New Hampshire's HB639 bill has been registered, establishing a tribunal for blockchain rights protection and special disputes.
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Hexens disclosed that it has patched a major vulnerability in Aptos, with a theoretical risk exposure of up to $70 billion.
According to Mars Finance, on July 5th, blockchain security company Hexens disclosed that it discovered a critical vulnerability in the Aptos Move virtual machine in February of this year, which could theoretically jeopardize approximately $70 billion in crypto assets. However, the Aptos team completed a mainnet patch within hours of the vulnerability disclosure, preventing any user losses. Hexens stated that the vulnerability stems from a "stale-cache" issue in the Move virtual machine, which can lead to type confusion, potentially allowing attackers to gain critical permissions such as stablecoin minting, cross-chain bridges, and DeFi protocols. In simulation tests, the research team achieved an attack success rate of approximately 90% using only a server costing around $3,000, without needing to verify node permissions or internal access rights. Aptos responded that the company quickly completed the patch after receiving the report through its bug bounty program and believes that the vulnerability has extremely low exploitability in a real network environment and will not have any actual impact on users or funds. Hexens believes that if the vulnerability were maliciously exploited, the risks could extend beyond the Aptos ecosystem to include cross-chain bridges, stablecoins, and centralized exchanges. Independent security firm Grego AI estimates that approximately $250 million in TVL on the Aptos chain is directly affected, while the overall theoretical risk exposure could reach as high as approximately $70 billion.
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Circle minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain, bringing its total minting this year to approximately 66.76 billion.
PANews reported on July 8th that, according to Onchain Lens, stablecoin issuer Circle has just minted an additional $250 million worth of USDC on the Solana blockchain. Data shows that Circle has minted approximately $66.76 billion worth of USDC on Solana so far this year.
The "Beijing Digital Economy Development Report (2025-2026)" was released, predicting that the core artificial intelligence industry will reach approximately 450 billion yuan in scale by 2025.
According to Mars Finance, at the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference results release conference yesterday, Lu Ya, Vice President of the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, released the "Beijing Digital Economy Development Report (2025-2026)" blue book. The report shows that in 2025, Beijing's digital economy added value exceeded 2.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.7%, accounting for 46.4% of GDP. It ranked second in the global digital economy benchmark city index evaluation, with a development index value of 0.770, firmly maintaining its position as a "global leading city." Lu Ya introduced that Beijing's status as the "No. 1 city for artificial intelligence" continues to be consolidated. In 2025, the core artificial intelligence industry scale was approximately 450 billion yuan, attracting over 2,500 related enterprises. As of April 2026, 225 large-scale models had been registered. Innovation and industry application of large-scale models are accelerating in both directions, rapidly empowering industrial upgrading, technological innovation, and public services. The market-oriented reform of data elements is being deepened, and breakthroughs have been achieved in the construction of "one zone and three centers." The trading volume of the Beijing International Big Data Exchange increased by 150% year-on-year, and the circulation of trusted data space is deepening around key areas such as healthcare and audiovisual media. (Cailian Press)
Aptos blockchain was found to have a critical vulnerability, with an attack cost of only a few hundred dollars; the team has promptly fixed it.
PANews reported on July 5th that, according to Coindesk, white-hat hackers at security firm Hexens discovered a vulnerability in the Aptos blockchain, which has since been patched. If maliciously exploited, this vulnerability could have put up to $70 billion in digital assets at systemic risk, including stablecoins and cross-chain bridges. In late February, Hexens researchers reported a critical vulnerability in the Move virtual machine (the execution environment for handling on-chain smart contracts) to the Aptos development team. They described it as an "expiration cache vulnerability" that could lead to type confusion, meaning the software could be tricked into mistaking one on-chain resource for another. Researchers simulated the attack in a real network environment with a success rate exceeding 90%.