Three Federal Reserve officials back interest rate hikes, as internal hawkish pressure intensifies.

Political analyst Nate Silver said that due to the ongoing unpopular Iran war and surging natural gas prices, President Trump’s approval rating has dropped to its lowest point since his second term this month. He noted, “The timing aligns closely with the rebound in natural gas prices and the resumption of hostilities in Iran.” As the war nears its sixth month, data from the American Automobile Association (AAA) shows that as of Friday morning, the average U.S. gasoline price stood at around $4.11 per gallon, up from roughly $3.15 a year ago. According to polling averages from Decision Desk HQ, Trump’s overall average approval rating was 40.6% as of Friday morning, while his average disapproval rating reached 57.5%. A Quinnipiac University poll found that 60% of U.S. voters oppose the war, the highest opposition rate recorded since the conflict began on February 28. Nearly three-quarters of Americans said they oppose deploying U.S. troops to Iran. An AP-NORC poll also showed that 64% of Americans consider the war “not worth it”; among them, 87% of Democratic voters, 37% of Republican voters, and 68% of independent voters hold this view. (Jin10)

Chairman Tom Lee of Bitmine, the largest Ethereum treasury company, posted a statement saying that given South Korean policymakers have begun showing "panic", South Korea's stock market may be in the final stage of bottoming out. He cited the view of David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa and a well-known fund manager, stating: "When policymakers start panicking, the market stops panicking."

FTX creditor representative Sunil announced in a post that FTX’s creditor distributions have been deposited into creditors’ accounts. Earlier reports noted FTX will launch its fifth round of creditor compensation on July 31, with plans to disburse roughly $900 million to creditors in the "Convenience" and "Non-Convenience" categories under the firm’s restructuring plan. With this round of distributions, the FTX Recovery Trust’s total compensation disbursements since FTX filed for bankruptcy in November 2022 will reach approximately $10 billion.

OpenAI stated in a post that the value of AI infrastructure lies not in scale itself, but in delivering more powerful intelligence to more users at lower cost. The company is building a full ecosystem spanning infrastructure, models, platforms, and products, driving adoption growth via more powerful models, then using revenue, real-world feedback, and demand data to support next-generation research and infrastructure investments. OpenAI yesterday cut prices for GPT-5.6 Luna by 80%, bringing its input and output costs to $0.20 and $1.20 per million tokens respectively; GPT-5.6 Terra saw a 20% price reduction, with costs set at $2 and $12 per million tokens for input and output respectively. GPT-5.6 Sol’s Fast mode boosts processing speed by up to 2.5 times while maintaining the same intelligence level, priced at twice the cost of its standard mode. The company noted that GPT-5.6 Sol has helped optimize model production service software, reducing end-to-end service costs by 20% and boosting speculative decoding efficiency by over 15%. Currently, OpenAI’s models serve over 1 billion active users and more than 2 million enterprises. Its goal is not merely to build more computing power or larger models, but to deploy appropriate capacity based on credible demand, making useful intelligence more powerful, more affordable, and accessible to a broader user base.

According to MLM monitoring, since unlocks for the HYPE team’s tokens launched in December 2025, 4.93 million HYPE tokens have been allocated to team members. At current prices, this allocation is worth roughly $270 million, representing 0.493% of the total token supply. Of these tokens, 1.19 million have been sold on public markets, netting $32.5 million in proceeds; another 3.14 million HYPE tokens were transferred to over-the-counter (OTC) trading platforms, valued at approximately $132 million at the time of transfer. In total, around 4.33 million HYPE tokens have been sold for about $165 million, translating to an average monthly sell volume of 540,000 HYPE tokens worth roughly $20.6 million. Over the same period, the aid fund has cumulatively repurchased 9.8 million HYPE tokens for a total of $364 million, averaging 1.23 million HYPE tokens repurchased monthly at a value of around $46 million. This repurchase pace is more than twice the sell rate of current and former team members.

July 31 Update: #Bitcoin ETFs: 1D NetFlow: +3,397 $BTC(+$212.73M)?? 7D NetFlow: -800 $BTC(-$50.09M)?? #Ethereum ETFs: 1D NetFlow: -1,757 $ETH(-$3.27M)?? 7D NetFlow: -38,195 $ETH(-$71.08M)??