1. 🔬 Opportunities to watch

  • Report: Q2 cryptocurrency spot trading volume down 22%

  • Federal Reserve Beige Book: Economic outlook is neutral to slightly pessimistic

  • Trump has drafted a letter to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Powell

  • Trump says Bessenet is very good, but implies he is not the best candidate for Federal Reserve Chairman

  • Yili Hua: Chose to sell some ETH in the face of unclear macro prospects, but the long-term bullish trend remains unchanged

  • Trend Research deposits another 5,000 ETH into CEX, totaling 22,289 ETH deposited today

  • Analysis: Trend Research still likely needs to sell about 40,000 ETH to unwind leverage

  • Peter Thiel has acquired 9.1% of ETH strategic reserve company BitMine

  • Vote approved for the Trump family crypto project 'WLFI Token tradable' proposal

  • ProShares launches XRP and Solana leveraged ETFs, providing double daily returns

2. ❇️DeFi

a. New projects in the past day

  • Project X --- Dexs (Hyperliquid L1, 40.31 million)

b. Project list

Project list: TVL > 5m & (7-day new | 24h TVL change > 10%)

c. Related projects

  • Raydium updates LaunchLab incentive program: Token creators are eligible for daily RAY rewards

  • PayPal blockchain head José Fernández da Ponte joins Stellar

  • GMX: GLP funds on Arbitrum have been fully recovered, GMX V2 is unaffected

  • Aave TVL surpasses $30 billion, setting a new historical high

  • Blockchain infrastructure platform Aspecta announces token name ASP, total supply of 1 billion

  • Hyperion announces RION tokenomics: Airdrop accounts for 5%, liquidity incentives account for 30%

  • Hyperion officially launches TGE, RION is now live on Binance Alpha

3. 🌏 Macro

  • Bitcoin spot ETF saw a total net inflow of $403 million yesterday, continuing 9 days of net inflows

  • US June PPI annual rate at 2.3%, expected 2.5%, previous value revised from 2.60% to 2.7%

  • Bank of America: Expects the Federal Reserve will not lower interest rates before next year

  • Ethereum spot ETF saw a total net inflow of $192 million yesterday, continuing 8 days of net inflows

  • US-listed company BTCS is added to the Russell Microcap Index

  • Today, the US Bitcoin ETF saw a net inflow of 3,412 BTC, while the Ethereum ETF saw a net inflow of 79,674 ETH

4. 🐳 Whale Movements

a. Institutions, large investments, whale behavior

  • Matador Technologies approves long-term BTC acquisition strategy: Accumulate 6,000 BTC by 2027 or earlier

  • Whale AguilaTrades⁩ again increases BTC long position to $476 million

  • SharpLink Gaming raised about $413 million last week, to be used entirely for increasing Ethereum holdings

  • 'Insider Whale' Bitcoin 40x short position has been partially liquidated 4 times

  • SharpLink Gaming again purchased 5,188 ETH, accumulating 300,000 ETH, with unrealized gains exceeding $130 million

  • Korean listed company Bitmax increases its holding of 51.06 BTC, with total Bitcoin holdings exceeding 400 BTC

  • The 'silent whale with 80,000 BTC for 14 years' transferred 10,000 BTC 9 hours ago

  • A certain wallet transferred 1,042 BTC to a newly created wallet after being silent for 6 years, worth $9.12 million 6 years ago

  • Whale cashes out PUMP, earning $3.41 million with a return rate of 68%

  • The Smarter Web Company increased its Bitcoin holdings by 325 BTC, raising total holdings to 1,600 BTC

b. DeFi, NFT, On-chain activities

  • Ethereum Foundation internally transferred 1,000 ETH to a related address, worth about $3.15 million

c. Exchange-related capital flows

  • A certain whale withdrew 4,750 ETH from Binance 2 hours ago, worth $14.98 million

  • A certain whale deposited 7,501 ETH into Binance, expected to earn $9.19 million

  • After being silent for 5 days, a whale withdrew 8,261.73 ETH from Kucoin, worth $24.72 million

  • A whale or institutional address withdrew 8,262 ETH from Kraken 3 hours ago, with over 80,000 ETH withdrawn this month

  • Whales cumulatively withdrew over 68,000 ETH from FalconX within 4 days, worth over $200 million

  • A certain whale deposited 2.73 million USDC into Hyperliquid to open a 20x leveraged Bitcoin short position

5. 📃 Industry

a. NFT & GameFi & SocialFi & DID & DAO & Content Creation

  • Nasdaq-listed game publisher Snail Games is exploring the development of a US dollar stablecoin, with stock prices rising over 20%

  • GameStop CEO: Considering accepting cryptocurrency as payment for trading cards and collectibles

  • Trump-themed meme coin TRUMP is suspected to be preparing to launch a gaming project

  • 'Trump Coin' unlocking imminent: Will test market demand and increase Trump's wealth

  • Pudgy Penguins announces collaboration with Chinese toy company Suplay

  • Backpack: Airdropping different amounts of ES tokens to all users with ranks in S2

b. Exchanges/Wallets

  • OKX Wallet's xBTC incentive program launched in conjunction with Momentum has seen TVL grow to $140 million in two weeks

  • Bitget joins the global market alliance initiated by Ondo, set to launch over 100 tokenized stocks

  • Coinbase's App Store ranking skyrocketed by 63%, retail investment enthusiasm rebounds

  • PayPal supports PYUSD on Arbitrum, Ethereum, and Solana networks

  • SoSoValue (SOSO) is set to go live on Kraken

c. Public Chain/L2

  • BNB Chain: Will raise the block Gas limit to 1G in the second half of the year, supporting a tenfold increase in throughput

  • Ethereum releases zkEVM-L1 scaling roadmap: Moving towards a new era of tens of millions of TPS

  • Bitlayer announces the launch of the Bitcoin cross-chain bridge BitVM on the mainnet

  • Analysis: The Solana ecosystem enters the 2025 'super cycle', accounting for 46% of revenue across the entire chain

d. Investment and financing

  • Windtree signs a $60 million securities purchase agreement to initiate BNB treasury strategy

  • Crypto infrastructure company Talos acquires Coin Metrics for over $100 million

  • Cantor Fitzgerald nearing a $4 billion SPAC deal with Bitcoin pioneer Adam Back

f. Security

  • Slow Mist: BigONE exchange suffers from supply chain attack, losses exceed $27 million

6. 🤖 AI-related

7. 🔧 Tools

8. 💡 Views

  • Goldman Sachs CEO: Tokenization will bring some opportunities, especially in financing

  • Powell countdown: A 'renovation' triggering a global financial storm?

  • Trader Eugene: Main buying of ETH comes from traditional funds, will not buy Ethereum-based altcoins for now

  • Bitcoin proposal suggests freezing addresses vulnerable to quantum attacks such as Satoshi Nakamoto's

  • Analysis: The demand for US Treasury investments created by stablecoins is just a side effect, may be able to pay tuition in Hong Kong in the future

  • Binance CEO: Fidelity, BlackRock, Charles Schwab, and even JPMorgan have shifted from crypto skeptics to believers

  • Strategy Bitcoin strategy manager: Even if Bitcoin drops to $20,000, the company still has enough collateral to repay liabilities

  • a16z: Limitations of crypto memory pools

  • Zhu Su: SOL price and demand further boosted by pump.fun's TGE

  • Matrixport: The US has become the main driving force of this market cycle, Ethereum rises but is dominated by Asia

  • Bank of England Governor Bailey questions the role of stablecoins and CBDCs

  • JPMorgan CEO: Companies involved in stablecoins are very smart, trying to create alternatives to bank accounts