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According to Yicai, global chip stocks faced a Black Monday. On that day, during the Asian trading session, rising geopolitical tensions in the Middle East suppressed risk appetite, with SK Hynix plunging over 15% on the Korean Exchange, marking the largest single-day drop in 18 years; the South Korean benchmark index KOSPI fell more than 9% in a single day, retreating 25% from its historical high on June 22.Data from the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea shows that the total amount of forced liquidations across the entire South Korean market reached 344.2 billion won in a single day, the largest scale of credit liquidation this year. Retail investors accounted for 92% of leveraged positions, referred to as "ant investors," who made full bets on memory chips and have very weak capacity to withstand volatility. As of Monday, over 1.2 million leveraged retail accounts in the entire South Korean market had reached the margin call line. Among them, approximately 320,000 to 360,000 accounts have been fully liquidated by brokerages, resulting in the loss of principal, with some accounts even owing debts to brokerages.Institutions believe that the short-term Gamma effect of leveraged shorts in South Korea cannot be eliminated, and the trillion-won level of leveraged selling pressure has not been fully cleared, with the risk of volatility still unresolved. However, this round of decline is not a reversal of the industry's fundamentals but rather a concentrated deleveraging event following macro shocks faced by crowded high-position leveraged trades.

According to CoinGlass data, influenced by changes in the US-Iran situation and other factors, international gold (XAUT) once fell below the $4000 mark, with a quote of approximately $4009.98, a 24-hour decline of about 1.31%. The total 24-hour spot trading volume of XAUT across the network reached $50.4048 million, with the Gate platform's trading volume exceeding $7.0887 million, ranking third in the network; the total 24-hour contract open interest of XAUT across the network reached $499 million, with the Gate platform's open interest exceeding $117 million, ranking third in the network.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng's net worth has risen to approximately $36 billion, more than doubling from about $16.7 billion previously, surpassing Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman.Previously, DeepSeek completed a $7.4 billion financing round in June 2026, with the company's valuation reaching $50 billion. Bloomberg estimates that Liang Wenfeng holds about 78% of DeepSeek's shares, and his wealth increase mainly comes from the rise in the company's valuation.

According to the data panel on the ChainCatcher official website, regarding BTC wallet balances, in the past 7 days, among the top 10 exchanges by balance, OKX had the largest increase at 2.18%, while Binance had the largest decrease at 0.76%.In terms of exchange asset transparency proof, in the past 7 days, only Binance (+$225 million) and Deribit (+$21.8709 million) achieved net asset inflows; the top three for net outflows were Bybit (-$282 million), Gate (-$217 million), and OKX (-$147 million).

According to Coinglass data, the cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index is currently at 21, down 6 points from yesterday. The average over the past 7 days is 22, and the average over the past 30 days is 19.

According to Coinglass data, if BTC breaks through $65,638, the cumulative short liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.944 billion. Conversely, if BTC falls below $59,463, the cumulative long liquidation intensity on mainstream CEX will reach $1.339 billion.

The AI Agent no-code operating platform X-Agent, based on the Web3 social network, officially releases its core "Litepaper V1" to the world. The white paper details how it reconstructs the decentralized AI agent ecosystem and commercialization path through no-code deployment and secure sandbox technology.The core technologies and solutions are as follows: 1) Speak to Build (no-code deployment): Allows users to create and deploy professional-grade AI agents to Telegram, WhatsApp, or the web in minutes using pure natural language. 2) SRE Cryptographic Sandbox (physically isolated security): A unique physically isolated operating environment that perfectly protects user private keys and sensitive credentials while enabling agents to have enterprise-level autonomous asset changes and on-chain collaboration capabilities.Market performance and latest data: X-Agent has surpassed 1,000,000+ cumulative global users, and the AI agents have autonomously completed over 1,100,000 actual business tasks, consuming/destroying over 8.4 billion model tokens. The project has previously raised $1.8 million in funding and has a highly cohesive localized community in Japan and South Korea. The native token $XAGT serves as the network's settlement hard currency, directly used for SRE computing Gas fee settlement, transaction commission payment, and staking endorsement. The team and investors have a strict 12-month Cliff lock-up. The community quota is completely non-inflationary and can only be unlocked through actual sandbox task consumption algorithms, ensuring that each token is supported by real business demand. According to the latest roadmap, X-Agent will open a new no-code public portal in Q3 2026 and launch a decentralized Agent Store in Q1 2027.

According to CoinLaunch data, LAB Terminal will see an investor token unlock on July 14, with an unlock amount of 16.23 million LAB, accounting for approximately 1.6% of the maximum supply. This unlock corresponds to a value of about 4.06 million USD, representing 8.5% of the investor share, which is about 5.0% of the current market capitalization.At the same time, the total allocation for Investors is 192 million LAB, with 94.6 million LAB currently unlocked, accounting for 49.27% of that allocation; subsequently, 16.23 million LAB will be unlocked monthly from August 14 to December 14, 2026. Additionally, 70.8% of the token supply is still marked as "Untracked," with the page indicating that this data is unavailable, and the related tokens may be unlocked at any time.In terms of market performance, LAB is currently priced at 0.3777 USD, with a decline of 97.6% over the past 7 days, and the current market capitalization is approximately 12.2 million USD.

According to Jinshi reports, analyst Eamonn Sheridan expects the U.S. Consumer Price Index for June to decrease by 0.2% month-on-month, marking the first recorded decline since the pandemic, primarily driven by a 15% drop in gasoline prices from mid-May to the end of June.The annualized inflation rate is expected to slow from 4.2% in May to 3.8%. Core CPI is expected to rise by 0.2% month-on-month, with the annualized core inflation rate expected to slightly decrease to 2.8%. The annualized growth rate of service inflation is 3.4%, higher than 2.9% in January.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, OpenGradient (OPG) will unlock approximately 9.13 million tokens at 11:00 AM Beijing time on July 21, worth about 1 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, ETHGAS (GWEI) will unlock approximately 23.792 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on July 21, worth about 11.86 million USD.

According to token unlocking data from the Crypto asset data platform RootData, Trusta Labs (TA) will unlock approximately 24.1 million tokens at 0:00 Beijing time on July 21, worth about 1.81 million USD.

Cathie Wood's Ark Invest increased its holdings of 153,249 shares of SpaceX stock, valued at approximately $21.32 million, and increased its holdings of 71,618 shares of Block stock, valued at approximately $5.63 million.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (@ai_9684xtpa), affected by the continuous decline of the Korean stock market, the Binance contract smart money address "Yu Yu m" has incurred an unrealized loss of $2.091 million on long positions related to SK Hynix, topping the loss list for the past three days.The specific holdings are as follows: • $SKHX: Holding 7,462.68 shares (approximately $11.03 million), opening price $1,477.89, current unrealized loss $1.954 million • $SKHY: Holding 25,733.63 shares (approximately $4.045 million), opening price $157.22, current unrealized loss $137,000.Currently, the margin for this address is relatively sufficient, with the liquidation prices for $SKHX and $SKHY dropping to $756 and $27.59 respectively, with no risk of liquidation at this time.

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin stated that Ethereum L1 transaction fees should remain low to promote ecosystem growth. It is expected that in the next 2 to 3 years, tens of thousands of companies will deploy on Ethereum L1, L2, and permissioned EVM networks, achieving cross-layer interoperability.Lubin believes that large-scale adoption will enhance the monetary premium of ETH and the total transaction fee revenue of L1. At the same time, staking and other locking mechanisms will reduce circulating supply. If ETH returns to a net destruction state, its value is expected to rise further.

According to TenArmorAlert monitoring, the BSC chain contract VECAndETH suffered a suspicious price manipulation attack, resulting in a loss of approximately $109,600.

The newly launched Bitcoin bank adopts an index display, with Fidelity ranking first at 71%, BNY in second place at 46%, and Goldman Sachs in third place at 45%. JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, and Citigroup all stand at 43%. This index evaluates the Bitcoin-related service adoption of 25 major global institutions in trading, custody, digital asset products, financing, and corporate participation, with an overall adoption rate of 32%.The scores of the remaining institutions range from 13% to 38%, with Wells Fargo at 38%, Banco Santander and Société Générale both at 35%, Charles Schwab and TD Bank both at 32%, BNP Paribas, HSBC, Crédit Agricole, and UBS all at 30%, Bank of America, Barclays, and Standard Chartered all at 28%, State Street at 27%, Mizuho and Deutsche Bank both at 22%, MUFG at 18%, Lloyd's at 17%, and SMBC and Royal Bank of Canada both at 13%.

According to The Block, the DeFi startup project Gondor based on Polymarket has announced the launch of version 1, which will support users in cross-margin lending for their entire Polymarket portfolio to obtain credit for purchasing more prediction market shares.This feature is expected to go live publicly in September, with the private testing phase starting next week. Gondor v1 is a significant upgrade from its beta version tested 7 months ago. The previous beta version only supported lending against a single position, while the cross-margin model assesses based on the overall account health of the user, similar to how traditional financial brokers grant credit based on a client's diversified portfolio.