Metaplanet CEO Simon Gerovich exercises stock options, increasing his shareholding to 79.58 million shares

TRON founder Sun Yuchen responded to external doubts in a post on X, stating that he does not intend to respond to specific accusations one by one, emphasizing his absolute confidence in the field of encryption and artificial intelligence. Sun Yuchen said that this confidence comes from the technological breakthroughs that have been made in the fields of mathematics, cryptography, and artificial intelligence, and stated that about 8 billion people worldwide will eventually use services based on these technologies. The team's mission is to make the relevant services reliable and comprehensive enough.

According to DefiLlama data, Robinhood Chain's DEX transaction volume in the past 24 hours reached $1.33 billion, surpassing Ethereum ($993 million), BNB Chain ($962 million), and Base Network ($881 million), and second only to Solana ($1.86 billion). Robinhood Chain's DeFi TVL is $725 million, with a 24-hour network layer revenue of $963000, exceeding the sum of Ethereum ($70000), Solana ($84000), BNB Chain ($44000), and Base Network ($93000) by three times. Robinhood Chain's fee in the past 24 hours was $1.07 million, higher than the sum of Ethereum ($362000) and Solana ($677000).

According to SlowMist Monitoring, Float Protocol suffered a lightning loan attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $28000 (10.71 ETH). The attacker manipulated the spot price of Uniswap V3 through lightning loans, resulting in incorrect pricing of LP shares in the Hypervisor contract. The related key functions lacked TWAP or oracle verification and slippage protection mechanisms. The attacker distorts the values of current Tick() and getTotal Amounts () by conducting large transactions in the V3 fund pool, and then repeatedly deposits and extracts the inflated share value for arbitrage.

Due to the Iran War, shipping in the Strait of Hormuz has been disrupted, and Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are investing in port, pipeline, and railway projects. Saudi Arabia is studying the expansion of the east-west crude oil pipeline, considering adding 1 to 2 million barrels per day on top of the existing transportation capacity of 7 million barrels per day. The UAE is accelerating the construction of Fujairah Port, and DP World has obtained a 50 year franchise to develop two new terminals. The Al Rugaylat terminal has an annual processing capacity of 2.5 million TEUs, and the Dibba terminal has added 3.6 million tons of cargo processing capacity. The new crude oil pipeline promoted by Abu Dhabi is expected to be put into operation in 2027, doubling the UAE's crude oil export capacity through Fujairah bypassing the Strait of Hormuz. According to a survey conducted by Reuters in July, Qatar and Kuwait are expected to shrink by 8.1% respectively in 2026, while Saudi Arabia is expected to grow by 1.4%. According to Kpler data, only 7 bulk commodity ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz last Thursday.

According to a report by Golden Ten, Saudi Arabia is in preliminary talks to raise at least $8 billion in new loans. The Saudi National Debt Management Center (NDMC) has begun negotiations with various banks, and Saudi Aramco is also in similar talks with banks. Both potential transactions are in the early stages.