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The historic challenge of half-century bitcoin is the projection of $300,000 to $500,000

The half-cycle history of bitcoin has challenged analysts to predict a target of $300,000 to $500,000. The analysts expect the next cycle to start later this year, with a target price range of $300,000 to $500,000. However, the data suggest that gains may be more moderate than before. Bitcoin fluctuated during the four-year cycle, with the first half occurring in 2012, with the fifth round scheduled for April 2028. In the past, prices were usually at their bottom about 18 months before the halving and new cattle markets, which peaked about 16-18 months after the halving. Analyst Peter Brant predicts that the next peak will be between $300,000 and $500,000, while analysts in Bernstein expect prices to reach $500,000 by 2029. Nevertheless, with the institutionalization of markets, there has been a significant increase in capital required to drive a significant increase in Bitcoin. Digital assets suffered losses in the third consecutive quarter of the second quarter of 2026, the longest period since Bear City in 2022。

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Coinbase 50 index review June: 21.31 per cent drop

The June review of the Coinbase 50 Index (Coin50), published by Coinbase Institute, showed that the index fell by 21.31 per cent that month, influenced mainly by the expectation that interest rates would remain high over the longer term, the diversion of funds to AI and the technology block, and a record outflow of available ETF funds. All the plates covered by the index recorded a decline of 9.55 per cent in the DeFi plate and 35.85 per cent and 28.43 per cent, respectively, in the top media and entertainment. With regard to tokens, the increase of AAVE by 4.18 per cent, or 3.01 per cent and 7.59 per cent, respectively, for the best-performing ingredient of the month, was recorded in PENDLE and UNI, but the sharpest decline in CHZ was still recorded, at 44.79 per cent, and in APT, ADA, MNT and XTZ by more than 37 per cent。

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GPT-5.6 flipped and was exposed to all Mac's local files

According to Matt Shumer, an AI investor, GPT-5.6 deleted almost all local documents while on his Mac. The accident originated in a review by a child who mistreated $home during the clean-up and executed rm-ref/user/mattsdevbox. Shumer found that the process was still in operation, but a large number of documents had been lost. The OpenAI team is investigating this. OpenAI had previously recognized in the GPT-5.6 system card that the model was more likely than the GPT-5.5 to exceed the user ' s intent and had cleared three virtual machines that the user had not specified in an internal test. OpenAI stated that the overall incidence of such acts remained low and advised users to monitor programming for long periods of time。

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Elliptic gets a Circle Ventures investment

Elliptic announced, on platform X, that it had an investment in Circle Ventures, the amount of which was not disclosed. Elliptic completed a $120 million D round of financing in May, with the participation of One Peak and Nasdaq Ventures, Deutsche Bank and the British Commercial Bank. Circle joins Elliptic's Agency Design Partner Programme, which brings together infrastructure providers, compliance leaders and technical teams to develop proxy compliance solutions。

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Johannes Heidecke, head of the OpenAI security system, is leaving

The head of the OpenAI security system, Johannes Heidecke, announced to the team this week that the departure took place at the time of the restructuring of OpenAI. The core objective of the reorganization is to integrate the security sector with the research sector. According to the internal memorandum, Mark Chen, Chief Research Officer of OpenAI, said that the security team would be transferred to Mia Glaese, Vice-President of Corporate Research and Head of Integration, who would also be Vice-President of Research and Security. The former head of the security team, Saachi Jain, will be the interim head of the security system and report to Glaese。

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OpenAI: GPT-5.6 to 64 Agents, giving 50-year proof of conjecture one hour

OpenAI announced that GPT-5.6 SOL Ultra called 64 sub-Agents for less than one hour to provide a proof of a "cycle double-cover guess" of about 50 years. OpenAI has published the complete prompt and full certificate, with an open source in the form version of Lean, and the relevant code has passed the Lean internal nuclear inspection. However, this is still the result of OpenAI's release, and the mathematics community has yet to complete an independent review, so that for the time being it can only say "certificate" and not simply "formal settlement"。

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Dinan's giant whale sold 2.5 million coins, with a cumulative cash of $11.12 million

According to the chain analyst's after-effects monitoring, an early whale address, which had received about 5,000 times the return of its life, sold 2.5 million coins worth about $1.7 million about five hours ago. The address, currently containing only 2.5 million tokens, is expected to be cleared by tomorrow morning. The whale initially bought about US$ 2480 to buy 18.5 million coins for its life, and has now sold a total of 16 million, with a cumulative stock of about US$ 11.12 million。

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Daya completed $2.4 million in financing and Aptos Foundation strategic engagement

On 11 July, Daya, a start-up company focused on the stabilization of the payment of African dollars, indicated that the company had completed $2.4 million in pre-seed financing. This round of financing was led by Hivemind Capital, Lattice, Alliance, Globelink, and Aptos Foundation made strategic investments. Daya is developing a business-oriented software platform to help business to transfer funds between Africa and the global market. Its platform integrates functions such as local payment networks, stable currency settlement, foreign exchange (FX) tools, compliance processes and fund reconciliation, with the aim of providing enterprises with a unified international payment and fund management solution。

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In the early days, the Minan Whale sold 2.5 million more coins, with a cumulative amount of $11.12 million

On 11 July, according to a chain analyst's after-effects monitoring, an early whale address, which had received approximately 5,000 times the return of its life, once again sold 2.5 million coins worth about $1.7 million about five hours ago. The data show that only the last 2.5 million tokens remain at the address and, at the current pace, it is expected that the full silo will be completed by tomorrow morning. Initially, the whale bought only about US$ 2480 in 18.5 million "coin and life" coins, and has now sold a total of 16 million, with a cumulative stock of approximately US$ 11.12 million。

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SkyStable Currency Agreement release financial data for June 2026

The former MakerDAO, now known as Sky, has published financial and operational data for June 2026, with annualized total income at a record level of $419.8 million. Since its launch, SUSDS ' accumulated savings gains to users have increased to over $250 million in agreement reserve sizes of $82.5 million, an increase of $33.7 million over last March. In addition, the Sky-based Real World Assets Project, Grove, introduced the governance token Grove in June, and the SUSDS-based fixed-income product first-month top-line TVL exceeded $44.1 million. DefiLlama data show that Sky incurred approximately $30.14 million over the past 30 days, or $367 million in annualization。

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lighter completed the destruction of 156,38,702 bits, or 6.3 per cent of the supply in circulation

according to the official lighter, 15,638,702 lits have been destroyed and the relevant coins permanently removed from circulation. this destruction corresponds to the amount of lit bought back through the procedural mechanism as of the end of the second quarter of 2026, which is about 6.3 per cent of the supply in circulation. previously, lighter indicated that the lit buyback would be used to permanently reduce the supply of tokens by means of destruction。

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Tetherbitcoin reserve addresses are moving: 4 BTCs are transferred, with an additional suspected suspension in the second quarter

On 11 July, according to the chain analyst's residual ashes monitoring, Tether used to transfer 15 per cent of its quarterly profits to the reserve address of Bitcoin to four BTCs, valued at approximately $250,000, to the Binance test approximately five hours ago. The balance indicated that the address had previously transferred 204.3 BTCs to Bitfinex a month earlier, with a value of approximately $14.36 million and a bitcoin price of approximately $70,000, and that it was uncertain whether the related assets had been sold. In addition, Tether does not seem to have finished adding bitcoin to the chain in the second quarter of 2026. In accordance with previous practice, Tether usually transfers the BTC purchased in the current quarter to a reserve address on the last day of each quarter, but more than 10 days after the end of the current second quarter, no new bitcoin transfers to that reserve address have been observed in the chain, raising concerns as to whether the market will adjust the Bitcoin increase pace。

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