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According to CCTV Finance, a very rare scene this week is that Jensen Huang teamed up with six Wall Street asset management giants to endorse "making AI computing power an independent asset class." Analysts believe this is Jensen Huang practicing the concept of token economics he proposed, and it also marks that the AI boom is extending from a technological competition to a capital competition.However, the latest plan has also raised investors' concerns about "revolving financing" and debt risks. In response to the doubts, Jensen Huang once again personally stepped in to calm the market. He stated that Nvidia might "provide up to 25% residual value support mechanism for individual investment projects" and will carefully evaluate each project. After that, market sentiment was slightly alleviated.

According to CoinDesk, the Pokémon trading card market is currently estimated to be between $10 billion and $15 billion, leading to queues at retailers like Costco. A Pikachu Illustrator card owned by Logan Paul once sold for $16.5 million.Sales at large chain stores like Target and Walmart, along with eBay's projected card sales of $26.2 billion in 2025, indicate that trading cards have become an important alternative asset class, recently outperforming the S&P 500 index and Bitcoin.The blockchain startup Deadstock, launched by ATH Labs, is attempting to tokenize high-grade cards and store them in a vault to address issues of market fragmentation and slow transaction speeds. The project still faces liquidity challenges and the network effect advantages created by existing platforms like eBay.

ChianCatcher news, well-known crypto KOL katexbt tweeted that HyperEVM is a huge failure, with 13 out of 18 HyperEVM projects being a complete waste of time.Specifically, this includes 2 that have been delayed (felix, hyperbeat), 7 that are dead (hyperdrive, hypurr, liminal, hyperstablex, looped, laminar, sentiment), 3 that have achieved nothing after TGE (hyperlend, hyperswap, kittenswap), 1 that is still pending but will be delayed (valantis), 1 that had a decent early participation (harmonix), 1 that might still be good (unit / tradexyz), and only 3 that are performing decently (Markets / Kinetiq, ProjX, and Nest).

According to Decrypt, a volunteer security team stated that it scanned 150 Bitcoin code repositories using cutting-edge artificial intelligence models and discovered a dozen vulnerabilities. The team has built multiple AI-based review systems, targeting wallets, cryptographic libraries, infrastructure, and other Bitcoin projects. Team members claim that, on average, each person can find about one serious vulnerability per hour, and in the past 12 hours, they have submitted security reports to multiple projects, but specific affected projects have not yet been made public.

The Bitcoin security organization Bitcoin Red Team, composed of 16 volunteers, stated that during a rapid AI-assisted review of Bitcoin ecosystem projects, nearly 5,000 potential issues were discovered. The members of the organization include AnchorWatch CEO Rob Hamilton and Bitcoin developer Calle, among others.Calle mentioned that the Bitcoin Red Team used AI tools alongside manual reviews to scan for vulnerabilities in open-source code repositories related to Bitcoin, averaging about one critical vulnerability discovered per person per hour. Calle revealed that within 29.8 hours of launching, the team had identified 4,962 potential issues across 390 projects, with as many as 720 considered high-risk or critical issues, and currently, 21.4% of the findings are reproducible. This security review initiative was launched a few days after the Coldcard hardware wallet vulnerability incident, in which stolen Bitcoin valued at over $100 million was involved.

Robinhood's Robinhood Ventures announced the launch of its second venture capital fund RVII, aiming to raise $200 million, primarily investing in current or past incubated projects from Y Combinator. The fund will be listed on the NYSE, priced at $25 per share, and is expected to start trading on August 13. Unlike the previous first fund (RVI) which had zero performance fees, RVII will charge a 2% management fee and a 20% performance fee, with an annual total expense ratio of approximately 4.18%. Robinhood describes the fund as a "speculative" investment, "with significant loss risks" and no shareholder redemption rights.The first fund was launched in March, raising $658.4 million, primarily targeting late-stage companies such as Databricks, Stripe, OpenAI, and SpaceX, which fell 16% on its first trading day before rebounding about 30%. RVII will shift its focus to seed-stage projects. Sarah Pinto, head of Robinhood Ventures, stated that retail investors "do not need to wait for a company IPO to participate in early growth." Goldman Sachs serves as the lead underwriter, with Citigroup, JPMorgan, UBS, and Wells Fargo as co-managers, and the subscription window will close on August 12.

According to The Defiant, Paris-based startup Kulipa suddenly ceased operations due to debt issues, leading to the simultaneous interruption of card projects for about 20 crypto wallets and fintech companies it served. Both the self-custody wallet Ready (formerly Argent) and the Solana wallet Solflare were affected, with user card services being immediately disabled.Since both wallets use a self-custody structure, funds are only deducted from the user’s wallet at the time of purchase, and user assets were not harmed. Notably, Kulipa had completed a $6.2 million seed round financing co-led by Flourish Ventures and 1kx in April of this year, just about 4 months before its collapse.

Uniswap announced the launch of the beta Launches tab in its web application, designed to aggregate and display token issuance projects based on the Uniswap infrastructure. This feature currently supports issuance projects on the Robinhood Chain and integrates token information from multiple issuance platforms, allowing users to filter and sort by issuance platform, 24-hour trading volume, liquidity, launch time, and popularity.The official statement indicated that by July 2026, over 340,000 new tokens had entered Uniswap through the Robinhood issuance platform, with a cumulative trading volume of $3.6 billion. This feature aims to enhance the exposure efficiency of new projects and simplify the process for users to discover and trade new tokens.

Doge prototype Shiba Inu Kabosu's owner Atsuko Sato clarified in a post that a series of CATE tokens circulating in the market recently have no connection to her. She stated that she had only posted a dynamic on Instagram previously, but that content was subsequently used by others without authorization to issue false tokens, creating the illusion of a connection with her. She expressed regret about this and pointed out that some accounts involved in spreading related information even include users with significant influence on the X platform.She emphasized that the only project currently authorized by her and responsible for managing her intellectual property is Own The Doge. She introduced that Own The Doge acquired Doge NFT in 2021 and launched the DOG token, while also being responsible for hosting Doge Day events, supporting charitable causes, and managing her intellectual property. In 2025, both parties collaborated to launch the COCORO token on the Base network.She stated that the profits obtained from the aforementioned projects will be used to care for her pet family members and support animal protection public welfare activities carried out by withkabosu. She urged the public to rely on officially released information and to remain vigilant about any unauthorized projects or tokens issued in her name, to avoid being misled by unrelated cryptocurrency projects.

According to Bitcoin.com News, the Zimbabwe Securities and Exchange Commission (SECZ) has approved seven fintech companies to enter its regulatory sandbox testing framework, including the blockchain financing platform "Zimbabwe Startup Exchange," the asset tokenization platform Ndarama Standard, the synthetic trading platform Questview Brokers, the crowdfunding platform Crowdaxe Capital, as well as three institutions focused on asset, infrastructure, or securities tokenization: Procode Platforms, Financial Securities Exchange, and Colmin Resources Zimbabwe.SECZ stated that the sandbox aims to promote responsible innovation, enhance financial inclusion, and drive the development of capital markets. Participants will be subject to strict regulatory oversight, and SECZ reserves the right to issue further guidance or operational requirements.

Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep disclosed that about one-third of the Polygon team paused their daily work last week to participate in a three-day internal AI innovation challenge, with a total reward pool of $15,000 set up by the team.During the three days, 13 projects were produced, of which 6 have officially launched, and 1 has completed real transaction settlement on 5 mainnet chains. Sandeep stated that for the payment sector, the landscape of the next decade will be dominated by teams that truly integrate AI into their daily workflows, and he expressed that this experiment has given him more confidence in the team.

According to Cointelegraph, Chainstory data shows that among the top 1000 cryptocurrency projects by market capitalization, only 67 have a Wikipedia page, accounting for about 6.7%. In terms of layers, about 80% of the top 10 projects by market capitalization have Wikipedia pages, while this proportion is 40% for the top 100 projects and 12% for the top 500 projects.Chainstory indicates that this information gap may affect AI tools' understanding of the cryptocurrency industry, as Wikipedia remains one of the important reference sources for some generative AI tools.

According to South Korean media EToday, the South Korean government announced the "2026 Economic Growth Strategy for the Second Half of the Year," declaring that it will accelerate the advancement of three major "super projects": semiconductors, AI data centers, and physical AI, and plans to enhance industrial competitiveness through the construction of blockchain and digital asset ecosystems.According to the plan, South Korea aims to double its storage chip production capacity within the next five years and launch an AI chatbot and a unified AI education platform for the public in the second half of this year. Notably, the South Korean government proposed to advance large-scale demonstration projects for blockchain and digital asset ecosystems in the second half of this year and to initiate a pilot project for the tokenization of government bonds based on blockchain, exploring the linkage with the central bank's institutional CBDC to promote the upgrade of financial infrastructure. In addition, South Korea also plans to establish strategic investment accounts and a national growth fund to expand long-term capital support for strategic industries such as artificial intelligence, quantum technology, security, and blockchain.

According to a report by Jinshi Data on July 13, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other departments issued guidance on promoting the high-quality development of internet infrastructure resources. It mentioned strengthening the planning of internet technology innovation, promoting the implementation of relevant national key research and development programs and major national science and technology projects, enhancing original technology innovation, and carrying out technical research on the integration of artificial intelligence, blockchain, distributed identifiers and internet infrastructure resources, breaking through key technologies such as network dynamic optimization, intelligent resource scheduling, and data security interaction. Strengthening the innovation of the IPv6 technology system to solve key issues such as protocol compatibility and high-performance transmission. Breaking through key technologies for satellite internet mega-constellation networking, rapid routing switching, and reliable anti-jamming transmission. Breaking through key technologies for the large-scale deployment and application of resource public key infrastructure.

Jack Yi stated that the weekly level of Bitcoin is still in a downtrend, and in the short term, attention should be paid to whether it can effectively break through 68,000 USD.He believes that only by strongly standing above 68,000 USD can a more significant reversal in the market occur; if the breakout fails, the price may once again test the bottom, and there is a risk of falling below 47,000 USD that needs to be monitored.

DeSci Protocol Bio Protocol announced the launch of OpenLabs, positioned as a collaborative coordination layer between humans and agents in scientific research, aimed at transforming scientific ideas into funded execution projects.Bio stated that DeSci has proven over the past few years that the community can coordinate capital and data at internet speed, and agents have also become real scientific collaborators, capable of reading papers, running queries, drafting hypotheses, and designing experiments.OpenLabs consists of five interconnected layers: posts and discoveries, projects, agent collaboration, Web3 incentive layer, and bounty system. In terms of the incentive layer, OpenLabs plans to adopt a financing mechanism based on USDC yields to fund agent reasoning and tool usage. Users can deposit USDC and choose to support projects, with funds deployed to audited yield vaults like Morpho and Aave, generating yields that flow to projects for computation, querying, and simulation, with the principal not bearing risk. Once projects reach the stage requiring real capital, they can issue tokens through the Bio launchpad or conduct private placements and follow traditional biotech paths.

According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, the number of closed projects in the crypto industry has increased to 70 since 2026 and is still growing. The latest included projects cover multiple tracks, including Layer 2 protocol Loopring, lending blockchain UX, cross-chain clearing layer Everclear, decentralized credit protocol Goldfinch, Bitcoin-based Layer 2 Botanix, peer-to-peer NFT lending protocol NFTfi, and the news media DL News under DefiLlama.