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According to The Block, the average daily trading volume on Robinhood Chain rose to 11.6 million last Sunday, setting a new historical high, an increase of about 30% compared to the previous week; the total value locked (TVL) on the chain increased to $473 million, a weekly increase of 32%.However, the number of daily active accounts grew only 3.3% week-on-week and is still 11% lower than the peak on July 16, indicating that the growth in trading and funds mainly comes from existing users rather than new users.

Federal Reserve's Musalem stated that there are no conditions seen that could shake the dollar's status as the primary reserve currency.

FlashRescue co-founder @DarcyAri posted on the X platform that recently, during a joint investigation with partners on a case, Tether experienced a transfer of funds from one address during the execution of a proposal to freeze addresses, resulting in a decrease in the frozen amount. Further review by FlashRescue revealed that this is not an isolated incident. As of August 3, 2026, through an analysis of 2,955 Tether freeze events on the Ethereum and Tron networks, it was found that among addresses involved in risks such as entity sanctions, fraudulent activities, money laundering, FATF blacklist jurisdictions, and malicious attacks: 60 addresses cleared their assets and completed front-running transfers before the formal execution of the freeze, with a total net outflow of 20,429,847 USDT, starting transfers an average of 13 minutes and 59 seconds after the freeze proposal was submitted, and completing the main fund transfers within 15 minutes and 15 seconds; additionally, 113 addresses transferred some assets before the freeze was executed, involving approximately 35,524,300 USDT.The average time from the submission of the freeze proposal to the formal execution of the freeze by Tether is 2 hours, 16 minutes, and 15 seconds, indicating a long time window between the public announcement of the freeze proposal and its actual execution. On July 3, a cluster of addresses transferred funds continuously within minutes and then split the transfers to the same address. The above cases suggest that some high-risk addresses may be actively monitoring Tether freeze proposals and utilizing the time difference between the public announcement of the proposal and the actual effectiveness of the freeze to implement front-running transfers. This mechanism leads to the failure of freezing the involved funds and undermines the actual effectiveness of sanctions, anti-money laundering, and law enforcement cooperation measures.

Coinbase released its Solana validator node operation report for the second quarter of 2026, stating that its operated Solana validator nodes outperform the network average in terms of yield, stability, and infrastructure distribution.Data shows that Coinbase currently stakes approximately 41.63 million SOL through 23 validator nodes, accounting for 9.72% of the total staked amount on Solana, with nodes distributed across 7 countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Singapore, and others.Key operational data is as follows: Staking scale: 41.63 million SOL, accounting for 9.72% of the total staked amount; staking yield: Q2 2026 APY is 6.52%, higher than the network average of 6.38%, leading by 14 basis points; block skip rate: 0.035%, lower than the network average of 0.136%, about one-fourth of the network average.Coinbase stated that its validator nodes adopt a multi-client architecture, currently running 4 clients including Harmonic, Jito, JitoBAM, and Firedancer. All solutions have been reviewed by the Solana Foundation, and aggressive MEV time strategies that may affect user experience are not used.In terms of infrastructure, Coinbase has deployed its validator nodes on two independent bare-metal service providers and configured off-site backups for each node to reduce single points of failure risk. At the same time, the company stated that it has migrated the entire validator node cluster to the DoubleZero network, achieving approximately 99.9% session availability.Coinbase also revealed that it is preparing for the Alpenglow consensus upgrade expected to be advanced by Solana later in 2026, including running community test nodes, developing new consensus health monitoring tools, and completing related voting account upgrade verification.

The S&P 500 Index and the Nasdaq Index priced in Bitcoin have broken through the 200-week moving average for the first time since 2012. This level had previously constrained each round of stock gains relative to BTC.This change indicates that the parabolic rise of BTC relative to U.S. stocks may have come to an end.

According to The Kobeissi Letter analysis, cryptocurrency trading activity continues to decline. Data from 44 spot exchanges tracked by Kaiko shows that last week, the average daily trading volume for cryptocurrency spot trading dropped to about $15 billion, the lowest level of the year, down approximately 70% from the peak in January. In comparison, there were two trading days in February where the trading volume exceeded $100 billion.It states that since December 2025, the trend of average daily trading volume has decreased by about 50% to $20 billion, also the lowest level of the year. Meanwhile, trading volume remains highly concentrated, with the largest 6 exchanges accounting for over 60% of total trading activity, and liquidity in the cryptocurrency market is drying up.

According to CoinDesk, Strategy founder Michael Saylor announced that the company has launched the Bitcoin 200-week moving average (200W MA) and its premium/discount tracking feature on its official website.Saylor stated that since the 200W MA data became available, Bitcoin has traded above that line 92% of the time, and the current price is almost exactly near that line.

According to Jinshi reports, Tesla's official WeChat account stated today that it took a full 20 years from the first prototype to the production of the 10 millionth vehicle, and now a new Tesla rolls off the production line globally approximately every 18 seconds.

According to official news, the prediction market Polymarket announced a significant adjustment to its settlement mechanism for cryptocurrency price fluctuation markets starting from August 7, to protect market integrity. From midnight UTC on that day, the affected markets will no longer settle based on a single price snapshot at a specific time but will instead use a time-weighted average price.Markets of different durations correspond to different TWAP windows: all cryptocurrency 5-minute markets will use a 30-second TWAP, 15-minute markets will use a 60-second TWAP, and 4-hour markets will also use a 60-second TWAP. The previous single snapshot settlement method was prone to price manipulation during periods of low liquidity, and this change is a proactive reinforcement of the market integrity system by Polymarket after facing regulatory scrutiny.To support this transition, Polymarket will inject $1 million in liquidity rewards into all affected markets throughout August. On the technical side, Chainlink TWAP testnet data streams are now available, and mainnet data streams along with Polymarket real-time data stream services will go live on August 4, at which point developers can access TWAP prices directly through Chainlink Data Streams or Polymarket's public WebSocket.

According to data from The Block, the graduation rate of the Pump.fun token reached 6.7% last Friday, about 8 times the average level of June. The average for the previous four days was also 4.7%, significantly higher than the 2.5% of the previous week. The increase in the graduation rate is directly related to the newly launched BOOST default launch mechanism of Pump.fun.BOOST targets what Pump.fun refers to as dead liquidity—previously, about 20% of the migration liquidity was permanently locked in the PumpSwap pool during token graduation migration. Now, this portion of funds will automatically execute a series of market buy orders within five minutes after migration, and all purchased tokens will be destroyed. BOOST takes effect only after the token is bound and does not mechanically increase the graduation rate; instead, it incentivizes traders to more actively push the token to reach the graduation threshold by ensuring immediate buying pressure and supply destruction after migration.Meanwhile, the PUMP token has risen over 10% year-to-date, with an increase of nearly 60% in the past month, outperforming Bitcoin's approximately 25% decline this year. Its current market capitalization is about $850 million, with a fully diluted valuation of over $1.8 billion.

According to the Dune panel data maintained by the OKX Web3 wallet team, the average daily trading volume of tokenized stocks on the Robinhood Chain reached $29.7 million in the past week, surpassing the combined total of xStocks ($11.1 million) and Backpack Sunrise ($13.4 million) on Solana. The main reason for this growth is that launch platforms like Bankr and long.xyz have allowed users to issue meme coins paired with tokenized stocks for liquidity since mid-July, covering over 90 stock codes. The trading of meme coins generates trading volume for stock tokens while locking the stock tokens in liquidity pools.The tokenized stock with the highest on-chain trading volume is Nvidia (daily trading volume of $13.9 million), followed by SpaceX ($6.2 million) and Apple ($4.5 million). The number of daily active tokenized stock traders peaked at over 20,000 during the week of July 20, the highest among all stock token platforms.However, Binance's bStocks on the BNB Chain has an average daily trading volume of $676.8 million, more than 20 times that of Robinhood. Tokenized stocks still account for only a small portion of the total DEX trading volume on the Robinhood Chain, with most on-chain activity still dominated by meme coins like CASHCAT.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), half an hour ago a giant whale bought 18,030 ETH on-chain for 35.85 million DAI, at an average price of about 1,988 USD.

According to Jinshi reports, Nvidia (NVDA.O) announced that it will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet and cloud service provider Naver for its AI data center project under construction in Korea.Nvidia stated that this funding will allow Naver's data center to expand more than twice its current size. The project is jointly developed by Naver and the American private equity firm Brookfield Group, and will be fully equipped with Nvidia AI computing hardware.In addition, Nvidia has reached a cooperation agreement with SK Group to plan the construction of an AI data center cluster in Korea with a total computing power exceeding 2 gigawatts, which can roughly meet the electricity needs of 1.5 million households.Nvidia revealed that the first AI computing factory built by SK Telecom will be put into operation next year. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated, "Korea is entering a golden development period. The country's semiconductor industry and industrial sector are thriving, and it has the complete capability to build AI infrastructure for the world."

According to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, influenced by the escalation of geopolitical risks and changes in the AI competitive landscape, all three major U.S. stock indices fell last week, energy prices rose significantly, and the trends of safe-haven assets like gold and U.S. Treasuries diverged. The cryptocurrency market continued its structural trend, with Bitcoin and Ethereum rising by 1.5% and 3.6%, respectively, while both spot BTC and ETH ETFs maintained net inflows.In terms of industry development, regulation and real-world applications continued to be the focus this week. Japanese convenience store giant Lawson, in collaboration with Netstars, is advancing a stablecoin payment pilot, further promoting the use of stablecoins in everyday consumption scenarios; South Korea plans to officially incorporate digital assets into its national asset management framework and explore the tokenization of government bonds and state-owned assets, with the construction of RWA infrastructure continuing to accelerate. In Europe, after the transition period of MiCA ended, the total number of licensed institutions increased to 294, although the number of new licenses has slowed down, institutional participation remains strong.In terms of investment and financing, the cryptocurrency industry recorded a total of 16 financing events last week, highly concentrated in the infrastructure sector: among them, Alpaca completed a $135 million financing to enhance tokenized securities and AI financial infrastructure; Flex completed a $70 million financing to further expand its stablecoin cross-border payment network, continuously confirming the capital market's long-term optimism towards digital financial infrastructure. Gate Ventures believes that as the global regulatory framework gradually improves and the integration of traditional finance and blockchain deepens, the digital asset ecosystem is expected to enter a more mature and diverse development stage.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed up 385.56 points on July 21 (Tuesday), an increase of 0.74%, at 52,224.82 points; the S&P 500 Index rose by 65.91 points, an increase of 0.89%, at 7,509.19 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index increased by 329.13 points, an increase of 1.29%, at 25,837.21 points.

According to a report by CCTV Finance, Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, stated that the daily Token call volume in our country has surged from about 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to 140 trillion by the end of March 2026, an increase of over a thousand times.Intelligent agents are giving rise to a brand new economic form, known as the "Token economy." Token, in Chinese, is called 词元, and it is an important unit for large models to process information and measure model invocation costs. Its growth rate is the most intuitive barometer of industrial development.In the era of intelligent agents, a single user command may trigger multiple rounds of model calls and resource consumption, directly driving an explosion in demand for artificial intelligence computing power. With the large-scale application of intelligent agents, a series of new models surrounding Token measurement, scheduling, pricing, and trading are beginning to take shape.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed up 149.48 points on July 10 (Friday), an increase of 0.28%, closing at 52,636.89 points; the S&P 500 Index closed up 31.65 points, an increase of 0.42%, closing at 7,575.29 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index closed up 74.72 points, an increase of 0.29%, closing at 26,281.61 points.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost pointed out that the proportion of unrealized profits in Bitcoin has dropped to 65.8%, below the historical average of 81%, while the proportion of unrealized losses is about 34.2%. The current market is still supported by profitable positions rather than dominated by losses, but the profit proportion continues to decline.Darkfost stated that in past bear markets, the market always reaches a stage where unrealized losses exceed the proportion of profits, and it is currently uncertain whether this cycle will be an exception. This indicator reflects the overall profit and loss situation of market positions and is an important reference for assessing market sentiment and potential selling pressure.