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The United States Treasury Department's recent sanctions are linked to several encrypted addresses in Cuba

On 15 July, according to Livecoins, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury placed several encrypted currency addresses on the sanctions list on 13 July, targeting organizations linked to the Cuban regime. The sanctioned addresses relate to the Tron, Dogecoin, Solana, Dash, Zcash and Litecoin networks, which also include bitcoin and the Etherak addresses. The sanctions also targeted entities linked to various State-owned enterprises, such as the Association of Revolutionary Combatants of Cuba and the Cuban Ministry of Tourism, and frozen accounts controlled by the Ukrainian citizen Dmytro Rashevskyi and the Belarusian citizen Yevgeniy Vladimirovich Silayev, alleging damage to the United States as a result of the operation of a virtual tool。

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United States Department of the Treasury sanctions multiple encrypted currency addresses and entities associated with Cuba

On 13 July, the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury added to the sanctions list several encrypted currency addresses linked to the Cuban regime. The sanctioned addresses relate to the Tron, Dogecoin, Solana, Dash, Zcash and Litecoin networks, which also include bitcoin and the Etherak addresses. The sanctions targeted entities linked to various State-owned enterprises, such as the Association of Revolutionary Combatants of Cuba and the Cuban Ministry of Tourism, and frozen accounts controlled by the Ukrainian citizen Dmytro Rashevskyi and the Belarusian citizen Yevgeniy Vladimirovich Silayev, accusing them of having engaged in the operation of virtual tools to the detriment of the United States。

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Bitmine pledged income of $45.7 million from ETH in the last quarter, or 98 per cent of total income

On 15 July, Cointelegraph reported that, according to Bitmine ' s latest submission of 10-Q documents, Bitmine had realized $45.7 million in ETH pledge and certification revenue, representing 98 per cent of the company ' s total revenue, over the quarter to 31 May. The total income of Bitmine for the same period was only $2 million a year ago, mainly from machine leasing. In March, Bitmine launched an institutional-level Taifung pledge platform, Mavan, which has pledged 85 per cent of its ETH holdout (approximately 4.9 million ETH). The Chairman of the Board, Tom Lee, stated that, when ETH completed the pledge entirely through MAVAN and its pledge partners, the annual proceeds of the pledge were expected to be $284 million. At the same time, Tom Lee states that Robinhod Chain has been trading over $1 billion since he went online on 1 July, using ETH as the original Gas token, that transaction fees are denominated in ETH and settled on the Ether House, and that Robinhod's 27 million users are beginning to regard ETH as “currency”。

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Korea will set up strategic investment accounts to invest in strategic industries

ON 15 JULY, THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA HAD PUT ON HOLD A PLAN TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND, WHICH HAD BEEN INTENDED TO FOLLOW THE MODEL OF SINGAPORE ' S TAMARTHIC HOLDINGS AND AUSTRALIA ' S FUTURE FUND. INSTEAD, KOREA WILL ESTABLISH A STRATEGIC INVESTMENT ACCOUNT WITHIN KIC. THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF KOREA INDICATED THAT THE ACCOUNT WOULD BE INVESTED IN AREAS, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD, THAT WERE CRITICAL TO NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AND ECONOMIC SECURITY. INVESTMENT TARGETS WILL COVER THE CORE AREAS OF STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES SUCH AS NUCLEAR ENERGY AND AEROSPACE, FINANCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE, AS WELL AS OVERSEAS SUPPLY CHAINS. KIM XIAN

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OpenAI's first hardware is an AI soundbox: you can see the environment and you can learn the owner

OpenAI ' s first consumer hardware is a non-screened AI soundbox, containing batteries, cameras and sensors that can move to different rooms and understand the environment around users. This device, which is used by its owner as an "AI partner", controls the smart home, plays content, answers questions and answers, and calls personal information such as mail, becomes user-friendly and offers relevant information. The equipment is equipped with a mechanical structure that is self-moveable and attempts to make it more like a living object, and the voice capacity will be based on GPT-live and can be heard and spoken at the same time. OpenAI plans to publish the product this year and is expected to sell in 2027, but the product is still under development and the details may be adjusted. In addition, Apple has indicted OpenAI for alleged theft of the hardware ' s commercial secrets and has sought a ban, which could affect listing times。

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