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Binance Wallet announced on X the launch of the Pre-Access event, which is hosted by PancakeSwap, allowing users to participate through Binance Wallet.The event aims to provide users with indirect exposure before the potential listing of popular companies, with the first project to be announced soon.

Recently, discussions surrounding the shutdown of projects invested by a16z have intensified. According to RootData's investment and financing data, after deduplication by project, five institutions—Coinbase Ventures, YZi Labs, Pantera Capital, a16z, and Paradigm—cover a total of 993 independent invested projects, of which 216 are marked as shut down, accounting for a cumulative ratio of 21.75%.Looking at the institutions individually, Pantera has a shutdown rate of 24.76% (51/206), Coinbase Ventures at 22.69% (98/432), a16z at 20.09% (43/214), Paradigm at 19.49% (23/118), and YZi Labs at 13.56% (32/236).Although a16z is at the center of public opinion, it is not the institution with the highest shutdown rate in the sample. Among its 148 lead investment projects, 29 are marked as shut down, accounting for 19.59%, including Linera, which recently announced its closure, and Universal, which has announced its entry into the shutdown process, indicating that even leading institutions cannot eliminate operational risks for projects.

Gravity Chain Official Announcement: It has been observed that the G token has significant price discrepancies between various trading platforms, with the price difference between certain platforms remaining above 30% for several hours and once exceeding 40%. This is mainly related to the fragmentation of liquidity and bridging limitations between the Gravity Alpha mainnet and Ethereum.The official team is actively developing solutions to enable users to quickly and safely bridge assets from the Gravity Alpha mainnet to Ethereum, and further updates will be shared later. According to market information, the G token is currently priced at $0.013 on the Binance platform, $0.008 on the OKX platform, approximately $0.0037 on the Gravity Alpha mainnet, and approximately $0.012 on the Ethereum mainnet.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $59,000.06 in the event "UFC 331: Alexandre Pantoja vs. Joshua Van (Flyweight, Main Event)" for the match "Alexandre Pantoja vs. Joshua Van." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this bet is 59%.

REX Shares and Tuttle Capital Management jointly launched a leveraged ETF------T-REX 2X Long ASST Daily Target ETF, which began trading on Friday at the Cboe exchange under the ticker ASSX. The fund aims to achieve 200% of Strive's daily stock price performance before fees, providing traders with a leveraged betting avenue on this Bitcoin treasury company.Unlike spot Bitcoin ETFs, ASSX does not hold Bitcoin nor track its price, but instead offers leveraged exposure to Strive's stock price. The fund resets its leverage daily, so returns over more than one trading day may significantly differ from Strive's twofold performance. REX and Tuttle stated that the two companies also launched 2x leveraged ETFs related to Strategy, BitMine, Cipher Mining, Circle, and SharpLink.According to data from BitcoinTreasuries.NET, Strive currently holds 25,000 Bitcoins, making it the fifth largest Bitcoin holder among publicly traded companies. The company last purchased 469 Bitcoins, financing the acquisition through the sale of its perpetual preferred stock SATA. On Friday, Strive's stock price rose 6.4%, closing at $30.09.

According to official news, Matrix has completed a $6.5 million financing round, with participation from AC Capital, UZ Capital, and others.Matrix is an Unstoppable Execution Rollup built on top of BNB Chain L1. The project utilizes the Facet technology stack to reconstruct and deeply adapt the PoSA consensus, significantly enhancing ecological throughput capacity through an independent high-performance execution environment while fully inheriting BNB's ordering, data availability, and finality.

Stablecoin infrastructure company Bastion announced that the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted it preliminary conditional approval for a national trust bank charter. This charter allows Bastion to incorporate stablecoin issuance, custody, and exchange products under the same federal regulatory entity, adding OCC federal oversight on top of its existing state licenses. The company will operate under the name Bastion Platforms National Trust Company, providing stablecoin custody and wallets, payment infrastructure, and white-label issuance services.Bastion previously obtained a New York trust license in February 2025. Under the new charter, the company will offer custodial services for USDC and other digital assets compliant with the GENIUS Act, as well as white-label stablecoin wallet and issuance services (minting, redemption, and exchange), and continue to provide technology and operational infrastructure to other regulated issuers. Bastion itself does not issue stablecoins but primarily provides technology, operations, and compliance stacks for enterprise stablecoin projects.Bastion also appointed four new advisors: Colleen Taylor (Board, former President of American Express U.S. Merchant Services), Michael Patterson (Board, former Chief Compliance Officer of Genesis), Stuart Breslow (Advisor, former Chief Compliance Officer of Morgan Stanley), and Gabriella Fitzgerald (Advisor, former CEO of Optum Financial Medical Payments).

According to TradingBeats monitoring, the short position loss of ZEC held by BTC OG insider whale agent Garrett Jin has reached 33.83 million dollars, with a short position size of 37,999.54 ZEC, valued at 59.33 million dollars, funding rate income of 660,000 dollars, and a liquidation price of 4,790 dollars.

According to The Wall Street Journal, Google's Gemini model autonomously attacked the systems of three companies during cybersecurity testing, marking the first known instance of Google AI executing such behavior independently.

California Governor Gavin Newsom stated that I have just signed an executive order to significantly accelerate independent oversight of artificial intelligence companies and promote the creation of an "artificial intelligence off switch."In the absence of leadership from Trump and Congress, California is taking action to ensure the safety of all Americans.

According to a joint alert issued by the Japanese National Police Agency, FBI, ASD/ACSC, BND, and BfV, the North Korean-backed cyber attack organization "WaterPlum" (also known as Contagious Interview) targets job seekers by disguising itself as an AI, cryptocurrency, and NFT company to post fake job listings. This lures job seekers into downloading NPM packages containing malware such as BeaverTail, InvisibleFerret, and OtterCookie, which then steal cryptocurrency wallet information and confidential data.As of July 2026, the organization has infected over 30,000 devices in more than 100 countries and regions worldwide, stealing information from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, with the wallets under its control receiving at least approximately 1.7 billion yen (about 10.71 million USD) in cryptocurrency. The Japanese National Police Agency has discovered and dismantled a "notebook farm" established by local "supporters" for the first time in the country, where North Korean IT laborers remotely control PCs within the supporters' residences to conduct business, with the related amount involved reaching several hundred million yen.The police and FBI assess that WaterPlum and some North Korean IT laborers are under the unified command of the 313 Bureau of the Ministry of Military Industry of the Workers' Party of Korea, with the profits directly flowing into North Korea's national funding pool. The police remind IT technicians and corporate issuers to remain vigilant and avoid executing third-party code in unverified environments.

According to Gate market data, the decline of major European stock indices has widened during the trading session, with the Euro Stoxx 50 index, Germany's DAX index, France's CAC 40 index, and Italy's FTSE MIB index all dropping over 1%, while the UK's FTSE 100 index fell by 0.9%.

The Smarter Web Company announced plans to launch the UK's first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock, and its stock TSWCF has risen over 36% in the past week.

The Cardano development company Input Output Group (IOG) issued a warning on its official X account, urging users to temporarily avoid interacting with its YouTube channel. The channel began streaming a video of Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson that is suspected to have been altered by AI, discussing a cryptocurrency giveaway event, and by the time of the report, the stream had been ongoing for nearly two hours.It is reported that the live stream encourages viewers to scan a QR code and promises to "double their wealth." IOG stated in the warning, "Please avoid interacting with the IO Group YouTube channel until further notice," and advised users not to click on links in the channel, not to transfer funds, or share personal information.

According to Bloomberg, as the stock prices of companies holding cryptocurrency assets have significantly declined, retail and institutional investors are facing cumulative losses of about 50 billion dollars.Some investors are strengthening their scrutiny of governance issues such as employee compensation at related companies through shareholder actions to limit further losses.

On Friday, the Bank of Japan raised interest rates by 25 basis points as the market expected. After the announcement of the rate hike decision, the Japanese yen weakened against the US dollar and Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin, priced in US dollars, remained basically stable.

Stablecoin payment company dtcpay announced that it has received strategic investment from Japanese financial giant SBI Group, with the total amount of Series A financing expanding to 25 million USD. This round was led by Vertex Ventures, a subsidiary of Temasek, in April, with follow-on investment from Genedant Capital, which manages over 2 billion USD in assets, and continued support from Guo Liangde, the founder of Capella Hotel Group. SBI Group stated that this investment marks the beginning of a strategic partnership between the two parties, aiming to jointly expand the digital asset corridor between Japan and Southeast Asia.dtcpay is an official member of Visa and has issued a compliant stablecoin Visa card; its licensed operations cover regions such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Luxembourg, Australia, the United States, and Canada, and it continues to expand, providing compliant infrastructure for global stablecoin payments.

According to official news, Robinhood's Robinhood Ventures Fund I (RVI) participated in the $3.9 billion Series F financing of AI infrastructure company Crusoe, with an investment amount of $25 million.Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that AI infrastructure is just as important as models, and RVI investors now indirectly hold equity in Crusoe through this fund.

On-chain analytics firm Glassnode stated that publicly listed companies have only increased their holdings by 5,900 bitcoins in the past three months, while in July 2025, the monthly increase reached 89,000 bitcoins.The spot price is slightly below its average cost basis of $80,500, and corporate buyers are facing moderate unrealized losses, while the new demand provided is limited.