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According to The Block, New York-listed fintech company Broadridge announced that its Distributed Ledger Repo (DLR) platform processed over $8 trillion in transactions in July, averaging about $365 billion per day, a year-on-year increase of 28%.DLR allows companies to use distributed ledger technology to settle repo transactions in existing trading and post-trading environments, enabling real-time financing and tokenized collateral liquidity. In addition, Broadridge also offers on-chain proxy voting and governance services, as well as digital asset infrastructure management.

Gate has completed the cash dividend distribution for 100 US stock targets including ASML, MA, etc. The platform has proportionally settled the USDT dividend distribution for users holding the relevant stocks at the snapshot time, all processed automatically, requiring no action from users.This dividend distribution covers US stock targets with corporate dividend dates from 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-07, encompassing various industry sectors including technology and semiconductors, financial services, energy, consumer goods, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, real estate REITs, utilities, materials manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecommunications, and strategic ETFs. Representative targets include ASML, MA, COST, GD, etc.

According to a report by businesswire, Strategy announced its participation in the "Invest in America Commitment" program, which will contribute $250 annually to the Trump account (i.e., 530A account) for each eligible American employee's minor child, regardless of the child's birth year.For children born on or after January 1, 2025, there will also be an additional one-time matching contribution of $1,000 in seed funding provided by the U.S. government.Phong Le, President and CEO of Strategy, stated, "The Trump account and the Invest in America initiative can build a stronger financial future for American children. The company will match the government's initial $1,000 contribution and provide additional annual contributions for eligible employees' children.These accounts can encourage financial education, long-term thinking, and the cultivation of a savings and investment culture from a young age—these goals are highly consistent with Strategy's values and optimistic vision for the future."The Trump account is a tax-deferred investment account for minors under the age of 18, with investment targets being low-fee U.S. index funds. Children born between 2025 and 2028 can receive a one-time $1,000 seed funding from the U.S. Treasury upon registration. Strategy's program will launch after the Treasury issues final guidance and the employer contribution infrastructure is online. The company has announced the plan to employees during internal quarterly meetings and will share registration details with eligible employees before the launch.

As the Coldcard hardware wallet exposes firmware vulnerabilities, over 80 million USD in BTC is stolen, and the market re-discusses whether to turn to institutional custody or directly buy Bitcoin ETFs, well-known analyst Willy Woo responded in a post stating that he does not oppose ETFs or custody solutions. They have many benefits in gaining recognition and accessing the traditional financial system, but the uniqueness of Bitcoin lies in the fact that it is the only truly sovereign mature digital asset, without nationality, cannot be blocked, diluted, or confiscated by any country, and only by mastering self-custody can one obtain this attribute.Willy Woo stated that since World War II, the West has mostly lived in a bubble of security, but as Ray Dalio pointed out based on 1500 years of historical research, stability itself is a cycle. When the cycle ends, people will need reserves that can protect them when the world briefly collapses, while custodial assets may fail, and governments may confiscate assets both in the past and in the future. He indicated that we are currently in the later stage of this cycle and recommended allocating 15% of assets to sovereign assets such as Bitcoin and gold.

Bitget has launched the 8th phase of the "Ten Million Club" contract VIP event, with the event snapshot rules being "cumulative achievement for the natural month + end-of-month status confirmation."The platform will base its account data on August 31 and will gift different tiers of esports-themed gift boxes based on users' US stock rToken trading volume or contract trading volume from August 1 to August 31. Rewards include: Razer gaming chair, PS5 Pro, Colorful RTX 5090 graphics card, and other great gifts.Previously, Bitget announced an upgrade to its contract VIP service system and launched the "Ten Million Club" program, where eligible users can receive customized high-end physical gift boxes from the platform on a monthly basis. Gifts such as Moutai, Hermès, Apple gift boxes, and Luk Fook jewelry have already been given to users. Specific rights and benefits will be announced for each month.

The FTX bankruptcy asset management team will initiate the fifth round of creditor fund distribution, expected to distribute approximately $900 million to eligible creditors. So far, the FTX bankruptcy asset management team has distributed nearly $10 billion to creditors.

The cryptocurrency card project Tria announced the distribution of over $600,000 in rewards to ambassadors who promoted platform growth during Season One and Season Two, including a $250,000 ambassador bonus pool (distributed based on commission performance grading from Season One, with up to 50% additional rewards) and over $350,000 in card consumption commissions (covering card consumption and membership purchase shares for referred users from January 31 to June 30).The ambassador bonus will be available for claims on July 31, and card consumption commissions will be credited in the coming weeks, with regular distributions on the last Tuesday of each month thereafter. Tria stated that more incentive programs will be opened in Season Three, and the ambassador program continues to recruit.

ALPHEA announced the completion of a $5 million financing round to accelerate the construction of its next-generation distributed AI infrastructure.The project party stated that this round of funding was participated in by institutions such as MH Ventures, IBC Group, Titans Ventures, Becker Ventures, and Yellow Labs. It will be used to expand the distributed AI computing power network, launch new products aimed at developers and enterprises, and expand the core team in positions such as engineering, research, and ecosystem development.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a giant whale withdrew 30,000 ETH ($57.66 million) from Coinbase Prime and distributed it to three new wallets.

Binance Research released a report on tokenized stocks showing that bStocks has increased the number of tokenized stock assets from 5 to 25 in less than a month since its launch, with a market capitalization approaching 300 million USD.In terms of user participation, among 190,417 bStocks users, 41.5% only trade bStocks, while 58.5% participate in perpetual contracts and/or stock products. The report also indicates that a total of 2,806 users engaged in cross-market arbitrage, with 206 systematic arbitrage users contributing 198.2 million USD in rapid matching transaction volume, accounting for 96.5% of the relevant transaction volume.The report states that bStocks' appeal is particularly evident during non-trading hours. During regular trading hours, the share of stock spot transaction volume is 52%, while bStocks accounts for 48%; however, during non-trading hours, the share of bStocks transaction volume rises to 58%, surpassing the stock spot's 42%.Additionally, bStocks has begun to extend into on-chain yield scenarios. Currently, the relevant liquidity pools can offer an APY ranging from 32% to 228%, while the yield of the native credit pool is between 5% and 10%, indicating a total TVL of approximately 1.15 million USD.

During the mid-year report in 2026, Xie Jiayin, the head of Bitget Greater China, revealed that in the first half of this year, Bitget distributed over 33 million USD in welfare airdrops to users through Launchpool, PoolX, Candybomb, and SpaceX airdrops.On the product strategy level, Xie Jiayin reiterated the positioning of Bitget UEX and pointed out that cross-asset allocation has become a new trend in the industry, with the proportion of related users rising from less than 1% to over 10%. Currently, Bitget has fully constructed a core product matrix of multiple asset classes, including Crypto, CFD contracts, US stocks (rTOKEN solution, direct connection solution, US stock options, IPO Prime).

Binance co-founder He Yi posted on social media, "A key metric I have always been focused on is the value created for users. Since 2022, Binance Earn has distributed over $1.2 billion in earnings to stablecoin holders."In the long run, the real opportunity lies not only in providing market access for users but also in helping users continuously create value for the assets they hold.

According to BBX data, the prediction market faced a dual attack yesterday, with traditional exchange infrastructure accelerating its on-chain transition. The core dynamics are as follows:The prediction market/event contract ecosystem where Robinhood Markets, Inc. (NASDAQ: $HOOD) operates suffered a dual regulatory blow yesterday: first, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has launched a comprehensive investigation into Polymarket (privately held), covering its social media activities and suspected wash trading behaviors; second, a Michigan court ruled to prohibit Kalshi (privately held) from offering sports betting services to residents in Michigan. Although these two incidents directly target Polymarket and Kalshi, their strategic importance to Robinhood cannot be ignored—Robinhood provides event contract products linked to KalshiEx LLC or ForecastEx LLC through its subsidiary Robinhood Derivatives LLC, making it the largest distribution channel for prediction markets among regulated brokers in the U.S. The CFTC's escalation of enforcement investigations into similar platforms will directly impact Robinhood's event contract business compliance framework and product expansion speed; in June, the average daily trading volume in this sector reached a historic record.Nasdaq, Inc. (NASDAQ: $NDAQ) announced yesterday that it has chosen Pyth Network (on-chain price oracle protocol) as its on-chain distribution partner for TotalView (Nasdaq's full market depth data product), marking the first time Nasdaq has integrated its core institutional-level market data into a blockchain network—TotalView provides full-level buy and sell quotes and transaction data for the U.S. stock market, historically only available to traditional financial institutions (subscription-based); on-chain distribution means that DeFi protocols, decentralized exchanges, and smart contracts can now access Nasdaq-level real-time equity market data as an on-chain pricing basis for the first time. The Pyth Network token (PYTH) subsequently rose by over 6%, with the market interpreting this as a historic fusion point between traditional securities market infrastructure and decentralized finance.

Bitget has launched the 7th phase of the contract VIP "Ten Million Club" event, with the event snapshot rules being "cumulative achievement for the natural month + end-of-month status confirmation." The platform will gift different tiers of six福 jewelry pure gold gift boxes based on account data as of July 31, according to the user's contract trading volume or new asset amount from July 1 to July 31.Previously, Bitget announced an upgrade to its contract VIP service system and launched the "Ten Million Club" program, where eligible users can receive customized high-end physical gift boxes from the platform on a monthly basis. Gifts such as Moutai, Hermès, Apple gift boxes, and smart home products have already been given to users.

Nasdaq announced the selection of Pyth Network as its market data distribution channel, bringing its core product Nasdaq TotalView depth market data and order imbalance data to on-chain and institutional-grade data networks.According to the announcement, Nasdaq will act as a data publisher connecting to the Pyth Data Marketplace, allowing its market data to be distributed through a single interface to on-chain protocols, institutional systems, and various software-based financial applications. This marks the first time Pyth has hosted native market data distribution from a mainstream exchange.Nasdaq TotalView is its standard depth market data product, covering complete order book information, displaying the order depth at each price level and the behavior of market participants, while also providing order imbalance data during the opening and closing auction phases.

According to The Block, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) pointed out in its "2026 Annual Economic Report" that current stablecoins do not meet monetary standards in terms of singularity, resilience, interoperability, and integrity, and their operational model is closer to ETFs rather than payment tools.The report estimates that even if the market value of stablecoins expands to between $1 trillion and $3 trillion, the net effect on economic output will still be slightly negative, while also exacerbating banks' financing pressures and weakening credit capacity. The BIS also warned of the risk of "stablecoin dollarization" in emerging economies, which could erode their monetary sovereignty.The report suggests using central bank currencies as a benchmark to construct a "unified ledger" that encompasses tokenized central bank reserves and commercial bank currencies as an alternative, and uses the Project Agora cross-border payment prototype as a feasibility proof.

According to CoinDesk, the Ethereum research forum has released a new proposal introducing the "validator redirect revenue" mechanism, allowing validators to redirect 0% to 10% of staking rewards to fund ecosystem infrastructure and public goods. If a majority of validators support a certain percentage, that percentage will be enforced for all validators. Based on current staking levels, a redirect of 5% to 10% could bring approximately 50,000 to 70,000 ETH to the ecosystem each year, equivalent to about 120 million dollars.The proposal aims to address the long-standing "free-rider" problem in Ethereum, but it has also raised concerns about the risks of validators jointly manipulating the flow of funds and the misalignment of interests between staking operators and ETH holders. The proposal is currently still in the discussion phase and has not yet entered the formal voting process.

According to the official announcement, Alphabet Inc. (GOOGL) previously announced a cash dividend distribution. Bitget has completed the corresponding dividend distribution based on the amount of rGOOGL held by users at the time of the snapshot, in proportion to their holdings.The snapshot time was June 7 at 20:00 EDT (June 8 at 08:00 Beijing time). Users holding rGOOGL at the time of the snapshot will automatically receive the distribution without any additional action required. The dividend amount is $0.22 per share, which has been distributed to users' accounts in the form of USDT. According to U.S. tax law, the securities custodian will withhold 30% federal withholding tax on dividend income.