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According to Token Unlocks data, SUI, EIGEN, FF, KMNO, and ENA will be unlocked in batches next week. SUI will unlock about 13.72 million tokens on August 1 at 8:00 (0.34%, $9.9 million); EIGEN will unlock about 36.82 million tokens on August 1 at 12:00 (5.79%, $7.6 million); FF will unlock 102 million tokens on July 29 at 21:00 (3.53%, $6.2 million); KMNO will unlock 229 million tokens on July 30 at 20:00 (2.97%, $4.1 million); ENA will unlock 40.63 million tokens on August 2 at 15:00 (0.47%, $3.5 million).

KB Kookmin Bank will launch, in August, a cross-border payment service based on JPMorgan Kinexys, targeting import and export businesses. In the initial phase, payments and foreign-exchange settlements will be made in US dollars, covering 10 countries including the United States, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE. Kinexys (formerly Onyx) is JPM’s institutional-grade payments and digital asset infrastructure, and it plans to integrate with SWIFT to enable near real-time cross-border payments. KB Financial Group has assets of about $552.76 billion.

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Changxin Technology’s stock will be listed on the SSE STAR Market on July 27;
CME Group will launch single-stock futures on July 27;
SK hynix U.S. Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and South Korean listed common shares are expected to enable two-way conversion on July 29;
At 02:00 on July 30, the Federal Reserve FOMC will release its interest rate decision, and Federal Reserve Chair Worch will then hold a monetary policy news conference;
FTX announced it will begin distributing approximately $900 million for the fifth distribution starting July 31, and preferred shareholders will receive the second payment simultaneously;
Strategy will release its financial results for Q2 2026 at Beijing time on July 31;
Apple and Amazon will release their earnings reports in the early hours of July 31 Beijing time, and Meta, Microsoft, and Qualcomm will release their earnings reports in the early hours of July 30 Beijing time;

PANews July 26 news, citing Al Jazeera, Iranian military spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia said to official media that Iran has halted its retaliatory attacks for now, because the United States has not carried out any strikes against the country over the past two nights.

PANews July 26, according to Yu Jin, the TRUMP team address unlocked 13.8 million TRUMP (about $21.94 million) that had been transferred out yesterday, and the funds were already moved to centralized exchanges including Binance, OKX, and KuCoin within the past 15 minutes.

Oil prices have rebounded to about $100, prompting the US, UK, and Japanese central banks to remain cautious about energy-driven inflation. The European Central Bank has signaled further rate hikes, and the market expects action in September. Emkay Global’s Arora noted that the rebound in Brent is no longer driven solely by risks around the Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea: shipping is nearly halted, inventories are running low, and new supply disruptions have compounded the picture. On the supply side, tightening has continued; fuel exports from Russia are restricted, and production has been reduced after the Caspian Sea terminal in Kazakhstan suspended operations.

Written by: insights4vc
Compiled by: Felix, PANews
Recently, European payments company Augustus completed a $180 million funding round, with a post-investment valuation of $1 billion. It also received conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) for a national bank charter. Evolving from traditional open-banking APIs into a wholesale bank covering tokenized deposits and digital asset wallets, how did this European payments startup rise so quickly? insights4vc analyzes it from aspects including the founders’ backgrounds, the logic behind its transformation, and its business architecture. The following are the details.
Augustus was originally named Ivy, a merchant checkout product built on open banking. Over time, with Mollie, Kraken and

Rising energy prices, increased US tariffs, and a surge in AI capital spending have ignited global inflation concerns, with the Nasdaq lagging this week, tech stocks under pressure, and the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index sharply falling. Before next week’s Fed decision, the market is cautious, worried about an unexpected hawkish outcome. Next week’s key focus will be on ADP, the FOMC, Eurozone GDP and inflation data, central bank decisions and press conferences in the US and UK. Tech earnings will center on Apple, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, SK hynix, and others.

Forma announces that it will stop operating the Forma blockchain. Modularium and Forma NFTs will migrate to the Ethereum mainnet to ensure the artworks and the trading marketplace remain viable long term. After the migration, NFTs can be traded on Ethereum marketplaces such as OpenSea, while Modularium will continue as a display platform. Please extract funds via FormaBridge as soon as possible; any unextracted funds will be moved to a subsequently announced EVM-compatible chain.

PANews July 26 news: Market data shows that BitMart announced it would shut down its exchange business, causing its platform token BMX to fall 53.2% in the past 24 hours.

BitMart’s global CEO Nenter Chow clarified that he was completely unaware of the orderly shutdown. He said he only learned on July 24 that his CEO role would be terminated and the offboarding process would be initiated, and there is still no final date. He stated that since then he has not participated in management or decision-making, that he cares most about users and employees, and that he urges users to handle account matters only through official channels and to read the announcements. Previously, a gradual shutdown was announced; MSX’s founder said he intends to acquire it and plans to cancel spot and contract trading fees.

PANews reports that BitMart will gradually stop registering, deposits, and new trading from 2026-07-26, with a planned official shutdown by the end of January 2027. MSX founder Bruce J said he intends to acquire the exchange and has already contacted BitMart’s team; if the acquisition is successful, he will complete the transfer and reduce the spot and contract trading fees to 0, believing the exchange’s fees are too high.

PANews July 26 news: According to RootData’s collected statistics, there were 99 “dead” projects in the 2026 crypto industry. All of these projects ceased operations in 2026, went bankrupt, or had their websites unavailable for a long time. These include centralized exchanges BitMart and BitMEX, the wallet Family, and DeFi project Zapper, among others.

BlueNoroff and other North Korea–linked hackers used fake Zoom/Teams meeting invites to take control of trusted accounts in the crypto industry, sending fraudulent meeting links via Calendly. After victims joined the meeting, the page quietly scanned wallet values to decide whether to continue the attack, prompting them to update Zoom/Teams or run commands. The downloaded malware can run on Windows/macOS and steals browser keys, system data, and Telegram sessions.

PANews July 26 news, citing Cointelegraph, that Binance Chief Security Officer Jimmy Su revealed that Binance conducts simulated phishing attacks on its internal employees every month, and will fire employees who repeatedly fail the tests. These simulated attacks are carried out by Binance’s “Red Team,” an internal ethical hacking team responsible for infiltrating systems to identify vulnerabilities. Binance has implemented the program for about three to four years.

According to MacRumors, three iOS users sued Apple in U.S. federal court, claiming that between May and August 2025, Apple downloaded multiple fake Sparrow Wallet apps via the App Store, for a total loss of about 1.8 million dollars in Bitcoin. The plaintiffs said Apple took little action after the reports, and the counterfeit apps remained in the store; Sparrow Wallet developer Craig Raw noted that Apple has been slow to respond to similar counterfeit versions, failing to take them down in time, and some fakes still exist.

According to data from the Korea Exchange, pension funds—including the National Pension Service—recorded net buying in the Korean stock market for the first time this month. As of July 24, pension funds’ total net purchases of KOSPI constituent stocks since the beginning of this month amounted to 68.4 billion won, ending six consecutive months of net selling. In terms of individual stocks, SK hynix was the top net-bought stock since July, with net purchases totaling 425.8 billion won.