Today's Crypto and Bitcoin News

Odaily Planet Daily reports: Jesse Pollak, co-founder of Base, posted on X that from its inception, Base made it clear to its team and Coinbase that every possible effort must be made to support developers, as developers will create the products that drive the world onto the blockchain. One key way

Odaily Planet Daily report: According to MSX.COM data, at the opening of U.S. markets, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.58%, the S&P 500 increased 0.91%, the Nasdaq Composite gained 1.64%, and the VIX volatility index fell 8.47%. AI-related stocks surged broadly, with Arm up 16.5%, CoreWeave

Odaily Planet Daily reports that, according to insiders, Situational Awareness, a hedge fund founded and managed by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner with assets under management of $24 billion, is gradually closing out multiple positions and working to raise capital following sharp dec

Nscale, the UK-based AI cloud platform, announced on July 30 that it will acquire Anyscale, the software startup behind the widely used Ray framework for scaling AI workloads across GPUs. The deal is expected to close in the second half of 2026, pending regulatory approvals.While Nscale didn’t offic

X just became a bank. Well, sort of.The platform formerly known as Twitter has rolled out X Money, an in-app digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment service that lets US users send money to each other, pay bills, and manage deposits directly inside the app. It’s the first major American social media

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago released its advance Labor Market Indicators for July on Wednesday, clocking in at 4.13%. That’s a modest decline from the 4.19% reading in the prior period.The Chicago Fed’s LMI tracks three core components: layoffs and other separations, the hiring rate for unem

Author: Castle LabsCompiled by: Jiahuan, ChainCatcherThis year, crypto protocols have collectively generated $7.42 billion in revenue. Despite these impressive figures, the prices of most crypto tokens still do not reflect the success of the underlying protocols.The reason is that not all revenue ho

Odaily Planet Daily reports: At the company’s second-quarter earnings call, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated that Meta currently does not sell computing power to customers, but such a business is in planning. He noted that Meta’s substantial computing resources will be used to train AI models, suppor

Odaily Planet Daily report: Polymarket developers posted on X that, to enhance resistance to manipulation in cryptocurrency price movement markets, settlement for affected markets will change from a single price snapshot to a time-weighted average price (TWAP) starting August 7, 00:00 UTC. The 5-min

BlockBeats report: On July 30, the U.S. June PCE price index fell 0.1% month-over-month, marking the first monthly decline since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020; the year-over-year increase slowed from May’s three-year high of 4.1% to 3.7%. Core PCE rose just 0.1% month-over-month, with the yea

ME News report, July 30 (UTC+8): According to BIT (bit.com) market data, pre-market trading in the U.S. saw expanded gains in the semiconductor and memory sectors, with the following movements: ARM’s gain expanded to 11%, after previously falling nearly 8%; Lam Research (LRCX) rose over 13%; follow

ME News reports that, as of July 28 (UTC+8), the U.S. FCC has banned the import of China’s new "advanced robotic devices" and connected power inverters, citing concerns over supply chain disruptions, data theft, and cyberattacks. The ban covers nearly all software-controlled ground robots weighing o

ChainCatcher report: According to official announcements, the prediction market Polymarket has declared a major adjustment to its settlement mechanism for crypto price movement markets, effective August 7, to safeguard market integrity. Starting at 00:00 UTC on that day, affected markets will no lon

Fortitude Mining just dropped $31.5 million on Zcash mining hardware. The Digital Currency Group subsidiary signed an agreement with Bitmain to purchase 9,000 Antminer Z15 Pro units at $3,499 per machine, a deal that positions the company as one of the most aggressively expanding miners in the priva

The Federal Reserve kept its foot on the brake again. On July 29, the FOMC voted to hold the federal funds rate at 3.5%-3.75%, the fifth consecutive meeting without a change.Three officials wanted to go the other direction and hike rates by 25 basis points. That 9-3 vote split reflects the internal