Odaily News: Coinbase's Chief Policy Officer, while discussing the progress of the CLARITY ACT on The Hill, stated: "We have addressed the ethical issues, we have resolved the nomination concerns, and we have a bipartisan bill regarding its substance, which should be able to move forward."

Odaily Planet Daily News Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor confirmed that the company's Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock STRC will maintain a Stretch Dividend Rate of 12.00% in August 2026. STRC was launched in July 2025 with an initial rate of 9%, and has since seen seven consecutive monthly increases. STRC's dividend adjustment mechanism stipulates that when its trading price falls below $95, the dividend rate increases by 0.5%, and once triggered, the increase is irreversible even if the price recovers. Strategy resets this rate monthly to drive STRC's price closer to its $100 par value, and issues new shares through its ATM program to raise funds for Bitcoin purchases. STRC closed at $89.46 on July 31, down from the previous closing price of $89.50, approximately 10% to 11% below its $100 par value. The stock touched a low of $71.25 in June and has not returned to par value since mid-May. Strategy has paused new STRC issuance through its ATM program, limiting its ability to use this funding channel to increase its Bitcoin holdings. The company maintains a liquidity buffer covering approximately 26 months of dividend and interest obligations, and in late June, authorized a $2 billion preferred stock and common stock buyback and Bitcoin monetization program through the Digital Credit Capital Framework.

Odaily News – Fred Thiel, CEO of MARA, one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies, said in an interview with Natalie Brunell on July 23 that Bitcoin's opportunity as a payment and exchange medium has passed. For commercial scenarios that require thousands of transactions per second with low profit margins per transaction, slight fluctuations in Bitcoin's price could alter the actual value received, so commercial applications of cryptocurrency in areas such as AI are ultimately more likely to be fulfilled through stablecoins. However, Bitcoin remains suitable as a store of value that operates outside central control and can be transferred quickly.

Odaily星球日报讯 据 Bitcoin News 监测，Galaxy 已识别第三波 COLDCARD 攻击，推定亏损现已超过 8800 万美元。若用户仍在 2020 年后任何型号的 ColdCard 中持有资金，建议立即转移 BTC。

Odaily News: Senator Cynthia Lummis spoke on the Senate floor this week, urging bipartisan colleagues to pass the CLARITY Act and highlighting President Trump's ethics provisions. President Trump voluntarily submitted to the strictest ethics provisions in American history.

Odaily Planet Daily News According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Hyperliquid's HYPE burn volume over the weekend was lower than on weekdays, with 8,570 HYPE burned in the past 24 hours, valued at approximately $449,400. During the same period, the protocol allocated $1.45 million in revenue to the Assistance Fund. The cumulative historical burn volume of HYPE stands at 46.17 million tokens, valued at approximately $2.4 billion, accounting for 4.62% of the maximum supply of 1 billion tokens.

Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform, stating that even if the mnemonic remains secure because it was generated via dice rolls or imported from an existing mnemonic, multiple Coldcard features may still be vulnerable due to the Yasmarang PRNG flaw. Affected features include paper wallets, device cloning, USB sessions, Secret Teleport, co-signing keys, password generator, and HSM mode. If the mnemonic was imported or generated through a sufficient number of dice rolls, the mnemonic itself remains secure, but using these features may still expose secret information generated by the flawed random number generator.

Odaily News: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has frozen the approval of Nasdaq's QBTC bitcoin options in order to re-examine the decision after a legal challenge from CME Group. CME Group argues that, since bitcoin is a commodity, options linked to its value should fall under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), not the SEC. The approval remains suspended while the SEC reviews the dispute, with interested parties able to submit comments until August 24.

Odaily星球日报讯 Bitcoin News 在 X 平台发文表示，Strategy（MSTR）称其可能在现行资本计划下出售最高 50 亿美元的比特币。这一金额较其最初在新资本管理计划下可能出售的金额高出 4 倍。CEO Phong Le 表示，潜在出售所得可用于增加 12.5 亿美元储备，支持其每年约 17.6 亿美元的股息和利息义务，并为最高 20 亿美元的股票回购提供资金。Michael Saylor 表示，按现行计划计算，50 亿美元为上限，但总额最终可能更高。

Odaily News: According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, multiple institutions have unstaked and sold HYPE, causing the token to drop from $72 to $52 over the past month, a decline of 28%. A whale holds 1.38 million HYPE in long positions, valued at $72.15 million, with a current liquidation price of $47.6, approximately 9% away from HYPE's current price. This position has been held for 8 months without being closed. It saw an unrealized loss of $26 million at the end of January, reached a peak unrealized gain of $47.46 million in June, and currently remains up $18.8 million. The position is nearing the liquidation price because the whale previously withdrew a significant portion of the unrealized profit as margin.

Odaily News: U.S. President Trump is weighing a bipartisan ethics counterproposal to the CLARITY Act, as Senate negotiators need to finalize crypto conflict-of-interest rules before the August 7 recess. The bill aims to establish a federal regulatory framework for crypto companies through a division of labor between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). Republican Senator Thom Tillis and Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego submitted a state attorneys general enforcement plan to the White House on July 29. The plan allows state-level agencies to enforce the ban on federal officials issuing or sponsoring digital tokens, rather than leaving related violations solely to the Department of Justice. The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the bill on July 17 with 294 votes in favor and 134 against, with over 70 Democrats voting in favor. The Senate has not yet held a full floor vote, and the bill needs 60 votes to pass. If all Republicans support it, at least 7 Democrats would still need to vote in favor.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Strategy founder Michael Saylor posted on X platform, stating that BIP-110 has only 2.54% support at block 960,561, with only 24 out of 946 blocks signaling, all signaling coming from DATUM miners who share rewards through OCEAN. Signals outside OCEAN are 0, and the 55% voluntary threshold can no longer be reached—this is not miner consensus. Saylor pointed out that OCEAN sets BIP-110 signaling as the default option, and the BIP-110 guide directs node operators to Bitcoin Knots and miners to DATUM, effectively acting as a vertical integration marketing campaign for Knots and OCEAN.

Odaily News: Michael Saylor posted on the X platform, stating that before block 961,632, BIP-110 signaling was voluntary. From block 961,632 to 963,647, his software will reject every block that does not signal. Any "100% signaling" shown during this window reflects that rule, rather than voluntary support from miners or Bitcoin consensus.

Odaily Planet Daily News Strive Vice President Joe Burnett posted on X, saying that recent weeks may be among the worst in Bitcoin's history. Many people purchased approved hardware wallets, generated seed phrases offline, and followed established best practices, yet still lost significant amounts of Bitcoin due to a vulnerability affecting seed phrases generated by COLDCARDwallet since March 2021. The vulnerability went undetected for over five years. Joe Burnett stated this will permanently change people's confidence in self-custody. Self-custody will still exist, but it has been permanently changed. For those who want to directly control large amounts of Bitcoin, the standard should be multi-vendor multisignature, with keys independently generated using different hardware and different software, and stored in different physical locations. If they cannot accept this approach, they should use institutional-grade custodians. Joe Burnett noted that the current wave of Bitcoin adoption is occurring through ETFs, treasury companies, and institutional custodians, primarily driven by people who never intended to become experts in private key generation, hardware security, firmware, backups, inheritance planning, and physical storage. A single key generated by one hardware wallet protecting large amounts of Bitcoin carries excessively high concentration risk. Joe Burnett also said that institutional custody may ultimately lead to too much Bitcoin being concentrated in the hands of large companies, creating risks of censorship, seizure, and confiscation. However, Bitcoin's portability and settlement properties provide a critical counterbalance — users can create a wallet and request the custodian to send Bitcoin, shifting from counterparty risk to direct ownership within minutes. Joe Burnett believes that as long as Bitcoin itself remains secure, the failure of one custody method does not negate the underlying monetary system, but rather forces the market to develop better tools, stronger standards, and more resilient custody architectures. This week may ultimately mark the end of one era of Bitcoin custody and the beginning of the next wave of Bitcoin adoption.