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Visa has invested in the AI programming platform Replit to promote the development of agentic payments and explore how developers and AI agents can directly receive payments within the platform.

According to AdaStat data, the Cardano Developer Experience Initiative has been officially approved through treasury voting. The proposal for treasury withdrawal requests related to developer tools and onboarding received 67.90% of the votes in favor, with approximately 3.72 billion ADA voting in support, while the opposition accounted for about 1.76 billion ADA, resulting in an opposition rate of 32.10%.The proposal is supported by IO Global, and following the approval of the vote, the related ecological development work will officially advance. This governance vote coincides with Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson publicly focusing on advancing ADA and the privacy blockchain platform Midnight.

According to Slow Fog's disclosure, the security agency MistEye detected a cross-registry supply chain attack incident, where attackers targeted developers in the fields of cryptocurrency, DeFi, Solana, Sui/Move, and AI by publishing malicious packages on npm, PyPI, and crates.io. This attack activity includes more than 34 malicious packages and over 384 related versions. The attackers may steal cryptocurrency wallets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, GitHub/AWS tokens, browser data, environment variables, and developers' confidential information.Some of the malicious payloads also attempted to achieve persistence through .cursorrules, CLAUDE.md, Git hooks, shell hooks, cron, systemd, and SSH. Developers are advised to immediately remove the affected packages, isolate the affected systems, retain logs, rotate exposed credentials, rebuild CI environments and developer machines from clean images, and review GitHub, cloud services, SSH, and wallet activity logs.

XRPL developer Wietse Wind has issued a latest security warning to the XRP community, stating that recent scam activities targeting Xaman Wallet users are on the rise. Scammers are currently promoting fake desktop wallet applications and counterfeit airdrop activities to lure users into connecting their wallets or downloading malicious programs, thereby stealing funds. Wietse Wind reminds users not to connect their wallets to suspicious websites and not to download any unofficial applications to avoid asset loss.

XRPL developer Wietse Wind has issued a latest security warning to the XRP community, stating that there has been an increase in scam activities targeting Xaman Wallet users. Scammers are currently promoting fake desktop wallet applications and counterfeit airdrop activities to lure users into connecting their wallets or downloading malicious programs, thereby stealing funds.Wietse Wind reminds users not to connect their wallets to suspicious websites and not to download any unofficial applications to avoid asset loss.

The AI agent toolkit Bankr developer deployer posted on platform X, stating plans to launch the Bankr fund to invest in high-quality projects within the Bankr ecosystem.It expressed hope to complete the first investment in the coming weeks and stated that it will "put real money into Bankr ecosystem projects."

Bankr developer @0xDeployer stated that they are planning to launch the Bankr fund, which will invest real funds into top projects in the Bankr ecosystem. They hope to make their first investment in the coming weeks.Recently, several high-quality AI projects in the Base ecosystem have launched tokens through the Bankr platform. Projects like LFI and GITLAWB have quickly gained market recognition, with a market capitalization exceeding $20 million.

Aave CEO Stani tweeted that the latest draft of the market structure bill in the United States has been released. This bill can provide strong legal protection for DeFi developers in the U.S., allowing them to confidently build and maintain decentralized protocols without being forced to bear heavy obligations that are only suitable for centralized models. If the U.S. successfully establishes this framework, other regions around the world will follow.Stani emphasized that regulatory clarity is more important for DeFi than yield. The passage of the Clarity Act is expected to bring significant tailwinds to DeFi, similar to what the Genius Act has done for stablecoins.

According to The Block, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee has released an updated 309-page text of the Clarity Act, which is set to be reviewed and voted on later this week. The new text includes language related to restrictions on stablecoin rewards, as well as provisions from the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act, clarifying that non-custodial developers do not fall under the category of money transmitters. Coinbase, which previously withdrew its support due to controversies over the stablecoin rewards provisions, has now shifted to support, but banking groups still believe the restrictions are insufficient.Meanwhile, the bill still does not include ethical constraints regarding profits from digital assets for the president and other federal officials. Democrats have stated that without relevant compromises, the bill will struggle to gain support.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, trader Roaring Kitty (@TheRoaringKitty), who became famous during the GameStop short squeeze, deleted a tweet related to RKC after posting it, causing the RKC price to drop by 90%. However, the RKC developer has cashed out 6,260 SOL, approximately $611,000.The developer spent 20 SOL (about $1,950) using 10 wallets to purchase 395.18 million RKC, accounting for 39.52% of the total supply, and then sold all of it for 5,071 SOL (about $495,000). The developer also collected 1,209 SOL (about $118,000) through creator fees.

According to official news, Tether has launched a developer grant program that will reward developers with USDT or Bitcoin for building localized AI and payment infrastructure. There is no total grant cap for this program, and rewards will be issued based on technical tasks and deliverables, with current individual bonuses ranging from $1,500 to $4,000.This funding focuses on Tether's open-source technology stack, including wallet infrastructure, browser extensions, e-commerce integration, and particularly supports its local AI platform QVAC. Tether stated that QVAC can run AI inference directly on the device locally, without relying on cloud servers, to reduce latency, costs, and data exposure risks.In addition, Tether will also promote the development of its Wallet Development Kit (WDK) ecosystem. This tool allows developers to directly embed self-custody wallets within applications, enabling local key generation, transaction signing, and asset transfers without relying on custodial services or third-party APIs.Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that a significant amount of infrastructure still forces developers to rely on centralized platforms and data business models, and Tether hopes to fund systems that can "run locally, hold value directly, and have no external dependencies" to enter the market.

According to The Block, Michael Selig, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that the CFTC is considering establishing rules to solidify its protective stance towards non-custodial software developers. In March of this year, the CFTC issued a no-action letter regarding the cryptocurrency wallet Phantom, indicating that it would not take enforcement action for not being registered as a broker and clarified that eligible self-custody wallet software developers do not need to register as brokers. Selig mentioned that the CFTC is seeking to formally incorporate this stance into rulemaking.Additionally, Selig reiterated that prediction markets fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the CFTC and that it will continue to sue states that violate federal jurisdiction. The CFTC has previously sued Wisconsin, Illinois, Arizona, Connecticut, and New York.

According to Techfundingnews, quantum chip development company QuantWare announced the completion of a $178 million Series B financing round, making it one of the largest financings in the field of quantum processors to date. This round was participated in by Intel Capital, IQT, and others.The company plans to use the funds to build the world's largest dedicated quantum chip factory and to increase the scale of quantum processors by about 10 times compared to current commercial products, with a long-term goal of achieving a hundredfold expansion. Founded in 2021 and originating from QuTech, QuantWare focuses on the design and manufacturing of quantum processing units (QPUs) and has supplied over 50 customers in more than 20 countries, making it one of the largest commercial QPU suppliers in the world. Unlike IBM, Google, and others that follow a self-research and self-use model, QuantWare positions itself as a neutral supplier, with its VIO platform supporting a modular "chiplet" architecture to help third-party companies scale quantum chips.The company stated that it will break through the scaling bottlenecks in packaging, wiring, and manufacturing of quantum computing through modular design and a dedicated factory with an approximately 20-fold increase in capacity, accelerating the development of the global quantum industry chain.

According to an official announcement from Animoca Brands, the company announced that it will invest up to $10 million in teams building projects using its AI agent platform, Minds.Minds is a continuously running AI agent platform that allows users to deploy and manage "sovereign" AI agents without the need to operate local servers or manage hardware and software.

The "Ethereum Applications Guild (EAG)" has officially announced its establishment as a global non-profit collaborative organization aimed at supporting the development of the Ethereum application ecosystem, promoting its expansion from the infrastructure phase to the application layer, while operating around four main directions: promoting real-world application implementation, connecting cross-domain ecological networks, establishing a unified evaluation and development framework, and building a sustainable funding mechanism. It is reported that EAG will implement a membership contribution system based on institutional scale (such as valuation, market capitalization, or AUM), and through a staking yield donation mechanism, part of the ETH staking yield will be directed into the ecological growth fund.EAG also launched the 2026 Global Applications and Developers Program, which will expand developer education, hackathons, and research projects, and strengthen local developer community building through regional roadshows and ecological showcases.

The proposer of the "Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Act," U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis, stated that concerns about the developer protection provisions of the "CLARITY Act" are not a new issue. Efforts are currently underway to improve these provisions, aiming to ensure the safety of non-fund transfer developers while holding wrongdoers accountable.

The Solana Foundation stated that its core development team Anza has reached an agreement with Firedancer, a subsidiary of Jump Crypto, on a potential post-quantum solution, planning to introduce a new digital signature scheme called Falcon.Although the threat of quantum computing is not expected to materialize for several years, Solana has developed a phased upgrade roadmap. This plan includes ongoing research into Falcon and other alternatives, introducing post-quantum solutions for new wallets when necessary, and ultimately completing the migration of existing wallets. Currently, the quantum-resistant primitive Winternitz Vault, developed by Blueshift, has been running on Solana for over two years. The Solana Foundation stated that the network's high-speed, low-latency design can accommodate such solutions, and the migration is not expected to have a significant impact on performance.

According to CoinDesk, Paul Sztorc, a developer who has long focused on Bitcoin scaling solutions, proposed a Bitcoin hard fork named eCash to be initiated in August 2026 at block height 964,000, distributing eCash to users holding BTC at a 1:1 ratio at the time of the fork, and introducing a Drivechains sidechain architecture in the new chain.The controversy mainly revolves around the plan to pre-allocate a portion of eCash corresponding to Satoshi Nakamoto's address on the new chain to early investors, a move that has drawn criticism from the community, with some individuals claiming it involves "stealing" tokens. Paul Sztorc stated that this move aims to provide incentives for development and collaboration before the project's launch.