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Tom Lee, Chairman of Bitmine, posted on the X platform stating that ETH has become the best-performing macro asset, which also strengthens the argument that ETH is an on-chain currency.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale invested $99,869.96 in the "World Cup Champion" event, specifically targeting "Spain." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this target is 21.89%.

WEEX Exchange announces the launch of the crude oil ecological trading zone activity, covering the crude oil token CRUDEOIL, the crude oil ETF token USOON, as well as the stock tokens OXYON, XOMON, COPON, and CVXON, totaling six currencies. Users trading any of the participating currencies can share a total prize pool of $100,000. The activity runs from July 9 at 20:00 to July 19 at 20:00 (UTC+8).

According to Coindesk, Giselle Lai, Director of Fidelity International for the Asia-Pacific region and Digital Asset Strategist, stated that the most attractive long-term use case for tokenized funds for large global institutions is not 24/7 liquidity, but balance sheet management.Lai pointed out that global institutions often need to hold cash in multiple jurisdictions, manage currency exposure, and meet regulatory requirements, while these bank deposits often do not generate returns. Compared to traditional account systems, tokenized tools can provide 24/7 interest, enhance fund transfer efficiency, and better serve institutional liquidity and collateral management needs.He also mentioned that current tokenized products are primarily applied in investment scenarios, with the most popular being tokenized money market funds that primarily use U.S. Treasury bonds as the underlying asset. What institutional investors are truly concerned about is not the "token" itself, but whether it can help asset management become faster and cheaper.

The Web3 asset platform RootData has now launched the RD AI Popularity Interpretation module. This feature uses a specific AI model to deeply analyze the reasons behind project popularity, helping users quickly grasp the latest dynamics and core driving factors of projects when viewing the homepage's popular project rankings, thus enabling more efficient identification of project value and improving investment decision-making efficiency.RootData has previously launched core indicators such as the RD Popularity Index and RD Growth Index, which present real-time rankings of the top 100 projects by popularity index. The newly added AI interpretation feature will further enhance the platform's data insight capabilities, providing users with more intelligent tools to discover early alpha projects and investment opportunities.

Multiple social media users have reported that the Coinbase platform has opened registration for Chinese users, allowing them to register with a +86 phone number and ID card, without the need for proof of overseas address.

According to Bloomberg, DeepSeek has begun preparations for its initial public offering (IPO), which may submit its listing application as early as this year.DeepSeek is working with accounting firms and expects to complete its financial reports by the end of December this year, which is a necessary preparation for submitting the IPO application. The company plans to officially submit its listing application by the end of this year or early 2027.

According to Cryptonomist, banking groups such as the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America are urging the Senate to further tighten the provisions related to stablecoin yields in the CLARITY Act. Previously, the Senate Banking Committee passed the bill on May 14, 2026, with a vote of 15 to 9, incorporating some amendments pushed by Senators Thom Tillis and Angela Alsobrooks. However, the banking sector believes that the existing text still does not completely close the incentive space for "class yields" related to stablecoins.The Independent Community Bankers of America previously estimated that if the bill does not further strengthen yield restrictions, stablecoins could lead to a loss of approximately $1.3 trillion in deposits from the banking system and reduce the lending capacity of community banks by about $850 billion, thereby affecting credit access for small businesses, agriculture, and families in underdeveloped areas.

According to Jinshi reports, the overall inflation in June decreased by 0.4% month-on-month. Although the data has declined, it has not kept up with current events, and energy prices are expected to become the biggest variable in the future.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a trading whale just converted all the remaining ETH into BTC at the ETH/BTC exchange rate. He has now fully shorted the exchange rate: a total of 30,139 ETH was sold for 859 BTC (approximately 54.09 million USD), with a shorting rate of 0.0285.He is betting that ETH will drop more than BTC or rise less than BTC, and plans to buy back more ETH after the exchange rate falls.

According to Jinshi reports, the seasonally unadjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the U.S. in June was 333.952, lower than the market expectation of 334.697 and the previous value of 335.123.

According to Jinshi, the annual rate of the U.S. CPI for June, not seasonally adjusted, recorded at 3.5% (previous value 4.2%), while the market expectation was 3.8%; the month-on-month CPI for June, seasonally adjusted, recorded at -0.4%, marking the largest decline since April 2020.

The Ethereum institutional privacy technology company EthSystems has officially launched and received strategic funding support from ecosystem backers such as Bitmine, Sharplink Gaming, and Joe Lubin.EthSystems focuses on developing privacy technologies for banks, asset management companies, and other regulated entities, enabling institutions to execute financial transactions on the Ethereum network at scale while protecting sensitive information such as transaction details and client identities.The company was founded by the core team of the Institutional Privacy Task Force (IPTF) of the Ethereum Foundation. The team has publicly conducted a year-long open-source research and development on the EthSystems official website and has established partnerships with several central banks, regulatory agencies, large banks, and asset management institutions. EthSystems stated that while institutions have begun exploring stablecoins, tokenized assets, and Ethereum-based settlement solutions, large-scale adoption still faces privacy and compliance challenges.Financial institutions need more than just access to blockchain networks; they require a complete infrastructure that meets the protection of commercial secrets, regulatory requirements, and compatibility with existing financial systems. The goal is to create a "selective disclosure" privacy architecture that allows transaction participants to view only the information they are authorized to access while retaining the core advantages of Ethereum's decentralization, security, and openness, and complementing two other organizations: Ethlabs, which focuses on the research and development of Ethereum's core protocol and infrastructure; Ethereum Institutional, responsible for institutional collaboration, education, market research, and ecosystem coordination; and EthSystems, which focuses on application layer technology, transforming institutional needs into practical privacy protocols and financial systems.

According to Forbes, the stablecoin banking platform Flex announced the completion of a $70 million B1 round of financing, led by Halo Fund.The new funds will be used to expand its stablecoin-based cross-border commercial banking platform Flex Global, helping medium-sized enterprises conduct global payments and fund management through stablecoin infrastructure.Data shows that the annual payment scale of stablecoins has reached approximately $390 billion, with inter-enterprise transactions growing by about 733% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the settlement scale of Visa stablecoins has reached an annualized $7 billion as of April 2026, a year-on-year increase of 50%.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor stated that Bitcoin is digital capital, and Strategy is transforming it into digital credit.

According to data from DefiLlama, possibly influenced by the increase in trading volume of its US stock tokens (rToken), Bitget has seen a net inflow of $666 million in the past 30 days, ranking first among centralized exchanges (CEX).

According to reports, Google DeepMind co-founder Demis Hassabis recently predicted that artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be achieved in just a few years, with its transformative impact reaching ten times that of the Industrial Revolution, and its development speed accelerating tenfold. He pointed out that as the potential risks of cutting-edge models in areas such as cybersecurity, nuclear energy, and biology become increasingly prominent, the industry urgently needs to establish robust security protections for future AI systems that possess autonomy and self-improvement capabilities.To balance technological innovation and security risks, Hassabis called for the United States to take the lead in establishing a "Frontier AI Standards Agency" similar to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). This agency is proposed to operate under a public-private partnership or self-regulatory organization model, managed by independent technical experts and representatives from the open-source community, primarily funded through industry contributions. Its core function is to develop dynamic scientific assessment protocols, initially requiring frontier laboratories to voluntarily submit for review 30 days prior to the release of models, with plans to eventually transition to mandatory market entry testing, while non-frontier models from startups or academic institutions would be exempt. This framework aims to address unknown crises through a technology-driven review mechanism and to promote a global consensus on AI risk management within the international community.

According to the official announcement, the Binance wallet on both Web and App has supported limit order trading on the ETH and Base chains.

According to GoPlus analysis, Lumi Finance on Arbitrum was attacked on July 13, resulting in a loss of approximately $270,000.The vulnerability originated from a logical flaw in the validateUserOp function of the Sodium smart account contract (ERC-4337) when calling _validateSignature to verify the signature—specifically, during the execution of isValidSignatureNow, the signer parameter was passed as the attacker's address. After an error occurred in the call to ECDSA.tryRecover, it did not revert but instead called the isValidSignature function in the attack contract and passed the verification. The attacker exploited this vulnerability to execute Token approve operations during the UserOperation verification period, obtaining approval rights for ERC20 tokens from multiple smart accounts without the payer's consent.

Binance contracts will update the funding rate settlement frequency for SKHYNIXUSDT, SAMSUNGUSDT, and HYUNDAIUSDT perpetual contracts on July 15, 2026, at 00:15, changing from once every eight hours to once every four hours, with the funding rate upper/lower limit adjusted to ± 0.5%.