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According to monitoring by Lookonchain, a newly created wallet deposited 5 million USDC into Hyperliquid and went long on 194,175 shares of CXMT (worth 1.38 million USD) with 2x leverage, with a liquidation price of 4 USD.

The domestic DRAM storage chip leader Changxin Technology (688825) has officially opened for new stock subscription. Due to the large issuance scale, this new stock offering has rarely seen a "sunshine market" trend. Institutions predict that the online winning rate will soar to 0.3% to 0.7% (with a neutral expectation of about 0.45%), reaching 10 to 20 times that of ordinary Sci-Tech Innovation Board new stocks. Calculations show that the probability of winning for a single account with an average market value of 200,000 in the Shanghai market is as high as about 18%, and theoretically, an average market value of 1 million can reliably secure 1 winning ticket.The issuance price of the stock is 8.66 yuan per share, and to secure one winning ticket (500 shares), a payment of 4,330 yuan is required. The official winning rate and results will be disclosed on July 17 and July 20 (Monday) respectively, and winners must ensure sufficient funds in their accounts by 16:00 on the 20th. Various institutions have given a neutral expectation, as Changxin Technology's market value is expected to reach 2 trillion to 3 trillion yuan after listing, with the profit margin for a single winning ticket expected to be around 20,000 yuan.If Changxin Technology fully exercises the green shoe mechanism, the total fundraising amount will reach 66.607 billion yuan, setting a new record for the largest IPO on the Sci-Tech Innovation Board, and it will also become the third largest IPO in A-share history. Financial data shows that the company has fully turned a profit, with expected operating revenue in the first half of 2026 reaching 110 billion to 120 billion yuan, and net profit attributable to the parent company reaching 50 billion to 57 billion yuan. The total amount of this strategic placement exceeds 14.4 billion yuan, successfully attracting social security funds, pension funds, as well as 30 major industry terminal giants such as Alibaba Cloud, Tencent, Meituan, and Xiaomi.

On the X platform, on-chain analyst Ai Yi stated that there is a buy order for Changxin Storage (CXMT) of 6.824 million dollars at the 6 dollar position on the Hyperliquid order book.At the current price of 6 dollars, the market value of Changxin Storage is approximately 2.72 trillion RMB, totaling 66.88 billion shares, surpassing the current market value leader, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, at 2.66 trillion RMB.

According to the Industrial and Commercial Times, due to the soaring prices of key components such as memory and SSDs, the cost pressure for configuring high-capacity storage in mainstream laptops has greatly increased. Cost-effective mainland Chinese memory and storage components are gradually penetrating the PC supply chain, with brands such as Lenovo, ASUS, MSI, Gigabyte, Acer, and even the American brand Apple accelerating the certification, introduction, or platform tuning of related products.The report pointed out that Lenovo has expanded its use of mainland components this year, and recently flagship laptop models equipped with Yangtze Memory Technologies (YMTC) SSDs have appeared on North American cross-border e-commerce platforms. The American brand Apple is also reported to be negotiating with the U.S. government to procure Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) memory to cope with the rising prices. In terms of Taiwanese board manufacturers, MSI recently announced that it is the first to complete the verification and tuning of Changxin Memory DDR5 chips on the AMD platform at DDR5-8000+, while Gigabyte has also adopted Changxin Memory chips in some motherboard models. ASUS and Acer have introduced memory modules from mainland manufacturers such as BIWIN through their own brand memory certification or OEM models.Industry analysts believe that although the short-term imbalance in supply and demand for storage has prompted non-mainland brands to accelerate related certifications, due to the limited production capacity of mainland manufacturers, brand Taiwanese manufacturers still emphasize that Korean original manufacturers with long-term contracts remain the main supply partners at present.

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published the proposal "The Extremely Lean Chain," demonstrating how to radically compress the state requirements of the Ethereum consensus chain in the context of the "Lean" upgrade. This plan shifts responsibility to validators, who manage and periodically prove their state through ZK proofs, thereby eliminating the processing burden for each epoch and potentially supporting millions of validators.The core mechanisms include: removing the validator public keys from the on-chain state, storing only the deposit tree index; canceling real-time reward and penalty processing, with validators generating daily STARK proofs of their participation and updating balances; completely re-randomizing validator identities daily, achieving strong anonymity through ZK-STARK, with withdrawal addresses exposed only at the time of withdrawal and not publicly linked to deposits or on-chain activities. Vitalik stated that based on upgrades such as single-slot finality and quantum-resistant signature aggregation, the state requirement per validator could be compressed from approximately 180 bytes to 6 bytes. The daily proof cost for a single validator requires processing about 5400 Merkle branches, which can be completed within 1 hour on ordinary hardware, and the on-chain burden can be reduced through aggregated proofs. Additionally, this design can achieve a "virtually free" single secret leader election function, with 1 day as the conservative cycle length and 1 hour as the lower limit.

According to Jinshi reports, Nomura Securities believes in its latest report that the core contradiction in the global storage industry is still a severe supply shortage, and the AI-driven structural demand growth has not yet peaked.Recently, investors' concerns about oversupply have been clearly exaggerated, and the market's extreme reaction may provide a window for reassessing valuations in the storage sector. Nomura Securities bluntly stated in the report that the market's worries are greatly overstated; the cycle for semiconductor investment to translate into actual capacity is extremely long. South Korea's investment plan of up to 480 trillion won will take at least 5 to 10 years to translate into actual capacity, and the high-profit HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) is squeezing general storage capacity, which is leading to a serious supply shortage in the market.Nomura Securities emphasized that Meta's decision is by no means a turning point for the reduction in demand for AI-related hardware. On the contrary, due to the current shortage of computing power leading to an upward trend in the price of a single token, Meta's entry into the computing power market is expected to stabilize token prices downward.

In 2026, Sandisk rose over 530% cumulatively, and Micron rose over 230% cumulatively, reflecting the market's demand for companies benefiting from the growth in AI demand in the first half of the year.Subsequently, the Roundhill Memory ETF (DRAM) fell 25% from its peak in June, and the VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) dropped about 12%. After reports that Meta was advancing the sale of excess GPU capacity, AI infrastructure stocks and computing service providers were sold off, and Bitcoin rebounded from a two-year low.

The semiconductor research institution SemiAnalysis has released a latest analysis indicating that Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has clearly become the world's fourth largest DRAM manufacturer. Although its production capacity and cash flow are continuously growing, the institution believes that Changxin Memory still faces multiple challenges in equipment, technology, and market, and will not end the current storage "super cycle" in the short term.In terms of specific challenges, export controls on advanced semiconductor manufacturing equipment (such as EUV, advanced etching, and TSV tools) severely restrict Changxin's expansion into more advanced processes and high bandwidth memory (HBM) fields; although domestic equipment (such as Zhongwei Company, Northern Huachuang, etc.) has alleviated some pressure, it cannot fully resolve the integration and yield bottlenecks across multiple process links, resulting in its technology still lagging behind leading manufacturers by several generations. Additionally, Changxin's market share is currently still highly concentrated in the Chinese domestic market, with global expansion limited by geopolitical factors and customers' willingness to diversify their supply chains.In response to market concerns that Changxin might "impact the global market with cheap chips," SemiAnalysis clarified that there is currently a severe structural shortage in the DRAM market, and the increase in Changxin's production capacity may even struggle to fully meet domestic demand in China. In fact, the prices of Chinese memory chips are also soaring significantly, in line with the global upward trend, and Changxin is similarly a beneficiary of the shortage premium. Therefore, Changxin Memory should be viewed as a long-term structural competitive force, and in the current context of accelerated AI demand and constrained supply, it cannot shake the fundamental super cycle dominated by leading manufacturers in the short term.

According to Wccftech, investment bank Jefferies' latest research report indicates that due to the ongoing global supply shortage and strong demand for AI computing power, memory chip prices are expected to see a significant increase in the second half of 2026 and in 2027.The report predicts that memory chip prices will rise by 40% to 50% quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of 2026, and will continue to rise by 30% to 40% quarter-on-quarter in the fourth quarter; by 2027, the overall year-on-year price increase will reach 40% to 45%. It is not until 2028, with the introduction of 15% to 20% of new production capacity into the market, that prices are expected to decline.Additionally, the report emphasizes that currently about 50% of global memory production capacity is locked in by long-term agreements (LTA) with large technology companies, which will further compress supply in the consumer electronics market and drive up end-user costs. Analysts also believe that before the large-scale expansion of capacity by domestic Chinese memory manufacturers in 2028, it will be difficult to significantly alleviate the tight situation and prices in the global market.

According to a report by Reuters, informed sources revealed that Chinese memory chip manufacturer Changxin Memory Technologies (CXMT) has reached a long-term supply agreement with Tencent worth over 20 billion yuan (approximately 3 billion USD). This agreement mainly covers the supply of DRAM chips for servers over the next 3 to 5 years.The report pointed out that this large-scale cooperation comes as Changxin Memory is preparing for a 29.5 billion yuan IPO on the Shanghai Star Market. It is reported that Changxin Memory is currently negotiating similar collaborations with several other leading Chinese internet companies and is constructing a new DRAM factory in Shanghai. Once the new capacity is fully operational, its monthly DRAM wafer production capacity is expected to double to about 600,000 wafers.

According to the Financial Times, Apple is lobbying the Trump administration for approval to purchase memory chips from Chinese chipmaker Changxin Storage. Due to multiple factors leading to a rise in memory prices, Apple unusually raised the prices of MacBook and iPad on Thursday, resulting in a market value loss of $263 billion. Apple hopes to alleviate the financial pressure from suppliers by including Changxin Storage in its list of memory suppliers.Changxin Storage and Yangtze Memory Technologies have currently been placed on the U.S. Department of Defense's blacklist of Chinese military companies (the 1260H list). The U.S. Department of Commerce had planned to add Changxin Storage to the entity list last year, but the White House postponed the plan due to ongoing trade negotiations with China at that time. Currently, aside from Chinese companies, the global memory chip industry is mainly dominated by three companies: U.S.-based Micron, and South Korea's Samsung and SK Hynix.

According to the market data from the Gate platform, SPCX (SpaceX) reached a high of $225.44 in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $203.97, with a 24-hour decline of 4.09%; SNDK (SanDisk) reached a high of $2,163.99 in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $2,038.26, with a 24-hour decline of 2.85%. According to CoinGlass data, the 24-hour contract trading volume for Gate SPCX (SpaceX) reached $159 million; the 4-hour contract trading volume for Gate SNDK (SanDisk) was $20.5624 million, both ranking among the industry leaders.In addition, the second session of the Gate Live stock series public class will start broadcasting on June 17 at 16:00 (UTC+8), with the theme "3 Steps to Complete Your First Stock Trade." This session will focus on the practical process of stock trading, introducing fund transfers, selection of trading targets, in-market ordering processes, and fee rules, helping users quickly understand how to complete their first stock trade.Previously, Gate Direct to IPO completed the distribution of SPCX shares and officially opened trading on June 12, allowing users to participate in SPCX trading directly through the Gate stock area and seize investment opportunities in popular targets.