Odaily Planet Daily News NFTstats.eth tweeted that the zombie CryptoPunk #8531 just held by Punks OTC on July 14 was sold at a price of 550 ETH (worth more than $1.06 million), and the buyer was metaversalvault.eth . This is the lowest Zombie Punk selling price since July 31, 2021, when a Zombie Punk was sold for 450 ETH. According to previous reports, PunksOTC, a long-term CryptoPunk holder and blue-chip NFT trader, purchased a total of 16 CryptoPunks from Casuallyrekt.eth (aka BeanieMaxi) at a price of 1785 ETH (approximately $3.391 million). 5 of the punks have the hoodie trait and 1 is a zombie punk. After the transaction, Punks OTC changed its Twitter avatar to CryptoPunk #8531. This Punk is a three-attribute zombie Punk, and Rarity Tools data shows that it ranks 105th in the rarity ranking of the series.

PANews news on June 24, according to Inner City Press, British hacker Joseph James O'_Connor (aka PlugwalkJoe O'_Connor) was sentenced to 5 years in prison by US District Court Judge Jed S. Rakoff for the Southern District of New York on charges of hacking attack and a SIM swap scheme, and stole cryptocurrency worth approximately $784,000 at the time. It is understood that the theft occurred in 2019, and the U.S. Department of Justice will prosecute in 2021, involving 770.784869 BCH, 6,363.490509 LTC, 407.396074 ETH and 7.456728 BTC. Prior to this sentencing, the hacker had served 28 months in prison.

According to the "Kechuangban Daily" report on June 15, Live95.5, a subsidiary of Alpha Media in the United States, became one of the first radio stations to try out AI announcers. Live95.5 announced on June 14 local time that its noon Show host Ashley Elzinga will play a clone of her voice — aka "AIAshley" — to listeners daily from 10am to 3pm, using AI software company Futuri Media's generative AI product "RadioGPT," which can be based on ChatGPT generates news transcripts and reads them using synthesized speech. Alpha Media also assured that host Elzinga will not lose her job and her salary will not change.

Golden Finance reports that cryptocurrency influencer Ben Armstrong, aka Bitboy, sold all of his BEN tokens in just one week after promising not to sell BEN tokens for six months. Data shows that Bitboy sold his BEN tokens for 45ETH (about $81,922).