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1. Tom Lee expects that an “ultra-intelligent payment system” for AI agents will be unveiled within five years, and says it could become the next mainstream breakthrough for cryptocurrencies.

2. The opening-day box office for Spider-Man: A New Day came in at $168 million, setting a record for all opening days.

1. Strategy is discussing selling up to $5 billion worth of Bitcoin. The company previously reported a $8.2 billion loss in the second quarter. CEO Phong Le said it will sell Bitcoin “when it believes it is appropriate for the company.” The company holds 843,775 Bitcoins, which are more than $10 billion below its total cost basis.

2. Stockers.io launched the first platform on Solana to support liquidity-pair creation for eight stocks. Users who hold tokens can earn corresponding stock rewards.

1. Michael Saylor says Bitcoin has already won, and that no one seriously believes Solana or Ethereum can surpass its position.

2. India is building its own space station, BAS. The first module, BAS-01, is planned to be launched in 2028.

1. A former BNB Chain employee deployed a new token, ASTEROID, and bought 796.7 million ASTEROID with $100,000 through four newly created wallets, representing 79.67% of the total supply. The employee then sold 718.8 million ASTEROID, receiving 1,103 BNB (about $638,000), for a profit of approximately $628,000.

2. Roblox withdrew its full-year earnings guidance after the growth rate of bookings slowed in the second quarter, causing its share price to plunge nearly 29% in a single day—its largest drop since going public.

1. Japanese SBI Holdings reiterates its $4.12 billion risk exposure to Ripple, with no impact from XRP price declines.

2. DeFi Kingdoms announces it will shut down DFKChain on August 28, as the project team explores other chains to continue operations.

1. $SAFEVANO’s increase over the past 24 hours exceeded 60%. Next week, it will launch on a centralized exchange (CEX).

2. Anonymous trader 0x9a96 opened a 2x leveraged long position, holding 16.67 million FARTCOIN worth $2.16 million. In addition, they placed a limit buy order to purchase 18.04 million FARTCOIN worth $0.531 million.

1. ARK Invest sold 33,560 shares of BMNR under its funds, valued at $606,764, reducing its exposure to the Ethereum network.

2. In the past 24 hours, the Gate platform saw a net inflow of $547 million, which is $471 million more than the exchange ranked second by net inflows.

1. In the first half of 2026, the XRP Ledger added 489,739 new accounts.

2. U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis accuses the Democratic Party of “deliberately dragging things out to kill” the CLARITY bill, rather than taking a public “no” vote.”

1. Arthur Hayes address sold 6.16 million SYN for $658K; and also bought 3.05 million ENA for $248K. Within two hours, this address deposited 2,364.38 ETH to Cumberland and Galaxy Digital, receiving 4.3 million USDC, selling at $1,821 and incurring a loss of $241K. Previously, it had bought 7,213 ETH at about $1,923, worth $13.87M.

2. $HOODROIDS was released on the Robinhood Chain, integrating ERC-404 liquidity, ERC-8004 identity, and the MCP-driven functionality into a single self-custody NFT agent standard.

1. TD Cowen cuts SharpLink Gaming’s target price from $16 to $13 and maintains a Buy rating. The reasons are weaker Ethereum prices in Q2 and a downgrade to the 2026 ETH outlook.

2. Musk mentions Kekius Maximus in a post by a KEKIUS team member—its first mention in over a year.

1. During ongoing hacking investigations, OpenAI has found additional vulnerabilities that could allow AI agents to be isolated. Related investigations are still ongoing, and the specific number of newly identified cases has not yet been disclosed.

2. The U.S. Department of the Treasury, in coordination with Japan, has bought yen to curb its rapid depreciation—marking the first time such action has been taken in more than a decade.

1. Losses related to the Bitcoin Coldcard wallet vulnerability have risen to $70 million, and the incident is still ongoing.

2. Federal Reserve officials Hammack and Kashkari warn that rate hikes are currently needed to tackle persistent inflation; otherwise, more aggressive action may be required in the future.

1. The Bank for International Settlements’ Project Agorá completes the tokenized settlement of a real value payment of 800,000 Swiss francs (about US$1 million), covering 6 currencies, involving 28 banks and central banks across 17 trading venues.

2. The XRP Ledger version 3.3.0 will be released next week, featuring five amendments. Among them, the Batch amendment was re-included after being withdrawn due to a severe vulnerability.

1. Cryptocurrency total market cap increased by more than $130 billion over the past 30 days.

2. Bitcoin’s lowest this month could drop to $59,000, according to Kalshi traders.

1. Bitwise buys $7.12 million worth of XRP.

2. Whale address 0x2684 increased its holdings today by 7,919.5 ETH, worth $14.89 million. Since June 30, the address has accumulated purchases of 74,265 ETH, totaling $131.5 million, with an average price of $1,771; it also bought 1,050 WBTC worth $67.49 million, at an average price of $64,277.

1. Fidelity clients sell $54.78 million worth of Bitcoin.

2. Tether’s latest reserve attestation shows that its excess reserves decreased from $8.23 billion at the end of Q1 to $4.11 billion as of June 30, a drop of about 50%. The company’s net operating profit in Q2 was $1.5 billion, but its comprehensive financial performance for the first half of the year was about a negative $3.17 billion. Combined with the net profit of about $1.04 billion in Q1, Tether’s overall financial performance in Q2 (including unrealized gains/losses) implies losses of over $4 billion. Tether has not disclosed the other factors involved.

1. Minnesota officially bans cryptocurrency kiosks effective today, after scammers stole nearly $1 million from residents.

2. On July 31, spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded net outflows of $265 million, with BlackRock's IBIT leading the way with net outflows of $123 million. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw net inflows of $9.0295 million, with BlackRock's ETHB leading at net inflows of $15.3831 million.

1. Trade xyz has started compensation for the abnormal pricing event on July 27 under the SK hynix contract (SKHYNIX). The platform calculates eligible settlement loss case by case using $1,115.50 as the reference price. Compensation below 10,000 USDC has been fully paid into the affected wallets, with no user action required. Claims exceeding 10,000 USDC were paid in advance with 9,999 USDC, and the remaining portion will be released after enhanced due diligence is completed. Affected users must contact the platform support team by August 15. During the incident, the SKHYNIX marked price briefly fell from $1,127.90 to $917.25, triggering large-scale liquidation of long positions.

2. A BlackRock client sold 1,948 bitcoins worth $122.66 million.

1. Tom Lee’s Bitmine-related new wallet under Tom Lee received 10,464 ETH from FalconX about 9 hours ago, valued at $19.48 million.

2. Strategy’s capital management framework may allow it to realize up to approximately $5 billion worth of Bitcoin, to establish up to a $1.25 billion reserve, pay about $1.76 billion in annual preferred stock dividends and interest, and repurchase up to $2.0 billion of common stock and digital credit securities. From the beginning of the year to date, Strategy has sold about $218.4 million worth of Bitcoin to pay preferred stock dividends. As of July 26, the company holds 843,775 Bitcoins, with an average cost of $75,476.