South Korea's KOSPI index surged 3% intraday.

HIP-3 decentralized trading platform Paragon acquired the ANSEM ticker in the latest HIP-3 auction for 571.98 HYPE. Previous reports noted that crypto KOL Ansem launched the token issuance platform Ansem.io, introducing the Z500 index and the ANSEM token burn mechanism.

The yield on the U.S. 30-year Treasury bond has climbed to 5.321%, its highest level since mid-2007.

Whale 0x8447 bought another 5,000 $ETH($9.53M) 7 hours ago and staked it. This whale has bought a total of 10,657 $ETH($20.07M).

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a newly created wallet has withdrawn a cumulative total of 57,000 HYPE tokens from Coinbase, valued at approximately $3.36 million.

Morgan Stanley cut Pop Mart’s target price from HK$247 to HK$214, citing high base pressure in the second half of the year and a sharp slowdown in overseas sales. Analysts noted in the report that amid a lack of incremental information and high-frequency data pointing to a sharp slowdown in overseas sales, investors are broadly bearish ahead of the earnings release, anchoring on the most negative metrics. Excessive expectations among retail investors remain a key downside risk, as they account for a large proportion of the shareholder base. The firm forecasts 29% year-on-year growth in first-half revenue and an 18% rise in net profit to RMB 5.4 billion. It expects management to guide for second-half revenue exceeding the first half, while remaining cautious on the year-on-year outlook. Morgan Stanley maintained an "Overweight" rating, projecting a 13% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) in earnings from 2026 to 2028, driven mainly by a reacceleration in overseas market sales, and forecasts total revenue will resume growth in 2027.

Security firm Bitdefender announced this week that a surge of pirated download files masquerading as the newly released blockbuster *The Odyssey* have surfaced online, each bundled with the Lumma Stealer information-stealing malware. The malware is designed to siphon sensitive data including cryptocurrency wallet credentials. Per Bitdefender, these malicious files began appearing just days after the film’s premiere, disguised as high-definition WEBRip and Blu-ray copies, with filenames crafted to mimic legitimate torrent resources. In truth, the files are Windows executables that infect devices upon launch, not media for viewing. To amplify their deception, attackers frequently use icons resembling VLC Media Player or standard video files to mask the malicious programs. Because Windows hides file extensions by default, many users cannot easily distinguish an '.exe' executable from a genuine video file, raising the risk of accidental execution.