Chainlink Staking v0.2 is on track to launch in Q4｜Cryptocurrency Trends

1.Mainstream Exchange Trends:

• Binance, in collaboration with the Tajikistan government and TRM Labs, played a significant role in apprehending key members of the terrorist group Islamic State. Binance’s Head of Financial Crime Compliance, Tigran Gambaryan, stated that the investigation involved monitoring an ISIS-associated Telegram channel and subsequently identifying the crypto wallet address used by a terrorist leader to receive donations.
• The Wall Street Journal reported that Binance has stopped offering P2P services to clients through sanctioned Russian banks.
• OKX's Web3 wallet has partnered with NEO to jointly launch the Neo APAC Hackathon which will be held in Bangalore, India.
• The operator of Upbit, Dunamu, records a total operating profit of US$65.43 million in the second quarter, reflecting a year-on-year decrease of around 69%.
• HashKey Group's COO, Weng Xiaoqi, has revealed that the company is in negotiations with around five local Hong Kong brokers to establish an entry point for HashKey's cryptocurrency trading services.
• Mainstream Exchange Listings (CEX: Token — Time of Listing in UTC)

2.Cryptocurrency Trends:

• A remote code execution vulnerability in certain versions of WPS For Windows has led to the theft of private keys for several BitBrowser users, resulting in losses amounting to at least US$410,000.
• The next version of Chainlink Staking (v0.2) remains on schedule for Q4 launch later this year, with an initial expanded pool size of 45 million LINK tokens.
• Yearn: (1) The community has begun voting on the "YFI Wintermute Loan and CRV Plan" proposal until August 31. (2) The community has begun voting on the "Launch V3" proposal, which is set to conclude on August 31.(The first release “3.0.0” has been deployed on Ethereum Mainnet, Polygon, Optimism and Avalanche, but the first round of public promotion focused on Polygon.)
• PancakeSwap users can now protect their transactions against sandwich bots with bloXroute Protect RPC.
• OnlyFans invested part of its capital in ETH and held approximately US$11.43 million as of the end of November last year;
• Paradigm has released the alpha version of Rivet, an open-source developer wallet and tool for Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) chains. As a browser extension product, Rivet allows developers to inspect, debug, modify, and operate the state of local Ethereum nodes, manage multiple addresses, sign and submit transactions or messages, and view transaction history.
• Lens Protocol, a Web3 social protocol, tweeted that some Lens accounts have received invitations to test their new invite system, allowing users to bring their connections into the Lens community.
• DefiLlama has launched a new feature that allows users to track the developer activity of projects listed on its platform. The feature provides information on weekly and monthly submissions, the number of developers involved, and the date of the last submission.

3.Financing Trends:

• DRiP, a digital gift NFT project on the Solana chain, completed a US$3 million seed round of financing led by Placeholder.

4.Regulatory Trends:

• The Wall Street Journal reports that the US Treasury Department proposed new cryptocurrency tax regulations stipulating that starting in 2026, crypto exchanges must submit annual reports disclosing gross revenues.
• Xiao Feng, chairman of HashKey Group, said that at the end of this year, the Hong Kong Securities Regulatory Commission may issue a regulatory notice concerning STOs.
• The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is reportedly studying the establishment of a regulatory framework for a digital Hong Kong dollar and stablecoins.