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Odaily Odaily: Bybit today added three new US stock perpetual contracts: 2X Short SPCX Daily ETF (SSPCUSDT), 20+ Year Treasury 3X Bull (TMFUSDT), and UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (TBTUSDT), with leverage up to 25x. A limited-time fee discount is also available during the launch period: a 0% maker fee rate and a 50% discount on the taker fee rate.
According to Forbes, Obsbot has launched its first foldable webcam, Meet Flip, featuring a 0.5-inch Sony Exmor RS stacked CMOS sensor and the company's AI algorithms.
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.
The B.AI platform announces that the Auto mode Beta version is now officially live. This mode requires no manual model selection by users; they only need to state their requirements. The system will automatically match the appropriate AI model based on the task type and generate responses, significantly reducing model selection costs. Core highlights include intelligent task matching, support for Web Search and tool capabilities, no extra model selection fees, and transparent, verifiable usage. Users can now visit the B.AI official website to experience it directly, unlocking a new way of AI interaction with intelligent matching.
Binance has launched commodity options, which are USDT-settled European-style cash-settled contracts. Traders can trade Gold (XAUUSDT) and Silver (XAGUSDT) options, with 1-day and 1-week expiration structures available for each underlying. Retail users can only go long. The relevant options were listed on July 29 at 18:00. The relevant products are traded on Nest Exchange Limited, regulated by the Abu Dhabi FSRA, and cleared by Nest Clearing and Custody Limited.
According to Bloomberg, Microsoft and Meta will release their earnings reports after the US market closes on Wednesday. The market focus is not on revenue growth, but rather on the two companies' continuously rising AI capital expenditures and shrinking cash reserves. Previously, Alphabet's stock price still recorded the largest single-day drop in over a year despite announcing better-than-expected results, as it experienced negative cash flow for the first time since its listing due to a surge in capital expenditures. Analysts point out that the uncertainty surrounding returns on AI investments by large tech companies is accelerating the erosion of Wall Street's patience, and Microsoft and Meta's earnings reports may become a new round of stress tests for market sentiment.
According to Cryptopolitan, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) has released a draft of supporting regulatory rules for the cryptocurrency market, covering registration and operational requirements for crypto exchanges, digital depository institutions, and token issuers. The draft stipulates that the minimum net assets of digital depository institutions must range between 50 million and 250 million rubles (approximately $600,000 to $3 million), depending on the nature of the business. These rules will supplement the "Law on Digital Currency and Digital Rights" passed by the Russian State Duma earlier this month, which is expected to officially take effect on September 1, 2026. Under the new framework, non-qualified investors are limited to purchasing mainstream assets such as BTC, ETH, and USDT annually, with a cap of $4,000; industry participants will have a transition period until March 1, 2027, to complete compliance and approval procedures.
According to the UK's Financial Times (FT), Google DeepMind has disbanded the development team behind the AI model "AlphaFold," which won the Nobel Prize for protein structure prediction. Most of the paper's co-authors have been reassigned to departments such as enzyme design, nuclear fusion, genomics, and Gemini-related projects within the past year; some members transferred to Isomorphic Labs, a new drug R&D subsidiary under Alphabet, while another quarter of full-time employees have left. DeepMind Vice President of Research Pushmeet Kohli stated that the company's strategy has shifted from focusing on single scientific challenges to building Gemini-based systems to support scientists and drive automation of scientific processes, while competing in frontier AI agent development with OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.
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.
data from Dune shows that the trading volume of the stock token rToken launched by Bitget has reached approximately $30 million in the past 24 hours, while the total trading volume of Ondo stock tokens across all CEXs and DEXs was about $25 million.Ondo is one of the earliest RWA protocols to venture into stock tokens. Its assets were previously listed on platforms such as Binance Wallet, Bitget, and Gate, with a peak daily trading volume reaching $620 million. However, as various trading platforms have begun launching their own stock tokens, Ondo's overall trading volume has experienced a significant decline compared to the beginning of the year.
After market close on July 29, US Eastern Time, Microsoft (MSFT) and Meta (META) will release their Q2 2026 earnings reports simultaneously. The core market suspense is consistent: When will the massive AI capital expenditures yield returns? Bybit Academy brings you a preview of this earnings season feast: (1) Microsoft: Focus on whether Azure Cloud growth can offset continuously rising AI infrastructure investment, implied volatility 6.5%; (2) Meta: Capital expenditure guidance is the biggest highlight, whether the gap between AI investment and ad monetization can narrow, implied volatility 7.3%. Volatility for both may amplify today; the earnings trading window is open. Bybit US Stock Earnings Season Event Reminder: Currently in a limited-time trading task window period (7/21–7/30), trading META stock contracts earns extra points, independent from TSLA, GOOGL, AAPL, and AMZN tasks, and can be completed separately. Meanwhile, you can bet on the next-day Top Gainer among 10 popular US stocks including META in the "Top Gainer" daily prediction; those who bet correctly will proportionally share the points pool of those who bet incorrectly. This US stock earnings season lasts until August 30, with a million prize pool waiting to be unlocked, plus a Tesla Cybertruck grand prize.
Odaily, July 29 – On-chain data shows that the cumulative burned amount sent to the JST black hole address has exceeded 1.604 billion tokens, with a current on-chain value of approximately $161 million. Since the launch of the buyback and burn program, JustLend DAO has completed four consecutive rounds of buybacks and burns driven by real protocol revenue, with all operations publicly verifiable on-chain. To date, the cumulative burned amount of JST has exceeded 17% of its total supply, with the deflationary process continuing to deepen. As a core infrastructure of the TRON DeFi ecosystem, JustLend DAO will continue to advance the upgrade of the buyback and burn mechanism, supported by genuine protocol earnings, to further strengthen JST's deflationary trajectory and establish a more deterministic long-term value anchor for holders.
according to official sources, Gate launched the USD1 Staking to Earn Rewards financial product starting at 00:00 (UTC+8) on July 29. During the event, users can earn rewards by holding USD1 in their asset accounts. The minimum holding requirement is 1 USD1, and users can enjoy a maximum annualized yield of 8%. Rewards will be distributed daily to eligible users in the form of WLFI. The annualized yield will be dynamically adjusted daily based on the remaining reward budget and the platform's total effective USD1 holdings, and will be updated around 14:00 (UTC+8) each day. Additionally, the on-chain staking reference APY for USD1 is currently 6.89%, offering users diversified yield options.
According to TechFlow Research, Morgan Stanley released a research report on July 27, quantifying for the first time the Incremental Return on Invested Capital (ROIC) of Generative AI investments. The report constructed three estimation frameworks: the ROIC for hyperscale cloud service providers' GPU leasing business is approximately 31%, the ROIC for proprietary infrastructure model API business is approximately 46%, and the ROIC for third-party compute API business is approximately 25%. Under base case assumptions, a single 1 gigawatt (GW) data center is configured with approximately 410,000 NVIDIA GB300 GPUs, with a utilization rate of 75% and an hourly leasing price of $8.5. The combined capital expenditure of the three major cloud giants is expected to exceed $1.4 trillion. Morgan Stanley maintains an Overweight rating on Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google. The report points out that as AI moves from the training phase to the inference phase, demand for GPU compute power will continue to grow. Providers with self-built compute infrastructure will achieve considerable profits by leveraging their pricing power in an ecosystem where compute is scarce. If Morgan Stanley's calculations hold true, the hundreds of billions of dollars in AI capital expenditure will shift from being perceived as "costs" to "growth assets".
Approximately one month after its launch, Robinhood Chain has surpassed Solana in two metrics: Meme coin trading volume and the number of tokenized stock holders. On-chain data shows that Robinhood Launchpad's weekly trading volume reached $1.23 billion, surpassing Solana's core Meme coin platform PumpSwap's $1.22 billion for the first time; in terms of tokenized stock asset holders, Robinhood Chain leads with 330,000 users, followed closely by Solana with 281,000, while BNB Chain ranks third with 214,000. However, the lead in holder count has not translated into an advantage in asset scale—Robinhood Chain accounts for only about 1% of the over $2 billion tokenized stock market. Additionally, Meme coin hype cooled off towards the end of the month, with the chain's DEX daily trading volume falling from a peak of $900 million to around $500 million. To date, Robinhood Chain has generated cumulative revenue of approximately $3 million. On the stock front, institutional analysts from Bernstein, Goldman Sachs, and others maintain a bullish outlook on HOOD stock, with a target price of $122, representing approximately 31% upside potential from the current price of $92.7.
According to The Block, 44 state attorneys general led by Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson jointly submitted a public comment letter to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stating that the CFTC's proposed rules exceed the authority granted by the Commodity Exchange Act and requesting them to redraft new rules compliant with the Constitution. The letter emphasized that sports betting has historically fallen under state-level regulatory jurisdiction, and the federal government has never intervened. Meanwhile, the NFL also wrote to CFTC Chairman Michael Selig, requesting to curb the expansion of sports prediction markets, arguing that the current proposed rules are insufficient to protect the integrity of events. Currently, the legal battle between states and the CFTC continues to intensify: a Minnesota court ruled to suspend the enforcement of the state's prediction market ban, allowing Kalshi and Polymarket to continue operations; however, a New York federal judge again refused to block New York State from enforcing gambling laws against Kalshi, and Michigan and Washington states have also issued temporary injunctions restricting Kalshi from conducting sports event contract business locally.
According to Yonhap News, South Chungcheong Province, South Korea (a wide-area administrative division located in the west-central part of South Korea, with Hongseong as its capital), has completed its first organizational reform since the 9th elected term. The relevant ordinance was deliberated and passed by the Provincial Council on the 29th and will officially take effect on August 10. This reform newly established the "AI Basic Social Health and Welfare Office" and the "AI Industry Innovation Bureau," responsible for integrating AI into the field of public welfare and promoting regional industrial AI transformation, respectively; at the same time, the "Youth Growth Bureau" was newly established to coordinate youth employment, housing, and regional settlement support, and the "Social Solidarity Economy Bureau" is responsible for fostering social enterprises and cooperatives.
According to Cointelegraph, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released a "Stablecoin Sprint" policy research report, consolidating opinions from industry participants such as banks, payment companies, and stablecoin issuers. The report indicates that stablecoins currently demonstrate the most prominent advantages in the cross-border payment sector, particularly offering significant benefits to emerging markets with limited access to US dollars; however, in UK domestic retail payment scenarios, due to the existing payment system being relatively fast and low-cost, consumers lack the motivation to switch, and adoption is expected to be relatively slower. The aforementioned research findings have been incorporated into the final regulatory rules released by the FCA on June 30, requiring stablecoins issued in the UK to be fully backed by reserve assets and redeemable at par value.
: MARA CEO Fred Thiel stated that power used for AI infrastructure can generate higher returns than Bitcoin mining, with the same amount of electricity dedicated to AI yielding more revenue. MARA still plans to continue mining in regions where low-cost or surplus energy is economically attractive. Thiel said that MARA began acquiring sites previously hosting mining rigs between late 2023 and early 2024, and by the end of 2024, it had owned infrastructure supporting approximately 70% of its operations. The company then shifted its focus to energy assets. MARA has partnered with Starwood to establish a platform, with a near-term target of approximately 1 GW of computing capacity, and plans exceeding 2.5 GW. In July, MARA also agreed to acquire a site in Texas that can access approximately 2 GW of power for digital infrastructure.
the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the results of its March Stablecoin Sprint policy initiative, which brought together banks, payment companies, stablecoin issuers, and other industry participants to explore the use of stablecoins. Participants indicated that cross-border payments are the clearest near-term use case for stablecoins, particularly in emerging markets with limited access to US dollars. In major payment corridors where existing systems are already fast and relatively low-cost, stablecoins offer fewer advantages. Participants also noted that the incentive for domestic UK consumers to shift to stablecoin payments is limited, given that existing payment methods are already fast and low-cost. However, merchants could benefit from lower costs and faster settlement times. The feedback has been incorporated into the FCA’s final rules on June 30 and will influence its subsequent stablecoin payment policies.