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According to Cointelegraph, Piero Cipollone, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), stated that the large-scale adoption of stablecoins could weaken the retail deposit base of commercial banks and alter the competitive landscape of the traditional banking system. Cipollone pointed out during a speech at the Italian Banking Association in Rome on Friday that digital payments are reshaping the banking industry while increasing Europe’s reliance on non-European payment infrastructures.Banks are currently facing declining payment fee revenues and loss of transaction data due to the development of mobile payment service providers. As payment tools like stablecoins and other digital assets become more widespread, commercial banks may face increased pressure from deposit outflows. Cipollone emphasized that the digital euro will help maintain the status of public money and ensure that banks continue to participate in the payment ecosystem while meeting the evolving financial needs of customers."The digital euro can both maintain the role of public funds and ensure that banks retain an important role in the payment system," Cipollone stated. This Tuesday, the European Central Bank selected 36 payment service providers to participate in a 12-month pilot project for the digital euro, including banks, fintech companies, and payment firms.The pilot program is set to launch in the second half of 2027, aiming to test the feasibility of retail central bank digital currency (CBDC) operating in the eurozone. The European Central Bank has previously stated that if relevant legislation and testing progress smoothly, the digital euro could be officially issued as early as 2029.

Gate Research Institute recently released the market report titled "June Market Structural Adjustment, Funds Concentrated on Impulsive Volume Opportunities," indicating that in June 2026, the cryptocurrency market weakened again under the multiple influences of macro pressure, institutional capital outflows, and a decline in risk appetite.From the market structure perspective, June did not see a widespread recovery, but rather a localized profit effect driven by a few long-tail assets. About 71% of the top 500 tokens recorded a decline, with only a quarter achieving an increase. BTC, ETH, and most mainstream assets faced pressure simultaneously, while low market cap tokens like CYDX, ANSEM, VELVET, SYN, and CX recorded increases of several times or even hundreds of times due to event catalysts and capital speculation, significantly raising the overall average returns.Volume analysis shows that the average trading volume amplification factor for 450 valid samples is 2.54x, with a median of only 0.49x. Only 17 tokens had a volume increase of more than 3 times, and 8 tokens exceeded 10 times. TEMPLE (289.05x), CX (259.13x), and MTBILL (128.15x) ranked at the top of the volume list.Overall, the market in June is still in a phase of shrinking risk appetite, and true recovery signals still need to be observed in the stabilization of leading assets like BTC and ETH, as well as the re-diffusion of funds from long-tail speculation back to mainstream assets.

RootData has integrated stock perpetual contract-related data into the API Professional Edition subscription system, covering core data such as stock perpetual contract trading pairs, market conditions, and liquidity.Currently, the RootData API has served over 220 institutional clients, covering not only mainstream trading platforms like Binance, OKX, Bitget, and Gate, but also widely adopted by market makers and quantitative institutions such as Amber Group and Presto Research. With continuously expanding data dimensions and stable real-time data service capabilities, RootData is gradually becoming an important provider of institutional-level crypto data infrastructure.

According to on-chain research conducted by Dune Analytics for the DEX aggregator 1inch, an average of 85% of concentrated liquidity funds in decentralized exchanges were underutilized in the first half of 2026, with 29.5% completely outside the active price range, resulting in approximately $542 million in idle funds each week.Dune estimates that liquidity providers outside the range lose about $150 million in fee income annually. The study covers around 200 of the most active pools on Uniswap v3, PancakeSwap v3, Aerodrome Slipstream, and Uniswap v4, spanning seven chains with a total of 26 weekly snapshots, with an average TVL of approximately $1.84 billion.Data shows that idle funds are mainly concentrated in personal wallets, and automated management tools and bots tend to keep positions within the range. On Base Uniswap v3, personal accounts account for 82% of idle funds. About one-third of idle funds have not been adjusted for over 90 days. Dune attributes the main cause of idleness to asset pairs and their volatility rather than the trading platform, even though about 30% of stablecoin pairs are also outside the range.

According to a report by The Block, a study commissioned by 1inch and conducted by Dune found that approximately 85% of concentrated liquidity in decentralized exchanges such as Uniswap v3, Uniswap v4, PancakeSwap v3, and Aerodrome Slipstream is not effectively utilized. The research analyzed the performance of nearly 200 active liquidity pools across 7 chains in 26 weekly snapshots, tracking an average liquidity of about $1.84 billion per week, of which approximately $1.6 billion is in an inefficient state.Specifically, on the Uniswap v3 platform, among the liquidity that has deviated from the market-making price range, 44.5% has not been adjusted for more than 90 days, making it the platform with the highest proportion in this study; in contrast, Aerodrome has a ratio of about 20%, with 58% of idle funds having been adjusted within the last 30 days.Additionally, only about 35% of idle funds are located within 5% of the market price, approximately 43% deviate from the market price by more than 25%, and another 17% deviate by more than 100%. In terms of fund size, positions exceeding $1 million hold about 47% of idle funds, amounting to approximately $260 million.

Jupiter announced the launch of the digital card platform Jupiter Gacha, supporting collectors in purchasing real-rated Pokemon and One Piece cards. The related cards will be issued in a fully on-chain format and can be traded on the Solana DEX.According to the introduction, each draw on Jupiter Gacha corresponds to a certified rated card, giving users the chance to draw cards worth more than the amount paid, and rewards can be obtained during the event. This feature is currently in the Beta testing phase.

According to the official announcement, the Binance Wallet has now integrated Robinhood Chain, and users can directly access and trade Robinhood Chain tokens in the Binance Wallet App and plugin. The Binance Wallet plugin needs to be upgraded to version v1.14.0 or above to be used.

Analyst Darkfost pointed out that since October 2025, the total market value of global Bitcoin treasury companies has shrunk from $396 billion to $272 billion, evaporating over $100 billion. During the same period, the total amount of Bitcoin held by these companies increased from 953,000 to 1.14 million—this decline in market value is entirely driven by the drop in coin price, rather than selling off.However, it is worth noting that since Bitcoin entered a significantly undervalued range in May of this year, the pace of accumulation has sharply slowed, nearly coming to a standstill. The most intensive buying period for these companies was concentrated between November 2024 and October 2025, with the holdings tripling in less than a year, and the buying price range was approximately $75,000 to $125,000—right in the historical high price range of Bitcoin.The current question is: since these companies have built up significant positions in the top range, will they sell at lower levels? Strategy has recently taken the lead in selling Bitcoin; will this behavior be emulated by other treasury companies, becoming a new source of selling pressure in the market? With the current total holding of 1.14 million coins, if more companies are forced to reduce their positions in a sluggish market to alleviate financial pressure, it could pose additional downside risks to Bitcoin prices.

The Web3 asset data platform RootData has now fully opened its personnel data, adding data on current and former team members in its project query function published on ClawHub Skill. It has newly added dynamic data on positions in the crypto field (covering the latest 200 hiring/termination updates) and supports queries for information on over 20,000 individuals in the crypto field, including introductions, links, and work details. All data is available for free access by AI agents.RootData has long tracked tens of thousands of LinkedIn and Twitter data, and based on user-submitted data, it maintains the most comprehensive and timely personnel database in the industry to meet users' more detailed information needs and reduce information barriers in the industry.RootData stated that through this comprehensive opening, it hopes to help more users quickly find key talents, gain insights into industry talent flow trends, and provide efficient data support for Web3 project recruitment, investment decisions, and industry research.

According to Bubblemaps monitoring, the lending protocol Arrow Finance on the Robinhood Chain has approximately 80% of its token ARROW concentrated in a few addresses. On-chain analysis shows that 200 wallets, which previously had no EVM interaction records, purchased ARROW within 3 minutes of the token's launch, and these addresses were funded at the same time by the same source address 0x0a5...6a6c.Bubblemaps also pointed out that there are multiple large address clusters and reminded investors to exercise caution when trading ARROW before its product officially supports the Robinhood Chain.

According to Bloomberg, the venture capital firm Paradigm, focused on the cryptocurrency sector, has raised approximately $1.2 billion and plans to increase its investment in artificial intelligence (AI) related projects.According to informed sources, this fundraising will focus on AI infrastructure, AI Agents, and the integration of AI with blockchain technology. Paradigm hopes to capture the next wave of technological innovation through the new fund and expand its investment footprint in emerging technology sectors.Founded in 2018 by Matt Huang and Fred Ehrsam, Paradigm is one of the leading cryptocurrency venture capital firms in the industry, having invested in several blockchain projects including Coinbase and Uniswap.This fundraising indicates that after experiencing previous market cycle adjustments, crypto capital is refocusing on the intersection of AI and blockchain. With the rapid development of AI agents, decentralized computing, on-chain data infrastructure, and other areas, more and more crypto investment firms are beginning to see AI as an important growth opportunity for the next stage.

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reiterated its support for a regulatory strategy of "containment and a tendency to prohibit" regarding crypto assets in a document submitted to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Finance, stating that "prohibition" remains one of the policy options recognized by the international regulatory framework. The RBI suggested that banks and other regulated financial institutions should not hold, trade, or provide exposure to crypto assets and privately issued stablecoins to avoid potential contagion risks to the financial system.The RBI stated that implementing traditional financial regulation on crypto assets could mislead the market, granting "legitimacy" to speculative assets that lack actual economic value and creating a false sense of security for users. The RBI also warned that the widespread use of stablecoins could undermine India's monetary sovereignty, weaken the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, disrupt the payment system, and pose risks to financial stability. Therefore, it recommended prioritizing the development of sovereign digital payment infrastructure such as Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). Additionally, the RBI questioned the relevant rankings claiming "India is the country with the highest global crypto adoption rate," arguing that the data from private blockchain analytics firms has methodological flaws. It pointed out that there are currently 54 crypto service providers registered with the FIU in India, with approximately 39.3 million users who have completed KYC verification holding crypto assets worth about 20.437 billion rupees. It should be clearly distinguished between speculative crypto assets and the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) such as government bonds and corporate bonds to avoid impacting the innovation of financial asset tokenization.

According to the official TradingView blog, its platform has officially launched market data for Hyperliquid and Trade[XYZ]. This integration allows TradingView users to track on-chain perpetual contracts, cryptocurrency spot prices, and real-time market data for Trade[XYZ]'s real-world assets covering stocks, commodities, forex, and pre-IPO assets around the clock.It is reported that Hyperliquid is a Layer 1 blockchain focused on decentralized perpetual contracts, while Trade[XYZ] is the first and largest deployer of its HIP-3 infrastructure, breaking the trading time limitations of traditional financial markets and providing users with 24/7 price discovery capabilities. Currently, users can access real-time chart data for these new markets by entering the prefixes HYPERLIQUID: or HIP3XYZ: in the TradingView chart search bar.

SK Hynix evaporated $160 billion in market value in a single day (approximately 1 trillion RMB), with its total market value falling below the $1 trillion mark, while Bitcoin saw a slight rebound today. According to 8MarketCap data, Bitcoin's market value has returned to above $1.2 trillion, with a 24-hour increase of 2.41%, rising to the 16th position in the global asset market value ranking, surpassing storage giants such as Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix.

According to The Block, Bernstein reiterated its outperform rating on Circle in a report released on Wednesday, maintaining a target price of $190, representing a potential upside of approximately 203%.Analysts believe that while Open USD shows that the stablecoin sector is widely recognized, it will be difficult in the short term to challenge Circle's network effects and liquidity advantages. Circle's USDC saw a trading volume of $5.3 trillion in the first half of 2026, a significant year-on-year increase, with its trading volume share rising from about 40% in 2025 to approximately 60% currently.At the same time, Bernstein also maintains an outperform rating on Coinbase, with a target price of $330.

DefiLlama data shows that in the past week, the income returned to token holders from DeFi protocols was mainly concentrated in a few projects, with the top ten protocols accounting for over 80% in total.Among them, Hyperliquid ranked first with approximately $12.3 million, accounting for about 43.9%; Pump ranked second with about $3.5 million, accounting for about 12.6%; protocols such as Aerodrome, Uniswap, and Chainlink also made it to the top. Holders Revenue refers to the value returned to token holders through methods such as token buybacks, burns, or distributions to stakers.

According to The Block, Story, which focuses on on-chain intellectual property infrastructure, has been renamed DATA Foundation, shifting its business focus to AI training data and launching the on-chain data registration and auditing platform Trace. The native IP token of Story will be migrated to the new DATA token at a 1:1 ratio, and holders do not need to take any action; specific timing and guidance will be announced later.DATA also announced a deep integration with the AI training data marketplace Kled, bringing over 1.5 billion pieces of user-contributed data into the DATA network. Through Trace, each data contribution will generate an on-chain receipt, recording the data source, authorization method, contributor consent, and payment information, supporting settlement to contributors in stablecoins or fiat currency.

On-chain data shows that as of now, the HIP-3 market has generated a total revenue of 44 million USD. Among them, 22 million USD has been allocated to HIP-3 developers, and the remaining 22 million USD is used for repurchasing HYPE tokens. HIP-3 is the market creation and incentive mechanism within the Hyperliquid ecosystem, allowing developers to create and operate trading markets and earn protocol revenue sharing based on market performance. The disclosed data indicates that HIP-3 has become an important source of revenue for the Hyperliquid ecosystem while continuously providing financial support for the repurchase of HYPE tokens.

Fortitude Mining Holdings and HeartSciences today announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement to complete a business combination through an all-stock transaction.It is reported that Fortitude Mining Holdings is a vertically integrated digital asset mining platform focused on Zcash mining.The transaction is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026. Upon completion of the transaction, the merged company will continue to use the Fortitude brand and will be operated by the existing management team of Fortitude, including Fortitude CEO Andrea Childs. The new company plans to list on the NASDAQ capital market, with the stock ticker expected to be "TUDE," but it still requires NASDAQ approval.