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据 Sifted 报道，欧洲知名风险投资机构 Index Ventures 于近日宣布完成 20 亿美元新一轮募资，旗下可投资资产总规模由此增至 35 亿美元。本轮募资由三部分构成：4 亿美元种子基金、9 亿美元早期风险基金，以及向现有成长期基金追加的 7 亿美元（该基金规模由 15 亿美元扩大至 22 亿美元）。 Index Ventures 表示，新资金将持续支持创始人"从首轮融资到上市乃至更远"，覆盖欧洲、以色列及美国市场。此次募资背景下，AI 是其核心押注方向，该机构已相继投资 Mistral、Cohere 及前 DeepMind 研究员 David Silver 创立的 Ineffable Intelligence。此前，Index 投资组合中的 Wiz 以320 亿美元被谷歌收购、Figma 完成 IPO、Revolut 完成二级市场股份出售（估值达 1150 亿美元），均为本轮募资提供了有力背书。
Ripple announced strategic investments in UK fund technology company ZILO and FCA-regulated tokenized trading platform Licuido, integrating regulated digital transfer agency, asset issuance, and collateral liquidity capabilities into the XRP Ledger. Ripple stated that the relevant infrastructure will support tokenized funds as collateral from the issuance stage and enable atomic settlement via XRPL, while RLUSD can serve as the regulated cash leg in delivery versus payment transactions. The investment amount was not disclosed.
Odaily News: Ripple announced strategic investments in ZILO and Licuido, stating that these deals will bring regulated transfer agency, securities issuance, and collateral liquidity features to its XRP Ledger-based infrastructure.
According to LatePost, Lingbo Technology, an embodied AI company under Ant Group, has launched its first round of financing, planning to raise 1.5 billion yuan and aiming to complete the second round by the end of this year. The report pointed out that Lingbo has currently formed a relatively complete layout on the brain chain related to robot perception, understanding, and action, covering areas such as vision, depth, mapping, video, world models, VA, VLA, etc., and has therefore already attracted attention from multiple investment institutions prior to the financing launch.
Odaily News: Recent market speculation suggests that TradeXYZ is conducting an equity funding round, aiming to raise $200 million at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Cobie has stated that the probability of TradeXYZ securing funding is zero; additionally, some community members have questioned why TradeXYZ would need external funding instead of raising from Jeff's Hyperliquid team if capital were truly required.
Odaily News Crypto analyst Murphy stated on X that on-chain data reveals a rare large-scale movement of coins by Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) recently. Over the past two days, more than 65,000 BTC have moved on-chain each day (excluding internal transfers within the same entity), leading to a notable decline in LTH net positions.Data shows that LTH net positions had begun to deviate from their previous continuous growth trend since May this year, entering a plateau in July, with the recent large-scale transfers being relatively uncommon over the past year. Among these, approximately 14,000 BTC flowed into exchanges. Some of the funds include a transaction where a company under Trump's umbrella transferred 2,628 BTC to Crypto.com.Currently, aside from the portion flowing into exchanges, the destination and purpose of the remaining coins reduced by long-term holders remain unclear. Murphy stated that potential risks currently affecting the BTC market include: 1) Shifts in Fed monetary policy and rising rate hike expectations; 2) Inflationary pressure from Middle East tensions and oil price changes; 3) Valuation concentration in the AI sector and financing risks behind high capital expenditures; 4) Re-crowding of yen carry trade positions.
Odaily News – ChangXin Technology has drawn significant market attention since its listing, with analysts showing stark divergence in their assessments of its future value. According to data, the most optimistic analyst believes ChangXin Technology's market capitalization could reach $1.1 trillion over the next 12 months, while the most pessimistic forecast sits at approximately $160 billion. The disagreement primarily centers on whether ChangXin Technology can capture market share in the DRAM sector and whether it can achieve breakthroughs in HBM technology.Bullish analysts argue that China's push for semiconductor self-sufficiency and the domestic DRAM supply-demand gap will help ChangXin Technology expand rapidly. Bearish analysts, on the other hand, worry that new industry capacity could drive DRAM prices down between 2027 and 2028, weighing on profitability across the entire memory sector.ChangXin Technology's stock surged 523% in its first week of trading. The market continues to monitor its progress in HBM technology, as well as whether China's domestically developed DUV lithography tools can help narrow the gap with Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron. (Bloomberg)
Odaily Odaily News: AI voice generation startup Fish Audio announced the completion of a $52 million seed funding round, led by Coreline Ventures and Capital Today, with participation from 359 Capital, Parable, Play Time, and other institutions. The company was founded by former NVIDIA researcher Shijia Liao, who initially trained the first voice generation model on a single GPU and open-sourced it out of dissatisfaction with the lack of expressiveness in AI-generated voices on the market. Over the past year, Fish Audio has launched five models, including four voice generation models and one speech-to-text model. (TechCrunch)
Odaily News: Affected by a sharp decline in artificial intelligence (AI)-related stocks, investment firm Situational Awareness suffered a severe drawdown in July, with the fund's net value falling 67% in a single month. Aschenbrenner previously gained attention for publishing the research report "Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead" on AI development trends, which discussed topics such as AI capability advancement, industrial competition, and AI safety over the next decade. This significant fund drawdown also highlights the challenges facing AI-themed investing: even with a long-term bullish view on technological transformation, concentrated bets on a few high-growth tech assets can still lead to剧烈 short-term volatility.The fund's founder and AI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner acknowledged that market performance in July fell far short of expectations and said in a letter to investors: "We let you down."The Situational Awareness fund previously attracted attention for its bets on long-term AI industry growth, with an investment strategy focused on AI infrastructure, AI chips, and related technology companies. However, the AI sector underwent significant adjustments in July, with high-valuation tech stocks facing sell-offs that dragged down the fund's performance.This drawdown reflects the high volatility risk within the AI investment boom. Although the market remains optimistic about the long-term development of artificial intelligence, some AI-related assets that had previously seen rapid valuation gains underwent noticeable corrections amid changes in interest rates, earnings expectations, and capital flows. (Cointelegraph)
The People's Bank of China held a work conference for the second half of 2026. The conference emphasized steadily deepening financial reforms and opening-up. Cooperation on inter-central bank currency swaps and local currency settlement will be carried out actively and prudently. Support and facilitation will be provided for more overseas institutions to participate in the issuance of Panda bonds. The development of the offshore RMB market will be coordinated, supporting Shanghai in enhancing its cross-border finance and offshore financial service capabilities, and consolidating Hong Kong's status as an offshore RMB business hub. Reforms to facilitate cross-border trade and investment and financing will be deepened. Construction of the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System will be advanced, international cooperation on cross-border payments strengthened, and cross-border infrastructure for the digital RMB improved.
According to Livecoins, during a routine inspection of a scrap factory in Belo Horizonte, the Brazilian Minas Gerais State Military Police discovered an illegal Bitcoin mining farm on the second floor. At least 15 ASIC miners (suspected to be Bitmain Antminer S17 series) and three servers were seized on site, with the equipment valued at over 200,000 reais. Local energy company Cemig confirmed that the mining farm had been operating using stolen electricity for a long time, causing monthly losses of approximately 60,000 reais. A 37-year-old employee was arrested on the spot for theft and fencing stolen goods after failing to provide the source and invoices for the equipment, and two company executives were also placed under investigation. The police stated, "There may be some kind of criminal organization behind this," and are currently tracing the flow of the cryptocurrency mined by the farm.
Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor confirmed that the company's Variable Rate Series A Perpetual Preferred Stock STRC will maintain a Stretch Dividend Rate of 12.00% in August 2026. STRC was launched in July 2025 with an initial rate of 9%, and has since seen seven consecutive monthly increases. STRC's dividend adjustment mechanism stipulates that when its trading price falls below $95, the dividend rate increases by 0.5%, and once triggered, the increase is irreversible even if the price recovers. Strategy resets this rate monthly to drive STRC's price closer to its $100 par value, and issues new shares through its ATM program to raise funds for Bitcoin purchases. STRC closed at $89.46 on July 31, down from the previous closing price of $89.50, approximately 10% to 11% below its $100 par value. The stock touched a low of $71.25 in June and has not returned to par value since mid-May. Strategy has paused new STRC issuance through its ATM program, limiting its ability to use this funding channel to increase its Bitcoin holdings. The company maintains a liquidity buffer covering approximately 26 months of dividend and interest obligations, and in late June, authorized a $2 billion preferred stock and common stock buyback and Bitcoin monetization program through the Digital Credit Capital Framework.
Minicoin, an IP RWA network built on the Creditcoin blockchain, has announced that its native token, MINI, will be the first project to launch on the PenguinSwap Launchpad.In addition, Mini Labs, the development company behind Minicoin, has received official authorization from IPX. Minicoin will mint each piece of intellectual property into IP NFTs representing full ownership. The platform ecosystem includes an on-chain IP registration system, smart contract-based revenue settlement (settled in MINI), creator and fan incentive mechanisms, and AI creation tools.Currently, the survival adventure game "minini universe: ROOM" has been deployed on the PenguinBase platform. Users can qualify for the MINI Launchpad public offering by playing the game, leveling up, and minting SBTs.
"White-Haired Stock Guru" Serenity has summarized the capital expenditure guidance from the latest earnings reports of Amazon, Meta, Google, and Microsoft, stating that the four major tech giants are expected to allocate a combined capital expenditure of approximately $720 billion to $745 billion in 2026, exceeding the market's previous expectation of $695 billion to $725 billion. The market has recently experienced significant deleveraging, as well as position liquidations among retail and institutional investors due to margin pressures. While short-term adjustments may persist, it is difficult to maintain a bearish stance on upstream semiconductor companies and next-generation cloud computing infrastructure in the medium to long term.Serenity also proposed the "bottleneck investment" thesis, arguing that when trillions of dollars in capital flow into supply chain segments previously viewed as low-value commodities—such as memory chips and even enterprises in the energy infrastructure sector—these companies may undergo a valuation reshaping. Many currently popular AI supply chain companies were previously overlooked by the market during the telecommunications cycle. However, as AI infrastructure construction enters an acceleration phase and capital expenditure flows into their balance sheets, these enterprises may experience a repricing.
According to Korean media Daum, volatility in the South Korean stock market has recently intensified, investor risk appetite has clearly cooled, and funds are flowing back from the stock market to safe-haven assets such as banks. Due to adjustments in the semiconductor sector and stricter regulation on leveraged investment, idle funds in the South Korean stock market are withdrawing rapidly, and the market is exhibiting a phenomenon of "reverse capital migration". Data shows that as of the end of July, the time deposit balance at South Korea's five major banks (KB Kookmin, Shinhan, Hana, Woori, NH Nonghyup) reached 973.49 trillion won, an increase of 24.09 trillion won from the end of the previous month, marking the largest single-month increase this year. Funds related to the stock market also showed significant contraction. According to data from the Korea Financial Investment Association, investor securities account deposits (idle funds for stock trading) reached a historical high of 139.69 trillion won on June 4, but as of July 28, had fallen to 107.20 trillion won, a decrease of over 32 trillion won in less than two months. The balance of credit transaction financing, representing the scale of market margin trading, fell to 33.19 trillion won during the same period, a decrease of about 4.5 trillion won from the peak of 37.72 trillion won set on July 2, a decline of approximately 12%.
Odaily News - After Coinbase's Q2 results fell short of market expectations, the stock briefly dropped to a roughly two-and-a-half-year low on Friday morning before paring losses to around $150. Over the past year, the stock is still down approximately 57%.Wall Street generally believes Coinbase underperformed this quarter, but opinions differ on the cause: some analysts attribute it mainly to a weak crypto market environment, while others have begun to question whether the company's growth strategy beyond its trading business can deliver.JPMorgan stated that Coinbase's results reflect a "challenging crypto environment," with new products contributing limited value to the income statement. The bank lowered its December 2026 price target for Coinbase from $196 to $148, while maintaining an "Overweight" rating. JPMorgan believes the company faces pressure across multiple business lines, with weak trading volumes dragging down transaction revenue and subscription and services revenue also under strain.Bernstein, on the other hand, believes Coinbase's long-term strategy remains attractive, but investors want to see more compelling execution, particularly in new business areas such as prediction markets and tokenized stocks.Mizuho warned that Robinhood is emerging as the mainstream alternative for retail crypto trading. Overall, Coinbase is still viewed as an important representative of U.S. crypto compliance infrastructure, but its valuation recovery increasingly depends on proving it is more than just a crypto exchange reliant on trading cycles.
Odaily News, Strategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor said at the company's Q2 earnings call that while the company has previously allocated nearly "100% of its funds to Bitcoin," it may adopt a combined strategy of holding both cash and BTC going forward. He stated, "Perhaps the best way to buy the most Bitcoin is not to buy the most Bitcoin immediately."TD Cowen and Benchmark both maintained their Buy ratings on Strategy following the Q2 earnings call. The two firms believe that the core goal of the company's current management has shifted toward bringing its STRC preferred stock price back to near par value, thereby restoring its ability to function as a financing tool.TD Cowen analyst Lance Vitanza said the most important takeaway from the call was management's strong focus on STRC. Company executives repeatedly emphasized that restoring STRC to par value is the core objective, and noted that despite recent price deviations in the security, institutional adoption continues to rise.Benchmark analyst Mark Palmer holds a similar view. He pointed out that Saylor and his team spent most of the 90-minute call focused on the same goal: restoring STRC to the $99–$100 range, making it once again the primary engine for the company to raise capital and purchase Bitcoin.
Odaily News: Zhibao Technology announced it has reached a $154.7 million private placement funded by Bitcoin with non-U.S. investors, with the financing totaling 2,380 BTC. The company is a Chinese listed firm.
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