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Author: Zhou, ChainCatcherAt this point, the ones I’ve let down the most are my family.The frequency with which you’ve heard this phrase recently is no less than that of “Do you believe in light?” or “You should stand in the light, not have the light stand there” two months ago.Two short sentences c

South Korean crypto markets saw a sharp burst in activity after the KOSPI suffered steep losses this week, highlighting how equity sell-offs can quickly redirect attention toward digital assets—and related products traded overseas. According to data from Upbit, trading between the Korean won and Tet

HuoXing Finance reports that, on July 30, according to EmberCN monitoring, as the storage sector surged in a sharp rebound tonight, the largest on-chain CXMT (ChangXin Memory) short position continued to add to its shorts. The trader opened the short position one day before ChangXin’s IPO and has ad

ChainCatcher report, according to The Defiant, Lightning Labs—the company behind the Lightning Network’s development tools—launched a dedicated website for the L402 protocol on Wednesday, positioning it as a channel for AI agents to make payments in Bitcoin. The company stated that with L402, agents

Antora Energy just closed a $550 million Series C round, valuing the thermal battery maker at roughly $2.47 billion. The Sunnyvale, California company plans to use the capital to scale manufacturing of modular thermal batteries designed for two of the hungriest energy consumers on the planet: heavy

Odaily Planet Daily News: Uniswap has announced the launch of the Launches beta, a new tab within the Uniswap Web App that allows users to discover popular token launches on Uniswap. Developers from launch platforms such as Bankr, Pons, and Long have selected Uniswap as their trading infrastructure.

ChainCatcher reports that Terry Duffy, Chairman and CEO of CME Group, stated that U.S. approval of perpetual futures contracts could expose traders to tax and regulatory uncertainty, as these products may ultimately be classified as swaps rather than futures. Duffy noted that the periodic exchange o

Lightning Labs just gave Bitcoin a dedicated front door to the machine economy. The company behind some of the most widely used Lightning Network developer tools launched l402.tech on July 29, a standalone website built around the L402 protocol, a standard designed to let AI agents pay for services

South Korea just delivered the most violent equity collapse in its history. The KOSPI has fallen more than 33% in July alone, its worst month on record, and roughly 40% from the all-time high it printed barely six weeks ago. Circuit breakers fired on consecutive sessions for the first time ever. Som

ChainThink reports that on July 30, according to the official announcement, Uniswap has launched the Launches (beta) feature as a new tab in the Uniswap Web App, aggregating token launch information from platforms built on Uniswap.Currently, Launchpad projects such as Bankr, Pons, and Long have sele

Goldman Sachs, Barclays, and Jefferies cut their Robinhood Markets (HOOD) price targets on Thursday, one evening after the Nasdaq-listed brokerage beat second-quarter revenue and profit estimates. Goldman and Jefferies had each raised their targets to $137 earlier in July.All three firms kept bullis

ME News reports that on July 30 (UTC+8), Solana announced that South Korean fintech company KSNET has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Solana Foundation to integrate Solana Pay into its payment network, which serves over 330,000 merchants and processes approximately $4 billion in monthl

Aave, the largest decentralized lending protocol, is considering a proposal to abandon six of the blockchains it had expanded onto, in a cleanup affecting about $98 million in deposits. The proposal would see Aave retire “low-adoption” asset markets and 21 expired Pendle principal tokens across 11 A

Worldcoin NewsWorldcoin (WLD) is entering the latest AI-asset stress test from a fragile price base, after Situational Awareness LP, the hedge fund founded by former OpenAI safety researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, sought fresh capital from existing investors and lenders. The fund, which grew to more

Huo Xing Finance reports that on July 30, according to market data, the USD/JPY pair experienced a sharp short-term decline that continued, with a cumulative drop of over 400 points and a daily loss of 3%, currently trading at 158.5—the largest move since the Japanese government intervened in the ma