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According to Odaily, Kraken launched dollar-settled BTC and ETH options on Kraken Pro today, initially available through request-for-quote (RFQ) trading, with European markets coming later. The exchange plans to expand the offering through order books, broader geographic coverage, and additional assets.

According to PPP prediction market tool, DK's probability of defeating KC in the League of Legends EWC final on July 19 stands at 68%. The BO5 match will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the winner claiming the EWC championship title.

According to HyperliquidNews monitoring, CoinMarketMan Hypertracker has added a perpetual contract page for CXMT (Changxin Memory Technologies), displaying the associated address 0x9a80...3CF2.

David Sacks, chair of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, recently criticized OpenAI strategist Dean W. Ball for suggesting the U.S. government deliberately create regulatory uncertainty to discourage adoption of models like Kimi K3 from Moon-focused competitors. Sacks stated: "Weaponizing regulatory uncertainty as a competitive tool is completely unacceptable. Regulatory decisions must be grounded in facts, logic, and evidence, not designed to create fear and unc

According to Peru's National Institute of Civil Defense (Indeci), a 5.1-magnitude earthquake struck the Junin region in central Peru on Saturday, killing 4 people and injuring 20 others.

According to Iran, recent U.S. strikes have killed over 50 people and wounded 517, the country said in a statement.

According to recent remarks, U.S. Energy Secretary Wright stated that the United States will ensure oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz regardless of Iranian assistance. The seven-day rolling average of oil flow through the strategic waterway currently stands below 7 million barrels per day.

According to PANews, event prediction platform Kalshi added 3 million users during the World Cup period as of July 19.

According to Hyperliquid News, a whale wallet has closed the majority of its $3.8 million short position in SOLANA (solana:5u8PrRBuWvVLEJrjNRNSinhH3Rsxmtx1hjUynTZP pump), realizing profits of $197,800. The wallet has reduced its remaining short position to approximately $300,000 (44,168 tokens). Meanwhile, the wallet has deposited $30 million to HyperCore and currently holds a $3.25 million long position with an unrealized loss of $123,000.

According to the Korea Exchange and Koscom Check, foreign investors net-sold 12.1 trillion won on the KOSPI and 338.1 billion won on the KOSDAQ during July 1-16. Meanwhile, they net-bought approximately 600 billion won of exchange-traded funds during the same period.

According to Beating, a third-party Claude Code Skill named i-have-adhd is gaining traction in the developer community with 10 rules designed to make Claude responses more direct and actionable. The rules include: (1) provide action on the first line, (2) use numbering for multi-step tasks, (3) state current progress each round, (4) give specific times and quantities, (5) limit lists to 5 items maximum, (6) retain only necessary information, (7) suppress tangents proactively, (8) clearly state n

According to Trump's financial disclosures filed with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, the president earned over $1.4 billion from crypto projects last year, including World Liberty Financial and Trump meme coin. Reuters analysis of his holdings over the past two years shows that as crypto-generated funds flowed in, his stock and bond investment portfolio at least tripled in size, reaching $703 million to $2.6 billion by end-2025, compared with $225 million to $608 million at end-2024.

According to the Korea Exchange, single-stock leveraged ETFs posted a 130% average daily turnover on July 19, significantly exceeding the overall ETF market average. Some products experienced up to 25 trading hand-offs in a single day, with analysts noting that such frequent ultra-short-term trading is amplifying market volatility. Sixteen leveraged and inverse-leveraged products tracking Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are currently listed.

U.S. federal regulators missed yesterday's (July 18) statutory deadline for completing rulemaking on the GENIUS Act's federal stablecoin framework, leaving multiple core rule packages unfinished less than six months before the law's scheduled Jan. 18, 2027 effective date. The Treasury Department, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration, Federal Reserve, and FinCEN still have pending proposals covering licensing, reser

According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the agency is investigating reports of an overnight strike on a construction site for a planned nuclear power plant in Darkhovin, Iran.

According to Jordan's state television, the country's armed forces downed three Iranian missiles directed at Jordan.

According to JP Morgan Chase, on July 15, Circle and Coinbase face profitability pressure amid intensifying stablecoin revenue competition, particularly following their recent contracts with HyperLiquid. JP Morgan assessed that both companies are confronted with a 'Prisoner's Dilemma' scenario. Coinbase currently holds reserves of USDC (the world's second-largest stablecoin), with revenue from reserve management becoming increasingly competitive.

According to Reuters and the Wall Street Journal, Stripe and Advent International proposed jointly acquiring PayPal for approximately $53 billion on July 15. The bidders offered $60.50 per share, representing a roughly 30% premium over the stock's previous week closing price.

According to Israel's Channel 12, U.S. forces intercepted an Iranian missile launched toward Aqaba, Jordan, today.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Moonshot AI's launch of low-cost, high-performance model Kimi K3 has triggered 'DeepSeek-style shock' concerns on Wall Street, with AI chip stocks facing selling pressure. Morgan Stanley said the market may experience a similar disruption to the one triggered by DeepSeek in early 2025, with low-cost, high-performance AI models potentially challenging U.S. leaders like OpenAI and Anthropic while undermining demand for the large-scale compute infrastructure su