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According to CoinDesk, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has granted a preliminary conditional federal banking charter to World Liberty Trust Company, allowing it to operate as a national trust bank and to succeed BitGo as the exclusive issuer and custodian of the USD1 stablecoin under World Liberty Financial, primarily serving institutional clients. Final approval still requires meeting additional pre-opening conditions.Due to World Liberty's partial ownership being linked to the Trump family, this move has faced strong opposition from Democratic lawmakers. Senator Elizabeth Warren and others have announced plans to introduce the "Terminate President's Bank Corruption Act," which, if passed, would prohibit senior government officials from owning or controlling banks. Notably, World Liberty Trust does not intend to become a member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and is not seeking access to a Federal Reserve master account.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Legacy vs FaZe - Esports World Cup Group B", the "Legacy" option in the sub-market "Match Winner" has experienced a drastic fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 48.5% an hour ago to the current 26.5% (a fluctuation of 22%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the win rate of the "Over" option in the sub-market "O/U 2.5 Games" for the event "Counter-Strike: BIG vs G2 - Esports World Cup Group A" on the prediction market Polymarket has experienced a sharp fluctuation, dropping from 39.5% an hour ago to the current 23.5% (a fluctuation of 16%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring on-chain data, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket market. A large whale invested $69,500.53 in the event "Counter-Strike: Vitality vs 100 Thieves (BO1) - Esports World Cup Group C," targeting the "Match Winner." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 29.54%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Counter-Strike: Luminosity vs GamerLegion - Esports World Cup Group A," the sub-market "Map 1 Round Spread: GamerLegion (-3.5) vs Luminosity (+3.5)" saw the win probability for the "GamerLegion" option fluctuate dramatically, rising from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

Market research firm Counterpoint released data indicating that in the second quarter of 2026, the NAND flash memory market by shipment volume saw Samsung, SK Hynix, and Yangtze Memory Technologies holding shares of 25%, 22%, and 14% respectively, marking the first time Yangtze Memory Technologies has entered the top three.However, based on revenue, Yangtze Memory Technologies ranks fifth in the industry, trailing behind Micron and Kioxia. The reason is that its product mix is concentrated on consumer applications, with a relatively low proportion of high-priced enterprise-grade solid-state drives for data centers.

According to CNBC, Norway's sovereign wealth fund, which has a scale of $2.34 trillion, recorded a profit of over $18.2 billion in the first half of the year, setting a historical high for the same period, with an investment return rate of 9.4%. Nicolai Tangen, CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), stated that the performance was mainly driven by the strong performance of the stock market, particularly the rise of Asian technology stocks.In the latest semi-annual report, the fund disclosed its holdings in SpaceX for the first time, with a stake of about 0.05%, valued at just over $1.2 billion as of June 30. In comparison, it holds about 1.3% of Nvidia shares, valued at $61.8 billion; and about 1.2% of Apple shares, valued at $52.7 billion. The sovereign wealth fund managed by NBIM was established in the 1990s and primarily invests the country's oil and gas revenues. Currently, the fund invests in over 7,000 companies across more than 50 countries globally, holding about 1.5% of shares in publicly listed companies worldwide. Stock assets account for more than two-thirds of its overall investment portfolio, with U.S. stocks making up about 40% of the total investment portfolio.

The Sun Wukong ecosystem will hold a deep roundtable discussion themed "When the Crypto World Fully Connects with Traditional Finance: Under the Melting Financial Boundaries, When Will the Native Crypto 'Bull Market' Reappear?" on August 11 at 8 PM at X Space.This event will focus on the era background of the accelerated integration of the crypto world and traditional finance, deeply exploring the structural changes brought by stablecoins reshaping global payment settlements and the acceleration of RWA and stock funds going on-chain. Invited industry KOLs will jointly analyze the profound impact of institutional funds and compliance channels on market game rules, as well as when and in what form the carnival bull market belonging to Web3 native cryptographers will reappear.

According to the New York Times, British businessman Guren Zhou, suspected of money laundering, purchased $100 million worth of World Liberty Financial tokens through the Aqua 1 entity, raising questions about conflicts of interest in the Trump administration.

The latest data shows that the issuance of TRC20-USDT has surpassed 91.2 billion, once again exceeding Ethereum, becoming the largest USDT issuance network in the world. Since the beginning of this year, the TRON network has cumulatively issued an additional 10 billion USDT. Currently, the number of accounts holding TRC20-USDT has reached 75.47 million, with a total of over 3.5 billion transactions. At the same time, the total number of transactions on the TRON network has recently also surpassed 15 billion.In addition, Moonpay Trade has recently integrated the TRON network, allowing users to complete network fee payments without holding TRX when trading on the TRON network.TRC20-USDT is a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar issued by Tether based on the TRON network. Its characteristics of fast transfer speed and low fees have attracted a large number of users, and it has already received support from several exchanges including Binance, HTX, OKX, Bitfinex, MEXC, KuCoin, Gate.io, and Poloniex. The TRC20 version of USDT will significantly enhance the existing decentralized application ecosystem of TRON, bringing higher overall value storage and stronger liquidity for decentralized exchanges, and providing enterprise-level partners and institutional investors with a more convenient blockchain entry.

Websea officially announces the launch of a new community representative group------Websea Star Goddess Group. The first batch of members consists of five highly representative community forces: Websea "Wave Goddess," "Star Sea Goddess," "Guardian Goddess," "Escort Goddess," and "Trust Goddess."As the core business card of the brand image and a bridge connecting global users, the Websea Goddess Group will break the boundaries between the platform and users, injecting strong vitality into global communities around core dimensions such as deep interaction, content co-creation, ecological promotion, and community building.In the future, the Websea Star Goddess Group will deeply participate in Websea Global Summit, online and offline community activities, and ecological cooperation, growing together with global users and jointly creating a next-generation Web3 trading ecosystem that is warmer, more immersive, and more inclusive.

According to ChianCatcher, the New York Times reported that the cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial (WLFI), associated with the Trump family, received a $100 million purchase of WLFI governance tokens from businessman Guren "Bobby" Zhou through Aqua 1.It is reported that Zhou was arrested in the UK in 2021 on suspicion of money laundering and is still related to an active investigation, but has not yet been charged. UK court records accuse him of participating in money laundering activities that began in 2019 along with five others. Two of his long-term employees were charged last September, one of whom has pleaded guilty. In this transaction, up to $75 million flowed to companies controlled by Trump and his son.

According to the official announcement, Gate's DEX infrastructure platform Gate DexBuilder has officially launched its first event contract Builder and initiated a $3 million funding program, open for global project parties, developers, communities, and Web3 applications to collaborate, promoting the ecological construction of the event contract market.The event contract Builder is dedicated to lowering the development threshold for market products, providing partners with integrated infrastructure services covering market creation, trading, liquidity support, settlement, and operational management. Through infrastructure services such as APIs and SDKs, partners can quickly deploy branded event contract products without building the underlying trading and settlement systems from scratch.Currently, the program is open for applications from brokers and comprehensive trading platforms, crypto wallets, Web3 applications, media information platforms, AI Trading, AI Agents, quantitative trading platforms, as well as sports, esports, and entertainment products. Selected projects can receive up to $3 million in funding and ecological resource support, covering product research and development, technical integration, liquidity building, market promotion, and user growth.Jason Fung, the project leader of Gate DexBuilder and Head of Global Partnerships, stated that the development of the event contract market requires more application scenarios and infrastructure support. Gate DexBuilder hopes to lower the construction threshold through the event contract Builder, helping more partners explore innovative applications in the event contract market. In the future, Gate DexBuilder will continue to open up the infrastructure capabilities of the event contract market, working with global Builders to explore more innovative application scenarios and promote further development of the market ecosystem.

According to Cointelegraph, Tether added 14 tons of gold in Q2 2026, bringing its total holdings to a record 146 tons, valued at approximately $18.8 billion, making it the largest known private holder of gold outside of central banks and governments.

Eric Trump, the second son of Donald Trump, criticized Bloomberg's reporting on SpaceX, claiming it has issues of "overpromising and underdelivering" and accused the reporting of being of poor quality.Eric Trump stated that SpaceX's payload mass launched to orbit in 2025 accounts for about 80% to 85% of the global total, while China's share during the same period is about 8% to 10%. He claimed that a private aerospace company has surpassed the launch capabilities of other countries worldwide, even leading the two major space powers.He also pointed out that SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket completed approximately 165 successful launches in 2025, maintaining a zero-failure record, and that the reusable boosters have achieved over 30 flights.Eric Trump believes that SpaceX has made significant breakthroughs in reducing launch costs, improving rocket reuse efficiency, and promoting the development of commercial spaceflight, and criticized some media reports for failing to accurately reflect the company's technological achievements.These remarks stem from his dissatisfaction with Bloomberg's related reporting on SpaceX, but SpaceX's actual market share, global launch proportion, and future development prospects continue to attract ongoing attention from industry organizations and analysts.

World Chain will launch a complete block access list on the mainnet on August 17, enabling this feature through a runtime flag without coordinating a hard fork across the network. The network claims it will be the first production-level L2 network to stream EIP-7928 access list data within each flashblock.This feature transmits access list data every 200 milliseconds, allowing validators to verify transactions in parallel during the block construction process. World Chain states that the upgrade aims to achieve a maximum throughput of 1 gigagas per second without increasing the hardware requirements for validators. EIP-7928 is an Ethereum upgrade proposal that introduces block-level access lists to record accounts and storage slots accessed during block execution. Internal testing by World Chain shows that when throughput rises to 1 gigagas per second on standard cloud infrastructure, validation latency remains stable.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren has requested the U.S. Department of Commerce to explain its policy towards the UAE, which involves granting the UAE-related entities more access to AI chip exports after the UAE invested in the Trump family-supported cryptocurrency project World Liberty Financial.In a letter to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, it was mentioned that an entity in Abu Dhabi invested $500 million in World Liberty Financial in January; another UAE-related company used World Liberty's USD 1 stablecoin to complete a $2 billion investment in the cryptocurrency exchange Binance. The U.S. Department of Commerce previously reclassified the UAE to Country Group A:5, allowing it to receive more license-free exports, including advanced chips. The department also stated that it would "actively review" license applications for exporting chips and servers to the UAE entity MGX involved in the $2 billion investment in Binance.Warren stated that the actions of the Department of Commerce raise significant questions about how the President's cryptocurrency business interests may affect institutional operations and national security. In June, several senators, including Warren, requested a hearing on the $500 million transaction involving World Liberty Financial.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the Trump-related World Liberty Financial treasury wallet transferred 170 million WLFI to Binance, worth approximately 9.17 million USD.The same wallet transferred another 170 million WLFI to the same Binance deposit address 29 days ago, which was worth approximately 10.22 million USD.

According to data from the multi-model aggregation platform OpenRouter, from July 27 to August 2, DeepSeek V4 Flash topped the global AI large model usage ranking with a call volume of 7.22 trillion tokens. Data from the open-source platform OpenCode shows that this model alone processed 8 trillion tokens on August 1. Four out of the top five positions are occupied by Chinese large models: Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.5 (5.1 trillion), Tencent's Hunyuan Hy3 (5.01 trillion), and another DeepSeek V4 Flash model (3.45 trillion) ranked second to fourth, while OpenAI GPT-5.6 Luna (2.99 trillion, a month-on-month increase of 738%) ranked fifth.The total call volume of Chinese large models last week reached 28.13 trillion tokens, surpassing the United States for 14 consecutive weeks, firmly holding the top position globally. The previously highly anticipated Kimi K3 fell out of the top ten this week, ranking 12th. It is noteworthy that free models are capturing an increasing share of traffic, with some models experiencing month-on-month growth exceeding 50%. Analysis indicates that domestic models have shifted from price competition to relying on inference performance and stable service capabilities, but companies like OpenAI and Anthropic continue to iterate, accelerating the internal competition and the pace of product iteration will determine user retention capabilities.