Payment service provider Block announced that it will issue notes totaling $2.2 billion through a private sale to qualified institutional buyers and non-U.S. persons, involving notes due in 2030 and 2033, with the issuance size larger than the previous $1.5 billion.

According to Jinse Finance, the decentralized prediction market platform Polymarket had 286,000 active trading users in July, a month-on-month rise of over 18%, marking the first rebound since January and ending a six-month decline trend. During the same period, the number of new markets launched exceeded 11,500, with a month-on-month increase of 44%, continuing the platform's ongoing expansion momentum since its establishment. However, the trading volume decreased by 8.6% month-on-month to approximately $1.06 billion, and the average trading amount per user dropped from $4,800 in June to $3,700.

Odaily News Visa encryption head Cuy Sheffield stated that stablecoins are expected to significantly expand Visa's addressable market size, with potential market opportunities reaching up to $2 trillion. (Cointelegraph)

According to ChainCatcher, Bitrace monitoring data shows that one week after the implementation of Hong Kong's stablecoin regulations, the local OTC Trading market size has decreased by approximately 32.94%. Specifically, the daily USDT transfer volume of commercial addresses for store-type service providers decreased by 43.20%, from 9.47 million to 5.38 million; while the transfer volume of commercial addresses for non-store-type service providers decreased by 30.65%, from 42.57 million to 29.52 million.

On August 5, Jin10 reported that on August 5, the international index provider MSCI announced that the assets of exchange-traded funds (ETF) linked to the MSCI global stock index have surpassed $2 trillion, with a rise rate of 17% since the beginning of 2025. As of the second quarter of 2025, there are over 1,400 stock ETFs linked to MSCI indices.

According to the Gate News bot message, on May 30, 2025, the official announcement from Gate: Gate will hold its first GT staking reward event for users participating in on-chain earning. The event will take place from May 30, 2025, 18:00 to June 27, 2025, 18:00 (UTC+8). According to the event rules, users who participate in the on-chain earning activity for the first time can participate in the prize pool distribution based on their staking amount after completing GT staking. The total staking amount of all users during the event period will determine the final prize pool size, which can reach up to 100,000 GT. The event will be settled every Friday (June 6, 13, 20, 27). Rewards will be distributed based on the proportion of the user's average GT mining holding amount to the total holding amount, and will be issued in GT form within 5 working days after settlement. This event is only open to users who have completed real-name authentication and are using on-chain earning financial management for the first time.

The total Lock-up Position (TVL) of the Pendle platform has surpassed $6.76 billion, setting a historical record. The market size of Principal Tokens generated has reached $4.88 billion, demonstrating Pendle's dominant position in the fixed income sector and promoting the evolution of DeFi towards sustainable financial infrastructure.

Golden Finance reports that a Whale transferred over 80,000 Bitcoins through the Galaxy trading platform, pushing the active supply ratio of Bitcoin up to 37%. Despite the large transaction size, the price of Bitcoin remains stable at $118,000, indicating the market's increased capacity to withstand selling pressure. This transaction has sparked attention on the activity of "dormant Bitcoins."

BlockBeats news, on July 24, according to @martypartymusic, the Solana network increased the block size by 20% yesterday based on the SIMD-0256 proposal. This upgrade raises the block limit from 50 million computation units (CUs) to 60 million CUs, allowing each block to accommodate more transactions, thereby enhancing network throughput and overall performance, and users will noticeably feel the improvement in transaction speed.

Golden Finance reports that the cryptocurrency venture capital firm 10T Holdings has announced a merger with 1RoundTable Partners (1RT) and rebranded as 50T. This entity will focus on digital asset business and emphasize a structured downside protection investment strategy. At the same time, 50T has also launched a new fund, the 50T Fund, with a size of $500 million, which is expected to complete its first private sale financing in the fourth quarter of this year.

Jin10 reported on July 19 that on July 18 local time, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would reduce staff by at least 23% through early retirement and layoffs. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stated that as of January this year, the agency had a total of 16,155 employees. Following this layoff restructuring, the total number is expected to drop to 12,448. In addition, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency stated that the agency's size may further shrink. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency also announced the dissolution of its scientific research institution, the "Office of Research and Development."

At the 216th Ethereum Core Developer Meeting, it was decided to remove EIP 7907 from the Fusaka upgrade, with the smart contracts code size limit remaining unchanged. The Fusaka launch schedule includes a public testnet release in August and a testnet upgrade in October. Meanwhile, the implementation details of the Glamsterdam Hard Fork are still under discussion, with a final decision planned to be made in the coming weeks.

Jin10 reports that JPMorgan: By 2030, the potential market size of OpenAI will exceed $700 billion.

Jin10 data, July 14 - Major companies in Japan have announced significant salary increases this year, but a survey by the Bank of Japan shows that this trend does not seem to apply to all households. In the June survey, the percentage of households reporting a decrease in income compared to a year ago rose from 27.7% in March to 30.6%. This indicates that the pace of wage rise remains uneven, depending on the size and type of company they work for. Ongoing inflation is also likely to be a growing concern. About 61% of respondents indicated that their living conditions have worsened over the past year, up from 55.9% in the previous survey.

The stablecoin increased by 2.7 billion USD within a week, pushing the market size to 257.7 billion USD. USDT remains at the top, but USDC has the largest rise. • USDC supply increased by 1.31 billion USD. • USDT reached 160.15 billion USD. • Tron’s USDD rose by 19.28%.

Gate News bot message, A significant cryptocurrency trading activity has been recorded as whale trader 0x8373 initiated a 3x leveraged short position on PUMP token. The position size is 377.6 million PUMP tokens, equivalent to $2.13 million, with a set liquidation price at $0.00735.

As the price of Ethereum breaks through $3000, the Ethereum Foundation announced the launch of a node-level zkEVM (Zero-Knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine), with plans to achieve Layer 1 native integration of ZK proofs within a year. This move aims to unify real-time proof standards (latency <10 seconds, proof size <300KiB, 128-bit security), significantly enhancing the scalability, security, and censorship resistance of the Ethereum Mainnet, creating a "full-stack ZK blockchain." This marks a significant upgrade in Ethereum's ZK strategy, which may soon compel Layer 2 ZK Rollup projects to transform, but in the long term could promote the standardization of ZK technology and ecological synergy.

Odaily News The Ethereum Foundation developer Sophia Gold published an article proposing the implementation of L1 zkEVM within a year through multi zkVM execution proofs verified by validators. The goal of this plan is to achieve "real-time proof," with definitions including: latency ≤ 10 seconds, 128-bit security, proof size ≤ 300KiB, and feasible home verification, promoting Ethereum to become the world's largest ZK application platform.

Odaily News Yu Xian, the founder of Slow Fog, posted on the X platform stating that GMX-related fork projects need to pay attention to similar security risks. He mentioned that the fundamental reason for the theft of 42 million dollars from GMX last night was that GMX v1 immediately updates the global short average price (globalShortAveragePrices) when handling short positions, and this global average price will directly affect the calculation of the total asset size (AUM), thus leading to

Golden Finance reports that 10x Research published an analysis on the X platform stating that the current price of Ethereum (ETH-USDT) is above the 7-day and 30-day moving averages, indicating that the ETH price is in a bullish trend. Over the past week, the ETH price has risen by approximately 3.6%, a trend that may be driven by around $148.5 million in inflows into the Ethereum ETF, particularly as BlackRock's Ethereum ETF has started to increase its holdings of ETH, with the asset size of this ETF now reaching approximately $4.6 billion. Additionally, BitMine has raised $250 million to support ETH asset strategies, and SharpLink Gaming has increased its holdings by 9,468 ETH, enhancing institutional demand.

Today (9) in the Asian afternoon, the price of Pi Network (PI) has slightly recovered, currently reported at 0.4644 USD. The potential of Pi Network is immense, but it is facing turbulence. Despite the large community size, the price of Pi coin has stagnated and even experienced a fall. Issues such as token issuance, lack of official launch, and doubts about tokenomics are causing market uncertainty.

Gate News bot message, according to the official announcement from Gate on July 9, 2025: Gate will launch the RCADE perpetual contract spot trading on July 9, 2025, at 21:05 (UTC+8), with contracts settled in USDT. The newly launched RCADE perpetual contract will support leverage trading of 1-20 times, allowing users to take long and short positions. Trading parameters, including funding rates, minimum tick size, maximum leverage, risk limits, and maintenance margin, will be dynamically adjusted based on market conditions.

On July 8, Jin10 Data reported that the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs stated on Monday that the scale of layoffs for this fiscal year will be reduced by two-thirds from the initial target, with the number of layoffs being about 30,000 instead of 80,000. At the beginning of the Trump administration, the agency employed about 480,000 people and is expected to continue employing nearly 450,000 employees in the fiscal year ending in September. According to Trump's plan to reduce the size of the federal government, the agency originally planned to streamline the number of employees to just below 400,000. This proposal has drawn widespread condemnation from veterans' groups and Democrats.

Golden Finance reported that JPMorgan predicts that by 2028, the size of the stablecoin market will only rise to 500 billion dollars. The bank stated that the forecast for the stablecoin market size to rise to 1 trillion dollars is overly optimistic, as there are currently almost no signs that dollar-pegged Crypto Assets Tokens have been widely adopted.

BlockBeats news, on July 2, according to HyperInsight monitoring, a whale address starting with 0x1f25 has just increased the position of its 20x BTC long order by 115.34 BTC, with the holdings amount increasing by 12,432,305 USD. Currently, its position situation is as follows: Position size: 69,572,043 USD Entry price: 107,377 USD Get Liquidated price: 95,212 USD Profit and loss: unrealized gains 60,919 USD

Gate News bot message, PANews July 2 news, according to monitoring data from @ai_9684xtpa, "Insider Brother" has increased the position twice last night and at 05:12 AM, with amounts of 294.14 BTC and 9,414.14 ETH respectively. Currently, its total position size has reached 250 million USD, specifically including: BTC 40x leverage short position, holding 1414.14 coins.

According to the Gate News bot message, the official announcement from Gate on July 1, 2025: Gate will launch the FRAG perpetual contract spot trading on July 1, 2025, at 16:35 ( UTC+8. The contract will be settled in USDT. The contract will support 1-20x leverage trading, allowing users to go long and short. The specific trading parameters of the contract, including funding rate, minimum tick size, maximum leverage, risk limit, and maintenance margin, will be dynamically adjusted based on market conditions.

Jin10 data reported on June 30 that IDC predicts the global server market size is expected to reach $366 billion this year, with a year-on-year rise of 44.6%. Among them, the x86 server market size will rise by 39.9%, reaching $283.9 billion; the non-x86 server market will see a year-on-year rise of 63.7%, reaching $82 billion, with the growth rate of Arm architecture servers reaching 70.0%, accounting for 21.1% of the total global dump.

PANews June 29 news, according to a report by Redstone, the tokenization of risk assets (RWA) surged from $5 billion in 2022 to over $24 billion by June 2025 (a rise of 380%), becoming the second fastest-growing area in the Crypto Assets field after stablecoins. Industry forecasts suggest that by 2030 to 2034, 10% to 30% of global assets may be tokenized. Asset tokenization has transitioned from experimental pilot projects to large-scale institutional adoption in 2024-2025. By December 2024, the market size of tokenized real-world assets reached $15.2 billion (excluding stablecoins) and continues to rise, exceeding $24 billion by June 2025, representing a year-on-year growth of 85%. As of June 2025

According to a report by Jinse Finance, on-chain data shows that the BlackRock BUIDL Fund has reached a size of $2,864,805,047, with a 30-day fall of 1.6%. The current number of holders is 83 (targeted at institutional investors, with a minimum threshold of $5 million), and the management fee is 0.20-0.50%.

Golden Finance reports that Arkham posted on the X platform, stating that BlackRock is currently earning more profits from its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund than from any of its other ETFs. Analysis shows that IBIT's earnings even surpass those of the BlackRock SPX500 ETF IVV, despite the latter's asset size being ten times that of IBIT, but its profits are not high.

Golden Finance reported that Musk stated on the X platform that the X platform will start charging based on the vertical size of advertisements, so advertisements that occupy the entire screen will cost more than those that occupy a quarter of the screen. Otherwise, advertisers will tend to create giant ads that harm user experience.

Gate News bot message, Musk stated on X: "X is charging for ads based on vertical size, so ads that take up the entire screen will cost more than ads that occupy 1/4 of the screen; otherwise, their motivation is to create giant ads that damage user experience."

Odaily News The crypto asset custody agency Taurus has launched a privacy-enabled stablecoin contract to address the privacy issues of financial institutions and enterprises. This contract is built on the Ethereum Layer 2 Aztec network, combining zero-knowledge privacy with compliance features similar to USDC. Taurus states that by 2030, the stablecoin market size could rise to $1 to $2 trillion. (CoinDesk)

According to a report from Jinse Finance, monitoring by HyperInsight shows that a whale address starting with 0x4a20 has just increased the position of its 40x BTC long order by 108.67 BTC, approximately 12.36 million USD. The specific position details are as follows: Entry Price: 106,401 USD Position Size: 47.31 million USD Profit and Loss: Unrealized Gains of 725,000 USD Liquidation Price: 78,396 USD. It is worth noting that this address has also opened a 25x ETH short order, with a position value of 28.64 million USD, entry price of 2,456 USD, liquidation price of 3,555 USD, and current unrealized losses of 325,000 USD.

BlockBeats news, on June 26, according to monitoring by HyperInsight, a whale address starting with 0x4a20 has just increased the position of its 40x BTC long order by 108.67 BTC, equivalent to approximately 12.36 million dollars. The specific position details are as follows: Entry Price: 106,401 USD Position Size: 47.31 million USD Profit and Loss: unrealized gains of 725,000 USD Liquidation Price: 78,396 USD. It is worth noting that this address currently also has a 25x ETH short order, with a position value of 28.64 million USD, entry price of 2,456 USD, liquidation price of 3,555 USD, and current unrealized losses of 325,000 USD.

Gate News bot message, StarkWare announced on X that Starknet v0.13.6 is about to be released, making the network compatible with S-Two. This upgrade is completely transparent to applications and Wallets.> Testnet: June 30 (next week)> Mainnet: July 8 Additionally, the release of Starknet v0.14.0 Testnet has been postponed to July 7. The Mainnet release date remains unchanged: still scheduled for July 28. According to community feedback, the maximum transaction size in v0.14.0 will remain unchanged.

Gate News bot reported that according to Bloomberg, Abel Seow, the Asia-Pacific Managing Director of the cryptocurrency custody company BitGo Inc., stated in an interview that its custody assets had surged from $60 billion to $100 billion in the first half of 2025.

BlockBeats news, on June 24, according to on-chain data, a certain Whale Address went long on Bitcoin with 20x leverage on HyperLiquid, with a position size of 102 million USD, an entry price of 105,173.2 USD, a liquidation price of 101,280 USD, and current unrealized gains of 12,000 USD.

Gate News bot reported that, according to Bloomberg, as more favorable regulatory policies attract more investors into the digital asset space, some top billionaire fund managers in Hong Kong will begin investing in Crypto Assets. VMS Group is a multi-family office managing nearly $4 billion in assets. VMS managing partner Elton Cheung stated in an interview that the firm plans to allocate up to $10 million to the strategies operated by the Decentralized Finance hedging fund Re7 Capital. He also added that the allocation size has not yet been finalized.

BlockBeats news, on June 24, according to Spot On Chain monitoring, a certain Whale spent approximately 10.5 million USDC to purchase 287,153 HYPE about 8 hours ago, with an average purchase price of 36.56 USD. Meanwhile, the Whale opened a HYPE short order with 10x leverage, and the current position size is roughly equivalent to the Spot Holdings, possibly hedging against potential short-term downside risks.

Odaily News According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, a Whale shorting 16 alts deposited 2.5 million USDC to Hyperliquid 2 hours ago, further raising the liquidation price of a bundle of Tokens. Subsequently, part of the short order positions for PEPE and XRP were closed, reducing the overall Position size to 46.38 million USD, and still ongoing open orders for take profit. In the past month, his profits have reached as high as 13.68 million USD, and the short order for a bundle of alts is still showing unrealized gains of 9.01 million USD.

PANews, June 21st, news from Hong Kong China News Agency reported that the chairman of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, Legislative Council member Lo Wai-kwok, stated that developing stablecoins is a "breakthrough" for Hong Kong's financial market. Issuing offshore RMB stablecoins in Hong Kong can reduce the city's reliance on the SWIFT system. He has suggested expanding Hong Kong's RMB funding pool size, increasing it fivefold from the current amount to 5 trillion RMB, in line with the needs for the development of RMB stablecoins.

PANews June 21 news, according to Hong Kong Zhongtong News Agency, the chairman of the Hong Kong Association for Democracy and People's Livelihood, Legislative Council member Lo Wai-kwok, stated that developing stablecoins is a "breakthrough" for Hong Kong's financial market. Issuing offshore RMB stablecoins in Hong Kong can reduce the city's dependence on the SWIFT system. He has suggested striving to expand the size of Hong Kong's RMB funding pool to five times the current amount, increasing it to 5 trillion RMB, to meet the development needs of RMB stablecoins.

On June 21, the Ethereum core developers' meeting discussed the Fusaka upgrade and 12 new EIPs, including PeerDAS data availability sampling, gas limits, and contract size restrictions. Some EIPs require further testing, and Fusaka Devnet 2 is scheduled to launch on June 23, extending the testing timeline.

The Perptual Futures DEX Aster has launched a hidden order feature, allowing users to trade without publicly displaying the order size, protecting privacy while enjoying Depth Liquidity. Users only need to enable "Hidden Order" to create invisible orders, ensuring transaction security.

PANews reported on June 20th, according to Cointelegraph, that the Bitcoin Spot ETF (IBIT) under BlackRock has surpassed $69.7 billion in Assets Under Management, holding 3.25% of the total Bitcoin supply and capturing 54.7% of the U.S. Bitcoin ETF market. Notably, this ETF has entered the top 25 global ETFs in terms of Assets Under Management in less than a year and a half of operation. According to Glassnode, the average amount of a single Bitcoin transaction currently reaches $36,200, with transactions over $100,000 accounting for 89%, indicating that institutional investors are dominating the market. However, a report from CryptoQuant points out that the number of short-term Bitcoin holders has decreased by 800,000 to 4.5 million since May 27, showing that new market funds are drying up. CryptoQuant believes that if investor demand continues to weaken, Bitcoin may reach 9.2.

According to the Gate News bot message, as per the official announcement from Gate on June 20, 2025: Gate will launch the LOT perpetual contract spot trading on June 20, 2025, at 20:05 (UTC+8). The newly added perpetual contract will use USDT as the settlement currency. The newly launched LOT perpetual contract will support leverage trading of 1-20 times, allowing users to go long and short. The specific trading parameters of the contract, including funding rates, minimum tick size, maximum leverage, risk limits, and maintenance margin, will be adjusted based on market conditions.