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According to Jinshi reports, the United States is considering charging foreign students who wish to work after graduation a fee of $100,000.

According to official news, Websea has completed a major upgrade of the contract insurance airdrop rules on July 30, 2026. After the upgrade, the insurance α pool will airdrop a fixed amount of 1 USDT for new nodes each period, and the insurance β pool will airdrop a fixed amount of 0.7 USDT for new nodes each period, with a maximum of 100 airdrops for both pools, and the total amount is fixed and transparent.Websea's contract insurance aims to provide an additional risk buffer for every opening position, helping users reduce risk concerns amid fluctuations in the derivatives market. This upgrade focuses on simplifying the rules and enhancing transparency, allowing users to calculate the amount for each period, the number of airdrops, and the total cumulative amount in advance, without facing fluctuating variables.

Hyperscale Data GPUS announced that it has sold 100 bitcoins to fund the construction of its AI data center in Michigan. CEO William Horne stated that this is "converting one balance sheet asset into another" and clarified that his confidence in BTC has not changed. Its Bitcoin 100 ranking is 44th.

According to Aave founder Stani Kulechov, after completing a comprehensive review, Aave will gradually phase out 50 low adoption rate asset reserves across multiple deployment environments and orderly stop deployments on Sonic, Scroll, zkSync, Metis, Soneium, and Aptos, involving an additional 25 asset reserves.In addition, 21 expired Pendle PT assets will also be eliminated and replaced by new expiring assets. This adjustment involves approximately $98.1 million in supply assets and $15.6 million in debt. Stani stated that this move aims to reduce the economic and technical risks of the protocol based on the new Aave risk framework and technical asset listing framework, and Aave will continue to assess the risks of assets in each deployment environment.

Microsoft released its Q4 fiscal year 2026 financial report, with revenue of $90 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18%, exceeding market expectations of $87.7 billion; adjusted earnings per share of $4.74, a year-on-year increase of 23%, which is 11.5% higher than expected; operating profit of $40.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18%. Intelligent cloud revenue was $39.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 32%, with Azure and other cloud services revenue growing by 43%, significantly higher than the market expectation of 39.6%. Total revenue from Microsoft Cloud was $59.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27%. CEO Satya Nadella disclosed that Azure's annual revenue has surpassed $100 billion for the first time, and paid users of Microsoft 365 Copilot exceeded 30 million.In terms of capital expenditure, the fourth quarter's property and equipment acquisition expenditure was $35.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of approximately 110%; total capital expenditure including finance leases was $41 billion, a year-on-year increase of 70%, but lower than the market expectation of $42.5 billion. The remaining performance obligations (RPO) for cloud business surged 84% year-on-year to $678 billion, about twice the annual revenue. Microsoft disclosed in a regulatory filing that new unexecuted data center lease commitments in the fourth quarter exceeded $130 billion, with the total unexecuted lease commitments increasing by 67.4% quarter-on-quarter to $329.1 billion. Annual revenue was $331.8 billion, a year-on-year increase of 18%; net profit was $133.7 billion, a year-on-year increase of 31% (GAAP).

According to Jinshi reports, Musk stated that if Starship can achieve instant and complete reusability, and local production of liquid oxygen and liquid methane, its launch cost will drop to far below $100 per kilogram.

According to Jinshi reports, OpenAI announced that it will provide free access to cutting-edge models for 100,000 researchers.

ChianCatcher news, Solana officially announced that the mainnet has launched 100M CU blocks. SIMD-0286 increases the block computing unit limit from 60M to 100M, with a capacity increase of 66%.The official stated that about 1/9 of the blocks were operating close to full capacity during peak on-chain activity in the past year, and 100M CU provides more space for the network. This move is just the first step, and subsequent upgrades such as Alpenglow and 200ms slot time will be promoted.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index futures and Nasdaq 100 index futures have shown a downward trend.

According to official news, the decentralized all-asset trading platform Vanta will launch a trading competition with a total prize pool of 100,000 USDC at 16:00 on July 30. During the event, users can participate in the USDC reward distribution based on their trading volume. In addition, users participating in this trading competition can also simultaneously participate in Vanta's weekly points rewards.It is reported that Vanta was founded by core executives from leading trading platforms such as Bitget and OKX, and is a one-stop all-asset trading platform that combines CEX-level trading experience, self-custody, and on-chain transparency. Currently, the platform covers asset categories including cryptocurrency, stocks, gold, foreign exchange, commodities, and indices, and has launched Smart Trading and AI trading assistance features.Vanta officially opened to all users on July 16, and since the platform's launch, the cumulative trading volume has exceeded 300 million dollars. Currently, Vanta is continuously advancing its global market layout and is building localized teams in multiple countries.

Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE) company Zama CEO Rand Hindi stated on X on Monday that the company has achieved benchmark results of 1,000 confidential transactions per second on GPUs, an increase of about 5,000 times compared to the 0.2 transactions per second demonstrated at ETHcc in 2022. Hindi mentioned that the cost of running an FHE node is approximately $0.000004 per ERC7984 transaction, significantly lower than zero-knowledge proofs, but this comparison has not been independently verified. The benchmark has not yet been activated on any mainnet, is self-reported data from the company, and the testing methods have not been published, with plans to go live by the end of the year.Hindi also set long-term goals: 10,000 tps by 2028 and 100,000 tps by 2030. Zama has been active recently: on July 24, a confidential RFQ exchange product was launched, which within weeks shielded over $121 million USDT on Ethereum, collaborated with Elliptic to enhance compliance screening for confidential transactions, and co-founded the Confidential Token Association with OpenZeppelin and Inco to standardize encrypted ERC-20 tokens. Zama previously completed a $57 million Series B funding round.

According to on-chain analysts, a wallet suspected to be associated with a16z (0xb5E...c24e) has withdrawn a total of 132,056.65 HYPE from various exchanges in the past 8 hours, worth 7.335 million dollars, with an average withdrawal price of 55.54 dollars.Since July 15, the same address has transferred a total of 398,000 HYPE to exchanges, approximately 24.89 million dollars.

According to TenArmorAlert monitoring, its system detected a suspicious attack involving the LULA token on the BSC chain, resulting in a loss of approximately $578,100.

Coursera (NYSE: COUR) announced a strategic equity investment of $100 million in LearnVector, an AI-native learning company newly founded by its co-founder Andrew Ng. This investment gives Coursera approximately one-third equity in LearnVector, corresponding to a company valuation of about $300 million.LearnVector was founded by Andrew Ng, who serves as CEO, and is positioned as an AI education startup aimed at white-collar workers. The core goal is to create a one-on-one personalized learning experience using agent AI, shifting from traditional "one-to-many" teaching to "one-to-one" exclusive tutoring. The AI agent will plan personalized paths for each learner, adapt to their learning styles, and provide continuous support until they truly master the skills. The first batch of courses is expected to launch in early 2027, and the transaction has been unanimously approved by Coursera's independent board special committee.

According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index has turned positive, and the decline of the Nasdaq 100 index has narrowed to 1.1%.

According to crypto user @HowardLouisHL, on June 30, 2026, he deposited 100,000 USDT into Ourbit and engaged in normal trading for about a week. On July 4, when he attempted to withdraw to Binance, the system prohibited the transaction. Customer service only replied, "Triggered risk control," without specifying the exact reason. The next day, the user's account was restricted from logging in. After being forced to submit all identity and account information, on July 20, he received an official email from Ourbit stating that the review had been postponed to July 3, 2027, and declared that "it may be extended again without reason."The user made three demands: to publicly disclose the specific risk control reasons, to provide a clear timeline for handling, and to immediately unfreeze and return the 100,000 USDT.As of now, Ourbit has not issued a public response regarding this incident.

SolanaFloor posted on platform X that Solana plans to increase the mainnet block compute limit from 60,000,000 CU to 100,000,000 CU in less than 24 hours, an increase of about 66%.The related upgrade SIMD-0286 is expected to be activated at the start of Epoch 1009.

Michael Saylor stated that the repurchase funds for STRC will not come from dollar reserves, but will be raised by selling MSTR stock and Bitcoin based on market conditions.The goal is to drive STRC to trade near the $100 level while maintaining high liquidity, low volatility, and healthy, sustainable independent demand. At the same time, the company will not issue STRC at a price below $100.

According to official news, the total subscription amount for Gate GUSD has reached 217 million USD. The Gate GUSD current US Treasury product has been fully upgraded, allowing users holding GUSD to enjoy an annualized yield of 3.8%, with support for deposits and withdrawals at any time, and earnings distributed daily to the spot account or trading account. New users participating in the GUSD current US Treasury subscription can also enjoy a limited-time annualized yield of 100%. The GUSD current US Treasury supports subscriptions in USDT, USDC, and USD1, allowing users to obtain GUSD at a 1:1 exchange rate, and simultaneously enjoy the corresponding product earnings and GUSD current US Treasury earnings while participating in products like Launchpool and Pre-IPOs.In addition, Gate's 367th ANTFUN Launchpool is currently ongoing, where users can participate in staking using USDT, GUSD, or ANTFUN to share a reward of 3,756,574 ANTFUN. The current total amount of GUSD liquid staking is close to 50 million, with the GUSD pool APR at 4.09%. After adding the GUSD subscription earnings, the estimated combined APR reaches 7.89%. Additionally, the estimated annualized yield for the USDT pool liquid staking pool is 5.55%, and the estimated annualized yield for the ANTFUN exclusive staking pool is 87.20%.Gate has launched a no-loss quick redemption feature for GUSD. Users can redeem GUSD minted with USDT, USDC, or USD1 within the no-loss exit limit of the corresponding currency, enjoying real-time 1:1 crediting of the original currency without redemption fees, achieving a balance between earning income and flexible allocation of funds.

GLC Research stated on X that Hyperliquid's "priority fee" mechanism has achieved great success, having generated over $5 million in revenue to date.Based on the average levels over 14 days and 30 days, the annualized buyback scale supported by this revenue has exceeded $30 million, accounting for about 7% of HYPE's total revenue. Considering that the "priority fee" is still in a very early stage, this figure is expected to continue to grow, with the annualized scale of this revenue likely to reach between $50 million and $100 million by the end of the year.