Gate Insights and Crypto Market Analysis

Cryptocurrency projects lost approximately $972 million across 207 hack incidents in the first half of 2026, the highest incident count ever recorded, according to Immunefi's June 2026 Ecosystem Update. Total losses remained below $1 billion and represented less than half of what the industry lost i

Dinari and tZERO announced a strategic partnership to create an operating framework for broker-dealers offering tokenized U.S. equities. The collaboration combines Dinari's tokenized equity issuance technology with tZERO's regulated brokerage, custody, clearing, settlement and shareholder

Ethereum is trading between a resistance zone near $1,826 and a major support area at $1,580. The asset failed to hold above $1,826 after a recent recovery attempt, according to chart analysis from Cryptorphic. Bulls need to reclaim $1,826 to strengthen the short-term setup, while losing $1,580 supp

Stripe subsidiary Privy partnered with Solana infrastructure firm Jito Labs on FullSend, a transaction certainty tool that ensures Privy wallet transactions are included in Solana blocks as fast as the network allows. Running in production since the beginning of the year, FullSend has

Stock lending balances for Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix surged during the one-month period from June 8 to July 7, according to data from the Korea Financial Investment Association and KOSCOM Check released on July 9. Samsung Electronics' lending balance increased by approximately 900 billion

Horizon Trading Solutions expanded its electronic trading platform to support market making on Kalshi, providing institutional clients native connectivity to the CFTC-regulated prediction market as professional participation in event contracts grows. The expansion reflects rapid

Bitcoin (BTC) is pulling back after facing rejection near the top of its 4-hour descending channel, putting key support zones into focus. According to analyst Ali Charts, if sellers maintain control, BTC could decline toward $59,700, with $56,550 as a deeper downside target. Separately, analyst

Gold-backed exchange-traded funds experienced outflows of 74.3 tonnes valued at nearly $9 billion in June, driven by hawkish Federal Reserve expectations that increased opportunity costs for holding gold, according to the World Gold

Google updated its Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies to prohibit extensions that facilitate real-money prediction market transactions, effective Aug. 1, 2026. The policy change comes as prediction market platforms face increasing legal and regulatory scrutiny in the United States over

Meta has announced plans to invest approximately $9.17 billion to build its first artificial intelligence data center in Canada, marking one of the country’s largest private sector technology investments. The new facility will be located in Sturgeon County, Alberta, as the company accelerates its g

The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission issued a circular requiring virtual asset trading platforms and internet brokerages to replace one-time password authentication with more robust security methods. The regulator cited phishing and spoofing attacks accounting for 57% of all security

AscendEX ceased all operations effective July 1, 2026, and informed users it cannot guarantee full recovery of their balances. The exchange published its official notice on July 6, citing a failed strategic transaction that was to provide liquidity, lack of authorization under the EU's Markets in

Paradigm raised a $1.2 billion fund to invest in what it calls the 'technical frontier,' expanding beyond crypto into AI and robotics. The crypto venture capital firm, founded in 2018 by Matt Huang and Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, has already deployed capital into drone-delivery firm Zipline,

The European Union is preparing to reopen its Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) rulebook, likely in 2027, to regulate non-EU stablecoin issuers, EU diplomats told Euronews. The push follows the U.S. GENIUS Act signed by President Trump and his promotion of dollar-backed stablecoins, which make

South Korea and Mongolia reached a principle agreement on the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) on the 9th day, following President Lee Jae-myung's state visit to Mongolia. The breakthrough ended a 17-month deadlock caused by disagreements over market opening levels. The agreement

SK Hynix, the second most valuable company in South Korea, is slated to begin trading on the Nasdaq on Friday under ticker symbol SKHY. The market debut comes as the chipmaker plans to raise around $29 billion by issuing American depositary receipts to fund new factories and equipment. The

U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Michael Selig warned regulators will end up 'writing all the rules' for digital assets if Congress fails to pass the Clarity Act, as the Senate's legislative window narrows ahead of the August recess following a missed July 4 target. Selig urged

South Korean semiconductor stocks face uncertainty as US Big Tech companies' debt-driven AI infrastructure investments spark peak-out concerns ahead of Q2 earnings announcements starting end of this month. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle raised a combined $296 billion this year — five times

Momentum stocks in the US market have shifted from being one of the best-performing market trends over the past 12 months to one of the worst-performing factors since July. The iShares momentum ETF (MTUM) gained roughly 33% over the 12 months preceding July, outperforming the S&P 500's 20% gain,

Bloom Energy Corp. (BE) stocks jumped nearly 3% in the premarket session on Thursday as retail investors dismissed a short-seller report from Hunterbrook Capital released on Wednesday. Hunterbrook accused Bloom Energy of concealing its reliance on Chinese suppliers for scandium, a key material in it