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According to GMGN market data, the market capitalization of the meme coin "Bull Coming" on BNB Chain briefly fell below 14 million USD, currently reported at 14.02 million USD, down over 51% from its peak.ChainCatcher reminds users that meme coins often have no practical use cases, and their prices are highly volatile, so investment should be approached with caution.

BNB Smart Chain (BSC) announced that the Pasteur hard fork will officially launch on the mainnet at 10:30 AM Beijing time on August 25 (02:30 UTC on August 25). Node operators need to upgrade to client version v1.7.7 in advance. This upgrade includes three improvements: BEP-682, BEP-695, and BEP-675, focusing on enhancing cross-chain security, validator governance mechanisms, and network throughput capacity.Among them, BEP-682 will strengthen the cross-chain bridge validation mechanism of the BNB Chain, preventing the risk of permission bypass caused by duplicate calculations of validator signatures, thus improving the security of cross-chain asset transfers. BEP-695 optimizes the validator key rotation mechanism, ensuring that old keys no longer retain management permissions after exiting, while also fixing potential vulnerabilities related to penalties and governance voting. In terms of performance, BEP-675 reduces the time consumption caused by validators repeatedly executing transactions by optimizing the block construction process.In the internal QANet testing environment of the BNB Chain, this solution increased throughput from 1237 TPS to 2324 TPS, while maintaining a block time of 450 milliseconds and a block limit of 100 million Gas, with the average Gas usage per block rising from 46.35 million to 84.15 million.BNB Chain stated that this upgrade is primarily aimed at validators and block builders, intending to provide greater capacity during network peak periods and to promote the throughput expansion goals outlined in the BNB Chain roadmap for the second half of 2026.

A study published at USENIX Security '26 shows that researchers identified 65,340 high-risk crypto addresses associated with abuse on Ethereum and BNB Chain, with associated native token losses amounting to 126,982.94 ETH and 17,726.7 BNB.The study estimates that the total losses associated with these addresses exceed $574.8 million, with two newly described active attack vectors directly leading to approximately $15.7 million in losses (accounting for 2.7%).The first type involves misuse of contract accounts and exploitation of deterministic contract addresses; the second type uses EIP-7702 to delegate accounts exposing keys to malicious code for direct fund transfers. The research team extracted over 16.3 million deduplicated private keys by mining 63,004 GitHub repositories from January 2015 to May 2025, with an overall detection accuracy of 99.11%.

The Agent Marketplace built on TermiX AACP, Agent.family, has supported over 250,000 ERC8004 Agents. All ERC8004 Agents registered on the BNB Chain can log in to Agent.family using their registered wallets, enabling Agents to publish jobs, negotiate, accept orders, and communicate commercially with other Agents.It is reported that TermiX is the commercial clearing layer for Agents and has received a $1 million investment from YZi Labs. Currently, the total number of Agents settled on Agent.family has exceeded 260,000, processing over 38,000 Agent Jobs, with a total transaction volume of Agent Jobs exceeding $3.5 million.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence posted on the X platform that a cluster of compromised websites has been found using ClickFix and EtherHiding technologies to spread malware, with attacks targeting thousands of enterprise and consumer devices worldwide every day.Attackers inject Base64 encoded JavaScript to connect to the BNB Smart Chain RPC gateway, obtaining the next stage instructions stored by smart contracts. Since the contract content can only be modified by the deployer's wallet, traditional takedown methods are difficult to counter. The attack deceives users into opening a run dialog box with fake verification codes, pasting clipboard content, and executing commands from the attacker, while also involving the abuse of various system tools such as conhost, cmd, PowerShell, and mshta, as well as command obfuscation techniques. Successful execution may lead to credential exposure, persistence establishment, lateral movement, and even ransomware attacks.Microsoft recommends that enterprises enable Defender's multi-layer protection, restrict command line tools, enable PowerShell script logging, and remind users not to paste commands from unknown sources into the run window or terminal for execution.

According to Globenewswire, Grayscale announced that it has completed the regular rebalancing of its multi-asset digital asset fund for the second quarter of 2026, adjusting the asset weights for the DeFi fund, smart contract fund, and decentralized AI fund.The DeFi fund DEFG Fund sold Uniswap (UNI) and reallocated the proceeds according to the existing fund component weights. As of August 3, the DEFG Fund's holdings include: UNI 34.16%, Ondo (ONDO) 25.44%, Aave (AAVE) 19.97%, Ethena (ENA) 12.19%, Curve DAO Token (CRV) 4.42%, Lido DAO (LDO) 3.82%.The smart contract fund GSC Fund sold some existing assets according to index rules and used the funds to buy BNB, making BNB the largest asset allocation in the fund at 30.6%. Other major holdings include Ethereum (ETH) 29.47%, Solana (SOL) 29.15%, Cardano (ADA) 4.88%, Hedera (HBAR) 2.08%, Avalanche (AVAX) 1.92%, and Sui (SUI) 1.9%.The decentralized AI fund sold NEAR Protocol (NEAR) and reallocated funds according to the existing asset proportions. As of August 3, the fund's holdings include NEAR 31.35%, Bittensor (TAO) 29.15%, Render Token (RENDER) 21.59%, and Filecoin (FIL) 17.91%.

BNB Chain announced a joint "Build the Era" Agent Marketplace hackathon with TermiX, Binance Pay, PancakeSwap, etc., aimed at building the official BNB Agent Studio marketplace, thereby facilitating the discovery, comparison, and hiring of over 200,000 Agents on BNB Chain.It is reported that TermiX is the leading Agent commercial clearing layer on BNB Chain, having received a $1 million investment from YZi Labs. In this hackathon, TermiX participates in supporting the construction of the official BNB Agent Studio marketplace on BNB Chain, helping developers create a discoverable, comparable, and hireable Agent marketplace.Recently, TermiX launched Agent.family based on AACP, focusing on enabling AI Agents to achieve secure on-chain job postings, bidding, delivery verification, and settlement, building a true infrastructure for the autonomous economy of Agents.

On August 5, 2026, BNB Chain officially launched the Build the Era open hackathon, aimed at individual developers and teams, soliciting proposals for building the best AI Agent trading market on the BNB Smart Chain. Currently, over 200,000 AI Agents based on the ERC-8004 standard have been registered on the BNB Smart Chain, accounting for about 60% of the total number of similar Agents across 26 networks, but there is a lack of a unified entry point for discovery, comparison, and invocation. This hackathon aims to fill this discoverability gap.The total prize pool for this hackathon exceeds $40,000, jointly provided by BNB Chain and ecosystem partners such as TermiX, PancakeSwap, AltLayer, and Altana. Among them, the champion of the main track from BNB Chain will receive a reward equivalent to 30,000 USDT and have the opportunity to be officially adopted as the trading market for BNB Agent Studio, incubated and operated as an independent product. TermiX has set aside a partner track prize of 10,000 USDT, PancakeSwap offers 1,000 CAKE, AltLayer provides the 8004scan Pro solution and AltLLM credits, and Altana offers 50,000 XP.The submission period for works is from August 5 to September 9, with the evaluation period from September 9 to 23, and the winners will be announced on November 5. BNB Chain reminds developers to build markets around four types of Agents: monitoring, grid trading, health factor management, and yield optimization, and suggests that the market should have cross-category coverage capabilities.

According to Token Terminal data, the market value of tokenized U.S. Treasury bonds has reached $15.2 billion, covering 18 chains. Ethereum accounts for 43.2%, BNB Chain for 31.5%, and Stellar for 7.5%. Nearly three-quarters of tokenized U.S. Treasury bond issuance is on Ethereum and BNB Chain.

BNB Chain posted on platform X stating that a wallet address was previously created by a former employee and was used by them to issue a token (Meme coin TST) as part of a video tutorial.The employee is no longer employed by the company due to this incident. After leaving, the employee retained unauthorized access to the relevant seed phrase and used it to generate a new private key.BNB Chain has now learned that the same address is being independently used for activities related to a new Meme token (Meme coin ASTEROID on BNB Chain).BNB Chain did not create, authorize, promote, or participate in the issuance of this token and has no control over the token or wallet address. These are unrelated to BNB Chain and have not been endorsed by BNB Chain.BNB Chain is taking legal action against the former employee and is cooperating with relevant government agencies regarding this matter.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD, in collaboration with Gate DEX, has launched a new dual-chain bonus yield activity, which will last until August 29 at 18:00 (Singapore time). Participants on the Ethereum chain can earn a current base annual yield of 4% and share an additional reward of 20,000 USDD; participants on the BNB network, in addition to enjoying the same base yield, can also share a reward of 30,000 USDD and a special yield bonus provided by Gate DEX.Users can enter the Gate DEX yield section and participate in the stablecoin bonus activity page by following the path "USDT to USDD, then stake as sUSDD." Rewards will be calculated in real-time based on the staking share. Users who participated in the previous activity do not need to take further action and will automatically connect to this activity; new users need to prepare enough ETH or BNB in advance to pay for on-chain transaction fees.

The decentralized asset management protocol Swan Treasury on BNBChain suffered a loss of approximately $625,000 due to a private key leak. The attacker forged a valid signature using their own address to purchase STY at a 100x discount and bought approximately 687,000 STY with about 19,700 USDT through a PancakeSwap flash loan.Subsequently, they forged claim() and transfer signatures on a brother contract, dumping STY into the STY/USDT pool and profiting approximately 625,000 USDT. Each ecrecover in the transaction was resolved to an exact hardcoded signer, confirming that the key itself had been leaked, rather than a flaw in the signature logic.

Binance founder CZ responded on the X platform to the recent controversy regarding Giggle Academy selling donation tokens, stating that he personally "has not communicated with the Giggle team regarding the recent sale," and that the address is not managed by him personally. He pointed out that Giggle Academy has a practice of "exchanging most donation tokens for BNB at the end of each month" to fund free education programs for children worldwide, which have benefited over 1 million children in less than two years.CZ further stated that when sending or donating tokens to others, if there is no prior agreement, one should not expect the recipient to act according to the donor's wishes (such as destroying the tokens), as "that would only add extra work for the recipient." He emphasized that "if it is called a donation, one should expect them to use it," and questioned, "if one expects them to destroy it, how can it be called a donation?" Additionally, CZ expressed support for all meme coins and revealed that "he may buy or sell one or two (meme coins) in the coming weeks to test some new things."

Binance announced that it will support the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network upgrade and hard fork.To accommodate this arrangement, the platform will suspend deposits and withdrawals for this network starting from July 30, 2026, at 05:55 (UTC), and wallet maintenance will begin at 06:00 (UTC), expected to last for about 1 hour.

According to official news, BNB has officially launched on Futu NiuNiu. Futu NiuNiu is also the first licensed broker in Hong Kong to provide BNB order book trading pairs, offering investors transparent and real-time trading data. Qualified professional investors in Hong Kong can trade BNB instantly within a compliant framework.

According to on-chain analyst Specter, the B² Network on the BNB Chain suffered a hack, resulting in a loss of approximately 8.591 million B2 tokens (about 3.86 million USD). The attacker exchanged it for 5,409 WBNB (about 3.11 million USD) and then cross-chained to Ethereum, currently transferring the funds to Zcash via NEAR Intents.The team subsequently contacted the attacker on-chain, stating that if they could return at least 10% of the stolen funds (about 386,000 USD) to the official address within the next 24 hours, the team would consider it a good faith gesture and would not initiate legal proceedings.

Midnight Foundation posted on platform X that the Wanchain Cardano BNB cross-chain bridge has experienced a security attack. Currently, several major exchanges, including KuCoin, Kraken, Binance, Bybit, OKX, and MEXC, have quickly responded by taking preventive measures to restrict the flow of stolen assets, including freezing related accounts and addresses, blacklisting the attacker’s wallet, and suspending the deposit and withdrawal services for the NIGHT token.Exchanges have confirmed that this incident is an isolated third-party bridging vulnerability and is unrelated to the Midnight Network mainnet and the NIGHT asset itself.

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.

The BNB Foundation announced that the BNB Chain has completed the 36th quarterly BNB burn, which is also the third quarterly burn of 2026. A total of 1,615,827.795 BNB was burned this time, valued at approximately $932 million based on the price at the time of the burn. As of the time of this publication, the total remaining supply of BNB is 133.17 million.This burn was executed through the BNB automatic burn mechanism, which is independent of the Binance centralized exchange and will gradually reduce the total supply of BNB to 100 million.