Ethereum Foundation Once Again Internally Transfers 1000 ETH to a Related Address

On July 10th, the stablecoin project Plasma officially announced that the XPL public sale will commence on July 17th. Deposits and withdrawals will be locked on July 14th (72 hours prior to the sale), which represents the final opportunity for users to withdraw. The reserve deposits cannot be used for this round of sales. After the sale concludes, all deposits will remain locked for at least 40 days. Previously, the stablecoin project Plasma stated that the $1 billion raised from deposits is not for the XPL sale itself, and the public sale of XPL has not yet begun. All funds will be bridged to the Plasma mainnet testnet and will be fully owned by depositors. Depositors will participate in the sale based on the final unit ownership at the time of the lock. The public sale terms remain unchanged: 50 million XPL tokens will be sold, with a fully diluted valuation of $5 billion. Plasma previously received a strategic investment from Founders Fund under Peter Thiel and announced in Februa

On July 10th, the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken registered as a Virtual Asset Service Provider in Argentina. It then entered the Latin American market and launched local currency deposit services in both Argentina and Mexico.

On July 10th, Mester of the Federal Reserve said: Stablecoins are an interesting innovation in the payment field. Establishing a regulatory framework is a positive thing. Stablecoins may become an important part of payments. (Gold Ten)

On July 10th, Hainan Huateng announced that its parent company, Hainan Huateng Yellow Bee Digital Technology Co., Ltd., has completed a strategic investment in Nanchang X Love Technology Co., Ltd. Upon the completion of the transaction, the company will hold a 5% stake in the company. X Love Technology owns the digital asset trading platform XMeta and the overseas NFT aggregation ecosystem platform XMeta.HK. (Jin10)

July 10th - HSBC Bank announced that it has recently completed the pilot test of the "e-HKD+" project by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. In the "e-HKD+" project, HSBC Bank's technical use case mainly focuses on addressing practical issues that may occur in designing, implementing, and operating a digital currency ecosystem. As Hong Kong continues to explore the full potential of digital currency, HSBC Bank has not only conducted a public survey on the awareness of e-HKD but also brought new technological and business insights to the potential design schemes for e-HKD. HSBC has conducted experiments in a range of public distributed ledger technology (DLT) environments (including Arbitrum, Ethereum, Linea, and Polygon) as well as private distributed ledger technology (DLT) developed by HSBC on Hyperledger Besu. These achievements will support the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and the industry in exploring how innovative digital currencies can create value for the Hong Kong public.

On July 10th, as per crypto reporter Eleanor Terrett, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee intends to postpone the deliberation of the "Crypto Market Structure Act" draft until next week. Originally, the target was this week. Meanwhile, the House Financial Services Committee has rearranged the hearing on establishing the "21st Century Cryptocurrency Taxation Policy Framework" to next Wednesday (16th), which aligns with "Crypto Week". The originally scheduled full committee hearing on the crypto market structure had confirmed participants including: Brad Garlinghouse, the CEO of Ripple; Kristin Smith, the CEO of the Blockchain Association; Jonathan Levin, the CEO of Chainalysis; Dan Robinson, the General Partner at Paradigm.