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According to BBX data, yesterday global traditional capital and financial consortiums intensively disclosed their latest strategies in digital asset treasury construction and Web3 ecosystem investment, with the core dynamics as follows:ORANGE JUICE launches a "real industry blood generation + coin hoarding" dual-wheel strategy: American capital company ORANGE JUICE officially announced the completion of a $40 million financing. The raised funds will be used to establish a holding company that integrates "long-term ownership, operational optimization, and Bitcoin reserves." The company plans to initially acquire stable and profitable American domestic enterprises with annual cash flows between $1 million and $10 million, and clearly stated that the business cash flows generated from these industries will be continuously reinvested for acquisitions or directly supplement its Bitcoin treasury.South Korea's KB Financial Group establishes a 100 billion won cryptocurrency special fund: South Korea's top financial giant KB Financial Group (KRX: 105560) announced the establishment of an AI and digital asset fund with a scale of 100 billion won (approximately $67.29 million). The fund is jointly funded by KB Kookmin Bank, KB Securities, KB Insurance, KB Kookmin Card, and KB Life under the group, and managed by KB Investment, focusing on investments in early-stage South Korean cryptocurrency companies, AI models, data reasoning, and on-chain analysis and other underlying technology companies.

The US spot Ethereum ETF saw an inflow of $96 million in the first three days of this week, with most of the funds absorbed by BlackRock's funds.The new demand from Robinhood Chain also boosted Ethereum's performance.

According to Fortune, the prediction market platform Pascal announced the completion of a $9 million Series A financing round, planning to create a new generation of prediction market platform aimed at professional traders and institutional users, challenging the current market landscape dominated by Kalshi and Polymarket. This round of financing was led by Union Square Ventures (USV), with specific valuation undisclosed.This financing is an extension based on the $6 million seed round from last August, with early investors including Wintermute Ventures and DBA. Pascal is headquartered in New York and positions itself as a prediction market platform similar to Kalshi, but aims to provide users with lower fees, higher liquidity, and more specialized trading tools through a trading model closer to perpetual futures.Pascal co-founder Ivo Crnkovic-Rubsamen stated that they hope to establish a high liquidity prediction market for real business risks in the future, allowing companies to use these markets for risk management and hedging.

According to official news, the DeFi protocol DeltaDeFi announced that due to a lack of operating funds, all operational activities will be suspended starting today, and development and maintenance work will also be halted. The official statement indicated that the team is currently evaluating subsequent plans and promises to return funds to users, provided that the minimum UTXO requirements are met.

According to Tiger Research and RootData based on research of 9,416 investment transaction data from the first half of 2018 to 2026, the capital inflow in the cryptocurrency market reached $13.3 billion in the first half of 2026, which is basically on par with the total of $13.2 billion for the entire year of 2024. However, the number of financing rounds was only 435, a decrease of 78% from the peak of 1,978 rounds in 2022, indicating that market funds are accelerating towards a few large transactions.The report points out that the current cryptocurrency investment market is dominated by a few large crypto-native VCs focused on leading investments, as well as venture capital departments of exchanges with liquidity and marketing support, while medium-sized institutions are being rapidly squeezed out. In terms of financing structure, the number of seed round transactions decreased by 88% from 2022 to 81, while financing in Series A and later stages accounted for 75.2% of total investments, with Series A financing amounting to $745.8 million, exceeding the total amount of all seed round financing of $423.3 million during the same period.In terms of sectors, payments and stablecoins, centralized exchanges, and prediction markets have become the most concentrated areas of capital. The payments and stablecoins sector attracted $2.85 billion in funding in the first half of 2026, but about 84% of this was driven by mergers and acquisitions such as Mastercard's acquisition of BVNK and Payward's acquisition of Reap; the investment share in the CEX sector rose to 18.2%, while prediction markets rose to 17.5%. In contrast, the number of financing rounds in the gaming sector plummeted from 141 rounds in 2024 to only 5 rounds, a decrease of 96%. Additionally, traditional financial institutions participated in 54.5% of all investment transactions in the first half of 2026.It is reported that Tiger Research is an independent research institution established in 2022, covering the Asian digital asset market, with business operations in South Korea, Japan, China, and Indonesia, publishing institutional-level research content in five languages, with over 100,000 monthly readers and more than 200 institutional clients.

Robinhood Chain's Pons launchpad officially responded to previous reports regarding a token authorization vulnerability in its frontend, stating that the Pons launchpad trading page does not have any Multicall3 functionality. The Multicall3 functionality mentioned in the tweet comes from the previous version of the Debank Chain cross-chain bridge, which was launched before the Pons launchpad and does not affect launchpad users.Currently, the only confirmed affected asset is 0.6 NOXA tokens, valued at approximately $0.66. As a security precaution, Pons recommends that users who have used the old cross-chain bridge revoke token authorization through revoke.cash. The team is currently working with auditing firms to investigate potential risks and stated that they will restore Pons frontend services once it is confirmed that there are no actual vulnerabilities.

SBI Group, DigiFT, and Startale Group have completed a joint proof of concept, demonstrating the full lifecycle of tokenized securities using the Japanese yen stablecoin JPYSC in an Ethereum testnet environment, including instant settlement for fund subscriptions and automatic on-chain dividend distribution.SBI Group and DigiFT are advancing the tokenization of the SBI Japan High Dividend Equity Fund, which is managed by SBI Asset Management with an asset management scale of approximately $1.3 billion, making it one of Japan's major public equity strategies. The three parties completed two tests, one demonstrating the near-instant settlement of fund subscriptions using JPYSC, and the other automatically calculating and distributing dividends to eligible token holders' wallets via smart contracts after the allocation registration is completed.The three companies plan to explore the integration of tokenized Japanese stocks with institutional DeFi platforms and consider testing use cases such as collateralized lending and on-chain asset management with ecosystem partners like Morpho and Gauntlet.

BlackRock's revenue in the second quarter increased by 31% year-on-year to $7.1 billion, and adjusted operating income rose by 39% year-on-year to $2.9 billion, with AUM reaching $15.3 trillion and net inflows of $868 billion over the past 12 months.BlackRock has submitted two registration statements for tokenized money market funds to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), one of which aims to create a tokenized share class for existing funds on Ethereum, while the other is for a digital-native strategy. The AUM of BlackRock's iShares ETF platform exceeds $6 trillion, with net inflows of $178 billion in the second quarter. Its AUM related to digital assets is approximately $110 billion, with iShares Bitcoin Trust, Ethereum Trust, and BUIDL remaining the largest products in their respective categories. BlackRock also manages a $60 billion reserve for stablecoin issuer Circle. The company has raised its stock buyback plan for 2026 to $2 billion, having repurchased $450 million in stock in the second quarter.

According to TechCrunch, Indian AI programming startup Emergent has completed a $130 million Series C funding round, with a post-money valuation of approximately $1.5 billion, an increase of about 5 times from a $300 million valuation in January this year. This round was led by private equity firm Creaegis, with participation from MNI Ventures-Claypond, Sentinel Global, as well as Khosla Ventures, SoftBank Vision Fund II, Lightspeed, Y Combinator, among others, bringing the total funding to $230 million.Emergent focuses on providing an "engineering team as a service" AI programming platform for small and medium-sized enterprises and entrepreneurs. It currently has an annual revenue of approximately $120 million, with a growth of about 70% in the past four months, and over 200,000 paying users, serving industries including logistics, manufacturing, construction, and property management.

DeepSeek's first round of financing has officially landed. Business registration information shows that DeepSeek's affiliated company, Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., recently underwent a business change, adding Hangzhou Chengli Enterprise Management Consulting Partnership (Limited Partnership) and National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) as shareholders, with registered capital increased to 16.4475 million yuan.

Blockchain security agency PeckShield stated that the previously monitored fund movements of the LayerZero Executor wallet are not a security incident but rather part of normal operational adjustments. PeckShield confirmed that user funds are currently not at risk.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the one-year lock-up period for the Pump.fun team and investor tokens has ended, entering a three-year unlocking period. Early this morning, the Pump.fun team and investor tokens were unlocked for the first time, with 57.279 billion PUMP unlocked and distributed to 121 wallets, worth 86.49 million USD.Among them, the GsM3...u6ya address unlocked and transferred 52.039 billion PUMP, worth 78.58 million USD; the ESRc...ZM67 address unlocked and transferred 5.24 billion PUMP, worth 7.91 million USD.

According to the Financial Times, based on the latest publicly available court documents, the stablecoin issuer Circle had banned the crypto fund Heka Funds, supported by Tether, at the end of 2023 due to suspicions that it was manipulating the market through large-scale arbitrage operations and helping Tether expand its market share. The documents show that during the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) crisis in 2023, USDC briefly fell below the $1 peg. Heka continuously bought discounted USDC in large quantities and redeemed it for cash from Circle. Circle believed that Heka's redemption scale far exceeded that of other market participants and suspected that the related funds ultimately flowed to Tether to help expand its USDT market size.Arbitration documents also revealed that Tether had invested about $800 million in Heka, accounting for about 75% of the fund's assets, and waived the stablecoin minting fees. The arbitrator found that Heka did not truthfully disclose its supportive relationship with Tether and was aware that the related information would raise concerns for Circle. In 2024, Heka initiated arbitration due to its account being frozen, claiming approximately $49 million in lost profits. In February of this year, the arbitrator dismissed all of Heka's claims, determining that it had engaged in malicious behavior and ordered it to pay Circle about $166,000 in attorney and expert fees. Heka denied any market manipulation and stated that it had never been subject to regulatory investigation; Circle declined to comment, and Tether did not respond to media requests for comment.

According to Onchain Lens monitoring, the U.S. government will transfer the seized assets related to the Bitfinex hacker case.Data shows that approximately 296,700 Tether USDt (USDT) worth of funds have been transferred from the government-controlled wallet to a Coinbase Prime address, and the market speculates that these funds may be used for over-the-counter (OTC) sales.

According to Coindesk, Giselle Lai, Director of Fidelity International for the Asia-Pacific region and Digital Asset Strategist, stated that the most attractive long-term use case for tokenized funds for large global institutions is not 24/7 liquidity, but balance sheet management.Lai pointed out that global institutions often need to hold cash in multiple jurisdictions, manage currency exposure, and meet regulatory requirements, while these bank deposits often do not generate returns. Compared to traditional account systems, tokenized tools can provide 24/7 interest, enhance fund transfer efficiency, and better serve institutional liquidity and collateral management needs.He also mentioned that current tokenized products are primarily applied in investment scenarios, with the most popular being tokenized money market funds that primarily use U.S. Treasury bonds as the underlying asset. What institutional investors are truly concerned about is not the "token" itself, but whether it can help asset management become faster and cheaper.

According to Fortune magazine, stablecoin payment infrastructure startup Velocity announced the completion of a $38 million Series A funding round, led by crypto investment firm Dragonfly, with participation from institutions such as Coinbase, Capital One Ventures, and Wintermute. Velocity CEO Eric Queathem did not disclose the latest funding valuation.Founded in 2025, Velocity focuses on providing stablecoin payment solutions for businesses, payment service providers, fintech companies, and financial institutions, helping them optimize cross-border payments, fund settlement, and fund management processes using dollar-pegged tokens. Currently, Velocity has covered markets in the United States, parts of Europe, and Australia, with plans to use the new funds to apply for licenses to expand into Africa and Latin America, while also investing in building a more secure asset custody infrastructure and developing new features, including stablecoin yield products.

According to Forbes, the stablecoin banking platform Flex announced the completion of a $70 million B1 round of financing, led by Halo Fund.The new funds will be used to expand its stablecoin-based cross-border commercial banking platform Flex Global, helping medium-sized enterprises conduct global payments and fund management through stablecoin infrastructure.Data shows that the annual payment scale of stablecoins has reached approximately $390 billion, with inter-enterprise transactions growing by about 733% year-on-year. Meanwhile, the settlement scale of Visa stablecoins has reached an annualized $7 billion as of April 2026, a year-on-year increase of 50%.

Binance contracts will update the funding rate settlement frequency for SKHYNIXUSDT, SAMSUNGUSDT, and HYUNDAIUSDT perpetual contracts on July 15, 2026, at 00:15, changing from once every eight hours to once every four hours, with the funding rate upper/lower limit adjusted to ± 0.5%.

According to Jinshi reports, a survey of fund managers by Bank of America shows that fund managers have raised the allocation ratio of U.S. stocks to the highest overweight level since December 2024.

According to official news, the Gate stock derivatives section will launch on July 14 at 14:00 (UTC+8) with the debut of BOT (robot strategy closed-end fund), INTW (2x long Intel daily leveraged ETF), SNXX (2x long Sandisk daily leveraged ETF), XBI (State Street S&P Biotechnology ETF), and APP (Applovin) perpetual contract trading (settled in USDT), supporting 1-20x leverage.