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Standard Chartered stated that it maintains its Bitcoin price prediction of reaching $100,000 by the end of 2026, believing that the recent market decline triggered by Strategy's (formerly MicroStrategy) related activities is not due to a deterioration in the company's balance sheet, but rather a strategic adjustment that the market has not fully understood.Geoffrey Kendrick, Head of Digital Assets Research at Standard Chartered, noted in a report that Strategy's recent behavior is disrupting short-term market expectations for Bitcoin. The market had previously accepted the company's narrative of "never selling Bitcoin," but now Strategy appears to be shifting towards a more complex capital operation model. How clearly the company can communicate this change will determine when market pressure eases.Currently, Strategy holds 843,775 Bitcoins, representing approximately over 4% of the total 21 million Bitcoin supply. From 2020 to mid-2025, Strategy's mNAV (Market Value of Enterprise / Bitcoin Asset Value) was consistently above 1, allowing the company to raise funds through stock issuances to purchase Bitcoin and achieve shareholder value growth. The commitment to "never selling Bitcoin" was central to this model gaining market acceptance. However, with the current mNAV approaching 1, the leverage effect of this financing model is weakening.Kendrick believes Strategy is transitioning from a "Bitcoin accumulation tool" to a "Bitcoin credit support tool." This involves using its Bitcoin holdings as the credit basis for its perpetual preferred stock, STRC. Currently sized at approximately $10 billion, STRC is the largest financial instrument launched by Strategy, offering an annualized dividend rate of 12%, paid semi-monthly in cash, and is designed to maintain a price near its $100 par value through interest rate adjustment mechanisms.Standard Chartered indicated that STRC is currently trading around $90, while Strategy's dollar reserve for paying dividends stands at approximately $2.55 billion, covering an estimated 17.4 months of dividend expenses.Kendrick stated that Strategy's policy adjustment allowing for Bitcoin sales does not necessarily mean the company will continuously sell. He believes that as long as the market believes the new capital structure arrangement can stabilize the STRC price, Strategy may not actually need to sell Bitcoin. He compared this mechanism to a central bank's commitment to "do whatever it takes": mere restoration of market confidence may mean actual intervention never occurs. (The Block)
Gradium, a Paris-based real-time voice AI startup, has announced the completion of a $100 million seed funding round, with NVIDIA participating as an investor.The company has recently rapidly launched multiple voice AI products, covering tools such as real-time speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), real-time translation (Gradium Translate), and the Phonon audio model. The funding will be used to establish a new office in San Francisco, deeply integrate with the North American AI industry ecosystem, and accelerate the recruitment of global technical talent. Gradium specializes in ultra-low-latency real-time voice interaction models, spun out of the French AI lab Kyutai, with its founding team hailing from top AI institutions such as Google Brain, DeepMind, and Meta.
According to Bloomberg, Bitcoin mining company TeraWulf plans to raise approximately $3.5 billion, led by Morgan Stanley, to expand its Justified Data data center campus located in Hawesville, Kentucky.
According to official announcements, the AI writing startup headquartered in London and co-founded by a former DeepMind creative lead has exited stealth mode, announcing the completion of a $13 million seed funding round. The company is named Marker; this round was led by Index Ventures, with participation from Local Globe.
据彭博社报道，SK 海力士通过美国存托凭证（ADR）发行募资 265 亿美元，成为有史以来外国公司在美国最大规模的首次股票发行。该公司以每股 149 美元的价格出售 1.779 亿份 ADR，每份 ADR 相当于首尔交易普通股的十分之一。
According to sources familiar with the matter, Tencent is in talks to become the largest shareholder of AI agent company Manus. Most existing investors, including Tencent, ZhenFund, and Sequoia Capital China, are discussing supporting a deal at a $2 billion valuation to block Meta's acquisition.
According to Korean media Etoday, Korean securities firms have shown significant divergence in their assessments of SK Hynix's prospects, with the core divergence centering on whether AI storage demand can drive long-term growth. KB Securities maintains a "Buy" rating for SK Hynix. Based on the case of TSMC's ADR issuance in the US in 1997, it judges that SK Hynix's ADR listing will boost global investor participation and is expected to drive a synchronized revaluation of ADRs and Korean domestic shares. KB Securities also expects that in 2027, global DRAM and NAND wafer capacity growth rates will be only 7% and 4% respectively, lower than demand growth rates of 17% and 19%, and the tight memory supply situation may intensify further compared to 2026. BNK Investment & Securities, however, believes that the logic of hyperscale cloud service providers continuously increasing AI infrastructure investment is weakening, and the ADR listing will not significantly alter SK Hynix's domestic share valuation.
According to The Block, JPMorgan analysts pointed out in their latest report that although Strategy's Bitcoin selling plan has triggered market attention, it is not the core risk facing Bitcoin. The real structural threat lies in the fact that blockchain applications such as tokenization, payments, and settlements are increasingly occurring on permissioned chains (Permissioned Blockchain), rather than on public chains such as Ethereum. If this trend continues, the public chain ecosystem will face issues such as declining liquidity and weakened capital inflows, ultimately dragging down Bitcoin valuations. The analysts also warned that the proliferation of bank-built blockchain infrastructure and tokenized deposits could undermine the position of stablecoins in institutional payments; regulated alternatives such as SWIFT's blockchain plan, the digital euro, and the digital yuan also constitute competitive pressure. However, the analysts also pointed out that if hybrid public-private chain models emerge, stablecoin regulation becomes clearer, or Bitcoin continues to be held as "digital gold", the aforementioned risks may be mitigated.
According to PR Newswire, post-quantum cryptography (PQC) management platform QIZ Security announced the completion of a $17 million seed funding round, led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Merlin Ventures, with participation from Evolution Equity Partners, Qbeat Ventures, Singtel Innov8, and Qino Cyber Capital. The funding will be used to accelerate product development and market expansion. QIZ's core capabilities lie in providing enterprises with continuous crypto asset discovery, risk modeling, and remediation governance, helping organizations complete the migration to quantum-safe architecture before "Q-Day" (the point in time when quantum computers are expected to possess the capability to break existing encryption systems, anticipated around 2029) arrives. Currently, QIZ has established strategic partnerships with Cisco, AWS, Google, CrowdStrike, Deloitte, EY, and IBM, among others, with services covering the finance, telecommunications, healthcare, and critical infrastructure sectors. The company was co-founded by cybersecurity industry veterans Ben Volkow, Lenny Ridel, and former head of Deloitte's Global Quantum Cybersecurity team, Dr. Itan Barmes.
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Elliptic (@elliptic) officially announced that blockchain analytics company Elliptic has received strategic investment from Circle Ventures. Previously, the company completed a $120 million Series D funding round in May this year, led by One Peak, with participation from Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank, and British Commercial Bank. Meanwhile, Circle has officially joined Elliptic's Agentic Design Partner Program. The program brings together infrastructure providers, compliance institutions, and technical teams to jointly develop compliance solutions for AI agents. Elliptic noted that AI agents differ from traditional bots, as they can set goals autonomously and make independent decisions. Their operating speed and scale have far exceeded the capacity limits of manual compliance systems, urgently requiring specialized solutions to address.
According to Fortune, DeFi asset management and risk analysis company Gauntlet completed a $125 million financing round, exclusively invested by Japanese financial group SBI Holdings. The financing was completed in June this year, and the specific valuation was not disclosed. This is Gauntlet's largest financing round since its establishment in 2018, far exceeding its $24 million Series B round in 2022 led by Ribbit Capital at a $1 billion valuation. Gauntlet was founded by former Wall Street quantitative trader Tarun Chitra. It initially focused on providing stress testing and vulnerability analysis services for DeFi protocols. Later, as the DAO governance model waned, it gradually transitioned to a "treasury curation" business—assessing yield strategy risks through quantitative analysis to help institutional investors manage digital asset allocation. Currently, its clients include asset management giant Apollo, Coinbase, and stablecoin issuer Circle.
: Anthropic's secondary market valuation has surged to $1.2 trillion, representing an increase of approximately 550% compared to the same period last year. "Anthropic is the most sought-after company in the history of the venture capital secondary market," said Javier Avalos, CEO of secondary trading platform Caplight; on the platform, Anthropic shares are trading at a valuation of $1.2 trillion. Glenn Anderson, CEO of Rainmaker Securities, a commercial bank focusing on private securities trading, also stated that he has observed transactions at a $1.2 trillion valuation, but due to a scarcity of sellers, such deals remain extremely rare. Less than three months ago, reports indicated that Anthropic's valuation had reached $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI for the first time. OpenAI's valuation has been significantly higher than Anthropic's in recent years, but it is currently valued at just $908 billion on the Caplight platform. According to Avalos, Anthropic's $1.2 trillion valuation represents a year-over-year increase of 550%. In its Series H funding round announced in May, the company was valued at $965 billion. (Business Insider)
According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will sequentially list a total of 7 USDT perpetual contracts based on traditional financial assets on July 9, 2026, including BOTUSDT, WENUSDT, INTWUSDT, SNXXUSDT, XBIUSDT, BNCUSDT, and FWDIUSDT. The underlying assets cover US individual stocks and ETFs, with maximum leverage of 25x, funding rates settled every 8 hours, and support for 24/7 trading.
According to TechFlow Research, Bank of America reaffirmed its Buy rating for NVIDIA in a July 7 research report, with a price target of $350 versus the current $195.55, implying 79% upside. NVIDIA is currently trading at 15.7x expected 2027 P/E ratio, the lowest in seven years, representing a 30-35% discount to tech peers. BofA believes the market has overestimated risks such as HBM cost pressure and custom ASIC competition. Vera Rubin inference performance per watt is 10x higher than Blackwell, and gross margin is expected to remain at 75%. NVIDIA's sales to hyperscale customers increased 115% year-over-year, nearly twice the growth rate of cloud capex. Crowded positioning and $65 billion in ecosystem investment are risks but have been priced into the valuation.
According to official news, Prime Intellect announced the completion of a $130 million Series A financing round, led by Radical Ventures with participation from NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investors. The company stated that it will utilize the funds to continue building its "Open Superintelligence Stack" to support users in training, deploying, and continuously optimizing their own models.
According to Bloomberg, AI chip startup Positron is negotiating a two-stage financing round targeting a raise of approximately $750 million. People familiar with the matter said the first stage values the company at approximately $3.5 billion, while the second stage valuation could rise to $5 billion.
chip company Changxin Technology has received approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission for registration and has officially initiated its IPO issuance procedures on the STAR Market. The company plans to raise 29.5 billion RMB through this issuance. Based on the fundraising amount and the number of shares issued, the estimated issuance price is approximately 4.41 RMB per share, and the estimated total market capitalization after listing will be close to 295 billion RMB.The company expects to achieve revenue of 110 billion to 120 billion RMB in the first half of 2026, with net profit ranging from 66 billion to 75 billion RMB, marking a turnaround from losses to profitability growth.According to the issuance arrangements, the initial strategic placement ratio is 50%, and the offline placement follows the "3+7" rule, with 70% of the shares distributed to offline investors locked up for 6 months. Calculations show that approximately 78% of the issued shares will be under restricted trading on the first day of listing, corresponding to an estimated tradable market capitalization of about 6.5 billion RMB for new shares on that day.Additionally, online investors are required to have STAR Market trading permissions and meet the Shanghai market value requirements. Some major shareholders have committed to a lock-up period of 36 months. The lead underwriter, CICC, has a 15% over-allotment option, allowing it to conduct price stabilization operations within 30 calendar days after listing.
Seb Audet, CEO of DeFi portfolio tracker Zapper, announced that after nearly seven years of operation, the company has decided to fully shut down. All functions, including the website, mobile app, and API services, will officially go offline on August 3rd. Founded in 2019, Zapper was a mainstream portfolio tracking tool in the DeFi space, with features encompassing liquidity pool monitoring, yield farming tracking, DEX aggregation, and NFT support. At its peak, the project had 2 million monthly active users and processed over $13 billion in transaction volume. Zapper previously raised a $15 million Series A funding round led by Framework Ventures, with participation from investors including Mark Cuban. Seb Audet stated that after evaluating various options, the company believes an orderly shutdown is the best course of action at this time.
Odaily News, Strive Vice President Joe Burnett posted on X platform, stating that BTC's break-even annualization is often difficult to understand, and it's important to grasp why. The market generally holds three types of views on Bitcoin: Bullish Bitcoin investors believe Bitcoin will appreciate significantly; if they can borrow long-term capital at a cost below 20% and anticipate Bitcoin's future compound annual growth rate will exceed that level, they are willing to finance the purchase of more Bitcoin. Neutral Bitcoin investors require a much lower hurdle rate of return for Bitcoin. According to Michael Saylor's post, if Bitcoin grows by only 3.3% annually, they could sustainably pay current dividends through Bitcoin capital gains. This is a different bet from expecting Bitcoin to grow at a compound rate of over 20%. For context, the historical annual growth rate of the US dollar M2 money supply is around 7%. BTC is a scarce monetary asset with a long-term supply growth rate of 0%. Therefore, buyers of digital credit don't need to be extremely bullish on Bitcoin; they primarily need to believe that Bitcoin won't die out and will roughly keep pace with dollar inflation. This audience is much broader. Joe Burnett stated this might already be the current global consensus view on Bitcoin. Bearish Bitcoin investors can also express their views by shorting Bitcoin or shorting Amplified Bitcoin. Currently, capital has three clear ways to express its view: Bullish on Bitcoin can hold Bitcoin and Amplified Bitcoin; Neutral on Bitcoin can hold Digital Credit; Bearish on Bitcoin can short Bitcoin or Amplified Bitcoin. Every major capital allocator now has a Bitcoin-related tool matching their worldview, and this is how over $1 quadrillion in global capital begins to flow into Bitcoin.