🙁 Bloomberg: Crypto venture giants are shifting their focus toward AI and robotics.

➥ Paradigm, Framework Ventures, and Haun Ventures have already raised more than $2.6 billion for new funds investing not only in crypto, but also in AI, robotics, AI agents, and other emerging technologies.

➥ In Q1 2026, investment by crypto-focused funds reportedly fell by around 50%, while the number of new crypto venture funds dropped to its lowest level since Q3 2020.

➥ In Q2, around 70% of global venture funding for startups went to AI, while investor interest in crypto and memecoins continued to decline.

AI is absorbing capital. Crypto is losing momentum. The question is: temporary rotation or a structural shift?

🇰🇷 South Korea’s stock market surged 5%

➠ The KOSPI triggered a five-minute buy-side sidecar, temporarily halting the execution of program buy orders to slow the market’s sharp move.

➠ Chipmakers led the rally: Samsung Electronics gained more than 5%, while SK Hynix rose around 3–5%. The sector was also supported by a rally in U.S. semiconductor stocks.

➠ Another major catalyst was SK Hynix’s Nasdaq listing. The company reportedly raised $26.5 billion, marking the largest U.S. share offering by a foreign company in history, with demand roughly seven times greater than supply.

➠ Today’s surge represents a sharp rebound following a major sell-off. The KOSPI had previously fallen more than 20% from its June high, driven by weakness in Samsung and SK Hynix shares and concerns over overheating in the AI sector.

➠ Impact on crypto: The recovery in Korean equities supports broader risk appetite. South Korea is one of the world’s most active crypto markets, particularly for altcoins. When local retail investors take profits on stocks or close short positions, some of that capital can potentially rotate into crypto.

#HACK #INJ

⚠️ Hackers attempted to inject a backdoor into a popular Injective NPM package.

The compromised version was @/injectivelabs/sdk-ts 1.20.21 — an official toolkit used to build wallets, DEXs, DeFi applications, trading bots, and payment services on the Injective network. The main package receives around 50,000 downloads per week.

Attackers gained access to a developer account and distributed the malicious version through 17 additional Injective-related packages. At least 87 dependent packages were potentially exposed, with a combined total of more than 112,000 downloads.

The malicious code was disguised as technical telemetry and activated when a wallet was created or connected. It could intercept seed phrases and private keys and send them to an attacker-controlled server.

The compromised version remained available for less than an hour but was downloaded approximately 310 times during that period. Because the attack targeted developer tooling, the malicious code could potentially have reached wallets, exchanges, DeFi services, and other applications across the ecosystem.

🇺🇸🏦 #USDC Circle has received approval to establish a U.S. National Trust Bank.

⚔️🐻 Michael Saylor, CEO of Strategy and head of its Bitcoin strategy, versus the bears.

#SOL

🏴‍☠️ ZachXBT reported that an early Solana whale linked to the initial distribution of tokens in the Genesis block was allegedly hacked for 180.9K SOL ($14.2M).

According to the on-chain investigator, the suspicious activity began with an unscheduled unstaking of the funds, after which the assets were bridged from Solana to Ethereum.

Bitcoin has pulled back to the POI zone again ⌚️

We’ve been stuck in the same range all week, and honestly, it’s been pretty boring. Let’s see how the weekend closes — I’d rather wait for a breakout and trade the move once we finally get out of this range.

ETH

From a long perspective, ETH is looking stronger than Bitcoin here. After sweeping the lows, we can continue looking for opportunities based on the current market structure. 👀📈

#GRAM #TON

🇪🇺 Pavel Durov compared the EU to a “banana republic” following the adoption of the Chat Control law.

According to critics, Chat Control could allow authorities to scan users’ private messages, emails, and photos without a court warrant, under the pretext of combating illegal content.

HYPE - continuing to drop 🔥🔥

Locked in another 25% of the position and tightened the stop in entry! 🔥📉