TON ecosystem builder Ali said the network is seeing delays in shard block production and message processing on the TON mainnet. According to Ali, the TON core team is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. The source did not provide details on the cause of the delays, the scope of the impact, or when normal operations may resume. The update points only to an ongoing technical issue affecting shard-related processing on the main network. No other operational metrics or incident timeline were disclosed in the source post.

Zhipu (02513.HK) said in a Hong Kong Stock Exchange filing that its previously disclosed placement of up to 19.78 million new H shares was completed on July 13, 2026. The company allotted and issued a total of 19.78 million new H shares at HK$1,588 per share to no fewer than six placees. The new shares account for about 4.25% of the company’s enlarged issued H share capital. According to the filing, the placement generated gross proceeds of about HK$31.411 billion and net proceeds of about HK$31.375 billion. Zhipu said the funds are intended for general artificial intelligence research and development, business expansion, and capital structure optimization. The disclosure was carried in a Hong Kong exchange announcement cited by ChainCatcher.

Elon Musk has sharply changed his public stance on Anthropic, writing on X that he had “obviously misjudged Anthropic” after spending months attacking the company. He now describes Anthropic as a leader in AI and praised the strength of its Mythos/Fable models, even saying the company could soon release Mythos 2. The remark came after an X user argued that SpaceXAI, the new name used after xAI was folded into SpaceX, already had frontier models able to compete with Claude Opus 4.8 and could cripple Anthropic by cutting off rented compute. The timing matters. Musk had just released Grok 4.5 on July 8 and had previously suggested the model was closing in on, or even passing, Claude Opus in internal testing. Yet the article notes that on the Artificial Analysis ranking, Grok 4.5 still trails Fable 5 and GPT-5.5. A major backdrop is Anthropic’s compute agreement with SpaceX. According to the report, Anthropic leased the full capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, covering more than 300 MW and over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. SpaceX’s S-1 filing says Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, with either side able to terminate on 90 days’ notice. Musk said he would not cut service in a way that seriously harms a rival, calling that “not my style.”

Security firm Blockaid said Lumi Finance, a protocol on Arbitrum, appears to be under attack, with losses so far estimated at about $270,000. According to Blockaid, the issue stems from a side effect tied to token approvals during UserOp verification in Sodium smart accounts. The attacker was able to control the paymaster and spender, then obtain approval allowances from a large number of accounts before withdrawing funds. Blockaid added that the incident was still ongoing at the time of its update. The statement was posted on X and did not indicate that the attack had been contained.

NOXA, a meme token launch platform on Robinhood Chain, has posted protocol revenue above Pump.fun for five consecutive days, according to Dune data cited by Odaily. Total protocol fees have exceeded $13.44 million, with more than $11.6 million generated between July 8 and July 12 alone. The platform is tied to a single developer, Amun Phantom, a detail that has helped fuel the story around NOXA’s rise. Odaily said NOXA began promoting Robinhood Chain meme tokens before the chain’s July 1 launch, but the platform’s inflection point came on July 8 after Robinhood’s CEO wrote on X that while the chain was intended to be the best payment chain for RWA, it also fit meme assets. After that post, CASHCAT, a token launched through NOXA, climbed to a $230 million market cap within three days. The report also traced NOXA’s evolution from an early DEX into a launchpad that first supported monad, then expanded to chains including Plasma and MegaETH. NOXA later dropped its bonding curve design, sent tokens directly into Uniswap v3 pools, and removed its swap function. At the same time, the platform faces pressure: Odaily noted that NOXA’s website went down on July 12 because of a Cloudflare issue, leaving its position on Robinhood Chain open to competition.

B.AI shared its latest platform progress at WebX 2026 in Tokyo, presenting an updated product stack to developers and innovators worldwide. According to ChainCatcher, the company highlighted full-stack capabilities spanning advanced AI models, scalable APIs, and developer tools during the event. B.AI said it has been focused on lowering the barrier to using advanced AI technologies. It added that ongoing product and service iterations are aimed at helping both enterprises and individual developers access cutting-edge intelligence in a more convenient and efficient way. The company also invited industry partners and attendees to visit its booth at the conference to learn more about the latest updates and discuss AI-driven innovation opportunities.

The latest Remote Labor Index from the Center for AI Safety, developed with Scale AI, puts Fable 5 at a 16.1% automation rate on real freelance jobs, ahead of Opus 4.8 at 8.3% and GPT-5.5 at 6.3%. The benchmark uses 240 real projects sourced from verified Upwork freelancers across 23 fields and asks a simple question: would a paying client accept the result? CAIS said the frontier has advanced more than fourfold in less than eight months, up from a top score of 2.5% when the index launched. The group also said AI judging is still unreliable. Automated evaluation overstated GPT-5.5 by nearly 3x and Opus 4.8 by about 2.5x when applied to newer systems. Fable 5’s run was interrupted by U.S. government export controls and covered 218 of 240 projects, but CAIS said even if all 22 missing tasks were counted as failures, its automation rate would still be 14.6%, higher than every other model tested.

Lawson, the Japanese convenience store operator, plans to begin testing yen-denominated stablecoin payments in August at its Lawson Takanawa Gateway City store in Tokyo, according to a report cited by BlockBeats from Cointelegraph. The pilot will be carried out under an agreement involving HashPort, Lawson, and KDDI. Participants will use HashPort’s non-custodial wallet, while the store will process transactions through HashPort’s checkout system, meaning merchants do not need to open or manage a crypto wallet. Separately, Japanese payments company Netstars has launched Stablecoin Pay and is accepting applications from merchants that want to take multiple stablecoins. At launch, the service supports USDC, USDT, and the yen-denominated stablecoin JPYC on the Solana and Polygon networks. MetaMask is listed as the supported wallet, and the merchant payment fee is set at 0.98%. The update points to a broader push to bring stablecoin-based payments into retail and merchant checkout flows in Japan through existing payment infrastructure rather than direct wallet management by stores.