A trader on Polymarket earned about $233,000 over two nights by exploiting the way trading bots operate.

A user with the nickname a4385 was buying “UP” positions on short-term markets despite the asset’s falling price, which attracted algorithmic counterparties confident in an arbitrage opportunity.

Shortly before expiration, he briefly influenced the asset’s spot price via the futures market (on Binance using extremely high leverage), which was enough to achieve the desired outcome — as a result, the bots didn’t have time to adjust their positions and incurred significant losses.

The number of Solana validators has decreased by 68% due to rising node maintenance costs, which forced smaller operators to exit.

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Bloomberg Analyst: $434 million was outflowed from Bitcoin ETFs yesterday, $175 million of which was from $IBIT. Year-to-date, net outflows have been -$2.2 billion, bringing the total since the crash to around $8 billion. However, over 90% of assets under management are holding strong, having weathered what feels like a Category 5 hurricane.

Bitcoin's latest recovery lacks sufficient momentum, as open interest in perpetual futures remains 51% below its October peak, indicating a significant decline in trader confidence and leverage levels.

🧑‍💻 Above is a list of the top crypto projects on the BSC and Binance Chain platforms based on development activity. The directional indicators show the increase or decrease in each project's ranking compared to the previous month.

Tether is creating a global map of USDT merchants — if you accept USDT payments, you can add your location to the map.

Starcloud, a company backed by Nvidia, plans to begin mining BTC directly in orbit after launching a new satellite this year.

The project involves placing miners in satellite data centers powered by solar energy — if the experiment proves successful, space-based mining could become a new industry.

Trading activity in TradFi perpetual futures on Binance is growing rapidly — trading volume has already exceeded $153 billion just a couple of months after launch, and the number of trades has reached tens of millions.

The main interest is concentrated in gold and silver, which account for the lion’s share of volume and show multi-billion daily turnover: peak activity exceeds 6 million trades per day.

This shows how crypto exchanges are becoming global platforms that combine crypto and traditional markets in a 24/7 format.

The difference between large and retail investors in Bitcoin indicates that large players are increasing their short positions, while retail investors continue to build long positions.

Gold and stock futures on Binance surpass most cryptocurrencies in trading volume

Recently launched gold and silver futures on the largest crypto exchange Binance have ranked in the top five by trading volume among all instruments on the platform, trailing only perpetuals on BTC, ETH, and SOL.

Crypto futures on stocks of Tesla, Circle, Strategy, Coinbase, and Robinhood are also starting to gain traction on Binance, outpacing many crypto assets.

On the first full trading day following their launch, oil futures on Binance — CLUSDT (WTI crude oil) and BZUSDT (Brent crude oil) — also showed high volumes, ranking third and fourth among products in the traditional asset sector. These can be traded on the exchange with leverage up to 100x.

Hyperliquid recorded a record daily trading volume of $5.4 billion — driven by a surge of interest in commodities such as oil, gold, and silver.

The platform has effectively found a niche at the intersection of crypto and macro trading, where users активно trade derivatives against the backdrop of global news.

Back in 2010, Satoshi explained that if Bitcoin's existing cryptographic protection ever became vulnerable, the network could be migrated to a new algorithm in advance.

In other words, he didn't build a ready-made "quantum shield," but he did design Bitcoin with the ability to upgrade its cryptography long before today's concerns about quantum computing emerged.

The market capitalization of native CEX exchange tokens (OKB, KCS, CRO, and others) has fallen 42% from its all-time high, dropping from $182.4 billion to $105 billion.

Since the beginning of 2026 alone, the sector has lost around 31% amid weak market conditions and declining trading activity.

On-Chain Mind: Currently, the production cost of one Bitcoin is approximately $76k.
The spot price sits around $65k, meaning the average miner's profitability is -13%.
In every previous cycle, periods when the price traded below production cost ended up being exceptional accumulation zones rather than the start of a 'death spiral'.

In mid-July, the sentiment of traders trading Bitcoin options became noticeably more optimistic. 📈

The ratio of open positions for put and call options remained stable at around 0.65 throughout June, and then, starting July 15, dropped to approximately 0.53 — right at the moment when the likelihood of the CLARITY Act being passed began to rise again. 📉📜