A trader, after incurring total losses of $4.89 million, took a large long position in BTC and currently holds a BTC long position valued at $5.43 million.

According to PeckShield Alert monitoring, the Cascade CLS vault was hacked, leading to the theft of approximately $1.34 million in user USDC funds. The attacker has bridged the stolen assets from Arbitrum to Solana, then re-bridged them to Ethereum via RelayProtocol in the form of DAI.

Visa has released a joint research report with Artemis titled *Agentic Payments from the Ground Up*, which analyzes the development of AI agent payments and on-chain data. The report divides AI agent payments into two main categories: one is "large commercial payments" where agents complete tasks such as flight bookings and subscription management on behalf of users; the other is small-value machine-to-machine payments, including API calls and compute resource purchases, typically under $1. The machine payment protocol x402—incubated by Coinbase and Cloudflare and later managed by the Linux Foundation—has processed an adjusted trading volume of approximately $15 million and around 109.6 million cumulative transactions since its launch in May 2025, with primary activity concentrated on the Base, Solana, and Polygon networks. Another machine payment protocol, the Machine Payments Protocol (MPP), built by Stripe and Tempo with contributions and support from Visa, has completed roughly $25,000 in settlements and processed about 115,000 transactions since its launch in March 2026. Visa noted that the growth of AI agent payments is driving demand for low-cost, high-frequency machine-native payment infrastructure, and stablecoins and blockchain networks are likely to become key components of micro-payment scenarios. The report concludes that future payment systems will not see a single replacement of bank cards or stablecoins, but rather a convergence of both across different use cases.

Asset management firm Fidelity International said it plans to rebuild its gold positions trimmed earlier this year, noting that gold’s long-term growth drivers remain strong. Fidelity’s multi-asset portfolio manager Ian Samson recently stated: “Our plan is to add to gold positions again; the only question is timing.” He added that he cut his gold allocation to a neutral level between January and February this year, a period when gold’s multi-year bull market abruptly ended. Samson forecasts the gold market will re-enter a bull market at some point in 2027. The logic behind a return to a bull market would only be undermined if “governments return to fiscal discipline and central banks are truly committed to bringing inflation back down,” he said, adding: “But I don’t think we are in that world right now.” Samson also noted that central banks’ continued gold purchases—a key driver of the previous gold bull market—will continue to underpin gold prices. (Source: Jin10)

According to data from Farside Investors, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a total net inflow of $107.7 million yesterday. Among them, BlackRock’s IBIT attracted $80.8 million, Fidelity’s FBTC recorded $16.9 million in net inflows, Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETF posted $10 million, while all other ETFs had zero net flows for the day. In the same period, U.S. spot Ethereum ETFs totaled a net inflow of $53.9 million. Breakdown shows BlackRock’s ETHA brought in $45.3 million, ETHB had $4 million, Grayscale’s Ethereum ETF recorded $4.6 million, with all other ETFs registering no net inflows on the day.

According to South Korean media reports, SK Hynix has raised a massive sum of up to 40 trillion won (approximately $307.6 billion) via its listing on the U.S. Nasdaq market, with the goal of consolidating its leadership in the artificial intelligence (AI) semiconductor market. Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA (NVDA.O) — the global leader in the AI chip sector — extended warm congratulations on the listing. Per industry sources, on July 16, after concluding an event held in Tokyo, Japan, the day before, Huang expressed extreme delight over the listing of SK Hynix's American Depositary Receipts (ADRs), calling it "extremely successful". (Jinshi)

According to Cailian Press, investors who win the IPO allotment for Changxin Technology’s current offering will receive one lot of 500 shares, requiring a total payment of 4,330 yuan. Under four valuation scenarios—conservative, neutral, optimistic, and ultra-optimistic—Changxin Technology’s valuation would reach 1 trillion yuan, 1.5 trillion yuan, 2.3 trillion yuan, and 4.25 trillion yuan respectively. Based on the estimated market capitalization range of 1 trillion to 4 trillion yuan, its first-day post-listing price increase is projected to fall between 70% and 600%. Compared to the issue price of 8.66 yuan, the profit potential per lot is approximately 3,000 yuan to 26,000 yuan.