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According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will adjust the contract amount of the CRWDUSDT U-based perpetual contract on July 2, 2026, at 08:00. The underlying asset of this contract will undergo a 1-for-4 stock split plan, with the adjustment expected to be completed on the same day at 21:30.During the adjustment period, the contract will be in a suspended state, all pending orders will be canceled, and trading functionality will resume at 21:35.

According to the latest report from Tiger Research, as of June 18, 2026, the number of active job openings in the cryptocurrency industry is only 2,932, a significant decrease of over 97% from the estimated peak of about 130,000 in 2022.The report shows that the wave of layoffs in the cryptocurrency industry continues in the first half of 2026. March was the month with the highest concentration of layoffs, with several companies including Gemini, Crypto.com, Algorand, OP Labs, PIP Labs, and Messari announcing layoffs at the same time. Some companies were acquired at low prices after multiple rounds of layoffs; for example, Messari was acquired by Blockworks for about $10 million in June 2026 after experiencing three rounds of layoffs, while its previous valuation had reached $300 million.In terms of recruitment structure, positions in centralized exchanges (CEX) account for the highest proportion, reaching 30.8% (904 positions), mainly contributed by OKX, Bybit, and Binance. The stablecoin and payment sector accounts for 13.4%, but is highly concentrated in two companies, Tether and Ripple.In addition, the demand for AI skills in job postings continues to rise, with the proportion of cryptocurrency job postings mentioning artificial intelligence skills increasing from 23% in early 2025 to 53.1% in March 2026.

According to CoinDesk, blockchain analysis company Chainalysis has released a new methodological proposal aimed at establishing a unified on-chain fund tracking standard framework for law enforcement agencies and investigators, to identify address clusters and determine their possible control relationships.The proposal defines the on-chain analysis structure in the form of "ontology," focusing on systematically breaking down the currently unstandardized concept of "cluster" in the industry into wallet segments and functional roles, and describing on-chain relationships through a two-layer structure: the first layer defines the transaction graph structure, and the second layer assesses inference confidence.Chainalysis stated that the framework aims to enhance the interpretability and legal applicability of on-chain forensic methods, and is designed and validated based on its practical experience in relevant cases within the U.S. Department of Justice, including the analytical application in the mixing service Bitcoin Fog case.The company's Chief Scientist Jacob Illum pointed out that the goal of the proposal is to answer "on what evidence basis can these addresses be considered to belong to the same entity," while emphasizing that on-chain analysis itself cannot directly identify the ultimate user identity and still requires legal investigative methods combined with centralized entities such as exchanges.Chainalysis indicated that the standard proposal is currently open for discussion within the industry, hoping to promote the formation of more unified technical specifications for on-chain analysis methods in the fields of law enforcement and compliance.

According to official news, USDC issued by Circle will become the first supported stablecoin on the digital asset custody platform of global financial services company BNY, with both parties deepening their cooperation on institutional-grade stablecoin services.BNY clients can now hold USDC in their digital asset custody wallets and instruct Circle to mint USDC from dollars or redeem USDC for dollars, covering the complete lifecycle of institutional stablecoin business.Circle's Chief Business Officer Kash Razzaghi stated that this cooperation is a continuation of the long-term relationship between the two parties, connecting on-chain assets with traditional assets for BNY clients. In the future, both parties plan to expand this capability to more stablecoin issuers and digital cash workflows.

According to CoinGlass data, gold (XAUT) is currently priced at $4042.66, with a 24-hour decline of approximately 0.68%. The total contract open interest for XAUT across the network in the last 24 hours reached $525 million, with the Gate platform's open interest exceeding $114 million, ranking third in the entire network.

According to Decrypt, the Ukrainian prosecutor's office has for the first time transferred seized cryptocurrency assets to the state asset management agency ARMA, with over 8.3 million USDT moved to its custody wallet.The funds come from the wallet of a suspected member of an international hacking group, which has been accused of carrying out ransomware attacks and data theft against businesses and individuals in Europe and the United States, and laundering money in Ukraine through the purchase of real estate and vehicles, causing losses of over 100 million dollars. Currently, four suspects have been detained, with assets worth over 11.1 million dollars seized, including real estate, vehicles, approximately 1 million dollars in cash, and cryptocurrency assets. This takeover by ARMA marks the first custody case involving digital assets following its reforms in 2025 to enhance the transparency of asset management related to criminal cases.

According to Bloomberg, the Singapore International Commercial Court ruled that Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon committed fraud in a case related to the 2022 TerraUSD stablecoin collapse, and ordered them to pay over $3 million to 40 claimants.This ruling is part of the second phase of a case involving claims from 275 investors, with the compensation amount calculated based on the number of UST held by the claimants and the duration of their holdings.

According to a report by 21 Finance, Huang Zhenxin, the head of Kimi B-end at Moonshot AI, stated in a recent communication meeting that there is indeed a bubble in the current AI industry, but the fundamentals are very solid. Enterprises can now clearly calculate the return on investment (ROI), and the substantial transformation in productivity brought by AI has already occurred.Regarding the recent phenomenon of widespread price increases among model vendors, Huang Zhenxin pointed out that the core reason lies in the rising global computing power costs, and chip production capacity cannot meet the explosive growth in Token demand. He emphasized that evaluating the cost-performance ratio of models should not only look at the unit price of input and output but should also focus on the Cache hit rate. It is reported that Kimi's original factory Cache hit rate has reached over 90%, significantly reducing actual computing costs.In addition, Huang Zhenxin revealed that Kimi will continue to challenge innovations in underlying architecture to sustain the Scaling Law, and its Muon optimizer, which has been validated on a large scale, is now widely adopted by several mainstream large models in the industry. Regarding the "last mile" of enterprise AI implementation, he believes that as the foundational capabilities of models continue to strengthen, the technical paradigms at the application layer will also continue to simplify.

According to Reuters, the Austrian government has proposed that the EU consider bringing the AI company Anthropic into its territory to address the U.S. restrictions on foreign users accessing advanced AI models.In an open letter to the EU Commissioner for Technology, Austrian Secretary of State for Digitalization Alexander Proell called on the EU to jointly explore Anthropic's strategic layout and participation in Europe, and to provide it with legal protection, market access, and capital support. He emphasized that Europe must ensure it is not excluded from major technological innovations and strive to become the architect of the technological future rather than a passive recipient.It is reported that the European Commission proposed relevant legislation earlier this month aimed at boosting the local cloud computing, AI, and semiconductor industries to reduce dependence on U.S. tech giants. Currently, Anthropic has not responded to this proposal.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua posted that the current Bitcoin trend represents the third wave of decline since the peak of 1011. According to volatility theory and cyclical patterns, this may be the final major drop.Yi Lihua pointed out that the main influencing factors for this round of decline include the performance of the U.S. stock market and Strategy, while closely monitoring the Federal Reserve's response to CPI data to see if it will change interest rate cut or hike expectations, which could trigger a continued pullback in the U.S. stock market. Additionally, black swan or explosive events often occur at the tail end of past bear markets, which have not yet appeared and still require ongoing observation.He believes that based on Bitcoin's peak of $126,000, a 60% drop would bring it down to about $51,000, and a 66% drop would bring it down to about $43,000. Regardless of where the final bottom lies, July and August may be the last bottoming area of this cycle and the most noteworthy time window for bottom fishing in the next three years.

Jupiter Strategic Reserve Trust, Jupiter Litterbox Trust, increased its holdings by 177,570 JUP yesterday, worth approximately $39,000. This month, it has accumulated purchases of 13,346,232 JUP, worth about $2.93 million. So far, its total purchases amount to 142,703,464 JUP, worth approximately $31.4 million.Jupiter Strategic Reserve Trust is the official on-chain treasury fund of Jupiter, automatically transferring 50% of the revenue from the Jupiter protocol, continuously buying and holding JUP tokens in the open market through smart contracts, and is often humorously referred to by the community as the "Litterbox Trust."

According to the latest disclosure by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Musk has obtained antitrust approval for the acquisition of the optical network startup Mesh Optical Technologies, which means the FTC has completed a rapid antitrust review and will not challenge the transaction on competitive grounds, clearing a major regulatory hurdle for the advancement of the deal. However, it has not yet been disclosed whether the transaction has been signed or completed.Mesh was founded by former SpaceX engineers, and its core product is optical transceivers for AI data centers, which can improve energy efficiency, reduce latency, and enhance reliability compared to traditional network hardware, in order to meet the demand for millions of optical connections brought about by the growth of AI computing clusters. The founding team was involved in the development of the laser communication system for SpaceX's Starlink satellite network and plans to deploy optical communication technology into space in the future, adapting to the inter-satellite laser communication needs of orbital data centers and AI satellite networks. The company completed over $50 million in financing led by Thrive Capital in February of this year.Acquiring Mesh is one of SpaceX's initiatives to strengthen the competitiveness of large-scale computing clusters. Currently, SpaceX has listed AI computing power as a core business segment, and its xAI has been operating a total of approximately 1GW computing power with the Colossus and Colossus II training clusters, making it the first company to deploy coherent gigawatt-level AI training clusters; among them, Colossus II will add over 400MW of computing power and introduce over 220,000 GB300 chips. It has signed computing power cooperation agreements with Anthropic, Google, Reflection AI, and others, directly competing with large-scale cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. This year, SpaceX has also reached a Terafab chip manufacturing plan with Tesla and Intel, extending its vertical integration capabilities in chip design and manufacturing.In the past week, SpaceX's stock price ended its upward trend, closing at $153.23 per share, down over 32% from its peak of $225.64 per share.

According to official news, OpenAI has officially launched the preview version of the next-generation GPT-5.6 series models, including the flagship model Sol, the balanced model Terra, and the fast low-cost model Luna. GPT-5.6 introduces a brand new maximum reasoning effort and features a super strong mode that accelerates complex tasks through sub-agents.The flagship model Sol introduces the Ultra mode, which combines maximum reasoning intensity with sub-agent collaboration. In the Terminal-Bench 2.1 command line workflow test, Sol achieved a score of 88.8%, which increased to 91.9% in Ultra mode, surpassing GPT-5.5's 83.4% and Claude Fable 5's 88.0%. The mid-range model Terra performs close to GPT-5.5 while being priced at half, and the lightest model Luna is designed specifically for everyday automation tasks. Sol is priced at $5 per million input tokens and $30 for output, and it supports reducing secondary call costs by utilizing prompt caching.In terms of security, the security assessment confirmed that Sol did not exceed the critical thresholds of the Preparedness Framework cybersecurity. OpenAI has invested over 700,000 A100 equivalent GPU hours in automated red team exercises, equipping the entire series of models with a defense stack that includes rejection mechanisms, real-time abuse classifiers, and account-level audits. Although the current limited release follows the U.S. government's security framework, OpenAI emphasizes that it does not want a government-led access mechanism to become the long-term default model, as it would limit defenders' access to cutting-edge tools.

The decentralized trading platform Oxium on the Sei network announced that it will gradually cease operations.The team stated that due to the long-term adverse market environment, the platform's revenue can no longer support ongoing operations, and therefore, they have decided to shut down related services. Among them, the Oxium front-end interface will officially go offline on August 1, 2026.Oxium reminds users to cancel any unfilled orders, close existing positions, and withdraw assets in a timely manner before the interface shuts down.The team also emphasized that user assets are always controlled by the users themselves and are not held on the platform. Even after the front-end interface is closed, users can still access and retrieve their funds directly through smart contracts.

Tether's investment in Hyperliquid's mobile interface and the non-custodial trading platform Dreamcash announced that it will gradually shut down its CASH perpetual contract market based on Hyperliquid HIP-3, while retaining the non-custodial trading application.All CASH markets will be settled sequentially according to a preset schedule from June 30 to July 2, and positions will be automatically closed at settlement based on external oracle prices, with the funding rate set to 0 during this period.

According to Cointelegraph, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced an extension of the temporary enforcement exemption period for digital asset businesses applying for an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license until September 30, 2026, extending the previous deadline of June 30 by three months.This extension also broadens the scope of the exemption, including digital asset businesses operating through authorized representatives or arrangements with licensed company intermediaries in the transitional protection period. ASIC stated that since the update of the digital asset regulatory guidelines in October 2025, approximately 30 license applications have been received.It is noteworthy that this extension is independent of Australia's "Digital Asset Framework," which was passed by Parliament in April this year and is scheduled to officially take effect on April 9, 2027. ASIC warned that businesses licensed under the current guidelines may still need to obtain additional authorizations after the new framework is implemented.

According to the official announcement, Gate has optimized and upgraded the VIP level evaluation rules. Starting today, Polymarket trading volume and asset holdings will officially be included in the VIP level evaluation system. This adjustment further broadens the VIP upgrade path, allowing Polymarket trading users to fully enjoy the level growth and exclusive rights brought by trading activities and asset holdings.It is reported that Gate continues to improve the VIP exclusive rights ecosystem, creating a high-end service system around multiple dimensions such as trading, wealth management, and lifestyle. Recently, the platform has successively launched VIP exclusive airdrop activities for whiskey, gold jewelry, and more, as well as providing exclusive financial products, higher-level income rights, and diversified benefits such as sports event viewing and invitations to offline activities.Gate will continue to organize VIP users to watch events at Inter Milan and F1 venues, experiencing exclusive hospitality and the atmosphere of top-tier events, creating a richer exclusive experience for high-level users.

According to Gate market data, the US stock semiconductor sector performed strongly, with Micron Technology (MU) rising 15.93% during the day and SanDisk (SNDK) increasing by 21.69%. CoinGlass data shows that the contract market for MU and SNDK is active, with the Gate platform having a MU contract open interest of approximately $12.2 million and a 24-hour trading volume of about $55.85 million; the SNDK contract has an open interest of approximately $11.03 million and a 24-hour trading volume of about $61.21 million, both indicators ranking among the top in the industry.

According to the Financial Times, due to the failure to obtain a license under the EU's Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, Binance will stop providing services to certain customers in the EU starting next week and has notified customers in Poland, Italy, Spain, and France to withdraw their funds.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the market Polymarket. A large whale invested $234,000 in a single bet on "Australia" in the event "Paraguay vs. Australia." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding win rate for this bet is 78%.