Giant Whale withdraws 19000 ETH from Gemini and pledges 112000 ETH over three weeks

[Blockchain Rewards Platform Bundle Completes $5.5 Million Pre-Seed Funding Round] According to Konsulteer, blockchain rewards platform Bundle has completed a $5.5 million Pre-Seed funding round, co-led by Ethereal Ventures and Further Ventures, with participation from Nascent, GSR, Scenius Capital, Anchorage Digital, and Nuwa Capital.

[MiniMax Clarifies H3 Model Licensing Has No Regional Restrictions, U.S. Users Required to Sign Additional Documents] MiniMax officially denied claims that the H3 model cannot be legally used in certain regions, stating that H3 can be deployed in areas such as the U.S., EU, UK, and South Korea through the formal authorization process. Users are required to submit an H3 license request form for the team to process. Due to local regulations and legal disputes with Disney, U.S. users must additionally complete an authorization form and sign a waiver. The company emphasized that the licensing system itself has no regional restrictions, though specific deployments are subject to varying regulatory and legal requirements in different regions.

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, the Bank of Korea has restarted its physical gold purchase program after 13 years, establishing a cooperation framework with the Korea Exchange (KRX), the Korea Securities Depository (KSD), and LS MnM to purchase gold planned for export by Korean gold producers. The Bank of Korea purchased a total of 90 tons of gold between 2011 and 2013. As of the end of June, the Bank of Korea's foreign exchange reserves amounted to $427.36 billion, of which gold reserves were worth approximately $4.79 billion, accounting for 1.1%. The annual gold production in South Korea is about 40 to 45 tons, of which about 4 to 5 tons can be exported. The Bank of Korea expects that the future procurement scale will not be too large.

[Upbit to List HOME KRW and USDT Trading Pairs] Upbit announced it will list the HOME token's KRW and USDT trading pairs.

Rosen will conduct Japan's first POS cash register stablecoin payment empirical experiment at two stores in Tokyo on August 6 and August 17. The experiment will use three stablecoins, JPYC, USDC, and USDT, to complete payments through HashPort Wallet and MetaMask Wallet. The settlement will be processed by the PAYTREE multi code payment gateway provided by Canal Payment Service, without the need for a dedicated payment terminal.