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, the Ethereum Foundation has recently executed a transaction through CoWSwap, converting 100 ETH into 345,000 DAI. This move was detected by Scopescan, a monitoring service that tracks blockchain transactions. The conversion highlights the foundation's ongoing financial activities and strategic asset management within the cryptocurrency space.

According to BlockBeats, on July 23, modular blockchain project Avail announced the launch of its Avail DA mainnet and the introduction of the AVAIL token. Avail DA is a modular blockchain solution designed to optimize data availability (DA), enabling highly scalable and customizable rollups. The AVAIL token will serve as the native asset of the Avail network, used for paying DA fees and ensuring network security through staking. Additionally, AVAIL holders will have the opportunity to stake their tokens.