1. 🔬 Opportunities to watch

2. ❇️ DeFi

a. New projects in the past day

b. Project list

Project list: TVL > 5m & (7-day new | 24h TVL change > 10%)

c. Related projects

  • One week of token unlocks: SUI unlocks tokens worth approximately $129 million.

  • The Resupply protocol has released an emergency recovery plan proposal to address bad debts through the protocol treasury and DAO organization within 3 days.

  • Tether CEO: PearPass has started testing and will support mobile, desktop, and browser extension.

  • JUST DAO: The collateralization ratio for the USDJ market on the JustLend platform will be adjusted from 75% to 0%.

3. 🌏 Macro

  • The US non-farm payroll report for June will be released early next week.

  • The US Senate procedural vote has passed the Trump tax reform bill.

  • Caixin: The subscription threshold for offshore RMB and HKD tokenized notes from GF Hong Kong is set at 700,000 and 800,000 HKD respectively.

  • 27% of people aged 20–50 in South Korea hold crypto assets, with 70% planning to increase investments.

4. 🐳 Whale movements

a. Institutions, large investments, whale behavior

  • The UK-listed company Panther Metals has purchased 1 BTC, with a short-term target to hold BTC worth £4 million.

  • James Wynn has closed a 40x short position on Bitcoin, incurring a loss of $3,015.97.

  • ETH whale liquidated 1,550 ETH after holding for 47 days, ultimately losing $69,000 upon exit.

  • Michael Saylor has once again released information on Bitcoin Tracker, and may disclose accumulation data next week.

  • Spanish coffee chain Vanadi Coffee increased its holdings by 20 BTC.

  • AguilaTrades has increased its Bitcoin long position to 2,201 BTC, valued at approximately $238 million.

b. DeFi, NFT, On-chain activities

  • A pre-mined address containing 1,000 ETH was activated after being dormant for 9.9 years.

c. Exchange-related capital flows

  • a16z address transferred 400,000 COMP to Coinbase Prime within 21 hours, accounting for 4% of the total.

  • LeverFi has newly issued approximately 13.7 billion LEVER tokens, some of which have been credited to exchanges.

5. 📃 Industry

b. Exchange/wallet

  • Coinbase's product head: Account restrictions have been reduced by 80%, and fraud model improvements are around 20%.

  • Binance will adjust the margin collateral rates for investment portfolios.

  • Binance Alpha has launched Fuel Network (FUEL), and at least 170 Binance Alpha points users can participate in the airdrop.

  • Robinhood will announce significant news regarding its crypto business today.

  • OneKey: OneKey resources have no association with Resupply and have never organized or manipulated any public opinion attacks.

c. Public chain/L2

  • Base co-founder hints at the potential launch of an app.

d. Financing

  • Metaplanet Capital's head of strategy: The company's financial operations will not generate cash flow risks and has not considered borrowing from banks.

e. Regulation

  • Hong Kong Financial Secretary: Stablecoins are not financial tools for profit, but rather tools for financial development.

  • In the past 60 days, the number of warning letters sent by the IRS to crypto investors has surged by over 750%, raising concerns about new tax regulations.

f. Security

  • ZachXBT: A user is suspected to have been attacked by the Lazarus Group, resulting in a loss of approximately $3.2 million in assets.

  • Report: In the first half of the year, 75 cryptocurrency theft cases resulted in $2.1 billion stolen, surpassing the record set in the first half of 2022.

  • Slow Mist: Uniswap Card will collect user X's email address.

g. Others

  • The UK-listed company Vinanz plans to rename itself as London BTC Company.

6. 🤖 AI-related

  • Crossmint partners with Visa to enable AI-driven on-chain payments using tokenized vouchers.

7. 🔧 Tools

8. 💡 Views

  • Analysis: The connection between Binance and Kenyan cryptocurrency lobbying groups raises concerns about monopolies.

  • Report: Most Bitcoin reserve strategy companies may fall into a 'death spiral,' with only a few able to survive.

  • OneKey founder criticizes Resupply's theft handling plan, stating it 'takes money from users after being rug pulled.'

  • Trader Eugene: Has gone long on some altcoins, expecting the market to rise.

  • Alchemy: Stablecoins are becoming the 'default settlement layer' of the internet.

  • Minsheng Securities: In the short term, stablecoins cannot save the dollar's credit from crisis.

  • Hong Kong Financial Secretary: Stablecoins are expected to bring about a transformation in the capital market.

  • Analyst: Altcoins and institutional Bitcoin hot money are flowing towards Bitcoin treasury companies and crypto-related stocks.

  • Cathie Wood: Bitcoin holders may be able to transfer BTC to Coinbase to mortgage for buying houses.

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