Bitmine will be added to the Russell 1000 Index today.

According to Bitget market data, Japanese and South Korean stock markets closed on Friday: The Nikkei 225 index fell 3005.46 points, or 4.15%, to 69360.88 points. South Korea’s KOSPI index dropped 519.1 points, a 5.81% decline, closing at 8411.2 points after plunging nearly 9% intraday. SK Hynix closed down more than 8%, while Samsung Electronics fell over 5%. Additionally, South Korea’s KOSPI index posted a 7.1% weekly loss, marking its largest weekly drop since early March.

According to Bitget market data, Micron Technology (MU) hit an all-time high on Thursday after releasing better-than-expected earnings, driving total contract trading volume across multiple platforms to $4.609 billion in the past 24 hours, with overall trading volume rising 4.99% over the period. Breakdown by major platforms: Binance’s MU perpetual contract trading recorded a 24-hour volume of $2.449 billion, with open interest down 8.37%; Hyperliquid ecosystem trading platform trade.xyz saw MU’s 24-hour volume reach $602 million, open interest falling 12.44%; OKX’s MU perpetual contract trading hit $956 million in 24 hours, open interest down 5.42%; Bitget’s MU perpetual contract trading posted a 24-hour volume of $234 million, with open interest down 14.18%. Additionally, Coinglass data shows global open interest for MU contracts dropped 9.47% over the past 24 hours to $565 million.

According to an official announcement, Bithumb will list the Archium (ARX) KRW trading pair.

According to a report by the UK's Financial Times, Binance has notified its EU customers that it will cease services to users in the region starting next week due to failing to obtain a MiCA license.

Big Brother Machi Huang Licheng posted on social media that Bitcoin features a halving mechanism, and Ethereum should adopt a "snail-paced issuance" mechanism. He personally backs cutting Ethereum's issuance right now. According to HyperInsight's monitoring, the address associated with "Big Brother Machi" is currently holding a long position of 888 ETH with 25x leverage, at an average entry price of $1,564.35, posting an unrealized loss of $9,000.

According to Hyperinsight monitoring, dragged down by Apple’s sharp decline that weighed on large-cap tech stocks, plus U.S. PCE inflation staying high and market interest rate cut expectations cooling further, funds took profits from the overheated AI sector, leading to an overall pullback in U.S. AI industry chain stocks overnight. A whale address (0x3200) on Hyperliquid has been steadily building positions in AI-related stocks over the past month, sequentially entering positions in NVDA, MSFT, MU, SKHX, GOOGL, META, BABA, and MRVL, with its total position size once hitting $89.7 million. Hit by this round of correction, its current total unrealized loss has expanded to $8.5 million, including an additional $3.47 million in unrealized loss in the past 24 hours. NVDA (average entry price: $212) and MSFT (average entry price: $407) are the top loss contributors, with their unrealized losses exceeding the principal of their respective positions. The address today closed out all long positions in SKHX and MU, locking in a small profit, and its current portfolio position size has fallen to $72.7 million.