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The founder of TRON, Justin Sun, delivered a video keynote speech at Malaysia Blockchain Week 2026. He stated that DeFi, TradFi, and AI are accelerating their integration through the same assets, payment channels, and user groups. The future of finance will be a connected system operated collaboratively by institutions, open blockchain networks, and AI, and the infrastructure capabilities of TRON will become an important cornerstone supporting this transformation.Justin Sun pointed out that the scale and efficiency of TRON make it naturally suitable for AI agent payment scenarios. The B.AI and Bank of AI within the ecosystem have already endowed AI agents with independent identities and autonomous trading capabilities, with the number of B.AI users exceeding 2 million. He also responded to industry compliance concerns by highlighting the achievement of T3 FCU freezing approximately $450 million in illegal assets, stating that TRON's goal is to build a bridge between humanity and AI, local markets and global liquidity, providing open infrastructure for the next generation of value flow and inclusive finance.Malaysia Blockchain Week 2026 was held from July 29 to 30 at the Kuala Lumpur World Trade Center and is one of the most anticipated Web3 events in Southeast Asia. This event brought together global policymakers, industry leaders, developers, and investors to discuss the future evolution of blockchain, digital assets, and emerging technologies.

The digital asset trading platform Gate announced that it will open the second phase of the Pre-IPOs project for OpenAI (OPENAI) from July 15, 2026, 15:00 to July 17, 15:00 (UTC+8), supporting participation in both USDT and GUSD. The total subscription value of the project is approximately 20 million USD, issuing 27,700 OPENAI asset certificates, priced at 1 OPENAI = 722 USD, with a minimum investment starting at 100 USDT or 100 GUSD, and waiving implied fees and custody costs. OpenAI, driven by products like ChatGPT, has promoted the development of generative AI and has received investments from Microsoft and others, with a market implied valuation of approximately 895 billion USD.The OPENAI asset certificates are mirror notes prior to the OpenAI IPO, used to map the company's value before and after going public; Gate will hedge exposure by acquiring relevant stocks and provide pre-market trading, long-term holding, and future paths for exchanging stock assets, stock tokens, or USDT. Distribution is calculated based on the "average locked amount per hour," with earlier participation and longer lock-up periods receiving higher weights; the certificates will unlock in three phases on July 17, August 17, and September 17, and pre-market trading will open on July 20.

The Hurun Research Institute today released the "2026 Global Unicorn List." Driven by the AI wave, the total value of global unicorns surged by 43% to $8 trillion. Among them, the AI sector accounts for 36% of the total value, with Anthropic ($965 billion), OpenAI ($852 billion), and ByteDance ($480 billion) taking the top three spots on the global list; Chinese company DeepSeek entered the top 15 with a valuation of $50 billion, becoming the highest-ranked new unicorn.In the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector, there are currently 67 existing unicorn companies worldwide. Among them, the cryptocurrency exchange platform Binance saw its valuation increase by $35 billion this year, reaching a total valuation of $70 billion, marking its first entry into the global top ten (ranked 8th). Additionally, the report noted that cryptocurrency companies such as Circle, BitGo, Gemini, and HashKey have exited the unicorn sequence through successful IPOs in the past year.

According to Gate market data, at the opening of the US stock market, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 1%, the S&P 500 index rose by 0.62%, and the Nasdaq Composite Index rose by 0.63%. Corning (GLW.N) and Nvidia (NVDA.O) reached a long-term strategic cooperation, with stock prices rising by 16% and 1.5% respectively. Intel (INTC.O) rose by 1.3% in early trading. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index rose by 1.09%.

According to TechFundingNews, the blockchain trading platform Ekiden announced the completion of a $2 million seed round financing, with the company's valuation reaching $20 million.This round of financing was led by Unicorn Factory Ventures and P2 Ventures, and also attracted angel investors who have previously invested in projects such as GSR, Pyth, Aptos, LayerZero, and Cube Exchange.It is reported that Ekiden is committed to bringing institutional-level trading on-chain, providing efficient and secure trading solutions through blockchain technology.

Former Multicoin co-founder Kyle Samani predicts that in the next 18 months, advancements in the microstructure of the Solana on-chain market will surpass any other period in cryptocurrency history. Notable expectations include:Alpenglow: A major upcoming consensus mechanism upgrade for Solana, representing one of the largest protocol-level changes in Solana's history.ACE (Application Controlled Execution): Application controlled execution is a key innovation in Solana's core roadmap.MCL (Multi-Concurrent Block Production): Future upgrades for Solana will allow multiple leaders to propose blocks simultaneously, significantly increasing throughput and reducing latency, while improving transaction inclusion times and censorship resistance.PropAMMs (Proprietary Automated Market Makers): Deployed privately by professional market makers/institutions, using real-time price oracles to update quotes and actively manage liquidity, typically not accepting permissionless deposits.Aggregators: Aggregators like Jupiter and Dflow aggregate liquidity from multiple DEXs, AMMs, PropAMMs, etc., to find the optimal execution path for users, providing the lowest slippage and best prices.Conditional liquidity: Prevents market makers from being front-run, allowing them to offer tighter spreads, ultimately resulting in better trade prices and deeper liquidity.Overall improvements to SVM and the scheduler: Including optimizations for compute units, asynchronous program execution (APE), scheduling algorithm upgrades, etc., making programs run faster, more resource-efficient, and supporting higher concurrency.

ChainCatcher news, Virtuals announces the launch of a new launch model, Unicorn. Compared to the previous Genesis model, Unicorn no longer solely pursues fairness but emphasizes early belief and long-term value. Each Unicorn project starts with a low valuation, allowing early participants to gain asymmetric returns. The founding team only receives funding when the project actually grows, ensuring responsibility and long-term development.The launch process includes the creation phase, early trading phase, and a transparent team allocation mechanism, with anti-bot measures and ecological airdrop rewards for VIRTUAL holders and active community members. The Unicorn model will gradually replace the Genesis points system, with the reward mechanism shifting from points to VIRTUAL staking and ecological activities. Each Unicorn Launch will allocate 5% of the total supply to true community members: 2% to VIRTUAL stakers; 3% to active participants in the Virtuals ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to financefeeds, Falconedge is a new hedge fund consulting firm spun off from the UK hedge fund Falcon Investment Management, which has now completed pre-IPO financing and plans to implement an ambitious Bitcoin treasury strategy, using almost all of the upcoming IPO proceeds to build a Bitcoin treasury.Falconedge CEO Roy Kashi stated, "By adopting Bitcoin as the company's primary reserve asset, Falconedge bets that BTC will become the cornerstone of institutional finance in the next decade." Falconedge's IPO is expected in September.

ChainCatcher news, Cycle Network officially launched the UniCall section on the UnicornX platform, with an intraday peak increase of 294.47%.It is reported that Cycle Network announced a strategic investment from Diamond Hands Capital Unicorn Verse, providing support for Cycle Network's secondary market and its subsequent development. Cycle Network will focus on advancing its core business: building a "VisaNet" in the cryptocurrency field, providing efficient, secure, and seamless settlement and trading experiences for various blockchain assets, while further enhancing multi-chain settlement capabilities and ecological layout.

ChainCatcher news, Cycle Network officially announced a strategic partnership with UnicornX. After becoming the latest project of Unicall, the market capitalization of $CYC reached a new high, with an intraday peak increase of 294.47%, and FDV exceeding 100 million USD.Recently, Cycle Network completed a strategic upgrade, aiming to become the "VisaNet of seamless connections in the crypto space," further enhancing its multi-chain settlement capabilities and ecological layout.UnicornX is not only a DEX but also a hub for integrity-driven projects and resources. With the support of the liquidity strategic investment institution UnicornVerse, it provides acceleration channels for projects at different stages through flagship features UniCall and XCall. Since the launch of UniCall, projects that have gone live on UniCall have achieved an average growth rate of +507.3%, aiming to reshape the trust mechanism in Web3 and become the core hub for singularity exchanges and long-term growth.

ChainCatcher news, Bitget on-chain trading has recently launched projects showing an upward trend. Among them, UNICORN reached a maximum increase of 1066% after its launch, LuckyCoin reached 921%, and H reached 405%.Bitget on-chain trading aims to seamlessly connect CEX and DEX, providing users with a more convenient, efficient, and secure on-chain trading experience. Users can directly use their Bitget spot account (USDT/USDC) to trade popular on-chain assets. Currently, it supports popular public chains such as Solana (SOL), BNB Smart Chain (BSC), and Base.