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Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Block has updated its Bitcoin roadmap, launching several features in its products over the past year.Recently launched features include: Cash App supports purchasing Bitcoin via ACH, more readable Bitcoin addresses, paying in USD through the Lightning Network, Square merchants supporting Bitcoin payments and Tap to Pay, 5% Bitcoin cashback, increased withdrawal limits and reduced fees, and open-source mining management through Proto.Features currently under development include: automatic withdrawals to Bitkey, Coin Control, multi-account, and multi-beneficiary inheritance.

Coinbase's official market account CoinbaseMarkets tweeted that it has added Aligned (ALIGN) to the asset listing roadmap today. The related page shows that the asset is currently in the evaluation and preparation process, and the specific launch timeline is still pending further updates.Aligned is an infrastructure project focused on zero-knowledge proof verification and aggregation, aimed at reducing the cost of ZK proof verification and increasing throughput, serving Ethereum and the broader modular ecosystem. Being included in the Coinbase roadmap means that the token is expected to receive liquidity support on compliant trading platforms in the future, and the market will continue to monitor its review progress and official launch arrangements.

Broadcom fell nearly 7% during Friday's trading, as the market expressed concerns about the financing model behind its AI infrastructure expansion. Bank of America analysts estimate that the financing platform built by Broadcom for AI chip customers could accumulate up to $370 billion in preferred debt by mid-2029. Broadcom has provided guarantees for lease payments for some customers, with the first transaction guarantee amounting to approximately $29 billion.

According to Gate market data, Broadcom (AVGO.O) stock price fell by 5%, making it the stock with the largest decline among S&P 500 constituents.

According to official news, the AI Agent platform X-Agent has confirmed its participation in the WeWork AI Foundation Community Lightning Pitch to be held on August 25 in Tokyo, where it will share its latest progress in AI Agents, AI application generation, and commercialization infrastructure.The AI Foundation Community is driven by WeWork and collaborates with well-known companies in related fields such as SoftBank and NVIDIA, aiming to connect Japanese AI startups, technology teams, and enterprises with AI implementation needs.X-Agent is currently building its product system around "Natural Language Generation AI Applications + Agent Autonomous Execution." Users can describe their needs in natural language, and the platform will handle application architecture, front-end and back-end, database, and deployment processes. Meanwhile, X-Agent has recently completed deep integration with the OKX Agentic Wallet and has open-sourced the AI payment control plane xpense, providing Agents with capabilities for budget control, payment, delivery verification, and ledger recording.X-Agent stated that participating in this event is also an important step in its ongoing expansion into the Japanese market and connecting the local AI startup and enterprise innovation ecosystem.

According to The Block, New York-listed fintech company Broadridge announced that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform processed over $8 trillion in transactions in July, averaging about $365 billion per day, a year-on-year increase of 28%.DLR allows companies to use distributed ledger technology to settle repo transactions in existing trading and post-trading environments, enabling real-time financing and tokenized collateral liquidity. In addition, Broadridge also offers on-chain proxy voting and governance services, as well as digital asset infrastructure management.

Vitalik Buterin stated that he has compared the 2023 Ethereum roadmap with the current Strawmap, and while there is still a high degree of overlap in the overall direction, some priorities and technical paths have been clearly adjusted. This includes elevating the priority of quantum security, downplaying VDF and certain EVM improvements, and replacing old designs with unified binary trees, PBT, new state types, and other solutions.He pointed out that the most significant change in the current Strawmap is the emergence of several new topics not included in the 2023 roadmap, reflecting a shift in the focus of Ethereum's development. These new focal points include: stronger native privacy support, aggressive scaling in a post-quantum context, streamlined specifications for formal verification, Blob and Gas futures, native Rollup, and a more open design space around the future form of EVM.Vitalik also emphasized that Ethereum's scaling approach is shifting from "broadly scaling all activities" to "designing more easily scalable dedicated mechanisms for specific high-load scenarios," and views STARK proofs and AI-accelerated formal verification as important foundations for the protocol's future. Overall, this update indicates that the Ethereum roadmap is evolving towards quantum security, privacy-first, censorship resistance, high performance, and more simplified protocol design.

According to Gate data, U.S. stock markets opened with the Dow Jones down 0.07%, the S&P 500 down 0.02%, and the Nasdaq down 0.06%. The VIX fear index rose by 3.56%. AI concept stocks saw a general increase, with Advanced Micro Devices up 5.81%, Marvell up 4.22%, Twilio up 3.23%, CoreWeave up 2.75%, and ASML up 2.61%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones up 0.11%, the S&P 500 index up 0.32%, the Nasdaq up 0.78%, and the VIX fear index up 0.92%. AI concept stocks rose broadly, with Atlassian up 32.55%, Twilio up 20.22%, CoreWeave up 4.89%, SoundHound AI up 4.38%, and Arm up 3.95%.

According to Gate market data, on August 5, global stock markets showed mixed performance. In Asia, the Shanghai Composite Index rose by 56.15 points, an increase of 1.47%, closing at 3,878.43 points; the Shenzhen Component Index rose by 258.49 points, an increase of 1.86%, closing at 14,144.2 points; the CSI 300 Index rose by 57.22 points, an increase of 1.24%, closing at 4,658.15 points; the ChiNext Index rose by 46.18 points, an increase of 1.32%, closing at 3,535.14 points; the STAR 50 Index rose by 77.31 points, an increase of 4.78%, closing at 1,693.67 points.The Hong Kong Hang Seng Index rose by 62.9 points, an increase of 0.24%, closing at 25,915.82 points. In Europe, the German DAX30 Index fell by 83.97 points, a decrease of 0.32%, closing at 26,139.29 points; the UK FTSE 100 Index rose by 10.68 points, an increase of 0.1%, closing at 10,890.06 points; the French CAC40 Index rose by 2.67 points, an increase of 0.03%, closing at 8,669.3 points; the Euro Stoxx 50 Index fell by 7.45 points, a decrease of 0.11%, closing at 6,479.25 points; the Spanish IBEX35 Index rose by 31.2 points, an increase of 0.16%, closing at 20,054.8 points; the Italian FTSE MIB Index fell by 99.5 points, a decrease of 0.19%, closing at 53,441 points.In the US stock market, the Dow Jones Index rose by 263.06 points, an increase of 0.49%, closing at 54,348.94 points; the S&P 500 Index fell by 13 points, a decrease of 0.17%, closing at 7,723.52 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index fell by 221.55 points, a decrease of 0.83%, closing at 26,363.44 points.

Financial technology company Broadridge has partnered with Kraken's B2B infrastructure platform Payward Services to integrate its unified governance platform with the tokenized stock framework xStocks developed by the latter. This collaboration provides qualified holders of xStocks with shareholder communication and proxy voting support, allowing token holders to participate in corporate governance voting for the companies they invest in for the first time.According to the announcement, the main features include qualified holders logging into ProxyVote.com via Web3 identity verification, receiving proxy materials and shareholder communication information in a digital format, submitting proxy voting intentions for tokenized securities supported by xStocks, and obtaining a consistent governance experience between traditional securities and mainstream tokenized models. Additionally, this service is based on Broadridge's proxy voting infrastructure, offering institutional-level governance, reporting, and audit capabilities.

Yushu Technology (688836) announced that the application for its initial public offering and listing on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board has been approved by the Listing Review Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and has received registration approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission. This issuance will adopt a combination of strategic placement, offline issuance, and online issuance, with a proposed public offering of 40.4464 million new shares, accounting for 10.00% of the total share capital after the issuance. The issuer and the sponsor (lead underwriter) CITIC Securities (600030) will hold an online roadshow on August 7, 2026 (Friday) from 14:00 to 17:00, with participants being key members of the issuer's management and relevant personnel from the sponsor (lead underwriter).

According to Gate market data, the Euro Stoxx 50 index futures rose by 0.9%, the German DAX futures rose by 1.13%, and the UK FTSE 100 index futures rose by 0.34%.

According to TASS, the Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, stated that there are no restrictions on transferring cryptocurrencies from Russia to overseas for all categories of investors, but investors should be aware that such operations currently lack legal protection.

Pendle co-founder TN and Head of Growth Dan reviewed the developments in the first half of 2026 during the latest community meeting and announced the roadmap for the second half of the year. The team stated that in the first half, Pendle's ecosystem focused on building fixed income infrastructure, with Pendle V2 continuing to solidify its position as an on-chain fixed income protocol, while Boros made initial progress in the on-chain interest rate derivatives market.Data shows that Pendle V2 had an average daily TVL of approximately $1.3 billion in the first half of the year, with 9 out of the 11 major markets on the platform adopting real-world assets (RWA) as collateral, reflecting that institutional funds are continuously flowing into the RWA sector. Additionally, Pendle has launched on the Monad network and within less than a month became one of the top five protocols by TVL on that network, with a locked amount of approximately $150 million. In terms of protocol upgrades, Pendle has completed the migration from vePENDLE to sPENDLE, with about 36% of PENDLE currently staked, of which 93% of stakers have not yet unstaked. The protocol has also utilized revenue to repurchase approximately 2 million PENDLE and significantly reduced weekly liquidity incentives from about 90,000 to 21,000, further enhancing capital efficiency.At the same time, Pendle launched an in-app one-click Loop feature to simplify the operational process of leveraged yield strategies. Another core product, Boros, has surpassed $14 billion in cumulative trading volume within less than a year since its launch, with the number of users increasing by 50% since the beginning of the year. It has also introduced four-legged arbitrage strategies, acceptance of block trades, and a funding rate data dashboard to meet professional trading needs. Looking ahead to the second half of 2026, Pendle will focus on advancing curation infrastructure, allowing external teams to create PT/YT markets, and promoting PT assets as collateral for lending protocols; at the same time, it will collaborate with partners like Morpho to launch Pendle-branded yield vaults, expanding distribution channels for fixed income products. In terms of institutional business, the team is working with several RWA issuers in New York, planning to introduce tokenized ETFs, single bonds, and other on-chain yield products to Pendle, creating a platform for institutional RWA yield discovery and distribution. Boros will shift its strategic focus to cross-exchange funding rate arbitrage, prioritizing services for institutional arbitrageurs, and plans to launch a peer-to-peer acceptance market, funding rate visualization tools, and one-click strategy products for ordinary users, further improving the on-chain interest rate derivatives ecosystem.

According to BIT Official analysis, Ethereum's market dominance has climbed back above the psychological key level of 10%, and historical data shows that this signal is usually accompanied by a bullish market.In the long term, the "Lean Ethereum" roadmap plans to complete seven consecutive upgrades by 2029, aiming to create a high-speed settlement layer that includes faster final confirmation speeds, quantum-resistant cryptography, and native privacy features across the network.

According to an industry insider, President Trump has agreed to include ethical provisions in a broader cryptocurrency bill.Another source stated that the text of the bill could be released as early as Monday evening, but it is likely to be delayed until a later time, adding that the longer the wait, the more likely the bill is to gain bipartisan support.

According to official social media news, Andy Liu, head and chief analyst of HTX Research, will be a guest at the fifth session of the Huobi Celebrity Lecture today at 19:00 (UTC+8). This session is themed "Q3 2026 Outlook: Liquidity Defines the Crypto Market." Andy will delve into "The New Order of the Crypto Market Under Global Liquidity Repricing," analyzing changes in global macro liquidity, core trading logic in the Q3 crypto market, institutional capital allocation directions, and key track opportunities, helping investors grasp the key variables in the new market cycle.

According to ETNews, the South Korean government has released the "Korean Won Internationalization Roadmap," aiming to transform the Korean won from a regulated currency to a freely convertible currency and to establish an offshore Korean won settlement network.It is reported that the Bank of Korea will launch the "Offshore Korean Won Settlement Network" (tentative name), which is expected to undergo trial operation in September this year and officially start in January next year. At the same time, it will also build digital asset payment infrastructure to lay the foundation for the issuance, distribution, and trading of Korean won-denominated stablecoins, with plans to launch a pilot project next year to promote the tokenization of government bonds linked to the central bank digital currency (CBDC) of the Bank of Korea.In addition, South Korea will officially join the cross-border digital payment project "Agora," led by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and involving the central banks of eight countries.