A crypto whale sold a total of 1,274 BTC via multiple over-the-counter (OTC) trades, valued at approximately $81.5 million.

Intel (INTC.O) announced the upsizing and pricing of its $20 billion common stock offering, stating it will issue 210,526,315 shares at $95 per share. (Jinshi)

CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju has acknowledged errors in his earlier analysis of CME Bitcoin (BTC) futures data, correcting that he had mislabeled "Total Reportables" as "Leveraged Funds". Per Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) futures data as of August 4, Total Reportables on CME—all large reportable traders, primarily institutional investors—are currently in a slight net long position. This means his prior assessment that institutions are leaning bullish remains valid, though their long position advantage is limited. The Total Reportables group encompasses not only hedge funds but also asset management firms, dealers, and other traders required to file reports. Ju added that Leveraged Funds still maintain a net short position in standard BTC futures, but their net short position has shrunk by approximately 50% in BTC terms over the past year. As the profitability of basis trading weakens, basis yields have fallen below U.S. Treasury yields, prompting some structural short positions to reduce. Separately, Leveraged Funds hold a small net long position in Micro BTC futures, totaling around 394 BTC—roughly 1% of their net short position in standard BTC futures. Ju noted that Leveraged Funds as a whole have not yet turned net long, but their long-standing structural short positions are clearly easing, a shift that may reflect both basis trading liquidations and adjustments to directional positions.

According to Bitget's market data, WTI crude oil rose 1% intraday, currently trading at $82.29 per barrel.

According to monitoring by OnchainDataNerd, a whale has opened a short position of 1,100 BTC at a price of $64,487, worth approximately $70.41 million. Currently, the unrealized profit on this short position is around $650,000, with a liquidation price of $66,305.

Samsung Electronics technical expert Park Chang-min announced at the 2026 NGL Conference that Samsung plans to introduce a major lithography technology innovation for its 1-nanometer process, which could enter mass production as early as 2030. The company intends to deploy high-NA EUV — a next-generation extreme ultraviolet lithography technology — in large-scale production at the 1nm node, and is currently focused on developing the technologies required for commercialization. Separately, Samsung is accelerating development of high-NA EUV, the successor to current EUV technology. The firm has set its sights on full-scale mass production deployment of its 1nm (or A10) process. "A" denotes angstrom, with 1 angstrom equal to 0.1nm. Per this roadmap, Samsung expects to begin using high-NA EUV in mass production around 2030. The company has already commercialized its 2nm process and plans to launch mass production of its 1.4nm SF1.4 process in 2029. According to reports, it is preparing to start mass production of SF1.4+ — an enhanced variant of the 1.4nm process — and its 1nm process in 2030.

According to monitoring by The Data Nerd, a whale withdrew 9,000 ETH (valued at approximately $16.87 million) from Gemini today. The whale has accumulated roughly 121,000 ETH (worth around $227 million) over the past month, with the majority of it already staked.