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Kraken parent, Payward, buys Magic Labs embedded wallets

On 27 July, MagicLabs sold its embedded wallet business to the encrypted currency exchange Kraken parent company Payward, which was sold as an asset. Upon completion of the transaction, the wallet client will be transferred to Payward Services, while Magic Labs will be renamed Newton Labs, focusing on the development of an authorized layer for chain-oriented finance, Newton Protocol. Meanwhile, Payward is continuing to expand its financial infrastructure, following successive acquisitions of Bitnomial, Reap Technologies and Ninja Trader。

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Kong Swordping indirectly owns about 1,898,000 shares of long-sword technology, with a market value of about 940 million

According to @0xBeyondlee, open information and related disclosure documents indicate that Kong Swordpin indirectly held approximately 18,988 million shares of long-sung technology through the Fretilin Fund (US$ 21.34 million). The market value of the corresponding shareholdings is about $940 million at the start of the day, with a return of approximately 44 times as measured by the statement. As previously indicated by Jack Hole, its corporate valuation in 2020 was less than $20 billion and now exceeds $3 trillion。

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Strategy raised $544.5 million through ATM and repurchased $25 million of the STRC Priority Unit

On 27 July, according to an 8-K document submitted by Strategy to the USSEC, the company did not purchase bitcoin from 20 to 26 July 2026, maintaining the holding stock at 843,775 at a total storage cost of approximately $63.69 billion at an average price of approximately $75,476. During the same period, the company sold 5.4292 million MSTR general shares through the ATM scheme, with a net fund-raising of approximately $544.5 million, and repurchased 288,930 STRC priority shares with an additional $25 million, leaving the priority share buy-back plan with approximately $975 million. As at 26 July, the company ' s United States dollar reserve balance stood at $3.75 billion, an increase of approximately $525 million over the previous week, covering priority dividends expenditure of approximately 2.1 years。

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Long-term Science and Technology is rich: seven executives are over $1 billion in compost

Today, Changsung technology officially landed on the board, and its myths have brought a gain of over trillions of dollars (over 121 trillion yuan in the value of the corresponding equity account), with seven senior executives promoted to “1 billion members” and the director of the company, Zhu Yiming, the core technical staff, Cao Kam-woo, has a market value of over 100 billion yuan, the Executive Vice President, Zhu Wen-gu ($2.915 billion), the Co-President, Zhang Yu (2.765 billion), the Senior Vice-President and Financial Officer, Wang Danyang ($1.983 billion), the Senior Vice-President and the Core Technical Officer, Li Hongwen ($1.523 billion) and the Vice-President and Secretary of the Board of Directors, Yuan Park ($1107 billion). At the employee equity level, more than 6,700 people benefited and at least 237 billionaires were born. However, the market value of all shareholders is measured at the opening price of $49.50 and the gross post-issuance share of $66,881 million, which is only positive on the books. Stock prices continue to fluctuate, and booking gains do not mean that they can eventually be realized。

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You've been fined HK$2.8 million by the HKSRC

On 27 July, according to the Hong Kong Business News Network, the HKSRC condemned and fined HK$ 2.8 million for failing to implement adequate and effective internal control procedures to monitor and detect clean-up transactions by its clients. In its response, the Mercosur responded that the decision to accept penalties in good faith had been fully implemented in September 2025 and that all internal control techniques were now in compliance with regulatory requirements. The incidents did not involve technical security issues, nor did they affect the normal transactions and financial security of any client。

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THE STAFF BONUS PROMISED BY CHU IS $5.6 BILLION

ON 27 JULY, FOLLOWING THE LISTING OF YONGJING TECHNOLOGY, ACCORDING TO THE BLOOMBERG BILLIONAIRE INDEX, CHU ' S BODY ROSE BY NEARLY 300 PER CENT TO $13.9 BILLION. IN ITS MAY IPO BOOK, ZHU IMIN PLEDGED TO TRANSFER 767.9 MILLION SHARES TO THE EMPLOYEE INCENTIVE SCHEME. THE VALUE OF THESE SHARES HAS REACHED $5.6 BILLION, FOLLOWING A 46 PER CENT INCREASE IN THE FIRST DAY OF THE MARKET. TO CONVERT, 40 PER CENT OF ZHU YIMING ' S WEALTH WILL BE AWARDED TO EMPLOYEES AS A BONUS. AT THE SAME TIME, CHU AMIN UNDERTOOK NOT TO REDUCE HIS SHARES FOR 10 YEARS. HOWEVER, THERE ARE SPECIFIC CONDITIONS FOR THE GRANT SCHEME FOR LONG-TERM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, INCLUDING A THREE-YEAR PERIOD, A TEN-YEAR PERIOD AND A LACK OF CLARITY ON THE EXTENT OF BENEFITS. THE COMPANY HAD 19,298 EMPLOYEES BY THE END OF 2025. KIM XIAN

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WONG IN-HOON ANNOUNCED THE LAUNCH OF THE OPEN SECURITY AI ALLIANCE TO PROMOTE OPEN SOURCE MODEL ENABLING CYBERDEFENCE

On 27 July, the founder and CEO Hoang In-hoon again wrote on platform X, and the attackers have mastered the front-line AI, and the defensive side needs a “front-line AI ecosystem” of open- and closed-source forward models, which will be scaled up by the global community. He referred to the decision to promote the Open Security AI Alliance, which had previously been blocked by some closed-source AI in the context of the Hugging Face security incident, and which had played a role in containing the invasion. Previously, the United Palantir, IBM, CrowdStrike, SpaceX and HuggingFace formed the Open Security AI Alliance to enhance the security of Open SourceAI。

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The yen fell to a low point of about 40 years, and the Bank of Japan released a further interest rate hike

On 27 July, according to Reuters, the yen had recently fallen to about its lowest level in 40 years. Prime Minister Takahumi stated that, by increasing the potential for economic growth and boosting the economy, it would help restore market confidence in the yen. The Central Bank of Japan expects to maintain interest rates at 1 per cent at the policy meeting ending on 31 July, but may send a signal of further interest rate hikes in response to the weak yen and inflationary pressures. According to the Reuters survey, most economists expect the Central Bank of Japan to increase interest rates by 1.25 per cent by the end of the year。

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HSBC plans to recruit more than 100 AI experts in Singapore

On 27 July, HSBC planned to recruit more than 100 artificial intelligence specialists in Singapore, and HSBC plans to establish a global centre for artificial intelligence in Singapore later this year. HSBC stated in a statement on Monday that the Singapore Centre would focus first and foremost on the roll-out of funds management solutions with operational autonomy and the development of digital payment functions to support artificial intelligence. These experts will work with the HSBC Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer, David Rice, as well as with teams in areas such as wealth management and global payment solutions. HSBC indicated that the Centre aims to establish a pool of talent that covers natural language processing, data science and artificial intelligence governance, and will work with educational institutions and government departments in Singapore。

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