Hawkins County, Tennessee, USA Passes Ban on Operating Cryptocurrency Mining Facilities and Data Centers

According to bits.media, Igor Runets, founder of Russia's largest mining company BitRiver, has been transferred from house arrest to detention pending trial by the Zamoskvoretsky court in Moscow on suspicion of fraud of 100 million rubles, and will be held in a detention center for at least two months. According to Article 159, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, the investigation stated that the case involved the supply of mining equipment, causing nearly 100 million rubles in losses to En+Group's subsidiaries. The reason for the court's approval of the detention request is that Igor Runets may affect the witness.

SpaceX has received 18 Falcon 9 launch orders worth $1.6 billion from the US Space Force to support the Pentagon's missile defense program. （Cointelegraph）

[EU Plans to Designate ChatGPT and Roblox as Very Large Online Platforms] According to Bloomberg, OpenAI's ChatGPT and the gaming platform Roblox are set to be designated as very large online platforms under the EU's Digital Services Act, as their monthly active users have exceeded 45 million. This designation could take effect as early as August, subjecting both companies to strict requirements for content moderation, algorithm transparency, and systemic risk assessments. Non-compliance could result in fines of up to 6% of their global annual revenue.

[Binance to Delist AEUR and Automatically Convert to EUR on August 14] Binance will delist the AEUR/USDT spot trading pair at 11:00 (UTC+8) on July 31, 2026. Users are required to withdraw or convert their AEUR assets before August 14, 2026. Starting from 11:00 (UTC+8) on August 14, 2026, Binance will cease AEUR withdrawals and automatically convert any remaining AEUR in user accounts to EUR at a 1:1 ratio.

According to Bits.media, Andrey Svintsov, Vice Chairman of the Information Policy Committee of the Russian State Duma, suggested that citizens stop purchasing the Gram token created by Pavel Durov and avoid any financial operations within the Telegram ecosystem, and advised waiting for official comments from the Federal Communications Regulatory Agency and the Federal Security Agency. Andrey Svintsov stated that Russian authorities have requested Telegram to open offices in Russia, store user data within Russia, and cooperate with Russian intelligence agencies.