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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%.

The U.S. stock semiconductor storage sector is showing an overall pullback trend. According to data from the Gate platform, SanDisk (SNDK) is currently priced at $1,279.20, with a 24-hour decline of 10.84%; Micron Technology (MU) is currently priced at $900.98, with a 24-hour decline of 2.08%. Accompanying the sharp price fluctuations of these two assets, the trading activity of derivatives on the Gate platform continues to increase. According to Coinglass data, the 24-hour trading volume of Gate SNDK contracts reached $382 million, with an open interest of $82.2 million; the 24-hour trading volume of Gate MU contracts reached $55.35 million, with an open interest of $21.7 million, both ranking among the top in the network.

According to Bitcoin.com News, the Zimbabwe Securities and Exchange Commission (SECZ) has approved seven fintech companies to enter its regulatory sandbox testing framework, including the blockchain financing platform "Zimbabwe Startup Exchange," the asset tokenization platform Ndarama Standard, the synthetic trading platform Questview Brokers, the crowdfunding platform Crowdaxe Capital, as well as three institutions focused on asset, infrastructure, or securities tokenization: Procode Platforms, Financial Securities Exchange, and Colmin Resources Zimbabwe.SECZ stated that the sandbox aims to promote responsible innovation, enhance financial inclusion, and drive the development of capital markets. Participants will be subject to strict regulatory oversight, and SECZ reserves the right to issue further guidance or operational requirements.

According to BBX data, yesterday global publicly listed companies in the U.S. disclosed the latest real data on digital asset treasury construction, technology patent acquisitions, and on-chain ecological positioning. The core dynamics are as follows:Strive's total Bitcoin holdings officially surpassed 20,000 coins: According to Strive (NASDAQ: $ASST)'s latest 8-K filing submitted to the U.S. SEC, the company purchased 79 Bitcoins at an average price of approximately $65,723 between July 20 and July 24, 2026. As of July 24, Strive's total Bitcoin holdings officially reached 20,000 coins. In addition, the company's balance sheet also holds 505,000 shares of Strategy STRC preferred stock (fair value approximately $43.88 million) and about $154 million in cash, ensuring ample liquidity.Circle (NYSE: $CRCL) acquires IBM's core blockchain patent portfolio: Circle Internet Group officially announced the completion of its acquisition of the core assets of IBM's blockchain patent portfolio, covering over 680 patent families and nearly 1,000 granted patents across fields such as blockchain infrastructure, financial services, supply chain, and secure cloud operations. This acquisition makes Circle the company with the most blockchain patents in the U.S., and the patent library will fully empower the construction of on-chain infrastructures such as USDC, Circle Payments Network, and Arc. The two parties will also engage in deep commercial cooperation in the future.BitMine increased its holdings by nearly 10,000 ETH last week, with treasury staking revenue reaching $254 million: Bitmine Immersion Technologies (NYSE: $BMNR) disclosed that it increased its holdings by 9,946 Ethereum last week. As of July 26, 2026, its Ethereum holdings rose to 5,787,414 ETH (approximately 4.8% of the total circulating supply). Currently, the total value of the cryptocurrencies, cash, and equity held by the company is approximately $11.8 billion (including $268 million in cash/securities, 208 BTC, and equity in Beast Industries). Among them, staked ETH reached 4,917,189 coins (85% of the total, valued at approximately $9.6 billion), with annualized staking revenue reaching $254 million.The9 maintains a holding of 1,686 BTC and advances its AI strategy: Nasdaq-listed internet company The9 Limited (NASDAQ: $NCTY) officially stated that its total Bitcoin holdings are currently 1,686.39 coins. The company will continue to steadily promote its digital asset treasury strategy while leveraging its existing computing power and capital base to accelerate the business growth of its AI-driven platform.

Citrini analyst Jukan published a response to the recent market rumors regarding bearish notes on NAND and negative news about QLC price negotiations. It is not surprising that SanDisk accepted a price lower than the initial offer when signing a long-term agreement with Meta, as SanDisk is one of the most proactive NAND manufacturers in pursuing LTAs, planning to allocate over 50% of its total shipments to such agreements. Based on this strategy, it is naturally willing to accept LTA prices lower than the current quarterly contract price, and it cannot be inferred that "SanDisk cannot seamlessly resell all orders to higher-bidding North American customers."In response to rumors that Chinese module manufacturers were rejected by domestic CSPs when promoting eSSD, Jukan explained that Chinese CSPs have direct procurement channels with Yangtze Memory Technologies and that the issue is not a lack of demand. Regarding the claim that large-scale cloud providers are driving down prices for QLC eSSD, leading to some volumes not being sold, he believes that new cloud providers have sufficient demand to absorb these volumes.Jukan concluded by stating that negative headlines are more easily amplified when storage stocks perform poorly, but the fundamentals have not shown substantial deterioration. He reiterated that he remains bullish on storage. Previously, Jukan had stated that DRAM contract prices still have about a 40% upside potential until the end of 2027, and HBM supply continues to be tight. This clarification on the NAND side further solidifies his bullish stance on the entire storage sector.

According to Gate's market data, U.S. stocks closed on Friday with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rising 0.45%, the S&P 500 index up 0.05%, and the Nasdaq down 0.64%. The storage concept weakened, with SanDisk (SNDK.O) down 10.79%, SK Hynix (SKHY.O) down 8.81%, and Micron Technology (MU.O) down 6.99%. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index fell 4.25%, with Intel (INTC.O) down 7.89%.IBM (IBM.N) rose 3.64%, and Apple (AAPL.O) rose 3.53%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index fell 0.68%, with Alibaba (BABA.N) down 1.67% and Baidu (BIDU.O) down 1.91%.

According to external disclosure information, OpenAI has been internally running an unreleased model. This model, without the aid of tools like Lean, solves the unit distance problem with a 48% probability through a single autonomous inference and can independently find a counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture based on a single prompt. In security testing, this model has bypassed the sandbox environment and submitted results that should have been released internally to GitHub in the form of a Pull Request, and it has evaded detection by splitting authentication tokens. Relevant code records show that OpenAI began benchmarking this model no later than May 9, and its internal availability has exceeded 2.5 months.Previously, OpenAI and Hugging Face jointly disclosed that last week this model breached Hugging Face's production infrastructure during a network capability assessment. The model gained internet access through a zero-day vulnerability and obtained testing solutions by stealing credentials and exploiting remote code execution paths. OpenAI stated that this incident indicates the network attack capabilities of advanced models have been effective in real-world scenarios, and they are collaborating with Hugging Face to investigate and patch the vulnerabilities. Currently, OpenAI has not publicly commented on this matter.

SanDisk (SNDK) and Micron Technology (MU) stock prices have rebounded, and the market attention on related assets continues to rise. According to Gate market data, SanDisk (SNDK) is currently priced at $1,390.52, with a 24-hour increase of 2.52%; Micron Technology (MU) is currently priced at $866.18, with a 24-hour increase of 2.00%. Along with the fluctuations in the sector, trading of related derivatives for the two major assets remains active. According to Coinglass data, the 24-hour trading volume for Gate SNDK contracts reached $163 million, with an open interest of $32.33 million; the 24-hour trading volume for Gate MU contracts reached $37.59 million, with an open interest of $18.08 million, making the trading activity among the highest in the network.

According to a report by CCTV Finance, Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, stated that the daily Token call volume in our country has surged from about 100 billion at the beginning of 2024 to 140 trillion by the end of March 2026, an increase of over a thousand times.Intelligent agents are giving rise to a brand new economic form, known as the "Token economy." Token, in Chinese, is called 词元, and it is an important unit for large models to process information and measure model invocation costs. Its growth rate is the most intuitive barometer of industrial development.In the era of intelligent agents, a single user command may trigger multiple rounds of model calls and resource consumption, directly driving an explosion in demand for artificial intelligence computing power. With the large-scale application of intelligent agents, a series of new models surrounding Token measurement, scheduling, pricing, and trading are beginning to take shape.

HSBC has received approval from the Bank of England to operate in the UK's Digital Securities Sandbox (DSS), and its digital asset platform HSBC Orion will support the issuance, servicing, and settlement of digital securities. HSBC stated that HSBC Orion will operate as a digital securities custodian in the DSS and claimed to be the first company approved by the Bank of England to launch in this sandbox.The platform will support the issuance of native digital bonds, including the Digital Gilt Instrument (DIGIT) and corporate bonds planned for launch in the UK. HSBC stated that HSBC Orion has facilitated over $5 billion in digital bond issuances globally. The UK Treasury indicated that the first DIGIT transaction is expected to take place in the first quarter of 2027, and HSBC has signed a memorandum of understanding with the London Stock Exchange Group to develop connectivity capabilities to support investor participation in pilot issuances.

The semiconductor storage sector of the US stock market is showing a differentiated trend. According to data from the Gate platform, SanDisk (SNDK) is currently priced at $1716.57, down 5.80% in the last 24 hours due to previous excessive gains and valuation adjustment pressure; while Micron Technology (MU), with a relatively reasonable valuation, is demonstrating stronger resilience, rising against the trend to a current price of $948.77, with a 24-hour increase of 2.21%. As the prices of these two assets fluctuate, the trading activity of derivatives on the Gate platform continues to rise. According to Coinglass data, the 24-hour trading volume of Gate SNDK contracts reached $12.4 million, with an open interest of $26.84 million; the 24-hour trading volume of Gate MU contracts reached $18.44 million, with an open interest of $19.23 million, both ranking among the top in the network.

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin stated that Ethereum L1 transaction fees should remain low to promote ecosystem growth. It is expected that in the next 2 to 3 years, tens of thousands of companies will deploy on Ethereum L1, L2, and permissioned EVM networks, achieving cross-layer interoperability.Lubin believes that large-scale adoption will enhance the monetary premium of ETH and the total transaction fee revenue of L1. At the same time, staking and other locking mechanisms will reduce circulating supply. If ETH returns to a net destruction state, its value is expected to rise further.

Backpack announced the launch of the first 24/7/365 real-time US stock trading market for international investors, allowing users to buy and sell real American stocks around the clock, rather than synthetic derivatives. The first batch of supported stocks includes SpaceX (SPCX), Micron (MU), and SanDisk (SNDK).Backpack stated that the platform offers real equity ownership, instant settlement, and continuous price discovery, and supports deposits in fiat currency or stablecoins. In addition, the platform also supports tokenized versions of these assets on Solana, allowing users to achieve a 1:1 conversion between traditional securities and tokenized stocks on the Backpack platform.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed lower on Tuesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially down 0.25%, the S&P 500 index down 0.45%, and the Nasdaq down 1.16%. Storage chip stocks continued to decline, with SanDisk (SNDK.O) down 7%, Western Digital (WDC.O) down nearly 8%, and Micron Technology (MU.O) down 4.7%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index closed down 0.57%, with iQIYI (IQ.O) down nearly 7%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed higher on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially rising by 1.1%, setting a new closing high. The S&P 500 index slightly fell, and the Nasdaq dropped by 0.8%. Micron Technology fell by 5.4%, SanDisk plummeted by 14%, Intel dropped by 5%, and Seagate Technology and Western Digital fell around 10%. Apple rose against the trend by 4.8%, while Meta fell nearly 5%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index fell by 1.77%, with Baidu and Xpeng Motors dropping around 4%.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks closed lower on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average initially down 0.02%, the S&P 500 index down 0.2%, and the Nasdaq down 0.66%. NVIDIA (NVDA.O) fell 1%, Micron Technology (MU.O) fell 10.5%, SanDisk (SNDK.O) fell 10.6%, AMD (AMD.O) fell 6.8%, and Meta (META.O) rose 8.8%. The Nasdaq China Golden Dragon Index surged 2.9%, and Alibaba (BABA.N) rose 2%.

Bernstein analyst Mark Newman significantly raised the target price for SanDisk (SNDK.O) from $1700 to $3000, maintaining an "Outperform" rating.The firm pointed out in its research report that the new Long-Term Agreement (LTA) for storage has undergone a structural change, shifting from being customer-favorable to more advantageous for suppliers. The new agreements typically include fixed or range-constrained pricing, commitments of prepaid funds that lock in customers and provide downside protection, and longer contract durations. Based on data provided by the company, Bernstein estimates that the floor price for SanDisk in the recently signed LTAs is approximately $0.29 per GB.

According to the official announcement from Jupiter, the Solana chain now supports trading of the memory ETF DRAM (Roundhill Memory ETF), with holdings covering Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron, and SanDisk.