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Bloomberglaw reports that the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held oral arguments on whether Kalshi’s sports-event contracts are subject to state gambling laws and whether they fall under CFTC regulation. The judges questioned Kalshi’s position, saying it is not yet clear whether the Commodity Exchange Act fully brings sports-betting products under regulatory oversight, thereby exempting them from state gambling regulation. The outcome of the case will affect the regulatory boundaries for Kalshi and U.S. prediction-market platforms.

PANews July 31, Tom Lee, chairman of Bitmine’s Ethereum treasury company, said on X that an increasing number of public institutions and major organizations have stepped forward to support the CLARITY bill. If the bill cannot pass smoothly, the US may lose its leading edge in the digital finance sector and hand over the initiative to other countries. He also said that on the occasion of Ethereum’s 11th anniversary, he expects Ethereum to achieve “exponential progress” over the next 11 years, continuing to drive the development of digital assets and the blockchain ecosystem.

PANews July 31, according to a report by Caixin Global, U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent said the Senate needs to vote immediately on the CLARITY ACT.

The CFTC has published proposed rules to amend Parts 37, 38, and 39 of the CFTC Regulations, as well as Sections 1.52 and 1.55, with a public comment period starting 60 days after the Federal Register publication. The amendments are intended to address the growing interrelationships and potential conflicts of interest among derivatives clearing organizations, designated contract markets, swap execution facilities, futures commission merchants, and market makers. Selig said the new rules will establish a principles-based regulatory framework that balances market integrity and innovation.

The Malaysian government has withdrawn its official support for “Malaysia Blockchain Week 2026” because promotional materials for the event included a former OnlyFans creator, Siew Pui Yi, a Malaysian DJ and actress, which sparked controversy within the Muslim community. This incident reflects the country’s increasingly conservative sociopolitical atmosphere and the growing influence of moral issues in politics, putting higher demands on how international events are promoted and organized.

PANews July 31 news, citing CoinDesk, market sources said that the tokenized asset protocol Ondo Finance is evaluating a potential acquisition deal with a deal size of about $250 million to $500 million.
At present, the sources have not disclosed the target of the potential acquisition or the transaction details, and Ondo Finance has not yet issued a public response.
Ondo Finance is one of the major participants in the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) space. In recent years, it has continued to expand its institutional-grade tokenization products and on-chain financial infrastructure.

Jia Yangqing announced the launch of Intent Lab and the formation of a Fleet autonomous agent team, aiming to directly convert users’ natural-language requirements into software systems ready for production. This covers the entire workflow from architecture design, code development, and infrastructure deployment to testing, verification, and performance optimization, with the goal of delivering runnable, production-grade outputs. Intent Lab has already demonstrated early results such as the GLM-5.2 inference engine, one-time database creation, and a verified agent file system.

Puttagunta finds Anthropic’s call to strengthen distillation regulation confusing, because with ample resources, the cost of restricting related behavior may only be a drop in API revenue. Distillation uses teacher models’ outputs to train student models, and external API calls could be used for training and to bypass development. He emphasized that this is a balance between commercial interests, open competition, and intellectual property protection; leading companies need to find a balance between protecting core technology and maintaining an open ecosystem.

The Financial Services Commission of South Korea announced that it has completed the draft of the Digital Asset Framework Act, with remaining items pending coordination; it will speed up legislation once the agenda for the second half of the year in the National Assembly is set. The bill is intended to provide a legal basis for paying AI Agents, covering regulatory frameworks including KYC, allocation of payment responsibilities, cross-border foreign exchange reporting, and programmable payments.

Citi says the Fed may put more weight on inflation indicators beyond the PCE, reducing the probability of a September rate hike. In June, core PCE rose 3.3% year over year, while core CPI was 2.6%, leaving it farther from the 2% target. In the coming months, the market will see more clearly that broad inflation has not accelerated significantly. Although the market assigns a roughly 59% probability to a September rate hike, two Citi economists believe this expectation may be wrong.

CryptoQuant analyst Julio Moreno said that on-chain Bitcoin data has not yet shown signs of capitulation selling, and the market may be in a mild correction or could fall further. Over the past year, holders have realized a loss of about 136k BTC. In past cycles, the annual realized losses at the bottom typically ranged from 1.3 million to 3.7 million BTC. This suggests that chain-stop-loss order selling this cycle may be minimal, and there is still significant room for further downside.

According to CNBC, the hedge fund Situational Awareness, founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, has suffered heavy losses in bets on AI-related stocks and short software stocks, forcing it into an emergency liquidation to raise funds. The fund’s primary broker has been urgently seeking financing to meet margin requirements. Insiders say that a large investment firm has agreed to acquire its publicly traded assets, though the buyer has not yet confirmed. In early July, the fund’s scale briefly reached about $45 billion, before it then suffered massive losses.

PANews July 30, according to Jin10, Google DeepMind has released the Gemini Robotics ER 2 model. According to the description, the model will enable robots of various shapes to think, act, and interact with the surrounding world with outstanding precision and full-body control. It will autonomously solve a range of complex tasks and use intelligent, flexible responses to handle new situations.

CryptoRank data shows that in July 2026, the DeFi lending market achieved growth for the first time. Active loan balances increased from $20.7 billion in June to $22.2 billion in July, up 7.2%. Aave remained in the lead with $11.0 billion in active balance, a market share of 46.2%, and Aave and Morpho combined accounted for nearly two-thirds of the market share.

PANews, July 30—According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi, after Hynix published its financial report, a whale that spent $31 million going long had reversed from an unrealized loss of $3.13 million to an unrealized profit of $2.01 million; its entry price was $981.59, during which $SKHX fell to a low of $897.43.

PANews July 30 news: According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitoring, tonight the storage sector rebounded, led by the largest CXMT “Air Force” adding to short positions. This whale opened shorts one day before the ChangXin IPO and then added multiple times; it currently holds CXMT short positions worth $22.26 million, with an unrealized loss of $4.06 million.

Uniswap introduces a new beta tab to help users discover popular token offerings. Multiple launch platforms such as Bankr, Pons, and Long use Uniswap as their trading infrastructure. Launches provides a distribution channel for projects built on Uniswap and aggregates them for display in a single entry.

PANews July 30 news: According to Bybit, the Dow Jones rose 0.59%, the Nasdaq rose 2.68%, and the S&P 500 index rose 1.28%. The US stock storage sector further strengthened: SK hynix’s share price rose 17.15% to $148.35 per share. Micron Technology’s share price rose 16.85% to $864.21 per share. Crypto-related stocks generally rose, with COIN (Coinbase) up 0.77% intraday; HOOD (Robinhood) down 2.18% intraday.

JPMorgan said the probability that the Clarity Act will pass in the Senate this year has fallen, dealing a blow to the crypto market; further delays could weaken the industry’s most important regulatory catalyst. With other bills prioritized before the summer recess, the market expects the chance of passage by year-end to be only about 37%. Negotiations on the ethics provisions, enforcement, DeFi, stablecoin yield rates, and anti-money laundering rules remain deadlocked.

PANews, July 30—Solana tweeted that KSNET, a Korean fintech company, and the Solana Foundation have signed a memorandum of understanding to integrate Solana Pay into its payment network covering more than 330k merchants, with monthly processing volume of about $4 billion.