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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。
Hong Kong-licensed cryptocurrency exchange HashKey Exchange has received approval from JPMorgan to open client fund accounts. HashKey Holdings stated that the account will support client fund segregation and settlement through JPMorgan's banking infrastructure. HashKey Exchange activated a client fund account with Singapore's DBS Bank on June 30, supporting fiat currency deposits, withdrawals, and settlement services. HashKey Holdings merged the previously independent HashKey Exchange and HashKey Global applications into a single entry point one week ago. HashKey Holdings was listed in Hong Kong in December last year, having raised $206 million through an oversubscribed initial public offering.
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: HyperliquidNews posted on X platform, stating that the LTV for hyperliquid:native on the testnet has been raised from 50% to 65%.
According to CoinDesk, Strategy founder Michael Saylor announced that the company has launched the Bitcoin 200-week moving average (200W MA) and its premium/discount tracking feature on its official website. Saylor stated that since the 200W MA data became available, Bitcoin has traded above this line 92% of the time, and the current price is almost exactly near this line.
According to Reuters, the latest V4-Flash API model officially released by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek on July 31 incurred operating costs of only 1/105 that of Anthropic Claude Fable 5 in benchmark tests conducted by AI performance analysis agency Artificial Analysis. Regarding specific pricing, V4-Flash input token costs are $0.14 per million, and output token costs are $0.28 per million, with an average cost per test of approximately 3 cents, far lower than Wenxin Kimi K3 (86 cents), OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol ($1.86), and Claude Fable 5 ($3.15). In terms of performance, V4-Flash scored 50 points on the Comprehensive Intelligence Index, tying with Google Gemini 3.6 Flash, but still more than 9 points lower than leading models such as Claude Opus 5 and GPT-5.6. It is worth noting that a low listed price does not equate to low actual costs—if the model consumes more inference and output tokens when generating responses, actual expenses may rise significantly.
According to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will list Squid (QUID) on August 4. Eligible users can visit the Alpha event page to claim the airdrop using Binance Alpha points after Alpha trading opens. Specific details will be announced separately.
CSOP Asset Management issued an announcement regarding a total of 12 single-stock leveraged and inverse products under its management, linked to underlying individual stocks such as SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in the Korean stock market, and Tesla, Nvidia, Coinbase, etc. in the US stock market. These products will adopt a flexible leverage structure on August 3. Under this structure, the leverage multiple of each leveraged product or each inverse product will be adjusted based on market conditions. The upper limit of the leverage multiple shall not exceed 2x (applicable to leveraged products) or 2x inverse (-2x) (applicable to inverse products).
Odaily News: According to official sources, MGBX will launch spot trading for AAOI (Applied Optoelectronics), ARM (ARM), AVGO (Broadcom), and BABA (Alibaba) at 18:00 (SGT) on August 3, 2026.Trading opening time: 18:00 (SGT) on August 3, 2026.
Odaily News, Gate's latest data shows that the gStocks sector is performing strongly: MiniMax (MINIMAXG/USDT) has risen 10.56% in the past 24 hours, currently trading at $31.91, leading the spot gStocks sector. Meanwhile, Cerebras (CBRSG/USDT) delivered a solid performance, gaining 2.88% over the past 24 hours to reach $201.39; Arm Holdings (ARMG/USDT) rose 2.33% in the past 24 hours to $244.12. As market attention continues to heat up, Gate gStocks is steadily expanding its global tokenized stock asset ecosystem, offering users more diversified market participation opportunities.Gate gStocks employs a 1:1 fully-backed native stock reserve mechanism, where each tokenized security corresponds to an equal quantity of underlying native stocks as asset backing. It also supports 7×24-hour trading, unified account management, and trading with a minimum investment of 1 USDT, as well as fractional share trading. Users can participate in global popular stock investments with greater flexibility, achieving one-stop allocation across digital assets and traditional securities. As the tokenized securities ecosystem continues to enrich, Gate gStocks will keep expanding its offerings with more premium stocks and ETF products, providing users with even more diverse global asset allocation options.
According to Caixin, Wu Qing, Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), announced while attending the listing ceremony of offshore government bond futures in Hong Kong that efforts are currently being accelerated with the Hong Kong side to advance the RMB stock trading counter, support Hong Kong in launching more RMB-denominated and settled futures products to build a more diversified asset ecosystem, support more high-quality Chinese securities and fund companies to expand their operations and go global, build first-class investment banks and investment institutions, and provide more efficiently allocated financial services for the global layout of Chinese enterprises and investors.
Odaily News: A wallet associated with Strategy transferred 299.84 BTC, worth approximately $18.91 million. The company has not yet issued an official statement regarding this transfer. On-chain monitoring shows that this bitcoin was transferred to a new address, with timing similar to a previous transfer. Strategy sold 3,588 BTC between July 1 and July 5, amounting to approximately $216 million. Strategy currently holds 843,775 BTC, with a total acquisition cost of $63.69 billion and an average cost of $75,476 per coin. The company also added $525 million in cash reserves this month to pay preferred stock dividends and interest.
According to the official announcement, HTX listed GRVT/USDT, GILD/USDT, and UNH/USDT perpetual contracts on August 3, with a maximum leverage of 10x for all.
According to TechFlow Research, Goldman Sachs' July 31 research report pointed out that the capital expenditures of the four major cloud vendors continued to be upwardly revised in the second quarter. Amazon raised its 2026 cash capex guidance from $200 billion to $220 billion, Google raised its guidance to $195-205 billion, and Meta narrowed its range to $130-145 billion. TSMC's revenue guidance was revised up to growth of over 40%, and capital expenditure was raised to $60-64 billion. Lam Research raised its 2026 WFE estimate to the $150 billion range, KLA similarly raised its estimate to over $150 billion, and believes $190 billion is a reasonable level for 2027. Goldman Sachs believes the AI capital expenditure transmission chain is strengthening at each level, from cloud vendors to foundries to equipment vendors, with every link confirming demand. ASML benefits from EUV and advanced DUV demand, ASMI benefits from ALD and epitaxy demand, BESI benefits from the adoption of custom chips and advanced packaging investment, Nebius benefits from the expanding compute gap, and Technoprobe benefits from increased testing intensity. Goldman Sachs assesses that the market may have underestimated the sustainability and breadth of benefits in the upstream equipment segment.
official data shows Gate's yield-bearing stable asset GUSD has surpassed $224 million in cumulative subscription volume. Currently, users holding GUSD can enjoy five-fold yield benefits, including deposit rewards, GUSD demand deposit subscription yield, 1:1 lossless redemption, and stacked rewards from Launchpool dual staking pools, offering multiple asset appreciation opportunities across various scenarios.Among these, Gate GUSD demand deposit treasury product supports users holding GUSD to earn an annualized yield of 3.8%, with yields distributed daily and supporting flexible deposits and withdrawals; the original subscribed currency can be redeemed 1:1 without loss, with no redemption fees. Additionally, new users participating in GUSD demand deposit treasury subscriptions can enjoy a limited-time 100% annualized yield.In terms of ecosystem yield, Gate Launchpool currently has multiple staking pools open simultaneously, including SPCX and ANTFUN. Data shows that the SPCX GUSD pool currently has a total liquid staking amount of 44,679,086.85 GUSD with an APR of 4.85%; the ANTFUN GUSD pool currently has a total liquid staking amount of 76,454,030.14 GUSD with an APR of 5.06%. After users stack GUSD demand deposit yield, the combined annualized yields of the two pools can reach 8.65% and 8.86%, respectively.In addition, Gate is launching a deposit trading carnival event from July 27 at 18:00 to August 11 at 18:00 (UTC+8). Users who complete designated net deposits and trading tasks can receive deposit rewards and participate in trading challenges, with a maximum reward of 8,938 USDT per individual.
PPP Prediction Market Tool monitoring shows that in Polymarket's "WTI Crude Oil Price Hit in August" prediction event, the probability of WTI crude falling to $75/barrel rose to 77%, up 11% in 24 hours; the probability of falling to $70/barrel rose to 45%, up 12% in 24 hours.Earlier, oil prices were driven up by escalating tensions in the Middle East, but after Trump announced a halt to military action against Iran and indicated that the U.S. and Iran would enter a new round of negotiations, market concerns over supply disruptions began to ease, causing the risk premium on crude to quickly retreat. WTI crude prices have now fallen to around $80/barrel.Join the PPP Signal Push Community to stay one step ahead and seize the opportunity.
Odaily News — According to official sources, OKX.AI has announced that registration for its inaugural trading hackathon is now open. Following the previous Genesis hackathon for Agent Service Providers (ASP), this hackathon focuses on AI Agent live trading capabilities. Participants are required to deploy their trading strategies as Trading ASPs and conduct live trading with no less than 300 USDT in equivalent funds. Rankings will be updated in real time based on yield (PnL %). The total prize pool is $20,000, with the champion receiving a $5,000 reward.It is reported that OKX.AI is an economic system built specifically for Agents, where users and Agents can discover and utilize professional services provided by ASPs. This event supports two development frameworks: Onchain OS and Agent Trade Kit. Registration runs from July 31 to August 11 at 12:00 (UTC+8), and the competition will take place from August 11 to August 25.
Odaily News, according to official announcements, Bitget has launched its Stock Connect API, providing developers, quantitative teams, and institutional users with full programmatic access to US stocks, ETFs, and options markets.The Stock Connect API covers the entire chain of market data, order execution, and asset management, supporting US stocks, ETFs, and options through a unified interface system. In terms of features, it supports market data such as basic information, real-time quotes, order book depth, and K-lines, as well as full trade lifecycle management including order creation, cancellation, and trade query.
Bybit has listed the UNITREEUSDT Pre-IPO perpetual contract, supporting up to 10x leverage.
According to official news, Qwen releases Qwen3.8-Max, 2.4T parameters, weights to be open-sourced next week Alibaba's Qwen officially releases the most powerful model Qwen3.8-Max, with a parameter scale reaching 2.4T. The model's weights will be open-sourced next week. This is the first time Qwen has open-sourced a Max-level model. Also being open-sourced simultaneously is Qwen3.8-27B.