BlockBeats Message, July 27: Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Baghaei said at a press conference on July 27 that Iran and Oman are currently holding talks on the Strait of Hormuz issue, and that the talks are not related to the United States. (Xinhua)
Major market events this week: The U.S. stock earnings season is entering its final stretch, and the Fed and BoJ will announce interest rate decisions in succession
BlockBeats message: On July 27, this week’s global markets will face a dual test of macroeconomic data and earnings reports. According to BlockBeats’ weekly market events calendar, from July 27 to August 2, the Federal Reserve and the Bank of Japan will announce their interest rate decisions in succession. Technology giants including Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Qualcomm, ARM, and others will also release earnings reports in rapid succession, and market volatility may be further amplified. On the macro front, at 2:00 a.m. Thursday Beijing time, the U.S. FOMC will release its latest interest rate decision. Shortly after, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell will hold a monetary policy press conference at 2:30 a.m. On the same day, the U.S. will also release initial jobless claims for the week ending July 25. The market will focus on the Fed’s latest statements regarding inflation, employment, and the expected path of rate cuts within the year. On Friday, the Bank of Japan will release its interest rate decision. The governor will then hold a press conference afterward; the Japanese yen, Japanese government bonds, and Asian risk assets may be affected.
BlockBeats news, July 27: according to an official announcement, Binance will introduce CapitalConnect removal and access standards starting July 27, 2026, including: the trading team will be removed if there are no trades for 30 consecutive days or if strategy performance is poor (cumulative returns for non-directional strategies below -10%, and for directional strategies below -30%). After removal, existing investments are not affected, and the team may reapply after 90 days. Access will be canceled for investors who do not submit a subscription application within 12 months; they may reapply after 180 days.
BlockBeats message, on July 27, the spokesperson of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Baghaei, said that the mediator has conveyed to Iran information coming from the United States, but Iran is currently not holding talks with Washington. Baghaei also said that Iran has not asked to resume negotiations with the United States. (Jin10)
BlockBeats messages, July 27, according to ai_9684xtpa monitoring, a certain whale address purchased 9,046.17 ETH at an average price of $1,968 per ETH through on-chain transactions within the past 50 minutes, worth approximately $17.8 million. Subsequently, the address transferred the purchased ETH in batches to other addresses.
BlockBeats message: On July 27, Meritz Securities analyst Kim Sun-woo said that driven by one-time investment gains and rising semiconductor prices, SK hynix is expected to report record-breaking second-quarter results.
The analyst estimates that SK hynix’s pre-tax profit from April to June will exceed 100 trillion won, including operating profit of 6.01 trillion won and investment gains of 4.16 trillion won obtained through its holding of shares in Japan’s Kioxia via the U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital. This performance will surpass the record operating profit of 5.88 trillion won set in the company’s first quarter. He added that in the second quarter, the prices of DRAM and NAND memory chips rose by 30% and 49%, respectively.
BlockBeats message, July 27: Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Baghaei said: The situation in the Strait of Hormuz has not changed; the strait remains closed. (Jin Ten)
Chen Zhi, the head of a cross-border gambling and fraud criminal gang, approved for arrest
BlockBeats message: On July 27, six months after being escorted back to China, Chen Zhi, founder of Cambodia’s “Prince Group” and the alleged mastermind of cross-border telecom fraud, was arrested. Chen Zhi had been formally approved for arrest on July 6. Compared with the earlier escort back to China, the charges against him were reduced by one count: the crime of concealing or disguising criminal proceeds was removed, while charges of copyright infringement and intentional injury were added. Over the past several years, Chen Zhi built a global telecom fraud network centered on the “King Bay Industrial Park,” earning millions of gold daily from his title as a duke. His net worth reached several tens of billions of dollars; the Bitcoin that was confiscated by the United States alone was valued at $15 billion (about RMB 103.5 billion).
BlockBeats messages, July 27: A new draft of the CLARITY Act has been officially released. This draft combines two versions from the Senate Banking Committee and the Agriculture Committee, and for the first time includes a moral provisions clause. It is expected that the voting procedure will begin on Monday or Tuesday this week, with a formal vote possibly taking place during the week of August 3 at the earliest.
BlockBeats messages, July 27: Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Baghaei said that at the beginning of the war, the United States believed “Iran would collapse within three days and surrender. Now that months have passed, the United States has found itself in the situation it’s in, yet it still feels proud of the crimes it has committed.”
Baghaei also said that whenever global energy prices rise, the United States returns to the negotiating table. (Jin10)
BlockBeats message, July 27, according to HTX market data, after Storj announced bankruptcy, the coin price has continued to trend downward with a string of losses, falling 15% over the past 24 hours.
BlockBeats previously reported that the parent company of the decentralized cloud storage project Storj, Storj Labs, announced that it has voluntarily filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to address historical debts and continue operations.
Bank of America’s take: DRAM could rise 30%-40% in the third quarter, with AI servers continuing to squeeze supply
TL;DR · Bank of America channel research shows that in July, PC DRAM contract prices are 15-20% higher than in June, and the ASP increase in the third quarter could reach 30-40%. · Alphabet’s official statement only says that capital expenditures in 2027 will increase significantly; nearly $300 billion is within the scope of estimates by Bank of America analysts. · Samsung’s share repurchases and the proposed advance dividend still need to be confirmed at the earnings call on July 30. Supply expansion and CXMT’s share increase are the main risks. Bank of America’s latest channel research further pushes up expectations for DRAM price increases. In July, more Tier 2 OEMs and module makers have accepted PC DRAM contract prices that are 15-20% higher than in June. The average DRAM selling price increase in the third quarter may reach 30-40%, significantly higher than the 13-18% forecast previously provided by TrendForce.
BlockBeats news: On July 27, according to Bitget market data, the Nikkei 225 index closed up 0.5% at 64,931.19 points. The Tokyo Stock Exchange index closed up 1.4% at 4,066.07 points. The KOSPI Composite Index in South Korea closed up 0.97% at 6,755.74 points.
Citi’s take: AI has begun “consuming” NAND, and the memory upcycle hasn’t ended
TL;DR · Citi’s July 24 report finds that low inventories of NAND and DRAM still support an upward cycle in memory. · AI agents are driving up KV cache demand, and CMX and near-GPU SSDs are starting to consume more NAND. · Samsung and SK hynix remain beneficiaries of the storage market upswing, but weakening consumer demand, capacity expansions, and HBM certification may affect the pace. In a global semiconductor report released on July 24, Citi concluded that the upcycle for memory has not ended. The most critical basis is not smartphone demand; rather, both NAND and DRAM inventories are clearly below normal levels, and AI servers’ demand for KV cache and near-GPU storage continues to expand.
BlockBeats report: On July 27, Hyperliquid testnet recently introduced a new feature called “stars.” The feature introduces an optional trading address whitelist mechanism for the HIP-3 DEX. Deployers can restrict trading so that only whitelisted addresses can open positions or add to existing positions. The current testnet whitelist size limit is 10,000 addresses. Addresses that have not been authorized can still top up accounts and submit orders that are limited to reducing positions, in order to close positions or lower existing ones. Community members believe the feature could expand the application scenarios of the HIP-3 DEX. For example, tokenized stocks, real-world assets (RWA), institutional indices, and other regulated products could use an address whitelist to allow trading only by users who have completed identity verification (KYC) or meet access requirements. At the same time, the new market could initially open for testing to market makers, partners, or community members to reduce the risk of garbage trading, wash trading, or malicious manipulation in the early market stage. The design also allows non-whitelisted users to continue reducing positions, which helps prevent users from being unable to exit their holdings due to permission restrictions.
BlockBeats message, July 27: The founder of trade.xyz, @sershokunin, said on the X platform that ChangXin Technology (CXMT) has performed better than expected in its price discovery experiment at trade.xyz's Pre-IPO price.
Later, team member @0xmev revealed that CXMT's Pre-IPO market price almost perfectly matched the spot opening price. The accuracy of the price discovery results even exceeded the team's own expectations, which left them surprised.
BlockBeats messages, July 27: In a report, LBBW senior fixed-income analyst Elmar Voelker said investors may focus on the number of potential dissenting votes in the Federal Reserve’s Wednesday rate decision.
He said, “We believe there could be as many as three dissenting votes, because as early as April, there was already a faction of that size voting against the Fed’s then ‘accommodative’ forward guidance.”
Voelker noted that if the Fed unanimously decides to adopt a wait-and-see monetary policy stance, it would be an unexpected boost for the bond market, as it would shake market participants’ prevailing expectations—that a rate hike in September is nearly certain.
1 Bitcoin whale focused on Bitcoin makes a first cross-over entry to build a CXMT short position, opening a $3.53 million short
BlockBeats message: On July 27, according to monitoring by Hyperinsight, the whale at 0x004e, which traded heavily over the previous three months, was focused on BTC. Today it made its first move out of the crypto market, shifting to Changxin Technology’s CXMT. This giant whale began setting up CXMT short positions in batches at noon. As of the time of publication, it holds 500,000 CXMT short contracts per tranche at a 2x ratio, with a position value of approximately $3.533 million, built at an average entry price of $7.47. As CXMT has fallen to $7.0669, this short position is currently up by about $204,900, with a return rate of approximately 10.96%. The liquidation price is $13.58. This address has allocated about $3.599 million in margin to the per-tranche positions, and there are currently no outstanding unfilled limit orders.