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According to Jinshi, the number of people continuing to claim unemployment benefits in the United States for the week ending July 18 was 1.782 million, lower than the market expectation of 1.798 million.The previous value was revised from 1.796 million to 1.789 million.

According to Jinshi reports, Germany's July harmonized CPI month-on-month preliminary value is 0.9%, higher than the market expectation of 0.8%, and the previous value was -0.2%.

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.

Recently, the gold and silver markets have continued to show strong performance, with trading activity in the metals sector steadily increasing. According to market data from the Gate platform, gold (XAU) is currently priced at $4087.68, with a 24-hour increase of 1.51%; silver (XAG) is currently priced at $58.52, with a 24-hour increase of 1.77%. According to CoinGlass data, the open interest for Gate XAU contracts has reached $192 million, and the open interest for Gate XAG contracts has reached $72.509 million, both ranking in the top two in the industry.Gate has pioneered the trading sector for perpetual contracts and CFD contracts for metals, covering mainstream trading targets such as gold, silver, and platinum, and supports 24/7 trading with USDT settlement. Relying on Gate's innovative unified account system, users can configure diverse assets such as stocks, metals, foreign exchange, indices, and commodities without the need for cross-platform operations, helping users achieve a more flexible and efficient one-stop global asset strategy layout in volatile markets.

Recently, South Korean stock leader SK Hynix has experienced a continuous decline, triggering an increase in the trading activity of related stock derivatives. According to the RootData Pro data panel, in mainstream stock derivatives exchanges:The SKHYNIX contract has generally dropped about 7% in 24 hours, with Lighter and HTX experiencing relatively smaller declines. From the perspective of open interest (OI), Hyperliquid leads with $571 million, followed by Binance with $501 million, and OKX in third place with $82.14 million; in terms of trading volume, Binance has the highest 24-hour transaction amount at $4.15 billion, followed by Hyperliquid at $1.51 billion and OKX at $1.19 billion.The SKHY contract has mostly dropped about 4%-5% across platforms in 24 hours. From the OI perspective, Binance leads with $115 million, followed by Hyperliquid with $110 million, Bitget with $20.22 million, and OKX with $17.41 million; in terms of trading volume, Binance has the highest 24-hour transaction amount at $1.61 billion, followed by XT.com at $482 million, OKX at $387 million, and Hyperliquid at $310 million.From the perspective of price spread, the spread for SKHYNIX on Binance, Bitget, and Bybit is about 0.0032%, Hyperliquid is 0.0054%, and OKX is 0.0076%; the spread for SKHY on Binance, OKX, Hyperliquid, Bitget, Bybit, and Gate is about 0.0081%, indicating high price synchronization. In terms of funding rates, the SKHYNIX contracts on Lighter, OKX, and Hyperliquid have relatively high funding rates, indicating an increase in long position costs.It is reported that SK Hynix announced its Q2 2026 financial report on July 29, with revenue of 79.32 trillion won, operating profit of 60.54 trillion won, and net profit of 93.92 trillion won, all setting quarterly records. However, the performance did not fully meet the market's high expectations, and SK Hynix's stock price once plummeted over 19.3% during the session, setting a record for the largest single-day decline in history. Overall, the funding for SK Hynix (SKHYNIX/SKHY) contracts is mainly concentrated on Hyperliquid and Binance.

Binance founder CZ responded on the X platform to the recent controversy regarding Giggle Academy selling donation tokens, stating that he personally "has not communicated with the Giggle team regarding the recent sale," and that the address is not managed by him personally. He pointed out that Giggle Academy has a practice of "exchanging most donation tokens for BNB at the end of each month" to fund free education programs for children worldwide, which have benefited over 1 million children in less than two years.CZ further stated that when sending or donating tokens to others, if there is no prior agreement, one should not expect the recipient to act according to the donor's wishes (such as destroying the tokens), as "that would only add extra work for the recipient." He emphasized that "if it is called a donation, one should expect them to use it," and questioned, "if one expects them to destroy it, how can it be called a donation?" Additionally, CZ expressed support for all meme coins and revealed that "he may buy or sell one or two (meme coins) in the coming weeks to test some new things."

According to Jinshi News, Amazon employees have discovered that due to errors in the company's deployment of AI and a lack of expenditure control measures, some projects have experienced "catastrophically high" cost overruns. A senior engineer stated at an employee meeting that attempts to shift tasks from traditional programming to using AI models have resulted in "unplanned" expenditures.Amazon expects its capital expenditures to reach $200 billion this year, primarily invested in AI and data center infrastructure construction.

According to a report by Jinshi, a report from Goldman Sachs shows that hedge funds focused on the Asian market are facing the largest single-month drawdown on record, due to a widespread sell-off of AI concept stocks, which has erased most of the gains previously concentrated in this sector. As of July 28, these funds have averaged a decline of 18.6% this month. Goldman Sachs pointed out that since the year-to-date return peaked at 40% on July 22, these funds have given back 21 percentage points of their year-to-date gains.

According to Jinshi reports, Israeli Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir stated that the Israeli military will not withdraw from the occupied areas in southern Lebanon before ensuring Israel's security. Zamir made the remarks during an inspection of the occupied areas in southern Lebanon, mentioning that the Israeli military has controlled certain areas and is working to eliminate terrorist infrastructure. If necessary, they will expand the scope of operations to include more areas. He emphasized that there will be no withdrawal from the controlled areas before ensuring long-term security.

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.

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.

According to Jinshi News, Samsung Electronics expects that the chip shortage situation will further worsen next year and continue until 2028. The company stated that it is difficult to significantly increase supply in the short term, as it takes more than 3 years and 6 months from the construction of new production facilities to actual wafer production.Samsung Electronics pointed out that the popularity of AI is driving a surge in memory demand, especially as the memory demand for AI servers and general computing servers reaches unprecedented levels.

According to a report by Reuters, one of the world's largest multi-strategy hedge funds, Millennium Management, is negotiating to raise approximately $20 billion in new capital, significantly higher than the initial plan, which is expected to set a record for the largest fundraising in the company's history.The report states that this fundraising will be conducted in two phases, while Millennium also plans to swap capital managed by external fund managers, with the work overseen by President Ajay Nagpal. Reuters cited a Goldman Sachs report stating that, driven by the AI boom, the hedge fund industry is expected to welcome another strong year. In the first half of 2026, all major hedge fund strategies achieved net inflows for the first time in five years, with quantitative funds and multi-strategy funds attracting particularly strong capital. Millennium's return rate reached 10.5% in 2025, and it currently manages assets exceeding $92 billion.

According to reporter Eleanor Terrett, Binance.US CEO Stevie Satoshi revealed at the RareEvo conference that the company plans to apply for Designated Contract Market (DCM) status with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) next month, aiming to provide users with prediction market services.

According to Jinshi reports, the Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the Russian army has taken control of Svitly and Novosych in eastern Ukraine. Ukrainian President Zelensky mentioned that there are reports indicating Russia plans to launch a large-scale attack and has requested Trump to provide 300 "Patriot" interceptors before winter.The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported that multiple Russian facilities were attacked, including the Ryazan oil refinery and the Black Sea Fleet's ship base. An advisor from the Ministry of Internal Affairs pointed out that Russia is launching a large-scale attack on Ukraine, and cruise missiles are expected to be imminent.

According to Coinglass data, the total contract open interest for ETH has decreased by 5.03% in the past 24 hours, with the current total open interest at $25.778 billion. Among them, Binance's open interest is $6.488 billion, OKX's open interest is $1.527 billion, Bybit's open interest is $1.595 billion, and Gate's open interest is $2.39 billion.

According to Jinshi reports, SpaceX has obtained a $1.6 billion contract from the U.S. Space Force to carry out 18 Falcon 9 launch missions for launching military-guided satellites.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the predicted market event "Toronto Blue Jays vs. Washington Nationals" on Polymarket, the option "Washington Nationals" in the sub-market "Spread -1.5" experienced a sharp fluctuation in winning probability, dropping from 31.5% an hour ago to the current 12% (a fluctuation of 19.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Jinshi reports, the Ukrainian open-source intelligence agency DeepState stated on social media on the 29th that the Russian army has established fire control 40 kilometers deep at the front lines of the cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk in the Donetsk region and has launched continuous attacks.The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army defeated the Ukrainian forces in multiple locations, including the Donetsk region, on the same day.