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According to Decrypt, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control has designated the Russian shadow banking network A7 Network as a significant transnational criminal organization, listing its relevant addresses in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, and Zimbabwe. The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network has proposed a draft rule that aims to prohibit U.S. institutions from participating in any fund transfers involving the network's "sub-agent companies," covering convertible virtual currencies and not limited to fiat currencies, which is expected to affect approximately 348,000 institutions, including several cryptocurrency exchanges.The proposal is based on six special measures granted by Section 9714 of the Countering Russian Money Laundering Act, ultimately selecting the sixth measure, which is the fund transfer ban. The fifth measure, which restricts correspondent accounts, is considered to have loopholes: research by blockchain intelligence firm TRM Labs shows that A7A5 transactions completely bypass the correspondent banking system, which the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network views as a core aspect of its business model. A7A5 is a ruble-backed token issued by Old Vector, registered in Kyrgyzstan, operating on Tron and Ethereum, with reserves held at the Russian state-owned defense bank Promsvyazbank.The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network stated that between February 2025 and June 2026, over 180 entities handled at least $17.91 billion in A7A5, which historically circulated almost entirely through the sanctioned exchanges Garantex and Grinex, often used as a non-frozen bridge to convert into USDT and then into fiat currency.

Coinbase posted on platform X that Coinbase Derivatives, LLC is a designated contract market registered with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.The risks of futures trading can be high, and each investor must assess whether this investment is suitable for themselves.

The founder of the meme coin issuance platform Long.xyz, Nate, stated in a post that this week there will be significant design space for perpetual contracts/synthetic assets, which will be combined with the platform's top trading pairs.Last week, Long.xyz launched a 1x long pool supporting tokenization for OpenAI and Anthropic, and the product was once highly hyped in the market.

Vitalik Buterin stated that the "killer application" of adversarial governance mechanism design theory may ultimately appear in the field of artificial intelligence safety. He believes there is a deep correspondence between governance mechanisms and artificial intelligence safety: both involve how "weaker principals" can achieve ideal outcomes from "stronger agents."In governance scenarios, the principal is a static algorithm, and the agent is a human; in artificial intelligence safety scenarios, the principal is humans and weaker large language models, while the agent is a stronger large language model. Vitalik pointed out that if the degree of collusion among agents can be limited, the system can achieve better outcomes, and this mechanism design conclusion may be transferable to the field of artificial intelligence safety.

B.AI platform announces that OpenAI's latest flagship model GPT-6 Astra is officially integrated into the platform API.As OpenAI's latest flagship intelligent model, Astra achieves SOTA levels in fields such as computer operations, web browsing, software engineering, cybersecurity, scientific research, and professional work. The model supports a context window of 1.05 million tokens and native multimodal input, specifically optimized for complex reasoning and long-term agent workflows.B.AI API is now open for calls, enjoying a 10% exclusive discount.

B.AI platform announces that Anthropic's latest Mythos-level general model Claude Fable 5.1 is now officially integrated with the API.This model uses the same underlying model as Claude Mythos 5.1, specifically optimized for high-intensity coding, long-term agent workflows, and complex knowledge tasks. It achieved an excellent performance of 73.4% at maximum computational intensity in the CursorBench 3.2.0 test.API access is now open, and developers can enjoy exclusive discounts—official channels as low as 15% off, and self-selected service providers as low as 40% off. B.AI continues to introduce top global models, providing developers with more powerful and cost-effective AI capability options.

tZERO has reached a series of agreements with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to help build the next generation of public securities market infrastructure. According to the new memorandum of understanding, tZERO will serve as the primary design partner for digital transfer agent and broker-dealer infrastructure, aimed at supporting ICE's upcoming on-chain settlement on the NYSE-associated tokenized securities platform.ICE has agreed to participate in tZERO's latest financing round. As part of the agreement, ICE will license tZERO's blockchain patent portfolio for the platform and other potential applications. Both parties will also explore the use of tZERO tokenized assets for collateral management at ICE's clearinghouse and affiliated institutions.

MiniMax officially launched the AI video creation tool MiniMax Design today, a Harness product built on the native multimodal video model H3. Users only need to present their creative requirements, and the system can understand the goals, break down tasks, call relevant models and Skills, and complete the entire video production process from material processing and generation editing to final delivery, without the need to switch repeatedly between multiple professional tools.MiniMax Design features a built-in Agent 3D director's platform, where users can describe scene and shot requirements in natural language, and the system can preview composition and character relationships in 3D space. After confirmation, it hands over to H3 to generate the video, moving trial and error to the storyboard phase. This product is aimed at commercial content scenarios such as brand creative testing, knowledge video production, PV/MV, etc., and can iteratively generate multiple versions in batches. Creators can also connect their local ComfyUI workflows to MiniMax Design, with the Agent assisting in adjusting nodes and parameters.

According to ChianCatcher news, GSR Content Director Frank Chaparro tweeted that Nasdaq is hiring a RWA Principal Protocol Engineer, who will serve as the primary technical author for the "Nasdaq Token Design Standard."This standard is the authoritative specification for the on-chain representation of publicly traded stocks. Responsibilities include issuance, compliance, corporate actions, chain selection, and institutional trading infrastructure. The base salary ranges from $155,000 to $287,000, plus bonuses and equity.

According to ChosunBiz, Samsung Electronics' System LSI Division has introduced Anthropic's AI programming tool Claude Code for semiconductor design and verification work, with some task cycles shortened to less than one-tenth of the original time. In the verification of data connection structures for customer-customized SoCs, work that was originally expected to take over a month was completed in two days; an engineer with two years of experience completed USB device model development and Android driver adaptation in one day using Claude Code, whereas similar work typically required a month.Samsung opened Claude Code to software developers in May this year and later expanded it to the semiconductor professional development field. The System LSI Division has about 6,000 employees, while its main competitor Qualcomm has about 52,000 employees. Samsung is trying to bridge the manpower gap with AI tools. Meanwhile, Samsung's DS Division is promoting an "AI transformation," extending generative AI from research and development to the entire business process, including production, marketing, and support. The report also pointed out that Claude has exhibited behavior in some verification tasks where it disguised erroneous information as ordinary messages or modified design code without authorization. Samsung emphasized the need for strict control and manual review of the scope and results of AI tasks.

Coinbase posted on the X platform stating that the company has designated the Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) as its international tokenization center. After obtaining the new FSRA license, the company can now offer global securities to any user with a wallet.Coinbase stated that the next frontier of global finance is the on-chain space, and the company is advancing related developments from the UAE.

According to Jinshi reports, SpaceX is collaborating with NVIDIA to design the Starmind AI1 satellite computing payload.Each Starmind satellite will be equipped with NVIDIA Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs to provide data center-level computing capabilities in space.

According to Jinshi reports, Premier Li Qiang recently signed a State Council order, announcing the revised "Regulations on the Protection of Integrated Circuit Layout Designs," which will officially take effect on October 15, 2026.

South Korean AI chip design company DeepX has completed the first transaction of its Series D financing, raising 4.2 billion won from existing investors BNW Investment Co. and DS Asset Management Co. The latest valuation is approximately 3.14 trillion won (about 2.2 billion USD), which is an increase of about 4 times compared to the previous round's valuation.

According to reporter Eleanor Terrett, Binance.US CEO Stevie Satoshi revealed at the RareEvo conference that the company plans to apply for Designated Contract Market (DCM) status with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) next month, aiming to provide users with prediction market services.

Binance announces the launch of a brand new advanced financial product, BTC Yield. BTC Yield is an open-ended yield strategy product priced in BTC, designed specifically for long-term holders who wish to explore potential yield opportunities in Bitcoin without frequent trading.BTC Yield is currently one of the first Bitcoin covered call yield products launched by mainstream cryptocurrency exchanges for both retail and institutional users, reflecting Binance's ongoing expansion from a trading platform to a broader financial super application. Shunyet Jan, head of Binance Exchange and trading operations, stated: "BTC Yield further enriches the product offerings available to users, allowing them to leverage the value of digital assets in more ways. The covered call strategy is already quite mature in traditional financial markets, but direct participation for ordinary investors usually comes with a high barrier to entry. BTC Yield simplifies this strategy, enabling Bitcoin holders who wish to gain potential yields without frequent market trading to participate more conveniently."To celebrate the launch of BTC Yield, Binance Wealth Management is offering a limited-time event, where eligible BTC Yield subscription users will have the chance to share a prize pool of 100,000 USDC.

On June 29, WEEX announced that the platform has launched the $GetRichQuick 0 transaction fee event: New users who net recharge 100 U and have their first transaction as GetRichQuick/USDT spot can receive a reward of 10 USDT; both new and existing users whose $GetRichQuick spot trading volume reaches 100 U can participate in sharing a prize pool of 10,000 USDT based on trading volume rankings; invite friends to participate in this event to earn up to 1,000 USDT in rewards. Event time: 6/26 18:00 - 7/3 18:00 (UTC+8).

10x Research analysis points out that the Bitcoin yield-enhanced exchange-traded fund BITA launched by BlackRock may have design flaws in its strategy. By generating income through selling call options, it may lead investors to underperform against spot Bitcoin in most market environments, or fail to achieve ideal absolute returns.10x Research believes that BITA executes the call option selling strategy monthly according to fixed rules, and regardless of whether Bitcoin rises, consolidates, or falls, investors may make unfavorable trade-offs between income and upside potential; its proposed framework emphasizes "timing and conditional execution," obtaining option premiums only when market conditions are favorable. The high volatility of Bitcoin mainly stems from information asymmetry among market participants and a highly marketed market environment. For a long time, many investors have attempted to capture this volatility return through systematic strategies, but most have not succeeded.

a16z Crypto General Partner Ali Yahya stated that in the previous crypto era, DAOs (Decentralized Autonomous Organizations) were undoubtedly a failed experiment, but this may simply be due to "being born at the wrong time."Ali Yahya admitted that over the past 10 years, the industry has painfully rediscovered that "direct democracy is a bad idea," as no ordinary users are willing to wake up in the morning to adjudicate risk parameters or protocol upgrades. He emphasized that with changes in the compliance landscape, the industry will regain legitimate space for experimentation, allowing exploration of representative democracy, bicameral systems, or hybrid architectures of licensed and unlicensed systems; at the same time, AI agents can fill many management responsibilities that humans are unwilling to undertake, thus allowing DAOs to truly move towards "autonomy," with the design space for the new generation of DAOs as software being limitless.