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According to ChainCatcher, Guangdong Province's first special financial product for the token economy, "Token Loan," was launched in the Haizhu District of Guangzhou. Taking Bank of China Guangzhou Branch as an example, a dedicated financing product specifically developed for small and micro enterprises in Haizhu's computing power sector—the Computing Power Token Loan—has been introduced. The credit limit is determined based on the contract/token consumption amount and can provide guarantees mainly through credit, accounts receivable pledges, and order financing. It can also combine guarantees, mortgages, and other forms of collateral to further expand the credit limit. New companies can apply for financing based on orders if they provide continuous operation proof materials from their original operating enterprises or offer guarantees. It is reported that the initial credit funding from Bank of China has reached 28 million yuan.

According to the Financial Times, JPMorgan Chase terminated its banking services for Polymarket last October due to regulatory concerns, requiring the company to seek new banking institutions. Previously, Polymarket was banned from providing services to U.S. customers after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission took enforcement action in 2022.Currently, Polymarket has partnered with a new bank, but the specific name has not been disclosed. JPMorgan Chase still maintains business dealings with Polymarket and invited its CEO Shayne Coplan to participate in a private banking client meeting held in Miami this February, where he spoke alongside former NFL player Tom Brady. Polymarket stated that the two parties continue to maintain a close and active relationship in various areas, including multiple entities, operational integration, and customer fund flow management.Since 2026, prediction market platforms like Polymarket and Kalshi have faced legal actions from multiple U.S. states regarding their alleged operation as illegal sports bookmakers, while the relevant platforms argue that they operate as exchanges facilitating trades between buyers and sellers, rather than as bookmakers. According to user aggregated data, the nominal trading volume of prediction markets has exceeded $250 billion since 2026.Meanwhile, Polymarket is seeking over $1 billion in financing, with a target valuation of $20 billion, more than doubling from the approximately $8 billion valuation during the last round of financing in 2025.

Sources reveal that Goldman Sachs is in discussions with potential investors to participate in Nvidia's $500 billion artificial intelligence financing plan.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the US disclosed the latest real accounts regarding their holdings in crypto assets, mining costs, and debt collateral structures. The core updates are as follows:Bit Digital ( NASDAQ : $ BTBT ) narrowed losses in Q2, holding over 164,000 ETH: Nasdaq-listed company Bit Digital announced its financial performance for Q2 2026. The company's total revenue for Q2 was $32.1 million (a 15% quarter-over-quarter increase), with a gross profit of $18.6 million (gross margin of 57.9%), and a net loss attributable to shareholders narrowed to $107.2 million. As of June 30, 2026, the company held Ethereum reserves of 164,310.5 ETH, along with approximately $83.6 million in cash and cash equivalents.Riot Platforms ( NASDAQ : $ RIOT ) Q2 revenue of $174.2 million, reserves over 11,000 BTC: US-listed mining company Riot Platforms released its Q2 financial report, with total revenue for the quarter reaching $174.2 million (a 14% year-over-year increase), of which the data center business contributed $23.2 million; Q2 Bitcoin production was 1,587 BTC, with an average mining cash cost of $49,912 per BTC. By the end of Q2, Riot held over $1.2 billion in liquid assets, including 11,380 BTC (of which 5,821 BTC were used as collateral) and $548.9 million in cash.Nakamoto ( NASDAQ : $ NAKA ) sold 600 BTC to repay loans, still holding 4,467 BTC: Bitcoin treasury company Nakamoto announced its Q2 performance, with total revenue of $35.87 million and a net loss of $133 million. During the quarter, the company sold approximately 600 BTC and some derivative positions, generating about $48 million in net proceeds to repay a Bitcoin collateral loan of $45 million USDT. As of the end of June, the company still held 4,467 BTC (with a fair value of approximately $262 million, of which 3,805 BTC have been pledged as debt collateral), with total debt of approximately $165 million.

Investment firm Neoclassic Capital announced on X that it will co-lead the seed round financing for the tokenized real-world asset (RWA) data platform RWA.xyz. RWA.xyz has not yet disclosed further details about this round of financing.RWA.xyz is building an industry-standard data platform and real data source for tokenized real-world assets. According to RootData, previous investors in RWA.xyz also include Nascent, Archetype, The Venture Dept., and others.

ChianCatcher news, cryptocurrency exchange Gemini announced its Q2 2026 financial report, with total revenue of $45.5 million, a year-on-year increase of 37%. Revenue from credit card operations surged 231% year-on-year to $16.2 million, helping to offset the impact of a 38% year-on-year decline in exchange business revenue to $12.5 million. Trading volume fell from $11.3 billion to $3.8 billion year-on-year. Forecast market trading volume nearly doubled quarter-on-quarter (up 93%), contributing $500,000 in revenue. The net loss for the quarter was $107.7 million, narrowing by 19% year-on-year.Gemini's stock price fell over 7% in after-hours trading. CEO Tyler Winklevoss stated that the company still has work to do, and the results for this quarter reflect ongoing efforts to reduce operating expenses and diversify revenue.

Solstice Finance launches strcUSX on Solana, splitting the dividend income and price risk of the Nasdaq-listed company Strategy's Series A perpetual preferred stock STRC into two types of tokens: senior and junior. The annual dividend yield of STRC is 12%.The senior tranche SR-strcUSX targets an annual yield of approximately 7%, with priority for dividend income and principal repayment; the junior tranche JR-strcUSX bears the first loss from market value fluctuations and receives the remaining income after payments to the senior tranche, targeting an annual yield of over 20%. Users can deposit USX into the strcUSX vault to receive tokens corresponding to the risk level. Both types of tokens are native assets on Solana, tradable, usable as collateral, or accessible for DeFi applications.Solstice Finance will also integrate USX into Zebec Network's payroll infrastructure, which processes over $500 million in payroll annually and has over 50,000 monthly active users.

Digital asset company Tether announced that it has completed a full independent audit conducted by KPMG U.S. on the financial statements of Tether International, S.A. de C.V. as of December 31, 2025. KPMG U.S. issued an unqualified audit opinion.The audit covered transactions, systems, ownership records, valuations, counterparties, and financial statement evidence, and reviewed the balance sheet, income statement, statement of changes in equity, and cash flow statement. KPMG U.S. also physically counted and inspected each gold bar held by Tether. Tether's Chief Financial Officer Simon McWilliams stated that the audited financial statements for 2025 show that its reserve assets exceed liabilities by $6.814 billion. Tether stated that this audit is an important step in fulfilling its long-term commitment to financial transparency.

According to Forbes, AI data infrastructure company Databricks announced the completion of a $5 billion strategic financing round, led by Coatue, with participation from Blackstone, MGX, and T. Rowe Price. Sixth Street Growth joined as a new investor, bringing the post-financing valuation of the company to $190 billion, higher than the previously disclosed valuation plan of $188 billion. The funds will be used to advance AI infrastructure layout, product development, and potential acquisitions.Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi stated that the company's current annual revenue run rate has exceeded $7 billion, with a year-on-year growth of over 80%. In terms of AI Agent infrastructure, Databricks believes that the scale of AI-generated software will significantly increase in the future, and each AI application will require database support.

According to Business Wire, Bitcoin operating company Nakamoto Inc. (NASDAQ: NAKA) announced its financial report for the second quarter of 2026, with total revenue of $35.9 million. The media and asset management business contributed $25.6 million, while the Bitcoin derivatives strategy contributed $10.4 million. The GAAP operating loss was $149.1 million, primarily driven by a $105.2 million non-cash goodwill impairment and a $48.7 million Bitcoin market value loss;Excluding the aforementioned non-cash items, the adjusted operating income was $7.3 million, marking the first positive value since the company's transformation into a Bitcoin operating company. During the period, the company repaid approximately $45 million in USDT debt and deferred about $105 million in USDT principal until June 30, 2027. As of June 30, the company held 4,467 Bitcoins, with a fair value of approximately $261.5 million, and a net digital asset leverage ratio of 56%.

According to Finsmes, AI architecture development company Pathway announced the completion of a $30 million seed round financing, with participation from Id4 Ventures, TQ Ventures, Red Bridge Ventures, Kadmos Capital, and WS Investment, an investment institution under Wilson Sonsini. Databricks Chief AI Scientist Jonathan Frankle also joined as an angel investor.Pathway is developing the "Post-Transformer" architecture called BDH (Biologically-inspired Dynamic Hierarchy), aiming to address the limitations of current Transformer models that continuously rely on more data, GPUs, energy, and capital expansion. Unlike traditional large models that require periodic retraining, BDH can continuously learn with less data and achieve ongoing adaptation.It is reported that the company has appointed former Google DeepMind Gemini product head Adam Kurzrok as Chief Product Officer, responsible for the product direction based on the BDH model, including model packaging, evaluation systems, and commercial deployment.

According to GlobeNewswire, the cryptocurrency asset trading platform Bullish announced its financial performance for the second quarter of 2026. The company stated that as the global securities market gradually migrates to public chains, Bullish is planning to build a complete issuer-supported tokenized securities service system around issuance, listing, trading, and tracking.Bullish CEO Tom Farley stated that the global securities market, which is nearly $300 trillion in scale, is turning to public blockchains, and Bullish hopes to collaborate with issuers to drive this process. Once the proposed acquisition of Equiniti is completed, the company will form an integrated platform covering securities token issuance, listing, trading, and tracking.Financial data shows that Bullish's digital asset sales in the second quarter amounted to $32.6 billion, down from $58.6 billion in the same period last year; the net loss was $280 million, compared to a net profit of $108.3 million in the same period last year, corresponding to a diluted loss per share of $1.78.However, the company's core business performance has improved. Adjusted revenue (non-IFRS) for the second quarter reached $92.6 million, a year-on-year increase of 62%, higher than $57 million in the same period last year; among them, subscription, service, and other revenues reached a record $62.7 million. Adjusted trading revenue was $29.9 million, a year-on-year increase of 24%; adjusted EBITDA was $29.5 million, compared to $8.1 million in the same period last year; adjusted net profit was $14.3 million, compared to a loss of $6 million in the same period last year.In terms of business progress, Bullish stated that the acquisition of the UK fintech company Equiniti is progressing and is expected to be completed in early 2027, still subject to regulatory approvals and other customary conditions. In addition, Bullish's CoinDesk Index continues to gain institutional adoption. Morgan Stanley launched Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana-related trading products based on the CoinDesk benchmark index, attracting over $400 million in inflows in the second quarter.In terms of regulation, Bullish has obtained approval from the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC) to provide secondary trading services for tokenized securities, becoming one of the first regulated platforms to offer issuer-supported tokenized securities trading.The company has also raised and refined its full-year guidance for 2026, expecting subscription, service, and other revenues (non-IFRS) to be between $225 million and $245 million, adjusted operating expenses to be between $225 million and $230 million, and financing costs to be expected between $52 million and $60 million.

The founder of the DeFi platform Flying Tulip and creator of the Fantom Network, Andre Cronje, stated that most DeFi protocols are no longer truly decentralized, with only a few niche areas still qualifying as DeFi. He believes that DeFi has evolved into "on-chain finance" or "open finance."He pointed out that true DeFi should possess characteristics such as decentralization, immutability, and the absence of intermediaries, while the intermediaries in most current protocols have become companies, taking on the roles of decision-makers and risk committees typical of traditional financial institutions. Cronje stated that this does not mean that true DeFi no longer exists, as some protocols are still innovating.Data from DefiLlama shows that the total value locked in DeFi has dropped from $167 billion at the beginning of October 2022 to $75 billion at the time of the original publication, a decline of more than half.The European Central Bank (ECB) analyzed Aave, MakerDAO, Ampleforth, and Uniswap in a working paper released in March, finding that based on snapshots of holdings from November 2022 and May 2023, the top 100 addresses holding governance tokens in these protocols control over 80% of the token supply. The ECB thus questioned the degree of decentralization of the relevant DAOs and whether they should continue to be regarded as "fully decentralized" services not subject to the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). (Cointelegraph)

According to Cointelegraph, digital asset infrastructure provider Copper announced that its U.S. subsidiary Copper Markets (US) Inc. has officially obtained SEC-registered broker-dealer status and has become a FINRA member, establishing a compliant market presence in the United States.The company will provide qualified custody, staking, financing, and over-the-counter trading services to institutional clients, while also opening its ClearLoop network, allowing institutions to pledge and transfer crypto assets and tokenized assets as collateral between counterparties.

According to the Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily, deep-sea robotics company Deep Sea Intelligent has announced the completion of over 500 million yuan in Series A financing. New shareholders include Guanghe Venture Capital, Dacheng Financial Intelligence, Jiyuan Capital, Yida Capital, Zhongbao Investment, China Electronics Technology Group Investment, and Total Energy as the funding entity of the energy technology fund managed by Kaihui Fund Management.At the same time, a number of existing shareholders, including Zhengxuan Investment, Yunze Capital, Yunshi Capital, Gaojie Capital, and Xingzhi Capital, have significantly increased their investments.

Rosherville Pty Ltd, a shareholder of the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), has notified the ASX of its intention to apply to the Federal Court for permission to initiate a statutory derivative action against certain former ASX officials and directors. If approved, Rosherville will sue on behalf of the ASX. The ASX stated that the relevant lawsuit does not accuse the ASX itself, but has not disclosed the identities of the former officials involved, the specific obligations allegedly violated, or the remedies sought. The Federal Court has not yet considered whether the case can proceed.The ASX has been advancing a blockchain-based CHESS clearing and settlement system replacement project since 2016, which was suspended in November 2022 and abandoned the blockchain solution in May 2023. On July 3, 2026, the Federal Court ordered the ASX to pay a fine of $14.4 million and $2.1 million in litigation costs to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

Japan's largest banking group, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), plans to utilize blockchain technology to provide instant settlement services for certain Japanese Government Bonds (JGB) transactions.According to reports, MUFG plans to conduct blockchain-based Japanese Government Bond repurchase transactions using tokenized money market funds and stablecoins to shorten the settlement process of traditional securities transactions.

According to Bloomberg, the AI code review platform CodeRabbit announced the completion of a $143 million financing round, with a valuation of $1.5 billion. This round of financing was co-led by Atomico and Smash Capital, with participation from institutions such as BMW i Ventures and Datadog. So far, CodeRabbit has raised over $200 million in total financing.CodeRabbit primarily utilizes artificial intelligence to automatically review software code, helping developers identify code defects, security risks, and potential issues. Its product can automatically review both AI-generated and manually written code during the development process, providing developers with feedback on problems and suggestions for improvement.

According to Thrive Holdings, the AI investment platform Thrive Holdings announced the completion of a $2 billion financing round, with the company's valuation reaching $12 billion, with participation from SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.Thrive Holdings was founded in 2025 by Thrive Capital founder Joshua Kushner. Unlike traditional investment firms, it does not directly invest in AI large model research and development companies, but primarily acquires traditional service companies and integrates AI technology into business processes to achieve efficiency improvements. Its goal is to build platforms and products that bring cutting-edge artificial intelligence into key industries that millions of businesses and individuals rely on daily. The company had previously secured approximately $1 billion in initial funding.

According to PR Newswire, Cypherpunk Technologies (Nasdaq: CYPH) announced its Q2 2026 financial report, with a net income of $39.4 million (approximately $0.18 diluted earnings per share), compared to a net loss of $16.6 million in the same period last year. The turnaround to profitability was mainly due to an unrealized gain of $46 million from the fair value of ZEC holdings (ZEC price rose from $243.35 to $400.09).As of August 11, 2026, the company's Zcash inventory increased to 323,394.38 coins, with an average price of $341.83, accounting for approximately 1.92% of the total circulating supply of ZEC, valued at about $129.4 million at current prices.