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According to Arkham monitoring, Morgan Stanley has once again "bought the dip," investing $15.05 million through its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund MSBT to increase its holdings by approximately 232.548 BTC. As of now, its total Bitcoin holdings have surpassed 6,500 for the first time, currently reaching 6,563, valued at over $426 million.

VeChain Foundation announced the entry into the next phase of the Renaissance roadmap, Interstellar. Previously, Galactica completed the EVM foundational upgrade, and Hayabusa completed the transformation of consensus and token economics. Interstellar aims to deepen the EVM compatibility of VeChainThor with the Ethereum ecosystem and expand developer capabilities.The first upgrade proposal, VIP-255, will introduce execution layer improvements compatible with Ethereum versions such as Cancun, Prague, and Osaka, including transient storage, MCOPY instruction, and cryptographic support for BLS12-381 and secp256r1. Voting will take place from August 10, 2026, 00:00 UTC to August 17, 2026, 00:00 UTC via the VeVote platform, allowing validators and eligible StarGate NFT holders to participate. This upgrade does not affect the VET and VTHO token economics, and regular holders do not need to take any action.

Bitcoin Treasuries.NET posted on platform X that Alexandre Laizet of Capital B increased Europe's first Bitcoin reserve to 3,140 Bitcoins within a year.The video content covers topics such as the $3 trillion market corresponding to Bitcoin, Bitcoin reaching parity with gold, achieving zero fiat debt on the balance sheet, and Capital B increasing its Bitcoin holdings from 2,000 to 3,140 Bitcoins within a year.

The Financial Services Agency of Japan announced personnel appointments. As part of an organizational restructuring, the agency has established a new "Department of Crypto Assets and Stablecoins," specifically responsible for regulating crypto assets and stablecoins. Toshiaki Adomi has been appointed as the first section chief.Toshiaki Adomi graduated from Osaka University Faculty of Law in 2002 and then joined the Financial Services Agency. He later obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Birmingham in the UK and a Master of Laws from the London School of Economics. He has held positions in bank supervision and policy coordination, and from July 2025, he will serve as a councilor in the Comprehensive Policy Bureau. Until August 1, 2026, he served as the councilor overseeing postal savings and insurance supervision.

The launch platform Pools.trade launched by Uniswap Labs went live on the Robinhood Chain on August 5, creating 10,506 tokens on its first day, surpassing Pons' 7,210 tokens during the same period. The platform does not charge a launch fee, and tokens directly open Uniswap v4 liquidity pools with an LP fee rate of 0.25%, which is automatically reinvested into non-withdrawable liquidity.Pons was previously built on Uniswap, using a 1% pool fee. Uniswap stated that launching its own launch platform will not change its support for other launch platforms that have been built on the protocol. The PONS token has dropped about 49% in the past week.

According to the official announcement, Gate's DEX infrastructure platform Gate DexBuilder has officially launched its first event contract Builder and initiated a $3 million funding program, open for global project parties, developers, communities, and Web3 applications to collaborate, promoting the ecological construction of the event contract market.The event contract Builder is dedicated to lowering the development threshold for market products, providing partners with integrated infrastructure services covering market creation, trading, liquidity support, settlement, and operational management. Through infrastructure services such as APIs and SDKs, partners can quickly deploy branded event contract products without building the underlying trading and settlement systems from scratch.Currently, the program is open for applications from brokers and comprehensive trading platforms, crypto wallets, Web3 applications, media information platforms, AI Trading, AI Agents, quantitative trading platforms, as well as sports, esports, and entertainment products. Selected projects can receive up to $3 million in funding and ecological resource support, covering product research and development, technical integration, liquidity building, market promotion, and user growth.Jason Fung, the project leader of Gate DexBuilder and Head of Global Partnerships, stated that the development of the event contract market requires more application scenarios and infrastructure support. Gate DexBuilder hopes to lower the construction threshold through the event contract Builder, helping more partners explore innovative applications in the event contract market. In the future, Gate DexBuilder will continue to open up the infrastructure capabilities of the event contract market, working with global Builders to explore more innovative application scenarios and promote further development of the market ecosystem.

According to the latest monitoring data from Arkham, Morgan Stanley has once again "bought the dip," investing $7.21 million through its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund MSBT to increase its holdings by approximately 100.3 BTC. As of now, its total Bitcoin holdings have surpassed 6,300 for the first time, currently reaching 6,331 BTC, valued at over $406 million.

Preliminary data from the U.S. government shows that in July this year, U.S. imports of crude oil from Saudi Arabia fell to zero, marking the first time since 1985 that there has been an entire month without imports of Saudi crude oil.Data released by the U.S. Department of Energy indicates that shipments of Saudi crude oil to the U.S. completely ceased in July. It is expected that U.S. crude oil imports from Saudi Arabia will resume to about 300,000 barrels per day this month.

According to the 10-Q filing submitted by Grayscale XRP Trust ETF to the U.S. SEC, the fund sold over $180 million worth of XRP in the first half of 2026, with holdings decreasing from 122.23 million coins at the end of 2025 to 55.04 million coins as of June 30. The sale of XRP to redeem shares resulted in a realized loss of $34.16 million, along with an unrealized loss of $17.47 million. During the same period, the price of XRP fell from $1.84 to $1.05, a decline of over 40%.

According to The Block, Chainalysis' latest report shows that in the first half of 2026, cryptocurrency holders experienced violent robbery incidents (referring to forcing victims to transfer crypto assets through means such as kidnapping, home invasion, and coercion), resulting in over $30 million in property losses.Based on current trends, the total annual losses could exceed the historical record of $58 million set in 2025. The report mentions that France has become a high-incidence area for such attacks, and the information leak incident involving high-net-worth crypto investors from the French tax authorities has further broadened the target selection range for criminals.Chainalysis also stated that such violent crimes are increasingly affecting the victims' families, with the proportion of home invasions and kidnapping cases continuing to rise.

As expectations for easing tensions in the Middle East rise, the market continues to focus on the progress of peace negotiations. Gold prices show resilience in their upward trend, which has also increased investors' attention to multi-asset CFD products. According to data from the Gate platform, the 24-hour increase for gold CFD (XAUUSD) is 0.13%, with today's highest price at $4304.09. At the same time, gold-related assets are performing actively, with GDX up 7.48% and GLD up 4.12%. Driven by popular targets, the trading activity of Gate CFD has also increased, with weekly trading volume surpassing $200 billion, ranking first across the network.

According to Gate market data, spot gold has broken through the $4,300/ounce mark for the first time since June 18, with a cumulative increase of $250 this week and a daily increase of over 1%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the "EPL: 2027 Champion" event is currently among the top trading activities on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $4.4192 million. The option with the highest market consensus is "Team A," corresponding to a winning probability of approximately 50%.

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, the event "Dota 2: Team Falcons vs Team Liquid (BO5) - 1win Essence Playoffs" is currently the most traded on the prediction market Polymarket, with a cumulative pool size reaching $5.6359 million. The option with the highest market consensus is "Will the total number of kills exceed/less than 80.5 in the first game?", corresponding to a win rate of approximately 92%.

According to CNBC, Peter Diamandis, an early investor in SpaceX and founder of the XPRIZE Foundation, stated that SpaceX has the potential to become the world's first company with a market value of $10 trillion in the future.Diamandis pointed out that the market has not yet found the right way to assess SpaceX's value. The company's space transportation, satellite internet, and future space economy layout may bring long-term growth potential far exceeding that of traditional companies. SpaceX's core value comes not only from its reusable rocket business but also includes the Starlink satellite internet, future lunar and Mars exploration plans, and the new economic system built around space infrastructure.Previously, SpaceX has become one of the highest-valued private tech companies in the world. As the company's business expands from rocket launches to satellite communications and deep space exploration, investors are trying to reassess its long-term commercial potential.Diamandis believes that traditional valuation models struggle to measure the value of a platform company like SpaceX, which is simultaneously laying out aerospace, communications, and future infrastructure, and therefore the market may be underestimating its future growth potential.

Hyperliquid on-chain Perp DEX Trade.xyz has used its HIP-3 revenue to purchase HYPE for the first time, buying 2000 HYPE, worth approximately $108,000.

Galaxy Digital (Nasdaq: GLXY) released its Q2 2026 financial report, reporting a net loss of $85.31 million, significantly narrowing from a loss of $216.3 million in Q1, mainly affected by the decline in digital asset prices; adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $77.26 million; as of June 30, total equity was $2.72 billion, with cash and stablecoin holdings of $2.459 billion.In terms of business segments, the digital asset department reported an adjusted gross profit of $65.71 million, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 34%, with the number of trading counterparties reaching 1,741, a quarter-on-quarter increase of 3%, and an average loan balance of $1.438 billion, remaining basically flat quarter-on-quarter, with new loan issuance increasing quarter-on-quarter; the company also launched an OTC prediction market product this quarter, supporting institutional clients in executing multi-asset hedging strategies around event-driven markets. In asset management, the total managed and pledged assets at the end of Q2 were $7.1 billion, a quarter-on-quarter decrease of 12%; this quarter, the Galaxy Fintech Fund long-short hedge fund was newly launched, and a joint venture with State Street was established to launch the tokenized private equity liquidity fund SWEEP.The data center department achieved profitability for the first time this quarter, with an adjusted gross profit of $20.14 million and adjusted EBITDA of $11.49 million. The first phase of the Helios data center park, with a critical IT load of 133 MW, has been fully delivered to CoreWeave, and it is expected to contribute approximately $8 million in rental income each quarter starting from Q3, with project-level adjusted EBITDA profit margins expected to exceed 90%.In terms of corporate progress, on July 28, Galaxy issued $3.5 billion in senior secured notes through its subsidiary to fund the second phase of Helios construction; subsequently, it acquired three new sites in Texas (Merlin, Caspian, Selene), with a total potential installed capacity of approximately 2.1 GW, bringing the company's overall power pipeline scale to over 5.7 GW. Additionally, Galaxy signed a multi-year cooperation agreement with BNY to support the staking services of BNY's digital asset custody platform.