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a16z co-founder Marc Andreasen joined the Fed ' s AI Working Group to study the impact of AI on productivity and employment

The United States Federal Reserve Board (Fed) announced that the co-founder of a16z, Marc Andreasen, would join the Working Group on Productivity and Employment, led by Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, to study the impact of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies on economic growth, job markets and productivity, including Charles I. Jones, Professor of Economics at Stanford University, currently on leave in Anthropic, and Asha Sharma, Executive Vice-President of Microsoft and head of Xbox. It is known that Marc Andreasen had previously publicly supported Walsh as Chairman of the Fed. On social platform X, he said that Walsh “had both economic and financial insight and a deep understanding of technology and business”。

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BUFFET'S PIONEER ETF INVESTMENT WORTH $5,000 TO $20465 TODAY

BUFFET ' S PIONEER ETF INVESTMENT OF $5,000 IN 2014 HAS NOW ADDED VALUE TO $20465. BUFFETT SUGGESTED THAT THE GENERAL INVESTOR BUY A LOW-COST INDEX FUND TO TRACK THE STANDARD 500 INDEX, WHICH HE PREFERRED FOR THE VANGUARD 500 ETF (VOO). OVER THE PAST 10 YEARS, DATA HAVE SHOWN THAT OVER 85 PER CENT OF LARGE COMMON FUNDS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO WIN THE STANDARD 500 INDEX. INVESTORS WHO FOLLOW BUFFETT ' S ADVICE AND HAVE LONG HELD A PIONEER, SIMPLE INDEXED FUND CAN EFFECTIVELY AVOID MARKET VOLATILITY RISKS。

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The Iranian Revolutionary Guards have warned of the temporary closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a non-compliant vessel

On 12 July, according to the media, in the early morning hours of 12 local time, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy issued a statement stating that it had fired a warning shot at a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. The statement stated that a number of vessels had attempted to deviate from the approved route and had refused to adjust their course and to proceed along the prescribed route, despite warnings and reminders from the Iraqi side. One of the vessels, which shut down its own system and endangered the safety of maritime navigation, was warned and forced to suspend. The statement stated that the Strait of Hormuz would be temporarily closed until further notice, as the insecurity was “caused by the illegal intervention of foreign forces”. Until the United States ended its intervention in the area, no vessel would be allowed to cross. In addition, if the “aggressors” use this incident as a pretext for wrong action or yet another attack against Iran, the Iraqi side will respond with greater vigour and will strike at the new military base of the enemy in the area。

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Tom Lee: Traditional finance and encrypted finance will eventually become the same market

On platform X, Chairman Tom Lee of Bitmine indicated that future traditional finance (TradFi) and encrypted finance would no longer be two separate areas, but would gradually be integrated into “the same market”. With the development of block-chain infrastructure, monetized assets and digital financial instruments, the line between traditional and encrypted assets continues to weaken. Marketers believe that the monetization of assets, chain settlements and the continued entry of institutional investors in the area of encryption may contribute to a more open and digital financial system。

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Geoffrey Kendrick: Maintenance of the Bitcoin projection of $100,000 at the end of 2026

According to In 2021, the Global Manager of Standard Chartered Digital Asset Research, Geoffrey Kendrick, said that the market misconstrued Michael Saylor ' s Bitcoin strategy to adjust Strategy Inc., and that the pressure on recent sales had resulted from confusion about the strategy. Strategy Inc. is shifting bitcoin from reserve accumulation assets to collateral to support the STRC priority share. Kendrick maintains the Bitcoin projection of $100,000 at the end of 2026. The current BTC transaction price is $64.323 million, Strategy stock MSTR received $94.64 on Friday, with a nominal value of about $10 billion. Kendrick argued that the support of Bitcoin placed the priority share in a high over-collateralized state。

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OpenAI responds to high-calculation mode alerts: the Codex and ChatGPTwork levels have been urgently reset

OpenAI Codex core member Tibo wrote that it had been too easy for users to use high-calculation models before, but had failed to adequately account for their impact on the level of use, leading to problems with some of the multiple proxy workflows, plug-in functions and other experiences, and even causing some users to mispercept that Codex would be eliminated in the future. The first improvements have been introduced on an urgent basis, including the adjustment of default settings and model choosers to avoid the misuse of high-cost configurations by users, and the emergency re-engineering of the Codex and ChatGPTwork levels has been undertaken twice. The next round of updates is expected to go online next week, with dialogue and project functions returning to the sidebar in a more familiar and self-defined form, while enhancing the visibility of high-calculation models in terms of usage and replacement time, and further clarifying the respective scenarios for ChatGPT World and Codex。

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SpaceX officially joined the NASDAQ 100 index and investors look forward to follow-up support

SpaceX formally joined the NASDAQ 100 index on 7 July, an initiative that investors hope will provide additional support to their successful first public collection unit (IPO). The inclusion of the NASDAQ 100 index will trigger the compulsory purchase of passive funds, including the Exchange Trading Fund (ETF), which tracks the index. In addition, many of the active funds may only invest in equities in the NASDAQ 100 index, while others may need to hold SpaceX equities to meet the weighting requirements of their funds. All of this may support stock prices。

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Hong Kong Settlement: Found several fake websites using virtual wallets for fraud

The Hong Kong Bank Interbank Settlement Company Ltd. (HKBILS) announced that in recent days several counterfeit websites have been found to induce users to submit so-called “real name authentication” of personal data, such as identification numbers, identity photographs and telephone numbers, under the guise of “buyer's online security” and to use cash incentives as an incentive to refill and draw on so-called virtual wallets. Hong Kong Bank Interbank Clearing Ltd. called on the public to guard against suspicious telephone calls, websites or other communications and to report any suspected fraud to the police as soon as possible。

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THE EXCHANGE OF THE WLD HAS SOARED SIX TIMES AS FAST AS POSSIBLE

According to data published early on in A, the value of the contract for the renewal of the currency WLD/USDT rose sixfold in 10 minutes, reaching $151 million for nearly 24 hours, an increase of 5.58 per cent. The surge in turnover usually implies an increase in the dynamism of market transactions, or the operation of large money purchases, which may be triggered by certain important market changes or news bulletins. The current consolidated list of the currency contracts is ranked first in the world。

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BTC OG INNER WHALE "BTC MULTIWARE TOP 1": THE BTC INNER WHALE ZEC HAS INCREASED TO $2819498.34

THE BTC OG INSIDER WHALE ' S "BTC ' S MULTIWARE TOP 1 ' S " ZEC ' S SINGLE-FLYING DEFICIT HAS INCREASED AND NOW STANDS AT -2819498.34 (32.47 PER CENT) AT AN AVERAGE PRICE OF US$444.00, AT A CURRENT VALUE OF US$530.07, AT A LIQUIDATION PRICE OF US$2074.96 AND AT A WAREHOUSE SIZE OF US$17364865.27. THE WHALE, WHICH HAD OVER 50,000 BTCS IN ITS POSSESSION, GRADUALLY CHANGED PARTS OF THE BTC TO ETH AFTER EIGHT YEARS OF SILENCE, OPERATING AT A HIGH LEVEL IN LINE WITH THE TRAMP SPEECH AND THE UNITED STATES POLICY MOVEMENT, HAD MADE NEARLY $100 MILLION IN PROFIT BEFORE THE "10.11" COLLAPSE, CAUSING MARKET CONCERN。

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BTC TREASURY HAS A HIGHER MARKET VALUE EVAPORATES OVER $100 BILLION AND IS UNDER PRESSURE TO SELL MONEY AFTER HIGH LEVELS OF ACCUMULATION

CryptoQuant Analyst Darkfost disclosed that since October 2025, the total market value of Bitcoin Treasury has declined from $39.6 billion to $27.2 billion, with a cumulative contraction of over $100 billion. Although the amount of bitcoin held by these companies has increased from 953,000 to the current level of 1.44 million, the data show that most of the bitcoin reserves were high-rised, and from November 2024 to October 2025, the most aggressive buy-in phase of the Enterprise Reserve Company, at which the price of bitcoin was mainly between $75,000 and $125 million, while the pace of increase has been almost stagnant at this stage, and it is interesting to note whether these enterprises will follow Strategy ' s choice to sell low-positioned warehouses。

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HFSP: CRYPTOGRAPHY

HFSP is a common abbreviation for the encryption ring, meaning “Have Fun Staying Poor”. The term is often used by Bitcoin holders to flirt with people who rely on French currency, or by ordinary people when the encryption market falls. In the discussion, users mentioned that, in addition to the HFSP, there were other subtle names, such as “buttcoin” and “greaters” that wanted to be compiled to help avoid exploitation in the upcoming cattle market。

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