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Bitget launches a $300 million "Archimedes Plan" to provide special funding support for quantitative and asset management institutions

Bitget announced the launch of the "Project Archimedes," establishing a special fund with a total scale of $300 million to provide capital support for quantitative trading firms, asset management institutions, and market makers. The plan includes two sub-projects: a $100 million "Capital Support Program," which focuses on supporting emerging and growth-oriented quantitative institutions that adopt market-neutral strategies; and a $200 million "Interest-Free Lending Program," aimed at institutions with mature strategies and a certain trading scale, which can obtain interest-free funds by meeting corresponding trading volume or position standards to reduce financing costs and expand strategy scale.Bitget CEO Gracy Chen stated that as competition in institutional trading intensifies, capital, execution efficiency, and risk control are becoming important factors in whether strategies can achieve scalability. The Archimedes plan aims to help capable teams expand their strategy scale through capital support, with expectations to support over 50 projects in the next six months. Meanwhile, relying on Bitget's Unified Trading Account (UTA), institutions can use rToken spot positions as collateral for derivatives, allowing them to maintain tokenized stock exposure and contract strategies simultaneously without cross-account transfers, further enhancing capital efficiency.The Archimedes plan will adopt a long-term cooperation framework, implementing rolling access and phased deployment, and will regularly disclose progress such as the number of participating institutions, capital deployment scale, and strategy distribution.

Holding 28,600 BTC, worth 1.8 billion USD, the wallet cluster is suspected to be linked to the Zhimin Qian money laundering case

According to on-chain detective Specter, it has discovered a cluster of wallets holding 28,600 BTC, worth approximately $1.8 billion, suspected to be related to wallets previously attributed to the money laundering case of Zhimin Qian.A few weeks ago, a Bitcoin wallet that had been dormant since 2017 transferred 1,020 BTC, worth about $60 million, and began distributing funds to multiple addresses in a manner consistent with money laundering activities. After tracking these transactions, Specter found that the related wallet cluster was connected to publicly associated addresses investigated in the UK concerning Zhimin Qian. From 2014 to 2017, Zhimin Qian organized large-scale investment fraud in China, affecting over 128,000 victims. UK authorities later traced a significant amount of criminal proceeds flowing into Bitcoin, with the Met Police ultimately seizing 60,000 BTC, marking the largest cryptocurrency seizure in UK history at that time.In July 2021, UK authorities transferred the seized BTC, creating identifiable on-chain associations. Following the recent transfer of 1,020 BTC, Specter identified additional wallets, which currently hold a total of 28,600 BTC, worth approximately $1.8 billion. These wallets have largely been dormant since June 2021. Based on on-chain evidence, it remains unclear whether these wallets are still controlled by the same actor, other custodians, or have been identified by law enforcement.

Key progress in the Qian Zhiming 60,000 Bitcoin case: Lantian Ge Rui enters through the litigation administrator, and the dispute over the applicability of Chinese and British law is in direct confrontation

According to Caixin, the case involving 60,000 bitcoins belonging to Qian Zhimin held a three-day hearing from July 7 to 9, 2026. Blue Sky Ge Rui Company officially joined the battle for bitcoin rights through the litigation administrator. The bitcoin dispute has transformed from a "two-party confrontation" into a "three-party competition": 1. The UK prosecution (DPP) claims that the assets should be recovered by the state; 2. The Chinese victims assert that they have property rights to the bitcoins that can be traced and have significantly appreciated in value; 3. The litigation administrator representing Blue Sky Ge Rui Company argues that the bitcoins are substitute assets formed after Qian Zhimin misappropriated company funds.It is reported that the estimated value of the bitcoins involved in the case is about 427,000 yuan each as of July this year, a 152-fold increase from the purchase price when Qian Zhimin acquired them in 2014 (2,815 yuan each). If the applicant can successfully assert their property rights to the relevant bitcoin assets, the amount they can recover will not be limited to the original investment loss but can also extend to the appreciation gains of the bitcoins. The litigation administrator representing Blue Sky Ge Rui Company believes that the bitcoins in question are essentially transformed from misappropriated company property, and the company has the right to trace them and assert property rights.Meanwhile, the Director of the UK Crown Prosecution Service (DPP) continues to insist that Chinese law should apply, while the leading law firm representing individual victims has proposed four complementary legal arguments to avoid the victims' claims being entirely dismissed due to any single legal pathway: 1. Bitcoin in the UK should be governed by UK law; 2. The investment contract is a scam, and upon cancellation, the rights revert to the victims; 3. The tracing mechanisms under POCA Sections 305 and 306 should also apply to the victims; 4. A "mixed structure" should break the binary choice between Chinese and UK law.
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