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As SpaceX went public on June 12 on Nasdaq, the Q2 13F reports first focused on disclosing institutional holdings after its listing. According to third-party 13F platform Giantsight, as of June 30, approximately 1,697 reporting entities disclosed their positions in SpaceX, covering various types of funds including pre-listing investors, venture capital, asset management institutions, and pensions.SEC filings show that Alphabet, Google's parent company, reported holding 551 million shares of SpaceX (valued at $94.18 billion), making it the largest 13F reported position currently; Valor Management holds 503 million shares ($86.01 billion), FMR LLC holds 303 million shares ($51.66 billion), Gigafund Management holds 172 million shares ($29.36 billion), and the Saudi Public Investment Fund holds 154 million shares ($26.34 billion), while BAMCO under Baron holds 146 million shares ($24.91 billion).Other key reporting entities include Nvidia holding 123 million shares ($20.98 billion), Baillie Gifford holding 51.4 million shares ($8.78 billion), BlackRock holding 51.04 million common shares ($8.72 billion), Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan holding 50.68 million shares ($8.66 billion), and Harvard University's endowment holding 12.935 million shares ($2.21 billion).In terms of source of holdings, Alphabet and Gigafund are pre-listing investors in SpaceX; Nvidia's position in SpaceX comes from its prior investment in xAI. FMR, BAMCO, BlackRock, and Baillie Gifford mainly represent asset management funds. The aforementioned positions first appeared in the 13F and do not imply that the related institutions all purchased from the secondary market after SpaceX's listing.The amounts mentioned are the end-of-period reported values as of June 30. On that day, SpaceX closed at $170.86, and as of August 14, it closed at $140, a decline of approximately 18.1% from the end of the quarter. If the number of shares held has not changed, the current market value of the related common stock positions would correspondingly decrease. The 13F primarily reflects long positions in reportable securities at the end of the quarter and some held options, without disclosing short stock positions, option sell positions, specific purchase times, transaction costs, or trades after the end of the quarter.

Binance Alpha announced that it will be the first platform to launch KiiChain (KII) on August 14. Eligible users can go to the Alpha event page to use Binance Alpha points to claim airdrops after the Alpha trading opens. Specific rules and details regarding the quota will be announced separately.

According to official news, the Gate Alpha section Meme coin MARVIN (7777) has increased by 29.98% in the last 24 hours. MARVIN is one of Elon Musk's pet dogs, born on November 1, and Musk has tweeted about it multiple times, even celebrating its birthday on November 1, 2023. Users can trade with one click on Gate Alpha.Gate Alpha now supports public chains such as SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BSC, Base, SUI, ARB, World Chain, AVAX, Polygon, LINEA, ZK, OP, Robinhood, and Berachain, and seamless trading of all-chain tokens can be achieved through the contract address search function.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents show that Alphabet (GOOG.O) reported holding 551.2 million shares of Class A stock in SpaceX (SPCX.O).

Google's parent company Alphabet's massive bond issuance attracted about $115 billion in subscription demand.

According to Bloomberg, Google's parent company Alphabet (GOOG) seeks to raise up to $25 billion through a bond issuance.

Alphabet launches a $10 billion investment-grade bond issuance.

Binance Wallet officially announced that Binance Alpha will be the first platform to launch the cross-chain protocol Squid (QUID), with the launch date set for August 4. After trading opens, eligible users can use Binance Alpha points to claim airdrops on the Alpha event page, with more details to be announced later.It is reported that Squid is a cross-chain platform that supports access to over 20,000 tokens across more than 100 blockchains and has processed over $6 billion in transaction volume, with QUID as its native token.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction on Polymarket for the event "Valorant: FUT Esports vs Team Vitality - VCT EMEA Alpha Group," the "Total Rounds on Map 3: Greater/Less than 18.5" sub-market's "Greater" option win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: Evil Geniuses vs MIBR (BO3) - VCT Americas Stage 2 Alpha Group," the sub-market "Map 2 Round Spread: MIBR (-10.5) vs Evil Geniuses (+10.5)" has seen a dramatic fluctuation in the win rate of the "MIBR" option, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Valorant: BBL Esports vs. Gentle Mates - VCT EMEA Alpha Group," the sub-market "Map 3 Spread: BBL Esports (-2.5) vs. Gentle Mates (+2.5)" saw the win probability for the "BBL Esports" option fluctuate dramatically, rising from 50% an hour ago to the current 90% (a fluctuation of 40%). Please note the impact of relevant breaking news.

According to Gate market data, Alphabet's stock price rose by 5.4%.

According to Jinshi reports, Goldman Sachs Asset Management has launched the artificial intelligence investment platform AlphaAI.

MEXC Ventures announced its support for the global esports-style trading competition Alpha Arena, which is expanding to the Asia-Pacific region for the first time, and will serve as the main sponsor of Alpha Arena S03, with TRIV as a co-organizer. Following successful events in Amsterdam and Berlin, Alpha Arena will hold its first offline finals in the Asia-Pacific region on August 20, 2026, during Coinfest Bali.This event is expected to gather over 50 traders from 3 markets, competing for a total prize pool of $100,000. The competition will connect traders, creators, and the Web3 community in the Asia-Pacific region through trading competitions, community interactions, and ecological collaborations, creating an immersive trading competition experience together.

The 2026 Fortune Global 500 list was released on July 28, with the total revenue of the listed companies amounting to approximately $43.1 trillion, exceeding one-third of the global GDP, with a year-on-year growth of about 3.2%. Amazon topped the list for the first time, ending Walmart's twelve-year streak; State Grid ranked third. Alphabet took the title of "most profitable company in the world" from Saudi Aramco with a net profit of $132.17 billion. NVIDIA ranked second in profits, and TSMC was the only Chinese company to enter the top ten in profits.A total of 141 companies from the United States made the list, 122 from China (including Taiwan), and 40 from Japan. The total revenue of Chinese listed companies is approximately $10.4 trillion, with an average profit of $4.5 billion, about 40% of the average profit of U.S. companies ($11.24 billion). JD.com (41st) ranked first among private companies in mainland China, while Alibaba (56th), Tencent (97th, entering the top 100 for the first time), Pinduoduo (255th), and Meituan (311th) all saw improvements in their rankings.In the high-tech sector, 38 listed companies had an average profit of $21.98 billion. NVIDIA jumped 38 places to rank 28th, TSMC rose 44 places to rank 82nd, SK Hynix ranked 210th, and Micron Technology and Advanced Micro Devices returned to the list after many years. The automotive industry saw increased differentiation, with BYD ranking 91st, CATL significantly rising 43 places to rank 260th, and Chery Automobile making the list for the first time as a publicly listed company. The company with the largest increase in ranking was Wistron, which surged 298 places to rank 198th.

Crypto KOL Phyrex posted on platform X, stating, "BitMart and BitMex did not close due to a collapse; it is very different from the sacrifice of FTX. These two primarily faced business issues."According to him, in 2023, BitMart had approached his associates about an acquisition, and they had done a lot of data analysis at the time, but it ultimately came to nothing. In fact, part of the decline of many third-tier exchanges is due to the impact from Binance Alpha.Small exchanges are essentially the stronghold of various altcoins, pump coins, Ponzi coins, and community coins, but the emergence of Alpha has provided better sources for these coins, which has also led to a significant reduction in listing fees for third-tier exchanges and a decrease in profits from joint market-making.Another reason is the signal teachers. In fact, the total number of signal teachers is not very large, but they have waves of associates. These teachers generally move between various exchanges, and once a new exchange offers better profits, these teachers quickly lead their followers to switch. The recent well-known cases of exchanges running away generally follow this pattern.

According to Business Insider, Alphabet's total number of employees increased from 187,103 to 198,933 in the year ending June 30, 2026, with a net increase of 11,830 people. Among them, the increase in Q2 2026 alone exceeded 4,000 people, accounting for more than one-third of the total net increase over the past year, marking the largest quarterly increase in recent years. The company's revenue during the same period was $119.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 24%.Previously, Google laid off 12,000 employees in a one-time action in 2023, followed by several rounds of small-scale adjustments. Last week, about 4,500 employees jointly submitted a petition to CEO Sundar Pichai, requesting stronger layoff protections. Alphabet stated that it will prioritize the long-term development of AI and has raised its capital expenditure expectations for 2026 to $195 billion to $205 billion, citing that the demand for AI infrastructure continues to exceed available capacity.

According to Protos, AI shopping agent developer ORO disclosed that it suffered losses of approximately $630,000 due to a suspected North Korean hacker attack. The attackers sent spoofed Microsoft Teams links to ORO employees through a compromised Telegram account, inducing them to install malicious extensions, and after nearly a month of data theft, stole 147,000 Alpha tokens on July 13. ORO is highly confident that the attack originated from the North Korean hacker group Sapphire Sleet.ORO also admitted to security negligence—due to insufficient hardware wallet support in the Bittensor protocol, the company "temporarily" set the owner keys to software wallets, violating its internal principle of prioritizing hardware wallets, which led to the keys being stolen from the compromised computer. ORO stated that it is working with exchanges, law enforcement, and Bittensor ecosystem partners to recover the stolen assets and emphasized that its subnet is operating normally, and other wallets, user data, and validator signing keys were not affected.