SecondFi has released an update on the latest theft incident: "Isolation Mode" will be launched this week, and a secure wallet export function is planned for release next week.
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EthLabs released its "Week2" update report, highlighting progress on Ethereum interoperability, PropAMMs, and funding.
According to Mars Finance, on July 6th, Barnabé Monnot (barnabé.eth), founder of EthLabs, released a "Week 2" update, summarizing the team's latest progress and ecosystem discussions during the launch and fundraising phases. Regarding interoperability, the team stated they are increasing their confidence in "asynchronous interoperability based on zero-knowledge proofs (zk)," believing this will help build more secure cross-chain bridges and improve the native distribution capabilities of assets across Ethereum's multi-layered network. Currently, some cross-chain paths still suffer from latency issues, especially in the L2→L1 direction; in this context, the intents mechanism can serve as a transitional solution, while sufficient L1 liquidity also helps match cross-chain solvers. Meanwhile, the L1→L2 path is expected to significantly reduce confirmation latency through the Fast Confirmation Rule (FCR), and some clients have already begun integrating this mechanism. In terms of ecosystem discussions, PropAMMs (proposal-based AMMs) have recently become a focus of attention for many teams and researchers, primarily due to their potential optimization space between L1 execution efficiency and transaction building. Meanwhile, ENS is emphasized as a "critical infrastructure for Ethereum," and the team continues to communicate with relevant stakeholders to advance its development direction. Regarding team building, Ethlabs has received over 300 applications and has processed approximately 20%. The short-term goal is to expand to approximately 10 people, and the medium-term goal is to expand to approximately 20 people, focusing on recruiting talent with engineering capabilities and domain expertise. Regarding funding, Ethlabs stated that its current funding round is nearing completion and has secured early support from BitMNR, Sharplink, and Ethereum Joseph. The plan is to bring in 1-2 more core investors before moving to the next stage.
Ant Financial's LingBot released its spatial perception model, LingBot-Depth 2.0.
On July 7th, Lingbo Technology, an embodied intelligence company under Ant Group, released LingBot-Depth 2.0, a spatial perception model. Trained on 150 million data points, this model represents a comprehensive upgrade in edge sharpness, small object recognition, long-distance depth estimation, and robustness in complex scenes. In addition, Lingbo also simultaneously launched LingBot-Vision, the visual foundation model for LingBot-Depth 2.0, establishing a capability chain for robots from "understanding" to "accurately recognizing," aiming to address core challenges in robot vision such as spatial perception, precise recognition, and adaptation to complex environments.
Gate responded to online rumors of user asset theft: An urgent investigation is underway, and preliminary assessments indicate it is an isolated incident.
According to Foresight News , Gate responded to online reports of user assets being stolen, stating that the incident shows the customer made a withdrawal between 3:00 PM and 4:00 PM on July 7th, and reported the loss to online customer service at 5:00 PM on July 8th. Gate has initiated an investigation, and the incident is currently under urgent investigation. Preliminary assessments indicate it is an isolated case, there are no system security vulnerabilities, and the website is operating normally. Preliminary investigations suggest this incident may be related to a leak of user information; the specific details are under investigation. Gate will disclose further details as soon as the investigation concludes.
Figure released its Q2 operating data: transaction volume reached $4.26 billion, a year-over-year increase of 132%.
According to Mars Finance, Figure released preliminary operating data for June and the second quarter, both exceeding the upper limit of its previous guidance. The data shows that Figure's market transaction volume in the second quarter was $4.26 billion, a year-on-year increase of 132%; of which, the transaction volume in June alone was $1.52 billion, a month-on-month increase of 8% and a year-on-year increase of 155%. Figure also announced that it will transform to adopt a near-real-time operational transparency reporting model and launch a weekly updated dashboard to provide more direct visibility into market size.
EMURGO announced that SecondFi, the Cardano wallet that was hacked, will permanently cease operations.
ChainCatcher reports that Cardano's founding entity, EMURGO, stated on Monday that SecondFi, the wallet service that suffered a hack, will not resume normal operations even after a security audit is completed. All users are required to migrate their assets through the official recovery process. SecondFi is a rebranded version of the Yoroi wallet and is described by EMURGO as Cardano's largest wallet provider. According to EMURGO's incident report on June 25th, the service suffered four separate wallet thefts on June 22nd, with 374 addresses compromised and approximately 16 million ADA (worth about $2.4 million at the time) stolen. The team also took emergency measures to recover approximately 129 million ADA. EMURGO stated that compromised wallets should be considered permanently exposed at the address and private key levels, and restoring the damaged seed phrase to other wallets cannot eliminate the risk. EMURGO plans to launch an isolated wallet state inspection tool this week, followed by a secure export tool and an offline migration workshop in Tokyo. They are also building a dedicated recovery fund for the on-chain recovery system, and will return assets to affected users after the external audit is completed.
GPT-5.6, Gemini 3.5 Pro, and Grok 4.5 will all be released soon.
PANews reported on July 7th that, according to market sources, Gemini 3.5 Pro will be officially released on July 17th. Its front-end and visual code generation capabilities are said to have seen a significant leap forward, outperforming Anthropic's Fable 5 in multiple tests. However, it still lags behind its competitor in hardcore inference and complex engineering tasks. Furthermore, Google DeepMind has abandoned the original 2.5 Pro platform, opting instead for completely new pre-training on Gemini 3.5 Pro, thus delaying the release date from the original June 2026 to July 17th. Elon Musk previously announced that xAI's latest large model, Grok 4.5, has begun beta testing within SpaceX and Tesla.