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According to a report by Z Finance, Tencent's AI-native desktop intelligent agent platform WorkBuddy entered public beta on March 9, achieving a monthly active user count of 20 million across all platforms within 3 months, with daily active users surpassing 13 million, including over 2 million daily active users on the PC side, and a DAU/MAU ratio stabilizing between 65%-75%. The product is led by Liu Yi, Vice President of Tencent Cloud, with a core team of about one hundred people, classified internally as one of the highest priority AI projects. The team claims they are currently only "temporarily ahead by half a position."WorkBuddy is derived from Tencent's previously launched AI programming assistant CodeBuddy, which has already covered about 12,000 engineers within Tencent. The product completed prototype development on January 17, and after the public beta in March, it has undergone a total of 43 iterations, gradually integrating capabilities related to QClaw developed by the Tencent PC Manager team based on an open-source framework. The product adopts a multi-model access strategy, with the underlying self-developed Harness engine for unified scheduling.In terms of commercialization, at the end of April, Tencent Cloud adjusted its pricing: the SaaS enterprise version was raised from 78 yuan/person/month to 198 yuan, and the private cloud enterprise version was raised from 158 yuan to 316 yuan. Market information indicates that it has acquired thousands of enterprise clients and over one hundred thousand paid seats, with an estimated annual revenue of about 300 million yuan. Third-party evaluations show that the product scored an average of 2.31/4 points on 70 questions (Word category 2.85 points, Design category 1.45 points), indicating that it is still some distance from producing stable results without manual modifications.

The 2026 Fortune Global 500 list was released on July 28, with the total revenue of the listed companies amounting to approximately $43.1 trillion, exceeding one-third of the global GDP, with a year-on-year growth of about 3.2%. Amazon topped the list for the first time, ending Walmart's twelve-year streak; State Grid ranked third. Alphabet took the title of "most profitable company in the world" from Saudi Aramco with a net profit of $132.17 billion. NVIDIA ranked second in profits, and TSMC was the only Chinese company to enter the top ten in profits.A total of 141 companies from the United States made the list, 122 from China (including Taiwan), and 40 from Japan. The total revenue of Chinese listed companies is approximately $10.4 trillion, with an average profit of $4.5 billion, about 40% of the average profit of U.S. companies ($11.24 billion). JD.com (41st) ranked first among private companies in mainland China, while Alibaba (56th), Tencent (97th, entering the top 100 for the first time), Pinduoduo (255th), and Meituan (311th) all saw improvements in their rankings.In the high-tech sector, 38 listed companies had an average profit of $21.98 billion. NVIDIA jumped 38 places to rank 28th, TSMC rose 44 places to rank 82nd, SK Hynix ranked 210th, and Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices returned to the list after many years. The automotive industry saw increased differentiation, with BYD ranking 91st, CATL significantly rising 43 places to rank 260th, and Chery Automobile making the list for the first time as a publicly listed company. The company with the largest increase in ranking was Wistron, which surged 298 places to rank 198th.

The Kenyan National Treasury has reduced the minimum paid-up capital requirement for stablecoin issuers by 40%, to approximately $2.32 million, down from nearly $3.9 million in the draft rules from March last year.Under the new regulations, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) will oversee stablecoin issuers and other virtual asset service providers, and may require local platforms to cease offering offshore-issued tokens. The framework requires at least 30% of customer funds to be held in independent trust accounts at Kenyan commercial banks, with the remaining funds invested in qualified local assets. The fiat-backed stablecoin reserves must be consistent with the anchor currency.Issuers are required to maintain either $463,300 in liquid capital or 100% of their liquid liabilities, whichever is higher, and hold qualified reserve assets on a 1:1 basis. Issuers must also conduct quarterly stress tests, submit monthly reserve and transaction reports, and ensure that customers can redeem tokens at face value within two business days.

According to the latest survey by TrendForce, in June, the top three MLCC suppliers in Japan and South Korea (Murata, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Taiyo Yuden) achieved a monthly shipment volume that reached a nearly five-year high, with 140 billion, 98 billion, and 40 billion units respectively, and the growth momentum continued into July. AI applications are the main driving force, with CSP manufacturers maintaining strong procurement demand for self-developed ASIC platforms such as Google TPU and AWS Trainium, driving continuous growth in demand for high-capacity, low-voltage, small-sized MLCCs.At the same time, Japanese and South Korean suppliers are accelerating the shift of production capacity from consumer-grade X5R to high-end X6S/X7R specifications, resulting in a severe squeeze on the production capacity of mid-to-high capacity (1µF-22µF) consumer-grade MLCCs, with mainstream inventory days generally falling below 30 days. The overflow effect of production capacity has led channels, agents, and second- and third-tier customers to urgently pull goods, significantly increasing order visibility for Taiwanese and mainland suppliers, leading to rising prices, with agents raising prices by an average of 20-25%, and spot market prices have soared to 2-3 times the original price. TrendForce pointed out that the consumer-grade MLCC market currently shows a structural mismatch of "weak end demand, strong channel pricing."

Bitget's staking and borrowing section has added support for 38 stock tokens (rToken) as collateral assets, bringing the total supported to 103. The newly added assets include popular U.S. stocks and ETFs such as rIBM, rTQQQ, and rNOK, covering diverse sectors like technology, consumer, and finance. Users holding the relevant stock tokens can now use them as collateral to borrow mainstream assets like USDT and USDC, as well as over 100 types of cryptocurrencies, thereby releasing liquidity without selling their positions. Specific collateral parameters can be referenced on the Bitget official platform.It is reported that the rToken, identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, Nvidia is rNVDA), is issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and is directly connected to global liquidity pools such as NASDAQ and NYSE through collaboration with compliant broker Alpaca. Its features include: 1:1 reserve of underlying assets managed by a licensed custodian, stock dividends distributed in token form at a 1:1 ratio, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits), and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts.

According to Jinshi News, Baida Wealth Management pointed out that the market currently has an unusually high probability pricing for the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike. Senior U.S. economist Xiao Cui stated that while the risk of an unexpected rate hike cannot be completely ruled out, the current market pricing seems too high. The latest U.S. inflation data and statements from Federal Reserve officials have reinforced expectations that the Federal Reserve will keep interest rates unchanged at 3.5% - 3.75% this week.Cui also believes that Logan and Harmack in the committee may cast dissenting votes in support of a 25 basis point rate hike, and Kashkari may also join this camp.

According to SoSoValue data, on July 27, Eastern Time, the total net inflow of Ethereum spot ETFs was $9.23 million. The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net inflow in a single day was the Blackrock ETF ETHA, with a net inflow of $11.75 million, and the historical total net inflow of ETHA has reached $11.42 billion.The Ethereum spot ETF with the highest net outflow in a single day was the Invesco ETF QETH, with a net outflow of $2.52 million, and the historical total net inflow of QETH has reached $22.10 million. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Ethereum spot ETFs is $10.65 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value relative to the total market value of Ethereum) is 4.53%, with a historical cumulative net inflow of $11.19 billion.

According to SoSoValue data, the total net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $11.6439 million. The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net outflow yesterday was Blackrock ETF IBIT, with a single-day net outflow of $8.8202 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of IBIT has reached $60.386 billion.The second is Fidelity ETF FBTC, with a single-day net outflow of $2.8237 million. Currently, the historical total net inflow of FBTC has reached $10.002 billion. As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $78.713 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value compared to the total market value of Bitcoin) is 6.04%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $51.374 billion.

On July 22, Pennsylvania State Representative Tarik Khan introduced HB 2711, co-sponsored by 24 bipartisan legislators (20 Democrats and 4 Republicans), which has been submitted to the House Consumer Protection, Technology, and Utilities Committee. The bill aims to prohibit the provision of prediction market services to Pennsylvania residents while engaging in gambling activities in the regular business of liquidity providers or market makers, extending the restrictions to parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliates, and joint ventures, and prohibits prediction platforms from sharing revenue with gambling companies.This move could impact sports betting groups like DraftKings (which has acquired CFTC-registered Railbird Technologies and launched its own DKeX exchange) and Flutter, which are entering the prediction market-making field. The bill also sets a minimum age limit of 21, prohibits contracts involving high school sports, events with minor participation, and death markets, and requires platforms to establish anti-fraud and insider information abuse protection mechanisms.The bill does not establish a licensing system, and enforcement authority is granted to the state Attorney General. Previously, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2:1 in April that the federal Commodity Exchange Act takes precedence over state gambling laws, but Pennsylvania has joined a coalition of 40 states advocating for sports contracts to be subject to state-level regulation.

According to Farside Investors data, as of the week ending July 24, the net inflow for Ethereum spot ETFs was $103.8 million, about three times that of Bitcoin spot ETFs at $33.9 million, surpassing Bitcoin products for the second consecutive week. The gap mainly comes from BlackRock: its Ethereum fund ETHA attracted $96.3 million, while the largest crypto ETF Bitcoin fund IBIT saw a net outflow of $95.5 million, with outflows of $202.5 million and $212.2 million on Thursday and Friday, respectively.Bitcoin ETFs performed strongly at the beginning of the week (with a total inflow of about $430 million on Monday and Tuesday), but then reversed sharply. Ethereum ETFs were more stable, with continuous inflows for the first four days before a $70.7 million outflow on Friday. The weekly inflow for Bitcoin ETFs decreased by 55% compared to the previous week, while Ethereum remained flat. On-chain, the largest corporate ETH holder BitMine Immersion increased its holdings by 104,512 ETH over the past 30 days and currently holds 5.78 million ETH, accounting for 4.8% of the supply. ETH is currently priced at about $1,936, and BTC at about $64,780.

It has been reported that the mayoral candidate of Incheon, South Korea, is accused of falsely reporting assets, suspected of failing to declare the spouse's cryptocurrency assets.

According to Coinglass data, the current whale holdings on the Hyperliquid platform amount to $5.221 billion, with long positions totaling $2.576 billion, accounting for 49.33% of the holdings, and short positions totaling $2.646 billion, accounting for 50.67%. The profit and loss for long positions is -$138 million, while the profit and loss for short positions is $66.1468 million.Among them, the whale address 0xb83d..36 has shorted ETH with a 5x leverage at a price of $1869.41, currently showing an unrealized profit and loss of -$368,400.

Asset management giant Franklin Templeton publicly expressed support for the CLARITY Act on platform X, stating that the act will clarify the regulatory approach to cryptocurrencies, inform investors of applicable protections, and specify which regulatory agency governs businesses. The company stated, "It's time to provide the clarity the industry needs."

According to Cointelegraph, crypto-friendly bank-as-a-service provider Cross River will provide banking infrastructure for X Money, supporting peer-to-peer payments, FDIC-insured interest-bearing accounts, and Visa debit card services. Cross River's banking platform and payment channels will support X's "super app" strategy and are designed to scale with more financial products over time. X Money will enter limited testing in May 2025 and expand to external testing in March 2026. X has obtained money transfer licenses in over 40 states in the U.S. and is registered with FinCEN to support platform peer-to-peer payments. The announcement did not mention support for cryptocurrencies or stablecoins.

According to research data released by Grayscale, based on the proportion of market capitalization, the inflow of funds into the HYPE ETF is accelerating, with relative performance surpassing BTC, ETH, SOL, and XRP.Grayscale pointed out that the inflow of Bitcoin is the most consistent and stable, Ethereum has experienced sharp peaks, Solana and XRP showed healthy inflows in the early stages, while HYPE's performance at the same lifecycle stage outperformed Bitcoin, Solana, and XRP.

According to The Block, the National Football League (NFL) sent a letter to CFTC Chairman Michael Selig on July 27, responding to the recent draft regulatory framework for prediction markets released by the CFTC, requesting enhancements in several key areas. The NFL emphasized in the letter that protecting the integrity of the game is its top priority and called on the CFTC to tighten the definition of high-risk contracts that are susceptible to manipulation, rely on referee discretion, or have outcomes that can be known in advance.In addition, the NFL expressed objections to the 10-day pre-approval window being too short, requested clarification on the insider trading ban, established a mandatory "league-exclusive prohibited bettors" list, and reiterated previous consumer protection recommendations such as banning margin trading, limiting advertising, and setting a 21-year age threshold.

According to CoinDesk, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Menendez in Minnesota ruled that the state law classifying the operation of prediction markets as a criminal offense likely violates the federal Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), and granted a preliminary injunction to Kalshi, Polymarket, and the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), suspending the enforcement of the state law.The judge found that prediction market contracts structurally fall under the category of "swap" products regulated by the CFTC, and that federal law takes precedence over state law, with the three plaintiffs "likely to prevail in a formal trial." Additionally, the judge noted that failing to suspend the enforcement of the law would cause "irreparable harm" to Kalshi and Polymarket. This preliminary injunction will remain in effect until a final judgment is made in the case.

The South Korean trading platform (KRX) triggered the sidecar mechanism due to fluctuations in the KOSPI index, suspending programmatic trading for about 5 minutes.The sidecar mechanism is mainly used to respond to severe fluctuations in a short period of time, limiting only programmatic trading while manual trading can continue normally. Unlike the circuit breaker mechanism, the sidecar mechanism does not suspend trading for the entire market and is more viewed as a "speed bump" during market volatility.In contrast, the circuit breaker mechanism is typically used in extreme market conditions and, once triggered, suspends trading for the entire market to prevent panic-induced fluctuations from further escalating.