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According to Coindesk, Bernstein stated in a research report released on Monday that Robinhood's newly launched blockchain, Robinhood Chain, has performed strongly since its launch, quickly becoming one of the most active networks for decentralized trading.The report noted that since the mainnet went live on July 1, the DEX trading volume on Robinhood Chain reached $3.1 billion in the past week, ranking it among the top five chains by DEX activity. Currently, over 65,000 users hold approximately $13 million in tokenized stocks and $300 million in stablecoins on the chain.Bernstein believes that the early adoption of Robinhood Chain highlights the accelerated integration of tokenized real-world assets with the broader DeFi ecosystem. The network is built on Arbitrum, an Ethereum Layer 2, supporting Robinhood's tokenized stock products, providing 24/7 trading, self-custody, as well as on-chain use cases such as lending and collateralization, and has integrated with partners like Uniswap, Morpho, Lighter, Chainlink, and BitGo.The report also stated that although the current early trading volume is primarily driven by meme coins, Robinhood is expected to focus more on tokenized stocks, commodities, and other RWA assets, as well as perpetual contract business in the future.

According to official social media news, the HTX Genesis Hackathon, hosted by HTX DAO and B.AI, and co-organized by OpenCSG and TinTinLand, has recently selected the Top 15 teams. These 15 developer teams will advance to the finals held offline on July 19 during the WAIC World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai. In addition, community voting will soon begin, and users can go to the HTX DAO official website to stake and vote for their favorite teams.It is reported that the total prize pool for the HTX Genesis Hackathon is 20,000 USDT, and it provides over $100,000 in computing power support. Participating teams will innovate around the application scenarios of $HTX, B.AI ecological applications and computing power services, AI Agent finance, on-chain asset management, trading infrastructure, DAO tools, and smart financial operating systems.

The digital asset trading platform Gate announced that it will open the second phase of the Pre-IPOs project for OpenAI (OPENAI) from July 15, 2026, 15:00 to July 17, 15:00 (UTC+8), supporting participation in both USDT and GUSD. The total subscription value of the project is approximately 20 million USD, issuing 27,700 OPENAI asset certificates, priced at 1 OPENAI = 722 USD, with a minimum investment starting at 100 USDT or 100 GUSD, and waiving implied fees and custody costs. OpenAI, driven by products like ChatGPT, has promoted the development of generative AI and has received investments from Microsoft and others, with a market implied valuation of approximately 895 billion USD.The OPENAI asset certificates are mirror notes prior to the OpenAI IPO, used to map the company's value before and after going public; Gate will hedge exposure by acquiring relevant stocks and provide pre-market trading, long-term holding, and future paths for exchanging stock assets, stock tokens, or USDT. Distribution is calculated based on the "average locked amount per hour," with earlier participation and longer lock-up periods receiving higher weights; the certificates will unlock in three phases on July 17, August 17, and September 17, and pre-market trading will open on July 20.

Recently, international crude oil prices have continued to rise, and trading activity in the energy market remains active. According to market data from the Gate platform, WTI crude oil (CLUSDT) reached a 24-hour high of $74.53, currently reported at $74.26, with a 24-hour increase of 0.97%; Brent crude oil (BZUSDT) reached a 24-hour high of $79.19, currently reported at $78.94, with a 24-hour increase of 1.14%. CoinGlass data shows that the 24-hour trading volume of Gate CLUSDT contracts reached $6.1124 million, with an open interest of approximately $8.6676 million; the open interest of Gate BZUSDT contracts is approximately $3.0748 million, both ranking among the industry leaders.

Forbes has selected 10 cryptocurrencies worth investing in based on the utility or value storage attributes of the tokens, combined with indicators such as performance over the past 7 days and 24-hour trading volume. The selected projects all have a market capitalization exceeding $5 billion, namely BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, SOL, TRON (TRX), HYPE, RAIN, LEO, and Zcash (ZEC).Forbes states that Bitcoin and Ethereum are widely regarded as the "gold and silver" of the cryptocurrency world, with current market capitalizations of approximately $1.289 trillion and $21.647 billion, respectively, accounting for about 68% of the entire crypto market. In its selection methodology, Forbes considered the fundamental use of each crypto asset, excluding stablecoins, wrapped crypto assets, liquid staking tokens, and meme coins, focusing on projects with clear investment logic that are expected to appreciate as adoption and utility increase.

According to Digital Asset, the weekly trading volume of the top 5 cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea has declined for 5 consecutive weeks. From July 3 to 10, the total weekly trading volume of the 5 exchanges was approximately 9.9676 trillion won, a decrease of 25.75% from the previous week's approximately 13.4 trillion won, marking the first time in nearly 2 years and 9 months that it has fallen below 10 trillion won since recording about 9.6 trillion won in the last week of September 2023.The report pointed out that the weekly trading volume of the top 5 exchanges has continued to weaken since June, with figures of 17.7 trillion won, 15.4 trillion won, 14.6 trillion won, and 13.4 trillion won respectively. Compared to the trading volume in the first week of June, the cumulative decline over the past month is approximately 43.5%.In terms of market share among exchanges, Upbit continues to rank first with 63.02%, but this is a decrease of 3.95 percentage points from the previous week; Bithumb rose to 29.51%, an increase of 2.38 percentage points; Coinone rose to 6.66%, an increase of 1.46 percentage points; Korbit and Gopax are at 0.78% and 0.03%, respectively.

According to Jinshi reports, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the closure of the Strait of Hormuz until the United States stops its interference in the region.The statement pointed out that a vessel attempted to cross the strait along an unauthorized route, and the Iranian military had to take action against it to prevent its passage.

According to a report by Decrypt, Robinhood Chain quickly became one of the most active public chains in the crypto market just one week after its launch.Official data shows that Robinhood Chain processed over 17 million transactions in its first week, with nearly 350,000 active addresses and a protocol TVL of approximately $250 million. The cumulative trading volume on the DEX surpassed $1 billion. On Wednesday, the single-day trading volume reached $568 million, with a 24-hour DEX trading volume of about $433 million, surpassing Hyperliquid and ranking fifth in the entire network.Driven by the explosive growth of the ecosystem, Meme coins on Robinhood Chain performed strongly, with Cash Cat's market capitalization exceeding $180 million, and tokens like Dog In Hood, Hoodrat, and Robinhood Summer seeing increases of several times or even dozens of times. Reports indicate that some traders turned $800 into over $1 million, while another user increased $85 to $2 million.As the underlying technology provider for Robinhood Chain, Arbitrum (ARB) has benefited significantly, with ARB rising about 20% on the day. According to the mechanism, Robinhood Chain will return 10% of the protocol's net income to the Arbitrum ecosystem.However, the report points out that currently, the activity of Robinhood Chain is still mainly driven by Meme coins, and whether it can smoothly transition to RWA and other application scenarios planned by Robinhood in the long term remains to be seen.

According to Gate market data, today in the Hong Kong stock market, the chip design stock Guo Wei Holdings reached an intraday increase of 66.66%; Paig Bio-pharmaceuticals-B rose by 41.04%; and Zhaogangwang-W increased by 29.54%. Popular sectors such as chip design, industrial internet, and innovative drugs are performing actively, and market attention continues to heat up.

According to RootData's ranking data for stock derivatives exchanges, this list ranks and scores exchanges that support stock derivatives trading based on dimensions such as trading volume, open interest, spreads, depth, trading costs, and data collectability. Currently, the top three exchanges by 24h trading volume are Binance, OKX, and Bitget, among which:Binance scored 91.5, supports 125 contracts, has an open interest of approximately $2.265 billion, a 24h trading volume of approximately $13.889 billion, and a funding rate of +0.0027%.OKX scored 90.2, supports 120 contracts, has an open interest of approximately $444 million, a 24h trading volume of approximately $2.81 billion, and a funding rate of +0.0026%.Bitget scored 90.1, supports 228 contracts, has an open interest of approximately $762 million, a 24h trading volume of approximately $2.125 billion, and a funding rate of +0.001%.

According to GMGN data, the top 5 tokens with net inflow of smart money in the past 24 hours are as follows:ANSEM (9cRC....ump): Net inflow of $30,000, with a 24-hour change of -29.4%, currently priced at $0.279.Jotchua (BcHE....ump): Net inflow of $8,000, with a 24-hour change of -26.2%, currently priced at $0.004.TROLL (5UUH....gH2): Net inflow of $5,000, with a 24-hour change of -15.2%, currently priced at $0.0495.Cupsey (6Nwa....ump): Net inflow of $5,000, with a 24-hour change of 1096.4%, currently priced at $0.0069.DADDY (4Cnk....ump): Net inflow of $3,000, with a 24-hour change of -8.9%, currently priced at $0.0156.

The prediction market platform Polymarket announced support for instant, self-custodied deposits via the Bitcoin Lightning Network, powered by the Spark protocol. Compared to the previous on-chain deposit method that required waiting for 3 to 6 block confirmations, taking about 10 to 60 minutes, the new solution allows for deposits to be credited in seconds, while lowering the deposit threshold and transaction costs.According to the introduction, Spark can complete checks for double-spending risk, fees, and Replace-by-Fee (RBF) at the time of transaction broadcasting, achieving "zero-confirmation" crediting. It also supports on-chain, Lightning Network, and stablecoin payment channels without the platform needing to operate Lightning Network nodes itself. Polymarket stated that this move will further enhance the capital efficiency for Bitcoin users and strengthen its competitiveness against rival Kalshi.

According to CoinGlass market data, in the past 4 hours, the contract position increase ranking shows that the trading asset ASX on the Gate platform has a position of approximately 1.22 million USD, with an increase of 385.82%, ranking second in the entire network, reflecting the continuous increase in trading activity of related assets on the platform.

According to the BNB Chain DappBay page, NeoSoul ranks first in the BNB Smart Chain AI Infra track 7D leaderboard.Data shows that NeoSoul recorded 19.8K users and 155.04K transactions in the past 7 days, with a 385.19% increase in users and a 47.41% increase in transactions.As one of the rapidly growing projects in the BNB Chain AI ecosystem, NeoSoul is continuously building the AI Economy infrastructure around the training, evaluation, and trustworthy records of AI Agents.

According to the latest data from CoinMarketCap, in the past 90 days among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, 35 cryptocurrencies have risen, and 65 have fallen, with the majority experiencing a decline.Among them, 6 cryptocurrencies have risen over 150%, with Binance Life leading at a rise of 886.58%, followed by BEAT at 775.32%, and DEXE, JTO, GWEI, and LIT rising by 188.26%, 170.90%, 152.81%, and 151.99% respectively. During the same period, 15 cryptocurrencies rose over 50%, 43 fell over 10%, and 19 fell over 20%.In terms of mainstream coins, BTC fell by 8.20%, ETH fell by 15.88%, BNB fell by 2.78%, XRP fell by 13.22%, and SOL slightly rose by 0.93%. On the list of biggest declines, M, ZRO, BCH, WLFI, and TRUMP all fell by over 40%.

Last weekend's unexpected cold non-farm data reversed the consecutive decline of gold and silver over the past few weeks. On July 6, after a rebound in gold prices, a high-level narrow fluctuation market emerged. According to data from the Gate platform, gold (XAU) is currently priced at $4165.04, with a 24-hour decline of 0.26%; silver (XAG) is currently priced at $61.94, with a 24-hour decline of 1.13%. In the correction market, trading of gold and silver-related contracts is active. Data from the CoinGlass platform shows that the Gate XAU contract has a position amount of $155 million, ranking among the top two in the industry, with a 24-hour trading volume of $47.5522 million; the Gate XAG contract has a position amount of $60.9402 million, also ranking among the top two in the industry, with a 24-hour trading volume of $30.6943 million.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address opened a $38.07 million BTC 20x long position at 8:30 AM today, becoming the TOP6 position on Hyperliquid BTC. Currently holding 600 BTC, the opening price was $63,476, while setting take profit and stop loss points: take profit 200 BTC when the price rises to $65,000, take profit 100 BTC when it rises to $66,000, and stop loss 200 BTC when it falls to $60,000.

The China Payment and Clearing Association has issued a warning to prevent cross-border gambling scams involving virtual currency, aimed at helping the general public enhance their awareness of fraud prevention and their ability to recognize scams.The China Payment and Clearing Association reminds that cross-border gambling results in "ten bets, ten losses." Participating in gambling through virtual currency is more concealed and risky. Engaging in gambling and providing funding for gambling activities is illegal and against regulations. Do not participate in virtual currency gambling transactions, and maintain the bottom line of financial security.