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Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine, stated in an interview that in the era of artificial intelligence, the vision and judgment of company founders are more important than ever. What truly drives company development is not asking questions to AI, but the ability to create a future direction.The existence of OpenAI is inseparable from Sam Altman's vision; the development of Anthropic and AI-related companies under Elon Musk is similarly dependent on this. The core value of these founders lies in proposing long-term strategies and directions, rather than simply asking their AI models what to do next.Tom Lee also categorizes Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev in the same group, believing that he is leading a company in a rapidly growing market, a market that is growing even faster than the overall economy. Vlad Tenev is also one of the important reasons he is optimistic about Robinhood stock.Tom Lee believes that in the AI era, while technology itself may gradually become widespread, the ability of founders to define market direction and drive organizational execution will still become a long-term competitive advantage for companies.

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According to data from DefiLlama, Robinhood Chain's DEX trading volume in the past 24 hours exceeded $503 million, ranking fifth across all chains, only behind Solana, Ethereum mainnet, BNB Chain, and Base.

According to a report by Reuters, Robinhood's second venture capital fund, Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII), has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange, allowing ordinary investors to participate in investing in unlisted startups. RVII opened at a price of $22.5 on the New York Stock Exchange, raising approximately $225.5 million.The second fund will focus on existing and former participants of the Y Combinator startup accelerator program, which has funded over 5,000 companies since 2005, including 100 "unicorn" companies. Notable investments from Y Combinator include the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, the social media platform Reddit, and the developer of ChatGPT, OpenAI.

The head of Robinhood's crypto department, Johann Kerbrat, recently accepted an interview on threadguy's podcast.In the interview, Kerbrat stated: "Compared to other blockchains, one of our key differences is that we only launched the chain, not a token. For us, the blockchain is a pure technology, the infrastructure that supports all our new businesses. We do not need to constantly adjust our strategic priorities to maintain the rise or stability of token prices. This avoids significant disruptions and is a huge advantage for us."

According to official news from Robinhood, Robinhood Ventures Fund II (RVII) announced the pricing of its initial public offering, issuing 8 million shares of common stock at a price of $25 per share. The total size of the fund is $225.5 million (before deducting sales expenses and issuance costs), and if the underwriters fully exercise the option to purchase an additional 1.2 million shares, the size could reach up to $255.5 million.Shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on August 13, with the stock ticker RVII, and the issuance is expected to be completed on August 14. Goldman Sachs is serving as the lead bookrunner for this offering, with Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, UBS Investment Bank, and Wells Fargo Securities as co-bookrunners.

According to The Block, Robinhood's nominal cryptocurrency trading volume in July decreased by 33% month-over-month and by 62% year-over-year to $10.9 billion. Among them, the nominal cryptocurrency trading volume on the Robinhood app decreased by 74% year-over-year to $4.3 billion, while Bitstamp's trading volume decreased by 45% to $6.6 billion.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro has been updated to API, with the model name unchanged. The new version significantly enhances Agent capabilities, supporting Responses API and Codex integration. The API documentation shows that the official version of V4 Pro is priced at 3 yuan per million Token input and 6 yuan per million Token output, with cache hit input costing 0.025 yuan per million Token.Benchmark tests for the official version of DeepSeek V4 Pro show that its score in the terminal Agent test Terminal Bench is 87.9 points, approaching Fable 5's score of 88 points. In the AI safety agent evaluation benchmark CyberGym, as well as in the challenging agent evaluation benchmark AutomationBench, its performance even surpasses that of Fable 5.

According to The Block, the average daily trading volume on Robinhood Chain rose to 11.6 million last Sunday, setting a new historical high, an increase of about 30% compared to the previous week; the total value locked (TVL) on the chain increased to $473 million, a weekly increase of 32%.However, the number of daily active accounts grew only 3.3% week-on-week and is still 11% lower than the peak on July 16, indicating that the growth in trading and funds mainly comes from existing users rather than new users.

According to The Defiant, Cole Villemain, the co-founder of the well-known NFT project Pudgy Penguins, who was voted out by the community, launched a series of 44,000 NFTs named Spritehood on Robinhood Chain on August 11, selling out in less than an hour.According to on-chain statistics of minting transactions by analyst 0xlaplaced, this sale generated approximately $1.2829 million (equivalent to about 684.28 ETH at the minting price), higher than the approximately $755,000 figure circulating during the sale, which was a snapshot taken while the sale was still ongoing. According to the statistics, the paid sale lasted about 53 minutes, during which 37,430 pieces were sold for $17 each, and 5,526 pieces were sold for $117 each. Before the paid sale began, the deploying party also distributed 1,488 pieces for free through 20 zero-price transactions.Reports indicate that the Spritehood contract itself is displayed as unverified source code on the Blockscout browser of Robinhood Chain, preventing buyers from reviewing the public code regarding its token pricing and distribution mechanism. Cole Villemain was voted out of the founding team by the Pudgy Penguins holder community in January 2022, accompanied by accusations of misappropriating project funds, but the related accusations have remained at the level of allegations, and Villemain has not been prosecuted as a result.

According to data from DefiLlama, Robinhood Chain's DEX trading volume exceeded $650 million in the past 24 hours, ranking fourth across all chains, only behind Solana, BNB Chain, and the Ethereum mainnet.

According to a report by Fortune, OpenAI Chief Financial Officer Sarah Friar stated that AI can help finance teams identify issues more quickly, optimize forecasts, and enhance decision support capabilities, but it cannot replace human judgment, accountability, and financial rigor.She pointed out that OpenAI is building an "AI-native" financial system, with goals including achieving "zero-day closing" and continuously updating forecasts, and suggested that companies restructure processes around decision-making to enhance efficiency while strengthening control and accountability mechanisms.

According to the disclosure from the Common platform, Sushi DAO has released an RFC proposal to comprehensively restructure the SUSHI token economic model. The proposal suggests replacing the current xSUSHI fee distribution mechanism with a more balanced framework, specifically including: reducing the xSUSHI buyback scale to a sustainable level, establishing a protocol reserve (SUSHI Reserve) through weekly regular purchases of SUSHI, and allocating the remaining protocol revenue to Sushi Ops for operations and growth.In addition, the proposal also plans to migrate part of the protocol liquidity deployment to the Robinhood Chain. Currently, the proposal is in the RFC (Request for Comments) stage, pending community discussion and governance voting.

According to GMGN data, the market value of the Robinhood Chain ecosystem project StonkBrokers (STONKBROKER) briefly surpassed $92 million, currently reported at approximately $91.43 million, with a daily increase of over 18%. StonkBrokers is an NFT + DeFi composite project launched by the Web3 team Clutch Labs, aimed at allowing NFTs to have independent on-chain wallets through ERC-6551 token binding account technology, and creating an on-chain "stock broker" combined with a tokenized stock reward mechanism.The project issues 4,444 pixel-style NFTs, each bound to an independent on-chain account, and can hold tokenized stock assets including Tesla, Amazon, Palantir, AMD, and others. After users activate the NFT, they can receive stock token rewards converted from protocol trading fees. The StonkBrokers ecosystem includes products such as Anvil NFT AMM, Stonk Launcher, and the planned Stonk Exchange, with the token STONKBROKER usable for NFT trading, activation, and future ecosystem governance.Market Reminder: Meme coins and emerging ecosystem tokens are highly volatile, and rapid increases or corrections may occur in a short time. Please pay attention to liquidity and holding risks.

OpenAI announced the expansion of its cybersecurity defense program Daybreak and launched the GPT-5.6-Cyber model specifically for the cybersecurity field, aimed at helping authorized security researchers and defense teams enhance their vulnerability discovery, threat analysis, and security testing capabilities. As attackers increasingly leverage AI to launch faster and larger-scale cyberattacks, defenders need to gain advanced AI capabilities in advance.This Daybreak offers two types of access: Daybreak Blue is aimed at most defense teams, providing general models such as GPT-5.6 Sol for vulnerability discovery, secure code review, malware analysis, incident response, and patch validation; Daybreak Red is aimed at advanced security research, providing GPT-5.6-Cyber for authorized vulnerability research, vulnerability validation, and security testing. GPT-5.6-Cyber is trained on GPT-5.6 Sol and optimized for cybersecurity tasks, including discovering zero-day vulnerabilities and analyzing exploit chains. It has been used in actual vulnerability research and has identified high-risk vulnerabilities in software, including the Chrome V8 JavaScript engine. Additionally, OpenAI stated that GPT-5.6-Cyber has also helped discover high-risk vulnerabilities in various domains, including privilege escalation vulnerabilities in mobile operating systems, remote code execution vulnerabilities in databases, and hundreds of privilege escalation vulnerabilities in operating system kernels.OpenAI also emphasized that Daybreak Red will only be accessible to approved individuals and organizations, controlling access through measures such as authentication, account security, monitoring, usage restrictions, and legal disclaimers. The company stated that it will continue to strengthen security monitoring, access management, and model security testing to reduce the risk of advanced cybersecurity models being abused.

Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine and Co-founder of Fundstrat, stated that the blockchain project Robinhood Chain launched by Robinhood has become the "biggest success story" in the crypto industry for 2026, being a groundbreaking project in terms of cumulative trading volume, total value locked (TVL), and potential market size.Lee pointed out that the biggest advantage of Robinhood Chain lies in its massive user base. Robinhood (HOOD) is opening this service to its approximately 27 million users, which itself constitutes a huge potential market. Ethereum (ETH) has also been continuously developing in recent years, although its growth has been relatively low-key, gradually expanding its application scope mainly through stablecoin settlements and crypto payments and asset purchases on platforms like Shopify.He believes that directly connecting 27 million Robinhood users to the Ethereum economic system will have a significant impact on the crypto industry, likely further promoting the expansion of blockchain applications from native crypto users to mainstream financial users. The success of Robinhood Chain is not only reflected in its technological aspects but, more importantly, in its ability to connect traditional financial users, trading platforms, and the Ethereum ecosystem, potentially becoming an important case for the mainstream adoption of crypto assets.

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 the official announcement, Robinhood has launched cryptocurrency trading services for UK investors, offering trading of over 50 crypto assets including Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, and Hyperliquid through Bitstamp UK, with zero trading fees and no account management or custody fees. This service will be integrated into Robinhood's existing app, alongside products such as stock ISAs, options, and futures.Robinhood also launched the AI analysis tool Cortex Digests, which uses generative AI to analyze news, market data, and technical indicators, providing investors with concise interpretations of cryptocurrency price fluctuations. Since the global launch of Robinhood Chain on July 1, DEX trading volume has exceeded $18 billion, and total locked value has surpassed $840 million. UK developers can build applications on this Layer 2 chain. Cryptocurrency trading is provided through Bitstamp UK and is not protected by FSCS or FOS, with trading involving the risk of principal loss.

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