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According to The Information, the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) plans to showcase a real-time stock trading settlement process based on blockchain technology this Wednesday, focusing on verifying the feasibility of this technology in the clearing, settlement, and recording stages to enhance the operational efficiency of capital market infrastructure.

According to PR Newswire, Bitmine announced that it has purchased an additional 27,801 ETH in the past week and stated that it will continue to maintain the steady accumulation pace established since 2026. The company expects to achieve its so-called "Alchemy of 5%" target within the year.As of July 12, Bitmine holds a total of 5.77 million ETH, of which 4.917 million ETH (approximately 85% of the holdings) have been staked. Based on an ETH price of $1,820, the total value is approximately $9 billion. The company expects an annualized staking income of about $242 million based on a 2.70% annualized staking yield, and if all ETH is staked, the annualized staking rewards could reach $284 million.In addition, Bitmine stated that it has launched an institutional-grade Ethereum staking platform, MAVAN (Made in American Validator Network), this year, which will be opened to institutional investors, custodians, and ecological partners in the future.Bitmine claims that it has become the largest ETH reserve institution in the world, and ranks second globally in terms of cryptocurrency asset reserves, only behind Strategy, which holds 843,775 BTC. The company also stated that the GENIUS Act and the U.S. SEC's Project Crypto will drive the transformation of digital asset financial infrastructure, with significance comparable to the impact of the end of the Bretton Woods system in 1971 on the modernization of Wall Street.

According to official news, the AI healthcare project Savior of Health announced the completion of a $4 million strategic financing round, with participation from Amber Group, Basics Capital, Animoca Brands, Candaq, TBV, Everwood Capital, Olaris Capital, MangoLabs, and Credit Scend.The funds from this round will be used to advance AI-driven healthcare and health management, build next-generation medical infrastructure, support AI scientific research through health questionnaires and surveys, and expand its global healthcare ecosystem.

According to Bloomberg, several major banks in the United States, including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and HSBC, have announced the formation of a joint network operated by The Clearing House, using blockchain to connect tokenized bank deposits in response to the rapid expansion of dollar stablecoins represented by USDT and USDC in the payment and clearing sectors.The network is scheduled to launch next year, aiming to achieve interoperability among the internal blockchain systems of various banks, with a priority on wholesale payments and liquidity management scenarios.Data from Artemis Analytics shows that the trading volume of stablecoins is expected to reach approximately $33 trillion by 2025, and Bloomberg Intelligence predicts that related payment flows could exceed $50 trillion by 2030. The banking industry believes that this trend has already posed direct competitive pressure on traditional deposit and payment businesses.

Strive CEO Matt Cole posted on the X platform stating that the company purchased an additional 18 BTC last week, with a total value of approximately 1.2 million dollars, at an average purchase price of about 64,028 dollars/BTC. The company's total Bitcoin holdings have increased to 19,900 coins.

According to CNBC, the prediction market platform Kalshi has officially launched the professional trading terminal Kalshi Pro (beta version) to the public, aimed at high-frequency and professional users who trade multiple markets and participate in real-time event trading.Kalshi Pro supports professional features such as real-time public transaction flow, order book depth viewing, multi-leg contract analysis, and order management, and has added terminal-level charts and position risk management tools specifically for perpetual futures.Kalshi's product head Andy Chang stated that active traders have begun trading prediction markets and perpetual futures like Wall Street trades stocks and bonds, and Kalshi Pro aims to provide institutional-level trading terminals for professional traders.

According to CoinDesk, Jurien Timmer, the Global Macro Director at Fidelity, stated that Bitcoin is approaching the bottom support line of its "power law model" constructed based on the complete price history of Bitcoin. This long-term support level is currently around $58,000, while the current price of Bitcoin is approximately $62,700, gradually nearing this area, or may have already entered the "accumulation zone" defined by the model.However, Jurien Timmer did not confirm that the market has bottomed out, but believes that Bitcoin may not experience a rapid rebound immediately. Instead, it is expected to fluctuate around the long-term support line for several months. Short-term capital has previously exited, and the flow of funds has rotated from Bitcoin to gold, and then from gold to the semiconductor sector. Currently, the market's pursuit of hot sectors is still mainly concentrated in the semiconductor field.

Zhipu (02513.HK) announced on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange that the company previously disclosed a plan to place up to 19.78 million new H shares, which has now been completed on July 13, 2026. A total of 19.78 million new H shares were issued and allocated to no less than 6 subscribers at a placement price of HKD 1588 per share, accounting for approximately 4.25% of the total issued H shares after expansion.The total amount raised from the placement is approximately HKD 31.411 billion, with a net amount of approximately HKD 31.375 billion, intended for research and development of general artificial intelligence, business expansion, and optimizing the capital structure.

According to Blockaid monitoring, the Lumi Finance protocol on Arbitrum is currently under attack, with approximately $270,000 in funds having been transferred out.

According to Lookonchain, a trader made over 9 million dollars in profit by shorting the token ESPORTS on the decentralized trading platform Aster DEX in less than a month, with a return of approximately 806%.The trader deposited 1 million USDT into Aster on June 18, opening a 1x leverage short position on ESPORTS. Subsequently, part of the position was closed, realizing a profit of 4.28 million dollars, while still holding approximately 137.73 million ESPORTS short positions (with an unrealized profit of about 1.95 million dollars). There is still about 4.77 million dollars in unrealized gains in the account. Currently, the trader has withdrawn the initial investment of 1 million dollars from Aster, leaving a remaining balance of 9.05 million dollars, all of which is profit.

According to a report by Jinshi Data on July 13, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and three other departments issued guidance on promoting the high-quality development of internet infrastructure resources. It mentioned strengthening the planning of internet technology innovation, promoting the implementation of relevant national key research and development programs and major national science and technology projects, enhancing original technology innovation, and carrying out technical research on the integration of artificial intelligence, blockchain, distributed identifiers and internet infrastructure resources, breaking through key technologies such as network dynamic optimization, intelligent resource scheduling, and data security interaction. Strengthening the innovation of the IPv6 technology system to solve key issues such as protocol compatibility and high-performance transmission. Breaking through key technologies for satellite internet mega-constellation networking, rapid routing switching, and reliable anti-jamming transmission. Breaking through key technologies for the large-scale deployment and application of resource public key infrastructure.

According to a report by the Procuratorial Daily, researchers from the People's Procuratorate of Yuhu District, Xiangtan City, Hunan Province, and the Law School of Xiangtan University have jointly written an article proposing a systematic response plan to the regulatory dilemmas of money laundering crimes using virtual currency. The article points out that current judicial practice faces three major dilemmas: first, Article 191 of the Criminal Law limits money laundering crimes to seven types of upstream crimes, resulting in many cases being treated as "concealment crimes"; second, methods such as mixers, privacy coins, and cross-chain transfers lead to fragmented evidence chains, making traditional investigative methods difficult to penetrate; third, conflicts in the legal attributes of virtual currency, a vacuum in procedural rules, and barriers to cross-border cooperation make it difficult to recover assets.In response, the article suggests promoting "dual investigations for one case," establishing the principle of self-authentication of blockchain data, constructing a tiered standard of proof, and establishing a national-level custody and disposal platform for involved virtual currencies, while actively promoting the signing of special agreements for international criminal justice assistance in virtual currency crimes.

According to token unlocking data from the crypto asset data platform RootData, Kaito (KAITO) will unlock approximately 12.11 million tokens at 12:00 PM Beijing time on July 20, worth about 8.1 million USD.

According to token unlock data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, LayerZero (ZRO) will unlock approximately 25.71 million tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on July 20, worth about 22.05 million USD.

According to NetEase News, Future Capital Investment Management Co., Ltd., founded by Huobi founder Li Lin, is one of the main producers of Stephen Chow's new film "Kung Fu Soccer." The total investment in the film is approximately 380 million yuan (excluding promotion and distribution costs), with a production budget of about 190 million yuan and actor salaries of around 57 million yuan. Future Capital Investment Management Co., Ltd. is listed as a main producer, with the funding description as "financial investment entity," and the specific amount of investment has not been publicly disclosed.

According to Cointelegraph, the launch of Robinhood's Layer 2 network, Robinhood Chain, has boosted market sentiment towards Ethereum. The network uses ETH as its native Gas token, and approximately $141 million worth of ETH has been bridged to the chain.Reports indicate that there are now over 500,000 wallet addresses holding ETH on the network. In the past 24 hours, the DEX trading volume on Robinhood Chain reached $877.56 million, surpassing Ethereum L1 and competitor Base. As an on-chain extension of the traditional financial trading platform Robinhood, it offers tokenized stock services to customers in 120 countries, further strengthening the EVM-compatible ecosystem.

DeFiLlama data shows that Uniswap's trading fees in the past 24 hours were approximately $5.027 million.Uniswap founder Hayden Adams stated that Uniswap's daily trading fees are second only to Tether and Circle, and significantly higher than projects like Hyperliquid and Pump.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a hacker issued a token called $SCATMAN and promoted it after hacking the official X accounts of SpaceXAI and Starlink.Subsequently, the hacker sold all 100 trillion $SCATMAN tokens minted for 59 ETH (approximately $108,000). Another wallet controlled by the hacker also sold 59.28 million $SCATMAN for 14.7 ETH (approximately $27,000). The hacker's total profit was approximately $135,000.

According to local media reports in Thailand, Thailand will require individuals to verify the source of funds when depositing more than 5 million Thai Baht (approximately 150,000 USD) in cash. This intervention expands the compliance responsibilities of commercial banks regarding cash networks, large currency exchanges, precious metal transactions, and suspicious stablecoin transactions, directly preventing regulated entities from fostering systemic corruption or a shadow economy.In addition, the Bank of Thailand and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) have jointly conducted audits focusing on Tether (USDT) to identify and prevent illegal fund flows. This crackdown also includes strengthening controls over precious metal transactions, requiring banks to report suspicious patterns, such as rapid digital purchases and same-day physical withdrawals, to combat money laundering activities.