1. 🔬Opportunities to watch

  • IoTeX releases 2.0 white paper, intends to promote IOTX as the base currency in the DePIN field

  • AlienXChain announces $AIX token economics, 67% of $AIX will be allocated to the community

  • Infrared Launches iBERA, Berachain Liquidity Staking Solution

  • StaFi: rLaunchpad Season 2 is now open

2. ❇️DeFi

a. New projects in the past day

  • Superhero DEX --- Dexes (Aeternity, 0万)

  • Leadership --- Yield (Arbitrary, 6万)

  • Kriya CLMM --- Dexes (Sui, 867万)

  • Crust V2 --- Dexes (Mantle, 3万)

  • International Meme Fund --- Farm (Ethereum, 6万)

  • Sorta Finance --- Lending (Arbitrum, 8万)

b. Project List

c. Related Projects

  • MakerDAO founder: Launch NewGovToken activation function

  • Saga: Vault 3 airdrop claims are now open

  • EigenLayer TVL rebounded to $15.92 billion, a 7-day increase of 5.71%

  • Prediction market platform Polymarket's transaction volume exceeded US$118 million in July, setting a new record

  • Polyhedra Network: Staking V2 first batch of staking rewards to be issued on July 18

  • Pyth Network is launched on Starknet mainnet

  • Renz: ezETH is now live on the Compound mainnet

  • TON Foundation plans to launch Bitcoin cross-chain bridge service TON Teleport BTC

  • Entangle announced that 25% of the team tokens have been destroyed

3. 🌏Macro

  • Fed Governor Kugler: If unemployment continues to rise, it would be appropriate for the Fed to cut interest rates early

  • Fed's Barkin: 25bp rate cut doesn't matter anyway, the question is when to change the narrative

  • Fed Governor Waller changes stance, open to September rate cut

  • Fed's Williams hints at an upcoming rate cut, Goldman Sachs sees good reason for a July rate cut, but won't cut rates in two weeks

  • Launching BTC and ETH options expiring on November 8, 2024 to speculate and hedge against the US election

  • German law enforcement agencies conduct over 90% of BTC sales through OTC, with no direct impact on the market

  • 21Shares Submits Updated S-1 Application for Spot Ethereum ETF

  • Coinbase All Apps Rank: today 126, 7 days 251 49.80%, 30 days 301 58.14%

  • Coinbase Financial Apps Rank: today 9, 7 days 20 55.00%, 30 days 22 59.09%

4. 🐳Whale Movements

  • Crypto investment company Cypherpunk Holdings has significantly increased its holdings of SOL, with holdings exceeding 63,000

  • 35.85 million BLUR unlocked yesterday were transferred to Coinbase Prime 7 hours ago

  • Wintermute multi-signature address transfers 5 million ZRO to GSR Markets

  • Cumberland deposited nearly 250 million USDT into CEX in the past two days

  • The floating loss of the tokens built by the PEPE band whale has narrowed from US$3.26 million to US$800,000

  • UDHC deposited 1,500 MKR to Binance 9 hours ago

  • Two Ethereum Foundation/ICO-related wallets deposited 3,631 ETH to Kraken in the past two days

  • A whale withdrew 1,665 ETH from Blast 4 hours ago and deposited all of it into Binance

  • 135,627 SOL transferred from unknown wallet to Binance

  • Upbit wallet addresses transferred 26 million XRP, worth more than $16 million

  • A whale withdrew 245 BTC from Binance 2 hours ago, and had previously made a profit of more than $31 million through 2 BTC waves

6. 📃Industry

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

  • BAYC: MBA 2.0 will be launched on ApeChain to optimize user experience and improve processes

  • Animoca Brands: Moca ID users will receive incentives for participating in the BLOCKLORDS Dynasty game

  • BinaryX announces community vote to destroy 74% of BNX tokens, reducing total supply by 1.62 billion and entering a new deflationary economic model

b. Exchange/Wallet

  • Valour launches a NEAR exchange-traded product

  • OKX Web3 wallet adds support for TON network, officially completes 100 public chain accesses

  • Coinbase to List Ancient8 (A8)

  • OKX Web3 Runes Marketplace now supports merging runes, saving up to 29% of gas fees

c. Public chain/L2

  • Omni releases Omega testnet for developers

  • Arweave founder: Arweave temporary storage will soon launch v1.0 version Arfleet

  • Monad: Testnet is about to go live, and a partnership with Backpack has been reached

  • Optimism announces the results of Retro Funding 4, intends to provide 10 million OP rewards to 207 projects

  • The cross-chain cycle from Blast to Ethereum mainnet has been shortened to 7 days

d. Investment and Financing

  • Owlto Finance Completes New Round of Financing with a Valuation of US$150 Million, Matrixport and Others Participate in the Investment

  • Anthropic Completes New Round of $750 Million Financing, Menlo Ventures and Others Participate

  • Web3 player community platform Oh Gamers completes $3 million seed round of financing, with participation from Axia8 Ventures and others

e. Supervision

  • Basel Committee Releases Update on Crypto-Asset Banking Compliance Rules

  • Cryptocurrency Custody Company Copper Obtains Hong Kong TCSP License

  • Crypto-friendly Roberta Metsola re-elected as EU Parliament President

  • Arkham: Due to UK and US regulatory requirements, some employees' ARKM token wallets will be managed by Coinbase Custody

  • Cryptocurrency critic, US Senator Bob Menendez convicted of bribery

  • South Korean prosecutors request arrest warrant for crypto market manipulator

f. Security

  • Beosin Trace: Analysis of the $10 million loss in the LI.FI attack

  • CertiK: Dough lost about $2.1 million in a flash loan attack, and the white hat hacker returned 76 ETH

  • Fractal ID data breach affects Gnosis Pay and other crypto projects

  • Crypto phishing app Angel Drainer is now shut down

g. Others

  • Nvidia's stock price fell more than 7%, the biggest intraday drop since April 19

  • Grayscale Establishes New Decentralized AI Fund Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund LLC

  • Arthur Hayes Family Office Fund Maelstorm Announces Launch of Bitcoin Developer Grant Program

  • Ripple Labs has sold its stake in Malaysian payments company Tranglo

  • Cryptocurrency company XBTO establishes a tokenization team to focus on the RWA field

  • Anthropic and Menlo Ventures launch $100 million artificial intelligence fund

  • Zodia Markets confirms it is acquiring Elwood Technologies’ OTC ​​business

  • Polymarket hires US statistician Nate Silver as consultant

  • Cipher Mining, a US Bitcoin mining company, is considering selling itself and has received multiple acquisition offers

7. 🔧Tools

  • Nansen Launches Aptos Network Data Dashboard

8. 💡Viewpoint

  • RootData: 2024 Q2 Web3 Industry Investment Research Report

  • Strategist: Trump 2.0 policies will lead to greater inflation risks

  • Sui Overflow Hackathon Asia Pacific Projects: Pandora, Hakifi, Bullnow...

  • The Holy Grail of AI: Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE)

  • Skybridge Capital founder: Trump is expected to reappoint US SEC commissioners to support the crypto industry after his election