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Sui Foundation and Mysten Labs launched the Bitcoin mortgage protocol Hashi testnet on July 22, allowing BTC to provide collateral support for on-chain lending and credit markets without being wrapped into synthetic tokens or bridged across chains. Hashi keeps Bitcoin on the Bitcoin network, with deposits secured by a 2-of-2 multi-signature mechanism that requires simultaneous signatures from Hashi's multi-party computation validators and an independent Guardian Layer. Loan terms and collateral positions are recorded on-chain, allowing lenders to view the collateral backing. Over 25 institutional partners are testing Hashi's lending and credit applications, including Bitgo, Cumberland, FalconX, Ledger, Blockdaemon, Bullish, as well as Sui ecosystem lending platforms Navi and Scallop. Wave Digital Assets has committed to advancing a three-year Bitcoin yield bond tokenization plan on Sui after the Hashi mainnet launch. Hashi has not yet announced a mainnet launch date. Sui previously unveiled the Hashi development network phase in March, positioning the protocol as a solution to improve capital efficiency for the approximately 1.4 trillion dollar Bitcoin market.
According to Cointelegraph, BitMEX was sued in a class-action lawsuit by BKX Services Inc. and David Namdar in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on July 24. The plaintiffs allege that BitMEX's internal trading team used privileged access during server freezes to illegally obtain customer Bitcoin collateral by manipulating the forced liquidation mechanism. The two plaintiffs suffered a combined loss of 622.66 BTC (BKX lost at least 305.81 BTC, and Namdar lost over 316.85 BTC). The plaintiffs demand the return of the seized Bitcoin and seek compensatory and punitive damages, representing U.S. users who purchased BTC swap products since July 23, 2018. Notably, the lawsuit was filed on the same day as the announcement of BitMEX's closure—BitMEX's parent company HDR Global Trading announced it will cease services on September 23 and has stopped accepting new user registrations. Following the announcement, the price of its BMEX token plummeted by approximately 90%.
According to options expiry data released by [email protected] (@BTC__options), a total of 19,000 BTC options expired this week, with a Put Call Ratio of 0.89, Max Pain at $64,500, and a notional value of $1.2 billion; 125,000 ETH options expired, with a Put Call Ratio of 1.25, Max Pain at $1,875, and a notional value of $230 million. In terms of market conditions, BTC briefly broke through 66K this week but failed to hold. The 65K to 80K range is a high-volume trading zone from the early year's rally, indicating significant upside pressure. Overall IV has retreated to the 35% level, leaving fewer trading opportunities. Notably, the ETH put option ratio has exceeded 1 for 6 consecutive weeks, the longest duration on record, indicating sustained high bearish sentiment in the market. However, some traders are also taking the opportunity to sell Puts to buy the dip. Cryptocurrencies have experienced an 8-month bear market. From a cyclical perspective, the second half of the year may see a certain rebound.
According to Cointelegraph, Michael Saylor stated that Strategy has optimized and upgraded its Bitcoin metric system, launching a new measurement methodology covering Bitcoin, Digital Credit, and Digital Equity, further integrating Bitcoin into a systemic financial framework.
MoonPay announces a partnership with Discover Network, enabling US Discover credit cardholders to now purchase thousands of supported crypto assets via MoonPay, including BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, TRX, HYPE, and ZEC. This partnership integrates Discover card payment channels into MoonPay's crypto asset purchase service, providing US users with a new fiat on-ramp method.
Cryptocurrency exchange Gemini has donated approximately $10 million worth of Bitcoin to MAGA Inc., a super PAC supporting former US President Donald Trump. According to a report filed with the US Federal Election Commission (FEC), Gemini co-founders Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss completed the donations in two installments on June 19, each worth over $5 million. This donation occurred about three weeks after the CFTC and Gemini jointly filed a motion with the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking to vacate the $5 million settlement agreement reached in January 2025. The settlement stemmed from the CFTC's earlier allegations that Gemini had made false or misleading statements. MAGA Inc. can use these funds to support independent political expenditures for Donald Trump. Previously, the Winklevoss brothers each donated $1 million to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign and contributed $21 million worth of Bitcoin to the Digital Freedom Fund PAC to support the crypto policy direction of the Trump administration. Currently, the court has not yet ruled on the motion to vacate the settlement between the CFTC and Gemini. Meanwhile, CFTC Chairman Michael Selig remains the sole commissioner of the agency. As of June 30, MAGA Inc. has reported receiving over $397 million in funds.
Michael Saylor posted on X, stating that the Bitcoin capital market requires a new financial language. Strategy has optimized its indicators to more accurately measure Bitcoin, digital credit, and digital equity. Metrics such as Net BTC, Net BPS, BTC Hurdle ARR, and BTC Floor ARR are now live on Strategy.com.
CZ expressed regret over BitMEX's closure announcement, recalling that BitMEX pioneered the 100x leveraged perpetual contract in the crypto market in 2014, driving industry development.CZ noted that BitMEX only supported BTC deposits and single-chain operations at the time, and adopted a once-daily, multi-signature wallet batch withdrawal process. These seemingly inconvenient designs, he said, actually helped the platform avoid hacker attacks over the long term.He also mentioned that BitMEX's four co-founders admitted to violating the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) one month before their trial, each being fined $10 million and sentenced to home detention, with no prison time. However, CZ believes that BitMEX's business ultimately couldn't withstand the "War on Crypto" during the Biden administration.In conclusion, CZ stated that BitMEX is currently winding down in an orderly fashion, users can still withdraw assets, and he paid tribute to co-founder Arthur Hayes.
: Bitcoin financial product platform Lombard Finance has announced the launch of the Bitcoin Onchain Credit Strategy, with global trading firm Flow Traders as the first pilot partner. Under this solution, Flow Traders can borrow stablecoins for market making without providing on-chain collateral. Its collateral security is provided by Bitcoin deposited in the Lombard Bitcoin Earn yield product, and underwriting is completed through the Cap private credit platform. (The Block)
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.
According to Shenzhen News Network, the Shenzhen Branch of the People's Bank of China, the Shenzhen Bureau of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Municipal Internet Information Office, and the Municipal Local Financial Administration jointly launched a special rectification campaign, announcing and permanently closing a batch of non-compliant self-media accounts. The violations were mainly divided into two categories: first, accounts such as "USDT Merchant Exchange Group" and "Search Bitcoin" violated regulations by providing virtual currency marketing and promotion within the mainland, inducing the public to participate in illegal financial activities; second, accounts such as "Pajama Old Zhang" and "Zhengwu Stock Path" lacked securities and futures qualifications, and by showing profit screenshots, publishing live trading operations, etc., induced netizens to pay to join groups and purchase financial management courses, illegally engaging in securities and futures business. The aforementioned accounts have been permanently closed by the platforms in accordance with the law, and Shenzhen authorities stated that they will continue to increase efforts to rectify the online environment.
据 CoinGlass 发布的「2026 半年度市场报告」显示，主流交易所上半年 TradFi 永续合约成交量合计约 1.2 万亿美元，其中 6 月成交量占比达 33.7%，交易活跃度明显提升。市场份额主要集中于头部 CEX 平台，币安、OKX 和 Bitget 的成交额分别约为 6,663 亿美元、1,177 亿美元和 664 亿美元。 加密资产流动性方面，在中间价上下 1% 范围内，币安的 BTC 双边订单簿深度约 2.36 亿美元，占 44.0%；OKX 约 1.12 亿美元，占 20.8%；Bybit 与 Bitget 均约 7,000 万美元，占比分别为 13.9% 和 13.4%。ETH 方面，Binance 深度约 1.09 亿美元，占 28.7%；Bitget 约 8,100 万美元，占 21.4%，其次为 OKX 和 Bybit。
瑞士州立银行 BancaStato 集成 Sygnum 加密交易服务，客户可通过现有银行应用买卖 BTC、ETH 等 4 种加密资产。
: Bitcoin mining company Bitdeer Technologies Group mined 990 BTC in June, representing a 7.5% increase from 921 BTC in May and a 388% surge compared to 203 BTC in the same period last year. As of the end of June, its proprietary mining hashrate reached 73 EH/s, up from 70.2 EH/s in May and 16.5 EH/s in the same period last year. Bitdeer's proprietary mining machine count increased by 12,000 units to 243,000 units in June, while operating 56,000 self-owned mining machines under joint mining arrangements at third-party data centers. The related hashrate increased by 59% month-over-month to 15.9 EH/s. The company held 150 BTC at the end of June, down from 171 BTC at the end of May. Bitdeer stated that its AI Cloud annualized revenue run rate increased from $69 million in May to approximately $76 million, with GPU utilization rising from 90% to 95% and externally subscribed GPUs increasing from 3,305 units to 3,517 units. This run rate is calculated by annualizing the daily revenue from contractual GPU orders still active at the end of the month and does not represent recognized annual revenue or revenue projections. Bitdeer has completed customer delivery for a five-year GPU cloud contract, with the deployment including two NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 clusters. The company has also signed a 10-year lease for a data center in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, providing 21.7 megawatts of information technology capacity. Scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2027, the facility will support 128 NVIDIA GB300 NVL72 systems.
According to HTX official spokesperson Molly's social media post, HTX is about to launch a brand new unlocking scheme for remaining locked $HTX tokens. This upgrade significantly optimizes the $HTX unlocking method, including: newly supporting the use of BTC and $HTX to participate in unlocking; supporting asset sinking unlocking with no staking pressure; integrating staking interest and Earn interest, allowing users to obtain double rewards; supporting 0 trading unlocking; and increasing the fee contribution to unlocking from 20% to up to 50%. In addition, all locked $HTX will return to the pending unlocking pool. It is reported that this is the third optimization of the $HTX unlocking scheme by HTX. Molly stated that since the launch of the previous plan, the crypto industry has undergone significant changes, especially after black swan events occurred, affecting many users' assets and exacerbating the difficulty of unlocking via "asset sinking, fees". Therefore, the optimized plan will reduce unlocking difficulty through platform profit-sharing subsidies, to reward users for their support and trust in HTX.
According to official announcements, the Sui ecosystem Bitcoin financial platform Hashi testnet has officially launched. Hashi first debuted in March, aiming to provide a brand new way for BTC: unlocking value on Sui without leaving the Bitcoin network. Hashi transforms dormant BTC into secure, programmable collateral assets for institutional-grade lending, financing, and credit services, with all actions verifiable on-chain. Developers can now access the Hashi testnet to build and stress-test financial applications collateralized by Bitcoin,
Sui announced on X platform that Hashi, first launched in March, aims to enable BTC to be used on Sui without being moved out of the Bitcoin network. Currently, the Hashi testnet is now live.
According to Wintermute OTC trader @Jjay_dm, June CPI fell 0.4% month-over-month, the largest single-month drop since April 2020, overall inflation decreased from 4.2% to 3.5%, the market immediately priced in a hold for the July FOMC, and the probability of a rate hike in September also dropped from over 75% to 63%. However, the US restarted a naval blockade on Iranian ports and conducted air strikes for the fourth consecutive night, Brent crude surged 15.54% in a single week, reaching a high of $87 per barrel, pressure for energy inflation to rebound is accumulating, casting doubt on the sustainability of this CPI decline. Meanwhile, China's Moonshot released the open-source model Kimi K3, claiming performance comparable to frontier models from OpenAI and Anthropic, directly impacting the AI compute narrative, TSMC fell 7% in a single day, the Philadelphia Semiconductor Index recorded its worst weekly performance in 15 months, the Nasdaq dropped 4.16%, and Nvidia temporarily ceded the top spot in global market cap to Apple. The crypto market, however, strengthened against the trend, becoming the best-performing risk asset of the week. Within minutes of the CPI data release, BTC surged from around $62,000 to $64,900, ETH jumped 7% in a single day to $1,884, CoinGlass data showed approximately $134 million in short positions were liquidated within the first hour. BTC ETF
: Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that Foundry USA, which accounts for 33% of global Bitcoin hashrate, has initiated a hashrate-weighted vote to ask its clients whether the mining pool should support BIP-110.
据 The Bitcoin Historian（@pete_rizzo_）发文，白宫官员最新表示，《加密清晰法案》谈判进展积极，民主党的一贯策略是不提前表态，但最终往往会在关键时刻达成协议。该官员称目前"距通过非常接近"，两党支持正持续增长。