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As Wall Street and global financial institutions accelerate their entry into the digital asset space, the boundaries between traditional finance (TradFi) and decentralized finance (DeFi) are gradually blurring. Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley stated, "The era of 'long Bitcoin, short bankers' is over," as financial institutions are turning to the other side of the crypto industry, promoting the adoption of digital assets.Hunter Horsley mentioned that this summer, two financial institutions managing over $1 trillion in assets approved the launch of crypto products in a bear market environment, indicating that large institutions are expanding channels for clients to access digital assets. "This year, everyone is wearing the crypto industry's jersey. Now, everyone is working for the crypto industry," Horsley said. He pointed out that these financial institutions, which manage over a trillion dollars in client assets, would not have opened related services during the downturn of the crypto market in 2022, but now they are actively embracing this field.Sygnum Chief Investment Officer Fabian Dori also believes that the relationship between banks and the crypto industry has undergone a structural change. "The past trading of 'long Bitcoin, short bankers' is over; banks have shifted from resisting digital assets to building, supporting, and distributing digital assets through custody, tokenization, and compliant trading." This change is primarily driven by increased customer demand and gradually clarified regulatory rules, rather than short-term market cycle changes.Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley stated that over the past two years, its client base increasingly reflects the trend of integration between traditional finance and crypto finance. Large financial institutions typically choose to collaborate with specialized crypto infrastructure companies rather than building their own technology systems. In recent years, more and more financial institutions have entered the crypto space, including Swissquote, DBS, BBVA, BNY Mellon, Credit Suisse-related institutions, as well as Morgan Stanley and Charles Schwab.

According to Crypto.news, Cardano governance company Intersect has updated its roadmap, dividing the Dijkstra upgrade into two phases: the first phase is set to launch in Q4 2026, which includes the Linear Leios scaling solution, nested transactions, new serialization structures, and PlutusV4 changes; the second phase will activate the Ouroboros Peras consensus protocol through a separate hard fork, with a target date in Q2 2027.Linear Leios introduces a backing block mechanism, where additional transactions are certified by the stake committee to enhance throughput while maintaining the existing Praos security model. Additionally, Cardano plans to submit an amendment to add Dijkstra-related parameters by September 11. The Rust node client Amaru has already acquired relay and chain synchronization capabilities, with a mainnet block production target set for November 2026. Intersect emphasizes that the above timelines are estimates and not commitments, and governance and community testing may lead to delays in activation.

According to monitoring by Catcher Predict, in the event "Counter-Strike: The Mongolz vs paiN - Esports World Cup Group D" on the prediction market Polymarket, the "Total Rounds on Map 1: Over/Under 21.5" sub-market's "Over" option's win rate has experienced significant fluctuations, soaring from 49.5% an hour ago to the current 65.5% (a fluctuation of 16%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

"White-haired stock god" Serenity stated that AI investment may be simpler than the market imagines, as Nvidia and its CEO Jensen Huang have actually been releasing signals of future industry trends in advance, but the market often chooses to ignore these trends before they truly explode. Serenity noted that when Nvidia heavily locked in EML (Electrically Modulated Laser) and laser production capacity in 2025, the market questioned the photonics sector, believing that related companies had issues with speculation or even management. However, a year later, the stock prices of related optical communication companies surged significantly. Among them, LITE rose by 678%, and AAOI rose by 475.12%.Serenity believes that the market is currently repeating a similar pattern. In 2026, Nvidia locked in continuous wave (CW) laser and EML production capacity through long-term agreements, while clearly promoting the transition to an 800V power architecture and repeatedly emphasizing that co-packaged optics (CPO) and "Physical AI" will become important trends in the next phase. The market may once again underestimate the industry signals released by Nvidia, but Nvidia and Jensen Huang's judgments often serve as leading indicators of AI industry trends.

MicroStrategy Executive Chairman Michael Saylor stated that Bitcoin will become the largest asset in the world within the next 48 months. This prediction implies that Bitcoin's market value is expected to surpass gold and all major asset classes.Saylor has long advocated for the value of Bitcoin as a reserve asset and continues to push for companies to increase their Bitcoin holdings. His remarks have once again sparked market attention on Bitcoin's long-term positioning and the pace of asset revaluation.

According to three informed sources, in mid-May, when U.S. negotiators attempted to reach an agreement to end the war with Iran, they encountered a problem: they could not determine whether the Iranian representatives across the negotiating table truly represented the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which holds significant influence in the country. The report stated that, as a result, officials from the Trump administration took an unusual approach—bypassing the Iranian negotiating representatives and directly contacting senior leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.The U.S. chose Nechirvan Barzani, the President of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to handle this secret communication channel. He possesses a rare advantage: he has gained the trust of both the U.S. and the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. This incident highlights that one of the significant reasons for the difficulties in U.S.-Iran negotiations is Washington's inability to determine who truly holds decision-making power in Iran. The U.S. and Iran did eventually reach a memorandum of understanding, but it quickly fell apart.

Matthew Sigel, the Head of Digital Asset Research at VanEck, stated that if the U.S. CLARITY Act is passed, it will trigger "an enormous relief rally" in L1 tokens.Sigel's remarks focus on the potential impact of regulatory progress on native assets of public chains. The CLARITY Act aims to provide a clearer regulatory framework for digital assets, and the market generally views it as one of the important legislative variables affecting the risk appetite for crypto assets.

The CEO of the World Gold Council recently stated that he personally believes Bitcoin will ultimately "go to zero," saying, "My personal view on Bitcoin is that it will go to zero." In response, Binance co-founder CZ posted that many people have made incorrect judgments about cryptocurrencies in the past, but understanding this field takes time, and he stated, "I also can't be 100% sure that I'm right, after all, we are all human."Analysis suggests that the view of Bitcoin "going to zero" has long existed in recent years, with critics mainly arguing that it lacks the cash flow support of traditional assets and has excessive price volatility; while supporters believe that Bitcoin possesses decentralization, scarcity, and digital value storage attributes, and may become part of the global financial system in the future.

According to Arkham data, around 16:15 today, CZ's public donation address saw three consecutive token burn actions, specifically 4,444 Meme tokens "Bull Coming" (with a contract address starting with 0xD043B6, which is a market-hyped token with the same name starting with 0xbee), 4,444 Meme coins MarsCoin, and 4,444 "Binance Life".Upon verification of the three burn actions, the 4,444 Meme tokens "Bull Coming" were not actively burned by CZ. The initiator of the transaction was the token creator himself (0xcf86..383), who deployed the contract and set up privileged authorization to mint 1 billion tokens for his own address. Subsequently, he actively transferred about 800 million tokens to CZ's address and used transferFrom to forcibly transfer 4,444 tokens from CZ's address to a black hole address, simulating a burn by CZ. During this period, the CZ address had no authorization for this token or the initiator.

According to GoPlus monitoring, a Bitcoin holder just securely transferred assets from a Coldcard MK4 hardware wallet to a centralized exchange, avoiding the risk of the hardware wallet itself being stolen. However, within less than 12 hours after the transfer was completed, their Google account was hacked. Due to enabling Google verification cloud synchronization, the exchange account was logged into, and approximately $750,000 worth of Bitcoin was emptied.GoPlus pointed out that such attacks typically do not rely on brute force but are achieved through social engineering phishing and weak password cracking. Common methods include: phishing pages inducing the input of Google passwords, malicious browser plugins or cracking software stealing cookies and passwords, weak password reuse being cracked, and password resets after recovery email or phone number takeover.

According to GMGN data, the meme coin "Behemoth" on the BSC chain briefly surpassed a market cap of 2.7 million USD, currently reported at 1.04 million USD, with a 24H increase of 8251%. Meme coin prices are highly volatile, and investors should participate with caution.Previously, a developer announced the completion of the first real on-chain 4-bit processor (CPU) on the BNB Chain, which consists of 2251 logic gates, including NAND gates and flip-flops, and has been verified cycle by cycle. Its performance specifications are comparable to the 1971 Intel 4004 processor. This on-chain CPU is named "Behemoth" and has successfully run Fibonacci sequence calculations: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13. Due to the processor's operating rhythm being synchronized with the BNB Chain's block generation, it executes a cycle every 0.45 seconds, with a current operating frequency of about 2.22Hz, referred to by the developer as "possibly the slowest CPU in the universe."The developer stated that in the future, a complete protocol will be made public, allowing anyone to create their own on-chain processors based on this protocol, and supporting inter-calls between processors to build more complex on-chain computing systems in a "building block" manner. Regarding this project, Binance co-founder CZ responded to inquiries about its practical application scenarios: "What is the use case?" which sparked community discussions.

CZ publicly updated the donation address a few minutes ago, destroying 4444 Meme tokens "Bull is Coming".

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the predicted market Polymarket for the event "Dota 2: Iron Wing vs. GamerLegion - The International Elimination Match," the sub-market "Ends During the Day" saw the "Yes" option's win rate fluctuate dramatically, soaring from 50% an hour ago to the current 90.5% (a fluctuation of 40.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

El Salvador has added a total of 8 bitcoins in the past 7 days and 31 bitcoins in the past 30 days. Currently, its bitcoin holdings amount to 7,745.37 bitcoins, with a total value of 448 million USD.

Ethereum developer Toni Wahrstätter posted on the X platform that Ethereum core developers are planning the next annual upgrade "Hegotá," with 66 Ethereum Improvement Proposals (EIPs) currently on the candidate list. Future core developer meetings will screen these proposals to finalize the upgrade content that can be implemented, tested on the development network, deployed on the test network, and has the potential to go live in 2027. Proposals that do not make it into Hegotá will be postponed until the next hard fork, making the current screening process significantly impactful for Ethereum's future development direction.Currently, FOCIL (Fork-Choice Enforced Inclusion Lists) has been identified as one of the important upgrade contents for Hegotá. Developers believe that combining framework transactions (EIP-8141), keying Nonce (EIP-8250), and root references (EIP-8272) will help build native privacy capabilities, allowing privacy applications to operate without relying on third-party intermediaries. Additionally, enhancing scalability is also a crucial direction for Hegotá. Developers propose that it is necessary to prepare for a future increase in the Gas limit to 600 million by repricing data resources (EIP-8131, EIP-8279) and state growth costs (EIP-8368). Although these improvements are not as intuitive as privacy features, they are considered key work to promote Ethereum's scalability in the short term.Other candidate upgrades include shorter block times (EIP-8198), adjustments to the issuance mechanism (EIP-8363), anti-correlation penalty mechanisms (EIP-7716), EVM optimization and simplification, as well as discussions on the first EIPs related to zkEVM and quantum-resistant cryptography. It is reported that Hegotá cannot incorporate all the features the community expects, and the core team needs to make trade-offs between "future vision" and "near-term deliverable upgrades," with most candidate EIPs likely not making it into this upgrade. Currently, it has been 256 days since the launch of the current Glamsterdam upgrade, with the goal of completing deployment by the end of this year. Hegotá is planned to go live in 2027, and in the coming months, core developers and the community will discuss the priorities of various EIPs. Community opinions will still play a role in the screening process, and participants who support or oppose a certain EIP entering Hegotá can present their views to the core development team through public discussions.

Swissblock stated that the initial momentum launch of Bitcoin failed to form an effective breakthrough, and the momentum indicators have now returned to the "transition zone."If BTC can hold the range of $62,300 to $62,500, the current consolidation structure is still expected to be maintained.

Strategy founder Michael Saylor stated that Bitcoin has fallen 47% over the past year, while Strategy's digital credit tools have performed between a decline of 27% to an increase of 9% during the same period, with STRC increasing by 9%.Saylor mentioned that financial engineering can transform the highly volatile "digital capital" into financial instruments designed to provide returns, enhance stability, and reduce downside risk.

CryptoQuant analyst Darkfost stated that the BTC that has not moved for over 10 years (considered "lost" supply) has reached a new high of 3.56 million coins, accounting for approximately 17.7% of the circulating supply.He mentioned that while there are occasionally some long-dormant coins that become active again, overall, this portion of "lost" supply continues to increase. In the past 30 days, over 14,000 BTC have joined this long-dormant category. This trend will naturally reduce the actual circulating supply of Bitcoin.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino stated that Tether is currently neither building any blockchain nor has plans to build a blockchain. The company will continue to remain chain-neutral and support multiple blockchains as the transmission network for USDT.