Odaily’s “Evening Brief” brings together a series of updates spanning global technology, crypto markets, regulation and politics. The most prominent corporate item is Elon Musk securing a 780 billion yuan pay package. The brief also cites Donald Trump’s comments on the Iran war outcome, in which he said Iran had been “completely defeated” and that the United States was no longer weak.
SEC Tokenized Stock Trading and a Digital Finance Roundtable
On regulation and market structure, the brief includes an analysis stating that the U.S. SEC is preparing to allow tokenized stock trading, a development linked in the analysis to a structural reshaping of the U.S. equity market. The U.S. House of Representatives will also hold a digital finance roundtable next week, with discussion centered on how crypto assets can help maintain economic autonomy.
Prediction markets were another active area in the roundup. According to a16z crypto, the World Cup and multiple other events together pushed weekly prediction market trading volume to a historical high. In AI and platform news, Tencent customer service said WeChat is conducting a gray-scale test of its AI assistant “Xiaowei.” The brief also notes an “electricity battle” around AI data centers, with the United States planning to accelerate grid connection for large-scale computing facilities.
Namada Incident and Strategy’s Bitcoin Reserve
On-chain security also appeared in the evening update. Namada suffered an attack, and more than 220,000 ATOM flowed into a Cosmos Hub address before being transferred out. A legal case related to Satoshi Nakamoto was also updated: the case concerning a “legal ownership claim over Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin” remains under review, and lawyers have asked that a unilateral judgment be avoided.
For corporate Bitcoin holdings, Michael Saylor reviewed the “Bitcoin bet,” with Strategy’s holdings expanding to 840,000 BTC and its reserve net value exceeding debt by 48 billion U.S. dollars. Taken together, the brief covers corporate compensation, securities regulation, prediction markets, AI infrastructure, blockchain security, legal proceedings and macro-political remarks in a compact news roundup.