A whale withdrew another 8,100 ZEC from a centralized exchange (CEX), bringing its total spot holdings to $55.7 million.

Mysterious whale 0x6436 bought another 373,730 $HYPE ($36M) today. In just the past month, this whale has bought 4.7M $HYPE ($400M) — insane!

Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Chief Executive Eddie Yue Wai-man stated in his address at the Treasury Markets Summit that Hong Kong’s well-established stock, foreign exchange and bond markets are accompanied by the rapid rise of digital finance. The Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) will launch a new service by the end of this year, which will enable 24/7 real-time on-chain settlement supporting the digital Hong Kong dollar and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). It will also explore the acceptance of tokenized deposits and regulated stablecoins for settlement on the platform. (Zhitong Finance)

Beating AI News Brief: AI application development framework CopilotKit has open-sourced OpenMuse, a self-deployable personal AI Agent styled after Muse. It supports iOS, Android, and Web, with the Agent featuring its own Chromium browser, integration with Linux terminals and file systems, and the ability to run tasks in the background. Built on CopilotKit and AG-UI, the project can also connect to different Agent harnesses. In addition to chat functionality, it can store task plans, goals, and progress, and integrate with Gmail and Google Calendar. For operations like sending emails or adjusting schedules, it first requests user confirmation. Users can directly access the browser and terminal to view the Agent’s ongoing work and take control at any time. That said, the project is still in Alpha: full testing with real Google accounts and models is not yet complete, cross-device synchronization remains unvalidated, and features like automatic payments, ticketing, banking, and social connectors are on the roadmap. CopilotKit has previously open-sourced projects including OpenBot and OpenGenerativeUI. It has consistently prioritized developing new Agent product forms as open-source reference implementations that can be self-deployed, modified, and extended.

According to Caixin reports, Cambodian authorities have for the first time disclosed details of the large-scale online telecom fraud hub "Camp 8" (also known as Wansheng Commercial City or Legend Park) in Prey Veng Province. Built in 2023, the 120-hectare site is one of Cambodia’s largest fraud bases, capable of housing up to 20,000 trafficked laborers forced to conduct cross-border telecom and online fraud. It operates as a closed "city within a city" with full supporting facilities including offices, accommodation, supermarkets, and network data centers. Blockchain intelligence agency Elliptic’s investigation found that the park’s operator, Legend Innovation, has direct overlaps and links with the US and UK-sanctioned Prince Group in corporate phone registration, executive activities, and business records. Additionally, the park long hosted an offline service outlet of Huione Pay, used for cryptocurrency and fiat currency deposits, withdrawals, and exchanges for park personnel and illicit financial operations.

According to GMGN market data, the USELESS token has rebounded over 35% today, with its market cap temporarily standing at $344 million. On the news front, Bonk Guy returned to Twitter yesterday and has been continuously bullish on the USELESS token’s performance. Additionally, per TradingBeats monitoring, a wallet address (7LK2oT) created a new wallet 7 hours ago and spent 2.28 million USDC to purchase 6.64 million USELESS at a price of $0.34 per token.

According to GMGN market data, MONITOR, a stock-linked meme coin on Robinhood Chain, has seen its gains widen, with its market cap breaking through $13 million and currently standing at $12.48 million, marking a 1,070% increase in the past 24 hours. Earlier reports noted that this morning, Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir, followed MONITOR’s Twitter account, sparking FOMO hype around the token. Palantir is a U.S. AI defense contractor whose use of AI technology for "mass surveillance" of U.S. citizens has sparked widespread controversy. The stock-linked meme coin MONITOR was launched on the long.xyz platform, pairing tokenized U.S. stock Palantir as its liquidity pool and leveraging stock trading platform Robinhood.