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DeFi infrastructure company Enso disclosed in a report a type of malicious liquidity pool called "toxic pools," which manipulates trading simulations to return false optimal quotes to wallets and DEX aggregators, and alters logic during actual on-chain execution. Enso stated that the relevant malicious contracts can identify read-only simulation environments and return optimized prices, but once the trades are broadcasted on-chain, they execute at worse prices or result in transaction failures.A manipulated Curve pool processed over 129,000 exchanges, resulting in approximately $225,000 in inflated quotes, with over 37,000 transactions rolling back and consuming nearly $30,000 in gas fees. On Polygon, a malicious Uniswap v4 hook attracted routing systems with false exchange rates, subsequently triggering a 99.1% transaction failure rate. Enso stated that it has updated its execution protection product Enso Shield to detect false quotes in Ethereum and Polygon environments.

According to Coinglass data, the Coinbase Bitcoin premium index has been in the negative premium range for 60 consecutive days (from May 19 to present), with the latest value at -0.0908%.Previously, this index was in the negative premium for 40 consecutive days from January 16 to February 24 this year, setting the record for the longest "continuous negative" period since the launch of this indicator, surpassing the approximately 30 days of continuous negative premium during the "1011 crash." Historical data shows that prolonged negative premiums are often accompanied by the exit of institutional funds from the United States, and caution is needed regarding short-term pullback pressure.

According to official news, Gate ETF will launch TSM3L/USDT, TSM3S/USDT, EWY3L/USDT, EWY3S/USDT, DRAM3L/USDT, and DRAM3S/USDT on July 17 at 15:00 (UTC

According to the Ethereum Magicians forum, developer Leo Glisic officially released Privacy Guardians 2 and announced the open-sourcing of its design. The project is positioned as a decentralized privacy payment system aimed at maximizing privacy protection for on-chain payments to combat issues such as freezing and monitoring present in centralized payment solutions (like OUSD launched by Corpo Consortium).The current V1 version includes multiple modules such as private payment mechanisms, insurance mechanisms, honeypot designs, exchange rate management, liquidity pools, and metadata processing. Glisic stated that this version is still in the early stages and has significant room for optimization in areas such as cryptographic security, incentive mechanism alignment, and capital efficiency, and he called on the community to participate in its improvement. The white paper has been simultaneously published on glisic.xyz.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Swiss Open: Alexander Bublik vs. Quentin Halys," the option "Total Games: Over 2.5" in the sub-market experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, plummeting from 99.45% an hour ago to the current 76.05% (a fluctuation of 23.4%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index futures fell by 0.85%, and the Nasdaq index futures fell by 1.45%.

According to the Dune dashboard, competition among token launch platforms on the Robinhood Chain continues to heat up. On July 16, the total number of newly launched tokens across the entire chain reached 42,709, with pons.family leading the way with 11,547 tokens, followed closely by flap.sh with 9,935 tokens, and hood.fun launching 6,471 tokens.In terms of trading volume, as of July 15, noxa.fun held a 43.0% market share among launch platforms on the Robinhood Chain, followed by pons.family at 37.4%, flap.sh at 5.8%, and clanker.world and bankr.bot at 3.3% and 2.3%, respectively.From the current data, the launch platforms on the Robinhood Chain have formed a pattern where "pons.family leads in the number of tokens launched, and noxa.fun dominates trading volume."

According to on-chain research conducted by Dune Analytics for the DEX aggregator 1inch, an average of 85% of concentrated liquidity funds in decentralized exchanges were underutilized in the first half of 2026, with 29.5% completely outside the active price range, resulting in approximately $542 million in idle funds each week.Dune estimates that liquidity providers outside the range lose about $150 million in fee income annually. The study covers around 200 of the most active pools on Uniswap v3, PancakeSwap v3, Aerodrome Slipstream, and Uniswap v4, spanning seven chains with a total of 26 weekly snapshots, with an average TVL of approximately $1.84 billion.Data shows that idle funds are mainly concentrated in personal wallets, and automated management tools and bots tend to keep positions within the range. On Base Uniswap v3, personal accounts account for 82% of idle funds. About one-third of idle funds have not been adjusted for over 90 days. Dune attributes the main cause of idleness to asset pairs and their volatility rather than the trading platform, even though about 30% of stablecoin pairs are also outside the range.

According to Deribit data, Bitcoin and Ethereum options worth approximately $1.45 billion will expire at 16:00. Among them, the notional value of BTC options is about $1.23 billion, with a put/call ratio of 0.86 and a maximum pain point of $62,500; the notional value of ETH options is about $218 million, with a put/call ratio of 1.54 and a maximum pain point of $1,750.Deribit stated that this expiration will inject liquidity and volatility into the market, creating ideal conditions for short-term options trading.

According to "Intelligent Emergence," multiple independent sources reported that by July 2026, China's leading large model company, Zhipu, had achieved an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of $1 billion. Insiders revealed that between January and July 2026, Zhipu's ARR surged 15 times in just six months. The growth from $100 million ARR to $1 billion took Zhipu only 5 months, surpassing the 15 months it took the American AI lab Anthropic to reach a similar stage. As of the time of publication, Zhipu has not responded to the aforementioned financial data.The rapid rise in Zhipu's revenue is primarily attributed to its concentrated investment in coding and reasoning capabilities. Financial reports show that in the first quarter of this year, even though the API call price for GLM increased by approximately 83%, its overseas subscription prices approached those of Anthropic's Claude Code, yet its total call volume still grew by about 400% against the trend. In June of this year, Zhipu launched its latest open-source large model, GLM-5.2, which has matched or even surpassed mainstream cutting-edge models on several core metrics.Currently, AI coding and video generation have become the fastest commercialized and most revenue-generating tracks for large models globally. As the demand in the coding market becomes more certain, industry competition is intensifying. Domestically, MiniMax released the M3, which focuses on enhancing coding capabilities, in June, while the Dark Side of the Moon launched the K3 open-source model with 2.8 trillion parameters on July 16; internationally, with OpenAI merging ChatGPT and CodeX, it has also shown a momentum to catch up with Anthropic in the coding field, and the global battle for AI productivity tools continues to escalate.

According to Bits.media, Anatoly Aksakov, chairman of the Financial Market Committee of the State Duma of Russia, stated that the second and third readings of the criminal liability bill for illegal cryptocurrency transactions will be postponed until the new State Duma is reviewed. The reason is that the Duma's spring session will end on July 27, and there will be an election recess from August to September, with the Duma election voting ending on September 20. Therefore, the review will not resume until the autumn session at the earliest.The bill completed its first reading in early July, with a maximum penalty of 7 years in prison for organizing illegal cryptocurrency circulation. The relevant penalty provisions are proposed to officially take effect on July 1, 2027. Under the current regulatory framework, Russian citizens can only buy and sell cryptocurrencies through institutions holding a license from the Central Bank of Russia, and P2P and over-the-counter transactions may face criminal liability. Aksakov denied concerns that the bill would affect cryptocurrency exchanges and P2P users, stating that the related worries are "unfounded." Meanwhile, another Russian government initiative to strengthen state control over cryptocurrencies, the "Digital Currency and Digital Rights Law," has also been postponed, with the original timelines for implementation in July and September now missed.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a suspected a16z address retrieved 471,500 HYPE (worth $305,700) from Hyperliquid within the last day, and then transferred it to exchanges such as OKX, Bybit, and Gate.

According to TenArmorAlert monitoring, the BSC chain project "CrowdRingCircle" suffered a suspicious attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $201,400.

According to GMGN market data, the Robinhood ecosystem token Index saw a short-term increase of over 400%, with a market capitalization peaking above 60 million USD, currently reported at approximately 33 million USD.This increase may be influenced by the attention of Robinhood co-founder to its X account. The price of this token is highly volatile and susceptible to market sentiment and trending events, please be aware of trading risks.

According to Coinglass data, if ETH breaks through $1,952, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $975 million. Conversely, if ETH falls below $1,784, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $517 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $66,878, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on major CEX will reach $1.106 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $61,183, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEX will reach $1.009 billion.

According to Fortune, Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky's X account was hacked this Monday, posting a bullish tweet about "RWA tokenization," which was later deleted.Analysis by the AI detection tool Pangram revealed that the tweet was 100% generated by AI, with users pointing out its lack of commas and other characteristics typical of AI writing. Chesky had previously praised AI technology, but this incident shows that low-quality AI-generated content is becoming an increasingly serious concern for businesses and creators. The X platform security team has secured the account after receiving the report, and Chesky has regained access.

According to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time July 16) the total net inflow of XRP spot ETFs was $6.7847 million. The XRP spot ETF with the highest net inflow yesterday was Bitwise XRP ETF (XRP), with a net inflow of $4.406 million, bringing its historical total net inflow to $498 million.Following that was Franklin XRP ETF (XRPZ), with a net inflow of $2.3787 million, bringing its historical total net inflow to $416 million. As of the time of publication, the total net asset value of XRP spot ETFs was $999.7 million, with an XRP net asset ratio of 1.45%, and the historical cumulative net inflow has reached $1.486 billion.

According to Xinhua News Agency, as the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence are about to be held, the new generation model Kimi K3 was released on the 16th, with a parameter scale of 28 trillion. This is currently the largest open-source model in the world by parameters, marking a new step in the development of artificial intelligence models in our country.Beijing Moon's Dark Side Technology Co., Ltd., which released the model, introduced that Kimi K3 natively supports visual understanding, has a context window of 1 million tokens, and is optimized for complex task scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep research, and multimodal understanding, further enhancing the processing capability of large models for complex tasks. It is understood that in evaluations, Kimi K3's comprehensive intelligence level is close to that of the world's leading closed-source models. A relevant person in charge of Moon's Dark Side stated that in the process of training the new generation foundational model Kimi K3, they used a self-developed underlying model architecture and accumulated a complete set of scientific model training methods.