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The core subsidiary of Japan's SoftBank Group, SB Payment Service (SBPS), announced an agreement with a fund under Blackstone Group to acquire shares of SP.LINKS (formerly Sony Payment Services) parent company. After the transaction is completed, SP.LINKS will become a subsidiary of SBPS.Both parties stated that they will combine SP.LINKS' accumulated strengths in payment infrastructure and service capabilities with SBPS' advantages in payment services and business fundamentals to further enhance the competitiveness of the payment agency business, addressing market changes brought about by the proliferation of cashless payments, the development of e-commerce, and digital technologies such as AI.

According to BBX data, global listed companies disclosed the latest real accounts on crypto asset portfolio adjustments, liquidation stop-losses, and strategic positions over the weekend. The core dynamics are as follows:Trump Media transfers 2,628 BTC at a huge loss to the exchange: Trump Media (NASDAQ: $DJT) transferred its 2,628 BTC (worth approximately $165 million) to the Crypto.com exchange on Saturday (August 1), with market expectations that it will further liquidate. The company purchased 11,542 BTC at an average price of $118,529 last year and has sold a total of 7,281 BTC this year (average price of about $74,860), realizing a loss of $318 million; it currently holds 4,261 BTC (with an unrealized loss of $237 million), bringing the total cumulative loss/unrealized loss to as high as $555 million.Quantum Solutions sells 1,000 ETH to fund AI data center: The Tokyo Stock Exchange listed company Quantum Solutions (TYO: 2338) sold 1,000 ETH at a price of $1,903 each on July 30, raising $1.9 million to fund its AI data center business, expecting to recognize a loss of about $100,000. Together with the 904 ETH sold in June, the company's holdings have decreased by 29% to 4,764.8 ETH. The board has raised the sale limit from 1,875 ETH to 4,375 ETH, and if the limit is reached, it will dispose of about 66% of its initial holdings.Japanese listed company Eole purchases HYPE to create a crypto bank: Japanese listed company Eole disclosed that it bought 1,078.25 HYPE (average price of $57.15, worth about $66,000) on July 28. The company plans to increase its total investment in HYPE to $611,000 through multiple purchases by the end of August and will hold it as a strategic treasury asset under the "Neo Crypto Bank" plan, alongside Bitcoin for the long term.

Gilad Shainer, Senior Vice President of NVIDIA, announced at a recent technology forum that CPO has entered the mass production stage. The switches co-developed with the supply chain have begun delivery to closely collaborating customers and are being deployed in-house. It is expected that starting this year, switches equipped with CPO technology will be widely adopted in AI factories around the world.Shainer pointed out that the biggest opportunity in the future optical communication market lies in vertical scaling, which will require bandwidth efficiency more than ten times that of horizontal scaling. Previously, Shainer was responsible for R&D at Mellanox, and after the company was acquired by NVIDIA, he led the AI platform network transmission department and co-developed the COUPE silicon photonics packaging platform with TSMC. This announcement helps to dispel market concerns about the upgrade of optical communication specifications and boosts the operational outlook for related manufacturers.It is reported that NVIDIA has already implemented CPO on Spectrum-X, aiming to align with the upcoming large-scale deployment of the Vera Rubin AI platform (which has a computing speed at least three times faster than GB300). Trendforce estimates that the CPO/NPO market size will exceed $39 billion by 2030, with significant acceleration in growth momentum from 2028 to 2029 as optical interconnects are introduced with Scale-up.

Dongfang Harbor Chairman Dan Bin expressed his views this morning, stating that in July, the chip sector experienced a sharp decline and massive leveraged liquidations, but in the grand AI cycle, such a level of correction is both a necessary path and a sign of market health.The market has yet to fully understand the infinite demand potential of AI as an "intelligent" product. Concerns about capital expenditures from giants have echoed the early story of Amazon AWS, but the opportunities in AI are far greater. Funds are flowing back from low-quality tech stocks to high-quality targets, confirming the judgment of a "return of the king" by the end of 2026. Storage chips still face cyclical risks and high volatility, so it is advisable to wait for technical repairs, with a more optimistic view on fundamentally solid companies like Nvidia, Broadcom, and TSMC, as funds will flow more towards quality application layers.On the other hand, the business of hyperscale cloud providers is accelerating growth, with a large backlog of orders and an increasing growth rate, indicating that the previous punishment of capital expenditures was a misjudgment, and these investments will translate into certain future revenues. Looking ahead to August, the Nasdaq's rebound is expected to continue until Nvidia's earnings report, and the tech sector's rolling adjustment is nearing its end, with funds accelerating back into high-quality tech stocks.In terms of specific sector operations, it is currently not advisable to blindly chase high prices in the chip and storage (memory) sectors. However, investors can adopt a short-term band trading strategy of buying on dips until the storage sector completely emerges from its bottoming pattern on a technical level.

According to Iranian media Fars News, some "media associated with the enemy" previously claimed that Iran had agreed to a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. However, informed sources denied this statement and emphasized that Iran's policy regarding this strategic waterway has not changed.

Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are accelerating their layout of HBM and next-generation storage technologies to maintain their leading advantage. Samsung Electronics stated that its R&D investment reached a record 16 trillion won (approximately 11.6 billion USD) in the second quarter and plans to expand its layout of high-end storage products such as HBM4, HBM4E, and DDR5.SK Hynix is developing next-generation technologies such as HBM5, hybrid bonding, and iHBM, with capital expenditures expected to reach 40 trillion won (approximately 32.6 billion USD) this year.

According to CNBC, the Trump Media Group has officially launched the paid data service Truth API, providing customers with faster access to posts from Trump and other top accounts on the Truth Social platform. The service costs up to $100,000 per month and is primarily aimed at trading firms and enterprises.Trump Media's interim CEO Kevin McGurn stated that the Truth API is designed to provide institutions with "direct, licensed, real-time streams of the most market-impacting Truth posts." Trump's @realDonaldTrump account currently has 13 million followers, and some of his key policy decisions will be announced first on Truth Social.Before the service launched, U.S. Democratic Senators Adam Schiff and Elizabeth Warren had already written to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, requesting an investigation into whether Trump Media violated the law.The two stated that the service could constitute using the presidential office for personal gain and harm ordinary investors and market integrity.Trump Media stated that Truth Social posts have already been able to influence the market, and the Truth API will drive the company's monetization of its own data assets through a high-margin, recurring revenue model.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, Trump Media transferred 2,628 bitcoins to the Crypto.com exchange 6 hours ago. The company is currently facing a loss of up to $555 million on its bitcoin holdings.From July to August last year, Trump Media purchased 11,542 bitcoins for $1.368 billion at an average price of $118,529 after raising funds through the sale of company stock and convertible bonds.Since the beginning of this year, the company has sold 7,281 bitcoins for $545 million at an average price of approximately $74,860, realizing a loss of $318 million. It currently still holds 4,261 bitcoins, valued at $268 million, with an unrealized loss of $237 million.

According to NexBlock, the trading volume in South Korea's virtual asset market continues to shrink, and the competitive landscape among the five major won exchanges is changing. During this market downturn, funds are further concentrating on platforms with leading liquidity, while small and medium-sized exchanges are seeking breakthroughs through partnerships with securities companies, institutional market layouts, and operational restructuring. In the future, the focus of competition will no longer be solely on trading volume, but also on stablecoin liquidity, traditional financial cooperation, institutional market expansion, and regulatory compliance capabilities.Data shows that in the first half of this year, the five major won exchanges in South Korea (Upbit, Bithumb, Coinone, Korbit, Gopax) had a total trading volume of approximately $366.58 billion, a year-on-year decrease of 54.6%.From July 1 to 27, the five major exchanges had a cumulative trading volume of about 17.34 trillion won, a decrease of 16.9% compared to the same period last month. Among them, Upbit's trading volume was approximately 11.69 trillion won, which, although down 10%, increased its market share from 62.3% to 67.4%; Bithumb's trading volume fell to 4.71 trillion won, with its share dropping from 30.7% to 27.1%, widening the gap between the two to 40.3 percentage points.

According to Jinshi reports, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the Gulf region at the United Nations headquarters in New York, urging the full restoration of international navigation rights and freedoms in the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Mandeb, and surrounding areas, and to resolve disputes through diplomatic means.Guterres pointed out that the military escalation in the Gulf region has been ongoing for six months, affecting global stability, leading to a contraction in trade and disruptions in energy markets.

According to Jinshi, U.S. President Trump praised Nvidia (NVDA.O), calling it a leader in technological innovation and emphasizing the company's important contributions to advancing artificial intelligence and graphics processing technology.

According to Binance spot market data, the market has experienced significant fluctuations. DIA has risen by 13.99% in 24 hours, and PYR has increased by 9.09%, showing signs of a rebound after hitting a low.At the same time, TURTLE, NBISB, WDCB, RKLBB, INTWB, and BEB have all shown a "high and then low" pattern, with declines of 6.35%, 8.33%, 6.1%, 5.09%, 7.93%, and 8.64%, respectively. SCRT has reached a new low today, with a decline of 5.47%.

According to Sandmark, documents and recordings obtained show that Pump.fun laid off employees two months before the unlocking of employee tokens, causing at least one former employee to miss out on a PUMP token allocation valued in the seven figures at current prices.The layoffs occurred in early April, while the affected employees were supposed to start receiving token unlocks two months later (in June). Employees had signed a token agreement in June 2025, with a quarter of the allocation set to unlock a year later. Co-founder Noah Tweedale stated in an internal meeting recording that the reason for the layoffs was the company's "rapid expansion."Former employees reported a second round of layoffs in mid-July, with the company having laid off over 40 people in the past two months. One employee claimed they were laid off the day before the token unlock, but Sandmark could not independently verify these claims.Pump.fun operates in the UK under the name Baton Corporation Ltd, although it has blocked UK users since December 2024 (following a warning from the UK FCA that it may be providing financial services without a license) and is still on the regulatory warning list. In 2024, the company experienced an employee embezzlement incident involving the misappropriation of approximately $2 million, with the involved party sentenced to six years in prison. According to Companies House data, the company's latest annual report is overdue.

Investor Mark Cuban and "Big Short" Michael Burry recently issued warnings about the valuation risks of Nvidia (NVDA) and AI stocks. Cuban stated on the X platform that the current AI capital cycle bears similarities to the internet bubble of the 1990s, believing that Nvidia is playing the role of the IPO market back then, driving continuous capital inflow by supporting customers in purchasing AI chips.Burry, on the other hand, is concerned about the rising prices of Nvidia's credit default swaps (CDS) and claims that the scale of "circular financing" driven by Nvidia is expanding. He believes that some AI demand relies on financing support, and future revenues may be built on complex funding cycles. Previously, Nvidia's stock price fell about 5% in a single day, with a market value shrinkage of approximately $250 billion. The IMF and the Bank for International Settlements have also warned about the systemic risks that AI circular financing may bring. However, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang responded that the related criticisms are "absurd."

According to Jinshi reports, the CEO of MediaTek stated that AI personal computers powered by chips co-developed with NVIDIA will be launched for sale this holiday season.

According to Jinshi reports, on July 31, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning responded at a regular press conference to reports about the possibility of the United States taking military action against Cuba. Mao Ning stated that China has repeatedly clarified its position, and the U.S. should immediately stop threatening Cuba with force and cease its unilateral blockade and sanctions against Cuba. China will continue to support Cuba in maintaining its national sovereignty and oppose foreign interference.

According to official news, Alliance has launched Onchain Atlas, an experimental encyclopedia of on-chain mechanism design. It currently covers 462 records from 2011 to 2026, organizing hundreds of blockchain experiments from 2011 to the present along a timeline, covering core areas such as AMM, liquid staking, stablecoins, and NFTs.Each product includes its complete history: what was done right, what was done wrong, and an interactive simulator where users can adjust key variables and see the product's response in real-time. The project aims to promote the birth of the next generation of on-chain unicorns by reviewing historical inspirations. Atlas prioritizes primary sources such as contract code, official documents, and founder retrospectives, with all entries compiled and analyzed by AI research agents, published after quality audits and editorial checks.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the "Largest Company by the End of July" event on the prediction market Polymarket, the probability of the "Yes" option for the sub-market "NVIDIA" has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 11.9% an hour ago to the current 38.45% (a fluctuation of 26.55%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent urged the Senate on Thursday to pass the Clarity Act, stating that the House of Representatives passed the bill over a year ago, and staff from the Senate Banking and Agriculture Committees have since engaged in thousands of hours of bipartisan negotiations on the revisions. Bessent stated that the bill will strengthen consumer protections and anti-money laundering requirements, and provide regulatory certainty for digital assets. He also mentioned that the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act provisions in the Clarity Act will protect decentralized software developers, clarifying that they are not subject to the registration requirements of the Bank Secrecy Act.Bessent criticized Senate Democrats for delaying the vote for political reasons, stating that the relevant vote will determine whether the U.S. continues to maintain its global leadership in digital assets. At the end of his post, he quoted Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto: "If you don't believe me or don't understand, I don't have time to try to convince you, sorry." The Clarity Act aims to establish a federal framework for the U.S. digital asset market and allocate regulatory responsibilities for digital assets to the SEC and CFTC, with most crypto assets typically falling under CFTC jurisdiction. Senate Majority Leader John Thune recently stated that the bill is not expected to pass the Senate before the August recess.