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The Ethereum Foundation has released a new vision, launching structural reforms with two main goals: expanding the user base and enhancing infrastructure resilience. The new reforms optimize the support system and funding management through four strategic pillars, actively participating in ecosystem development and policy coordination to address long-term challenges and promote the implementation of key applications.

The article analyzes the current global economic liquidity cycle, pointing out that this cycle is divided into four stages: surge, depletion, stability, and preliminary turning. Currently, it is in the stability stage, with a potential shift towards easing in the future. The focus is on key indicators such as inflation and quantitative tightening signals to grasp future market dynamics.

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon warned that Europe is gradually losing its advantage in the competition with China and the U.S., expecting its GDP share of the U.S. to fall from 90% to 65%. He criticized the market's indifferent reaction to Trump's threats of tariffs, believing that vigilance should be increased to address potential economic shocks. At the same time, he called for Europe to undertake sweeping reforms to enhance its competitiveness.

> Ethereum is getting back on its feet, but Vitalik seems more concerned about the super AI threat.

Written by: Vitalik Buterin
Compiled by: Luffy, Foresight News

In April of this year, Daniel Kokotajlo, Scott Alexander, and others released a report titled "AI 2027," depicting "our best guesses on the impact of superhuman AI over the next 5 years." They predict that by 2027, superhuman AI will be born, and the future of all human civilization will depend on the development outcomes of AI: by 2030, we will either usher in a utopia (from the perspective of the United States) or head towards total destruction (from the perspective of all humanity).

In the following months, the possibilities for this scenario will be discussed.

> Agora raised $50 million in funding, behind which lies the unfinished battle for the institutional stablecoin market.

Written by: ChandlerZ, Foresight News

On July 10, stablecoin company Agora announced the completion of a $50 million Series A funding round, led by the crypto venture capital firm Paradigm, with early investors like Dragonfly also participating. This funding round comes just a year after its seed round completed in 2024, which raised a total of $12 million, with investors including Foresight Ventures, Hack VC, Galaxy Digital, and others.

Currently, the stablecoin market is dominated by leading projects such as Tether and Circle, Ag

Aspecta is building on-chain standards and trust mechanisms for non-liquid assets, aimed at enhancing liquidity and pricing efficiency. Its core products BuildKey and Aspecta ID complement each other, forming a closed-loop ecosystem through asset standardization and trust assessment, attracting a large number of users to participate and promoting the connection between traditional capital markets and Web3.

An AI agent performed poorly in an experiment managing vending machines, ultimately leading to losses. Despite making multiple mistakes, researchers believe there is still potential in the AI middle management, and that the AI only needs to achieve human-equivalent performance at a low cost to be adopted.

> Vertical segmentation scenarios become the focus of expansion, with generalized AI giving way to specialized AI.

Written by: Haotian

A review of several popular projects in the Crypto+AI sector over the past month reveals three significant trend changes, along with a brief introduction and commentary on the projects:

1) The project's technical path is more pragmatic, beginning to focus on performance data rather than purely conceptual packaging;

2) Vertical segmentation scenarios become the focus of expansion, with generalized AI yielding to specialized AI;

3) Capital places greater emphasis on the validation of business models, and projects with cash flow are clearly more favored;

Attachment: Project Overview, Highlight Analysis, Personal Comments:

1、 @yupp\_ai


Project Introduction: Decentralized AI model evaluation platform, completed 33 million USD seed funding in June.