2026-07-28 09:00 UTC | BLOCK 959950
BITCOIN $63,437 | GOLD $4,035 | OIL $85.22
1. Iran and Gulf states pursue deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz
-- Iran's foreign minister held separate calls with Saudi and Omani counterparts on the passage as the U.S.-Iran pause in hostilities entered its fourth day.
-- Restored shipping would unwind a major energy-supply risk; Brent's 5.4% daily decline to $85.22 shows traders are already pricing a lower war premium despite unresolved drone attacks.
2. Magnitude 7.1 earthquake strikes southern Japan, triggering tsunami advisory
-- The quake hit Kumamoto on Kyushu, prompting a warning for waves up to one meter, temporary rail suspensions and government damage assessments; no nuclear-plant abnormalities were reported.
-- Aftershock and transport risks could disrupt regional movement, but the initial absence of major infrastructure damage limits the immediate economic fallout.
3. China begins producing domestic immersion DUV chipmaking tools
-- China has started production of homegrown immersion deep-ultraviolet lithography equipment, Reuters reported, citing a source.
-- A viable domestic tool would reduce exposure to foreign equipment controls and strengthen China's mature-chip supply chain, though production alone does not establish competitive yields or leading-edge capability.
4. Indian activists challenge AI surveillance of New Delhi protests
-- A student activist asked the Delhi High Court to declare police mass surveillance of Cockroach Janta Party demonstrators unconstitutional and order deletion of the collected personal data.
-- The case could set an important privacy boundary because India lacks a law specifically governing police facial recognition, leaving protest monitoring without a dedicated statutory framework.
5. Draft Bitcoin proposal aggregates any number of Schnorr signatures into 64 bytes
-- Draft BIP459 specifies an interactive two-round process that combines multiple BIP340 signatures into one fixed-size signature using an untrusted coordinator.
-- The scheme could support future cross-input aggregation that lowers transaction weight and fees, but that application would require a separate Bitcoin consensus change.
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