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According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rising by 1%, the S&P 500 index up by 0.2%, and the Nasdaq down by 0.2%. SK Hynix fell by 8.98%, and Micron Technology dropped by 8.85%. SanDisk's stock price fell by 14%, down more than 50% from the historical high it reached a month ago.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed up by 1.08%, with NetEase rising nearly 3%.

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According to Coinglass data, if ETH falls below $1,815, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $906 million. Conversely, if ETH breaks above $2,004, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $556 million.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $66,861, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on major CEX will reach $1.362 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $60,537, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on major CEX will reach $1.228 billion.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor stated that Bitcoin has gained market recognition, but the biggest challenge in the future is not external competition, but rather the erosion of consensus rules from within. He believes that Bitcoin's consensus rules are like a "constitution," determining property rights, scarcity, settlement mechanisms, and boundaries of power. Any modification of the rules for the benefit of specific groups is an infringement on the economic rights of all participants.He warned that Bitcoin is expected to grow a hundredfold in the future and become the infrastructure of the global capital market, while a single erroneous rule modification could harm markets, technologies, and economic freedoms that have yet to be born. Saylor specifically pointed out certain proposals, including BIP-110, arguing that they undermine the neutrality of the Bitcoin protocol by limiting effective paid transactions, introducing contract mechanisms, or expanding block capacity. He stated that although these proposals take different forms, they all weaken the scarcity of block space, increase network bandwidth and verification costs, expand protocol complexity, and introduce new security risks. At the same time, weakening the fee market will affect miners' income sources after block rewards continue to halve, thereby undermining the long-term security of the Bitcoin network. Furthermore, once a particular interest group is able to modify Bitcoin rules through certain means, other interest groups will follow suit, leading to long-term conflicts in protocol governance, capital outflows, slowed innovation, and deteriorating network security. Saylor called for keeping the Bitcoin base layer simple, neutral, scarce, and secure, leaving innovation to the second layer and application layer, promoting development through voluntary adoption rather than frequent modifications of the underlying protocol, and emphasized that protocol upgrades should be approached with extreme caution and only advanced when truly necessary to maintain the foundation for Bitcoin's long-term development.

According to a report released by CryptoQuant's research director Julio, the current open interest in cryptocurrency perpetual contracts is approximately $65 billion, down about 20% from the peak of around $80 billion in September 2025 and early 2026, reflecting some deleveraging rather than new capital inflows. The market is highly concentrated, with Binance dominating with about 39% market share, the top three platforms accounting for about 63%, and the top five making up about 81%, indicating that capital is highly concentrated in leading exchanges.The report states that, at the same time, TradFi perpetual contracts for metals, crude oil, and stocks have become a growth highlight. This 24-hour, round-the-clock product has doubled in scale to over $2 billion since the end of May, allowing crypto trading to compete directly with traditional trading venues, although its size currently accounts for only about 3% of the crypto perpetual market. TradFi perpetual contracts are also dominated by leading platforms, with Binance, Gate, and Bybit at the forefront, showing that platforms with mature infrastructure and liquidity are extending their advantages into traditional asset tracks.

Justin Ryan Schmidt, the founder of the cryptocurrency investment fund Translunar Crypto LP, has been sentenced to 37 months in prison by a U.S. court for tax evasion. The U.S. Department of Justice stated that the 46-year-old Schmidt pleaded guilty this year in federal court in Austin, Texas, where he was accused of underreporting income, declaring less than $5,000 in income from 2020 to 2022, while prosecutors claimed he actually earned over $7 million through fund operations from 2019 to 2022.It is reported that Schmidt founded Translunar in 2017, primarily investing in blockchain startups, with funding mainly coming from investors in the Austin area of Texas and Aspen, Colorado. He was arrested by the IRS Criminal Investigation Division on February 23, 2026, and has been in custody since then.

Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan posted that the impact of interest rate decisions on Bitcoin over the next five years will be less than it has been over the past fifteen years. He stated that since Bitcoin's inception, interest rates have fluctuated significantly between 0% to 2.5%, 0% to 5%, and 3.5%, with changes measured in whole percentage points. However, future adjustments may be more moderate, with CME expecting interest rates to rise by only 50 basis points over the next year.Matt Hougan assesses that the Federal Reserve under Warsh may be closer to the slight adjustment style of the mid-1990s under Greenspan, rather than the patterns seen in recent years under Bernanke and Powell. If this is indeed the case, the smaller magnitude of interest rate changes will also weaken their impact on Bitcoin; while interest rates remain important, the weight of other factors will increase.

According to The Block, cryptocurrency financial company Galaxy Digital announced that it has acquired approximately 500 acres of land in McGregor, Texas, for the construction of its second large AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data center campus in the state. The project will be advanced in collaboration with the city of McGregor and local partners, with an initial planned capacity of 74 MW, expected to receive power supply by 2028, and plans to expand to hundreds of megawatts by 2030.Galaxy expects that the project will increase the local tax base in McGregor by at least $130 million. Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz stated that the company has validated the model of long-term cooperation between private data centers and rural communities at the Helios data center in Dickens County, Texas over the past few years, and the new campus will be the next step in Galaxy's strategy to build a multi-campus data center business. Previously, Galaxy acquired the Helios Bitcoin mining campus in West Texas in 2022 and gradually shifted towards AI and high-performance computing business. Currently, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has approved Galaxy to expand Helios to a capacity of 1.63 GW, which has been leased by AI cloud computing company CoreWeave for 15 years.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published a new article introducing a novel cryptographic obfuscation technology called Diamond iO. This technology aims to address the extremely low efficiency of traditional indistinguishable obfuscation schemes, allowing programs to run while hiding internal logic and critical data. Although traditional iO technology possesses strong privacy protection capabilities, its operational costs are prohibitively high, making it nearly impractical. Diamond iO, by adopting more aggressive new cryptographic assumptions, enhances computational efficiency from "universe-level time consumption" to "planet-level time consumption," bringing it closer to practical application.Diamond iO is built on technologies such as Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) and Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE). By encrypting programs, it allows users to execute the encrypted programs and obtain correct outputs without being able to view the internal code or hidden keys. This solution introduces a new input encoding mechanism and conditional decryption method, reducing computational complexity while ensuring the program logic remains hidden. Its core application scenarios include protecting programs that contain private keys, enabling secure software licensing, constructing trustless cryptographic services, and supporting blockchain and artificial intelligence systems with stronger privacy protection.However, Diamond iO is still in the early research stage, and its security relies on new cryptographic assumptions, including All-Product LWE and Evasive LWE, which require further research validation. At the same time, the technology still faces efficiency challenges such as high computational overhead and circuit depth limitations. Researchers believe that by optimizing underlying hash functions, improving homomorphic encryption schemes, and reducing security parameter requirements, Diamond iO is expected to become an important direction for advancing practical program obfuscation technology in the future.

According to The Block, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik stated that the number of AI trading agents is expected to surpass human traders in about two years. Nansen is shifting its product from a pure analytics tool to "direct trading" and is restructuring the platform around "trading all assets on-chain with agents." Currently, this feature has achieved a cumulative trading volume of over $500 million.Svanevik mentioned that about 10 of the top 15 perpetual contracts by trading volume on Nansen are non-crypto assets, including SpaceX, the S&P 500 index, gold, and crude oil. Nansen plans to open up higher autonomy trading agents after completing backtesting and paper trading to reduce inference costs and control the risk of input poisoning.

According to PR Newswire, the on-chain execution infrastructure company Birdai Labs announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing, led by Castle Island Ventures, with participation from Metalayer Ventures and The Venture Dept.Birdai Labs focuses on providing measurement, verification, and optimization infrastructure for transaction execution quality on high-performance public chains, aiming to reduce value loss between orders and executions caused by sorting and propagation, and to return more value to traders and market makers. The company's team comes from traditional financial institutions such as Franklin Templeton and Citadel, and is expanding its senior engineering and quantitative research team to adapt to on-chain execution competition under a multi-proposer architecture, and to provide verifiable fairness and transparency execution standards for future institutional participation in the digital asset market.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index has turned positive, and the decline of the Nasdaq 100 index has narrowed to 1.1%.

According to Jinshi, the U.S. Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index fell from a revised 92.2 in June to 90.8 in July, below the forecast of 92.3. Households' views on the labor market remain generally weak.The Conference Board's Chief Economist, Dana Peterson, stated that consumer feedback on economic factors in July remained predominantly pessimistic, with a slight increase in mentions of employment and unemployment.

The tokenization platform xStocks announced the launch of its third IPO tokenization product, targeting the American sandwich chain brand Jersey Mike's, which will be issued on Solana, EVM, and TON. Users can submit subscription intentions through Kraken. According to its disclosure, Jersey Mike's has over 3,330 stores and sales of $4.3 billion. Previously, xStocks' two IPO tokenization targets were SpaceX and Bending Spoons.xStocks stated that this type of IPO tokenization product only provides price exposure and does not represent direct ownership. The allocation of shares is not determined by xStocks or Kraken and may be fully, partially, or not allocated at all. Unallocated funds will be returned, and it is not open to individuals from the United States, the United Kingdom, or Canada.

Aave founder Stani Kulechov posted on X that the CLARITY Act will grant banks the legal authority to use digital assets and distributed ledgers without prior notice or approval, covering custody, staking, and lending, which represents a significant expansion of accessible market space for the crypto industry.Previously, he also stated that the bill is not perfect, and many aspects depend on the subsequent formulation of actual authorization rules, but it is the first regulatory framework to touch on DeFi, creating certainty for institutions, fintech companies, and banks to use on-chain business. He noted that once the CLARITY Act is passed, it will bring favorable conditions and investment for on-chain business similar to what the GENIUS Act has done for stablecoins.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index fell by 0.3%, and the Nasdaq index dropped by more than 1%.

According to Gate market data, the US Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell more than 5% during the day, reaching a new low in two months.Micron Technology fell nearly 9%, while SanDisk and Western Digital both fell more than 12%. NVIDIA fell more than 1%, AMD fell more than 8%, Intel fell more than 6%, and Broadcom fell 2.8%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with mixed performance among the three major indices: the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 0.6%, the S&P 500 index slightly fell by 0.01%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index dropped by 0.4%. Storage concept stocks continued to be under pressure, with Micron Technology falling over 6% and SanDisk dropping over 8%.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a trader opened a 4x leveraged long position of 23,251.544 SKHX (worth 24.67 million USD) today at 14:38, with an entry average price of 1106.8 USD, and is currently facing an unrealized loss of 1.074 million USD.This wallet has now become the TOP2 holding address for SKHX on Hyperliquid.