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Sellas Life Sciences, Moderna, and AbCellera Biologics ended Friday at 52-week highs, gaining 17%, 12%, and over 10% respectively. The biotech stocks advanced on distinct catalysts: Sellas neared completion of its Phase 3 AML trial with 78 of 80 required patient events recorded, Moderna presented

As of June 29, 2026, according to Gate market data, Bitcoin (BTC) continues to fluctuate below the psychological threshold of $60,000, with the trading range roughly between $59,000 and $60,000. Bitcoin's decline this year has exceeded 30%, halving from its all-time high of approximately $126,000 in October 2025. In the same time frame, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy, ticker MSTR) has significantly underperformed Bitcoin. MSTR is currently at $82.3, down 45.7% in the past month, and has fallen

Photon Matrix Lab, based in Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, raised $2.7 million on crowdfunding platform Indiegogo to develop a portable AI laser device called a "consumer-grade laser mosquito-killing system." The original fundraising target was only $20,000, ultimately exceeding it by over 130 times. Mass production was originally scheduled for early summer 2026 but has now been delayed to August, due to the need to complete sensor calibration and obtain Western consumer laser safety certif

US memory giant Micron briefly surpassed Meta and Tesla in intraday market cap on June 26, becoming Wall Street's hottest AI infrastructure concept stock; although it fell back to roughly match the two giants on the 27th, the "Next Nvidia" label has spread widely. Citigroup analyst Christopher Danely has raised Micron's target price to $200. Citigroup Analyst Danely Raises Micron Target Price to $200 Citigroup analyst Danely has raised Micron's target price to $200, noting that "AI demand has cr

The stablecoin sector contracted by $9.445 billion over a 51-day period since May 8, with $2.119 billion in outflows recorded in the past seven days alone, according to defillama.com statistics. The decline reflects capital actively flowing out of crypto markets, as stablecoin supply reductions

The DRAM index dropped about 6% in 4 hours on June 29, now at $70.68, caused by the spillover from South Korean memory sell-offs; the whale address 0x7b5 on the Hyperliquid platform opened a position at the beginning of the month, taking a $5.2 million long position with 20x leverage, with the liquidation line at $68, about $2.7 (approx. 3.8%) from the current price. Hyperliquid Platform DRAM Long/Short Positions and Liquidation Conditions (Source: Trading View) According to Hyperinsight monitor

AI-focused and infrastructure-related crypto projects are receiving increased attention during the latest market rotation. Ethereum remains a key benchmark as investors evaluate the strength of the broader altcoin market. TAO, QUBIC, ALGO, and NEAR are being monitored for adoption

Software stocks rebounded sharply on Friday, with ServiceNow, Inc. rising nearly 10% and extending gains in overnight trading, as investors took profits from red-hot chip stocks and weighed reports that OpenAI may delay its initial public offering. Workday gained 9.2% and Datadog rose 8.5%, while

According to Yonhap News citing the Korea Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure system, SK Hynix has reported plans to list approximately 17.79 million ADR shares (about 2.5% of total shares) on Nasdaq on July 10, expecting to raise about $30 billion (approximately 45 trillion KRW). According to Bloomberg, Kioxia CFO Yoshihiko Kawamura stated at the annual general meeting that the ADR plan is scheduled for April to June 2027. SK Hynix Nasdaq Listing of 17.79 Million ADR Shares, E

Microsoft Principal Researcher Adrian de Wynter, in an academic paper titled "If Large Language Models Were Human, Then Age of Empires 2 Would Be Too", used Age of Empires 2's scenario editor to construct a 1-bit perceptron using in-game goats, grass, and bridges. He argues that the underlying computational logic of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT is fundamentally the same as the game's goat trigger mechanism. --- The Technical Implementation of the Age of Empires 2 Neural Network: The

Robinhood Chief Broker Steven Quirk said the company's prediction market business has reached an annualized revenue of $500 million. According to data as of June 25 in Q2, Robinhood's active contract trading volume reached approximately 12.3 billion contracts, with Q2 prediction market revenue at least $123 million. Due to a decline in institutional trading volume, Q2 crypto revenue is expected to fall below Q1's $134 million. Quirk said prediction market annualized revenue reaches $500 million,

On June 29, Colosseum announced the results of the fifth Solana Frontier Hackathon, with the overall champion being CrowdBrain AI, a vertically integrated robot DePIN platform, which won the $30,000 USDC prize provided by Phantom. The hackathon attracted over 10,000 participants who submitted 2,857 final projects. CrowdBrain AI Wins Overall Championship as a Vertically Integrated Robot DePIN Platform CrowdBrain AI is a vertically integrated robot DePIN platform that screens users through simulat

American Express last week posted new "Vice President, Stablecoin & Blockchain Partnerships & Strategy" roles on LinkedIn and Indeed, with an annual salary range of $176,750 to $282,000, under its Digital Lab division in New York; it also posted a "Vice President, On-Chain Products" position. American Express Posts VP of Stablecoin & Blockchain Strategy Role, Salary $176,750 to $282,000 This role is built around three pillars: programmable money, stablecoin payments, and blockchain infrastructur

Coinbase and Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced on June 16 that the x402 token payment protocol has been integrated into AWS CloudFront and Web Application Firewall (WAF) services, enabling content publishers to directly charge USDC micropayments from AI agents accessing content. x402 Payment Flow and Integration Design on AWS CloudFront x402's settlement layer uses USDC on the Base network. The entire flow is designed as a single round trip, with a target latency in milliseconds. The full step

Ukraine struck a Russian military production facility in Volgograd with its domestically developed Flamingo cruise missile on the 27th (local time), according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's social media announcement. The FP-5 Flamingo missile successfully hit the Titan-Barikady military

Coinbase’s Ethereum Layer-2 network, Base, suffered two outages on its mainnet within two days, causing block production to stall. On June 27, the Base development team announced on X that initial fixes had been completed, and the planned Beryl hard fork and B20 Registry activation would be urgently postponed. A new timeline will be announced after testing and verification. --- Technical Causes of the Two Outages: Sequencer Bug and Unsafe Head Stall According to Base’s incident reports, the caus

21Shares published its midyear outlook on June 24, comparing 10 crypto market predictions made in January 2026 against market data through May 31 and June 8. The review separated areas ahead of schedule, behind target, or still

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said on June 26 that Coinbase has set Zhipu AI's latest GLM 5.2 and Beijing Moonshot AI's Kimi 2.7 as the default large language models for the company's internal engineers; Coinbase's AI spending has nearly halved, while token usage continues to grow exponentially. Task Allocation and Use Cases of GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 at Coinbase Armstrong explained that GLM 5.2 and Kimi 2.7 are primarily deployed in routine task scenarios, such as standard code assistance and gener

According to Waff TV reported on June 27, a retired man in Florence, Alabama, lost over $222,000 of his life savings in a "pig butchering" crypto scam. Federal court documents filed last week revealed that the scammer posed as a 23-year-old woman named "Bella" on Telegram, establishing a romantic relationship with the victim, then gradually guided him to transfer funds via Coinbase into a crypto wallet controlled by the scammers. Scammer posing as "Bella" builds romantic relationship on Telegram

According to a report by the Korea Economic Daily on June 29, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are preparing to jointly announce a combined 2,000 trillion won semiconductor investment plan for South Korea over the next ten years. Each company plans to build 4 to 5 semiconductor factories in the Gwangju area, creating a "semiconductor mega-cluster" on the western side of the Korean Peninsula. This plan is the highest investment amount record in the history of Korean corporations, and is a core pi