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ECX plans to launch the main network on October 31. Most Bitcoin holders can get ECX at 1:1

Comparatively, ECX plans to launch in three stages. The alpha phase will be launched around the Bitcoin block height of 963648. The beta phase is expected to take place on September 20 with a block height of 967680, and the permanent main network is scheduled to be launched on October 31 with a block height of 973728. The project was driven by Drivechains, founder and head of Layertwo Labs, and Paul Sztorc, developer of BIP-300/301. ECX will copy the transaction ledger of the specified Bitcoin snapshot and distribute ECX to most Bitcoin holders on a 1:1 basis on the new network. During the snapshot, users who control the private key through a self-hosted wallet can directly obtain the corresponding assets. Users of exchanges and other custodian institutions need to wait for the relevant platform to decide whether to support forking and distributing ECX, and the original BTC will not be exchanged, locked, or transferred. ECX plans to initially launch seven dedicated sidechains: Thunder, Zside, Bitnames, Bitassets, Photon, Truthcoin, and Coinshift. Of the approximately 1.1 million early Bitcoin corresponding addresses associated with Satoshi Nakamoto, about 600,000 ECX will continue to be distributed to these addresses, and about 500,000 ECX will be transferred to early investors and development funds through special transactions, but BTC on the Bitcoin network will not be affected.

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South Korea plans to open virtual asset accounts to about 3,500 companies, and the central bank plans to test AI proxy deposit tokens by the end of 2026

Comparing news, Factblock CEO and Korea Blockchain Week organizer Andrew Park said that the Korean crypto market is shifting from being driven by retail transactions to institutional digital finance. The focus of global financial institutions and enterprises has moved from tokens, exchanges, and prices to escrow, tokenization, stablecoins, payment and settlement infrastructure, and regulatory compliance. The Korea Financial Services Commission has proposed a framework to open corporate virtual asset accounts to approximately 3,500 listed companies and registered professional investors. The National Assembly of Korea has officially passed amendments to the Electronic Securities Act and the Capital Markets Act to incorporate tokenized real-world assets and security tokens into a unified legal framework. The Bank of Korea has completed initial testing of the Project Hangang real-world deposit token project and plans to conduct the second phase of institutional testing in late 2026. Related technical experiments have used wholesale deposit tokens to allow AI agents to execute automated conditional transactions. This article is sponsored by GENG, Build Your Fortune on GENG (https://geng.one)

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OpenAI Acquires Real-Time Database InstantDB Team: Strengthening AI Proxy Infrastructure

In comparison, according to CryptoBriefing, OpenAI has acquired the real-time database platform InstantDB team, which previously served more than 17,000 users and 400,000 applications, and processed about 2.5 billion transactions. InstantDB provides backend as a service (BaaS) products to help developers handle real-time data synchronization. Existing users will need to migrate cloud-hosted apps by August 31, 2027, and the open source code will continue to be available for self-deployment. InstantDB is Y Combinator's 2022 incubation project. The founding team will join OpenAI to strengthen the AI agent application infrastructure, as its AI agent requires persistent state management, real-time data reading and writing, and concurrent conflict processing capabilities, which are in line with InstantDB's dedicated real-time data synchronization infrastructure capabilities.

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Grayscale submits a fifth amendment to the US SEC, and Zcash ETF accelerates

In comparison, according to The Block, Grayscale submitted a fifth amendment to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on August 21 to further advance its Zcash ETF listing plan. According to the latest application, the product will officially be renamed “The Zcash ETF”, with an annual management rate of 2.5%. It is planned to be listed under the code “ZCH” on the Arca section of the New York Stock Exchange. The custodian is Coinbase Custody Trust Company, and the transfer agent is Bank of New York Mellon. The ETF will be converted from Grayscale's existing Zcash Trust, which has been in operation since 2017 and currently has over $260 million in assets under management. Previously, in the fourth amendment application, a subsidiary of Grayscale's parent company Digital Currency Group had discussed injecting approximately 200,000 ZEC into the fund.

22h ago

SEC Proposes Reg Crypto: Establishing a Legal Path for the Public Offering of Some Tokens and the Withdrawal of Investment Contracts

Comparing news, Galaxy's research director posted an article on the X platform stating that the US Securities and Exchange Commission proposed the “Crypto Asset Regulation” to regulate Crypto Assets, referred to as Reg Crypto for short. The proposal aims to establish a legal path for some tokens to be issued to the US public and establish a mechanism to terminate investment contracts. The scope of application is limited to cryptographic assets that are not securities themselves but have been issued or sold as part of an investment contract. Tokenized stocks, bonds, and arrangements for bundling tokens with shares or other securities are not within the framework. The proposal establishes four stages: financing, disclosure, construction, and exit. The one-time startup exemption allows issuers to raise $5 million over a maximum period of 4 years; higher exemptions set by reference to Regulation A allow $20 million or $75 million in 12 months. Relevant financing is subject to SEC qualification review and ongoing disclosure. The maximum investment amount for uncertified investors is 10% of those with high annual income or net assets. Issuers are also required to disclose token supply and release plans, minting and destruction mechanisms, governance and smart contract authority, source code, and project construction commitments and progress. When the issuer completes or permanently suspends the relevant construction obligations, does not make new construction commitments, and submits a transition report, the relevant investment contract will be deemed terminated, and cryptographic assets will no longer be subject to the securities law under the investment contract. Issuers that have not used the above financing exemptions can also use this safe harbor. The US Securities and Exchange Commission estimates that approximately 475 issuers will use the safe haven of investment contracts each year, and about 130 issuers will use the two new exemptions. Eligible issuances may not be restricted securities and may be immediately resold without contractual restrictions. The proposal also excludes covered initial offerings and some secondary transactions from state registration and qualification requirements, but it does not involve exchanges, brokers, dealers, escrow, or independent innovation exemptions for tokenized securities and on-chain transactions. The comment period is 60 days after publication in the Federal Register. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins and members Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda all issued statements of support.

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If it's just tokenized assets and doesn't connect to DeFi, what's left of RWA?

Author: Jesus Rodriguez, co-founder of Sentora Compiled by: Luffy, Foresight News Original title: Does RWA still make sense without DeFi? Discussions in the RWA industry often begin with a simple vision: take a treasury bill, fund share, stock, invoice, megawatt hour, or GPU for one hour, then mint a token representing it. Is it useful? It's really useful. But can it be called transformative? It's far from there. This is like putting a bar code on a container and claiming that a global trade problem has been solved. Barcodes make containers recognizable and machine-readable, but they don't create ports, cranes, customs, insurance, financing, shipping routes out of thin air, or bring in buyers from afar. A token is simply an addressable token of interest, and DeFi is a marketplace operating system. The question really worth discussing is not how many types of assets can go on the chain, but how many assets can complete valuation, financing, hedging, transaction monetization, and loss disposal in a stressful environment, and there is no need for offline meetings and coordination every time a transaction occurs. Tokenization completes the representation of equity; what DeFi brings is actual utility. Tokenization is just a bar code, and a similar scene has happened in the history of the supply chain finance market. The reason why mortgages can be scaled up is not as simple as turning a paper document into an electronic record. To actually achieve large-scale expansion, a complete set of operating mechanisms was created around this type of asset: credit review, post-loan services, securitization, credit rating, warehousing and financing, repurchases, hedging, clearing and settlement, and loss allocation rules. RWA also needed to go through the exact same evolutionary process. An asset that can be adapted to DeFi requires six levels: legally enforceable rights, reliable data sources, clear transfer and redemption rules, enforceable secondary market liquidity, collateral parameters that match actual behavior, and a credible settlement and loss disposal path. Most tokenization projects, on the other hand, tend to stop at the top five levels. There is a simple test that can be used to test the maturity of an asset. It only requires answering three questions: How much is this asset currently worth? Can the agreement complete withdrawal and monetization at this point? If the first two judgments are all wrong, who bears the loss? When smart contracts can definitively answer the above three questions, RWA can truly become a basic component of finance. Before that, it was mostly just a digital packaging shell. The deepest technical contradiction of RWA's quadruple time clock is that RWA runs under multiple sets of different time clocks at the same time. The blockchain can complete settlement in seconds and operate uninterrupted for 7 x 24 hours; oracles may update prices every hour or every day; underlying traditional exchanges are closed at night and on weekends; custodians follow bank working days; and the asset redemption process may take 1 day, 5 days, or even 30 days. If you use such a slow-paced RWA asset to support fast-maturing DeFi liabilities, such as stablecoin loans. This is the term shift, and it is also the core model that banks have relied on for hundreds of years: using short-term debt to fund long-term slow assets. This model has practical value, but the risk must be reasonably priced. Imagine a scenario: At 2 a.m. on Sunday, assets hit the liquidation threshold. Smart contracts can seize tokens immediately, but the underlying real-world market won't open until Monday, and the issuer's redemption business will not be processed until Tuesday. On-chain liquidation has been completed, and real-world asset disposal has only just begun. This creates a clearing gap. DeFi requires immediate withdrawal for monetization, but the real world does not allow it. The time difference between the two. This gap has counterintuitive consequences. Even treasury bonds with very low volatility are riskier than native crypto assets that are more volatile when used as collateral. The price of ETH fluctuates drastically, but it can be traded around the clock; the price of RWA assets appears to be stable, and it may only be up to a dozen hours without a new price tag. A flat price sometimes represents safety, and sometimes it's just a disguise of stale data. Liquidity is an exit channel, not TVL. The digital public also has common misunderstandings about liquidity. Liquidity is not equal to TVL, does not equal the existence of a trading pair, nor does it mean that the issuer promises to eventually redeem it according to net worth. Liquidity refers to the ability to convert a position into the settlement asset you need at an acceptable discount within the time window allowed by your debt. Take a crowded theater for example: the size of the hall cannot determine whether it is safe in the event of a fire; what really matters is the width of the exit channel. One copy of RWA to...

1d agoForesight News#DeFi #RWA

Black eats black? Fake DeFi actually snatched out North Korea's Lazarus real hacker

Source: Security Company ANY.RUN Compiled by: Daily Planet Daily Original title: Fishing Show of the Year, Fake DeFi Picks Out North Korea's Lazarus, Real Madrid Fans, Real Madrid Fans. With a mathematical background, they only use AI to write code. Core point of view: By setting up a fake DeFi company, the security agency successfully infiltrated the “Famous Chollima” hacker group under North Korea's Lazarus Group, revealed its complete process of using false identities, AI tools, and remote collaboration to infiltrate Western companies, and revealed its evolving toolset and infrastructure. Key element: The researchers disguised themselves as recruiters and recruited three North Korean agents within a few months to record their operation behavior, tool usage, and collaboration patterns in real time through the ANY.RUN sandbox environment. Agents used forged driver's licenses, stolen social security numbers, and mule accounts to complete the onboarding process. Some of these documents were processed by Google Gemini and had SynthID watermarks, revealing signs of forgery. Attackers rely on AI tools such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini to encode, translate, and modify files, and use AstrillVPN, remote desktop software, and dedicated servers to covertly access corporate environments. The three agents showed insufficient skills during development, frequently searched for basic issues, and exposed more proxy server and infrastructure information induced by selective network outages and captcha. The investigation found that Famous Chollima aims to lurk within the enterprise for a long time and legally obtain access to code, systems, and intellectual property rights, and is not limited to short-term attacks, and the threat persists significantly. Crypto friends who are often phished have probably heard of the North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group. Its well-known “campaigns” include, but are not limited to: Bybit ($1.5 billion) theft, Ronin Network/Axie Infinity Bridge attack ($6.2 billion), DMM Bitcoin/Ginco related attack ($308 million), Harmony Horizon Bridge attack ($100 million), and Atomic Wallet attacks ($100 million), etc. And the key to the success of these attacks is social engineering — hackers usually disguise themselves as normal job applicants, lurk at crypto companies for years, and wait for the right time. Recently, security agency ANY.RUN joined forces with BCA LTD (a company dedicated to threat intelligence and hunting) and NorthScan (a threat intelligence program to uncover the infiltration of North Korean IT workers) to effectively crack down on North Korean hacker agents. The researchers created a fake DeFi startup and successfully recruited “Famous Chollima” agents under North Korea's Lazarus Group who specialize in human infiltration, to gain an inside perspective on the actions of North Korea's IT workers. The ANY.RUN sandbox environment shows the agent's behavior patterns in real time, revealing their evolving toolsets, remote access workflows, AI tool usage, and supporting infrastructure. This survey went beyond the simple recruitment process and showed in depth how these agents collaborated, obtained, and used company resources after joining the company. The findings suggest that the North Korean IT worker program not only poses a recruitment risk; once agents sneak inside the organization, they can legally obtain access to code, systems, intellectual property, and critical business processes. The following is a report co-authored by the three parties, compiled by Daily Planet Daily. ——————Introduction In December of last year, we fully recorded the infiltration cycle of “Famous Chollima” for the first time. From recruiting collaborators to help them join Western companies, to falsifying documents, shipping laptops to intermediaries, and even using AI tools to assist and translate in real time during interviews, everything is under control. In that survey, we pretended to be a middleman willing to interview them and lend them a laptop in exchange for a percentage of their salary. The point is that those laptops are actually ANY.RUN sandbox environments that record every click and every step they take. This provided us with massive metrics, hours of computer operation videos, and face-to-face contact images, making an unprecedented survey and making headlines in many media. (“Famous Chollima...

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AllScale launches CLI tool, AI agents can complete stablecoin payments with one click

According to the official X account of the self-hosted stablecoin digital bank AllScale, the platform launched the AllScale CLI command line tool, which can complete stablecoin receipt, payment, and account checks on the terminal once installed. On the payee side, a detailed invoice can be sent to any valid email address with a single command. USDT or USDC is supported, and the payee does not need to register or establish a cooperative relationship in advance. On the payment side, users only need to approve the spending limit once, including the single transaction limit, total budget, and expiration date. The script can then run unattended. Each payment will create and fund a Claim Link, and the payee does not need to provide a wallet address; the process is exponential, and tasks that fail midway will not be refunded. Each command prints JSON to the standard output and returns 13 documented exit codes. The script or AI agent can automatically branch the results based on this without a screenshot check page. AllScale says that the CLI can be used in any environment where a shell can run, and is now live on npm, in a package called @allscale /cli.

1d ago

Anthropic plans to adjust advanced model data retention policies to allow enterprises to self-host

According to Bloomberg, Anthropic plans to adjust the data retention policies of its most advanced artificial intelligence model to give enterprise customers greater control over their data. The company expects to launch a new security system later this year, and enterprise customers will still need to keep the data for 30 days, but they can choose to do it on their own cloud computing infrastructure instead of storing it on Anthropic servers. According to people familiar with the matter, the system has been in preparation for several months and has been developed in coordination with more than 100 customers in highly regulated industries. Anthropic announced in June that it will retain all customer data for 30 days for its more powerful Mythos, Fable models, and future cutting-edge products to identify and prevent new cyber attacks using its technology, while stating that the data will not be used for training. The company acknowledged in a recent report that the policy may not be popular with customers who are accustomed to zero reservations and may affect business. Anthropic declined to comment. Competitor OpenAI also recently began testing a solution called “private secure processing” to avoid customer data retention, and plans to launch it more widely in September.

1d ago

Kraken parent company Payward explores becoming an all-purpose bank outside the US

Comparative news, according to The Block, Dave Ripley, co-CEO of Kraken's parent company Payward, said that the company is exploring becoming an “all-purpose bank” outside the US to expand payment, lending, income, and escrow businesses. Payward is also building asset management capabilities and turning its infrastructure into a range of services that banks, brokerage firms, and fintech companies can connect to applications.

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