BNB Chain said a wallet address previously created by a former employee was used to issue the meme token TST as part of a video tutorial. The company said that employee is no longer with the firm following the incident. According to BNB Chain, the former staffer retained unauthorized access to the related seed phrase after leaving and used it to generate new private keys. BNB Chain also said it has learned that the same address is now being used independently in activity tied to another meme token on BNB Chain, ASTEROID. The network said it did not create, authorize, promote, or participate in the launch of that token and has no control over either the token or the wallet address. BNB Chain added that the matter is unrelated to the organization and has not been endorsed by it. The company said it is taking legal action against the former employee and is cooperating with relevant government authorities over the case.

TechFlow’s July 27 briefing pulled together a broad set of signals across semiconductors, AI, crypto, macro and large-cap tech. The headline move came from Changxin Technology, whose first trading day surge of 472% pushed its market value above RMB 3.3 trillion, making it the new market-cap leader in China’s A-share market and the first semiconductor hard-tech company to hold that position in 35 years. The report also highlighted Samsung’s review of Chinese DRAM suppliers for its Galaxy A lineup, SK hynix’s position at Kioxia, and expectations that Samsung and SK hynix could post combined second-quarter profits above KRW 150 trillion, alongside large industry cooperation figures tied to memory, foundry and packaging. In AI, the digest pointed to a leaked Claude Opus 5 system prompt reportedly reaching 200,000 characters, Hugging Face’s demand that OpenAI provide $100 million worth of compute after an attack, Moonshot AI’s Kimi-K3 launch on Hugging Face, and the formation of an open safe AI alliance by 37 companies including Nvidia, Microsoft and IBM. In crypto, Bitcoin returned to $65,000 as oil prices fell after a pause in U.S.-Iran exchanges, WEMIX suffered an exploit involving its minting contract admin account, and Aster DEX revised tokenomics to direct 99% of platform fees to ASTER buybacks for stakers while burning team tokens on a 1:1 basis.

Crypto prices moved higher on Thursday, with Bitcoin at $62,894.99 and Ethereum at $1,659.05. Smaller tokens posted much larger gains, led by USDR’s 153.1% surge, while DeepNode and Velvet each rose more than 140%.

BlackRock launches the iShares Space Technologies UCITS ETF (ticker STAR) in Europe, tracking companies tied to space, satellites and drones, with an IPO fast-entry rule and a 0.50% expense ratio.

Iran's IRGC introduces Strait of Hormuz tolls payable in yuan or stablecoins. XRP trades at $1.31, Uniswap falls to $3.23. APEMARS Stage 14 presale at $0.00017238 with EASTER100 bonus doubling allocation.

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Bybit TradFi adds 44 US stocks and ETFs in its fifth Stock Carnival expansion, including BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF IBIT, ASTS, and Manchester United. Users can trade with BTC or ETH collateral, zero commissions, and a $5 first-trade reward.

A private survey initiated by Korean crypto KOL Joshua found that 50 of 55 detailed respondents are actively trading U.S. stocks, with AI, defense, rare earths, energy and semiconductors drawing the most attention.