ARK DeFAI is a dehumanized financial system governed by protocols, ordered by models, and participated by AI. It integrates parameter algorithms and adaptive mechanisms to automatically predict, regulate, and repair, eliminating emotional decision-making.
According to STAR Market Daily, humanoid robotics company Current Robotics (Yuanliu) has publicly disclosed its financing progress for the first time, having completed seed, angel, and Pre-A funding rounds with a cumulative total of several hundred million RMB. Financial investors include Baidu Ventures, Hillhouse Capital, Oasis VC, Monolith Capital, Qianhai Ark, FSG Investment Management, and Junshan Capital; strategic partners include Agibot, StarSea, and JiKe Technology. The proceeds will primarily be used to advance large-scale acquisition of human full-body data, with a key focus on the research and development of core technologies such as whole-body dexterous manipulation foundation models and interactive world models.
According to BeInCrypto, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood recently expressed a view that overturns the market's traditional perception of open-source AI. She pointed out that the capabilities of open-source models such as Meta, Mistral, and DeepSeek are continuously enhancing, which instead expands the cybersecurity attack surface, forcing enterprises to continuously procure frontier AI as a defense layer, thereby driving revenue growth for OpenAI and Anthropic rather than harming them. Data from the UK AI Safety Institute shows that the cyber attack capabilities of open-source models have caught up to the level of frontier models from 4 to 7 months ago. Wood named OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI as the three companies most likely to capture the bulk of AI model revenue; ARK currently holds positions in all three companies. Currently, Anthropic has already submitted an S-1 filing at a valuation of nearly $1 trillion, and OpenAI is expected to go public in September 2026.
Odaily News Ark Invest, the asset management firm founded by Cathie Wood, disclosed that on August 6, it purchased 267,676 shares of Block stock, valued at approximately $21 million; on the same day, it increased its holdings by 20,318 shares of SpaceX, valued at approximately $2.3 million. Block, formerly known as Square, was renamed by Jack Dorsey in 2021. It has held Bitcoin on its corporate balance sheet since 2020 and offers BTC buy/sell services to retail customers via Cash App. In recent months, Block has also expanded related operations through its Bitkey hardware wallet and its Bitcoin mining hardware division, Proto. SpaceX listed on Nasdaq in June under the ticker SPCX, with an issue price of $135, raising approximately $75 billion and reaching a valuation of nearly $1.8 trillion. Ark's purchase came about two months after SpaceX's listing.
: AI dining platform Wonder announced the completion of a $650 million financing round, with participation from Accel, Google Ventures (GV), and NEA. New investors include ARK Invest, AllianceBernstein, and Kayne Anderson, with Goldman Sachs, Jefferies, and JPMorgan serving as placement agents. The company is developing an AI platform called "MEL," which automatically plans and orders meals tailored to individual needs by analyzing users' biometric indicators and physical conditions. It is reported that Wonder's post-money valuation has reached $9 billion, and the company plans to launch its initial public offering (IPO) early next year. (Fortune)
According to official sources, Summer.fi released a post-mortem stating that on July 6, the attacker manipulated the share prices of two Lazy Summer USDC vaults by injecting overvalued Silo tokens into an offline Ark still included in the NAV, and extracted approximately $6.04 million in a single atomic transaction.
Hydra Host, a data center software startup and AI server intermediary platform, has completed a $100 million funding round at a post-money valuation of nearly $800 million. The round was led by Kindred Ventures. Other investors include Nvidia, ARK Invest, Magnetar Capital (an early investor in CoreWeave), and existing shareholders Founders Fund and Flume Ventures.Founded in 2021, Hydra Host initially served cryptocurrency miners but has since pivoted to providing automation software for data center operators. This software enables them to rent out idle Nvidia AI server computing power and operate a GPU matching marketplace connecting GPU holders with renters. The company has now deployed its technology across 50 data centers globally, expanding from 30 in February of this year. (The Information)
According to Cryptopolitan, the U.S. Senate is scheduled to enter recess on August 7, leaving an extremely limited window for the CLARITY Act to pass before then. If voting is not completed this week, the next feasible window will be delayed until September, and if missed again, it could be postponed until after the midterm elections, meaning enactment may not occur until 2027. The main disagreement over the bill currently lies in the Democrats' insistence on adding crypto ethics clauses for senior government officials, but the consolidated draft has not yet incorporated relevant provisions. During the regulatory vacuum, large institutions such as Coinbase and Circle are better equipped to adapt to the uncertain environment due to their capital strength—ARK Invest increased its holdings in both companies this week, and Circle was approved for a federal national trust bank charter in July—while small and medium-sized crypto enterprises and DeFi projects continue to face pressure. In terms of the market, Polymarket data shows that the probability of the CLARITY Act passing within 2026 has dropped to 23%, a significant decline from Galaxy Research's prediction of 67%–75% in mid-May.
ARK Invest’s Head of Research, Lorenzo Valente, recently publicly refuted a16z Crypto’s assertion that “traditional finance needs blockchain, not DeFi,” arguing that financial institutions are more likely to be built on open DeFi infrastructure in the future. Public blockchains have already demonstrated their advantages over private blockchain solutions. The growth of tokenized assets on open networks like Ethereum highlights the stronger network effects and scalability potential of public blockchains.Lorenzo Valente pointed out that the builders of the next generation of financial infrastructure may not be traditional financial institutions, but rather crypto-native enterprises, such as Circle and Coinbase.Earlier, a16z Crypto presented a differing view, suggesting that traditional financial institutions are not truly embracing DeFi, but are selectively adopting blockchain technologies that meet their existing compliance, governance, and operational requirements. Banks and asset management firms will build “programmable financial infrastructure” in the future, leveraging core capabilities of blockchain like tokenization and atomic settlement, but while maintaining permissioned management and institutional control.Sentora co-founder Jesus Rodriguez also raised objections to a16z’s stance. He argued that financial institutions might eventually adopt the underlying DeFi infrastructure and layer compliance, custody, and enterprise-grade control mechanisms on top of it.With the rapid development of RWA tokenization, on-chain settlement, and institutional-grade financial applications, the debate over the future dominance of “open DeFi architecture” versus “permissioned blockchain systems” is intensifying. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily. Bernstein stated in its latest research report that the newly reached compromise on stablecoin yields under the U.S. CLARITY Act is structurally beneficial for Circle and the USDC ecosystem.The report notes that the current version of the bill prohibits stablecoin issuers from paying interest to passive holders that is "economically equivalent" to bank deposits, but allows reward mechanisms tied to actual transaction, payment, and usage activities to continue. Bernstein believes this means Circle's current model, which relies on partners like Coinbase to provide USDC reward programs, will gain regulatory recognition, while also limiting the industry's ability to compete for market share through high yields.Bernstein points out that the bill effectively reinforces the positioning of stablecoins as "payment tools" rather than "deposit substitutes," helping to protect Circle's current business model that relies on reserve income. The firm maintains an "Outperform" rating for Circle with a $190 target price.Data shows that the total global supply of dollar-pegged stablecoins has surpassed $300 billion, with USDT and USDC collectively accounting for approximately 97% of the market share. Bernstein notes that USDC's share in on-chain payments and wallet transfers is steadily increasing, and its share of payments in the AI Agent payment protocol x402 has exceeded 99%.Additionally, Bernstein mentioned that Circle's ARC chain has cumulatively completed 244 million testnet transactions. The ARC token pre-sale previously raised $222 million, with investors including a16z crypto, Apollo Funds, ARK Invest, and BlackRock.However, the report also points out that the CLARITY Act still needs to complete multiple legislative procedures before it takes effect, including a 60-vote threshold in the full Senate and coordination with the House version. Polymarket currently estimates its probability of passage by 2026 at approximately 62%. (The Block)
Odaily Odaily: U.S. President Trump stated at a private event for TRUMP Meme coin holders held at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida that the White House will not allow banking lobbying groups to hinder the progress of the crypto market structure bill, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. He said the crypto industry has entered the mainstream, declaring "America is the leader in crypto," and that banks should not obstruct the establishment of stablecoin and crypto regulatory frameworks.Dubbed the "most exclusive meeting in the world," the event invited hundreds of large TRUMP coin holders. Guests included Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino, Ark Invest founder Cathie Wood, Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley, and boxing champion Mike Tyson. Previously, the U.S. banking industry had expressed concerns that stablecoin reward mechanisms could impact traditional deposit businesses, which had slowed the legislative process. (CoinDesk)
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), Bitcoin spot ETF net inflows reached $517.2 million yesterday, marking the highest single-day inflow record in nearly three months. The inflow details for each fund are as follows: • IBIT (BlackRock): +$284.7 million • ARKB (Ark): +$77.71 million • FBTC (Fidelity): +$62.41 million • BITB (Bitwise): +$35.60 million • GBTC (Grayscale): +$21.18 million • BTC (Grayscale Mini): +$19.66 million • MSBT (Morgan Stanley): +$9.98 million • EZBC (Franklin): +$5.92 million Products under Invesco, Valkyrie, VanEck, and WisdomTree all recorded zero net inflows for the day.
According to ARK Invest's official trading notification, multiple ETFs under ARK completed a new round of rebalancing on August 19, showing an overall trend of increasing positions in AI computing power and cloud computing while reducing positions in the genomics and gaming sectors. The specific operations are as follows: On the buying side, ARKK, ARKW, and ARKQ synchronously increased holdings in Broadcom (AVGO) across funds. ARKK and ARKW synchronously bought Cerebras Systems (CBRS) and Cloudflare (NET). ARKF also added positions in Cloudflare and tokenized securities platform Securitize (SECZ), while ARKG bought Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) and Perceptive Capital Solutions (FRNM). On the selling side, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) was synchronously sold by the three funds ARKW, ARKF, and ARKQ. Roblox (RBLX) was significantly reduced by ARKK by 501,466 shares (accounting for 0.32% of the total ETF holdings). 10X Genomics (TXG) was also jointly reduced by ARKK and ARKG by over 200,000 shares. Palantir (PLTR), Illumina (ILMN), Twist Bioscience (T
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), the total net inflow for Bitcoin spot ETFs yesterday was $189.31 million. BlackRock $IBIT led with $143.57 million, accounting for approximately 76% of the total inflow for the day. Ark $ARKB had an inflow of $19.73 million, Bitwise $BITB an inflow of $16.15 million, Fidelity $FBTC an inflow of $23.92 million, and Grayscale Mini $BTC an inflow of $2.86 million. VanEck $HODL was the only product with a net outflow for the day, recording an outflow of $16.92 million, while inflows for all other products were zero.
Odaily News, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood stated that while the recent U.S. employment report appears concerning on the surface, deeper economic trends are shifting. Productivity gains, the expanding application of AI, and potential deflationary pressures could become the main market themes moving forward.Wood noted that the U.S. federal deficit as a percentage of GDP is currently around 5.6%, approaching levels seen during the Reagan era in the 1980s. She believes that if productivity and technology adoption continue to accelerate as ARK anticipates, that ratio could fall to about 5% by year-end, although most economic forecasters view this target as difficult to achieve.On inflation, Wood believes the market is underestimating deflationary risks. She noted that recent inflation data has consistently come in below expectations, with the June CPI falling 0.4% month-over-month, PPI down 0.3% month-over-month, and core PCE rising just 0.1% month-over-month. She argues that companies that fail to adopt AI and productivity tools may face greater pricing pressure and competitive risks in the future.Wood is also bullish on the U.S. dollar. ARK's data model based on Kalshi prediction markets suggests the dollar index could rise to 102.6 this year. She pushed back against the view that "overseas capital is selling off U.S. assets," pointing out that Japan's recent currency market intervention primarily involved selling euros and buying yen, rather than selling dollars.In energy markets, Wood believes a global crude oil supply glut is taking shape. She noted that the UAE's production has risen to historic highs after leaving OPEC, and further downside in oil prices could act as a deflationary driver for the global economy.Regarding the AI investment boom, Wood said concerns about an AI bubble are overblown, and the current growth in capital expenditure likely represents the early stage of a long-term technological revolution rather than a short-term speculative cycle.In the crypto asset space, Wood said Bitcoin's performance relative to gold is stabilizing, and believes that as the "agentic commerce" economy develops, Bitcoin and stablecoins could become the biggest beneficiaries.
Odaily News - In its Q2 Form 13F filing, Italy’s largest banking group, Intesa Sanpaolo, disclosed a reduction in its BlackRock iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) holdings from 646,809 shares to 40,723 shares, a cut of approximately 94%. As of June 30, the remaining position was valued at $1.36 million.Intesa Sanpaolo also eliminated 99% of its IBIT call options and established a new put position covering 500,000 shares. The bank continues to hold 3.47 million shares of the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF (ARKB), valued at $67.6 million at quarter-end, and maintains its 712,319-share position in the Grayscale XRP Trust unchanged.The bank increased its holdings in the BlackRock iShares Staked Ethereum Trust ETF from 116,200 shares to 349,600 shares, valued at $7.1 million as of June 30. This staked Ethereum fund holds ETH and passes through approximately 3% to 4% in annual network staking rewards.Intesa Sanpaolo also nearly doubled its position in Bitgo Holdings to 323,000 shares, while trimming Coinbase by 32%, Circle by 10%, and Robinhood by 43%. Additionally, it established a new position in commercial spaceflight company SpaceX with 5.66 million shares, valued at $966 million. (News Bitcoin)
According to Trader T data, the total net inflow for US spot Bitcoin ETFs yesterday was $244.42 million. Among them, BlackRock IBIT ranked first with a net inflow of $196.83 million; Ark ARKB had a net inflow of $37.63 million, Fidelity FBTC $11.28 million, Bitwise BITB $10.56 million, and Morgan Stanley MSBT $2.79 million.
According to BeInCrypto, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood recently expressed a view that overturns the market's traditional perception of open-source AI. She pointed out that the capabilities of open-source models such as Meta, Mistral, and DeepSeek are continuously enhancing, which instead expands the cybersecurity attack surface, forcing enterprises to continuously procure frontier AI as a defense layer, thereby driving revenue growth for OpenAI and Anthropic rather than harming them. Data from the UK AI Safety Institute shows that the cyber attack capabilities of open-source models have caught up to the level of frontier models from 4 to 7 months ago. Wood named OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXAI as the three companies most likely to capture the bulk of AI model revenue; ARK currently holds positions in all three companies. Currently, Anthropic has already submitted an S-1 filing at a valuation of nearly $1 trillion, and OpenAI is expected to go public in September 2026.
According to official sources, Summer.fi released a post-mortem stating that on July 6, the attacker manipulated the share prices of two Lazy Summer USDC vaults by injecting overvalued Silo tokens into an offline Ark still included in the NAV, and extracted approximately $6.04 million in a single atomic transaction.
According to the latest trading data disclosed by Ark Invest, funds under Cathie Wood sold a total of 109,492 shares of Palantir (PLTR) on August 4 and 5, valued at approximately $17 million based on the latest closing price.Palantir previously reported second-quarter revenue of $1.94 billion, up 93% year-over-year, and raised its full-year guidance, driving the stock up nearly 30% in a single day after the earnings release. In addition, Cathie Wood has recently increased positions in Circle (CRCL), SpaceX (SPCX), and NVIDIA (NVDA), while reducing holdings in Shopify (SHOP) and Roblox (RBLX). (The Street)
ByteDance announced today the launch of the Seedance 2.5 video generation model, capable of generating 30-second high-quality video clips in a single run. It will be rolled out on Jimeng AI and Doubao Pro sequentially, and API services will also be integrated into Volcano Ark in the near future.
Visa CEO Ryan McInerney stated during the earnings call that Visa's role in the stablecoin space is not to pick winners, but to help clients securely and scalably connect to the stablecoin ecosystem.Last month, Visa joined forces with over 140 companies, including Stripe, Mastercard, BlackRock, and Coinbase, to support Open Standard, which plans to launch the stablecoin Open USD (OUSD) later this year. Following the announcement, market speculation arose that OUSD could challenge Tether's USDT and Circle's USDC.When asked whether Visa views OUSD as a competitor to USDT and USDC, McInerney said that Visa will maintain a "multi-currency, multi-chain" strategy going forward and will not bet on a single stablecoin, network, or infrastructure.He stated that Visa's goal is to support clients in accessing the stablecoin ecosystem, regardless of which stablecoin, network, or underlying infrastructure is ultimately adopted.Ark Invest analyzed that Visa is clearly interested in Open USD, but this does not necessarily mean it views OUSD as an exclusive strategic bet. Overall, Visa appears to be keeping its participation open at the stablecoin infrastructure level, rather than directly aligning with a specific stablecoin issuer.
According to the official press release, Anchorage Digital, ARK Invest, BlackRock, Block, Blockstream, Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Galaxy, and Strategy, nine leading financial institutions and Bitcoin companies, jointly announced the establishment of the Bitcoin Security Consortium on July 23, 2026. The members independently committed to contributing a total of $15 million over the next three years to support long-term security research for the Bitcoin network, with a focus on development work in the field of post-quantum cryptography. The consortium's daily affairs are coordinated on a voluntary basis by Brink Executive Director Mike Schmidt; it will not intervene in protocol development or specific change decisions and will regularly release Bitcoin security status reports to investors and the public.
Lightning Labs announced on X platform that it has launched Wavelength, a self-custodial Bitcoin payment toolkit designed to make integrating Bitcoin into applications as simple as calling an API. Built on an Ark-like settlement layer, the platform enables developers, AI agents, and vibe coders to connect any application to Lightning payments without running a node, managing channels, or acquiring liquidity. It also supports AI agents in using Bitcoin payment APIs, data sources, and other services through MCP tool calls. Wavelength is currently available in alpha on signet and testnet, while mainnet access requires an invitation.
Bybit has added 6 perpetual contracts for US stocks/ETFs today, including WENSTOCKUSDT, DKNGUSDT, RIVNUSDT, FLYUSDT, ARKKUSDT, and TSLLUSDT, supporting up to 20x leverage. A limited-time fee discount is also available during the launch: 0% maker fee rate and 50% off the taker fee rate.Among them, WENSTOCK (Wendy's) is a globally renowned fast-food chain brand, DKNG (DraftKings) is a leading US online gambling and sports betting company, RIVN (Rivian) is an electric vehicle manufacturer, and FLY (Firefly Aerospace) is an aerospace launch vehicle and space services company; ARKK is the ARK Innovation ETF (tracking disruptive innovative tech stocks), and TSLL is the Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares ETF.
Odaily News According to Lorenzo Valente, Head of Digital Asset Research at investment firm ARK Invest, trading venues dedicated to Real World Assets (RWA) can scale with minimal reliance on Bitcoin and Ethereum liquidity, driving RWA liquidity to diverge by asset class.On July 23, Valente stated that DeFi is entering a new phase. Data shows that RWA accounts for 54% of Hyperliquid's weekly trading volume, with individual stocks representing 61% of that RWA volume; decentralized exchanges recorded $79 billion in perpetual futures trading volume during the same period, with Hyperliquid accounting for $50 billion of that total.Valente believes that if Trade.xyz accounts for 90% of Hyperliquid's trading volume, it could demand a higher share of user fees. Most popular applications will continue to rely on shared infrastructure, and only when the cost of operating independently exceeds the value of the liquidity, users, and security they rent will they consider building their own chain. (Bitcoin.com News)
According to STAR Market Daily, humanoid robotics company Current Robotics (Yuanliu) has publicly disclosed its financing progress for the first time, having completed seed, angel, and Pre-A funding rounds with a cumulative total of several hundred million RMB. Financial investors include Baidu Ventures, Hillhouse Capital, Oasis VC, Monolith Capital, Qianhai Ark, FSG Investment Management, and Junshan Capital; strategic partners include Agibot, StarSea, and JiKe Technology. The proceeds will primarily be used to advance large-scale acquisition of human full-body data, with a key focus on the research and development of core technologies such as whole-body dexterous manipulation foundation models and interactive world models.
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), Bitcoin spot ETF net inflows reached $517.2 million yesterday, marking the highest single-day inflow record in nearly three months. The inflow details for each fund are as follows: • IBIT (BlackRock): +$284.7 million • ARKB (Ark): +$77.71 million • FBTC (Fidelity): +$62.41 million • BITB (Bitwise): +$35.60 million • GBTC (Grayscale): +$21.18 million • BTC (Grayscale Mini): +$19.66 million • MSBT (Morgan Stanley): +$9.98 million • EZBC (Franklin): +$5.92 million Products under Invesco, Valkyrie, VanEck, and WisdomTree all recorded zero net inflows for the day.
According to ARK Invest's official trading notification, multiple ETFs under ARK completed a new round of rebalancing on August 19, showing an overall trend of increasing positions in AI computing power and cloud computing while reducing positions in the genomics and gaming sectors. The specific operations are as follows: On the buying side, ARKK, ARKW, and ARKQ synchronously increased holdings in Broadcom (AVGO) across funds. ARKK and ARKW synchronously bought Cerebras Systems (CBRS) and Cloudflare (NET). ARKF also added positions in Cloudflare and tokenized securities platform Securitize (SECZ), while ARKG bought Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) and Perceptive Capital Solutions (FRNM). On the selling side, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) was synchronously sold by the three funds ARKW, ARKF, and ARKQ. Roblox (RBLX) was significantly reduced by ARKK by 501,466 shares (accounting for 0.32% of the total ETF holdings). 10X Genomics (TXG) was also jointly reduced by ARKK and ARKG by over 200,000 shares. Palantir (PLTR), Illumina (ILMN), Twist Bioscience (T
According to data from Trader T (@thepfund), the total net inflow for Bitcoin spot ETFs yesterday was $189.31 million. BlackRock $IBIT led with $143.57 million, accounting for approximately 76% of the total inflow for the day. Ark $ARKB had an inflow of $19.73 million, Bitwise $BITB an inflow of $16.15 million, Fidelity $FBTC an inflow of $23.92 million, and Grayscale Mini $BTC an inflow of $2.86 million. VanEck $HODL was the only product with a net outflow for the day, recording an outflow of $16.92 million, while inflows for all other products were zero.
Odaily News, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood stated that AI Token prices are declining sharply, but usage is growing rapidly. As productivity and intelligence levels rise, market demand for AI demonstrates enormous price elasticity, and a virtuous cycle is forming that is still in its early stages.According to her reposted content, the average cost of LLM Tokens has dropped from $2.07 per million tokens on May 28 to approximately $1.02, mainly driven by price cuts on OpenAI models as well as the emergence of new open-source models like Kimi and DeepSeek, whose prices are typically only a fraction of those of closed-source models.