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1. A well-known cryptocurrency exchange trader says they may create a digital avatar named “Michael Whaylor,” and traders are interested in how it performs on the Flap platform with the $WHAYLOR/BTC trading pair.

2. The EU has begun enforcing the transparency rules of the Artificial Intelligence Act, requiring chatbots to disclose their AI identity, deepfake content to be labeled, and AI-generated content to include machine-readable markers.

1. Japan’s margin-trading market size reaches its highest level since 1990. From 1990 onward, the Nikkei index fell by more than 80% over the following 18 years.

2. Former U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chair Chris Giancarlo said that if the CLARITY Act is not passed, the industry will become divided: the fearless builders will keep moving forward, while others will choose to wait and see.

1. OpenAI responds to Apple’s lawsuit, saying Apple never made specific allegations before filing, doesn’t have the proprietary business secrets it claims to need, and calling “Apple got it wrong.”

2. Cardano’s ADA price rises to $0.195, a new high since July 4. Its market value has increased by 24% within a week, while the number of holders has continued to decline over the same period. Data from Santiment.

1. Nigeria’s tax authorities issue new regulations, clarifying that profits from cryptocurrency trading, staking rewards, and airdrop gains are included within the scope of the country’s tax laws.

2. Hyperscale Data borrows approximately $30 million using its Bitcoin reserves as collateral through the Morpho Protocol, at a floating interest rate of 4.9%, with the funds used to build AI data centers in Michigan.

1. CXMT short whale 0xf292 has already paid over $2.04 million in funding fees. As the coin price rises, this short position is now in an unrealized loss of $4.3 million, with a liquidation price of $15.8.

2. Cryptocurrency trading volumes fell to about $15 billion last week, the lowest level this year, down 70% from the January peak, according to data from Kaiko.

1. Bitcoin exchange service provider Boltz has paused its Bitcoin exchange services, citing a wave of AI-assisted hacker attacks. It said the attack speed exceeded what a small team could patch.

2. Hashdex will liquidate its DEFI Bitcoin ETF this month, selling about 225 BTC and returning cash to shareholders.

1. BlackRock purchased Bitcoin worth $111.4 million.

2. Dragonfly managing partner Haseeb Qureshi said the Coldcard wallet incident shows how AI is reshaping the economics of crypto security; product security is increasingly determined by how much companies invest in AI testing. He proposed a “find-cost” metric to measure the cost of reproducing vulnerabilities in frontier models, estimating that the Coldcard vulnerability likely required about $2 to find. Qureshi said the report’s claim that Claude Code took 8 minutes to discover the vulnerability may have been influenced by network search, while an offline GLM test took about 20 minutes to reproduce the issue.

1. South Korea’s stock market today fell 1.3%. Samsung Electronics dropped 3%. The stock accounts for nearly 29% of the index, and it is down nearly 50% from its historical high on June 19.

2. Cardone Capital announced it has made an additional purchase of 350 Bitcoins, worth $22.3 million.

1. Whale Address 0x2e80 Extracts 19,000 ETH (about $35.44 million) from Gemini and Stakes It. Over the past three weeks, the address has cumulatively withdrawn 112,000 ETH (about $208 million) from Gemini and staked it.

2. Morgan Stanley Cuts Circle’s Rating to Sell, with the target price sharply reduced from $106 to $38. The move cites slowing USDC growth and pressure on reserve income.

1. US Treasury Secretary Bessent urges the Federal Reserve to help stabilize the yen exchange rate, after a US Treasury intervention earlier failed to stop the yen’s downward trend. Bessent hopes the Fed will expand the FIMA dollar lending facility so the Bank of Japan can support the yen without having to sell US Treasuries. Analysts warn that this move could trigger market volatility, deepen concerns about the yen, and test the Federal Reserve’s independence.

2. Illia Polosukhin, co-founder of the NEAR Protocol, proposes establishing a protocol sovereignty fund to pay for public goods such as network security. Funding sources would include existing treasuries, as well as past and future protocol revenues.

1. The U.S. Treasury Secretary’s senior digital asset adviser, Tyler Williams, has left his position, according to a report by Punchbowl News.

2. Meta, Anthropic, Google, and OpenAI will meet with White House officials on Tuesday to discuss voluntary AI safety testing, sources said, according to Reuters.

1. Telegram has been removed from the global Apple App Store.

2. The U.S. Blockchain Association sent a letter to Senate leaders Thune and Schumer, refuting the National Sheriffs’ Association’s claims about the CLEAR Act point by point.

1. A U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation agent was accused of stealing approximately $1 million worth of cryptocurrency from a suspect’s account, according to court documents. Afterwards, he admitted that the move “left him mentally tormented.”

2. BlackRock has launched two tokenized money market funds: BSTBL, which is deployed on Ethereum, and BRSRV, which is designed specifically for stablecoin reserves. Both are intended to meet the qualified reserve asset standards under the GENIUS Act.

1. The White House has not yet responded to the moral standards counterproposal put forward by Senators Tillis and Gallego, and the biggest unresolved point of contention in the CLEAR Act remains unsolved.

2. About 3 hours ago, Tom Lee’s Bitmine added collateral of 150,120 ETH worth $278 million. Its cumulative collateral amount totals 5,067,309 ETH worth $9.38 billion, accounting for 87.4% of its total holdings.

1. Coldcard wallet attack event estimated losses have already exceeded $100 million. Galaxy Research data shows the attack has been confirmed to have taken place in three waves, with around 7,300 addresses being stolen 1,596 BTC, plus 14 smaller-scale incidents. Previously, the third wave involved 207.7 BTC, and at that time cumulative losses were 1,367 BTC (about $88.6 million).

2. Bernstein warns that if the U.S. Senate fails to pass the CLARITY Act, it could trigger a reflexive reaction in the industry, leading to a decline in the valuation of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

1. Trump says Chevron and Exxon Mobil made too much money.

2. Citadel says the drivers of the bull market remain solid, and the market has reacted differently.

1. James Wynn was liquidated for shorting the S&P 500 index for the fourth consecutive day.

2. In 2025, the nuclear power capacity factor reached 91%, leading all major power sources including natural gas, coal, wind, and solar.

1. After AMC Theatres showed <a>Spider-Man</a> and <a>Odyssey</a>, it recorded the highest weekend box office revenue in the company’s 106-year history.

2. Since July 29, Bitcoin whales have accumulated nearly 19,700 BTC, while retail holders’ holdings have continued to decline during the same period. Data comes from Santiment.

1. Brazilian listed company OranjeBTC acquired 30 bitcoins for $1.9 million, bringing its total holdings to 3,948—making it the Latin American listed company with the highest amount of bitcoin held.

2. Bitcoin’s July closing price was below $63,000. 10x Research says that if the August monthly close is above this level, it could confirm August as the bottom of the bear market.