According to PANews, Grayscale has announced on the X platform that its newly launched Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund is now open to qualified investors. This fund offers diversified investments in the intersection of AI and cryptocurrency. As of July 22, the Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund has an asset management scale of $562,664.08, with 55,300 shares in circulation. The fund's basket includes decentralized AI projects such as Near (NEAR, current weight 30.10%), Filecoin (FIL, current weight 30.87%), Render (RNDR, current weight 25.05%), Livepeer (LPT, current weight 8.85%), and Bittensor (TAO, current weight 3.13%).

According to Odaily, Taiko has announced significant progress in optimizing its protocol since the mainnet launch. The team has successfully reduced L1 gas costs by over 30% while maintaining contract upgradability. As they continue to refine gas optimization strategies, the focus is now shifting to new features and improvements. Key development areas identified include enhancing L2 EIP-1559, introducing transaction preconfirmation, implementing new transaction types such as Sponsored Transactions, supporting Cancun EVM, enabling contract use of calldata as DA, and improving minimum tier selection. Additionally, the Ontake upgrade will incorporate these features and improvements, with testing on the Hekla testnet planned before October and a mainnet upgrade scheduled for Q4 this year.

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 Odaily, Lido has released its protocol-related data for the week of July 15 to July 22. The data reveals a notable increase in several key metrics for the platform. Total Value Locked (TVL) saw a growth of 9.34%, reaching $34.57 billion. Additionally, the platform recorded an increase of 85,792 ETH in new stakes. On Layer 2, the amount of wrapped staked ETH (wstETH) grew by 4.62%, totaling 170,526 tokens. The seven-day trading volume for (w)stETH was reported to be $1.19 billion.