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According to the official announcement, to meet users' diverse investment needs, Bitget has launched 472 stock spot rTokens, including rBAM (Brookfield Asset Management), rHMC (Honda Motor), rVOD (Vodafone), rFOXA (Fox Corporation-A), covering multiple sectors such as finance, healthcare, and utilities. As of now, the Bitget platform supports a total of 1,186 rTokens.The rTokens, identified by the letter r + stock code (for example, Nvidia is rNVDA), are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, and are directly connected to global liquidity pools such as NASDAQ and NYSE through collaboration with the compliant brokerage Alpaca. Their features include: 1:1 reserves of underlying assets held by licensed custodians, stock dividends distributed in token form 1:1, support for corporate actions (such as stock splits and consolidations) with synchronized mapping, and positions can serve as joint collateral for unified accounts and U-based contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

Bitcoin News posted on platform X stating that CNBC reported that a small football club in the UK, Real Bedford, aims to become a global Bitcoin brand.Real Bedford was acquired by podcast host Peter McCormack in 2022 and has attracted fans from around the world, raising $4.5 million from Cameron Winklevoss and Tyler Winklevoss, allowing fans to purchase tickets, food, and merchandise using Bitcoin.Some players and staff are paid partially or entirely in Bitcoin. The club's ultimate goal is to enter the English Football League, build a new stadium and youth academy, and demonstrate that the global Bitcoin community can help transform local clubs.

The official Chinese version of the "2026 Artificial Intelligence Index Report" from Stanford University's Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute (HAI) was officially released today. The report points out that artificial intelligence has moved beyond a mere competition of model capabilities and is deepening into systemic changes at the levels of infrastructure, organizational processes, and institutions.Currently, the leading models worldwide are performing close to 100% human level on the software engineering benchmark SWE-bench; the success rate of agents in real computing environments has surged from 12% to 66%, with AI evolving from "generating information" to "executing tasks." The gap between top models in China and the U.S. has narrowed to 2.7%, with leading models from both sides having exchanged positions multiple times.In addition, physical infrastructure has become a core constraint on AI development. The global AI data center power capacity has reached 29.6 gigawatts, and chips, energy, and water resources are becoming key strategic bottlenecks for AI development.

Stanford Business School Professor Ilya Strebulaev, in collaboration with Blake Jackson, released the 2026 Strebulaev-Jackson Venture Capital Firm Rankings, based on nearly 30 years of data from over 230,000 investments and nearly 13,000 VCs. The research estimates that about 5% of VCs generate approximately 90% of the industry's profits. The top five are Sequoia Capital (10,158 points), Andreessen Horowitz (8,292 points), Accel, DST Global, and Tiger Global. Among them, Parkway Venture Capital (19th place) and Notable (20th place) made it into the top 20, but are not well-known leading brands.The rankings are based on six major factors: discount valuation, dilution adjustment, net profit (after costs), value added (lead investments and board seats), human capital decay (three-and-a-half-year half-life), and credit allocation between institutions and individuals (25% for the investing institution and 75% for the current institution). Of the top 100, 62 are located in California, 19 in New York, and 6 each in Massachusetts and Texas. 21 were established in 2015 or later, and 23 of the best investments are in frontier AI or AI infrastructure companies, with OpenAI listed as the best investment by 4 firms, xAI by 3, and Anthropic and Perplexity by 2 each. The ranking methodology has a correlation of only about 0.27 with the Midas List, with SV Angel investing in about 139 unicorns ranked 31st, and Thrive with only 47 unicorns ranked 8th. This ranking is the result of research by Stanford professors and does not constitute investment advice.

According to Jinshi reports, Iain Simmons, an analyst at the Oxford Economic Institute, stated that the inflation rate in the Eurozone remains above target levels and faces significant risks in the future. Due to the escalating situation in the Middle East leading to high energy prices, the overall inflation rate rose by 0.1 percentage points in July, reaching 2.9%. He pointed out that since the breakdown of the Iran ceasefire agreement, the risk of broader inflationary impacts has significantly increased, which strengthens the case for an interest rate hike in September.Nevertheless, the inflation data shows a relatively mild response to the escalating situation in the Middle East, and the second round of wage effects later this year may be limited.

According to Bloomberg, researchers at Stanford University have found signs of manipulation in the Polymarket five-minute Bitcoin betting market. The study analyzed contract data over approximately two months and discovered repeated one-way trading pulses on the Binance exchange that briefly affected Bitcoin prices just seconds before the betting ended, benefiting those with aligned positions. The researchers referred to this pattern as "temporary manipulation to drive up spot prices" and pointed out that such contracts have structural vulnerabilities—participants can influence the outcome by trading the underlying asset itself that determines win or loss.A Polymarket spokesperson stated that the platform uses multiple independent price oracles to ensure accuracy and plans to transition some markets to a settlement method using longer time windows next year to enhance market integrity. The study estimates that suspected manipulators profited about $8.2 million over two months, primarily from losses incurred by retail traders. Similar patterns are not evident in the 15-minute market, where longer time windows make it more difficult to influence outcomes.

According to CoinDesk, the long-established asset management company Baillie Gifford from Edinburgh, Scotland (founded over 118 years ago) announced on Monday in collaboration with global custodian giant BNY the launch of a tokenized fixed income fund—Baillie Gifford Enhanced Yield Fund (BAGEY), deployed simultaneously on the Ethereum and Solana public chains.The fund is denominated in US dollars and operates under an open-ended investment company (OEIC) structure within the UK regulatory framework, targeting qualified investors from the UK, Switzerland, and the Cayman Islands. It offers an actively managed short-duration corporate bond portfolio, with a current yield of approximately 7%.Unlike most tokenized products on the market, Baillie Gifford's Head of Digital Assets Theo Golden emphasized that BAGEY is not a traditional fund wrapped in a token shell, but rather a fund issued directly on-chain, with the blockchain itself serving as the rights registry, allowing investors to directly hold shares and enjoy direct recourse.BNY will provide tokenization and wallet infrastructure for the fund, with NatWest acting as the custodian. The Global Head of Investor Solutions at BNY stated that this issuance marks the transition of tokenization from concept to real application, as regulated fund structures evolve towards a more digital and interconnected market.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched a total of 85 stock spot products including rWMT (Walmart), rBAC (Bank of America), rBLK (BlackRock), rF (Ford Motor), and rAAL (American Airlines).

According to Bloomberg, informed sources revealed that the prediction market Kalshi has raised an additional $200 million from two new investors, Baillie Gifford and Layer Global, expanding the previous $1 billion financing led by Coatue Management, with the company's valuation remaining unchanged at $22 billion.Earlier, Kalshi announced at the beginning of this month the completion of a $1 billion Series F financing led by Coatue Management, with a valuation of $22 billion. Other participants included Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, IVP, Paradigm, Morgan Stanley, and ARK Invest. Kalshi's monthly trading volume in April exceeded $14 billion, with an annualized revenue of over $1.5 billion.

The identities of the bail guarantors for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried have been disclosed, including former Stanford Law School Dean Larry Kramer and research scientist Andreas Paepcke, who provided guarantees of $500,000 and $200,000, respectively.Reports indicate that the total bail amount of $250 million for SBF is primarily secured by properties owned by his parents in California. Previously, his lawyers attempted to keep the identities of the guarantors confidential, but the court requested their disclosure in response to media requests. Currently, the related case is still under review, and SBF is facing multiple fraud charges.

Decentralized Artificial Intelligence Infrastructure Protocol 0G Labs announced the launch of the "0G Apollo Accelerator," which plans to provide up to $20 million in funding support for incubating and scaling revenue-generating AI applications based on decentralized infrastructure.The accelerator is established in collaboration with the Blockchain Builders Fund (BBF). BBF is part of the Stanford University blockchain ecosystem, which includes projects such as the Stanford Blockchain Accelerator, BASS, and MS&E 447. The project is also supported by Google Cloud, with each selected team receiving a $200,000 cloud resource allocation.In addition, the wallet infrastructure platform Privy (acquired by Stripe) will provide production-grade wallet solutions for selected teams, aiming to help projects have enterprise-level computing and infrastructure capabilities from the early stages.

According to Jinshi, Federal Reserve Governor Barr stated that the Federal Reserve can be patient with its monetary policy.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve Chairman Powell stated that a 25 basis point cut in the Federal Reserve's interest rates may have little impact on housing affordability.

Federal Reserve Chairman Powell did not comment on the economy and monetary policy in his prepared remarks for a speech at Stanford University. (Jin Shi)

According to Fortune, cryptocurrency payment infrastructure company Paxos announced the acquisition of New York-based crypto wallet startup Fordefi, with a transaction amount exceeding $100 million. Fordefi focuses on crypto wallet solutions designed for decentralized finance (DeFi) and currently has about 40 employees, serving approximately 300 clients.Paxos CEO Charles Cascarilla stated that this acquisition is aimed at meeting the growing demand from clients for access to DeFi. Fordefi will temporarily operate independently, but Paxos plans to eventually integrate its technology into its own infrastructure. This is Paxos's second acquisition in the past year, having previously acquired Finnish stablecoin issuer Membrane Finance to comply with EU cryptocurrency regulatory requirements.