According to Odaily, leading Bitcoin mining company Marathon Digital has been fined $138 million for violating confidentiality or non-circumvention agreements. Michael Ho, the former co-founder of US Bitcoin Corp and current Chief Strategy Officer of mining company Hut 8, won a unanimous jury verdict in a breach of contract lawsuit against Marathon Digital Holdings.

According to BlockBeats, on July 23, the total value locked (TVL) in the Pencils Protocol within the Scroll ecosystem exceeded $300 million, making it the highest TVL DeFi protocol in the Scroll ecosystem. Additionally, Pencils Protocol leads in weekly and monthly TVL growth rates and incremental data within the Scroll ecosystem. Pencils Protocol is currently the largest native DeFi project in the Scroll ecosystem. It serves as a one-stop yield aggregator and auction platform based on Scroll, integrating functions such as Launchpad, unified asset aggregation and distribution, and leveraged yield. The protocol aims to maximize users' asset utilization.

According to Odaily, on-chain analyst @ali_charts has reported that last week, large investors, commonly referred to as 'whales,' acquired more than 140 million XRP tokens. The total value of these purchases is estimated to be around $84 million.