The market that never sleeps is coming for the one that does. America already moved, the UK just followed, and the map is splitting in real time.

Korea targets 24h by 2027, Canada called it disruptive then started building it anyway. Germany warns against it, China still trades four hours a day. Everyone is heading the same way. Some just refuse to say it out loud.

ETF demand showed continued recovery with positive but mixed flows. Public companies maintained selective treasury expansion, mainly in Ethereum.

Corporate Treasuries

- BitMine acquired ~9,946 ETH ($19.4M) in its latest weekly purchase, lifting holdings to 5.787M ETH. 

- Strive added 79 BTC ($5.20M), reaching ~20,000 BTC. 

- Strategy raised its USD Reserve to $3.75B, started STRC buybacks, and kept its Bitcoin holdings at 843,775 BTC.

ETF Flows

Bitcoin ETFs recorded modest net inflows early in the week that later decelerated. 

Ethereum ETFs posted ~$104M net inflows for the third straight positive week and led broader crypto ETF flows.

World Foundation, the nonprofit behind the World protocol, has raised $52.5 million through a strategic sale of WLD tokens, with all purchased tokens subject to a one-year lockup.

The funding round was led by Pantera Capital and included Bain Capital Crypto, Eightco Holdings, Selini Capital, Susquehanna Crypto, and other investors.

The proceeds will be used to accelerate the adoption of World ID, the project's proof-of-humanity infrastructure, for enterprises, consumers, and AI agents worldwide.

World says demand for Proof of Human is rising as AI-generated content and digital identities become increasingly difficult to distinguish from real users. The protocol has already integrated World ID with platforms including Zoom, DocuSign, Okta, Vercel, and Tinder.

To date, more than 39 million users have joined the network, with 18+ million completing Orb verification and generating over 475 million World ID proofs. Including this raise, the project has secured approximately $492.5 million in total funding.

A new article from Sequoia Capital's Julien Bek argues that the next $1T AI company won't sell software, it will sell completed work, with AI operating behind the scenes.

The industry is shifting from AI copilots, which help professionals perform tasks, to AI autopilots, which deliver the end result directly. Instead of helping accountants close the books, AI companies will simply close them.

Today, software engineering accounts for nearly 50% of all AI agent usage, demonstrating that AI has already reached the point where it can handle most intelligence-heavy work autonomously. As models continue to improve, the same transition is expected across legal, finance, healthcare, insurance, IT, and procurement.

According to Sequoia, businesses spend roughly $6 on services for every $1 spent on software, making labor budgets a far larger market than software subscriptions.

The firm's thesis is that the biggest AI-native companies will first automate outsourced, standardized services, where customers already pay for outcomes, before expanding into more judgment-intensive work as AI capabilities continue to evolve.

A new cross-platform malware dubbed SparkKitty has been discovered on both Apple's App Store and Google Play, targeting cryptocurrency users by scanning photos for wallet recovery phrases.

Instead of monitoring your clipboard or keystrokes, SparkKitty uses OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to search your photo gallery for seed phrase screenshots, passwords, QR codes, and other sensitive data before sending them to attacker-controlled servers.

Researchers found the malware hidden inside fake crypto, messaging, and entertainment apps, with one Android app surpassing 10,000 downloads before removal.

Dango, a perpetuals DEX running on its own Layer-1, is shutting down after concluding there is no viable path to lasting commercial success. The team cited a short cash runway, legal and compliance delays, team departures and tough market conditions.

Trading halts on July 29 (12:00 UTC), and the Dango L1 blockchain shuts down permanently on August 13. Open positions settle at oracle prices and all balances convert to USDC.

"Despite our best effort, various reasons have led us to conclude there is no viable path to a lasting commercial success," the team said. Users should close positions and withdraw before July 29; any assets left behind will auto-return to their original Ethereum deposit addresses as USDC.

Dango was built by Left Curve Software and raised a $3.6M seed in November 2024 led by Lemniscap and Hack VC. It has no live token.

Thailand's SEC has filed a criminal complaint against Bitkub — the country's largest crypto exchange — and two former directors, alleging they concealed a 2021 hack from the regulator.

About $47M (1.7 billion baht) across 16 assets was drained from a Bitkub wallet in May 2021. From May to October that year, the exchange's daily filings to the SEC allegedly showed no change in holdings, masking the loss.

Bitkub says it deliberately withheld the breach to avoid triggering a bank run, not to defraud anyone. Its co-founders personally bought replacement assets in the same amounts, so it says neither the exchange nor customers lost funds — and the SEC reportedly confirmed its holdings were intact as of September 2025.

The case now sits with Thailand's Economic Crime Suppression Division, and prosecutors will decide whether to bring it to court. Bitkub is privately held; its KUB token showed no sharp reaction.

Strategy said it added $525M to its USD reserve this week, lifting the cash pile to $3.75B — enough to cover roughly 2.1 years of its preferred-stock dividends and debt interest.

The reserve is designed to service those obligations without touching Strategy's 843,775 BTC (about $63B), a position it has held unchanged for weeks as it raised cash through share sales rather than new coin buys.

Separately, a filing shows Strategy repurchased $25M of its STRC "Stretch" variable-rate preferred — the first buyback executed under a $1B Digital Credit Securities repurchase program authorized on June 29, aimed at supporting STRC's price near its $100 par after it slid to record lows.

Communities link several groups, channels and bots into one unit — members see its other chats and join them instantly, with the whole set collapsed into a single chat list item. Admins mark each chat visible or hidden and can limit who adds more.

Premium gets a rich text editor: headings, tables, lists, quotes and code blocks, photos and video mid-message, and up to 32,768 characters in a single message.

Bots can now answer one person inside a group, keeping greetings, menus, errors and confirmations out of everyone else's feed. GIF search spans 350 million GIFs across 36 languages, indexed offline with open-source models and no third party involved.

An attacker seized owner privileges over the smart contract that issues WEMIX's dollar-pegged stablecoin on July 26, abnormally minting around $6.25M worth of tokens.

The freshly minted stablecoin was swapped into WEMIX and USDC, and roughly $724K was bridged off WEMIX 3.0 to Ethereum and BNB Chain before it could be stopped. No user wallets were compromised.

In response, WEMIX suspended all WEMIX 3.0 bridges (including Chainlink CCIP and the PLAY Bridge), paused affected liquidity pools and the stablecoin module, flagged the attacker's addresses and asked exchanges to freeze the funds. Blockchain security firms are tracing the flows.

It is the network's second major security incident in about 18 months, after roughly $6M was drained from the Play Bridge Vault in February 2025.