China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, together with three other departments, has issued guidelines on the high-quality development of internet basic resources, according to a July 13 report cited by ChainCatcher from Jinshi Data. The document calls for stronger planning around internet technology innovation and says related national key R&D programs and major science and technology projects should be advanced. The guidelines specifically mention integrated innovation involving artificial intelligence, blockchain and distributed identifiers with internet basic resources. They also call for breakthroughs in dynamic network optimization, intelligent resource scheduling and secure data interaction. Beyond blockchain-related language, the document sets out several other technical priorities. These include innovation in the IPv6 technology system, with attention to protocol compatibility and high-performance transmission, as well as work on satellite internet mega-constellation networking, rapid routing switchover, reliable transmission and interference resistance. It also mentions key technologies for the large-scale deployment and application of resource public key infrastructure.

Gate market data showed a mixed and choppy session in Hong Kong stocks, with some high-volatility names moving higher against the broader split trend. On Gate’s Hong Kong stock leaderboard, VelaBio-B ranked first, rising 29.90% to HK$64.85. Guanglian Technology Holdings followed with a 21.70% gain to HK$4.99, while China Huajun advanced 20.66% to HK$1.46. The update points to selective strength in individual names even as the wider Hong Kong equity market remained uneven.

BlockBeats reported on July 13, citing GMGN market data, that CZ said the meme coin burn from the previous night was only intended to clean up his wallet. After the clarification, the related token first moved higher and then reversed. As of publication, the CZ token was down more than 27% over the past hour, with its market capitalization at $16.41 million. The token price was also close to its level before the burn, according to the report. The move reflects a sharp intraday reversal tied to the market’s reaction to CZ’s statement.

Anthropic used a July 12 video to outline how Claude Platform has changed over the past six months, with engineering lead Katelyn Lesse and product lead Angela Jiang describing a move beyond a basic reasoning-and-token API into a broader agent stack. According to the discussion, the platform now centers on capabilities such as memory, outcomes, dreaming, and multi-agent coordination, with Managed Agents serving as a key product line for those ideas. Jiang said the strongest developer feedback around Managed Agents has focused on three concepts: memory, outcomes, and dreaming. She said users valued the clarity of abstraction, meaning agents can keep a clear identity and boundary even as workflows change. Lesse added that agents should eventually hold identities separate from end users, request only the permissions they need, and operate through their own service accounts so actions can be audited and controlled. The pair also described a change in how developers build harnesses around models. As model intelligence, tool calling, and reasoning improve, they said those external frameworks are getting thinner, while higher-level strategies such as competing agents, adversarial agents, and advisor agents are becoming more common. They pointed to two examples: Urrea using agent systems to preserve factory expertise that could disappear when specialists retire, and Shopify’s internal River system, which Lesse described as an end-to-end software development agent covering PRs, requirements, environment setup, coding, and QA.

Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, responded to community discussion over reports that he sent some popular meme tokens on BSC to a burn address. According to PANews, CZ said there was nothing complicated behind the move. He explained that he had not checked that wallet for a long time and, once he opened it, found it held too many tokens — more than 10,000 — making the software display hard to use. CZ said he raised a suggestion and later ran a test. In his view, sending the tokens directly to a black hole address was more straightforward and efficient than first moving them to his own address, because it removed one extra step. The remarks were framed as a direct response to speculation from the community about the purpose of the transfers.

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, better known as CZ, responded to community discussion over his transfer of some popular meme tokens on BSC to a burn address, saying there was nothing complicated behind the move. In his statement, Zhao said he had not checked that wallet for a long time and found that it held too many tokens, numbering in the tens of thousands, when he opened it again. He said the software interface was not very user-friendly, so he first submitted feedback and then ran a test. Zhao added that, rather than sending the tokens to his own address first, it made more sense to send them directly to a “black hole” address because that cuts one step and is a more direct and effective approach. The remarks were posted in response to community questions about the transfer event.

Pakistan’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (PVARA) said it has sought dialogue with Islamic scholars on cryptocurrency regulation after prominent scholar Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani issued a fatwa declaring the use and payment of cryptocurrencies to be against Islamic law. Usmani also said Bitcoin and other digital assets do not meet the Sharia definition of wealth. The ruling is not legally binding, but it could affect about 40 million users in Pakistan who use digital assets through informal channels. The development comes as the country pushes ahead with its 2026 Virtual Assets Act. According to CryptoBriefing, the tension between a religious ruling and the state’s regulatory goals could shape the region’s regulatory framework.

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group has become the most valuable company in Japan’s stock market, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The move puts Japan’s largest bank ahead of Toyota Motor and marks the first time a bank has held the top spot since the current structure of the country’s three major banking groups was established. On Monday, Mitsubishi UFJ shares rose 2.3% to 3,541 yen, lifting the group’s market capitalization to 42 trillion yen, or about $259 billion. That surpassed Toyota’s market value of about 41 trillion yen and Kioxia Holdings’ roughly 36.7 trillion yen. The development is notable for Japan’s equity market because the top position has shifted to a bank rather than an industrial or technology-linked name. The figures cited in the report were compiled by Bloomberg and carried by Odaily, with Jin10 named as the source in the brief.