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CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that since 2025, the inflow of stablecoins into exchanges has been continuously declining, reaching the lowest level since that period. Currently, the monthly average inflow of stablecoins (USDT, USDC) is about $2.3 billion, with an annual average inflow of about $3.7 billion. When the price of Bitcoin reached its historical peak, the monthly average inflow was $5.6 billion, and the annual average inflow was $4.3 billion. This dynamic clearly indicates the current weak demand and lack of investor interest. However, it is important to note that when the inflow of stablecoins peaks, it is often a lagging signal. When some investors accelerate profit-taking, exchanges increase the supply of stablecoins, while new investors continue to bet that the price of Bitcoin will keep rising. Currently, market demand still needs improvement.

According to Jinshi reports, Nvidia (NVDA.O) announced that it will invest $1 billion in South Korean internet and cloud service provider Naver for its AI data center project under construction in Korea.Nvidia stated that this funding will allow Naver's data center to expand more than twice its current size. The project is jointly developed by Naver and the American private equity firm Brookfield Group, and will be fully equipped with Nvidia AI computing hardware.In addition, Nvidia has reached a cooperation agreement with SK Group to plan the construction of an AI data center cluster in Korea with a total computing power exceeding 2 gigawatts, which can roughly meet the electricity needs of 1.5 million households.Nvidia revealed that the first AI computing factory built by SK Telecom will be put into operation next year. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang stated, "Korea is entering a golden development period. The country's semiconductor industry and industrial sector are thriving, and it has the complete capability to build AI infrastructure for the world."

According to TASS, the Governor of the Central Bank of Russia, Elvira Nabiullina, stated that there are no restrictions on transferring cryptocurrencies from Russia to overseas for all categories of investors, but investors should be aware that such operations currently lack legal protection.

Fang Xinghai, former member of the Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, is suspected of serious violations of discipline and law, and is currently undergoing disciplinary review and supervisory investigation by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission.

AI company Genspark has launched AI Workspace 6 and officially entered the South Korean market. Genspark COO Wen Shang stated in Seoul that South Korea is one of Genspark's top markets, and the company plans to invest $100 million in the South Korean market over the next three years to expand its team, partnerships, and business.AI Workspace 6 includes the continuous memory layer SecondBrain, the first hardware SecondBrain Note, the email AI agent GenMail, design feature AI Design, and the team collaboration platform GenTeam. SecondBrain is used to integrate information from users' existing office tools and supports AI agents in utilizing past projects, decisions, and communication records in subsequent work. SecondBrain Note is credit card-sized and can record meetings, calls, conversations, and voice ideas, converting them into searchable structured memories synchronized to SecondBrain, currently available at a promotional price of $179. GenMail can learn from users' existing emails, expressions, work relationships, and work history, generating reply drafts in Gmail and Outlook and executing related workflows. AI Design can convert natural language requests into visual materials and prototypes. GenTeam supports personnel collaborating in shared spaces with role-based professional AI agents, where AI agents in marketing, design, development, research, and other fields can join as group chat members and execute work based on the team's collective memory and permissions.

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin (@EmberCN), an address belonging to the initial team/investors of MakerDAO sold all 1,050 MKR, which had been held for nearly 10 years, 20 minutes ago, exchanging it for 1.316 million USDC before transferring it to Kraken exchange. This address originally received the aforementioned MKR in April 2016 and had not moved any of it for 10 years, except for a migration operation during the token upgrade in 2018.

According to BBX data, yesterday and in recent days, global companies listed on the US stock market have disclosed the latest real announcements regarding digital asset transformation and ecological strategic investments. The core dynamics are as follows:Canton sells traditional business to fully transition to blockchain clearing: Canton Strategic Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: $ CNTN) officially announced that it has sold its biotechnology R&D department Gravitas Life Sciences, LLC to Gravitas Collective Corp. The transaction was completed on July 17, 2026. The company clearly stated that this divestiture is an important milestone in its transformation into an operating company, and in the future, it will support the Canton Network through Canton Coin and promote the on-chain digital transformation of traditional financial markets as a strategic investor.Empery Digital invests $20 million in cross-industry computing power electricity park: The US-listed company Empery Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: $ EMPD), which adopts a Bitcoin fund management strategy, announced that it has completed a $20 million preferred stock investment (holding approximately 8%) in Cardinal Data Power, Inc. (CDP) on July 20, 2026. CDP focuses on building electricity-driven data center parks, and this round of financing will support its construction of the first gigawatt-level data center park covering over 3,000 acres in West Texas (Phase I is planned to be operational in 2027, with a long-term plan exceeding 5GW) to meet the next generation of AI and computing power energy demands.

According to the Financial Times, after three years of combating cryptocurrency tax evasion, the UK's HM Revenue and Customs has recovered over £8 million in taxes by reaching settlements with hundreds of cryptocurrency investors. Data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that in the past two years, 502 crypto investors reached disclosure settlement agreements with HMRC regarding unpaid taxes. In the 2024/25 tax year, a total of 280 individuals settled with HMRC, paying a total of £3.5 million. In the 2025/26 tax year, the number of settlements decreased to 222, but the total amount increased to approximately £4.8 million.

According to a report by businesswire, Empery Digital Inc. (NASDAQ: EMPD), a publicly traded company in the U.S. that adopts a Bitcoin fund management strategy, announced that it has completed a $20 million preferred stock investment in Cardinal Data Power, Inc. (referred to as "CDP") on July 20, 2026, holding approximately 8% of its equity.CDP is a subsidiary of Hunt Properties, focusing on the construction of power-driven data center parks, dedicated to providing power and construction for next-generation gigawatt-level data center parks in West Texas and West Virginia.This investment is part of CDP's approximately $70 million Series A financing, aimed at supporting its first park project located in West Texas, which covers over 3,500 acres. The first phase of the project is scheduled to go into production in 2027, with a total installed capacity expected to reach about 1 gigawatt by 2029, and future plans to expand to over 5 gigawatts. The Series A financing is led by Hood River Capital Management.

According to PR Newswire, stablecoin operator Notabene announced a strategic investment from Ripple, with the specific investment amount not disclosed. The two parties will collaborate on enterprise-level stablecoin payments, including the integration of Ripple's USD stablecoin RLUSD into Notabene Flow B2B stablecoin payment platform.They also plan to further expand the application of RLUSD in institutional payment networks, accelerating the adoption of compliant stablecoin infrastructure by banks, payment institutions, and fintech companies.

According to Fortune, Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Capital announced a partnership with Coinbase and infrastructure provider KAIO to tokenize its evergreen private market fund, issuing compliant on-chain tokens to qualified investors. Coinbase will use its Base blockchain as one of the underlying networks and will personally purchase the tokens, incorporating the Mubadala fund into its corporate balance sheet.It is reported that this is the first time a major publicly listed company in the United States has used compliant tokenized assets for native on-chain financial management. Currently, the product has attracted approximately $75 million in funding, with investors including traditional institutions and crypto-native allocators. Mubadala manages assets totaling nearly $400 billion, and this tokenization aims to break through the high barriers of traditional private equity and expand the potential investor base.

According to South Korean media Daum, data from the Korea Exchange shows that from July 20 to 23, foreign investors net purchased the South Korean stock market for four consecutive trading days, with a total net purchase of 55.74 trillion won, marking the first consecutive four-day net inflow since April. Among them, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix became the main recipients of funds, with net purchases of 17.3 trillion won and 27.6 trillion won, respectively, totaling 44.8 trillion won, accounting for over 80% of the total net purchases by foreign investors during the same period. The market believes that tech giants like Google continue to raise their AI capital expenditure expectations, improving the demand outlook for HBM and server DRAM, coupled with the increased attractiveness of the two companies after prior valuation adjustments, driving foreign investment to focus on leading South Korean memory chip manufacturers.

Gate officially released the 2026 Wealth Management Semi-Annual Report. The report shows that the overall cryptocurrency market faced pressure in the first half of the year, with BTC and ETH dropping approximately 33.1% and 47.1%, respectively, and market risk appetite continued to decline. Against this backdrop, user demand for stable returns and high liquidity assets has continued to rise.Gate's Yubi Treasure position size remained stable at 2 billion USDT, with funds gradually shifting towards demand for liquidity management. At the same time, the GUSD minting rate has stabilized, with funds mainly flowing into on-chain earning scenarios, continuously demonstrating the value of income-generating stable assets. In terms of advanced wealth management, Gate's dual-currency investment maintains an industry-leading advantage, with the low-buy strategy achieving a 0-day term APY of up to 295%, significantly higher than the market average of 166%. Gate's quantitative fund continues to perform steadily, with the interstellar hedge (USDT) achieving a cumulative return of 18.7%. In asset allocation, Gate's stock holdings continue to optimize, with the proportion of Korean stocks rapidly increasing following their launch, accounting for about 75% of the overall holdings by the end of June. The top ten holdings are mainly concentrated in semiconductor and technology growth assets, with SK Hynix holding the largest position. Additionally, Gate's GUSD minting annualized rate reached 3.8%, supporting users to participate in diverse ecological scenarios such as Launchpool and Pre-IPOs; Yubi Treasure USDT wealth management VIPs can enjoy an annualized return of 4.0%.In the future, Gate will continue to improve its wealth management system covering stable wealth management, enhanced returns, and multi-asset allocation, providing more flexible and efficient asset appreciation solutions for users with different risk appetites, helping users achieve long-term value growth amid market cycle changes.

The non-custodial fixed-rate lending platform Tenor announced the completion of its seed round financing, led by Variant, with participation from Nascent, Prelude, Coinbase Ventures, Lattice, Very Early, and several angel investors continuing to provide support. The amount of financing has not been disclosed.Tenor is built on the fixed-rate lending underlying protocol Midnight based on Morpho. It is currently live on the Base network and will expand to more chains in the future, supporting features such as automatic extensions, OTC quotes, and floating interest rates for pending orders. The platform currently supports crypto asset collateralized lending and plans to expand into the foreign exchange and credit markets.

Last month, comments from Liang Wenfeng during the DeepSeek investor meeting have recently circulated. Liang Wenfeng clearly stated that DeepSeek's goal is AGI, rather than becoming the next super app. They will not engage in 3D, video generation, or world modeling, nor will they close source code, stating, "Restraint is a strategy used to increase the probability of achieving AGI." He believes that products are merely "by-products" on the path to AGI, with the current focus on Coding Agent and continuous learning capabilities. The next phase aims to achieve autonomous model iteration, with the endpoint pointing towards embodied intelligence.In terms of commercialization, Liang Wenfeng stated that they only seek to earn "reasonable profits" and do not set profit maximization as their pricing goal. DeepSeek is "still far from a complete shift to commercialization." He assesses that the gap between AI in China and the U.S. mainly lies in resources rather than talent, stating, "Using a fraction of the computing power can narrow the gap to 6 months, 3 months." Regarding industry competition, he believes that open source is "the sweet point for companies of this scale," while also predicting that domestic large models will ultimately converge to "two large companies and two small companies." Liang Wenfeng also mentioned that maintaining team stability is the only non-negotiable core principle, and the company is driven by vision, with "a group of ordinary people achieving extraordinary things."

JoinCare announced the completion of a new round of strategic seed funding, with participation from Titans Ventures, DI Foundation, and Candaq Ventures.This round of financing will be used to upgrade JoinCare's core infrastructure and the CareAgents AI-assisted research system, expand the global early-stage biopharmaceutical projects and the network of scientific and medical advisors, and promote the ecological applications and Launchpad construction of JoinCare.JoinCare is building an open DeSci incubation network aimed at early biopharmaceutical innovation, providing support for projects from discovery and scientific evaluation to collaborative incubation by connecting research teams, scientific and medical experts, ecological builders, and communities. In the future, JoinCare plans to expand this system to global research institutions and innovation teams, creating an AI-driven distributed biopharmaceutical innovation network.

According to The Wall Street Journal, AMD (AMD.O) has signed a significant chip and investment agreement with Anthropic. AMD will invest $5 billion in Anthropic as part of the chip deal.Anthropic will begin purchasing up to 2 gigawatts of AMD (AMD.O) latest generation chips in the first half of 2027.