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Aave 创始人 Stani 表示，近期对 Aave 上低采用率资产及网络的逐步收缩，不应被解读为对任何 L1 或 L2 的立场判断。此举主要是为了降低 Aave 在运营、技术及经济层面的风险敞口，从而将资源集中于更具影响力的重点方向，包括扩大现有高价值市场以及拓展证券融资业务。
BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on X that Hyperscale Data GPUS announced the sale of 100 Bitcoins to fund the construction of its AI data center in Michigan. CEO William Horne stated that this is "converting one balance sheet asset into another" and clarified that its confidence in BTC remains unchanged. It ranks 44th in the Bitcoin 100 ranking.
MEXC, in collaboration with CoinGecko, has released the latest report "How Crypto Exchanges Are Reshaping Traditional Asset Trading," which provides an in-depth analysis of the rapid expansion of traditional financial assets on centralized crypto exchanges and the shift in global investor behavior.Key findings of the report:1. The TradFi (Traditional Finance) trading volume of six major centralized exchanges surged from $3.46 billion in January 2025 to $393.15 billion in June 2026, representing a growth of over 100 times. Among this, perpetual contracts accounted for 98.5% of the total trading volume in June 2026.2. In June 2026, US equities surpassed precious metals to become the largest TradFi asset class, with monthly trading volume increasing by 337.4% to $189.84 billion, capturing a 48.3% market share. Meanwhile, precious metals trading volume decreased by 48.2% from its March peak, falling to $122.59 billion.3. MEXC's TradFi monthly trading volume grew approximately 59 times, rising from $1.54 billion in November 2025 to $91.12 billion in May 2026. Between January and May 2026, MEXC maintained the second-largest market share among the six exchanges for five consecutive months.4. In precious metals trading, MEXC ranked first among the six exchanges for two consecutive months, with trading volumes reaching $72.12 billion and $85.15 billion in April and May 2026, respectively.5. Among native crypto users, 61.9% have begun trading traditional assets through crypto exchanges.6. Among users with traditional finance experience, 74.2% have transferred some or all of their traditional asset trading to crypto exchanges.7. Across all respondents, 83.3% indicated plans to further increase their scale of trading traditional assets on crypto exchanges.
According to TNW, AI security operations startup Mate Security announced the completion of a $35 million Series A funding round led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Insight Partners, Team8, and Microsoft's venture fund M12, bringing total funding to over $50 million. This comes less than a year after the company emerged from stealth mode. Mate Security was founded by former employees of Wiz and Microsoft. Its core product is the "Security Context Graph," which empowers AI security agents with business context by building an organizational knowledge layer, enabling them to make judgments based on actual enterprise operational conditions when handling alerts, effectively reducing false positive rates.
The Situational Awareness fund, managed by "AI Stock God" Leopold Aschenbrenner, accumulated a gain of 439% before June 2026. However, it suffered severe setbacks during the AI sector sell-off in July. The fund is currently communicating with existing investors and lenders to seek new capital and is offering some LPs the opportunity to purchase assets from its portfolio.Sources say this capital discussion appears more like an ad-hoc response than an organized new fundraising round. The fund had previously used leverage through prime brokers at several major investment banks to amplify its AI trading exposure, turning market drawdowns further into funding pressure.In a letter to investors on July 24, Aschenbrenner acknowledged that the fund failed to avoid this market shock, noting that Asian markets were particularly affected. However, he believes this sell-off could present the best buying opportunity since early 2025. He plans to open a window for new capital on August 1st and views Anthropic's potential IPO as a catalyst for the second half of the year.According to disclosures, some holdings saw significant declines in July. Oracle and AMD fell approximately 20% for the month, while Nebius, Saronic AI, Bloom Energy, Sandisk, and others saw even larger drops. The Nasdaq 100 index fell about 10% in July, and South Korea's Kospi index dropped by roughly one-third.Currently, lacking specific data on the fund's exact drawdown magnitude, it is difficult to determine whether this fundraising is a passive capital injection driven by leverage pressure or an active move to increase positions for an opportunity. However, market trends suggest it is closer to the former. If forced selling occurs, the deleveraging process could also create discount opportunities in assets whose fundamentals haven't materially changed.
According to Bloomberg, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners CEO Mike Dorrell stated in an interview with Bloomberg Television on July 30 that banks, private equity, and capital markets currently show almost no signs of slowing down in supporting US AI infrastructure construction. However, he also warned, "You don't need to be a finance professional to see that this state cannot last forever," implying potential risks in the current financing boom.
According to Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs Group is gauging investor appetite for a potential $5.4 billion debt issuance plan, with the proceeds to be used to support the QTS data center project under Blackstone tied to Microsoft. The debt structure includes approximately $4.9 billion in secured bonds and approximately $500 million in term loans. Affected by recent sell-offs in AI-related debt, the issuance timing is still under discussion, and the plan remains uncertain.
According to National Business Daily, in response to market attention, BYD disclosed that all of the company's investments are direct investments by BYD Company Limited, without managing third-party funds or funds from any executives personally. Therefore, Wang Chuanfu personally did not directly invest in Changxin Technology. BYD Company Limited indirectly participated in Changxin Technology's Series A financing in December 2020 through an investment in Guangdong Efang Changda Venture Capital Partnership (Limited Partnership).
According to TechFlow Research, JPMorgan's research report on July 29 noted that the South Korea KOSPI Index has fallen nearly 40% from its high on June 22, leveraged ETF size shrank from $50 billion to $17 billion, the hedge fund long/short ratio dropped from 5.7x to 3.2x, and deleveraging progress has exceeded 90%. The KOSPI forward P/E ratio fell to 5x, at a crisis level. Foreign investors have cumulatively net sold over $110 billion, but 90% was concentrated in two memory chip giants. As their weights in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index decreased from 9.5% and 8.3% to 6.5% and 4.5%, passive selling pressure has significantly eased. JPMorgan believes that position clearing combined with cheap valuations means the South Korean stock market has entered a valuation repair window, and it is bullish on wealth effect-related sectors, biopharmaceuticals, preferred stocks, and bank stocks.
据 CNBC 报道，OpenAI 首席财务官 Sarah Friar 与董事会主席 Bret Taylor 于7月 29 日召开内部员工会议，Friar 透露，OpenAI 7 月年化经常性收入已超过整个第二季度总量，并强调"二季度本身表现已相当亮眼"。此次增长主要由 GPT-5.6 系列模型发布、企业级 AI 代理产品 ChatGPT Work 上线以及 AI 编程工具 Codex 的快速普及所驱动。 会议背景下，OpenAI 正面临来自 Anthropic 及中国开源模型的双重竞争压力。Anthropic 此前披露年化收入已超 470 亿美元，估值亦于今年早些时候超越 OpenAI。对此，Taylor 承认 OpenAI 在编程市场曾处于追赶态势，但对 Codex 的增长势头表示乐观。目前，OpenAI与 Anthropic 均已秘密向 SEC 提交 IPO 申请，具体上市时间尚未公布。OpenAI 当前估值约为 8520 亿美元，并正与英伟达洽谈最高 2500 亿美元的资金支持计划，用于在俄亥俄州租赁大型 AI 数据中心。
Meta Platforms (META.O) posted record revenue in the second fiscal quarter, but updates on its AI spending plan sparked investor concerns about the costs of building its infrastructure. Meta slightly raised the lower end of its annual capital expenditure guidance from $125 billion to $130 billion, while keeping the upper end unchanged at $145 billion. Its second-quarter revenue was $60.8 billion, up 28% year-over-year, but net profit was $15.8 billion, below analyst expectations. As a result, Meta's stock fell over 6% in after-hours trading. In an effort to catch up in the AI race, Meta has already invested tens of billions of dollars in chip procurement, data center construction, and top talent recruitment. Recently, it partnered with BlackRock to raise at least $12 billion to build a data center in Texas. Meta's free cash flow in the second quarter was $784 million. (Jin Shi)
: BitcoinTreasuries.NET posted on platform X that Metaplanet, through Metaplanet Securities, has launched its first Bitbonds issuance in Japan for select shareholders, with an annual interest rate of 4%. This makes Metaplanet a treasury company that raises funds at the lowest capital cost to purchase more BTC.
: In the second quarter of 2026, a total of 271 completed transactions in the crypto industry involved $12.86 billion in funds, an increase of approximately 45% compared to $8.87 billion in the first quarter. Among them, venture capital led with $4.99 billion, accounting for 39% of the total, involving 218 rounds; debt financing reached $4.36 billion, involving only 9 transactions, more than tripling compared to the previous quarter. IREN's $3.65 billion financing accounted for 84% of total debt financing. In addition, total M&A transaction volume reached $3.33 billion, involving 40 transactions. The top ten deals accounted for 67% of the disclosed funds, indicating that industry financing remains highly concentrated.
According to TNW, AI supply chain management startup Freehand announced the completion of a $75 million funding round, co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and PSP Growth, a fund under former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker. Freehand's AI agents can autonomously handle contract interpretation, supplier rate negotiation, overcharge bill identification, payment processing, and ERP system reconciliation, with clients covering top enterprises such as Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin', and Cardinal Health.
以太坊机构（Ethereum Institutional）宣布完成初始生态系统融资轮，获得逾 100 位生态参与者支持，锚定投资方包括 BitMNR、Sharplink 及以太坊联合创始人 Joseph Lubin、Mihai Alisie，参与者涵盖加密原生机构及个人投资者。 后续，该组织将加速与银行、资产管理公司、托管机构、金融科技及主权机构的直接接触，并联合 L2、应用团队、基础设施及托管服务商等推进以太坊机构化进程。目前该组织已开放招聘。
According to TechCrunch, New York AI detection startup Pangram announced the completion of a $9 million funding round, led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza. Pangram simultaneously released the new generation AI text detection model Pangram 4 and AI image detection model Pangram Image, with text detection accuracy exceeding 99%, capable of identifying AI-assisted writing, mixed human-AI content, and text generated by AI humanization programs; the image detection model is currently in the research preview stage, based on pixel-level distribution analysis, capable of identifying cross-model AI-generated images, and can detect AI images appearing within real photos.
Modus 同步推出"Context Warehouse"产品，通过学习业务数据的实际使用模式，为 AI Agent 提供精准上下文，可将不必要的检索及 Token 消耗降低最高 10 倍。
According to BeInCrypto, Grayscale Head of Research Zach Pandl released a report using the "earnings per token" method to value Hyperliquid (HYPE). The report assumes Hyperliquid's 2027 earnings will be approximately $1 billion (an increase of about 20% compared to 2025), and expects the circulating supply at that time to reach 270 million to 310 million tokens, corresponding to earnings per token of approximately $3.25 to $3.75. Calculated at the current price of approximately $54, the forward P/E ratio is approximately 15 to 18 times, suggesting it still holds a valuation advantage compared to fintech stocks.
According to EU-Startups, Sigvi, a Vilnius, Lithuania-based AI revenue agent for the car rental industry, has completed a 1.2 million euro pre-seed funding round to accelerate product development and international expansion. The round was led by Superhero Capital.
According to Bitcoin.com, Strategy Inc. (NASDAQ: MSTR) Executive Chairman Michael Saylor stated that since the company established Bitcoin as its primary reserve asset in August 2020, MSTR stock has achieved an annualized return of 42%, surpassing Bitcoin itself, the "Magnificent Seven" tech stocks, and the S&P 500 Index. As of July 29, Strategy holds 843,775 BTC, with a cumulative purchase cost of approximately $63.69 billion, and an average price of approximately $75,476 per coin, currently showing an unrealized loss of approximately 17.9% compared to the cost price (approximately $11.4 billion). To address the increasingly complex capital structure, Strategy launched three new metrics on July 24: Net BTC Per Share, BTC Hurdle ARR (minimum annualized return required to cover financing costs), and BTC Floor ARR (minimum annualized return required to maintain leverage ratio sustainability), to help investors more clearly assess the actual value of their Bitcoin holdings. Additionally, the company plans to provide funding for preferred stock repurchases through the future sale of a portion of its Bitcoin.