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PANews on July 17 reported, citing Cointelegraph, that 1inch co-founder Anton Bukov said he was dismissed in November 2025 and will launch a new project called Second Tier. According to Second Tier, the project is dedicated to building a Layer 2 architecture, turning economic possibilities into technical accessibility.

The report said Project Eleven proposed a post-quantum proof scheme to help Bitcoin prove wallet ownership in the post-quantum era, rather than just protecting private keys. By using the key derivation path of the wallet, it proves ownership of the parent key without disclosing the private key; even if a quantum computer breaks the private key, it cannot reconstruct the parent key. The scheme was developed in collaboration with Jim Posen and Sattath and Wyborski’s “signature lifting” technology. Q-Day refers to the day when quantum computers can break existing encryption.

PANews July 18, according to SolanaFloor, the Solana on-chain Meme coin Jimothy saw its market cap surge from $60k to $22 million within 24 hours. A trader turned $3,080 into $264k by trading the token, netting $261k in profit and a return of 8,474%.

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Guest: Chamath Palihapitiya (Founder of Social Capital), Brad Gerstner (Founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital), David Sacks (Partner at Craft Ventures)
Host: Jason Calacanis, All-In Podcast
Podcast source: All-In Podcast
Original title: OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump

PANews reports that U.S. bipartisan lawmakers have introduced a bill requiring online sports betting and prediction markets to verify users’ age via facial scanning before users log in or place bets, led by Josh Gottheimer and initiated by eight lawmakers together. The technology only estimates age and does not store identity or biometric information; NIST evaluated six age-estimation algorithms with an average error of 3.1 years, and errors for female faces are typically higher than for male faces. The bill has not yet released the full text, the implementing agency, penalties, or the effective date, and it also does not explain the appeals process for users in cases of incorrect judgments.

PANews July 18 news: According to an official announcement, Binance Wallet Meme Rush now supports the Launchpad filter on Robinhood Chain, including Virtuals Protocol, Flap, and Bankr. Users can now track tokens on BSC, Solana, ETH, Base, and Robinhood Chain through Meme Rush at the same time.

Deribit saw large-scale bullish spread trading this week: buying 20k call options with a July 31 expiration date and a strike price of $70,000, and selling the same number of call options with the same expiration date and a strike price of $72,000. The notional value is about $250 million, with an expectation that Bitcoin will move moderately upward into the $70,000–$72,000 range. This move is related to the Federal Reserve’s decision on July 29 and subsequent market action. The market expects interest rates to remain unchanged, but the US-Iran conflict has driven oil prices higher, which could cause the latest inflation data to lag.

The Block says Uniswap will hold on-chain votes from July 19 to 26 on two proposals. The first proposal enables protocol fees for seven chains in v4, covering three types of pools, with the other five chains to follow later. The second proposal, put forward by Hayden Adams, extends the v2/v3 fee mechanism to the Robinhood Chain. The fees will go into UNIfication’s burn mechanism. Previously, it set a record for burning 186k UNI per day.

A survey by Broadridge of 200 financial institutions in North America shows that 84% list tokenization as a strategic priority, 68% expect it to reshape markets over the next three to five years, and about one-third expect investment to increase by 26%-50% within two years. In capital markets, 44% already have tokenized production or scaling in place, 20% in asset management, and 9% in wealth management. 80% believe tokenized mutual funds/money market funds will be important within five years, and about half are optimistic about tokenized stocks. 92% think digital assets will coexist long term, and 69% plan to integrate tokenization into existing infrastructure. The main obstacles are regulatory uncertainty and operational complexity.

U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren asked Trump to voluntarily disclose his cryptocurrency income and holdings from January 1 to July 15 by July 23. In a letter dated July 16, she said that if the president’s financial disclosures reveal only part of the picture, Congress would find it difficult to fairly debate related legislation. During the consideration of the CLARITY Act, Warren warned that before advancing legislation that could potentially affect Trump’s holdings, lawmakers need to know his latest crypto interests to prevent the bill from improperly benefiting the president’s related businesses and investments.

Author of the original text: Tonya M. Evans
Original compilation: AididiaoJP, Foresight News
Last July, Congress pledged to resolve the issue of regulatory jurisdiction for digital assets. A year later, today, the CLARITY Act is still stalled in the Senate. This delay is no longer just political news; for boards of directors, general counsels, chief compliance officers, and risk committees, it has become a real governance, risk, and compliance deadline. As the rulemaking window closes, vacancies at regulatory agencies expand, and enforcement actions fill the void, the core questions of market structure remain unanswered—and it’s likely they won’t be answered before the August recess.
This week a year ago, Washington declared itself to be in “Crypto Week.” The U.S. House passed three landmark digital asset bills in succession: the CLARITY Act (clarifying digital asset regulatory…

PANews, July 18: Citing Iranian media on July 18, Xinhua reported that Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Garibabadi said that after the United States violated its commitments, Iran has stopped implementing the Iran-US memorandum of understanding.

Today’s news highlights:
Japan’s House of Councillors passes amendments to the “FSA/Securities Business Act,” formally classifying crypto assets as financial products
Binance will add 10 new bStocks trading pairs today, covering stocks such as Alibaba and Robinhood
DeepSeek’s annualized revenue is reportedly between $400 million and $500 million
Stripe and Advent propose acquiring PayPal for over $53 billion
Futu Holdings is facing a class-action lawsuit filed by shareholders in the United States
Coinbase will list perpetual contracts for SK Hynix and Lumentum
Bitmine’s ETH staking revenue in the last quarter was $45.7 million, accounting for 98% of total revenue
The Pump.fun team and investors’ tokens see their first unlock; 57.2 billion PUMP tokens are distributed to 121 wallets

Cobie announced on X that he will take over products including the Base app, the Coinbase app, and Advanced Trading, but he will not be responsible for the Base chain. He acknowledged that Coinbase has previously felt distant from crypto-native users, and plans to improve the situation by launching more user-friendly products, even if it draws criticism. Previously, Jesse Pollak stepped down as head of the Base app, and Cobie took over.

Author: BlockWeeks
The most interesting thing about the crypto market is that developers can never predict who will use their product first.
Base’s latest native standard, B20, is exactly like this. What was originally meant to serve stablecoins and RWA—technical standards with a very strong compliance-oriented background—has now become the newest playground for Meme traders.
“Developers build the road, speculators drive the sports car.” The sudden popularity of B20 in the Meme space, on the surface, looks like yet another liquidity-flooding speculative frenzy. But underneath, it’s Base’s first attempt at breaking the “Layer2 is only an execution layer” fate, with an ambition to move toward becoming an “asset issuance chain.”
B20 is not just a “Base version”

At the WAIC, Turing Quantum launched the world’s first quantum-classical hybrid intelligent agent platform QAgent based on photonic quantum technology, built for the entire industry. The platform uses a large language model as the entry point, leverages a proprietary photonic quantum computing system, and integrates quantum-classical hybrid computing power, the DeepQuantum framework, a quantum algorithm library, and industry tools. It connects an end-to-end closed loop of natural language input—task decomposition—quantum agent collaboration—compute power scheduling—result output, marking quantum computing’s transition from cutting-edge compute power to industry-grade capability.

PANews July 18 news: According to Onchain Lens monitoring, 20 hours ago, Circle minted 250 million USDC on the Solana chain. In 2026, it cumulatively minted 70.26 billion USDC on the Solana chain.

PANews July 18, 2026: According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin’s monitoring, the address that drained Bonk treasury funds worth $21.2 million BONK via a governance proposal has again transferred 400 billion BONK (1.19 million USD) to Coinbase. Since the first transfer this morning, the BONK price has fallen another 7%.