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The Kobeissi Letter posted on platform X, stating that according to Goldman Sachs data, over 1.2 million leveraged retail trading accounts in South Korea triggered margin call notifications, with an estimated 320,000 to 360,000 accounts completely liquidated, accounting for about 3.4% of the adult population in South Korea.As the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) has fallen approximately 18% since July 13, it is expected that the number of accounts that have been completely forcibly liquidated has now exceeded 500,000.

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.

The Dark Side of the Moon (Kimi) has been renamed Beijing Dark Side of the Moon Technology Co., Ltd., and the company type has changed from a limited liability company to a non-listed joint-stock company. Yang Zhilin serves as the chairman and manager, Zhang Yutong has been added as a director, and Song Sijia has been added as the financial officer.This change is commonly referred to as a stock reform. The China Securities Regulatory Commission stipulates that if a domestic company directly lists overseas with a domestic entity, the issuer must be a joint-stock company.According to previous reports, the Dark Side of the Moon has issued a shareholder resolution for listing in Hong Kong, with the earliest possible IPO within six months, and has begun dismantling the red-chip structure. The company has not officially announced the listing time.

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 Business Insider, Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and current head of Meta's Superintelligence Lab, stated at a Y Combinator event that AI has significantly narrowed the power gap between startups and giants. He recalled that when he founded Scale AI in 2016, "startups faced giants like David against Goliath, needing to find market entry points more intelligently"; however, with the development of AI agent technology, "it now feels more like Goliath against Goliath," and as long as startups apply AI agents in "the most ambitious way," it is not difficult to defeat large companies that already have an advantage.Scale AI, founded by Wang, is one of the earliest data annotation companies, employing thousands of contractors worldwide to train models for large AI labs. Last June, Meta reached a $14.3 billion deal with Scale AI, and Wang subsequently joined Meta. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also stated at the same event that "there has never been a better time to start a business."

AI security operations startup Mate Security announced the completion of a $35 million Series A financing round, led by Canaan Partners, with participation from Insight Partners, Team8, and Microsoft's venture fund M12, bringing the total funding to over $50 million.It has been less than a year since the company emerged from stealth mode. Mate Security was founded by former employees of Wiz and Microsoft, and its core product is the "Security Context Graph," which empowers AI security agents with business context by building an organizational knowledge layer, enabling them to make judgments based on actual operational conditions when handling alerts, effectively reducing false positive rates.

The "China Business Journal" issued a statement saying: "Recently, our company discovered that illegal individuals are impersonating 'China Business Journal' and sending emails to some companies through non-official company email accounts, falsely claiming to have obtained significant negative information about the companies through so-called 'undercover investigations,' and threatening that if financial compensation (in Bitcoin) is not paid, the related 'undercover articles' will be published."The "China Business Journal" stated that all its news reports strictly comply with national laws and regulations, and interviews and communications are conducted through official channels. Such behavior is suspected of fraud and has been closely monitored, with evidence collected, and all rights to pursue legal responsibility are reserved. The statement reminds relevant companies to remain vigilant; if they receive such impersonated emails, they should not pay any financial compensation, and should immediately preserve all evidence and report to the local public security authorities.

According to BBX data, the listed entities in the global capital markets (NASDAQ and Japanese stocks) disclosed the latest developments in digital asset investment and treasury expansion yesterday and in recent days. The core information is as follows:Core Scientific (NASDAQ: $CORZ) resumes accumulation in Q2, increasing holdings to 848 BTC: The latest financial report from NASDAQ-listed mining company Core Scientific shows that its Bitcoin holdings have increased from 547 to 848 BTC, with a net addition of 301 BTC. Previously, the company had sold a large amount of Bitcoin to facilitate its transformation towards the AI and high-performance computing (HPC) industries, but it reestablished its accumulation strategy in Q2. The financial report indicates that its Q2 revenue surged to $164.2 million (over 100% year-on-year growth), and gross profit skyrocketed to $70 million. At the same time, the company decisively terminated its BTC mining chip procurement contract with Block (under Jack Dorsey) at a cost of $41.9 million in losses.Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed company Iole announces allocation of HYPE as a strategic asset: Iole, listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange's startup board, officially announced that in addition to Bitcoin, it has formally established HYPE as a strategic treasury asset for the company. The company plans to gradually increase its total HYPE purchase plan to 100 million yen (approximately $610,000) by the end of August. Currently, the company completed its first batch of purchases worth approximately 10 million yen on July 28, holding about 1,078.25 HYPE.gumi and SB I launch a 3 billion yen cryptocurrency investment fund: Japanese listed gaming company gumi announced that its subsidiary gC Labs, in collaboration with SB I Financial Services, will officially operate the cryptocurrency investment fund "SB I Crypto Fund I" starting August 1. The total scale of the fund is approximately 3 billion yen (about $18.32 million), and it has received funding from leading institutions such as Daiwa Securities Group, with its investment targets strictly focusing on Bitcoin (BTC) listed on exchanges and major high-liquidity altcoins.HeartSciences advances merger with DCG's mining company: NASDAQ-listed company HeartSciences (NASDAQ: $HSCS) announced that it has formally submitted a preliminary proxy statement to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding the previously announced proposed business merger plan with Fortitude Mining Holdings (a wholly-owned subsidiary of DCG), accelerating the process of going public in the mainstream capital market.

According to Russian media bits.media, Igor Runets, the founder of Russia's largest mining company BitRiver, has been transferred from house arrest to detention pending trial by the Zamoskvoretsky Court in Moscow due to allegations of fraud amounting to 100 million rubles. He will be held in custody for at least two months. The charges are based on Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation—"particularly large-scale fraud committed by an organized group."The investigation claims the case involves the supply of mining equipment, causing nearly 100 million rubles in losses to the metallurgical and energy companies under the En+ Group. Investigators requested the detention of Runets on the grounds that he might influence witnesses, and the court approved this request. Representatives of BitRiver and Runets' lawyer have not yet commented on the court's ruling, and the progress of the case will depend on the equipment appraisal and witness testimonies from En+. In February of this year, Russian law enforcement suspected Runets of concealing assets to evade taxes, leading to his arrest and house arrest on charges of tax evasion. BitRiver is facing bankruptcy and ownership risks, with its owner Fox Group having debts of approximately 9.2 million dollars, and assets insufficient to repay the debts, prompting a bankruptcy application.

According to the Q2 2026 report released by the Safe Ecosystem Foundation on Wednesday, Safe smart accounts processed nearly 130 million transactions in the second quarter, setting a quarterly historical record with a 5.7% quarter-over-quarter growth. The total number of accounts reached 63.4 million, a year-on-year increase of 20%, and the monthly active accounts in June rose to 2.73 million. The transaction volume in April alone reached 55.4 million, the highest in history. The quarterly transfer amount reached $39.3 billion, a year-on-year increase of 8%, and the self-custodied assets at the end of the quarter amounted to $27.24 billion (including $6.48 billion in stablecoins), with project revenue of $1.98 million, a year-on-year increase of 42%.Co-founder Lukas Schor stated that Safe is evolving from a mere asset holding tool to a broader range of use cases, with usage continuing to grow at a compound rate in a weak market. The Safenet Beta, launched on April 2, attracted 54.8 million SAFE staked (with 539 stakers) in its first quarter and has checked over 500,000 transactions, operated by six validators including Greenfield and Gnosis. Additionally, after the KelpDAO attack incident, Aave-led DeFi United coordinated approximately $300 million through Safe smart accounts to help restore rsETH support, with over 142,000 wallets participating. The SAFE token rose 4.2% in the past 24 hours.

The Japanese listed company eole (Tokyo Stock Exchange Growth: 2334) purchased approximately 10.08 million yen (about 61,600 USD) for 1,078.2547 HYPE, with an average cost of about 9,352.77 yen (about 57.1 USD), becoming the first listed company in Japan to purchase HYPE.The company plans to make additional purchases in batches before the end of August, bringing the total investment in HYPE to 100 million yen (about 610,500 USD), and will incorporate it into the digital asset reserves under the "Neo Crypto Bank" concept to support on-chain finance and Web3 business.

According to Jinshi reports, Meta Platforms CFO stated that the overall computing power in the industry will remain tight in the foreseeable future.

According to Jinshi reports, the CEO of Meta Platforms stated that thanks to artificial intelligence, the company is creating a brand new experience, and the speed of product delivery has increased.

AI supply chain management startup Freehand announced the completion of a $75 million financing round, co-led by Battery Ventures and NewRoad Capital Partners, with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and the fund PSP Growth under former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker.Freehand's AI agents can autonomously handle tasks such as contract interpretation, vendor rate negotiations, overbilling identification, payment processing, and ERP system reconciliation. Clients include leading companies such as Meta, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, Dunkin', and Cardinal Health.

According to The Block, Tether's compliant stablecoin USA₮ (USAT) has officially launched on the Celo mainnet, marking its second mainnet deployment after Ethereum. The token is issued by Anchorage Digital Bank and can be natively minted and redeemed on Celo, and can be directly used for on-chain gas payments through Celo's fee abstraction mechanism.USAT launched in January this year, with a current market capitalization of approximately $185 million.

According to official news, the institutional-level Ethereum ecosystem service organization Ethereum Institutional announced the completion of its initial ecosystem funding round and the formation of a supporter alliance, receiving support from over 100 ecosystem participants, led by BitMine, SharpLink, and Ethereum co-founders Joseph Lubin and Mihai Alisie, with the amount undisclosed. The organization stated that this funding will be used to support its accelerated efforts in tokenization, stablecoins, and on-chain market infrastructure.Ethereum Institutional indicated that in the coming months, it will strengthen direct engagement with banks, asset management institutions, custodians, market infrastructure, fintech companies, and sovereign institutions to advance specific work related to tokenization, stablecoins, market infrastructure, and on-chain settlement, while expanding its core business areas such as institutional education, market intelligence, and ecosystem marketing; at the same time, it will continue to collaborate with a broader Ethereum ecosystem community, including L2, application teams, infrastructure, and custodial service providers.

According to Techcrunch, New York AI detection startup Pangram announced the completion of a $9 million financing round, led by Menlo Ventures, with participation from Haystack, ScOp, Script Capital, and Cadenza.Pangram also released the next-generation AI text detection model Pangram 4 and the AI image detection model Pangram Image, with the text detection accuracy exceeding 99%, capable of identifying AI-assisted writing, mixed human-machine content, and text generated by AI impersonation programs; the image detection model is currently in research preview stage, based on pixel-level distribution analysis, capable of identifying AI-generated images across models and detecting AI images present in real photographs.

According to TNW, enterprise AI infrastructure company Modus announced the completion of a $10 million seed round of financing, led by Insight Partners, with participation from Soma Capital, Bullet Ventures, and several tech founders.Modus simultaneously launched the "Context Warehouse" product, positioned as the contextual foundation layer for enterprise AI, which provides precise context for AI Agents by learning the actual usage patterns of business data (rather than merely storing data), potentially reducing unnecessary retrieval and token consumption by up to 10 times.

According to the New York Daily, the decentralized data infrastructure project Permacast based on Permaweb announced the completion of its Series A funding round on January 15, 2025, raising over $5 million. Combined with the previously completed seed round and Pre-A round, the total funding raised by the project has reached $8.9 million.This round of financing received support from several leading Web3 funds, technology investment institutions, and strategic angel investors. Seed round investors include OKX Ventures, Big Brain Holdings, ChainVision, Foresight Research, and Digital Humanism (DRF); Pre-A round investors include ClearingPoint, 7 O'Clock Capital, Cipholio Ventures, SilverFox Foundation, and a number of private investors; Series A round investors include CoinSummer, angel investor Tomasz Boryniec, Waterwood Investment (Tsinghua), Scorpio VC, and a number of private investors.Permacast stated that as AI models reshape the way information is created and utilized, the demand for trustworthy, permanent, and verifiable data infrastructure is growing. The new funds will be used to accelerate protocol development, expand decentralized network infrastructure, strengthen ecological cooperation, and expand the engineering and product teams. The team stated that a permanent, verifiable, and open data network will become the foundational infrastructure for future intelligent applications.

According to Gate market data, the stock price of Musk's company fell by 11.5% in pre-market trading, mainly due to second-quarter sales not meeting market expectations.