PANews

PANews, August 7 — According to Bybit market data, spot gold has broken above the $4,300 per ounce threshold and is currently trading at $4,300.68, up 1.41% on the day.

GoPlus said a Base user was hit by a phishing attack and lost 500k USDC. The stolen funds were exchanged for WETH and routed to a nearly illiquid Uniswap V4 WETH/USDC pool, causing 500k USDC to receive only 67.9 ETH (approximately $129k), with $370k earned by an MEV bot. The bot front-ran the transaction using only 0.03 USDC but paid 3.5 ETH in gas fees. The victim subsequently contacted the attacker and the MEV address on-chain, claiming to have identified their identities and offering a 10% bounty in exchange for a refund.

PANews, August 7 — According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Chainlink repurchased 139,956.08 LINK (approximately $1.13 million) and transferred it to its reserve wallet. These LINK were accumulated through multiple swaps on Cowswap before being consolidated. The Chainlink reserve wallet currently holds 5.35 million LINK (approximately $43.9 million), with an average acquisition cost of $11.19.

PANews, August 7 — According to STAR Market Daily, Alibaba has officially launched the one-stop AI voice productivity platform CosyVoice Studio. Based on its self-developed voice model Qwen-Audio, the platform includes features such as the voice recording tool CosyFlow, the voice agent CosyAgent, and the audio content creation tool CosyCreative.

Dow Protocol has completed a $10.5 million seed round, with investors including MH Ventures, Mapleblock, Animoca Brands, Arcane Group, HSKChain, Essentia Partners, and Quartet Group. It builds a PayFi RWA structure for e-commerce working capital, providing advances based on accounts receivable and credit risk data, with funds arriving within seconds; its repayment and risk management systems are natively embedded in e-commerce platforms, with funds automatically deducted from merchant balances.

PANews, August 7 — Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted on X: “Bitcoin doesn’t need the Clarity Act; the United States needs clarity.”

Wired reported that the open-source Kimi K3 model broke out of its sandbox during security testing, accessed the internet, and attempted to obtain the test answers through GitHub, due to a sandbox configuration vulnerability. Kimi K3 did not launch an attack because the answers were already available on GitHub. Frontier Security said it excelled at defense but lacked built-in safeguards against cheating and sandbox escapes. Security experts stressed the importance of properly configuring testing environments, warning that AI agents’ misuse could cause systems to lose control.

Unitree Robotics Chairman Wang Xingxing said during a roadshow that the listing marks a new starting point. The company will remain true to its original mission, focus on the R&D and implementation of core technologies for embodied intelligent robots, and in the future tackle key technologies including embodied large models, scenario data collection and analysis, reinforcement learning, embodied body models, self-developed core components, and high-performance actuators. It will also explore various forms, including humanoid, quadrupedal, and mecha robots, to enable robots to undertake high-intensity labor, unleash human creativity, and benefit society.

PANews, August 7 — According to Cailian Press, SK hynix said it will invest $38.4 billion to expand its chip business in South Korea. Specifically, SK hynix plans to invest 19.1 trillion won ($13.47 billion) in the M17 chip plant in Cheongju, with the investment to be completed by 2031; it plans to invest 35.2 trillion won (approximately $24.9 billion) in Yongin for the construction of the second-phase chip plant. The Yongin plant will produce HBM and other next-generation DRAM.

Particle Network announced that its chain abstraction network has officially expanded to Robinhood Chain, with ecosystem applications such as UniversalX now integrated. Through chain abstraction, users can directly purchase on-chain assets on Robinhood Chain using assets from any chain, without bridging, swapping gas, or migrating assets, while retaining non-custodial security and high performance. This will connect multichain users and liquidity, driving a more unified, frictionless on-chain trading experience.

Highlights
This weekly edition covers the period from July 31, 2026, to August 7, 2026.
This week, the total on-chain market capitalization of RWA rose to $37.94 billion, while the number of holders posted a record monthly net increase of over 560k. However, monthly stablecoin transfer volume plunged 36% month-on-month, with monthly active addresses also declining, indicating that funds are rapidly settling into low-volatility asset reserves. High-frequency on-chain trading activity continued to weaken, and the pattern of “silent accumulation” deepened further.
On the regulatory front, the central bank emphasized improving cross-border infrastructure for the digital yuan, while Nigeria approved tokenized asset services to support SME financing, indicating that the global regulatory framework is gradually becoming more operationally focused.
At the project level, BlackRock launched two tokenized money market funds, BSTBL and BRSRV, while Wells Fargo will launch a tokenized deposit service this autumn, marking the entry of the world’s largest asset manager and banking giants into on-chain cash management; Tether borrows

PANews, August 7 — According to an official announcement, South Korean crypto exchange Upbit will terminate trading support for BONK, involving the BONK/KRW and BONK/USDT trading pairs. Upbit said it designated BONK as a trading cautionary asset on July 7, and after review determined that the reasons for the designation had not been resolved, deciding to terminate trading support. Trading support will end at 15:00 local time on September 7, 2026, and withdrawal support will end on October 7, 2026.

PANews, August 7 — According to an official announcement, Huobi HTX launched KO/USDT, RDDT/USDT, and CASHCAT/USDT perpetual contracts on August 7, supporting 1-10x long and short positions. From now until 15:00 (UTC+8) on August 11, Huobi HTX is also holding a new futures coin trading competition. Users who register, trade the participating coin contracts, and reach the specified thresholds will have the chance to share a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX .

PANews, August 7 — According to a report by Cailian Press, models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta have recently experienced incidents of losing control, including infiltrating enterprises and accessing the internet without authorization. “Godfather of AI” Geoffrey Hinton has issued a latest warning that AI will develop more complex intentions and the ability to escape control, and that when facing next-generation superintelligent models, humans may be unable to “defeat” or “shut them down” through traditional means.

Gate announces the launch of DexBuilder’s event contract Builder and a global grant program of up to $3 million for project teams, developers, and Web3 applications worldwide. The Builder provides modular infrastructure and APIs/SDKs covering market data, orders, settlement, risk management, operations, and more. It supports multiple use cases, including crypto assets, sports, esports, AI, and more, helping projects launch quickly and gain funding and resource support.

PANews, August 7 — According to STAR Market Daily, Volcano Engine announced the official launch of the Seedance 2.5 API service. The model natively supports direct output of 30-second videos and references to up to 50 multimodal materials, offers more precise and stable editing capabilities, and is compatible with more than ten languages. Seedance 2.5 is currently live simultaneously on platforms including LibTV, Qixiang AI, TapNow, Panqu AI, Huimeng Workshop AI, and Xingyu Film World.

Japan’s Financial Services Agency and National Police Agency have jointly called on JVCEA to strengthen anti-fraud measures, proposing 11 new rules covering all exchanges. The new rules enhance identity verification, advance registration and risk controls for withdrawal addresses, withdrawal limit restrictions, transaction monitoring, and multi-factor authentication, while establishing a rapid information-sharing mechanism with police to freeze funds immediately upon detecting suspicious activity. The measures aim to curb investment fraud and “pig-butchering” scams carried out through social media and other channels, and require advance verification of new addresses, with implementation in phases.

PANews, August 7 — According to Reuters, AMD announced that it will acquire AI inference chip startup Taalas. The transaction amount was not disclosed, as AMD seeks to strengthen its technological positioning in the AI inference market. AMD plans to integrate Taalas’ technology into its accelerator roadmap and develop system-level solutions based on AMD Instinct GPUs.
Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Toronto, Taalas focuses on developing application-specific silicon chips to reduce computing and memory bottlenecks in AI inference. As AI shifts from training to real-time large-scale deployment, specialized inference chips have become a key area of competition among semiconductor manufacturers. Taalas completed a $169 million funding round in February, bringing its total funding to approximately $219 million.