According to an official announcement, Binance announced that starting July 17, 2026 at 16:00 (UTC), Aerodrome (AERO) will be gradually listed in SimpleEarn flexible products, the "Buy Coin" page, Binance Instant Exchange, Binance Margin (Cross Margin and Isolated Margin), and VIP Lending. Users can instantly purchase AERO using VISA, Mastercard, and other methods, and use AERO in Instant Exchange, Margin, and Lending. These services will be available within one hour of AERO's spot listing.

According to Odaily Planet Daily, Samuel Tombs of Pantheon stated that the University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index rose to 54.4 from 49.5 in June, exceeding economists' expectations of 50.5, but still below last year's average. Tombs pointed out that declining inflation expectations have provided some comfort to the Federal Reserve, but the lack of leverage among workers means that wage growth is unlikely to rise due to the recent overall inflation rebound. (Jinshi)

Odaily Planet Daily reports that at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) Science Frontier Forum, Turing Award winner Joshua Bengio warned via remote connection: "AI both lowers the threshold for malicious behavior and raises the ceiling for harm." In recent years, this visionary "AI godfather" has consistently dedicated himself to addressing the security challenges posed by AI. Bengio's LawZero project is working to build a protective system capable of identifying and preventing harmful behaviors such as AI deception and self-protection. His international AI security report also reached the same conclusion: current security measures are unable to keep pace with the rapid advancements in AI capabilities. (Tencent Technology)

According to Odaily, Robinhood is betting on the decentralized finance (DeFi) market with its self-built blockchain, Robinhood Chain, hoping to bring over 10 million active users to its on-chain ecosystem. However, the network's trading activity is currently primarily driven by Meme coin speculation, and its initial vision of tokenizing real-world assets (RWA) has yet to reach scale. Robinhood Chain recently experienced a rapid increase in trading volume. On July 12th, the chain's 24-hour DEX trading volume reached approximately $878 million, briefly surpassing Coinbase and Ethereum to rank among the top decentralized exchanges, attracting attention from the crypto community. However, Robinhood Chain is still in its early stages. Data shows that: 1. On July 13th, the perpetual contract trading volume on this chain was only about $5.9 million, while Hyperliquid, the leader in on-chain derivatives, had a trading volume of $8.9 billion during the same period; 2. Robinhood Chain shows a bridged TVL of about $734 million, but the actual on-chain TVL is about $211 million, with some assets still sitting in wallets and not yet entering lending or yield protocols; 3. The current market capitalization of RWA tokenized assets is only about $12.66 million. Currently, most of the trading activity on Robinhood Chain comes from Meme coins. Recently, the CASHCAT token issued on this chain rose by more than 2100% in a week, with its market capitalization reaching $156 million at one point, 12 times the size of the entire on-chain RWA market. Robinhood stated that early on-chain activity is in line with expectations, developers are building the ecosystem, and users are participating in network usage. The company emphasized that its long-term goal remains to promote the on-chaining of real-world assets such as stocks and ETFs, and to achieve 24/7 trading, on-chain lending, and other financial services. Analysts believe that Robinhood Chain's development path is similar to the early stages of some new public blockchains: initially relying on speculative trading to gain traffic, and then needing to prove whether it can translate into long-term users, a developer ecosystem, and real-world financial applications. The key to its future success lies in whether Robinhood can leverage its large retail user base to transform the short-term Meme coin craze into a sustainably growing on-chain financial ecosystem. (CoinDesk)