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According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a certain address opened a $2.155 million short position on Changxin Storage TWAP. If fully executed, it will become the second largest position in Hyperliquid CXMT. The TWAP size is 300,000 CXMT, with an opening average price of $7.1825, and currently 1.14% has been executed, with an account margin of $15 million.

Well-known crypto trader Doctor Profit stated that he has closed all cryptocurrency short positions, including a Bitcoin short position established in the $115,000 to $125,000 range, another Bitcoin short position established in the $79,000 to $82,000 range, and over 100 altcoin short positions opened in the past few months, claiming that these positions have all achieved significant profits.He also mentioned that he has re-entered Bitcoin spot at $64,000, marking his first long allocation since September 2025. His plan is to invest 5% of the planned funds daily for spot purchases when Bitcoin is in the $54,000 to $64,000 range, continuing for a maximum of 20 days; if the price approaches $54,000, he will increase the buying intensity. Doctor Profit believes that there is a clear "herd behavior" in the current market: investors who were previously bullish at high levels up to $150,000 are now generally waiting for Bitcoin to drop to $40,000 to $50,000, viewing September or October as the bottom of the four-year cycle. When a large number of investors are waiting for the same price and time point, the market may not operate according to this expectation, which is why he chose to build positions in advance, judging that this round of bottom may appear earlier than the market generally expects.He also listed regulatory clarity, asset tokenization infrastructure, and institutional adoption progress as structural reasons for the shift to buying, and retracted his previous prediction that Bitcoin would drop to $40,000 to $50,000. However, he still retains all short positions in the S&P 500 index, believing that the crypto market has undergone significant repricing, while U.S. stock valuations remain relatively high.

According to the announcement disclosed by Changxin Technology, the issuer and the joint lead underwriters will hold the online subscription lottery ceremony for this issuance on July 17 (T+1 day) morning, and the results of the online lottery will be announced on the Shanghai Stock Exchange website on July 20 (T+2 day). Changxin Technology reminds investors to pay special attention to the payment process of this issuance and to fulfill their payment obligations in a timely manner on July 20 (T+2 day).Offline investors should refer to the "Announcement of the Preliminary Offline Allocation Results and Online Lottery Results" on July 20 (T+2 day) and pay the new share purchase funds in full and on time according to the final determined issuance price of 8.66 yuan/share and the allocated quantity. The purchase funds should be received by 16:00 on July 20 (T+2 day).

According to the Korea Herald, South Korea's financial regulatory agency has issued an investigation report to Upbit's operator Dunamu, initiating sanction procedures. Previously, the company suffered a hacking incident involving 44.5 billion won.Since the incident occurred, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) has been investigating whether there were violations of the "Virtual Asset User Protection Act." However, as there are currently no direct penalties for hacking incidents or computer system failures, it remains uncertain whether this will lead to severe disciplinary actions. The Financial Supervisory Service plans to notify the company in advance of the sanction opinion letter, which includes the level of sanctions, after the company provides an explanation. Subsequently, the final sanction measures will be determined by resolutions from the Sanction Review Committee, the Securities and Futures Commission, and the Financial Services Commission.

Zcash has launched a new full node, Zakura, maintained by a team independent of the Zcash Foundation. It is released as a trimmed version of Zebra for fast synchronization and is compatible with the old zcashd client. This client will reach the end of its lifecycle. Zakura is one of the components of Zcash's scalability efforts, working alongside Project Tachyon and private information retrieval research, aiming to increase network throughput to Visa and Mastercard levels by reducing verification data and eliminating wallet performance bottlenecks.Zakura also supports the Ironwood (NU6.3) upgrade, which will be activated on July 28. This upgrade introduces a turnstile mechanism to limit withdrawals from the Orchard shielded pool and control the potential generation of counterfeit ZEC due to long-term soundness bugs.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain whale continues to go long on BTC, with a position of 1,660 BTC, valued at 107 million USD, and a liquidation price of 63,123 USD.

According to South Korean media KBS, the Financial Services Commission of South Korea has announced the results of virtual asset market regulation. Since the implementation of the "Virtual Asset User Protection Act" two years ago, approximately 40 investigations into unfair virtual asset trading have been completed, and more than 30 cases have been reported or notified to judicial authorities, focusing on cracking down on market disorder behaviors such as short-term manipulation and "pump and dump."In the future, the ability to monitor the market will be further strengthened, and an AI-based virtual asset regulatory system will be established, including real-time market monitoring, second-level price manipulation analysis, and automatic identification of suspicious accounts and trading intervals.

According to DefiLlama data, Robinhood Chain's DEX trading volume in the past 24 hours reached $528.5 million, ranking fourth across the entire chain, surpassing Base's $434.6 million.

According to tracking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData X, in the past 7 days, the Robinhood Chain native CDP protocol Arrow Finance has been the project with the most new followers among X (Twitter) Top personalities. New influential figures following this project include well-known analyst 0xWizard (@0xcryptowizard), SpiderCrypto (@SpiderCrypto0x), and well-known KOL 0xSun (@0xSunNFT).

Mike Selig, Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), stated that one year after the "GENIUS Act" became law, the United States has become the "global cryptocurrency capital" and thanked U.S. President and Senator Bill Hagerty for their leadership in achieving this goal.

According to Jinshi reports, Iran's state television quoted the Iranian military as saying that Iran targeted U.S. military assets at two bases in Kuwait.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the market prediction event "Spain vs. Argentina - Player Performance" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option for the sub-market "Enzo Fernández: 2+ shots on target" has experienced a dramatic fluctuation in winning probability, soaring from 8% an hour ago to the current 35.5% (a fluctuation of 27.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

According to Ember monitoring, the Bonk treasury attacker transferred 400 billion BONK to Coinbase again about 5 hours ago, worth approximately 1.11 million USD. Of the 44.26 trillion BONK transferred due to the governance attack, 24.26 trillion have already been transferred to CEX. Since the attack, the price of BONK has dropped by 41%.

According to The Block, U.S. regulators failed to issue the final rules necessary to implement the federal stablecoin framework within the one-year deadline set by the GENIUS Act. This act was signed into law by Trump on July 18, 2025, requiring the OCC, the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, the NCUA, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and state stablecoin regulatory agencies to complete the supporting rulemaking by no later than July 18, 2026.As of the afternoon of July 18 local time, the main rule proposals released by the OCC, FDIC, NCUA, and the Treasury remain in the proposal stage, with some rules related to the Federal Reserve and anti-money laundering regulation still open for public comment. The report notes that the act does not stipulate that missing the deadline will automatically extend it, nor does it suspend the relevant statutory requirements or delay the overall framework's effectiveness.Among them, the OCC's comprehensive implementation proposal covers reserve assets, capital, liquidity, custody, risk control, and reporting requirements; the FDIC's proposal involves reserves, redemption, custody, and the deposit insurance treatment of stablecoin reserves; the NCUA proposed licensing and operational risk control plans in February and May, respectively, but the comment period for the latter only ended the day before the deadline, making it objectively impossible to complete formal rulemaking before the statutory deadline. The report indicates that this means that some key rules necessary for the operation of the stablecoin framework will not be finalized until at least after the deadline.

According to a report by The Defiant, data from Token Terminal shows that the on-chain trading activity of tokenized stocks and their use in lending and collateralization are both on the rise, but they still account for a small proportion of the overall DeFi market. Specifically, the on-chain spot DEX for tokenized stocks has reached a cumulative trading volume of $1.8 billion over the past 90 days, while the lending market has a deposit scale of approximately $23 million.In detail, on-chain trading volume is mainly concentrated on BNB Chain and Solana, accounting for 47.3% and 45.5% of the trading volume over the past 90 days, respectively; by asset classification, tokens tracking QQQ and SPY account for 40.5% and 40.4% of the total trading volume. In terms of lending collateral, xStocks accounts for 86.5% of the issuer's share, Solana accounts for 85.5% of the on-chain share, and Kamino accounts for 82.6% of the protocol share.The report also points out that compared to Uniswap's monthly trading volume of approximately $45 billion and xStocks' TVL of about $330 million, the current scale of tokenized stocks in terms of both trading and collateral usage is still at a low base.

According to The Defiant, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has changed his X platform avatar to a newly purchased CryptoPunk, after which the meme coin BRIAN, driven by the change in his avatar, significantly retraced. In the past 24 hours, the market capitalization of this token has dropped by about 86%, falling to approximately $1.5 million; during the same period, its trading volume in about 30 Uniswap liquidity pools was approximately $13.2 million, with total liquidity around $561,000.The report pointed out that Brian Armstrong had changed his X avatar to the "Coinbase Man" image corresponding to BRIAN on July 16, and posted "New profile photo - who dis," which the market initially interpreted as a signal of interest in the token, driving BRIAN to rise rapidly. The report emphasized that BRIAN is a community-created token, and Brian Armstrong is not the issuer and has not claimed any official association with it.

Founder of Strategy Michael Saylor published a post opposing the BIP 110 proposal that restricts the use of inscriptions and other data storage purposes. Bitcoin should adhere to neutrality, open markets, and permissionless innovation, and should not target specific uses through consensus rules.Saylor listed 110 reasons for opposition, emphasizing that Bitcoin should remain conservative at its core. Bitcoin does not need guardians of purity; it needs guardians of neutrality.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens (@OnchainLens), a Bitcoin whale has transferred 583.23 BTC to a new wallet, worth approximately 37.57 million USD.Onchain Lens stated that this address acquired 852.469 BTC for about 15.63 million USD approximately 8 years ago, when the price of Bitcoin was around 18,300 USD. Since then, this whale has continuously diversified its holdings by transferring them to multiple new wallets and has moved some funds to exchanges.

According to on-chain data monitored by Catcher Predict, significant capital movements are predicted in the Polymarket. A large whale invested $61,125 in the "Spain vs. Argentina - More Markets" event, targeting the "Advancing Team." Based on the current transaction price, the latest corresponding winning probability for this subject is 40.75%.

According to Jinshi reports, the United States is preparing to expand its operations against Iran by deploying about 100 refueling aircraft to the Middle East.Israeli defense agencies are preparing for a potential significant escalation in the region.