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Polygon CEO: One third of teams involved in internal AI projects

According to Polygon Foundation CEO Sandeep Nailwal, approximately one third of the Polygon team suspended its work last week and moved to the internal AI project, for which the company provided an incentive of $15,000. The team completed a total of 13 projects in three days, of which 6 were online and 1 processed real transactions on the main network on five chains. In Nailwal ' s view, the integration of AI into day-to-day work processes will be an important element of team competitiveness, particularly in the area of payments。

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Quickswap uses Orbs Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 as the default permanent contract infrastructure

Quickswap, supported by 81.8 per cent of QUICK token holders, uses Orbs Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 as the default infrastructure for all contract transactions over the support chain. The vote replaced Quickswap ' s deployment on Polygon POS, supported by Orderkor, and expanded its Orbs contract platform, which had been online in Base by the end of 2025. Orbs disclosed that its decentralised Layer 3 network currently pledged over 1.12 billion orbs。

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THE BCH DEAL IS 10 TIMES HIGHER, AND THE NET CONTRACT IS NUMBER 1 IN THE WORLD

According to data published in the early days of A, the BCH/USDT contract for perpetuity increased tenfold in 10 minutes, reaching $756.1 million for nearly 24 hours, a decrease of 4.89 per cent. The surge in turnover usually implies an increase in the dynamism of market transactions, or the operation of large money purchases, which may be triggered by certain important market changes or news bulletins。

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SpaceXAI announces open source

On 16 July, local time, SpaceXAI under the flag of Mask announced open source Grok Build and reset all user restrictions. In response to user questions about privacy, the company stated that Grok Build had fully respected the zero data retention (ZDR) principle since it had been on the line. All users can always disable the uploading of data in the command line interface. In the earlier test version, non-ZDR users defaultly enable data retention. Since 12 July, the company has banned default data for all Grok Build users and is in the process of removing all previously retained coded data to ensure that the preferences of each user are respected. Kim Xian

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The Fed's probability of maintaining interest rates in July is close to 90 per cent

ON 16 JULY, ACCORDING TO THE CME FEDERAL RESERVE WATCH: THE FED'S PROBABILITY OF MAINTAINING INTEREST RATES IN JULY WAS 88.8 PER CENT, AND THE PROBABILITY OF A CUMULATIVE INCREASE OF 25 BASIS POINTS WAS 11.2 PER CENT. THE FED HAD A PROBABILITY OF MAINTAINING INTEREST RATES CONSTANT BY 51.2 PER CENT BY SEPTEMBER, WITH A PROBABILITY OF A CUMULATIVE INCREASE OF 44 PER CENT FOR 25 BASIS POINTS AND 4.7 PER CENT FOR 50 BASIS POINTS。

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The U.S. House vetoes the proposed cuts in Israeli military support

On 16 July, the United States House of Representatives rejected a proposal to reduce military assistance to Israel by 314 votes in favour and 104 against, but this vote highlighted the growing division within the Democratic Party over support in the United States. The amendment, which was supported by 103 Democrat and 1 Republican parliamentarian, would cut off security aid from billions of dollars a year, although the outside world had previously considered that the amendment had little chance of becoming a law。

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Polygon executive: Stripe-PayPal transactions will drive 4 million subscribers to pay in chains

According to executive director Polygon, a trade between Stripe and PayPal could introduce 400 million PYUSD and Venmo users into block-chain payment systems. He noted that "in the coming years, most of the money will live and flow on the block chain. Such initiatives have only accelerated this shift. After the news was released, PayPal ' s share price increased by 17 per cent。

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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN OVER 20 YEARS, THE PENTAGON OF THE UNITED STATES BANNED THE RELEASE OF F-35 AIRCRAFT REPORTS

ON 16 JULY, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN 20 YEARS, THE PENTAGON BANNED THE PUBLICATION OF AN ANNUAL REPORT ON THE F-35 FIGHTER JET PROJECT, WHICH HAD BEEN PREPARED AT THE REQUEST OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS AND PUBLISHED ANNUALLY SINCE 2005. THIS YEAR, FOR THE FIRST TIME DURING THE REVIEW PROCESS, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION WAS DISCOVERED THAT SHOULD NOT BE MADE PUBLIC. THE F-35 PROJECT WAS REPORTEDLY CRITICIZED ON MORE THAN ONE OCCASION FOR BUDGET OVERRUNS, DELAYS IN THE DELIVERY OF ENGINES, DELAYS IN THE UPDATING OF SOFTWARE AND PREMATURE WEAR AND TEAR OF SPARE PARTS。

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