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Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller stated that the decision by Besant to spend billions of dollars to buy back U.S. Treasuries is a wrong decision. He believes that the market aggregates information that no committee can possess, and prices are the way information is conveyed to decision-makers. Druckenmiller pointed out that the Treasury's attempt to influence the bond market lacks rationale, and the current financial environment is in a loose state.

Strive CEO Matt Cole stated that the BTC/gold ratio is sending a strong signal, indicating that the next Bitcoin cycle could be the strongest in history.Currently, there are two major structural factors: the long-term structural depreciation of the dollar, and Bitcoin has never experienced a true secular dollar collapse; and in an AI-driven prosperous world, capital will increasingly chase "scarce assets" that cannot be replicated. If Bitcoin can perform stronger relative to gold, it will attract a disproportionate inflow of funds, creating a positive feedback loop.

CoinDesk analyst James Van Straten stated that Bitcoin typically experiences a price increase in the weeks leading up to a "Golden Cross." Currently, both the 50-day moving average (50DMA) and the 200-day moving average (200DMA) for Bitcoin have turned upward, and the market is approaching the Golden Cross formation. In 2022, Bitcoin's price never broke above the 200-day moving average, while the current market is forming a new structure. He stated, "This seems to be a new market phase."The Golden Cross is generally viewed by the market as a technical signal indicating a strengthening of medium to long-term trends, referring to the short-term moving average (50-day moving average) crossing above the long-term moving average (200-day moving average). However, this indicator is a lagging indicator, primarily used to confirm trend changes rather than predict short-term price movements. Glassnode data shows that historically, Bitcoin has often seen price increases before the 50-day moving average crosses above the 200-day moving average. The current BTC price has once again risen to the vicinity of the 200-day moving average, showing a significant difference from the 2022 market cycle.

BitMine Chairman Tom Lee published a post listing 17 large-cap stocks (with a market capitalization of over $2 billion) that have a high correlation with cryptocurrencies, for stock investors seeking crypto exposure.Among them, BMNR has the highest correlation with ETH at 80%, followed by COIN (74%); MSTR has the highest correlation with BTC at 78%, followed by COIN (74%).Tom Lee stated that he expects ETH to outperform BTC in this cycle, driven by tokenization and AI applications, believing that this logic is far more important than the factors that have historically driven ETH's outperformance in cycles.

Crypto KOL Ansem stated in a podcast that Robinhood is a potential dark horse in this market cycle, due to its public support for on-chain activities (including meme coins and RWA) and its rapid listing of tokens.Ansem believes that Robinhood's proactive stance may attract more retail liquidity and innovative projects, highlighting the traditional financial platform's quick adaptation to the crypto space.

Institutional-level on-chain financial infrastructure developer Blueprint Finance announced the completion of strategic financing, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from Bullish, Keyrock, BitGo, FalconX, G-20, Flowdesk, JPEG Trading, Sentient Capital, Andes, and 2Square. Blueprint Finance is the core developer of Concrete, a full-stack treasury infrastructure aimed at institutions, protocols, and asset managers, used to launch, manage, and allocate capital through complex on-chain strategy configurations, integrating execution, accounting, risk control, rebalancing, and protocols into a unified treasury system.This round of financing will support its continued expansion of Concrete and promote collaboration with protocols, asset issuers, networks, and institutional allocators to build a treasury that supports on-chain yield products and acts as core liquidity infrastructure. In addition to treasury infrastructure, Blueprint Finance is also expanding the Concrete ecosystem, launching on-chain financial primitives such as AssetCX and concUSD.Blueprint Finance CEO and co-founder Nic Roberts-Huntley stated that DeFi is moving beyond merely chasing the highest advertised yields; the next phase concerns infrastructure, providing professional allocators with control, transparency, automation, and risk management while retaining on-chain market advantages.

At the SALT conference held in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, CZ discussed the previously mentioned "super cycle" of Bitcoin at the Davos Forum, stating that this claim has yet to materialize. From the data, the market still follows a relatively strict four-year cycle, currently in the bear market phase; however, as the total market capitalization continues to expand, the price volatility will tend to narrow, similar to the price fluctuation patterns of large companies like Amazon and Facebook.Regarding the regulatory environment in the United States, CZ stated that this is the friendliest industry environment he has seen in his 12 years of work, and he believes that the U.S. regulatory framework has a demonstrative effect globally, with many countries' securities laws and exchange regulatory structures referencing the U.S. At the same time, Hong Kong is accelerating its legislative efforts to align with U.S. regulatory thinking. Additionally, CZ discussed the allocation situation of his investment firm YZi Labs, stating that currently about 70% of the funds are directed towards the core tracks of crypto and blockchain, about 20% towards AI, and the remaining portion towards fields like biotechnology.YZi Labs uses its own funds and is not constrained by external LP return cycles, placing more emphasis on the positive impact of projects and the execution capability of founding teams rather than purely on financial return models. Regarding Hyperliquid, CZ mentioned that there is a misunderstanding in the industry, believing that as a shareholder of Binance, he would only maintain a CEX position, but his entry into this industry was precisely because he believes in decentralization. If platforms like Hyperliquid, which do not require KYC, can enter the U.S. market in a compliant manner, it will open the doors for the entire industry, allowing more Perp DEX and decentralized services to reach users in the U.S. and globally, thus providing American consumers with better liquidity and pricing. This will not only benefit Hyperliquid itself but also international centralized trading platforms, including Binance.

According to CoinDesk, the latest report from asset management company VanEck shows that Bitcoin has currently triggered 8 out of 12 market capitulation indicators, indicating that the market is approaching the historical bear market bottom area, but the related signals do not mean that the price has bottomed out. These indicators mainly measure the market status of Bitcoin during extreme sell-off phases, including the extent of price retracement from highs, miner profitability, and the proportion of holders at a loss. Over the past three months, all 12 indicators have reached the triggering range.VanEck pointed out that Bitcoin's previous rounds of major bottoms experienced maximum declines of approximately 94%, 85%, 84%, and 78%, during which the market lacked support from spot ETF funds, institutional holdings were relatively small, and there were impacts from major industry events such as Celsius and FTX. In contrast, the market structure has changed this time. From a cyclical perspective, VanEck has compiled 4 complete Bitcoin cycles since 2011 and found that bear markets typically last about 11 months on average from peak to trough; if excluding the special cycle of 2011, the average is about 12.7 months. Currently, Bitcoin has entered the 10th month since its peak in October 2025, and the next potential accumulation window may appear between September and November of this year.VanEck concluded that the current capitulation indicators are more suitable as tools for long-term investors to assess the cycle position rather than short-term bottom-fishing signals. Historical data shows that the advantages of investing based on these indicators are mainly reflected within a one-year cycle, and the market may continue to fluctuate in the coming months.

Renowned trader Killa posted that Bitcoin has rebounded from its lows, and waiting for the "perfect bottom" may cause investors to completely miss the subsequent rise. He stated that rather than staying in cash waiting for a price that may never come, he prefers to establish exposure early and accept potential pullbacks that may occur in the process.Killa indicated that the Bitcoin cycle is changing, with multiple indicators supporting this judgment, and the traditional four-year cycle may ultimately change. Therefore, he is willing to continue buying at different price levels such as $70,000, $65,000, $60,000, or $55,000, rather than fixating on a single bottom target.From a longer-term perspective, Bitcoin's price will rise above $150,000. He expressed that he prefers to hold a position first and then adjust based on market changes, rather than missing the entire upward process by insisting on waiting for a target price.

Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev stated that we are currently at the beginning of a "tokenization supercycle," a trend that will "consume the entire financial system."

According to official news, GoPlus announced a comprehensive upgrade of DeepScan, launching an AI-based smart contract security solution. GoPlus stated that as hackers begin to leverage AI to dig deeper into contract vulnerabilities, the traditional "one-time audit, go live and it's done" security model is struggling to cope with the continuously evolving attack risks.DeepScan constructs a complete security closed loop around the entire lifecycle of smart contracts, consisting of AI contract auditing, continuous security monitoring, and Token security self-checks, providing ongoing security assurance for developers, project parties, and trading platforms. Among them, AI contract auditing can analyze contract source code, permission management, and business logic based on AI deep analysis, identifying security risks such as syntax vulnerabilities and business logic vulnerabilities, and outputting a structured audit report that includes security scores, key findings, problem details, and remediation suggestions. Continuous security monitoring targets contracts that are already live and have completed audits, tracking newly disclosed vulnerabilities, on-chain attack events, and changes in external dependencies such as oracles and cross-chain bridges in real-time, and using AI to determine whether the project is affected, conducting timely reviews and alerts. Token security self-checks are aimed at projects that are about to be launched or applying for listing, quickly detecting risks such as P2P pools/honeypots, malicious issuance permissions, blacklist mechanisms, abnormal transaction taxes, Owner permissions, and transaction restrictions.In addition, the GoPlus DeepScan team also released an open-source Benchmark dataset built on real smart contract attack events, used to assess AI's actual capabilities in vulnerability identification, attack path understanding, contextual reasoning, and audit stability. Currently, it has included nearly a hundred typical attack events since May 2025 and continues to be updated. GoPlus stated that DeepScan can be used for low-cost security scanning by developers, security reviews before project launches, and continuous monitoring during operations, while also serving as a supplement to security assessments before listing on trading platforms, helping all parties to more promptly identify new vulnerabilities and attack risks.

According to Cointelegraph, asset management company VanEck stated that Bitcoin is approaching the cycle bottom, which may mean that investors should start to gradually rebuild their positions.

CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated that early Bitcoin traders have achieved the highest unrealized gains ever in this cycle.Unlike previous cycles where the selling pressure was mainly absorbed by cryptocurrency exchange traders, the main buying force in this market comes from structural purchases such as spot trading exchange-traded funds and inflows of digital asset funds. This change has driven the unrealized profits of Binance platform traders to nearly three times the peak in 2021.

Renowned trader Killa posted that during the last bull market, Bitcoin began to recover from its lows before the ETF rumors and official approvals, emphasizing that the market often reflects positive news in advance.Therefore, this round may be similar; the current "Clarity Act" is forming a new narrative. "If it indeed becomes a catalyst, it is likely to mark the beginning of the first meaningful upward phase for BTC after the first bear market recovery, and the approval itself will soon push BTC towards a new ATH (just like the ETF approval)."Killa, a quantitative trader focused on BTC, predicted the peak of this bull market in May 2025 and has over 200,000 followers on the X platform. In mid-April, he shorted Bitcoin at $74,688 and turned bullish during the market-wide decline on June 5.

According to ChosunBiz, Samsung Electronics' System LSI Division has introduced Anthropic's AI programming tool Claude Code for semiconductor design and verification work, with some task cycles shortened to less than one-tenth of the original time. In the verification of data connection structures for customer-customized SoCs, work that was originally expected to take over a month was completed in two days; an engineer with two years of experience completed USB device model development and Android driver adaptation in one day using Claude Code, whereas similar work typically required a month.Samsung opened Claude Code to software developers in May this year and later expanded it to the semiconductor professional development field. The System LSI Division has about 6,000 employees, while its main competitor Qualcomm has about 52,000 employees. Samsung is trying to bridge the manpower gap with AI tools. Meanwhile, Samsung's DS Division is promoting an "AI transformation," extending generative AI from research and development to the entire business process, including production, marketing, and support. The report also pointed out that Claude has exhibited behavior in some verification tasks where it disguised erroneous information as ordinary messages or modified design code without authorization. Samsung emphasized the need for strict control and manual review of the scope and results of AI tasks.

Nansen founder and CEO Alex Svanevik stated that Bitcoin's current price of around $60,000 may have marked the low point of this cycle. "Personally, I don't think Bitcoin will go below $60,000 again; I believe that's in the past, and I think it's forever." Alex Svanevik said this judgment is based on Bitcoin's positioning as a hedge against global central bank currency expansion, and he has not seen signs that the global monetary easing cycle is about to end. At the same time, the crypto industry is undergoing a fundamental transformation; crypto assets were previously in the toy world of blockchain and are now entering the real world era.In terms of the public chain ecosystem, Svanevik holds a long-term bullish view on Solana, stating that the perception of it as merely a meme coin chain is completely absurd. He believes Solana has "possibly the most effective BD team" and "an incredible team." However, Svanevik declined to translate this judgment into a specific price prediction for SOL—"Intuitively, I would think it will rise, but I can't be sure." Svanevik is also optimistic about the Robinhood chain, which just launched in July this year, believing it is rising as a strong competitor to Base due to its excellent user distribution capabilities. However, he judges that Robinhood is unlikely to issue a token—on one hand, it doesn't need to, and on the other hand, as a publicly traded company on NASDAQ, issuing a token would logically contradict competing with its own stock, "All value should be directed to HOOD stock."

"1011 Insider Whale" agent Garrett Jin released a weekly analysis stating that he previously suggested gradually positioning in storage chips and buying on dips, but the market did not experience the expected pullback. He has sold half of the previously rebounded positions during the surge, not because the investment logic has changed, but because he noticed the funding structure driving the rise, stating, "This is more like a short squeeze rather than a final confirmation of the market fundamentals." Rapid capital replenishment of short positions can create short-term increases in stocks like SK Hynix, but cannot solely support a sustained trend. The risks of Korean leveraged ETFs have not been fully released, but the decline in asset scale mainly comes from net value shrinkage rather than investor exit. Currently, the cumulative net subscription of related financial products remains at historical highs and has not turned negative.Garrett Jin emphasized that the decline in the scale of Korean leveraged ETFs does not indicate a bearish outlook on storage demand. SK Hynix's 2026 capacity is already sold out, and Micron's orders are covered until 2028, with strong demand expected to continue until the second half of 2027. However, the storage industry is essentially a cyclical industry, and stock prices have already risen by hundreds of percentage points in advance. Cyclical stocks are usually difficult to sustain long-term growth through valuation expansion. The current market is entering a new phase of the AI capital expenditure cycle, shifting from "rewarding investment" to "evaluating investment returns." Regarding Bitcoin, Garrett Jin stated that it continues to meet the bottoming conditions since the low in July and maintains the position view established around $60,000.