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08-02
Bitcoin daily active addresses reach 1 million following Coldcard hack
Odaily Planet Daily reports that, according to Julio Moreno’s monitoring, following the Coldcard hacking incident, the number of daily active Bitcoin addresses rose from 645,000 on July 30 to nearly 1 million on July 31, reaching the highest single-day level since December 10, 2024. This increase wa
Galaxy Research: Coldcard Attack Continues; Affected Addresses to Be Updated
Odaily Planet Daily report: Alex Thorn, Head of Galaxy Research, posted on X that the attack targeting Coldcard wallets generated with weak random numbers is still ongoing. Users who still hold funds in affected single-signature Coldcard wallets should immediately migrate them to secure addresses. T
Capital One Closes Trump Organization's 300+ Accounts in 2021 Amid AML Probe
Capital One Financial has confirmed it closed more than 300 bank accounts linked to the Trump Organization back in 2021, following an extensive anti-money laundering review. The disclosure came in a court filing dated August 1, 2026, and it sheds new light on one of the most politically charged deba
Coldcard attack continues; users urged to move funds from affected addresses
According to Huoxing Finance, on August 2, Coldcard was compromised, with stolen funds rising to 1,367.05 BTC, valued at approximately $88.6 million, affecting 4,585 addresses. Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn stated that the attack is still ongoing and users who have not yet migrated their funds
Google’s Missed Opportunity with ChatGPT: Internal Project Existed a Year Earlier
According to Beating Monitor, Tibo Sottiaux, Head of Products at OpenAI, said he was involved in the internal chatbot project LMChat during his time at Google DeepMind. The project existed about a year before the release of ChatGPT and had a product form very similar to the later ChatGPT. Google ult
IRS Issues Fraud Alert on Fake Crypto Tax Letters Targeting Wallet and Exchange Credentials
Odaily Planet Daily report: On July 30, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued a fraud alert, warning that scammers are mailing forged IRS notices demanding cryptocurrency holders register via a non-existent “Digital Asset Compliance Portal” by an urgent deadline.
Each fraudulent letter in
Experts Emphasize Security and Resilience in Autonomous AI Development
ME News reports that on August 1 (UTC+8), at the Agentic AI Summit 2026,under the central theme of “Security, Trust, and Societal Resilience,” co-chair Dawn Song, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and OpenAI co-founder Wojciech Zaremba shared forward-looking insights: Professor So
Karpathy Proposes Using The Lord of the Rings Opening to Test Opus 5’s Continuation Ability
ME AI message: Karpathy noted in a tweet that testing LLMs with simple tasks like “draw an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle” is becoming outdated. He proposed a generalized approach: use the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings as input and test Opus 5’s continuation ability within a 1M token b
South Korean retail investors blame the government for stock market volatility.
Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 2, according to Bloomberg, South Korea’s KOSPI index plummeted in July, inflicting heavy losses on a large number of retail investors. Despite a record 18% rebound on Friday, retail investors still posted a record net sell-off of KOSPI stocks that day; the ind
DRAM Memory ETF Adds ChangXin Technology with a 2.52% Weight
Odaily Planet Daily reports that on-chain analyst Aunt Ai posted on X that the U.S. market’s first pure storage ETF, the DRAM Memory ETF, includes CXMT. The ETF was established on April 2, 2026, with assets under management of $24.55 billion and a peak return of 190%; despite a recent correction in
Brazilian police seize illegal Bitcoin mining operation with 15 ASIC miners and 3 servers
ChainCatcher report, according to Livecoins, during a routine inspection targeting scrap metal theft and fencing, Brazilian police discovered a hidden illegal Bitcoin mining operation at a scrap recycling facility. Authorities seized approximately 15 ASIC miners and three servers, with the total est
Bitquery Sues Former CEO for Alleged Embezzlement of $5.2 Million and Deletion of Financial Records
According to The Times of India, cryptocurrency data company Bitquery has filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, accusing its former CEO and co-founder, Dionysios "Dean" Karakitsos, of diverting over $5 million to his personal and affiliated accounts since 2022 by exploiting exc
Ripple and Coinbase-funded PAC spends over $2 million on Michigan House race
PANews, August 2: According to Cointelegraph, filings submitted to the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show that an affiliate of a political action committee (PAC) primarily funded by donations from Ripple Labs and Coinbase has spent over $2 million on media campaigns to support Representative Shr
Roundhill Memory ETF Adds CXMT with a 2.52% Weight
Huo Xing Finance reports that on August 2, the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) added CXMT (ChangXin Memory Technologies) to its holdings with a weight of 2.52%. The DRAM ETF focuses on memory chip companies; as of August 2, its top three holdings were Samsung Electronics, Micron Technology, and SK Hynix
2026 AI Summit Highlights Path from Base Models to Full-Stack Autonomous Agents
ME News reports that on August 1 (UTC+8), at the Agentic AI Summit 2026, three leading industry experts outlined a clear roadmap for the next phase of AI evolution: Saurabh Tiwary, Vice President of Google DeepMind, proposed a progression from models to agents to scientific discovery, calling for th
