the game development studio SuperGaming has completed a $15 million Series B financing round, led by Skycatcher and Steadview Capital, with participation from a16z Speedrun, Bandai Namco 021 Fund, Neowiz, and Polygon Ventures. The company's current valuation has reached $1 billion.

the UK Financial Conduct Authority has lifted the ban on the issuance of crypto exchange-traded notes (cETNs) to retail investors, a move welcomed by industry leaders as a step towards aligning the UK with the global cryptocurrency market and solidifying its position as a digital asset hub.

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according to Ai Aunt's monitoring, a certain whale recharged 50 WBTC (5.71 million US dollars) to Binance again an hour ago. If sold, it will make a profit of 2.885 million US dollars, with a cost of 56,410.89 US dollars; it has been suspected of selling 100 WBTC from yesterday to today, with a total value of 11.44 million US dollars, and currently still holding 88.253 WBTC.

according to on-chain analyst Ai Yi's monitoring, five addresses that participated in the PUMP public sale and reached their maximum allocation are suspected of liquidating their holdings, missing out on a profit of $10.866 million compared to the peak price. Four hours ago, he consolidated 1.25 billion PUMP tokens from these five addresses, then recharged them into Kraken, worth $4.06 million. These tokens have shrunk by 72% compared to their highest point.

S&P 500 index futures rose by 0.49%, Nasdaq 100 index futures rose by 0.35%, and Dow futures rose by 0.54%.

Binance Alpha will launch Fireverse (FIR), and Alpha trading will open on August 6, 2025 at 19:00. After trading starts, users holding at least 200 Alpha points can receive airdrops of 1000 FIR tokens, first come first served. If the reward pool is not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 15 points per hour. Claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points. Users must confirm receipt on the Alpha event page within 24 hours, otherwise it will be considered as giving up the claim.

 according to the on-chain analysis platform Lookonchain, two whales recently transferred large amounts of Ethereum to centralized exchanges. Address 0xc156 transferred 13,459 Ethereum to Binance exchange (approximately $49 million); another address 0x46DB transferred 5,504 Ethereum to OKEx exchange in the past 16 hours (approximately $19.8 million).

Lido stated that the guidance issued by the US SEC yesterday confirmed that liquid staking and similar receipt-like tokens such as stETH do not constitute securities, providing the regulatory clarity that Lido and the entire industry have needed for a long time. Lido's operations in the United States now have greater regulatory clarity, eliminating the uncertainty shadow that previously hindered institutional adoption and DeFi integration.

Satsuma Technology, an artificial intelligence company based in London, has completed a large-scale financing round, raising £163.7 million ($217.6 million), exceeding the target by 64%, and receiving support from companies such as ParaFi, Pantera, DCG, and Kraken.

 according to the data of the Hong Kong stock market, as of the close of trading today, the turnover of 6 Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs was 26.2907 million Hong Kong dollars, including: Huaxia Bitcoin ETF (3042.HK) with a turnover of 7.64 million Hong Kong dollars, Huaxia Ethereum ETF (3046.HK) with a turnover of 14.35 million Hong Kong dollars, Jiashi Bitcoin ETF (3439.HK) with a turnover of 0.7107 million Hong Kong dollars, Jiashi Ethereum ETF (3179.HK) with a turnover of 1.01 million Hong Kong dollars, Bosera HashKey Bitcoin ETF (3008.HK) with a turnover of 1.36 million Hong Kong dollars, and Bosera HashKey Ethereum ETF (3009.HK) with a turnover of 1.22 million Hong Kong dollars.

according to the official announcement, the Swedish company H100 Group has added 60.6 bitcoins to its holdings, bringing the total to 732.2 bitcoins.

Musk tweeted, saying, "It's time for us to open source Grok2, and it will be done next week."

Matrixport released today's market analysis, stating that at the current stage, it may still be too early and even more pessimistic to judge whether Bitcoin will fall back to the 21-week moving average of $105,696. However, we still consider this level as a reference for the key trend: if the price is above this level, the overall trend is still bullish; once it falls below, we need to be alert to bearish signals.

according to Be in crypto, Japan's financial services company SBI Holdings has submitted applications for two cryptocurrency-related exchange-traded funds (ETFs). The first fund is a cryptocurrency ETF that will directly invest in XRP and Bitcoin; the second fund is a digital gold cryptocurrency ETF that will combine gold-backed securities and digital currencies, with over 50% of the funds allocated to gold ETFs.

Yi Lihua, founder of LD Capital, said, "Under the macro impact of US stocks and tariffs, ETH has been oscillating for a while. It is expected that after mid-August, it will start to usher in the market expectation of interest rate cuts in September. The bullish trend is undoubtedly, and all recent pullbacks are buying opportunities."

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according to data from StrategicETHReserve, as of now, there are a total of 64 Ethereum reserve entities/companies with holdings of 100 or more ETH. The total ETH holdings of this group has exceeded 3 million coins, reaching approximately 3.04 million coins, accounting for about 2.52% of the total ETH supply, worth approximately $10.87 billion. The top three holders of ETH are Bitmine (833,100 coins), SharpLink Gaming (521,900 coins), and The Ether Machine (345,400 coins).

the Ethereum Foundation has released a blog post updating the latest progress in "Scale L1/Expand L1" work, including the following 3 points:

according to official sources, the USDJ protocol will officially terminate its services and initiate a delisting plan on August 31, 2025. To ensure the safety of user assets, the official announcement calls on all USDJ holders, collateral debt position (CDP) users, and JustLendDAO deposit and borrowing users to immediately handle their related positions, or exchange USDJ for stable tokens such as USDD to avoid insufficient liquidity or market volatility risks. This adjustment aims to optimize the allocation of ecological resources and promote the more efficient development of the decentralized financial system. Users are requested to complete the migration promptly and together welcome the upgrades and innovations of the next phase.