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According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the ANET (Arista Networks) stock perpetual contract. This contract is settled in USDT, supports up to 20 times leverage, and is available for trading 24/7. So far, Bitget supports a total of 272 stock perpetual contracts.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, a certain whale went long on 200.8 BTC with 40x leverage on Hyperliquid 1 hour ago, worth approximately $12.75 million, with a liquidation price of $55,380.The trader has made a profit of $1.95 million in the past 30 days.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a certain address (0xb37...a66ca) is using a TWAP strategy to long XYZ100 (Nasdaq 100 Index) with 20x leverage, accumulating a total of 1006.8 XYZ100. Currently, approximately 32 million dollars worth of positions have been executed, corresponding to 1065 shares, with an opening price of 29778 dollars. The remaining portion is still being gradually executed.

According to the Nikkei News, individual investors in the Japanese stock market are accelerating their use of leverage to bet on AI trends. As of July, the amount of credit trading by individual investors in the Japanese stock market reached 123 trillion yen (approximately 1.09 trillion yuan), doubling since the beginning of the year and reaching the highest level since related statistics began in 2016.Data shows that in June, the scale of credit trading by Japanese individual investors hit a historical high, and in July it continued to maintain a high level. At the same time, the proportion of credit trading in the overall trading amount of individual investors rose to 83%, also setting a new record.AI concept stocks have become the main driving force behind the surge in credit trading, among which the credit buy balance of AI storage concept stock Kioxia reached 13.23 million shares as of August 7, making it one of the popular targets.Benefiting from the recent rise in the Japanese stock market, the overall performance of leveraged investors has been decent. The floating yield of credit trading investors briefly turned positive in June, although it fell back to a loss of 8.4% by the end of July, it is still better than the average loss level of the past 10 years (-10.2%).

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain address deposited $153,000 into Hyperliquid after creating a new wallet and went long on 97.92 BTC with 40x leverage, with a position value of $6.22 million and a liquidation price of $62,825.14.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, on June 7, a certain whale borrowed 30,000,000 USDS through circular lending collateralized by ETH and purchased 18,212 ETH at an average price of 1,647 USD.Today, the whale sold 15,993 ETH at a price of 1,889 USD, repaying a loan of 30,200,000 USDS, with a leveraged profit of 4.3 million USD.

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase will open over 170 derivative contracts to eligible professional investors in the UK, covering cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks, and foreign exchange, with perpetual contracts supporting up to 50 times leverage. The services will be gradually rolled out over the coming weeks to months.The products include futures, perpetual contracts, and cryptocurrency options. Perpetual contracts have no expiration date and support long, short, and neutral strategies; fixed-term futures support up to 20 times leverage and have a fixed settlement date. Coinbase previously obtained authorization for investment services in the UK in July, and the related derivatives business will operate under the investment services license of CB Payments Ltd. The first phase is limited to eligible professional investors in the UK, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) will impose requirements on financial soundness, capital, stress testing, and market integrity.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, Hyperliquid trader DoshiAtoll opened a 40x short position of 1,576.23 BTC at 8 AM today, worth 100 million USD, with an opening price of 64,039 USD, and an unrealized profit of 456,000 USD.As of now, the top two positions in Hyperliquid BTC are both short positions.

According to Hyperliquid News monitoring, a certain whale deposited $2.441 million USDC into Hyperliquid a week ago and began shorting Bitcoin.After multiple liquidations, the whale currently holds 1,625 Bitcoin short positions, with a position value of $103.3 million, account equity of $2.432 million, and leverage exceeding 40 times. The whale has also increased position size using unrealized profits. Currently, its liquidation price is 1.12% higher than the current BTC price.

According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will launch the DOSUSDT perpetual contract on August 11, 2026, at 15:00 (UTC), supporting a maximum leverage of 20 times, with USDT as the settlement asset.

According to Websea news, the platform launched gold XAU and silver XAG CFD contracts on August 11, both supporting a maximum leverage of 500 times.Among them, XAU and XAG correspond to the international trading codes for gold and silver, respectively. Users can participate in precious metal price fluctuations through USDT-denominated CFD contracts without actually holding the underlying assets.Websea stated that in the future, it will continue to expand more CFD trading varieties based on market demand, liquidity, and risk assessment. Relevant contract parameters will be dynamically adjusted according to market risk conditions, subject to the platform's announcements.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched U-based DOS perpetual contracts, supporting up to 10x leverage, and contract trading bots will be opened simultaneously. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.

CryptoQuant founder Ki Young Ju posted on the X platform, correcting the previous analysis of CME Bitcoin futures positions, stating that "Total Reportables (large institutional traders)" was mistakenly labeled as "Leveraged Funds," leading to the belief that CME hedge funds rarely turned into net long positions in BTC futures. However, the actual situation is that leveraged funds still maintain net short positions in BTC futures.Ki Young Ju provided CFTC futures position data as of August 4: 1. Large institutional traders overall show a slight net long position, which includes asset management institutions, market makers, dealers, etc. Ki Young Ju stated that although the net long extent is limited, the previous judgment about institutional direction being bullish still holds. 2. Leveraged funds still maintain net short positions in BTC futures, but over the past year, their standard BTC futures net short position has decreased by about 50% (measured in BTC), mainly due to the decline in basis trading returns. When the futures basis returns fell below U.S. Treasury yields, the arbitrage space narrowed. Leveraged funds currently show a net long position in Micro BTC futures, but the scale is small, only about +394 BTC, which is approximately 1% of the standard BTC futures net short position. Ki Young Ju indicated that leveraged funds overall have not yet turned into net long positions, but their long-term structural shorts are clearly weakening, which may reflect the closing of arbitrage trades and adjustments in directional positions.

According to Lookonchain monitoring, several traders have opened BTC positions with high leverage. Four traders have shorted a total of 3,895 BTC, with a position value of 249.4 million USD, and the liquidation prices are 64,600.83 USD, 66,281.28 USD, 66,305.03 USD, and 66,545.09 USD respectively.Two traders have gone long on a total of 1,547 BTC, with a position value of 99.08 million USD, and the liquidation prices are 61,200.15 USD and 61,831.74 USD respectively.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a TWAP order worth $37.93 million at a certain address has been fully executed, going long on 500,000 SOL with 20x leverage, at an opening price of $76.368, currently with an unrealized profit of $160,000.

According to the on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain (@lookonchain), a newly created wallet deposited 3,560,000 USDC into Hyperliquid, opening a long position of 36,000 XMR with 4x leverage, valued at approximately 14,330,000 USD, and set take-profit orders in the range of 475 to 516 USD, with the current XMR price being around 397 USD.

According to official data, Ondo Perps has a total trading volume approaching $7 billion. In addition, the platform now supports traders using tokenized gold and silver as effective capital for collateralizing perpetual futures positions.It is reported that built on Ondo Finance technology, Ondo Perps allows users to directly use tokenized stocks and ETF holdings as margin for perpetual contracts, offering up to 20 times leverage for investors outside the United States. The trading targets include stocks such as Tesla (TSLA), Nvidia (NVDA), Apple (AAPL), as well as commodities like gold and silver.

Retail investors in South Korea are shifting their focus from the growth story of asset management companies to market stability issues in the eyes of regulators, surrounding high-leverage trading of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix.Since their debut on May 27, the first batch of single-stock leveraged products in South Korea has quickly become one of the most crowded trades in the current semiconductor rally of the Korean stock market. Sixteen single-stock ETFs and two ETNs designed around Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix allow investors to make directional bets of about 2 times on a single stock. The launch of these products coincided with the warming of the AI storage cycle, leading to a surge of retail funds into the market, pushing the total assets of the Korean ETF market to a historical high at one point.Winners on the fee side quickly emerged. Estimated by net asset size and fee rates, these single-stock leveraged ETFs generated nearly 3.7 billion won in management fees after about two months of operation. Samsung Asset Management took the lion's share due to the scale advantage and higher fee rates of its KODEX products, while Future Asset offered lower fees to gain market share. Early data from Korean media has shown that Samsung and Future Asset together account for over 90% of the net assets of such products, with liquidity further concentrating on leading products.However, this fee feast has also come with significant side effects. In mid-July, the South Korean Financial Services Commission stated that the market value and trading volume of single-stock leveraged products rose rapidly after their launch, with the weight of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix in KOSPI once reaching 52%. Regulators also pointed out that the volatility of global storage stocks has significantly increased, and the high volatility of individual stocks like SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics, combined with product rebalancing trades, could amplify market shocks.Subsequently, South Korean authorities accelerated the tightening of regulations. Starting from July 31, the minimum margin requirement for individual investors investing in such products was raised from 10 million won to 30 million won, and cash was required to meet this requirement, with alternative securities no longer accepted; regulators also suspended the launch of related new products, restricted advertising, and strengthened spread management and investor education.There are signs that trading enthusiasm has cooled. Data from the Korean Exchange shows that after the introduction of new regulations, the daily trading volume of the 16 related single-stock leveraged/inverse ETFs dropped from about 10 to 12 trillion won (peaking at 15 to 20 trillion won) to around 1 trillion won (on August 3-4), and on August 5, it fell to as low as 919.8 billion won (first time below 1 trillion). There has been a slight rebound recently, with the trading volume of the 16 related ETFs at about 7.45 trillion won on July 27.

Microsoft Threat Intelligence posted on the X platform that a cluster of compromised websites has been found using ClickFix and EtherHiding technologies to spread malware, with attacks targeting thousands of enterprise and consumer devices worldwide every day.Attackers inject Base64 encoded JavaScript to connect to the BNB Smart Chain RPC gateway, obtaining the next stage instructions stored by smart contracts. Since the contract content can only be modified by the deployer's wallet, traditional takedown methods are difficult to counter. The attack deceives users into opening a run dialog box with fake verification codes, pasting clipboard content, and executing commands from the attacker, while also involving the abuse of various system tools such as conhost, cmd, PowerShell, and mshta, as well as command obfuscation techniques. Successful execution may lead to credential exposure, persistence establishment, lateral movement, and even ransomware attacks.Microsoft recommends that enterprises enable Defender's multi-layer protection, restrict command line tools, enable PowerShell script logging, and remind users not to paste commands from unknown sources into the run window or terminal for execution.