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Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali stated that the Satoshi Upgrade I hard fork has been successfully completed, and the network's level of decentralization has further improved with the launch of the new signer.Regarding Binance's "Observation Label," there are currently no concerns about delisting risks or liquidity, but we still need to wait for the next round of formal assessment.

According to Techtimes, AI model evaluation company Vals AI completed a $40 million Series A funding round with a valuation of $400 million, led by a16z, with participation from 8VC, Pear VC, Bloomberg Beta, as well as new investors HRT Ventures and Next Ladder Ventures.Vals AI uses an independent system to evaluate cutting-edge models launched by companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, and xAI, rather than using traditional public benchmark tests. The new funding will be used to expand evaluation infrastructure and launch testing tools for creating programming benchmarks based on enterprise GitHub code repositories.

According to The Elec, Samsung Electro-Mechanics' investment schedule for semiconductor glass substrates has been delayed due to bottlenecks in the reliability assessment of customer prototypes. As a result, the construction schedule for the production line of GlaSSEM, the glass core joint venture between Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Dongyu Fine Chem, has also been postponed, and the timeline for ordering related equipment has become uncertain.The report states that GlaSSEM has failed to communicate the equipment order schedule to its partner manufacturers. Previous orders have been postponed from December last year to March and June this year, and this has happened more than three times. After June, no further schedule guidance has been provided. Industry insiders believe that the main reason is that global communication semiconductor customers have not passed the reliability assessment certification for glass substrate prototypes. Samsung Electro-Mechanics is still producing prototypes at its Sejong plant, and most of the suppliers for key processes required for building the mass production line, such as deposition, etching, laser drilling, and inspection, have already been selected.Since the prototypes need to be remade and resubmitted, the originally planned investment schedule will inevitably be further delayed. Samsung Electro-Mechanics had set a target for mass production in the second half of 2027 when establishing GlaSSEM earlier last month, but during last month's financial report meeting, this timeline was adjusted to 2028, and now the mass production time is expected to be further postponed.

Harmony stated that it is collaborating with internal teams and relevant exchanges to attempt to stop and freeze the flow of related funds. A patch and rollback plan are also being developed. Further information will be updated in a timely manner.

Iran's state television quoted a senior advisor to the Supreme Leader, stating that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until relevant conditions are met.

The EVAA Protocol (EVAA) is launched on Bitget PoolX, where users can lock up XAUT to share 70,000 EVAA airdrops, with a personal lock-up limit of 300 XAUT. The lock-up period is from August 12, 22:00 to August 18, 22:00 (UTC+8).In addition, during the event, users with a positive net recharge amount of XAUT can receive a 3% XAUT financial interest coupon after the event ends; users who participate in PoolX for the first time and meet the net recharge conditions can receive a 12% XAUT interest coupon. For more details, please refer to the official Bitget platform.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted that only 2.6% of miners signaled support for BIP-110, which failed to gain widespread support. At block 961,632, its nodes will reject non-signaling blocks. Subsequently, BIP-110 will stagnate or fork into an insignificant existence, while Bitcoin will continue to operate normally. Bitcoin is functioning as designed.BIP-110 is a temporary soft fork proposal that plans to introduce 7 consensus restrictions over an effective period of about one year, including limiting the length of new script public keys, the size of certain pushed data and witness items, disabling certain Taproot extension paths, etc., in order to significantly reduce arbitrary non-payment data that can be embedded in transactions, such as inscription runes, thereby reducing node burden, suppressing junk data, and allowing Bitcoin to focus more on its monetary use.

The cryptocurrency hardware wallet manufacturer Coldcard has released an update on its customer data retention policy. Due to legal compliance requirements arising from the security incident disclosed on July 30, the company has temporarily suspended its original automatic customer data deletion mechanism.Previously, Coldcard's standard practice was to automatically clear customer records after 120 days, retaining only the user's email address and country information, while allowing customers to request early deletion of data at any time after product delivery. Coldcard stated that due to the security incident involving ongoing and potential legal proceedings, the company is obligated to retain records that may be relevant to litigation. Therefore, customer data that was originally scheduled for deletion will be temporarily retained until the law permits the resumption of normal processes.However, users can still request Coldcard to handle their personal information according to the original data retention policy. If users wish for their data not to be included in this legal retention scope, they can contact official customer service to make a request. Coldcard emphasizes that the retained data will be strictly protected, accessible only to authorized personnel, and will not be used for any purposes other than fulfilling legal obligations. The company will restore the previous automatic data deletion mechanism once legally permissible.

According to CoinDesk, RedotPay responded to the lawsuit filed by Binance, stating that it will actively defend itself. The company stated in a statement that it is aware of the legal proceedings initiated by Binance and will mount a strong defense against all allegations, denying the related accusations against the company and its co-founders, claiming that these allegations are baseless.Previously, Bloomberg reported that a Binance-affiliated entity filed a lawsuit in Hong Kong against RedotPay's co-founder, accusing him of breaching the agreement by directing over 470,000 Binance users to the RedotPay platform, resulting in approximately $473 million in losses. Binance stated in the lawsuit that it discovered in March 2026 that RedotPay allowed and encouraged the use of Binance Pay funds for unauthorized purposes without isolation, including recharging the RedotPay card. Binance's Chaintecs also filed a lawsuit against RedotPay affiliates in Singapore, with a related hearing scheduled for this Friday.Public information shows that Binance and RedotPay first reached a commercial cooperation in November 2023, which was terminated less than six months later due to Binance's claim that its funds were used for recharging RedotPay prepaid cards. The two parties reached a second agreement in March 2025, requiring Binance funds to remain isolated, allowing Binance users to exchange cryptocurrencies for fiat currency on RedotPay, conduct in-app transfers, and purchase RedotPay branded merchandise, but not to recharge the RedotPay card. Binance terminated the agreement in April 2026, stating it was part of a merchant partner review. RedotPay had previously planned to go public in the U.S. with an estimated valuation of about $4 billion, intending to raise over $1 billion.

According to Jinshi reports, Israel has requested residents of southern Lebanese towns to evacuate.

According to Gate market data, Zhongwei Company's stock price has risen over 10%. Media reports indicate that South Korea's Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are evaluating chip manufacturing equipment from China's Zhongwei Semiconductor, considering using it in their factories in China.

According to Jinshi reports, the White House does not plan to publicly release its new framework for evaluating advanced artificial intelligence models; relevant details will only be provided to companies participating in the process. Companies, policymakers, researchers, and U.S. allies that are not involved in the process will not be able to understand how the government plans to implement one of its key artificial intelligence policies.The White House held a meeting with industry representatives to discuss the recently completed framework, and companies that were not invited to the meeting still do not understand the content of the framework.

According to The Block, the Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4 billion in transactions since May 2024 and serves as a hub connecting Iranian gambling websites, the Central Bank of Iran, and entities related to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.At least $676 million has been transferred from addresses associated with Shelbit to Binance, including approximately $540 million that was transferred after Dubai regulators fined the unlicensed exchange in January 2025. The report could not independently determine who controls Shelbit within the Iranian government, nor could it ascertain whether the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps directly operates the broader network.

According to Jinshi reports, due to the expectation that the situation in the region may escalate, the U.S. air force base in Bahrain is undergoing evacuation.

According to Jinshi reports, on August 1 local time, the U.S. Embassy in Israel issued a security warning, stating that the situation in the Middle East remains tense, the security environment is complex, and there is an unpredictable risk of escalation. The warning pointed out that U.S. citizens in the region should remain cautious, stay vigilant, and be prepared for possible flight cancellations, airspace closures, and travel disruptions.Some airlines have delayed the resumption of flights, and other routes have been canceled. The embassy emphasized that U.S. citizens should consider evacuation or be ready to evacuate at any time.

According to CoinDesk, the unlicensed cryptocurrency trading platform Shelbit in Dubai is suspected of being at the center of a $4 billion network for evading Iranian sanctions and is accused of handling millions of dollars in cryptocurrency funds for a large illegal gambling network.Shelbit is operated by Iranian expatriate Siavash Kayvanpour, who is suspected of transferring hundreds of millions of dollars through major cryptocurrency platforms and providing access to global markets for the Central Bank of Iran and other sanctioned entities.U.S. and independent investigators indicate that the operation appears to be closely linked to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, but it has not been confirmed whether they directly control Shelbit or the related gambling network.

According to Jinshi reports, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that the company is evaluating all options regarding memory supply to find alternative component suppliers.

The tokenized asset company Ondo Finance is evaluating a potential acquisition deal, with a valuation range of $250 million to $500 million. According to insiders, the company has not yet appointed formal advisors and is considering expansion through mergers and acquisitions.In 2026, trading activity in the cryptocurrency sector remains active, with tokenization and institutional infrastructure being the acquisition directions of interest for companies seeking to scale.

According to i24NEWS, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has imposed sanctions on Gulf Maritime Insurance Company and HormuzSafe Maritime Services Administration, which provide insurance policies approved by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for commercial vessels passing through the Strait of Hormuz and accept payments in digital assets such as Bitcoin to evade sanctions.OFAC also sanctioned eight vessels of a shadow fleet transporting Iranian crude oil and petroleum products and their affiliated companies, including Well Sail, Lily, Al Salmi, Breeze V, Natsumi, Crystal, Nireta, and Yehope. Since the beginning of this year, OFAC has sanctioned over 100 vessels related to the Iranian shadow fleet.

Justin Ryan Schmidt, the founder of the cryptocurrency investment fund Translunar Crypto LP, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison by a U.S. court for tax evasion. The U.S. Department of Justice stated that the 46-year-old Schmidt pleaded guilty this year in federal court in Austin, Texas, where he was accused of underreporting income, declaring less than $5,000 in income from 2020 to 2022, while prosecutors claimed he actually earned over $7 million through fund operations from 2019 to 2022.It is reported that Schmidt founded Translunar in 2017, primarily investing in blockchain startups, with funding mainly coming from investors in the Austin area of Texas and Aspen, Colorado. He was arrested by the IRS Criminal Investigation Division on February 23, 2026, and has been in custody since then.