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According to Santiment data, Chainlink (LINK) whale activity has significantly increased, with 246 large transactions of over $100,000 in LINK occurring within 24 hours, marking the highest single-day level in five months. Meanwhile, wallets holding between 100,000 and 10 million LINK currently hold approximately 466.3 million LINK in total, accounting for 46.57% of the total supply, indicating that this round of whale activity is accompanied by a balance increase.Santiment points out that Chainlink is continuously expanding in areas such as CCIP, tokenized assets, stablecoins, institutional data, and new cross-chain channels, with official metrics still positioning the network as the core oracle infrastructure for on-chain finance.

According to Jinshi reports, the survey shows that business activity in the Eurozone rose to its highest level in eight months in July, driven by a recovery in the services sector and ongoing improvements in manufacturing.The S&P Global Eurozone Composite PMI rose to 52 in July, above the neutral level of 50 in June, marking the first time this index has entered the expansion zone since March.The Eurozone Services PMI rose to 51.7 in July, reaching a five-month high, up from 49.4 in June.

Cryptoquant released a report stating that on July 31, as Coldcard users rushed to transfer funds, on-chain activity surged dramatically. The number of daily active Bitcoin addresses soared from 645,000 on July 30 to nearly 1 million, the highest level since December 10, 2024, almost entirely driven by sending addresses. The total amount of transfers below 1 BTC on that day reached 39,600 BTC, slightly below the 39,900 BTC recorded after the FTX collapse; the total amount of transfers below $100,000 reached $3.2 billion, a new high since November 21, 2024.Long-term holder spending jumped from 269,000 BTC on July 30 to 406,000 BTC, the highest since January 14. The exchange recharge volume for small holders surged to the highest level since February 6. The mempool transactions increased from 33,000 to about 96,000, the highest since June 20. Analysis indicates that a large number of users have taken action to migrate funds, but an unknown number of holders still face risks.

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.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD, in collaboration with Gate DEX, has launched a new dual-chain bonus yield activity, which will last until August 29 at 18:00 (Singapore time). Participants on the Ethereum chain can earn a current base annual yield of 4% and share an additional reward of 20,000 USDD; participants on the BNB network, in addition to enjoying the same base yield, can also share a reward of 30,000 USDD and a special yield bonus provided by Gate DEX.Users can enter the Gate DEX yield section and participate in the stablecoin bonus activity page by following the path "USDT to USDD, then stake as sUSDD." Rewards will be calculated in real-time based on the staking share. Users who participated in the previous activity do not need to take further action and will automatically connect to this activity; new users need to prepare enough ETH or BNB in advance to pay for on-chain transaction fees.

According to Jinshi reports, the Federal Reserve reiterated in the FOMC statement that economic activity is expanding at a robust pace.

LayerZero announced on platform X that it will gradually cease off-chain support for 20 low-activity blockchains, and the DVN and Executor services for the related networks will be taken offline successively.The official reminder states that users holding related Stargate assets must complete cross-chain migration before the deadline.

According to the Bitwise "Q3 2026 Staking Report," Q2 2026 presents a divergent pattern of "increased on-chain activity and decreased fee revenue," with the core driving factor being various protocols actively reducing block space costs.In terms of core data across chains, Ethereum's active staking volume reached a historic high of 40.2 million ETH (accounting for 33% of the total supply), while network revenue decreased by 51% year-on-year to $64 million, although it rebounded in ETH terms quarter-on-quarter; Solana's Q2 Real Economic Value (REV) dropped to $51 million, significantly down from the peak of $812 million in Q1 2025, but non-voting transaction volume reached 9.8 billion, maintaining resilience in on-chain activity; Hyperliquid's Q2 total protocol revenue was $174.8 million, with perpetual contract trading volume reaching $65.2 billion, and the proportion of non-crypto assets (commodities, stock indices, etc.) rose to 32%; Avalanche C chain's transaction volume grew approximately fourfold year-on-year to 236 million transactions, but network revenue plummeted due to a significant drop in fees, leaving only $330,000; NEAR saw a dramatic 75% drop in on-chain transaction volume to 77.7 million transactions due to the collapse of Kai-Ching application activity, but the Intents execution layer generated fees approximately 68 times that of the base chain.In terms of institutional adoption, BlackRock launched an Ethereum staking ETF (ETHB), Coinbase and Circle each staked 500,000 HYPE, and Bitwise, 21Shares, and Grayscale successively launched HYPE spot ETFs. Additionally, the stablecoin payment chain Tempo, incubated by Stripe and Paradigm, processed $386 million in transfers in its first quarter, while the global payroll platform Deel distributed approximately $30 million to 7,200 contractors through this chain.

Moonshot tweeted a reminder that some users received a phishing email with the subject "View Recent Activities." This email did not come from Moonshot, and no signs of account compromise have been found so far. The official team is investigating this matter.Moonshot advises users to delete the email and not to click on any links. If you have clicked on a link or entered a verification code, please contact the official support through the in-app support.

Trader Ansem stated that he has bought PUMP around the old support level of 0.001675, with the main logic being that pump.fun can still achieve monthly revenues of about 30 to 40 million dollars during the bear market.He believes that if Solana dominates retail on-chain trading activities again in this cycle, pump.fun is likely to become one of the beneficiaries.

According to official news, the decentralized derivatives trading platform Aster has announced the launch of spot trading for tokenized stock $SKHYB, and today it has started a week-long position and trading activity, sharing a prize pool of $15,000 in $SKHYB.According to the activity announcement, the Aster platform now supports bStocks assets as collateral for perpetual contracts. After enabling multi-asset mode, users can convert the deposited $SKHYB into collateral assets at up to 90% of market value. This means users can participate in trading in any perpetual contract market without having to sell the underlying stocks, aiming to leverage the advantages of multi-asset margin to effectively enhance users' capital utilization efficiency.It is reported that bStocks are tokenized securities issued by BTECH Holdings, which achieve a 1:1 peg with the underlying stock assets held by regulated custodians.

According to the latest "Bitcoin Weekly Market Pulse" report published by glassnode, although BTC has rebounded after a recent sell-off, this round of increase is still closer to a "volume contraction recovery." The report shows that the weekly spot trading volume decreased by 21.5% to $4.1 billion, and the spot CVD turned from positive to negative at -$58.8 million, indicating that the breadth of market buying remains weak.In terms of institutional funds, the weekly net inflow of the US spot BTC ETF has recovered to $161.3 million, but ETF trading volume still decreased by 11.97% to $8.4 billion. On-chain data shows that the number of active addresses decreased by 7.6% to 599,000, on-chain transfer volume decreased by 16.1% to $4 billion, and total fees decreased by 13.9% to $168,400, indicating that on-chain activity continues to weaken.In terms of derivatives, the futures funding rate increased by 13.4% to $1.9 million, but the perpetual contract CVD plummeted by 81.7% to $83.9 million; at the same time, the options market 25-Delta Skew rose to 18.87%, indicating that investors still maintain strong demand for downside protection during the rebound process.

B.AI officially launched the "B.AI x WebX 2026 Treasure Hunt" welfare event and confirmed its participation in the WebX 2026 conference held in Tokyo, Japan, accelerating the advancement of its AGI global footprint. To celebrate this debut in Japan, the official interactive lottery event will be live from July 9 to July 15. Participants can follow the official account (@BAI_AGI), retweet the post, and write down one thing they most want to achieve with B.AI, adding the #BAIWebXJapan tag and @ three friends to share a base prize pool of 100 USDT; if the number of participants exceeds 500, the total prize pool will upgrade to 300 USDT. Additionally, during the WebX conference, B.AI will also present more exciting content around AI Credits and offline interactions, locking in exclusive benefits for global ecosystem builders ahead of the conference kickoff.

The Robinhood Chain ecosystem has recently experienced explosive growth. The first meme coin on the chain, Cash Cat, has a market capitalization exceeding 100 million USD, and the daily trading volume on the DEX has surpassed 560 million USD.The number of daily active addresses on the chain is approaching 200,000, with over 140,000 being new addresses for first-time transactions, indicating a large influx of new users. In terms of token issuance, nearly 16,000 new tokens were created in a single day, and currently, there are 7 meme coins on the Robinhood Chain with a market capitalization exceeding 1 million USD.

The decentralized stablecoin USDD announces that the TRON DeFi Summer officially begins. It has launched the Summer Earning Program in collaboration with Binance Wallet and JustLend DAO. This event will run from now until August 5 at 07:59 (Singapore time), and participating users can share a total reward of $900,000.Among them, users who complete designated deposits or subscribe to specified activity treasury assets through Binance Wallet can share a total value of $300,000 TRX exclusive airdrop; by subscribing to USDD through JustLend DAO, in addition to enjoying the basic APY, they can also participate in sharing a $600,000 USDD prize pool.It is reported that the official has released a beginner's participation tutorial and provided a full gas fee subsidy for the event to encourage user participation, with the current total yield rate at approximately 14.27%.

According to defillama data, recently, the trading activity of Meme tokens such as ANSEM on the Solana chain, TCC, and CZ on the BNB Chain has driven an increase in the activity of the Solana and BNB Chain public chains. Solana has risen to the top position in public chain activity over the past 7 days, with approximately 31.385 million active addresses, a surge of 38% in active addresses over the past week.The 7-day trading volume reported is $13.63 billion, with 685 million transactions, generating $4.06 million in fees, an increase of 70% year-on-year. The public chain's 7-day revenue is $422,500, an increase of 21% year-on-year. The total value locked (TVL) on the Solana chain is currently reported at $24.78 billion, an increase of 3.9% over 7 days. The BNB Chain has approximately 8.3 million active addresses over the past 7 days, with 96.7 million transactions, an increase of 3.5% year-on-year, generating $182,000 in fees. The trading volume on the BNB Chain has increased by 45% in the past 24 hours, rising from $240 million to $350 million.

According to CoinGlass data, BTC is currently priced at $62,610.3, with a total spot trading volume of approximately $5.002 billion across the network. Gate's BTC spot trading volume is about $779 million, ranking third in the entire network.As for ETH, it is currently priced at $1,663.94, with a total spot trading volume of approximately $1.953 billion across the network. Among them, Gate's ETH spot trading volume is about $293 million, also ranking third in the entire network. Meanwhile, the total contract trading volume for ETH across the network is approximately $39.708 billion, with Gate's ETH contract trading volume at about $4.632 billion, similarly ranking third in the entire network.Overall, Gate continues to rank at the forefront of the market in key trading indicators such as BTC spot, ETH spot, and ETH contracts, demonstrating strong trading depth and liquidity performance.

According to Decrypt, CryptoQuant data shows that despite Bitcoin's price dropping nearly 50% from its historical peak, network activity continues to rise, recently reaching its highest level since the end of 2024, only 7% lower than the historical peak in September 2024. Analysis points out that this is the first sustained activity above the trend line since mid-2024, contrasting sharply with the bearish price trend of Bitcoin.However, while activity is growing, the economic value of transactions is significantly low. Transactions of less than 0.01 BTC and less than 0.001 BTC have increased from 44% in 2023 to about 80%. CryptoQuant considers this a sign of "protocol-driven activity": high transaction volume but low individual value.The usage of OP_RETURN also surged to near historical highs in 2026, involving applications such as Bitcoin NFT activity and timestamp services. Bitcoin's price has dropped 17% over the past 30 days, currently around $63,865.

The second round of the World Cup group stage schedule is halfway through, with some teams having already secured or are close to securing qualification, while several teams still need to determine their fate in the third round. In today's matches, Spain defeated Saudi Arabia 4-0, Belgium drew 0-0 with Iran, Uruguay drew 2-2 with Cape Verde, and New Zealand lost 1-3 to Egypt. As the group stage enters a critical phase, situations where the pre-match high probability directions do not materialize are still frequently occurring, further amplifying the risk of unilateral positions for prediction market users.Base's native leverage prediction market OmenX officially launched the World Cup Hedge to Earn airdrop event today, currently distributing hedge positions to all Polymarket users with positions. After users connect their Polymarket wallets, OmenX will identify their eligible positions; if there are relevant events on the platform, corresponding hedge positions will be issued; if there are no matching relevant events, recommended position airdrops will be provided to help users experience hedging and position management.OmenX stated that Hedge to Earn aims to help prediction market users transition from "unilateral prediction" to "position management." For high-volatility events like the World Cup, users can obtain hedging rewards through OmenX, adding a layer of risk buffer to their existing Polymarket positions.