Anthropic said an unreleased version of its flagship model, Claude Mythos Preview, discovered two previously unknown attacks on cryptographic algorithms, including one targeting HAWK, a post-quantum digital signature system that had advanced to the third round of the U.S. NIST competition. According to the report, the attack cuts the cost of stealing HAWK’s smallest key from 2^64 operations to 2^38, or about 67 million times less work. Anthropic said fixing the issue would roughly double key sizes, weakening one of HAWK’s main selling points: compact keys and fast signing. The report also stressed that HAWK has never been deployed and that Bitcoin still uses ECDSA, so no live crypto system was broken by the finding. Even so, the development matters because a broad push toward quantum-resistant crypto infrastructure assumes that the replacement schemes are themselves secure. The newsletter also covered a range of market and policy developments, including gains in BTC and ETH ahead of the FOMC, public backing for the CLARITY Act from BlackRock, Fidelity, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, and SoFi, fresh ETF flow data, Zcash’s Ironwood activation, and a burst of meme coin trading activity led by PIPEDOG on Robinhood chain.

Asset manager Franklin Templeton has voiced support for the Clarity Act, a cryptocurrency regulation bill it says would provide a clearer framework for overseeing digital assets. The firm, which manages $1.7 trillion in assets, joins a list of major financial names that have already backed the proposal. BlackRock, Fidelity and Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon have previously expressed support, saying the measure could strengthen investor confidence and help preserve the United States’ lead in digital assets. Opposition remains in place, however. New York Attorney General Letitia James and other critics argue the bill would weaken the enforcement powers of local authorities. Whether the legislation can pass this year remains uncertain, according to the report cited by Techub News. The original source referenced in the brief was U.Today.

U.S. spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds recorded net inflows of $9.23 million on July 27, according to SoSoValue data cited by Techub News. BlackRock’s ETHA led the group with $11.75 million in net inflows, while Invesco’s QETH posted net outflows of $2.52 million. The rest of the listed spot Ethereum ETF products showed no net inflows or outflows for the day. Those unchanged funds were Grayscale ETHE, Bitwise ETHW, VanEck ETHV, 21Shares TETH, Fidelity FETH, Franklin EZET, Grayscale ETH, and BlackRock ETHB. The figures were reported in Eastern Time.

Birdai Labs, a company building on-chain execution infrastructure, has raised $4 million in a seed round, according to PR Newswire. Castle Island Ventures led the financing, with participation from Metalayer Ventures and The Venture Dept. The company is focused on infrastructure that measures, verifies, and optimizes trade execution quality for high-performance public blockchains. Its stated goal is to reduce value loss between order placement and execution that stems from sequencing and propagation, while returning more value to traders and market makers. Birdai Labs also said its team includes members from traditional finance firms including Franklin Templeton and Citadel. The company is now expanding its senior engineering and quantitative research teams to address on-chain execution competition under multi-proposer architectures and to support verifiable standards for fair and transparent execution as institutional participation in digital asset markets grows.

The U.S. Senate has temporarily sidelined the Clarity Act while it works through other items, narrowing the near-term window for one of the crypto industry’s most closely watched market structure bills. Majority Leader John Thune is prioritizing government nominations and a Russia sanctions bill, while this week’s schedule is also constrained by time set aside for the funeral of late Senator Lindsey Graham. Under current Senate procedure, the Clarity bill may not reach the floor until next week, just before the August 8 recess. The delay comes as large financial firms continue to line up behind the legislation. BlackRock publicly backed the bill, with Samara Cohen calling it an important step toward an investor-first digital asset framework. Franklin Templeton also voiced support, and the report said Fidelity, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon, and Charles Schwab have recently expressed similar views. Policy analysts cited in the report have cut the odds of passage this year to 30%. Elsewhere in the roundup, X Money began rolling out to U.S. Premium and Premium+ subscribers. Hyperliquid said Trade.xyz is investigating the SKHYNIX perpetual contract spike incident, while South Korea is studying a rule that would cap single-stock leveraged exposure at 20% of an individual’s total financial investment products. The report also covered whale activity, market data, venture fundraising, and a series of crypto and AI industry developments.

XRP spot exchange-traded funds posted $8.1526 million in net inflows over the last trading week, according to SoSoValue data covering July 20 to July 24 in U.S. Eastern Time. Franklin Templeton’s ETF XRPZ led the weekly tally with $5.6617 million in net inflows, bringing its cumulative historical net inflows to $421 million. Bitwise’s XRP ETF followed with $2.4909 million in weekly net inflows, with historical cumulative net inflows reaching $501 million. As of press time, total net assets across XRP spot ETFs stood at $997 million. The ETF net asset ratio, measured as the share of XRP ETF market value relative to XRP’s total market capitalization, was 1.46%. Historical cumulative net inflows for XRP spot ETFs had reached $1.49 billion.

POSCO International, one of South Korea’s major trading companies, has started a pilot project with LG CNS to test the tokenization of trade receivables on the Injective blockchain. The trial uses real trade data from POSCO International’s overseas business and brings issuance, transfer and settlement of receivables onto a shared ledger. The companies say the setup is designed to cut the time spent on reconciliation and verification in cross-border trade, where buyers, sellers and financial institutions typically keep separate records. According to the report, POSCO International generated $22.2 billion in annual revenue and operates across steel, energy and battery materials. A company spokesperson said the pilot is meaningful because it is built on real trade databases and processes, and because it tests the applicability of combining artificial intelligence with blockchain. The plan is to move the project into a live production environment after the pilot is completed this year. The article also places the project in the broader RWA tokenization trend. It cites a current market size of $35 billion and a Citi estimate that the market could reach $5.5 trillion by 2030, while noting that tokenization is expanding from funds and equities into trade finance.

BNB Chain has become the largest blockchain custody network for Franklin Templeton’s Benji platform, holding about $1.5 billion in tokenized money market fund assets. That amount represents 61.7% of the platform’s total $2.44 billion in assets under management, putting BNB Chain ahead of both Stellar and Ethereum by share. The platform, however, remains multi-chain and has not shifted entirely onto a single network. The change in asset distribution points to a broader institutional preference for lower-cost, higher-throughput blockchains in real-world asset settlement. In this setup, transaction fees and execution efficiency are emerging as key considerations when institutions choose the underlying network for tokenized products.