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The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that Liu Zhou, the founder and principal operator of the cryptocurrency financial services company MyTrade, was recently fined $10,000 in federal court in Boston for participating in a cryptocurrency market manipulation scheme.Prosecutors stated that MyTrade provided so-called "Volume Support" services to cryptocurrency projects through its "MyTrade MM" platform, using bots to execute false trades (wash trading) across multiple cryptocurrency exchanges, artificially creating trading volume and market activity to mislead investors. According to the plea agreement, MyTrade MM has ceased providing "Volume Support" services and permanently shut down the related wash trading bots, while adding a statement on its website acknowledging that "Volume Support constitutes wash trading, which is illegal under U.S. law." The U.S. Department of Justice stated that the case was jointly pursued by the U.S. Attorney's Office and the Boston division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

According to TechCrunch, OpenAI is fighting back against Apple's lawsuit regarding the leak of trade secrets, stating that Apple itself has vulnerabilities in its information security management and employee departure processes, and cannot prove that the relevant information is protected trade secrets.Apple previously accused OpenAI of obtaining hardware-related secrets through former employees who left Apple and requested the court to expedite the evidence investigation. In the latest legal documents submitted, OpenAI stated that Apple allows employees to use personal iCloud accounts to handle work materials and did not promptly revoke access after employees left. OpenAI claimed that Apple did not specify the exact trade secrets that were allegedly stolen, but only referred generally to information such as product development processes, supply chains, and testing.OpenAI believes that Apple's lawsuit is more about restricting its development in the AI hardware field and denies that the company needs or uses Apple's trade secrets. The focus of the dispute between the two parties centers on employee mobility, intellectual property protection, and competition in the AI hardware sector.

Palantir's second-quarter revenue and adjusted earnings per share both exceeded market expectations, with the stock price rising nearly 30% in after-hours and the following day's trading. According to CoinGlass data, the current total contract value of PLTR across the network is approximately $38.1997 million. From the platform distribution perspective, tradeXYZ, Binance, and Bitget rank in the top three in terms of open interest, among which:tradeXYZ: approximately 69,000 PLTR, corresponding to a value of about $11.0056 millionBinance: approximately 57,200 PLTR, corresponding to a value of about $9.1368 millionBitget: approximately 26,400 PLTR, corresponding to a value of about $4.2124 million

Uniswap released a teaser tweet for pools.trade, with a countdown on the page indicating that pools.trade will officially launch in about 13 hours, at 0:00 Beijing time on August 6.Previously, according to crypto KOL 0xSLK, Uniswap is developing a token issuance platform called Pools on the Robinhood Chain. The official website is now online, but the product is not yet available. The pools.trade page displays "Coming soon from Uniswap" and plays a video of a frog jumping into a pond.

According to CryptoSlate, Solana increased the block computation unit limit from 60 million to 100 million on July 29, a 66.7% increase. This adjustment provides more parallel processing space for unrelated transactions, reducing the block occupancy rate of a single popular account from the original 20% to 12%.However, the computation limit for writing to the same account in each block remains at 12 million CU, and the incremental data limit for accounts is still 100 MB, which means the congestion bottleneck for popular accounts has not been fundamentally resolved. If a large number of transactions need to be written to the same popular account (such as a high-volume DEX or liquidation contract), they are still subject to this limit. The officials did not provide actual comparative data on transaction confirmation rates, fees, block propagation, or replay before and after the upgrade.

According to Jinshi, today's key financial data and events to focus on include: the pending release of SpaceX's second-quarter performance, the pending FMS 2026 Flash Memory Summit, the release of the U.S. trade balance for June at 20:30, the announcement of U.S. JOLTs job openings and factory orders month-on-month for June at 22:00, and the release of U.S. API crude oil inventory data for the week ending July 31 at 04:30 the next day.

According to official news, the Gate stock section was launched on August 3 at 15:00 (UTC+8) with GIGADEV (兆易创新 03986.HK), ZJINNOLIGHT (中际旭创 03308.HK), SMIC (中芯国际 00981.HK), HHGRACE (华虹宏力 01347.HK), BYD (比亚迪 01211.HK), CATL (宁德时代 03750.HK), ZIJINMINING (紫金矿业 02899.HK), YOFC (长飞光纤光缆 06869.HK), PYPL (PayPal Holdings), JMKE (泽西迈克三明治) perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20 times leverage.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, Arthur Hayes (0x6cd...7e21) sent 2.5 million USDC to Galaxy Digital and FalconX respectively.He has received 1,337 ETH from Galaxy Digital, worth about 2.5 million USD, and the transaction related to FalconX is still pending completion.

According to Jinshi reports, the UK Maritime Trade Operations Office stated that an incident occurred 20 nautical miles northeast of Seeb, Oman. The captain of a tanker reported hearing an explosion near the vessel.

According to on-chain analyst Onchain Lens, a trader who has accumulated approximately $6.46 million in profits on the Hyperliquid platform established a short position with a total scale of about $8.14 million after depositing 1.5 million USDC.Their main short positions include: SPCX approximately $2.37 million, DRAM approximately $1.3 million, MU approximately $1.11 million, with leverage of 2 times. In addition, the trader has allocated additional short positions across multiple assets.

According to Gate market data, Apple's stock price fell by 6.3% on the Tradegate trading platform due to its forecast of current quarter sales growth being below market targets.

According to CNBC, Situational Awareness, an AI-themed hedge fund founded by former OpenAI researcher Leopold Aschenbrenner, sold its entire publicly traded stock portfolio in a single transaction to another hedge fund before the market opened on Thursday, with the buyer undisclosed. The fund also sold a significant stake in Anthropic. The fund manages approximately $20 billion to $24 billion, and as of the end of June, it had a net return of 439%, making it one of the best-performing hedge funds this year.According to insiders, this liquidation was due to significant losses in recent weeks. The fund had long positions in AI infrastructure and semiconductor stocks such as SK Hynix, Nvidia, Micron, and CoreWeave, most of which fell over 35% this month, while its short positions in software stocks like Adobe also experienced significant reverse volatility. According to its 13F filing submitted on March 31, about 62% of its $13.68 billion holdings were bearish options betting on declines in semiconductor and tech stocks. It is reported that major brokers such as Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan are assisting the fund in meeting margin calls or orderly reducing positions, and Aschenbrenner has sought new capital from existing investors and lenders.

According to Jinshi reports, on the evening of July 30, Beijing time, the Chinese lead in Sino-U.S. economic and trade relations, Vice Premier He Lifeng, held a video call with the U.S. lead, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, and Trade Representative Katherine Tai.The two sides discussed the implementation of the important consensus reached during the meeting between the leaders of China and the U.S. in Beijing, focusing on stabilizing economic and trade relations, pragmatic cooperation, and addressing each other's concerns. The Chinese side expressed serious concerns regarding the recent economic and trade restrictions imposed by the U.S. side.

According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a certain whale opened a 3x long position of 37,200 SKHX, valued at 37.3 million USD, and has currently made a profit of 778,000 USD.However, this whale previously incurred losses of over 1 million USD on each of the last 3 trades.

On Tuesday, Apple's stock price reached an all-time high during trading, briefly surpassing a market capitalization of $5 trillion, and continues to hold the top position globally in terms of market value. According to CoinGlass data, the total contract value of Apple (AAPL) across the network is approximately $128 million. From the platform distribution perspective, tradeXYZ, Binance, and Bitget rank in the top three, collectively accounting for about 85.02% of the market share. Among them:tradeXYZ: approximately 219,200 AAPL held, corresponding to a value of $74.9307 million;Binance: approximately 80,300 AAPL held, corresponding to a value of $27.4616 million;Bitget: approximately 18,900 AAPL held, corresponding to a value of $6.4609 million.

According to The Block, Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik stated that the number of AI trading agents is expected to surpass human traders in about two years. Nansen is shifting its product from a pure analytics tool to "direct trading" and is restructuring the platform around "trading all assets on-chain with agents." Currently, this feature has achieved a cumulative trading volume of over $500 million.Svanevik mentioned that about 10 of the top 15 perpetual contracts by trading volume on Nansen are non-crypto assets, including SpaceX, the S&P 500 index, gold, and crude oil. Nansen plans to open up higher autonomy trading agents after completing backtesting and paper trading to reduce inference costs and control the risk of input poisoning.

In response to the abnormal volatility in the SK hynix perpetual contract market, Hyperliquid stated that the platform is an unlicensed blockchain, and the HIP-3 market can be independently deployed and operated by different teams. The xyz:SKHYNIX perpetual contract is deployed and operated by the Trade.xyz team, which is currently investigating the incident and will announce progress after reaching a conclusion.Hyperliquid also explained that HIP-3 deployers can independently push the market's mark price, oracle price, and external perpetual price inputs. If a pricing mechanism similar to that used by platform validators for operating perpetual contracts is adopted, the protocol only provides one of the three median components, namely the on-chain latest transaction price, the best buy price, and the best sell price median, while the other two components are provided by the deployer, who jointly determines the final mark price.

Crypto KOL Phyrex posted on platform X, stating, "BitMart and BitMex did not close due to a collapse; it is very different from the sacrifice of FTX. These two primarily faced business issues."According to him, in 2023, BitMart had approached his associates about an acquisition, and they had done a lot of data analysis at the time, but it ultimately came to nothing. In fact, part of the decline of many third-tier exchanges is due to the impact from Binance Alpha.Small exchanges are essentially the stronghold of various altcoins, pump coins, Ponzi coins, and community coins, but the emergence of Alpha has provided better sources for these coins, which has also led to a significant reduction in listing fees for third-tier exchanges and a decrease in profits from joint market-making.Another reason is the signal teachers. In fact, the total number of signal teachers is not very large, but they have waves of associates. These teachers generally move between various exchanges, and once a new exchange offers better profits, these teachers quickly lead their followers to switch. The recent well-known cases of exchanges running away generally follow this pattern.