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According to Gate market data, the S&P 500 index futures fell by 0.85%, and the Nasdaq index futures fell by 1.45%.

Gate US announced a partnership with SoFi to become an infrastructure partner, helping to drive the future development of finance. As a national chartered bank, SoFi possesses strong financial strength, a solid regulatory foundation, and modern banking infrastructure, facilitating smoother connections between traditional finance and digital assets. Through this collaboration, Gate US has activated SoFi's Big Business Banking account, which is part of its ongoing efforts to build secure, compliant, and scalable financial solutions for the U.S. ecosystem.At the same time, Gate US is preparing to launch ACH and Wire functionalities. Once the ACH service is online, it is expected to allow users to link their bank accounts and make direct deposits into their Gate US accounts; the upcoming Wire feature aims to support larger and faster domestic transfers within the U.S. backed by institutional-grade banking infrastructure. Both functionalities are expected to be launched in the U.S. jurisdictions where Gate US is licensed, highlighting Gate US's compliance-first philosophy. Gate US holds MTL licenses in 36 states and operates in 47 jurisdictions across the U.S. In addition, multiple entities under Gate have completed relevant regulatory registrations, license applications, or received authorizations and approvals in jurisdictions such as Malta, the Bahamas, Japan, Australia, and Dubai. In the future, Gate US will continue to advance its compliance infrastructure, expand the accessibility of digital asset services, and provide users with safer and smoother financial solutions.

Injective stated that it has submitted a transfer agent registration application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The transfer agent is responsible for maintaining the official ownership records of securities and handling transfer changes, a function typically maintained by specialized institutions off-chain in traditional markets.This application aims to migrate this core market function on-chain, allowing the tokens themselves to serve as ownership records, thereby enabling the registration and transfer of tokenized securities to be completed in seconds and reducing intermediary verification steps.

According to CNBC, AI infrastructure startup Fireworks AI announced the completion of a $1.5 billion financing round, with the company's valuation reaching $17.5 billion. The company had previously received support from NVIDIA and primarily provides cloud-based services for open-source AI model deployment, helping businesses deploy artificial intelligence applications at a lower cost.This round of financing was led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures, and TCV, with participation from institutions such as NVIDIA, Evantic, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Currently, Fireworks processes approximately 400 trillion AI tokens daily. The company's clients include businesses such as Elastic, GitLab, and MongoDB. Previously, more than half of its revenue came from the AI programming tool Cursor, but the client base has now become more diversified.

According to Cointelegraph, the fintech platform MoonPay has acquired the crypto infrastructure startup Glide and will integrate its deposit and routing technology, with the financial terms of the transaction undisclosed.Glide was founded in 2023 by Tushar Soni and Qinyu Tong, who were both part of the Robinhood Wallet team. Glide supports over 100 tokens across 30 blockchain networks, helping applications receive deposits from various tokens, wallets, exchanges, and payment sources.After the acquisition is completed, Glide's technology will be integrated into MoonPay Deposits, a product already used by applications such as Wallet in Telegram, Moonshot, and Paysafe. MoonPay stated that this transaction is part of its efforts to expand its digital asset infrastructure capabilities. This is MoonPay's sixth acquisition announced in 2026, with previous targets including Sodot, Decent, DFlow, Entendre, and Dawn Labs. Its investors include Thrive Capital, Paradigm, Valhalla Ventures, Tiger Global Management, and Coatue.

According to PR Newswire, AI computing power energy infrastructure Bloom Energy announced a massive project investment of $1.7 billion, with participation from Industrial Development Funding (IDF) and asset management giant Oaktree.It is reported that Bloom Energy will provide exclusive "behind-the-meter power" capabilities for AI cloud computing company Nebius to meet the growing demand for AI computing power.

According to Jinshi reports, the S&P 500 index futures showed little change after the release of June retail sales data.

According to Cointelegraph, ARK Invest's research director Lorenzo Valente published a rebuttal to a16z crypto's view that "traditional finance will adopt blockchain rather than DeFi," arguing that institutions will increasingly rely on DeFi infrastructure in the future.Valente stated that public chains are leading private chain projects in actual development, with the growth of tokenized assets on open networks like Ethereum as an example. He also believes that crypto-native companies like Circle and Coinbase are better positioned than traditional financial institutions to build the next generation of financial infrastructure.a16z crypto previously stated that banks and asset management institutions would not directly adopt DeFi but would choose blockchain technologies that comply with existing regulatory, governance, and operational requirements, including features like tokenization and atomic settlement, while continuing to maintain licensing and institutional control.Sentora co-founder Jesus Rodriguez also disagreed with a16z's viewpoint, suggesting that institutions might adopt the underlying infrastructure of DeFi and overlay compliance, custody, and other enterprise-level controls on top of it.

According to a report by businesswire, AI and tokenized financial infrastructure Alpaca announced the completion of a new round of financing totaling $135 million, led by Peak XV, with follow-on investments from Elefund, BNP Paribas's venture capital arm Opera Tech Ventures, and Unbound among others. To date, its total financing has reached $435 million.The new funds will be used to accelerate the construction of its AI-native brokerage infrastructure and API-first prime brokerage business, helping fintech companies, banks, brokerages, wealth management institutions, and crypto financial platforms to build investment products in both traditional and on-chain markets, and to connect with more global crypto exchanges, asset tokenization platforms, and financial institutions.

The Binance contract platform will launch the MUUUSDT perpetual contract on July 16, 2026, at 17:00, the SOXSUSDT perpetual contract at 17:05, and the TZAUSDT perpetual contract at 17:10, with a maximum leverage of 25 times.

Digital asset prime broker FalconX will acquire blockchain infrastructure company bloXroute.By combining bloXroute's network technology with FalconX's institutional trading platform, FalconX will accelerate the development of new trading, financing, and prime brokerage capabilities.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, a report from NYDIG shows that Bitcoin has fallen nearly 30% this year, performing the worst among various assets, lagging behind U.S. Treasury bonds, silver, and the Swiss franc. The report points out that the current slump is due to supply mechanisms rather than risk sentiment, and the timing and structure of the pullback in 2025-2026 are increasingly resembling the adjustment years of 2014, 2018, and 2022. If the 2022 model is fully replicated, the cycle low could be around $38,000-$39,000.However, Bitcoin experienced its lowest volatility year on record in 2025, and some analysts believe this year's pullback may be shallower than in previous bear markets. In Q2 2026, the rolling correlation between Bitcoin and gold increased, with both assets facing sell-offs, and the "devaluation trade" losing momentum. Bitwise stated last week that despite Bitcoin being in the deepest and longest slump since the last bear market, the fundamentals have laid the groundwork for a rapid recovery. NYDIG referred to the CLARITY Act as "the most important forward-looking catalyst for the digital asset industry."

Kraken Institutional announced a partnership with the on-chain yield platform Upshift, allowing qualified institutional clients to earn yields directly on idle Bitcoin, Ethereum, stablecoins, and other crypto assets within Kraken's compliant custody framework.Unlike traditional pooled vaults, Upshift will build a dedicated customized vault for each client, tailored entirely to the client's investment strategy, risk parameters, liquidity needs, and asset portfolio. Assets will be allocated to these non-custodial vaults and subsequently deployed to selected on-chain contracts, with the client's isolated Kraken custody account receiving a receipt token.

Aave V4 has been deployed to the Avalanche network, marking the first multi-chain deployment of the Aave V4 Hub & Spoke architecture. This deployment includes a core liquidity hub and three sub-markets: the main market supports lending of assets such as WAVAX, BTC.b, USDC, USDT, and WETH.e; the AVAX-related market focuses on AVAX liquidity staking strategies, allowing users to deposit sAVAX with a 95% collateral rate and borrow WAVAX; the foreign exchange market supports mutual collateralization and lending among three stablecoins: EURC, USDC, and USDT.The core liquidity hub adopts a shared liquidity pool design, with all sub-markets sharing the same pool to avoid liquidity fragmentation. Aave stated that since its deployment on Avalanche in 2021, the historical cumulative inflow for V2 and V3 has exceeded $15 billion, and the current stablecoin utilization rate in the V3 market is over 90%.

Miami-based payment infrastructure startup Cyclops announced the completion of a $20 million Series A funding round, led by Nava Ventures, with participation from Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Circle, Lasagna Ventures, and GPT Ventures.

Starknet announced the opening of its privacy development stack to developers, launching a privacy SDK and privacy wallet API, allowing applications, wallets, and protocols to integrate private balances, private transfers, and related DeFi interaction features based on STRK20.

According to official news, Gate announced the launch of the interest-earning feature for stock and CFD account assets, allowing users to earn automatic returns on eligible idle USDT and USDx in their accounts while participating in stock trading, IPOs, and CFD trading. This feature uses a tiered interest mechanism, matching interest levels based on the USDT balance in the stock account and the USDx balance in the CFD account. A single account balance exceeding 1,000 USDT or USDx can participate in interest calculation, with a reference annualized return rate of up to 3.00%.

According to official news, Coinvestor Ventures announced a strategic investment in the decentralized on-chain trading platform Universe Pro.It is reported that Universe Pro is an on-chain trading platform powered by the UNAI engine. The platform aims to optimize and enhance users' capital efficiency by integrating core functions such as MEV (Maximum Extractable Value), market-making scheduling, and smart routing.