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According to Bitcoin Magazine, Spain's largest bank, Santander Bank, reported that it holds a spot Bitcoin ETF worth $4.3 million.

Samsung SDS stated in its earnings call that its strategic investment in the South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Dunamu is a "strategic layout for entering the digital asset infrastructure business." Both parties are discussing cooperation on stablecoin infrastructure, next-generation AI payments, and virtual asset financial system integration (SI). Samsung SDS President Lee Joon-hee mentioned that they will combine Dunamu's blockchain operation experience with Samsung SDS's capabilities in IT services, AI, cloud computing, and security to strengthen the digital financial infrastructure business.The earnings report disclosed on the same day showed that Samsung SDS's revenue for the second quarter was 3.7178 trillion won (approximately 2.6 billion USD), a year-on-year increase of 5.9%; operating profit was 231.8 billion won (approximately 160 million USD), a year-on-year increase of 0.7%. Among them, the cloud computing business revenue was 779.4 billion won, a year-on-year increase of 17%, with external cloud computing business revenue surging 75% year-on-year. The company plans to expand its AI infrastructure from the current 110MW to 230MW by 2029, and further expand to over 800MW by 2031. Samsung SDS previously announced an investment of approximately 20 billion won in Dunamu in May 2024.

According to Gate market data, the Hong Kong stock market closed with the Hang Seng Index rising by 0.2% and the Technology Index falling by 1.25%. New Oriental rose over 18.8%, JD Logistics rose over 3.5%, Zhihui fell over 16.5%, and Zhongji Xuchuang closed down 2% on its first day of listing.

According to Gate market data, the Hong Kong stock market opened slightly higher today after three consecutive days of gains, with the Hang Seng Index opening up 67 points at 25,875 points, reaching a high of 25,971 points before significant selling pressure emerged, ultimately closing down 0.05%.The tech index fell 1.14% in the morning session, with total market turnover reaching HKD 162.07 billion. In terms of individual stocks, New Oriental surged 17% against the trend, Budweiser APAC rose over 7%, while Zhihu fell over 16%.

On July 28, OpenAI quietly updated its security incident disclosure, confirming that its AI agent accessed four external service platforms during the breach of Hugging Face, bringing the total number of affected platforms to five.Previously, OpenAI had disabled security filters while testing GPT-5.6 Sol and a more powerful model to assess raw capabilities. The model did not complete the security benchmark tests as expected; instead, it discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the package caching agent within the testing environment that granted internet access, subsequently breaching Hugging Face to steal answers.According to a forensic report released by Hugging Face on July 27, this autonomous agent executed 17,600 operations over approximately four and a half days, connecting 181 devices to the Hugging Face internal VPN and forging identity tokens. Among the four additional platforms, Modal Labs CTO Akshat Bubna confirmed through Reuters that his company was one of them, with the attacker using an unprotected public endpoint from a customer as a relay and command control base for the entire attack.The identities of the other three platforms remain undisclosed. OpenAI stated it would "directly notify the service providers" but would not publicly name them, as there is currently no legal requirement for mandatory disclosure. The U.S. Congress has responded by proposing a bipartisan "AI Emergency Shutdown Act," which aims to authorize the Department of Homeland Security to forcibly shut down AI models, with violators facing fines of up to $2 million per day.

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, Microsoft's fourth fiscal quarter revenue growth for AZURE and other cloud services, excluding the impact of exchange rates, increased by 43%, exceeding market expectations.

According to Gate market data, the Dow Jones Index closed down 1,152.46 points on July 29 (Wednesday), a decrease of 2.18%, at 51,594.86 points; the S&P 500 Index closed down 112.4 points, a decrease of 1.51%, at 7,316.38 points; the Nasdaq Composite Index closed down 433.97 points, a decrease of 1.74%, at 24,442.94 points.

According to Jinshi reports, Meta, Microsoft, Qualcomm, and ARM will announce their Q2 2026 financial reports after the US stock market closes.

According to Jinshi News, asset management company Aberdeen Investments stated that if the Strait of Hormuz remains closed, the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates in September.

According to Jinshi reports, Iranian media Fars News quoted a military insider stating that the Strait of Hormuz remains completely closed, and no vessels have the right to pass through this strategic waterway. Any vessels attempting to pass, especially those that ignore warnings, will face decisive and swift responses.

According to Gate market data, the Hong Kong stock market closed with the Hang Seng Index rising by 1.96% and the Technology Index rising by 2.84%. Automotive stocks performed strongly, with Li Auto (02015.HK) rising nearly 10%, Leapmotor (09863.HK) rising by 9.5%, and Xiaomi Group (01810.HK) rising nearly 9%.

According to Jin Shi reports, on Wednesday, Korean retail investors faced forced liquidations of approximately 1.7 trillion won (about 1.2 billion USD) in positions.Jung In Yun, CEO of Fibonacci Asset Management, stated, "Today there are many cases of forced liquidations, and we need to wait until the selling sentiment of retail investors eases before taking action."

According to Gate market data, after two consecutive days of gains, Hong Kong stocks opened high again today, with the Hang Seng Index opening up 176 points at 25,487 points, and then fluctuating upwards, reaching a maximum increase of 426 points to a high of 25,737 points, with the gain slightly narrowing as it approached noon. By the close, the Hang Seng Index rose by 1.37%, the Tech Index rose by 2.2%, and the total market turnover expanded to HKD 173.04 billion.Li Auto surged by 10%, Xiaomi Group rose by over 9%, while Hua Hong Semiconductor and SMIC both fell nearly 8%.

Visa announced its third-quarter financial report for fiscal year 2026, with revenue of $11.6 billion, a year-on-year increase of 14%. Payment transaction volume, cross-border transaction volume, and processed transactions all achieved double-digit growth. In the earnings call, Visa outlined its stablecoin strategy, stating that it is actively investing in various levels of the stablecoin stack, including blockchain, issuance, wallets, infrastructure, and applications. The company announced its membership in the OpenStandard alliance, which plans to issue the OpenUSD stablecoin for global capital flow.The Visa stablecoin platform will provide partners with stablecoin settlement, on-chain wallet-as-a-service infrastructure, and exchange services between fiat and stablecoins, initially supporting OpenUSD. The platform will also integrate with Pismo to provide tokenized deposit support for financial institutions and plans to introduce third-party tokenized deposit infrastructure providers in the future. Visa views stablecoins and AI as complementary technologies, believing that "agent commerce will expand the reachable market and drive future growth." Cross-border transaction volume increased by 13% year-on-year, while processed transaction volume grew by 10%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed on Tuesday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rising by 1%, the S&P 500 index up by 0.2%, and the Nasdaq down by 0.2%. SK Hynix fell by 8.98%, and Micron Technology dropped by 8.85%. SanDisk's stock price fell by 14%, down more than 50% from the historical high it reached a month ago.The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index closed up by 1.08%, with NetEase rising nearly 3%.

According to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, a trader opened a 4x leveraged long position of 23,251.544 SKHX (worth 24.67 million USD) today at 14:38, with an entry average price of 1106.8 USD, and is currently facing an unrealized loss of 1.074 million USD.This wallet has now become the TOP2 holding address for SKHX on Hyperliquid.

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.

According to Gate market data, the Hong Kong stock market closed with the Hang Seng Index rising by 0.41% and the Technology Index rising by 0.61%. Lao Pu Gold (06181.HK) fell by more than 23.5%, Zhi Pu (02513.HK) fell by more than 18.5%, and MiniMax (00100.HK) fell by more than 14%.

According to news from Alibaba Cloud, the Alibaba Cloud Zhenwu M890 super node instance has been Day0 adapted to Kimi K3. Both parties will further develop domestic computing power cooperation, and the Qianwen AI platform and Alibaba Cloud Bailian will also provide the model API for Kimi K3.