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B.AI platform announces the official launch of Grok 4.6 on the B.AI API. Compared to Grok 4.5, the new version achieves a comprehensive leap in complex task handling, deep reasoning, and overall intelligence level, demonstrating significant leading performance in the GPDVal-AA V2 evaluation, further expanding the application boundaries in large-scale reasoning and high-difficulty task scenarios. This launch simultaneously opens up dual-channel access for "official" and "self-selected service providers," and introduces an exclusive 40% discount for both official and self-selected service providers, enabling developers to easily access Grok 4.6 with more flexible choices and lower costs, enjoying cutting-edge AI computing power. Starting today, users can experience the upgraded capabilities through the B.AI API.

B.AI welcomes several major updates this week. In terms of benefits, new users can log in with Bitget Wallet, Binance Wallet, or imToken Wallet to instantly receive 1 million free Credits; logging in with an invitation code grants an additional 300,000, with a maximum cumulative total of 1.3 million when combined with the exclusive wallet login gift. Referrers also enjoy permanent rebates on friend deposits and subscriptions. Recharge discounts are released simultaneously, with a 1:1 equivalent quota gift exclusive to the BNB Chain channel, while various other payment methods enjoy a 1:0.5 rebate, with a maximum of $100 worth of points available per user.On the model side, there is another breakthrough, as the "Self-selected Service Provider" lineup is significantly expanded this week, adding the Nebula channel and launching historic calling discounts as low as 10%; at the same time, Alibaba's Tongyi Qianwen flagship model Qwen3.8-Max officially lands on the platform, now open for a limited-time free experience. Currently, the self-selected mode has fully covered global mainstream large model series such as Claude, GPT, and Gemini, combined with recharge gifts and multiple discount tiers, continuously releasing extreme computing power cost-effectiveness for global developers and enterprise users.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has upgraded the stock spot (rToken) fee structure. While maintaining a base fee rate of 0.05%, high-level VIP and PRO users can enjoy lower tier exclusive rates; using BGB to offset fees also provides a 20% discount.Among them, after applying the BGB offset, the VIP user Maker rate is as low as 0%, and the Taker rate is as low as 0.024%; the PRO user Maker rate is as low as 0.008%, and the Taker rate is as low as 0.01752%. During regular trading hours for U.S. stocks, orders will be routed to the underlying market via StockRoute and charged uniformly at the Taker rate; during weekends and holidays, internal matching periods will differentiate between Maker and Taker rates.

According to Wall St Engine, "AI stock god" Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund faced liquidity pressure during the market crash in July, with behind-the-scenes details revealed.The report states that after the market rapidly cooled in mid-July, the decline in stocks held by Situational Awareness triggered margin monitoring by banks such as Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, leading to margin calls.Insiders said that other hedge funds began shorting related stocks after learning about its positions, creating a cycle of "price drop → margin call → forced selling → further price decline."In late July, while Leopold was hosting a wedding in Carmel, he continued negotiations with his team to maintain fund operations. On the evening of July 29, he reached a preliminary agreement with a consortium led by Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital to sell approximately $3.5 billion in Anthropic equity.However, in the early hours of July 30, before the U.S. stock market opened, Leopold changed his decision, opting to retain the private equity portfolio and instead sell publicly traded stocks. Subsequently, Citadel and Millennium entered negotiations with the fund team, and Citadel ultimately acquired most of the fund's public stock investment portfolio at a discount of more than 10% below market value before Thursday's opening.This transaction helped Situational Awareness meet margin requirements and avoid formal default. After the deal was completed, related AI and semiconductor stocks rebounded on Thursday, benefiting Citadel.As of around July 31, Situational Awareness disclosed to investors that the fund had a net loss of about 67% in July, but was still up about 80% for the year. Leopold stated that he "takes full responsibility" for the incident, and the fund has removed bank leverage, planning to continue operations and invest in the public market while adjusting its portfolio management and risk control systems.

The B.AI API officially launched its first "official 10% discount group," providing users with highly reliable AI calling services through official direct connection channels while balancing model invocation stability, service quality, and cost efficiency. The first batch supports the Claude series models, with more mainstream models set to be opened successively. Meanwhile, the platform's "self-selected service provider" model offers discounts as low as 20%, granting users full autonomy to flexibly weigh performance, stability, and cost based on the actual needs of their business scenarios, achieving optimal configuration.

Grok 4.5 officially launches on the B.AI API side as a selected service provider. As the flagship intelligent model developed by SpaceXAI, Grok 4.5 is designed for advanced scenarios such as complex code writing, autonomous agent task scheduling, and deep knowledge work, with significant improvements in reasoning efficiency and task automation capabilities. Starting today, users can log in to the B.AI platform and directly call Grok 4.5 through the selected service provider model. The platform also introduces a 40% exclusive discount, allowing developers and enterprise users to easily access the top-notch reasoning and automation capabilities of Grok 4.5 at a lower threshold and higher cost-effectiveness, injecting new possibilities into complex business scenarios.

As of July 7 to 8, 2026, the Coinbase Bitcoin Premium Index has been negative for 50 consecutive days, setting a record for the longest negative period since the index has been recorded. The latest reading is approximately -0.0742%, indicating that the price of Bitcoin on the U.S. trading platform Coinbase is lower than that on Binance. This index compares the Bitcoin prices between Coinbase and Binance. A negative reading typically corresponds to weaker buyer demand in the U.S. compared to broader international market demand; this round of negative values began on May 19, 2026, surpassing the previous record of 40 consecutive days of negative values.As of early July 2026, the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF has seen a net outflow of about $6 billion this year. In late June, the U.S. spot Bitcoin ETF experienced outflows of over $2.6 billion within 9 trading days, followed by a total inflow of $282 million for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs.

Binance Futures will launch a trading fee discount event for U (United Stables) perpetual contracts on July 2, 2026, at 18:00. The first contracts to go live will be BTCU and ETHU. During the event, all users from ordinary users to VIP 9 users can enjoy zero maker fees when trading any U (United Stables) perpetual contracts. Ordinary users to VIP 3 users can enjoy a 20% taker fee discount, while VIP 4 to VIP 9 users can enjoy a 50% taker fee discount.

Jiang Zhuoer posted on platform X, stating that ETFs continue to show a selling state, and multiple institutional products are experiencing simultaneous reductions; the market price on Coinbase has shown a significant discount, with levels having fallen back to the range before the major adjustments at the end of January and the end of May; the funding rate remains positive, while contract positions are at a high level, indicating concentrated leveraged positions. Jiang Zhuoer added, "Everything points to: something big is coming."

According to Cointelegraph, MidChains CEO Basil Al Askari stated that sovereign wealth funds are accumulating spot Bitcoin, indicating that the current price levels are attractive to institutional investors. Al Askari confirmed that at least one sovereign wealth fund has been accumulating Bitcoin, and a second one may join in the coming weeks. Global sovereign wealth funds control over $13 trillion in assets, and Al Askari mentioned that the current low price is seen as "an opportunity window for large funds to enter."

Aave founder Stani Kulechov responded to reports regarding Kraken's parent company Payward's intention to acquire a 15% stake in the Aave protocol, stating that AAVE "cannot be sold at a 70% discount." Previously, CoinDesk reported that Payward was negotiating to acquire a 15% stake in Aave at a valuation of $385 million. Based on this valuation, it would only correspond to about 30% of the fully diluted valuation of AAVE tokens, which is significantly lower than the market valuation.Kulechov stated on X that the reports were not accurate. He did not completely deny that Aave Labs might sell some of its held AAVE tokens, but he mentioned that Aave Labs does indeed hold a certain amount of AAVE and that several market participants have discussed purchasing through direct or indirect means or engaging in deeper cooperation around long-term partnerships. Aave is the largest decentralized lending protocol in the Ethereum ecosystem. Kulechov stated that Aave currently has an annual revenue of approximately $134 million, with the related revenue flowing to Aave DAO. He had previously proposed a governance plan to redirect Aave Labs, protocol, and product revenues to Aave DAO and token holders.At the time of this rumor, Aave was experiencing some pressure. After the Kelp DAO incident in April, Aave's TVL significantly declined. Although Aave itself was not directly attacked, the KelpDAO cross-chain bridge attackers had used Aave to convert the stolen rsETH into other assets.

The B.AI platform's "custom service provider" model matrix has officially expanded, with the latest integrations of mainstream large models such as Moonshot (Kimi series) and Z.ai (GLM series).This module covers four major discount groups: 10% off, 40% off, 60% off, and 80% off. Users can generate a personalized "discount model invocation Key" with a single click, allowing for flexible switching between core business and daily testing, achieving a precise balance of high availability and low cost.In addition, all discounts can be stacked with a maximum 1:1 recharge bonus, further lowering the computational power threshold. Starting today, log in to the B.AI console to customize your exclusive model combination and immediately enter the era of AI invocation with exceptional cost performance.

According to an analysis of the latest leaked data by WIRED, the secretive society Dialog, co-founded by Peter Thiel, has an extremely ruthless and biased "grading and elimination" mechanism.Dialog implements a secret rule of "rating upon entry." Although the club has thousands of members, only 192 personal profiles (including 130 formal members and some candidates) were leaked and reviewed by WIRED. They reveal the club's counterintuitive hierarchy of disdain: C-level is the highest VIP, B-level is the overwhelming majority of ordinary members, while the A-level, usually regarded as the best, is actually the least known bottom tier.This rating is directly tied to members' wallets. Only about 25% of VIP "C" level big shots are required to pay the full attendance fee, while among the bottom "A" level members, the proportion paying the full attendance fee of tens of thousands of dollars is as high as 70%.Ironically, the AI screening mechanism introduced by Dialog is extremely superstitious about so-called "national recognition." For example, actor Josh Brolin, who played "Thanos," has never attended but wins VIP "C" level status due to box office success and millions of fans; meanwhile, academic giant Tyler Cowen was deemed "not famous enough among ordinary people" by the AI and nearly classified into the ordinary tier, only barely promoted to C-level through human intervention.The "value-added points" serve as a scythe for eliminating "useless people," specifically measuring members' resource connections and intellectual contributions to other club giants. After each gathering, staff review members' performances like "code review," and those with too low value-added points, cultural mismatches, or declining visibility will be ruthlessly removed from the invitation list.Additionally, the leaked database also exposed its built-in social and dating matching system (10% of members join the singles pool), which has a "no-match list" while recommending pairings.This so-called objective assessment system is also filled with biases: women make up one-third of the members but only receive 18% of VIP seats; politically, it is even harder to escape differential treatment. Although more than half of the members identify as "left-leaning," the probability of "right-leaning" members obtaining VIP status is more than twice that of left-leaning members, and even the "left-leaning" label of an environmental leader was forcibly rewritten to "right-leaning" by staff in the background.

Analyst Maartunn cited CryptoQuant data indicating that the current premium in the Bitcoin fund market has reached -5.9%, the lowest level in two years. This means that Bitcoin ETFs like IBIT and GBTC are currently trading at a discount of 5.9% relative to their net asset value (NAV). This suggests that the market demand for exposure to these funds has significantly weakened compared to the value of their underlying holdings.

Australia is considering significant reforms to its Capital Gains Tax (CGT) system, planning to replace the current 50% tax discount policy for long-term held assets with an "inflation-indexed" mechanism, covering investment categories such as cryptocurrencies and stocks. The current system allows individuals to be taxed only on 50% of the capital gains if they hold the asset for more than a year, a policy that has been in place since 1999.If the reform is implemented, investors will calculate their gains based on inflation-adjusted cost bases, which may lead to an increase in actual tax burdens during periods of rapid asset price increases. According to the proposal's logic, the new mechanism will only tax "real gains" (the portion after excluding the effects of inflation), but in a low-inflation environment, the indexed deduction may be lower than the current 50% discount, resulting in increased tax burdens for most investors. The impact on cryptocurrency investors is particularly pronounced.The current "hold to reduce tax" mechanism reinforces long-term holding (HODL) strategies, while the new proposal will weaken the advantage of time holding, significantly increasing the tax burden on unrealized gains during periods of high appreciation. The proposal is still in the discussion stage and is expected to face strong opposition from investor groups and the financial industry, with the focus of the controversy centered on the balance between capital formation efficiency and tax system fairness.

According to market news, American Bitcoin Company (NASDAQ: ABTC) disclosed in its latest quarterly report that the company purchased approximately 11,298 S21 XP ASIC miners (with a computing power of about 3.05 EH/s) from Bitmain for $49,400,000 this year, of which 80% of the payment was made by pledging 314 BTC.Based on this calculation, the valuation of the pledged Bitcoin agreement is approximately $125,900 per coin, while the average market price of BTC at that time was less than $70,000, resulting in a discount of about 44%. According to the agreement, Bitmain cannot forcibly liquidate the pledged BTC during the approximately 24-month redemption period. If the BTC price at maturity is higher than the agreement valuation, ABTC can choose to repay in cash and reclaim the BTC, locking in the appreciation gains; if it is lower than the agreement valuation, ABTC can forgo redemption and leave the BTC to Bitmain. This structure essentially grants ABTC a long-term Bitcoin call option.As of March 31, 2026, ABTC has cumulatively pledged 3,090 BTC to Bitmain, with a fair value of approximately $210,800,000, corresponding to a mining equipment purchase liability of about $364,300,000.

According to the official announcement, to further enhance market liquidity and user trading experience, Bitget has launched exclusive fee rate discounts for contract market makers, covering stock, precious metals, commodities, and index contract currency pairs. The Taker fee rate for the above currency pairs has been uniformly adjusted to 0.0065%, and the event will end on June 30. For more details, please refer to the Bitget official platform.