South Korea's KOSPI index turned negative, with Samsung Electronics falling 0.54%.

Sony has obtained conditional approval from the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) to establish a national trust bank in the United States. The company plans to launch its subsidiary Connectia Trust this month, with an aim to kick off U.S. dollar-denominated stablecoin issuance and management operations in 2027.

According to Farside’s monitoring, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded total net outflows of $84.9 million yesterday, with BlackRock’s IBIT alone seeing total net outflows of $59.1 million.

Offchain Labs co-founder Steven Goldfeder stated that 10% of fees generated by Robinhood Chain and other Arbitrum Layer 2 (L2) networks will flow to the Arbitrum ecosystem. Of that total, 8% will go to a treasury controlled by ARB token holders, while 2% will be earmarked for development funding. This mechanism gives the ARB token holder treasury a steady revenue stream, with the relevant funds potentially used for ecosystem grants, token buybacks, or staking rewards in the future. Should Robinhood Chain’s trading volume continue to grow, it could further strengthen the Arbitrum ecosystem’s revenue-generating capacity.

US Central Command: The U.S. military has carried out strikes on approximately 90 military targets along Iran’s coast, including air defense systems, coastal surveillance facilities, missile and drone storage sites, naval forces, and military logistics infrastructure.

Binance is extending its airdrop campaign for eligible users holding USD1 on the platform. The event runs from 8:00 AM on July 10 to 8:00 AM on August 7. Eligible users will share a total prize pool of 165 million WLFI tokens. During the campaign, WLFI rewards will be distributed to eligible USD1 holders every Saturday before 2:00 AM. To qualify, users must hold USD1 balances (net assets) in any of the following account types: Spot Account, Funding Account, Margin Account (with USD1 used as cross, isolated, or unified account collateral), and U.S. dollar-denominated contract accounts (with USD1 as collateral, including multi-asset mode). For users holding USD1 in contract or margin accounts, they must maintain a daily open interest of at least 300 USD1 on USD1 contract trading pairs to receive a 1.2x boosted annualized return.

The DMind Benchmark, launched by the Minara team in 2025, has recently had its paper accepted by the Datasets & Benchmarks Track of the 2026 KDD main conference. It becomes the first large language model (LLM) evaluation benchmark at the intersection of digital assets and AI to pass peer review and secure a spot in the main track of an international top conference (not a workshop or demo). KDD is a leading international conference in data mining and machine learning, with an acceptance rate of roughly 29% for this track this year. The DMind Benchmark assesses models’ multi-step reasoning capabilities in real-world digital asset scenarios, comprising 3,154 objective questions and 389 open tasks. All content was reviewed by domain experts on a question-by-question basis, covering 9 subfields including DeFi, tokenomics, and contract security. It has systematically evaluated 31 leading LLMs such as GPT, Claude, and Gemini. Its dataset once topped Hugging Face’s overall Trending list, amassing over 13,000 cumulative downloads. A July 2026 retest revealed that the performance gains of six latest flagship models on the benchmark failed to bridge the domain depth gap. Leveraging this benchmark and DMind, the initiative is building a dedicated intelligent infrastructure layer for the digital asset sector, enabling AI to truly comprehend the digital asset ecosystem.