Odaily Planet Daily reports that the experimental art project Plugman will exclusively launch its latest NFT series on the Element Marketplace (element.market/zeta) at 7:00 PM PST on Friday, August 1, 2025, with a total supply of 5,000 NFTs. This series is the first native cross-chain universal NFT on ZetaChain, supporting bridge-free and unwrapped operations, aiming to achieve long-term ecosystem usability and interchain connectivity. This minting will prioritize ZetaChain ecosystem users, including ZETA holders, Zeta Hub XP users, and Plugman Gen 1 supporters. The specific allocation is as follows: 1: 40% is allocated to ZetaChain ecosystem users; 2: 40% is allocated to community members (including Gen 1 holders, event participants, partners and KOLs, etc.); 3: 10% is used for ecological incentives and cross-project integration; 4: 5% is reserved for the team; 5: About 5% are minted free of charge for the public on a first-come, first-served basis.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale withdrew 7,500 ETH (worth US$28.26 million) from Binance, which was then transferred to the AVAX chain via a cross-chain bridge and remitted to the main wallet. The whale had previously withdrawn 20,000 ETH from Binance and deposited 16,000 ETH into Aave V 3.

CatFee.io, a major participant in the TRON ecosystem, announced today a comprehensive reduction in TRC-20 Energy rental prices, with the single rental rate dropping from 2.5 TRX to 1.855 TRX, a decrease of approximately 25.8%. This move aims to lower the threshold for on-chain TRC-20 transfer fees and further enhance the user experience. As a leading TRC 20 energy leasing platform, Catfee.io relies on its own high-speed Tron nodes to provide users with a variety of energy solutions such as rent-and-use and AP access. It is widely applicable to mainstream token transfers such as USDT and TRX, high-frequency trading, DApp applications and cross-chain bridge services. TRX holders can also sell Tron energy and bandwidth on CatFee's staking platform to obtain high returns.

According to official news from Odaily Planet Daily, OKX Wallet has launched an automatic confirmation feature on its website. After enabling this feature, users can conduct transactions using OKX Wallet on the OKX Web 3 website without having to reconfirm their transactions within the wallet. With automatic confirmation enabled, the user's seed phrase/private key remains in their possession, and OKX does not hold custody of user funds. OKX Wallet, a one-stop Web 3 portal, reportedly supports over 130 popular public chains. OKX DEX, a DEX and cross-chain aggregator, currently aggregates over 25 cross-chain platforms, over 40 public chains, over 400 DEXs, and over 300,000 cryptocurrencies. Through X Routing, a single transaction can simultaneously utilize multiple DEXs, providing users with the best prices and liquidity. It also features DEX market information, limit orders, and KYT security checks.

According to official news from Odaily Planet Daily, BTTC has launched a next-generation Layer 2 scaling solution. Through technological innovation, it significantly improves blockchain network performance and user experience while ensuring decentralization. This solution is fully compatible with the Ethereum ecosystem, supports seamless migration of existing applications, and provides users with a high-throughput, ultra-low-fee trading environment. Its core advantages include high-speed, low-cost transactions, free interoperability of Ethereum, TRON, and BSC assets, and a developer-friendly system based on PoS consensus and multi-node verification, enabling developers to efficiently build cross-chain applications.

Odaily Planet Daily News: Story Ecosystem's first IP-driven token launch platform ip.world announced the official launch of V 2 and the launch of the first programmable meme asset Evil Larry, with a current market value of US$13.4 million. ip.world has built-in IP authorization and community governance mechanisms, supporting users to issue meme tokens based on creative IP and community IP. Through functions such as Virality Score, IP Feeds, Takes, incentive systems and cross-chain migrators, it realizes the popularity evaluation, content aggregation, opinion release, trading and cross-chain transfer of programmable meme assets. The platform aims to promote the evolution of the Memecoin model into an licensable, traceable, and tradable on-chain IP asset mechanism, providing a bottom-up monetization path for Internet native content.

Odaily Planet Daily News: On July 25, the decentralized stablecoin protocol USDD reached a critical milestone in its 2.0 version upgrade half a year ago. The latest data shows that the total value of USDD2.0 collateral assets has exceeded US$580 million, with a historical peak of over US$600 million, and the circulation volume has exceeded 530 million. User activity and the scale of pledged assets continue to grow. Through the Smart Allocator intelligent allocation mechanism, the protocol achieves stable returns with controllable risks and builds a long-term sustainable economic model guided by "real returns". At the same time, USDD2.0 has accelerated the expansion of cross-chain ecology and payment scenarios, has realized the implementation of multi-chain applications, and has been integrated with payment platforms such as AEON Pay and Uquid, enhancing the practicality and cross-chain circulation capabilities of stablecoins.

Odaily News According to JUST official news, Justin Sun, founder of TRON, rang the Nasdaq opening bell for Tron Inc. This ceremony not only marks another important milestone in TRON's global development process, demonstrating its continuous breakthroughs in blockchain technology innovation and international influence, but also represents the further acceleration of the chain's ecological expansion and global layout. In 2025, the TRON ecosystem will continue to deepen in key areas such as decentralized transactions, DeFi infrastructure, cross-chain applications, stablecoins, NFTs, RWA, and Meme, showing strong growth potential and agglomeration effects.

Odaily News Zircuit announced that it will launch the AI trading engine "Hyperliquid for AI Trading", which supports cross-chain automatic execution on EVM and Solana chains, and provides real-time signal capture and one-click trading strategy deployment. The trading engine has multiple core functions, including: AI signal detection, optimal path cross-chain execution, automated gas and slippage management, and security protection that inherits the Zircuit Vault system. The product is currently in the closed beta stage and will be open to the world in August 2025, with an ecological incentive program launched in Q4 (a total of 10 million ZRC will be allocated for the community to build AI models). Previously, Zircuit has launched the on-chain income product "Deposit Vaults", and currently manages assets worth over US$950 million, covering stablecoins, ETH and BTC.

Odaily News Jeff, founder of Bitcoin Layer2 project Merlin Chain, said in an interview with Odaily Planet Daily that the Merlin 2.0 upgrade plan has been officially released. This version will focus on "BTC's interest-bearing ability and cross-chain transaction capabilities" and is committed to upgrading Bitcoin from a single value storage asset to a profitable and liquid on-chain currency. Jeff pointed out that the core goals of Merlin Chain in the future will revolve around two directions: one is to enhance the practicality of BTC so that it can be used for multi-chain interaction, DeFi investment and asset trading; the other is to lower the threshold for retail investors and institutions to enter the BTC ecosystem, so that BTC can not only outperform the market, but also participate in new narratives and new projects to capture higher potential returns. He also revealed that Merlin will continue to optimize the BTCfi ecosystem, expand AI-driven chain abstraction technology, and launch a series of user-friendly products in the next stage to promote BTC to become a true "universal currency" on the chain. Click to read the original interview: " Odaily exclusive interview with Merlin founder Jeff: I want to give up every day, but I still look forward to going through the cycle "