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Bitmine pledged income of $45.7 million from ETH in the last quarter, or 98 per cent of total income

On 15 July, Cointelegraph reported that, according to Bitmine ' s latest submission of 10-Q documents, Bitmine had realized $45.7 million in ETH pledge and certification revenue, representing 98 per cent of the company ' s total revenue, over the quarter to 31 May. The total income of Bitmine for the same period was only $2 million a year ago, mainly from machine leasing. In March, Bitmine launched an institutional-level Taifung pledge platform, Mavan, which has pledged 85 per cent of its ETH holdout (approximately 4.9 million ETH). The Chairman of the Board, Tom Lee, stated that, when ETH completed the pledge entirely through MAVAN and its pledge partners, the annual proceeds of the pledge were expected to be $284 million. At the same time, Tom Lee states that Robinhod Chain has been trading over $1 billion since he went online on 1 July, using ETH as the original Gas token, that transaction fees are denominated in ETH and settled on the Ether House, and that Robinhod's 27 million users are beginning to regard ETH as “currency”。

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Korea will set up strategic investment accounts to invest in strategic industries

ON 15 JULY, THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA HAD PUT ON HOLD A PLAN TO ESTABLISH AN INDEPENDENT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUND, WHICH HAD BEEN INTENDED TO FOLLOW THE MODEL OF SINGAPORE ' S TAMARTHIC HOLDINGS AND AUSTRALIA ' S FUTURE FUND. INSTEAD, KOREA WILL ESTABLISH A STRATEGIC INVESTMENT ACCOUNT WITHIN KIC. THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE OF KOREA INDICATED THAT THE ACCOUNT WOULD BE INVESTED IN AREAS, BOTH AT HOME AND ABROAD, THAT WERE CRITICAL TO NATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AND ECONOMIC SECURITY. INVESTMENT TARGETS WILL COVER THE CORE AREAS OF STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES SUCH AS NUCLEAR ENERGY AND AEROSPACE, FINANCE AND INFRASTRUCTURE, AS WELL AS OVERSEAS SUPPLY CHAINS. KIM XIAN

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OpenAI's first hardware is an AI soundbox: you can see the environment and you can learn the owner

OpenAI ' s first consumer hardware is a non-screened AI soundbox, containing batteries, cameras and sensors that can move to different rooms and understand the environment around users. This device, which is used by its owner as an "AI partner", controls the smart home, plays content, answers questions and answers, and calls personal information such as mail, becomes user-friendly and offers relevant information. The equipment is equipped with a mechanical structure that is self-moveable and attempts to make it more like a living object, and the voice capacity will be based on GPT-live and can be heard and spoken at the same time. OpenAI plans to publish the product this year and is expected to sell in 2027, but the product is still under development and the details may be adjusted. In addition, Apple has indicted OpenAI for alleged theft of the hardware ' s commercial secrets and has sought a ban, which could affect listing times。

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For the first time, Pump.fun team and investors' tokens were unlocked, and 57.2 billion PUMPs were distributed to 121 wallets

On 15 July, according to the chain analyst's after-effects monitoring, the one-year lock on Pump.fun's team and investors' tokens ended regularly today and entered a three-year unlocking cycle. This morning, for the first time, 57,279 million PUMPs (US$ 86.49 million) were unlocked and released to 121 wallets. Of these, the GsM3-u6ya address unlocked 52,039 million PUMPs ($7.85 million) and the ESRc-ZM67 address unlocked 524.0 billion PUMPs ($7.91 million)。

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KOREA FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION (KFIA) TO DISCUSS A MINIMUM DEPOSIT REQUIREMENT FOR A LEVERAGED ETF

ACCORDING TO THE KOREA FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION, THE CEOS OF 10 MAJOR ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANIES DISCUSSED INCREASING THE MINIMUM DEPOSIT REQUIREMENTS OF THE ETF AND SPREADING THE TIME FOR REBALANCING. IT WAS CONSIDERED NECESSARY TO INCREASE THE MINIMUM DEPOSIT REQUIREMENT FROM THE CURRENT LEVEL OF 10 MILLION WON (APPROXIMATELY US$ 6714) AND TO STRENGTHEN THE MARKET STABILIZER ROLE OF THE LIQUIDITY PROVIDER. THE KOREA FINANCIAL INVESTMENT ASSOCIATION, CITING DATA FROM THE KOREA CAPITAL MARKET INSTITUTE, STATED THAT THE RELEVANT LEVERAGE ETF WOULD REQUIRE AN ESTIMATED STOCK TRADE OF BETWEEN 700 AND 2.1 TRILLION WON PER DAY。

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Circle worked with Grupo Bind of Argentina to provide USDC access

Wu said he had been informed that the co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire had announced in X that Grupo Bind, Argentina ' s major financial infrastructure and banking platform, had worked with Circe to provide USDC access to Argentine institutional clients. This is seen as an important initiative to increase the liquidity between the Argentine peso (ARS) and USDC, and will further promote the use of a stable currency in local financial markets。

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OpenAi works with Kalshi. ChatGPT shows World Cup rate data

According to The New York Times, OpenAI has worked with Kalshi, the forecast market platform, to show World Cup-related rate data in ChatGPT's search results. This is the first time that OpenAI is working with the Forecast Market Platform, and when users ask about World Cup-related issues in ChatGPT, the system displays the winning predictions provided by Kalshi and specifies the data sources. Previously, Kalshi had established similar datasets with the CNN, CNBC and Google platforms. Although OpenAI emphasized in its support page that this function is used only for “information references” and that users are not able to place their bets directly through ChatGPT, such integration has given rise to industry discussions about the risks of sensitive information leaks and insider trading, as the projected market’s regulatory concerns over geopolitical and corporate news-related bets have increased。

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