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I’ve had some new thoughts lately about farming points on testnets. At first, I was just treating it as practice—clicking buttons, checking out the process, and not expecting anything. But after seeing others show off their points and anticipated airdrops, I couldn’t help checking mine every day too, as if I’d be losing out if I didn’t. I felt completely tethered to that expectation, and it was actually exhausting.
Later, I managed to talk myself down: it’s practice anyway, and I’ve already gained something by learning. Once I lowered my expectations, I felt much more relaxed, and my mindset r
The more I’ve been looking at blockchain game economic models lately, the more I feel that inflation is truly brutal. A pool starts out with high yields to attract people in, and everyone is happy, but the more it produces, the faster the price gets diluted. Those who come in later aren’t really joining a game—they’re taking on the empty cycle left behind by those who came before. Once people realize there’s no hope of breaking even, the community atmosphere changes: they start blaming each other, then quietly leave. To be honest, a pool isn’t brought down by one particular crash; it’s slowly
If a protocol clears stress tests, it distributes dividends—this story, when applied to a DeFi protocol, would probably get slammed as centralized, but the market just eats this stuff.
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Coin World News: After passing the 2026 stress test, Goldman Sachs announced that it would increase its quarterly common stock dividend from $4.50 to $5.00, an 11% increase, compared with a 25% rise last year. The decision was made following the Federal Reserve’s Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR), indicating that Goldman Sachs maintains strong capital adequacy under a range of economic scenarios. The bank’s stress capital buffer will remain at 3.4% until September 2027. The bank’s dividend has doubled over the past four years and has been increased for 15 consecutive years.
ChangXin’s pricing is 8.66— the Sci-Tech Innovation Board is about to get lively again; remember to set a reminder for July 2026.
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Queshi.com news: Changxin Technology has announced that its Science and Technology Innovation Board (STAR Market) IPO offering price is 8.66 yuan per share. Investors may place online and offline subscriptions on July 16, 2026. When placing a subscription, investors do not need to pay subscription funds. The offline subscription period is from 9:30 to 15:00, and the online subscription periods are from 9:30 to 11:30 and from 13:00 to 15:00. The initial number of shares to be issued this time is 668,808.8608 ten thousand shares, accounting for approximately 10.00% of the total share capital after issuance, and it grants CICC with an over-allotment option of no more than 15.00% of the initial issued shares.
Fully offline on August 3rd – API users, remember to check the migration notice. Another long-standing tool bows out, with the team also looking for a new home. Just part of the industry cycle.
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CoinWorld news, Wu learned that on-chain portfolio management platform Zapper has announced it will orderly cease operations, planning to shut down all services including its website, mobile app, and API on August 3. Existing API users will receive migration notifications. Co-founder and CEO Seb Audet stated that the company made this decision after evaluating multiple options including continuing operations, and that Zapper failed to achieve its initial goal of driving DeFi adoption. The team is currently assisting members in finding new job opportunities.
German factory orders rebounded, driven by the Middle East détente and arms upgrade, but large-scale order disruptions remain. Whether the trend can stabilize depends on geopolitical negotiations.
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Coin World News, with the impact of the Middle East conflict on Europe's largest economy beginning to fade, German factory orders rebounded, releasing a positive signal. Demand in May rose by 1.9% month on month, with the previous figure revised to a decline of 3.2%. This result was higher than the market expectation of a 1.1% increase. The growth came mainly from orders for transport equipment, including military ones, which may reflect Germany's upgrading of its armed forces. The German Federal Statistical Office said that excluding large-scale orders, the increase was 1%. The less volatile three-month rolling data showed a decline of 0.2%. The German Ministry of Economy said in an email statement: "New orders in the manufacturing sector seem to be returning to the upward trend since the second half of last year. However, affected by large-scale orders, this trend remains highly volatile. In addition, geopolitical uncertainty will remain elevated until the US-Iran peace negotiations are finally concluded."
Recently, I sorted out my positions again and realized that I am particularly prone to "fake busyness" in a high-interest-rate environment—doing tasks, accumulating points, and anti-sybil checks, a whole routine that is more tiring than going to work, but when it comes to profit expectations, I am not confident.
Simply put, the current risk appetite is like a tightened faucet—the macro side hasn't loosened up, and no matter how lively the on-chain side is, it's just a small splash. I shifted part of my position to a "backup" mindset: not pursuing the optimal solution, leaving some redundancy,
ARK's moves are so familiar—buy the dip, confirmed hardcore Elon Musk fan.
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Cathie Wood: Ark Invest buys nearly $38.1 million worth of Tesla stock
After Tesla experienced its largest single-day drop, Ark Invest purchased approximately 96.9k shares of Tesla on July 2 through three ETFs, with a total value of about $38.14 million. Among them, ARKK added 69,723 shares (approximately $27.44 million), ARKW bought about $6.91 million, and ARKX about $3.8 million. This comes after disclosing a $32.5 million investment in SpaceX, further increasing exposure to Musk-led companies.
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CoinWorld News: A drone strike hit an Iranian Kurdish opposition camp north of Erbil, Iraq, and security sources revealed that the risk of regional conflict spillover warrants continued attention.
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CoinWorld News, according to security sources, a drone attack struck a camp of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group north of Erbil, Iraq.
ARK’s research director put it pretty plainly: getting 500 rival competitors to come together to handle governance is bad enough to make your head hurt, and liquidity cold-start is even more of a fatal point.
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Lorenzo Valente Comments on OpenUSD: Consortium Model Struggles to Shake the Dominance of USDC and USDT
Wu Says has learned that Lorenzo Valente, ARK Invest’s research director, is skeptical about the recently launched stablecoin alliance “OpenUSD,” believing that this kind of consortium model is difficult to scale and unlikely to shake USDC and USDT’s market dominance. Valente noted that such projects face the problem of liquidity cold-start and lack trading pairings with the existing mainstream crypto market; its internal governance structure is also questionable, and the decision-making efficiency of an alliance made up of 500 competitors is low, and
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Machi’s ETH long position is probably about to get liquidated this round, right? Going from over 100 million to a million, the money earned from NFTs has all been given back.
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Coin World News, Machi Huang Licheng reduced his long position on ETH by 310.00 coins, worth approximately $539,245.00.
Current position size is $1,869,960.00, with an average price between $1,578.53 and $1,578.66, current P&L is -$24,434.69 (-32.67%), current coin price is $1,558.30, liquidation price is $1,553.19.
This trader previously profited from blue-chip NFTs, but since October has suffered massive drawdowns, with funds shrinking from over a hundred million to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Gitcoin subdomain has been infected with malware. Eleven Drainer and these people are everywhere—everyone, please don’t click that “files” link.
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Wu learned that security company Blockaid stated their detection engine identified a front-end attack affecting the Gitcoin subdomain files.gitcoin.co. The site was detected to contain Eleven Drainer wallet theft code. Blockaid recommends users not to interact with the site at this time and said the issue is under investigation and being fixed. Blockaid has marked files.gitcoin.co as a malicious website and warned that it contains known malicious code embedded within.
Angela Ang takes up her new post, and Singapore’s position as the Asia-Pacific compliance hub is further strengthened.
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CryptoWorld News reports that Bitgo has announced the appointment of Angela Ang as President of Asia-Pacific and President of Bitgo Singapore. The digital asset infrastructure company stated that before taking on this role, Ang had already met all regulatory and suitability requirements. She will be responsible for driving business growth, market development, and operational infrastructure in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on expanding institutional access to compliant digital asset services, including custody, wallets, trading, financing, settlement, staking, and stablecoin infrastructure. This appointment reflects Bitgo’s ongoing investment in Singapore and the broader region.
This guy hasn't moved in 8 years, and now he's stepping in to confront Trump.
The current unrealized loss has narrowed, but the average price is 76,000, with a liquidation line at 26,000.
Is he really going to hold on stubbornly to the end?
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Crypto World News reports that the long position unrealized losses of the BTC OG insider whale have narrowed from $19.03M (-122.73%) to $16.99M (-106.79%).
The whale's average price is $76,117.30, the current price of Bitcoin is $62,720.95, the liquidation price is $26,190.46, and the position size is $79,551,231.38.
This address once held over 50k BTC, and after being dormant for 8 years, it gradually swapped some BTC for ETH.
Its operations are highly synchronized with Trump’s statements and US policy trends.
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Recently, I’ve seen people staring at whale addresses and wanting to follow the trades. I’m also tempted—but honestly, the first thing is to figure out whether they’re building a position or hedging. Sometimes they buy spot while also opening short positions at the same time; it could just be to lock in volatility. If we follow and rush in, then we end up taking on the risk for others. Especially lately, with all the chatter about rate-cut expectations and the US Dollar Index, risk assets start rising and falling together again, and it’s really easy for emotions to get dragged along. Anyway, f
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Lately, I’ve been confused again by words like “data availability, ordering, finality,” but then I realized that just focusing on one main thread is enough: whether the thing you send out can actually be seen by others, whether it will be front-run, and ultimately whether it truly lands. Basically, it’s “visible → included → unchangeable.”
In the past two days, the community has been arguing about privacy coins, mixing coins, and compliance boundaries. I’m a bit exhausted… but after all the arguing, many people’s anxieties are actually the same: I want privacy, but I’m afraid of being cut off
BTC Pref——Packaging Bitcoin exposure with preferred stock; an annualized 10% yield sounds like DeFi returns, but it takes the compliant route of Nasdaq and the Nordics—interesting.
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CryptoWorld News reports that Treasury Capital ($BTC B) has announced the launch of Sweden’s first Bitcoin-backed preferred stock (BTC Pref), with an annual interest rate of 10%. The preferred stock is expected to begin trading on the Spotlight stock market on July 20, and the issuance is expected to raise $2.5 million to purchase more Bitcoin.
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