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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.

The Volcano Engine officially launched the Seedance 2.5 API. Compared to Seedance 2, the new version has significantly improved in areas such as instruction adherence, long narratives, character consistency, realism, lighting and shadow quality, and sound effects. It natively supports 30-second video output, a maximum of 50 multimodal material references, and is compatible with more than a dozen languages.

Former OpenAI research engineer Justin Wang announced that he has joined the cryptocurrency venture capital firm Paradigm as a research partner. He will collaborate with the team under the leadership of Matt Huang and Alana Palmedo to continue cutting-edge research.Justin Wang previously participated in the EVMbench project at OpenAI and has used Paradigm's open-source tools. In the short term, he is focusing on areas related to AI model measurement and evaluation, recursive self-improvement, effective AI policy, as well as network and cryptographic capabilities.

According to exclusive reports from Titanium Media, ByteDance released an internal email on July 30, announcing the integration of the Feishu product team and the Doubao product team to form a new Doubao product team, which will be unified under the leadership of Doubao head Zhao Qi, while Feishu head Xie Xin will report to Zhao Qi. In terms of the GTM system, the Feishu GTM team will integrate with the Volcano Engine team to establish a new ToB GTM organization called the "Creativity Service Platform," which will be responsible for the marketing, sales, and customer service of ByteDance's MaaS and SaaS cloud services, led by Volcano Engine head Tan Dai, with Feishu sales head Lin Chan and Feishu strategy and marketing head Shi Zhijun reporting to Tan Dai.This integration is the largest adjustment to ByteDance's ToB business since it implemented business segmentation in 2021. After the reorganization, Feishu's products and services will remain unchanged, and Feishu will collaborate more deeply with Doubao on productivity scenarios. The Doubao enterprise version, developed with deep involvement from the Feishu product team, has already begun internal testing among some Feishu clients. Feishu currently covers over 10 million enterprise users, and this integration will further enhance the integrated collaborative capabilities of the ToB business.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev posted on the X platform that his X account was hacked last week. The attacker used social engineering to deceive X customer service, bypassing standard security features such as two-factor authentication and login notifications, and posted false content about meme coins.The X security team has assisted in removing the related posts and restoring account access, and additional security measures have been implemented for the account.

According to The Block, Physical AI data engine company Axis Robotics has completed a $12 million seed round of financing, led by Hack VC, with participation from Nomad Capital, Pi Network Ventures, 10K Ventures, and others.Axis plans to build a large-scale "human-in-the-loop" global data engine to address the scarcity of training data for robots, difficulties in generalization, and compatibility issues with different hardware. Its platform covers task generation, simulation remote operation, mobile Ego data collection, and automated cleaning and labeling pipelines. Currently, it has over 100,000 active data contributors, generating approximately 1,200 hours of simulation data and 20,000 hours of real-world scenario data each month, and has established commercial partnerships with several hardware and industrial clients, including Booster Robotics and Geely Auto.

According to "AI Technology Review," China's leading large model company Zhipu has invested hundreds of millions of yuan to acquire the AI heterogeneous computing power software infrastructure company Zhongke Jiahe. This move aims to completely address Zhipu's shortcomings in the underlying engineering and compiler capabilities of large models, in response to the structural shortage of computing power and high-concurrency inference challenges caused by a surge in user numbers.Zhongke Jiahe's technology originates from the Compiler Laboratory of the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, founded by Dr. Cui Huimin. Its core team has been deeply involved in the development of compilers for several domestic chips, including Loongson, Sunway, Cambricon, and Huawei Ascend. Zhongke Jiahe's core advantage lies in its virtual instruction set technology, which can unify different brands and models of chip ecosystems through middleware software, assembling scattered domestic chips into a unified ultra-large-scale cluster, thereby significantly improving overall computing power utilization; its SigInfer inference engine is claimed by the official source to reduce the inference latency of large models by up to 74 times.Recently, Zhipu's Coding Agent business has experienced explosive growth. The newly released GLM-5.2 large model saw a 27-fold increase in daily Token call volume during its first week on the aggregation platform, leading to the exposure of systemic engineering bottlenecks in its inference infrastructure under high concurrency and long context scenarios. After being placed on the U.S. Entity List, Zhipu has actively promoted domestic alternatives and has now completed inference adaptation for eight major domestic computing power platforms, including Huawei Ascend, PingTouGe, and Moore Threads. The acquisition of Zhongke Jiahe will not only directly improve Zhipu's unit Token inference cost and output quality but also provide core underlying compiler technology support for its previously rumored self-developed custom AI inference chip plan.

According to Cointelegraph, the fintech platform MoonPay has acquired the crypto infrastructure startup Glide and will integrate its deposit and routing technology, with the financial terms of the transaction undisclosed.Glide was founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, who were both part of the Robinhood Wallet team. Glide supports over 100 tokens across 30 blockchain networks, helping applications receive deposits from various tokens, wallets, exchanges, and payment sources.After the acquisition is completed, Glide's technology will be integrated into MoonPay Deposits, a product already used by applications such as Wallet in Telegram, Moonshot, and Paysafe. MoonPay stated that this transaction is part of its efforts to expand its digital asset infrastructure capabilities. This is MoonPay's sixth acquisition announced in 2026, with previous targets including Sodot, Decent, DFlow, Entendre, and Dawn Labs. Its investors include Thrive Capital, Paradigm, Valhalla Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and Coatue.

High-performance AI-native PayFi L1 public chain AXON Finance announced the completion of a new round of institutional financing, with a total amount of 2 million USD. Among them, Infinite Alliance led the investment with 1 million USD; UZ Capital and Bluemount Foundation co-invested with 1 million USD.The funds from this round will be used to accelerate the construction of AXON L1 infrastructure and promote the launch of its first open ecosystem, the "U.S. Stock Copy Trading Engine." As the first open ecosystem of the PayFi public chain, the U.S. Stock Copy Trading Engine is supported by AXON's L1 settlement and account abstraction infrastructure, opening up the prediction platform ecosystem. AXON serves as the underlying infrastructure technology provider. Together, they form a closed loop of "prediction platform traffic diversion and AXON stablecoin yield": users can obtain stable returns by copying trades with idle stablecoins on the prediction platform through AXON L1, thereby allowing AXON to accumulate real on-chain traffic and TVL.

"On-chain detective" ZachXBT published a case analysis stating that in a cryptocurrency asset case involving an Indian scam gang, the relevant individuals reported the case to law enforcement after their assets were frozen, drawing attention. The incident began when a user sought help, claiming that approximately 5.73 BTC (about $475,000) was frozen on Changelly in March 2025.Subsequent on-chain analysis revealed that these funds could be traced back to multiple social engineering attacks and theft cases related to Bitcoin ATMs targeting U.S. users, with a total amount involved exceeding $1 million and several elderly victims. The investigation showed that the individual provided multiple changing explanations for the source of the funds, including "loan," "boss transfer," and "investment from 2014-2015," and there were significant contradictions in the evidence chain.More concerning is that this user had previously filed a police report in India in December 2025, attempting to recover the frozen funds (case number 3207-P/2025). Subsequent on-chain evidence collection and email data analysis indicated that they might be a "mule" for transferring funds, with some bank documents inconsistent with their identity information. ZachXBT noted that such cases demonstrate that social engineering attacks and cross-border fund transfers continue to occur and remind users to avoid interacting with funds from suspicious sources to prevent triggering compliance freezes or legal risks.

According to Bloomberg, the three types of investors under Michael Saylor's Strategy—Bitcoin holders, leveraged equity traders, and preferred shareholders—are all under pressure. Strategy sold 32 Bitcoins this week, marking the first sale since the end of 2022, breaking the "never sell" promise. Bitcoin has fallen to a four-month low, and Strategy's stock price has dropped about 70% from last year's peak, with STRC preferred shares falling below the $100 par value. STRC has an annualized dividend of 11.5%, and if the market continues to weaken, the pressure to pay dividends will continue to rise.Analysts point out that increasing the dividend rate will add a $1.7 billion burden, while keeping it unchanged will lead to further price declines. Strategy will vote on Monday to change the dividend to bi-monthly payments to stabilize the price. The Chief Investment Officer of Arca stated that unless Bitcoin rebounds before the cash buffer is exhausted, it will be nearly impossible to protect all stakeholders. StoneX believes that this sale indicates that Strategy can fulfill its obligations without materially reducing its holdings.

Slow Fog's Yuxian stated on platform X that incidents of search engine poisoning involving fake Codex, Claude Code, and others have recently surged. It mentioned that it has previously warned multiple times about Google search results and its own services like Google Sites being exploited by black and gray market poisoning, but Google has not taken action against such obvious poisoning methods.

In mid-2026, multiple data points indicate that AI tools are generating significant hidden costs. A survey by Entelligence AI of 2,444 companies found that for every $1 spent on AI, $0.44 is used to fix vulnerabilities, $0.27 is spent on rewriting AI-generated code, and $0.11 is consumed by audit and merge delays.The 2026 report from Lightrun further notes that 43% of AI-generated code still requires manual debugging in production environments after passing quality checks, and no surveyed engineering leaders expressed complete trust in the AI outputs that have been deployed.On the infrastructure front, Oracle has accumulated approximately $108 billion in total debt and is raising another $50 billion in 2026 for AI data center construction, with free cash flow nearing negative $13 billion. Over $300 billion of its $553 billion backlog is concentrated in OpenAI, which incurred a loss of about $14 billion last year. In terms of talent, OKX CEO Stax Xu stated that AI agents have exposed employees who rely on impression management rather than outcome production while accelerating execution. The exchange has now incorporated AI proficiency into its employee evaluation system.

The prosecution materials released by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York show that Google security engineer Michele Spagnuolo has been arrested and charged for allegedly using significant non-public information to bet on Google user search result-related markets on Polymarket.The prosecution materials state that Spagnuolo used Google internal tools to track the list of the most searched people in 2025 and transferred approximately 3.8 million USDC to a Polymarket address; his associated account AlphaRaccoon placed a bet that D4vd would become one of the most searched people in late November after accessing internal tools for several hours.The prosecution materials also state that AlphaRaccoon transferred 5 million USDC from the Polymarket account to a wallet and moved the funds through exchange services and privacy tools, with some of the funds ultimately entering an account at a payment processing institution in Italy. Spagnuolo is accused of profiting over 1.2 million dollars from the related transactions and currently faces charges of commodity fraud, telecommunications fraud, and money laundering.

The Ethereum Foundation stated that the Open Intents Framework aims to serve as a shared infrastructure for cross-chain intents, providing a modular open framework for deploying, discovering, and executing intents for the ecosystem.At the same time, LI FI announced the launch of LI FI Intents, a full-stack execution engine for same-chain and cross-chain transfers, which competes for quotes and completes order execution through a professional Solver network. LI FI documentation shows that its Intent/Solver Marketplace is one of the official foundations of the Open Intents Framework, and the Ethereum Foundation claims that the framework is entering a phase of large-scale adoption.