1. 🔬 Opportunities to watch

2. ❇️ DeFi

a. New projects in the past day

  • Laine SOL --- Liquid Staking (Solana, 31.07 million)

  • Hits4fun --- Options (Base, 0 million)

  • Flareporium --- Dexs (Flare, 0 million)

  • stakedhype --- Liquid Staking (Hyperliquid L1, 42.347 million)

b. Project list

c. Related projects

3. 🌏 Macro

  • US Treasury Secretary Yellen: Interest rates should be lowered if inflation data is low

  • Federal Reserve Chairman Powell faces criminal charges from Trump allies in the House of Representatives

  • Bitcoin spot ETF saw a net inflow of $2.39 billion last week, continuing six weeks of net inflows

  • Treasury Secretary Yellen: The quality of trade agreements is more important than the timing of signing

  • Ethereum spot ETF saw a net inflow of $2.18 billion last week, setting a new record for single-week net inflows

4. 🐳 Whale movements

a. Institutions, large investments, whale behavior

  • PUMP institutional private placement address is suspected to have cashed out over $140 million, with a total profit of $39.65 million

  • Sequans increased its holdings by 1,264 BTC, current total holdings reach 2,317

  • James Wynn closed his ETH and PEPE long positions, making a profit of $538,500

  • A whale with over $24 million in unrealized gains opened multiple short positions

  • Strategy increased its holdings by 6,220 BTC last week, at an average price of $118,940

  • US-listed company Bit Origin announced the purchase of 40.54 million DOGE at an average price of $0.2466

  • US-listed company Upexi announced the purchase of 100,000 SOL for $17.7 million, with total holdings reaching 1.82 million

  • US-listed company DeFi Development Corp increased its holdings by 141,383 SOL, with total holdings nearing 1 million

  • Swedish listed company H100 Group increased its holdings by 140.25 BTC, raising total holdings to 510.28 BTC

  • AguilaTrades has turned bullish on ETH again, currently with cumulative losses exceeding $27 million

  • US company BTCS announced an increase in holdings of 22,935 ETH, having raised an additional $10 million to continue purchasing ETH

b. DeFi, NFT, On-chain activities

  • A whale deposited 8.04 million USDC into HyperLiquid to open a 7x leveraged SOL long position

  • A giant whale spent 2,081.6 ETH to purchase 45 CryptoPunks

c. Exchange-related capital flows

  • A whale withdrew 13,224 ETH from OKX in the past 8 hours, worth $49.56 million

  • A newly created wallet withdrew 400 BTC from Binance, worth $47.22 million

  • A whale transferred 2,805 ETH to OKX 9 hours ago, worth $10.54 million

  • A BTC whale transferred 250 BTC to Binance, still holding 4,000 BTC

  • A newly created address has withdrawn a total of 8,357 ETH from Binance today, approximately $31.84 million

5. 📃 Industry

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

  • Is the summer of NFTs back? Come see what new moves established projects have made

  • Ethereum launches the 10th anniversary The Torch commemorative NFT, expected to open for minting on July 30

  • NFT total market value rises above $6 billion, Moonbirds floor price increases over 30% in 24 hours

b. Exchanges/Wallets

  • Binance Alpha will launch Alliance Games (COA) on July 23

  • OKX DEX API now online with MEV protection and trading simulation features

  • Consensys: A few MetaMask users report unusually high disk activity, repairs are underway

  • Binance Wallet will launch exclusive Booster event for Treehouse (TREE)

  • CatFee.io partners with Bitget Wallet to launch GetFee, opening up a new experience in energy leasing

c. Public Chain/L2

  • Linea, Consensys, and Nile collaborate to launch the decentralized trading platform Etherex

  • Merlin Chain releases Merlin 2.0 - 'Hold, Earn, Invest' reshaping BTC

d. Investment and financing

  • Ethena Labs announced a $360 million PIPE transaction for StablecoinX, planning to establish ENA Treasury Corporation

  • Giants Protocol received strategic investments from institutions like Plug and Play, accelerating the layout of the DeFAI ecosystem

  • Delin Holdings plans to invest HKD 60 million in Hong Kong tech company Fu Long to explore the stablecoin market

  • Market news: Crypto company BitGo has secretly submitted an IPO application in the US

e. Regulation

  • US SEC Chairman: ETH does not qualify as a security

  • US House Representative Anna Paulina Luna has brought criminal charges claiming Powell committed perjury twice

  • The White House plans to release the first crypto policy report on July 22

  • The US Treasury will revisit the scope of anti-money laundering rules at a future date

f. Security

  • swarms: Community Discord account hacked, team is actively recovering

  • Bitcoin core developers fixed a disk filling vulnerability that had existed for five years

g. Others

  • Hong Kong-listed company Fourth Paradigm announced a stablecoin underlying asset management solution

  • Trump Media Technology Group (DJT.O) announced its total Bitcoin reserves have reached $2 billion

  • The Ether Machine: Committed to investing over $1.5 billion to hold and manage ETH, Chairman Andrew Keys will invest over $500 million

  • Antalpha's shareholder meeting approved the establishment of a dual-class share structure and treasury management plan

  • Polymarket acquires a trading platform and plans to return to the US market

  • Bitdeer produced 65 BTC last week, pushing total Bitcoin holdings above 1,600

  • Insiders: Polymarket will invest $112 million to acquire the compliant exchange QCX

  • US company Profusa signs a $100 million equity credit agreement to initiate Bitcoin treasury strategy

  • CoinDesk's parent company Bullish, exploring IPO listing, suspected of facing financial challenges

  • BTCS disclosed company ETH and cash market value reaching $242 million

  • The Ether Machine intends to go public through a merger with Nasdaq-listed company Dynamix, expected to complete in Q4 this year if shareholders approve and other conditions are met

  • MyStonks reaches a strategic partnership with BIT to accelerate the deep integration of digital assets and traditional securities

6. 🤖 AI-related

7. 🔧 Tools

8. 💡 Views

  • The recovery of NFTs may indicate that funds are flowing from Bitcoin to other high-risk assets

  • Analysts: The current bull market cycle is led by institutions, whether it will benefit altcoins remains uncertain

  • Bank of America Merrill Lynch: Stablecoins will have a disruptive impact on traditional bank deposits and payment systems

  • Analysis: Bitcoin miners and whales selling during the rise may indicate 'local peaks'

  • ZK New Narrative: Computing power as a service, how does Succinct activate supply and demand?

  • What happened behind Ethereum's 70% monthly surge?

  • QCP Capital: Ethereum's performance drives the start of the altcoin season, with institutions leading this round of rise

  • Analysts: The rise of Ethereum marks the beginning of the blockchain financial services cycle

  • QCP: Surge in ETH derivatives, the altcoin season may have already started

  • Zheshang Securities: RWA brings regulatory challenges and may temporarily lead to the expansion of US dollar credit

  • Vitalik: Approximately 50% of votes support raising Ethereum L1 Gas limit to 45 million

  • In the surge of crypto reserve companies, what potential 'small pitfalls' exist?

  • Dialogue with DeFi Report founder: 10 charts reveal the opening of Ethereum's bull market, with institutional funds potentially being the biggest driver

  • Minsheng Securities: Stablecoins are expected to help traditional financial assets conduct 'on-chain' transactions