VC Roundup: Investments in Web3 startups top $1B in July

[LAYER Tokens Worth $860,000 Transferred from Suspected Team-Linked Wallet to Binance] According to monitoring by onchainschool.pro, two hours ago, LAYER tokens worth $860,000 were transferred from a wallet suspected to be linked to the team to Binance. These tokens previously originated from a team wallet starting with AyoJtU.

Japanese Finance Minister Takayuki Katayama expressed support for integrating cryptocurrencies into traditional financial markets. （Cointelegraph）

According to the popularity ranking, PEPE's popularity has decreased by 50000 followers compared to yesterday, ranking first. The popularity ranking is as follows: ① PEPE （$0.000006715，-3.33%） ② BONK （$0.00001172，-0.42%） ③ MYX （$5.26，-6.57%） ④ ZEC （$489.47，-3.64%） ⑤ DOGE （$0.1487，-2.04%） PEPE's main funds have strong selling power, with a net outflow of $1591.27 million in 24 hours and a transaction volume of $1.97 billion in 24 hours, of which the main funds had a net outflow of $4.5031 million.

[Binance Alpha to Launch ESIM Airdrop, Points Threshold Set at 257] Binance Alpha announced that the Depinsim (ESIM) airdrop event will go live on January 5, 2026, at 20:00 (UTC+8). Users with at least 257 Binance Alpha points can participate in the airdrop, with a total of 375 ESIM tokens available on a first-come, first-served basis.

[Cyvers Detects Suspicious Transactions on ARB Network, Approximately $1.5 Million Stolen] Cyvers announced the detection of multiple suspicious transactions on the ARB network involving a proxy contract, resulting in a loss of approximately $1.5 million. Preliminary analysis indicates that the single deployer of the USDG and TLP projects may have lost account access, allowing the attacker to deploy a new contract and update ProxyAdmin permissions to gain control of the account. The stolen funds were subsequently transferred to the ETH network and deposited into TornadoCash.