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Polymarket will upgrade the settlement rules for the cryptocurrency rise and fall market: abandoning the single price snapshot and switching to a time-weighted average price

According to official news, the prediction market Polymarket announced a significant adjustment to its settlement mechanism for cryptocurrency price fluctuation markets starting from August 7, to protect market integrity. From midnight UTC on that day, the affected markets will no longer settle based on a single price snapshot at a specific time but will instead use a time-weighted average price.Markets of different durations correspond to different TWAP windows: all cryptocurrency 5-minute markets will use a 30-second TWAP, 15-minute markets will use a 60-second TWAP, and 4-hour markets will also use a 60-second TWAP. The previous single snapshot settlement method was prone to price manipulation during periods of low liquidity, and this change is a proactive reinforcement of the market integrity system by Polymarket after facing regulatory scrutiny.To support this transition, Polymarket will inject $1 million in liquidity rewards into all affected markets throughout August. On the technical side, Chainlink TWAP testnet data streams are now available, and mainnet data streams along with Polymarket real-time data stream services will go live on August 4, at which point developers can access TWAP prices directly through Chainlink Data Streams or Polymarket's public WebSocket.

1inch launches the shared liquidity protocol Aqua, enabling a single fund to support multiple DeFi liquidity positions

According to official news, the decentralized exchange aggregator 1inch has officially launched the shared liquidity protocol Aqua for all users. Aqua allows users to support multiple liquidity positions simultaneously with just a token balance, without the need to deposit assets into a liquidity pool. The assets remain in the user's wallet, and only when a transaction is actually executed does the protocol call the corresponding tokens from the wallet through a single atomic transaction to complete the settlement, returning the received tokens and fees to the wallet.1inch stated that this new model, known as "shared liquidity," is expected to address current issues in DeFi liquidity, such as long-term idle liquidity, low capital utilization, and asset custody risks. The protocol was opened to developers last November and is now officially launched for all users, supporting 13 EVM-compatible chains including Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, Robinhood Chain, and BNB Chain.1inch indicated that there are several structural issues with current DeFi liquidity. Although many protocols have a high total value locked (TVL), a large amount of liquidity remains in inactive price ranges for extended periods, failing to earn trading fee revenue while also bearing market volatility risks. Additionally, liquidity providers (LPs) typically need to split limited funds across different protocols, trading pairs, and price ranges, leading to decreased capital utilization. Furthermore, traditional models require users to deposit assets into liquidity pools, which not only loses other uses of the assets but also means relinquishing asset custody rights and facing risks such as JIT (Just-In-Time) liquidity bots seizing fees. Aqua enhances capital efficiency by registering wallet balances as a shared liquidity source, allowing the same asset to support multiple liquidity positions without transferring asset ownership; when the wallet balance is insufficient to cover a transaction, the protocol will not execute that transaction, thus keeping the user's actual risk always limited by the wallet holdings.

The enthusiasm for BTC allocation among listed companies continues to cool, with a net sell-off of 15.92 million dollars in a single week

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on July 27, 2026, the total net sell-off of Bitcoin by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the past week was $15.92 million, a decrease of 1,296.99% compared to last week.According to official documents, Strategy did not purchase Bitcoin last week, selling approximately 5.43 million shares of MSTR between July 20 and July 26, resulting in a net gain of $544.5 million, and spent $25 million to repurchase 288,930 shares of STRC preferred stock.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase Bitcoin last week.In addition, three other companies bought or sold Bitcoin last week. Aerospace-grade defense battery thermal management and safety solutions provider KULR announced on July 24 that it generated approximately $21.5 million in revenue from July 9, 2026, to July 23, 2026, selling 333 Bitcoins at a price of $64,538, reducing its total holdings to approximately 760 Bitcoins; asset management company Strive announced on July 27 that it spent $5.19 million to purchase 79 Bitcoins at a price of $65,723, bringing its total holdings to approximately 20,000 Bitcoins; Brazilian Bitcoin company OrangeBTC announced on July 27 that it spent $394,500 to purchase 6 Bitcoins at a price of $65,742, increasing its total holdings to 3,918 Bitcoins.Metaplanet subsidiary Bitcoin Japan announced a convertible bond financing agreement with EVO Fund, intending to raise 9.66 billion yen (approximately $59.5 million) to establish a cryptocurrency asset treasury.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by global listed companies (excluding mining companies) in the statistics is 1,139,480 Bitcoins, a decrease of 0.02% compared to last week, with a current market value of approximately $7.416 billion, accounting for 5.7% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.
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