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Hyperscale Data GPUS announced that it has sold 100 bitcoins to fund the construction of its AI data center in Michigan. CEO William Horne stated that this is "converting one balance sheet asset into another" and clarified that his confidence in BTC has not changed. Its Bitcoin 100 ranking is 44th.

According to official news, Japanese gaming giant Gumi, through its subsidiary gC Labs, will launch the "SBI Crypto Fund I" cryptocurrency investment fund in collaboration with SBI Financial Services on August 1. The fund has a scale of approximately 3 billion yen (about 18.3 million USD), with a duration of three years, adopting a private placement structure, and several institutions including Daiwa Securities Group are participating in the investment.The fund will primarily invest in Bitcoin and mainstream altcoins, utilizing a combination of staking, rebalancing, and hedging strategies. The fund aims to serve as a bridge between the cryptocurrency asset market and Japanese enterprises, accumulating performance for the future development of financial products such as cryptocurrency ETFs. Currently, Japan has not yet approved cryptocurrency ETFs, and the launch of this fund is seen as an attempt to integrate traditional finance with digital assets.

According to Be In Crypto, Grayscale CEO Peter Mintzberg submitted Form 144 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), intending to sell 2,611 shares of Grayscale XRP Trust ETF (GXRP), with a total value of approximately $53,400, equivalent to $20.45 per share.Previously, founder Barry Silbert and Chief Legal Officer Craig Salm submitted a similar application in January of this year, when the price per share was approximately $37, making Mintzberg's selling price about 45% lower.It is noteworthy that the number of GXRP shares outstanding has plummeted from 5.79 million shares to 2.84 million shares in the past six months, a decrease of about 51%, reflecting that redemption pressure continues to exceed subscription. Currently, the total net assets of the U.S. spot XRP ETF are approximately $971.6 million, with GXRP accounting for about 6%.

According to The Block, as of July 27, the Bitcoin reserves of Hyperscale Data, an artificial intelligence data center company listed on the NYSE American, have increased to 1,106 coins, worth approximately $71.7 million.In the past week, the company has added 15 Bitcoins through a subsidiary that is planned to be spun off in 2027.

The Kimi.ai team has opened the Kimi K3 model weights and technical report while gradually open-sourcing multiple underlying infrastructures: including the high-performance communication library MoonEP for distributed MoE training, the distributed environment system AgentENV for large-scale agent workflows (in collaboration with kvcache-ai), and the Kimi Delta Attention high-performance kernel FlashKDA based on CUTLASS.The official statement claims that these components can reduce communication and inference overhead in large-scale MoE and agent reinforcement learning training, and can be used as a plug-and-play backend for flash-linear-attention.

According to a report by the WSJ, Nvidia has invested in the AI laboratory Safe Superintelligence (SSI), founded by former OpenAI chief scientist Ilya Sutskever. The two parties have reached a long-term cooperation agreement aimed at expanding SSI's computing resources while helping Nvidia secure important clients in the AI field. Both companies stated that Nvidia made a "large-scale" investment after understanding some of SSI's research progress, but did not disclose the specific amount.As part of the collaboration, SSI will receive a significant amount of Nvidia's flagship GPU resources, with its computing power expected to increase by an order of magnitude. Previously, SSI primarily relied on TPU chips provided by Google for AI research and development. This collaboration indicates that Nvidia is further expanding its AI chip ecosystem and binding future computing power demands through investments in top AI laboratories.SSI was established in 2024 by Ilya Sutskever, with the goal of developing "Safe Superintelligence." The company has previously raised about $2 billion in funding, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Sequoia Capital, and reached a valuation of approximately $30 billion last year. This is not Nvidia's first investment in an AI company founded by former core members of OpenAI. In March of this year, Nvidia also invested in Thinking Machines Lab, founded by former OpenAI chief technology officer Mira Murati, whose first AI model is trained on Nvidia hardware.Ilya Sutskever is one of the important researchers in the field of modern artificial intelligence, having co-founded OpenAI and promoted the development of large model technologies such as ChatGPT. However, after leaving OpenAI, he began to question the approach of solely relying on expanding data and computing power to drive AI progress, turning instead to explore new directions in superintelligence research.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, after the IPO of Changxin Technology, CEO Zhu Yiming's wealth surged by nearly 300%, reaching $13.9 billion.In the company's IPO prospectus in May, Zhu Yiming promised to transfer 767.9 million shares for an employee incentive plan. After the stock price of Changxin Technology soared 466% on its first day of trading, the value of these shares has reached $5.6 billion. In other words, 40% of Zhu Yiming's wealth will be distributed as bonuses to employees.Meanwhile, Zhu Yiming also promised not to reduce his shareholding within ten years. However, Changxin Technology's bonus plan has specific conditions, including a three-year vesting period, a ten-year distribution period, and an unclear scope of beneficiaries. The company had a total of 19,298 employees as of the end of 2025.

Gate officially released the 2026 Wealth Management Semi-Annual Report. The report shows that the overall cryptocurrency market faced pressure in the first half of the year, with BTC and ETH dropping approximately 33.1% and 47.1%, respectively, and market risk appetite continued to decline. Against this backdrop, user demand for stable returns and high liquidity assets has continued to rise.Gate's Yubi Treasure position size remained stable at 2 billion USDT, with funds gradually shifting towards demand for liquidity management. At the same time, the GUSD minting rate has stabilized, with funds mainly flowing into on-chain earning scenarios, continuously demonstrating the value of income-generating stable assets. In terms of advanced wealth management, Gate's dual-currency investment maintains an industry-leading advantage, with the low-buy strategy achieving a 0-day term APY of up to 295%, significantly higher than the market average of 166%. Gate's quantitative fund continues to perform steadily, with the interstellar hedge (USDT) achieving a cumulative return of 18.7%. In asset allocation, Gate's stock holdings continue to optimize, with the proportion of Korean stocks rapidly increasing following their launch, accounting for about 75% of the overall holdings by the end of June. The top ten holdings are mainly concentrated in semiconductor and technology growth assets, with SK Hynix holding the largest position. Additionally, Gate's GUSD minting annualized rate reached 3.8%, supporting users to participate in diverse ecological scenarios such as Launchpool and Pre-IPOs; Yubi Treasure USDT wealth management VIPs can enjoy an annualized return of 4.0%.In the future, Gate will continue to improve its wealth management system covering stable wealth management, enhanced returns, and multi-asset allocation, providing more flexible and efficient asset appreciation solutions for users with different risk appetites, helping users achieve long-term value growth amid market cycle changes.

According to PR Newswire, Bitcoin financial and AI data center company Hyperscale Data announced that it purchased approximately 51.5 bitcoins in the open market last week through its wholly-owned subsidiary Ault Capital Group (ACG).As of now, Hyperscale Data holds 1087.4527 bitcoins, with a total holding value of approximately 70.3 million USD.

According to The Block, Grayscale has submitted a registration statement for the Grayscale Worldcoin ETF to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The fund will hold the native token WLD of the World Network as a passive investment tool, aiming to make the value per share reflect the value of the held WLD minus fees and liabilities.If approved, the ETF will be listed on Nasdaq, with BNY Mellon serving as the transfer agent and BitGo Bank & Trust serving as the custodian.

According to Cointelegraph, Japanese logistics company AZ-COM Maruwa Holdings plans to use the JPYC stablecoin to make payments to approximately 2,300 business partners, potentially becoming the first large-scale enterprise in Japan to use the yen stablecoin JPYC. This stablecoin will be used to pay transportation contractors (including truck drivers) fees and compensation.Since JPYC does not charge transfer fees, using the stablecoin allows for faster and more frequent payments. AZ-COM Maruwa is also considering establishing a partnership with JPYC and plans to invest over 1 billion yen (approximately 6.2 million USD). AZ-COM Maruwa is a medium-sized Japanese logistics company, with major clients including Amazon Japan.

Grayscale's research director Zach Pandl stated that if the price of Bitcoin has formed a solid bottom but is consolidating before recovery, a covered call strategy can generate income through Bitcoin volatility while managing spot price exposure. Grayscale assumes a Bitcoin spot price of $65,000 and an implied volatility of 40%, projected until the end of 2026. Under this assumption, the covered call strategy has an annualized return of about 22%, remaining profitable above a breakeven price of approximately $58,500, and outperforming holding spot Bitcoin alone when Bitcoin reaches about $72,500 at expiration.Pandl pointed out that option premiums provide income and downside protection, at the cost of giving up some upside potential when Bitcoin rises significantly. If the Bitcoin spot price falls below the breakeven price, the strategy will still incur losses, but the extent of the loss will be less than directly going long on spot Bitcoin, with the difference equivalent to the call option premium. Grayscale's Grayscale Bitcoin Covered Call ETF, with the ticker BTCC, aims to maximize income generation potential through writing covered calls. The fund does not directly invest in digital assets or initial coin offerings but gains indirect exposure to digital assets through derivatives related to exchange-traded products that hold digital assets.

According to a report by The Defiant, data from Token Terminal shows that the on-chain trading activity of tokenized stocks and their use in lending and collateralization are both on the rise, but they still account for a small proportion of the overall DeFi market. Specifically, the on-chain spot DEX for tokenized stocks has reached a cumulative trading volume of $1.8 billion over the past 90 days, while the lending market has a deposit scale of approximately $23 million.In detail, on-chain trading volume is mainly concentrated on BNB Chain and Solana, accounting for 47.3% and 45.5% of the trading volume over the past 90 days, respectively; by asset classification, tokens tracking QQQ and SPY account for 40.5% and 40.4% of the total trading volume. In terms of lending collateral, xStocks accounts for 86.5% of the issuer's share, Solana accounts for 85.5% of the on-chain share, and Kamino accounts for 82.6% of the protocol share.The report also points out that compared to Uniswap's monthly trading volume of approximately $45 billion and xStocks' TVL of about $330 million, the current scale of tokenized stocks in terms of both trading and collateral usage is still at a low base.

FTX Recovery Trust and FTX announced that the next round of fund distribution will start on July 31, allocating approximately $900 million to convenience and non-convenience claimants in the restructuring plan. Eligible creditors can receive funds through BitGo, Kraken, or Payoneer accounts within 1 to 3 business days.This round of distribution is the fifth round of repayments to creditors by FTX. According to the FTX restructuring plan, convenience claims under $50,000 will receive 120% repayment, while other claims will receive distributions of 103% to 105%. Since FTX filed for bankruptcy in November 2022, FTX Recovery Trust has distributed approximately $10 billion. Former FTX CEO Sam "SBF" Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2024, and his conviction and sentencing appeal were dismissed last month.

According to official news, the current staking scale of Gate GUSD has exceeded 230 million. As a yield asset supported by U.S. Treasury RWA and stablecoins, GUSD currently has a minting yield of 3.8%. Users holding GUSD can not only continuously earn yields but also participate in various ecological activities such as Launchpool and Pre-IPOs, enhancing the efficiency of fund utilization.To further improve the liquidity experience, Gate officially launched the GUSD no-loss quick redemption feature on July 17 at 14:00 (UTC+8). Users can redeem GUSD minted with USDT, USDC, or USD1 within the no-loss exit limit of the corresponding currency, enjoying real-time 1:1 crediting of the original currency without redemption fees, achieving flexible fund turnover while enjoying yields and maintaining asset liquidity.

According to Xinhua News Agency, as the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference and the High-Level Meeting on Global Governance of Artificial Intelligence are about to be held, the new generation model Kimi K3 was released on the 16th, with a parameter scale of 28 trillion. This is currently the largest open-source model in the world by parameters, marking a new step in the development of artificial intelligence models in our country.Beijing Moon's Dark Side Technology Co., Ltd., which released the model, introduced that Kimi K3 natively supports visual understanding, has a context window of 1 million tokens, and is optimized for complex task scenarios such as software engineering, knowledge work, deep research, and multimodal understanding, further enhancing the processing capability of large models for complex tasks. It is understood that in evaluations, Kimi K3's comprehensive intelligence level is close to that of the world's leading closed-source models. A relevant person in charge of Moon's Dark Side stated that in the process of training the new generation foundational model Kimi K3, they used a self-developed underlying model architecture and accumulated a complete set of scientific model training methods.

Researcher Adam from Greeks.live stated that the trading of large Bitcoin call options has significantly increased, with a total of 25,766 BTC call options traded, with a nominal value of approximately $1.65 billion. Among them, nearly 10,000 sets of the 70,000/72,000 USD call bull spread expiring at the end of this month have been traded, making it the most active contract.Adam noted that with about two weeks left until expiration at the end of this month, the large-scale purchases of out-of-the-money call options that are about 10% higher than the current price reflect the market's optimistic expectations for the market trend in late this month; however, the trading strategy of using the lower-cost bull spread also indicates that the funds are primarily taking a tentative approach rather than making aggressive bets.

According to the Financial Times, informed sources reveal that the Chinese AI unicorn company Moonshot AI plans to release a new large language model, Kimi K3, in the near future. This model has between 20 trillion to 30 trillion parameters, making it the largest AI model in China by parameter scale, and its performance is expected to surpass the flagship model Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic in mainstream benchmark tests (industry speculation suggests its parameter count is around 15 trillion to 20 trillion).Unlike the currently mainstream closed-source and expensive cutting-edge large models in the United States, Kimi K3 will be available as an open-weight model for users to download and modify for free, which may create competitive pressure for leading American labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. Currently, due to the rising service fees for large models in the U.S. (for example, Anthropic has announced a 50% price increase for Opus 4.8 in September), some overseas companies have begun to shift towards using more cost-effective Chinese open-source models.In terms of the capital market, informed sources indicate that Moonshot AI is preparing for a new round of financing, with the latest valuation expected to reach approximately $31.5 billion. Meanwhile, the valuations of other AI giants in China and the U.S. are also rising; DeepSeek is starting a new round of financing with an estimated valuation of about $71 billion, while Anthropic and OpenAI have reached valuations of $965 billion and $852 billion, respectively, in their latest round of financing. In response to the aforementioned release and financing rumors, Moonshot AI has currently declined to comment.

According to Gate market data, South Korea's semiconductor leader SK Hynix (000660) is currently priced at $1245.42, down 11.52%; Samsung Electronics (005930) is currently priced at $172.47, down 8.76%, with the semiconductor sector overall weakening. According to CoinGlass data, the SKHYNIX contract open interest on the Gate platform reached $26.36 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $56.49 million; the SAMSUNG contract open interest reached $2.67 million, with a 24-hour trading volume of $5.40 million, with related indicators ranking among the industry's top.