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Cryptocurrency financial platform Antalpha announced its second-quarter financial report, with a net loss of $12.5 million and revenue declining by 28% year-on-year to $12.2 million.The company stated that its performance was impacted by fair value losses on tokenized gold holdings. Antalpha primarily provides cryptocurrency asset-related financing and liquidity services to institutional clients.

According to a report by Token Terminal, the DeFi protocol Fluid, developed by the Instadapp team, released data for the second quarter of 2026. The average TVL for the quarter was $3.4 billion, a decrease of 21.1% quarter-on-quarter, but an increase of 84.9% year-on-year; active loans were $1.5 billion, down 15.1% quarter-on-quarter, but up 92.9% year-on-year; trading volume was $18.1 billion, down 37.3% quarter-on-quarter; fees were $9.5 million, down 21.5% quarter-on-quarter; protocol revenue was $1.8 million, down 29.3% quarter-on-quarter, but up 9.8% year-on-year; monthly active users were 70.7 thousand, down 43.8% quarter-on-quarter.The capital structure continues to lean towards Jupiter Lend, which collaborates with Solana, with an average TVL of about $1.7 billion, accounting for nearly half and achieving quarter-on-quarter growth, becoming the largest lending deployment. At the beginning of the quarter, there was an outflow influenced by third-party events such as Resolv, but the Fluid contract was not attacked, and related bad debts were covered by the treasury and others, with no loss of user funds. During this period, Bitwise began managing the USDe market on Jupiter Lend, Liquidity-as-a-Service was launched with approximately $100 million in sUSDai liquidity facilities, and RWA-related assets such as Huma PST were also integrated into Fluid.The team stated that they will continue to promote institutional-level deployments, Jupiter DEX, and Sui expansion, introducing incremental capital and improving revenue efficiency through vertical products and institutional collaborations.

Blockworks released the XRP Q2 report, with XRP's quarter-end closing price at $1.04, down 19.9%, and a market cap of $65.8 billion, still the fourth largest non-stablecoin asset. XRP ETP net inflow was $253.6 million, marking the third consecutive quarter of positive inflows, totaling over $1.9 billion. CEX spot trading volume was $57.6 billion, down 53.5% quarter-over-quarter, and perpetual contract trading volume decreased by 44%.The supply of XRPL native stablecoins increased by 195.4% quarter-over-quarter to $825.5 million, with RLUSD supply at $676.9 million, up 257%. OKX has launched RLUSD with over 280 spot trading pairs, and the Japanese Financial Services Agency has approved RLUSD as an electronic payment tool, distributed through SBI VC Trade. The total value of tokenized RWAs on XRPL increased by 102.5% quarter-over-quarter to $4.46 billion, setting a new quarterly high, with Justoken's energy-related JMWH accounting for about half. The transfer volume of stablecoins increased by 207.5% quarter-over-quarter to approximately $10 billion, with RLUSD accounting for about 90%.In terms of network activity, total transaction volume was 222.4 million (down 6.5% quarter-over-quarter), daily active addresses were 16,800 (down 10.7%), DEX trading volume was $482.9 million (down 35.9%), and transaction costs fell to $0.00024 (declining for five consecutive quarters). The lending protocols XLS-65/66 received support from 9/35 and 8/35 validators respectively, still 29 votes short of the activation threshold, with a revised version to be submitted in Q3. In terms of institutional collaboration, Ondo, JPMorgan Kinexys, Mastercard, and Ripple completed the tokenization of U.S. Treasury cross-chain redemptions, and Aviva Investors subsequently launched tokenized fund shares on XRPL.

Strategy stated that 12 of the company's top 15 institutional shareholders increased their holdings in the second quarter of 2026, with a total increase of $1.2 billion.

According to SemiAnalysis, Anthropic's ARR from indirect channels (Bedrock, Foundry, Gemini Agent Enterprise) in Q2 2026 has exceeded 40%, with API and B2B contributing the majority of new revenue. The monetization model for indirect channels differs from direct revenue; cloud service providers typically charge IaaS fees or revenue sharing. Laboratories account for gross ARR, but related costs are reflected in sales and marketing expenses. Indirect channels require precise computational resource allocation analysis at the individual transaction level.

According to CoinMarketCap, the Ethereum Foundation has allocated a total of $5.5 million in grants in the second quarter of 2026, covering areas such as ecosystem development, research related to zero-knowledge proofs, and security audits.The related grant arrangements aim to support the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade, focusing on strengthening network infrastructure and technical security capabilities, and continuously promoting the development of the Ethereum ecosystem.

Pony.ai's U.S. stock rose 5% in pre-market trading, with total revenue in the second quarter increasing by 68.8% year-on-year.

Bank of America Q2 13F filing shows that as of June 30, its position in Strategy (MSTR) decreased from approximately 3.97 million shares at the end of the first quarter to about 1.18 million shares, representing a reduction of about 70% in terms of share count.At the same time, its BlackRock spot Ethereum ETF (ETHA) position increased from approximately 67,500 shares to about 1.98 million shares, with the number of shares increasing to nearly 29 times prior, with a reported value of approximately $23.6 million at the end of Q2.

Galaxy Research released the Q2 2026 Crypto Leverage Market Report, showing that the total amount of crypto collateralized lending decreased by 16.78% month-on-month to $56.16 billion, down 40.13% from the Q3 2025 peak of $78.69 billion. Among them, DeFi lending shrank by 27.61% month-on-month to $20.43 billion, while CeFi borrowing decreased by 9.62% month-on-month to $22.98 billion, marking the first time since Q3 2023 that CeFi volume has surpassed DeFi. Tether continues to dominate the CeFi market with a 58.54% share.The report points out that the current deleveraging differs from previous bear markets in its "orderly and moderate" pace: with consecutive quarterly declines of only 10%, 5%, and 17%, rather than the cliff-like collapse of over 55% in a single quarter as seen in 2022. In the futures market, open interest in Q2 slightly decreased by 3.08% month-on-month to $103.2 billion, but rebounded to about $114 billion in July. Regarding institutional corporate debt, Strategy completed a $1.5 billion debt buyback in May, reducing the total outstanding debt in the DAT industry to $16.1 billion. The report believes that if the market does not experience severe liquidations or counterparty defaults, deleveraging is expected to continue in a gradual step-down pattern.

According to Protos, the latest disclosure from 21Shares' Polkadot ETF (TDOT) shows that in the second quarter of 2026, for every $1 in distribution income generated through the sale of DOT tokens to pay staking rewards, there was an accompanying realized loss of approximately $4.52.According to regulatory documents, TDOT sold 98,505 DOT in the second quarter, generating about $107,500 in cash to pay staking rewards to shareholders. However, due to a significant drop in DOT prices, these sales confirmed a loss of approximately $485,600.Data shows that DOT fell by about 34% in the second quarter of 2026, with a cumulative decline of 76% over the past 12 months as of June 30. Since TDOT shareholders receive distributions in USD rather than directly receiving DOT staking rewards, the fund needs to sell DOT to convert to cash payments, thereby locking in losses in a low-price environment. In the second quarter, TDOT paid shareholders a cumulative distribution of approximately $0.14698 per share, but during the same period, the fund's share price dropped from $14.95 to $9.86, a decline of about 34%, and the staking rewards did not offset the losses caused by the decline in asset prices.

Nasdaq-listed e-cigarette wholesaler Greenlane Holdings shifted to a corporate crypto treasury strategy by the end of 2025, focusing on the Berachain native token BERA instead of Bitcoin, and emulating the Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) model to accumulate a single asset through equity and debt financing, disclosing per-share assets. In October 2025, it completed approximately $110.7 million in private placement for the "BERA Strategy." By the end of 2025, it held 51.6 million BERA (costing about $58 million, with a market value of about $36.6 million), and continued to increase its holdings to 81.3 million in the first half of 2026, with a total cost of about $70 million.The second-quarter report disclosed on August 14, 2026, showed a net loss of $24.8 million, of which about $19.1 million came from non-cash impairment of BERA; cash and equivalents fell to $6.1 million, with an additional approximately $8.1 million in aUSDC and sUSDe reserves, and current liabilities of $6.5 million. As of June 30, the fair value of BERA holdings was approximately $16 million, down about 77% from cost in less than a year. The traditional e-cigarette business has shrunk to a nearly revenue-free agency model, and Proof of Liquidity staking returns are insufficient to offset treasury losses.In March 2026, Nasdaq issued a delisting decision due to minimum bid price, the company appealed and regained compliance on April 27 after implementing a 1-for-8 reverse stock split in April. Additionally, there is a Nasdaq minimum listing security market value of $5 million.

In the second quarter 13F holdings report for 2026 (reporting period ended June 30, 2026), Bridgewater Associates, founded by Ray Dalio, disclosed a reduction of 1,359,038 shares of Micron Technology, still holding approximately 116,700 shares, with a reduction ratio of about 92%.

Solana Company (Nasdaq: HSDT) announced its financial data for the second quarter of 2026. The revenue for the quarter was $2.5 million, primarily from the 31,200 SOL rewards obtained through staking during the quarter; the net loss was $30.3 million.As of June 30, the company's total assets were $176.1 million, which included approximately $147.3 million in related assets. Solana Company is a publicly traded company associated with the Solana ecosystem in the open market, and its performance is significantly affected by SOL staking yields and fluctuations in the value of its holdings.

Tiger Global Fund made significant adjustments in the second quarter, reducing its holdings in Broadcom by 51.1% to 1.8 million shares, Google A by 45.4% to 5.8 million Class A shares, TSMC by 12.3% to 4.9 million ADS, Microsoft by 9.3% to 2.3 million shares, Meta Platforms by 8.5% to 2.8 million Class A shares, NVIDIA by 6.8% to 11.2 million shares, and JD.com by 41.5% to 201,500 ADS.Increased holdings in Intel to 4.3 million shares, established new positions in AMD with 674,000 shares and SpaceX with 375,000 shares, and completely exited Netflix.

According to Bloomberg, Australia's richest person Gina Rinehart's investment company Hancock Prospecting purchased 8 million shares of SpaceX in the second quarter, with a holding value of $1.37 billion as of June 30, making it its largest single holding.During the same period, the company also doubled its holdings in Trump Media & Technology Group and increased its positions in the S&P 500 ETF and several defense and energy stocks. As of the end of the second quarter, the total value of its U.S. listed securities was $5.71 billion, a 72% increase from the previous quarter.

Upbit operator Dunamu announced its performance for the second quarter of 2026, with quarterly revenue of 173.5 billion won (approximately 12.3 million USD) and operating profit of 23.5 billion won (approximately 1.665 million USD), a decrease of about 26% and 73% respectively compared to the first quarter.In the first quarter, Dunamu's revenue was 234.6 billion won (approximately 16.6 million USD) and operating profit was 88 billion won (approximately 6.234 million USD). Dunamu stated that the decline in performance this quarter was mainly affected by the overall liquidity contraction in the global digital asset market, leading to weakened investor sentiment.

According to Cointelegraph, Morgan Stanley's latest 13F filing submitted to the U.S. SEC shows that as of June 30, it held approximately 16.5 million shares of BlackRock IBIT, an increase of 23% from 13.4 million shares in the first quarter. However, due to the decline in Bitcoin prices during the quarter, the market value of this holding dropped from $667 million to $549 million, a decrease of about 18%.During the same period, Morgan Stanley also held 2.57 million shares of MSBT, valued at approximately $43.3 million, and increased its holdings in Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust, Bitwise Bitcoin ETF, and Fidelity FBTC, with FBTC holdings increasing by nearly 38%.In terms of Ethereum, its ETHA holdings increased by about 202% to 4.6 million shares, and the Grayscale Ethereum Staked Mini ETF holdings increased by about 26% to 5.1 million shares. Additionally, Morgan Stanley also established new positions in the Grayscale Solana Staked ETF and Fidelity Solana Fund, with market values of approximately $4.25 million and $2.26 million, respectively.On the individual stock front, Morgan Stanley's holdings in Circle (CRCL) surged from about 1.46 million shares to 8.32 million shares, while also increasing positions in mining companies and infrastructure firms such as Cipher Digital, Core Scientific, Hut 8, and Bitdeer; on the other hand, it reduced its holdings by about 550,000 shares in Coinbase, reduced over 3.1 million shares in CleanSpark, and completely exited approximately 8 million shares in Bitfarms.

According to Coinpedia, JPMorgan, with an asset management scale of approximately $5.1 trillion, submitted its Q2 13F filing to the SEC, showing significant adjustments in its crypto-related ETF holdings. In terms of Bitcoin, the bank held approximately 10.4 million shares of BlackRock's IBIT as of June 30, valued at about $355.7 million, up from about 8.3 million shares and nearly $162 million in Q1; the number of IBIT call options increased to about 3.94 million, while put options decreased from about 4.75 million to about 3.5 million.Regarding Ethereum, JPMorgan held nearly 1.17 million shares of BlackRock's ETHA, valued at approximately $14.3 million, a significant increase of 338% compared to the previous quarter, but the value of Bitcoin positions still exceeds that of ETHA by more than twenty times. For XRP, after the related positions were reduced to zero in Q1, the bank re-established its holdings, holding small shares of Bitwise XRP ETF and Grayscale XRP Trust ETF, as well as approximately 19,900 shares of Armada Acquisition Corp II related to Ripple-supported trading, valued at about $207,000.In addition, the filing also showed that JPMorgan established a new position in Bitwise Solana Staking ETF, holding about 47,500 shares. The article also mentioned that there has been a recent net outflow from the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF, with the next 13F covering Q3 expected to be disclosed in November.