Instinct and Muse have aligned on the same model: their agents are free to use, with revenue generated from transaction commissions.

Per an official announcement, Binance will gradually launch a range of TradFi USDT-margined perpetual contracts, including CRML/USDT, BWET/USDT, ACN/USDT, MP/USDT, SECZ/USDT, UNH/USDT, NKE/USDT, DE, and more.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.6%, in line with market expectations, pushing the rate to its highest level since November 2011.

Driven by relatively high yields attracting investors, Japan’s 40-year government bond auction drew its strongest demand since 2020. The bid-to-cover ratio for the auction stood at 3.1, up from 2.82 in the prior sale and above the 2.67 average over the past 12 months. Japanese government bond futures continued to rise after the auction, with the 40-year JGB yield last quoted at 4.23%. The bond sale comes as investors grow increasingly concerned that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) may be falling behind the curve on monetary tightening. BOJ Governor Kazuo Ueda, after delivering a widely expected interest rate hike earlier this month, failed to provide clear guidance on the pace of future hikes, stoking market expectations that the central bank may ultimately need to implement more aggressive rate increases.

Crypto hedge fund BlockTower Capital founder and CIO Ari Paul said that Coinbase "lost" roughly $25 million from his firm several years ago, an incident later revealed to be a cover-up for multiple large-scale hacks, with the funds still unrepaid to date. Paul also claimed that at least a dozen affected institutions have been identified, with the total amount concealed exceeding $1 billion, though he cannot disclose more details due to multiple ongoing legal proceedings. In response, Coinbase’s official customer support account has contacted Paul to arrange a private conversation, and the platform has not yet issued any further public response.

According to GMGN data monitoring, the market capitalization of Solana-based meme coin RuneScape Gold (GP) briefly exceeded $9 million, surging more than 82.5% in 24 hours with a trading volume of $3.6 million. GP is themed after in-game gold from the classic game *RuneScape* and paired with tokenized gold GLDx. Each GP transaction incurs a 3% tax; accumulated fees are periodically converted by StonkFun and distributed proportionally to eligible holders in GLDx form, forming a mechanism of "earning gold price exposure rewards by holding tokens". It is a high-volatility meme asset integrating nostalgic gaming narratives, transaction tax dividends, and tokenized gold concepts. BlockBeats reminds users that most meme coins lack practical use cases, have significant price volatility, and require caution when investing.

Bank of America strategist Michael Hartnett’s latest warning flags that sharp volatility in the U.S. Treasury market is emerging as a new pressure source for risk assets. The MOVE index he tracks jumped roughly 35% over two trading days, reflecting heightened volatility in the financing system that uses U.S. Treasuries as core collateral. Hartnett warns that if the Global Financials ETF (ticker: IXG) falls below $125 while the MOVE index remains above 125, the market could enter a broader "risk-off deleveraging" phase. This would subject AI trades to more stringent interest rate tests. For some time, the resilience of tech giants’ earnings and AI-related capital expenditures have supported U.S. stocks, but rising long-term interest rates will simultaneously push up financing costs and valuation discount rates. The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield briefly topped 5.2% last week, hitting its highest level since 2007; a prior Bank of America survey of fund managers also showed that "disorderly upward movement in bond yields" has overtaken the AI bubble as the market’s most feared tail risk. Hartnett’s core view is that rising yields alone do not necessarily end risk appetite; the truly dangerous combination is high yields paired with weak financial stocks. This would mean interest rates have shifted from a signal of economic expansion to a source of tightening liquidity and credit conditions; leveraged funds will be forced to reduce positions, and pressure could then spread from bonds to tech stocks, bank stocks, and other high-valuation assets. For AI bulls, the next key factors to watch are whether bond volatility eases, bank stocks stabilize, and long-term yields show signs of peaking. Bank of America continues to view yields as the primary potential threat to current economic and stock market expansion; once interest rate pressures ease, large-cap tech stocks could regain investor favor.