SECZ stated that the sandbox aims to promote responsible innovation, enhance financial inclusion, and drive the development of capital markets. Participants will be subject to strict regulatory oversight, and SECZ reserves the right to issue further guidance or operational requirements.

The Bitget Launchpool project AEON is now open for investment. As of the time of publication, the BGB locked pool yield is 29.53% APR, and the AEON locked pool yield is 582,942.05% APR.

Bitget Launchpool project AEON (AEON) is now open for investment, with a total prize pool of 1,166,666 AEON. The locking period ends on August 1 at 19:00 (UTC+8). This round of Launchpool has opened 2 locking pools, including:BGB Locking PoolTotal airdrop amount: 1,000,000 AEONVIP user locking limit: 50,000 BGBRegular user locking limit: 5,000 BGBAEON Locking PoolTotal airdrop amount: 166,666 AEONIndividual locking limit: 4,200,000 AEON

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.

GLC Research stated on X that Hyperliquid's "priority fee" mechanism has achieved great success, having generated over $5 million in revenue to date.Based on the average levels over 14 days and 30 days, the annualized buyback scale supported by this revenue has exceeded $30 million, accounting for about 7% of HYPE's total revenue. Considering that the "priority fee" is still in a very early stage, this figure is expected to continue to grow, with the annualized scale of this revenue likely to reach between $50 million and $100 million by the end of the year.

Brand operation company Unserious announced the acquisition of the NFT project Creepz, with support from Adam Weitsman. The founding team of Creepz will continue to provide assistance during the transition period. The Unserious team previously led the strategic planning for significant token launches in the crypto space, including ApeCoin.After this acquisition, artist @psychrome will return to serve as the head of IP development and creative direction, with commercial collaboration experience covering Nike, Salomon, Sneaker Con, Staple, Disney, Warner Bros., and Rovio. The specific amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.

According to DigitalToday, the Korea Internet & Security Agency (KISA) and the Ministry of Science and ICT have launched the "Deposit Token Payment Infrastructure Expansion Project," which will extend the results of South Korea's CBDC pilot "Project Hangang" into the private payment sector.The project is overseen by the Financial Settlement Agency, with participation from 9 banks, 8 payment gateways, and 2 large demand-side entities, with a total budget of 9.6 billion KRW, aimed at reducing payment fees for small and micro merchants. The project utilizes existing payment systems rather than building new infrastructure, allowing users to complete payments through bank deposit token wallets without requiring merchants to change terminals.The government also plans to apply deposit tokens to a pilot for official travel expenses and explore a treasury fund management model linked with dBrain. Approximately 3 billion KRW of the total project budget will be invested in the development, operation, and promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises, startups, and IT companies, while participating banks will separately advance about 4.5 billion KRW in related businesses.

According to The Block, the Ethereum privacy infrastructure project Aztec has announced the launch of the complete v5 Execution Layer Alpha version, bringing multiple cryptographic optimizations aimed at achieving client-side ZK Proving with second-level generation on mobile phones and consumer-grade laptops.Aztec stated that the v5 Execution Layer reduces the computational burden required for local proof generation by optimizing the zero-knowledge proof generation process, allowing users to complete privacy transaction proofs without relying on large servers. This improvement is expected to further promote the widespread application of zero-knowledge technology.

According to The Wall Street Journal, BlackRock is leading the effort to raise at least $12 billion in debt financing for Meta's new data center project located in El Paso, Texas. BlackRock and its infrastructure and private credit divisions hold an 80% stake in the project, while Meta holds the remaining 20%, with the park expected to have a capacity of approximately 1 gigawatt.JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley are responsible for leading this large-scale debt issuance and are in contact with other potential investors. The project structure is similar to Meta's Louisiana data center, where Blue Owl holds an 80% stake in the joint venture, Meta holds 20%, and construction is supported through debt financing. Additionally, Meta has agreed to lease a large data center project developed by Aligned Data Centers, supported by BlackRock, in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.Over the past year, BlackRock has continued to expand its investments in AI data centers, including the $40 billion acquisition of Aligned Data Centers. BlackRock was also one of the main investors in the $27 billion private debt financing for Meta's Louisiana data center, purchasing over $3 billion in bonds in that transaction.

According to the Korea Herald, the second phase of South Korea's central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot project "Han River Plan" is about to officially launch. The Bank of Korea and commercial banks are making final preparations for the real transaction testing of deposit tokens in the second phase. If the system development and participant recruitment preparations are completed as planned, actual transactions are expected to begin as early as September.In the first phase transaction testing from April to June last year, 81,000 people participated through electronic wallets and conducted 114,880 transactions using deposit tokens. The first phase examined the deposit token payment system, while the second phase focuses on exploring commercialization. Additionally, the Ministry of Economy and Finance of South Korea announced in its economic growth strategy for the second half of the year released on the 15th that next year it will implement a pilot project for the tokenization of government bonds linked to the central bank's institutional-level central bank digital currency (CBDC).

Project Eleven has launched a new zero-knowledge proof system, providing a recovery method for the quantum-vulnerable Bitcoin proposed to be frozen under BIP-361, including the Bitcoin held by Satoshi Nakamoto.The solution leverages the property that quantum computers can break elliptic curve signatures but cannot break the one-way hash used in modern wallet key derivation, allowing the true owner holding the seed material to prove control. Benchmark tests show that the Project Eleven prototype is significantly faster than previous solutions, but the prototype has not yet been audited and is incomplete. It requires controversial modifications to blockchain rules before it can protect existing Bitcoin on the chain.

According to tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData, in the past 7 days, the crypto media platform BSC News has been the project that X (Twitter) top figures have unfollowed the most. The new influential figures on X who have unfollowed this project include well-known cryptocurrency trader Ansem (@blknoiz06) and cryptocurrency trader Ash Crypto (@AshCrypto). In addition, the project that X top figures have unfollowed the most also includes Ostium.

According to tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the Robinhood Chain native CDP protocol Arrow Finance has been the project with the most new followers among X (Twitter) Top personalities. New influential figures following this project include well-known analyst 0xWizard (@0xcryptowizard), SpiderCrypto (@SpiderCrypto0x), and well-known KOL 0xSun (@0xSunNFT).