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US pre-market news at a glance: Samsung's earnings report triggered a collective weakness in semiconductor stocks in pre-market trading; SpaceX officially debuts on the Nasdaq 100 today.
According to BlockBeats, the following are key market news items before the US stock market opened on July 7th: 1. Samsung released its Q2 earnings forecast, showing an operating profit increase of over 1800% year-on-year, with single-quarter profits exceeding the total of the previous three years. Simultaneously, the company's revenue also increased by 129% year-on-year, reaching 171 trillion won. Affected by the semiconductor sell-off triggered by the "sell-off" of Samsung's earnings, chip-related technology stocks generally weakened in pre-market trading. The three major US stock futures indices showed mixed results in pre-market trading: Dow Jones futures rose 0.41%, Nasdaq 100 futures fell 0.9%, and S&P 500 futures fell 0.09%. 2. SpaceX officially debuted on the Nasdaq 100 before the US stock market opened today, with Wall Street institutions collectively bullish. Most institutions believe that SpaceX is no longer just a traditional aerospace company, but a platform company with the potential for rocket launches, Starlink satellite internet, AI infrastructure, and future space computing. 3. DeepSeek is secretly developing its own inference chip. If successful, this would reduce reliance on external suppliers and give it more cost-effective hardware control. However, the project is still in its early stages and faces manufacturing and memory acquisition restrictions due to US export controls. 4. UBS recommends investors buy SK Hynix's upcoming American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) and sell its South Korean shares, as these new shares are expected to trade at higher prices. 5. JPMorgan strategists say the recent weakness in semiconductor stocks should be seen as a buying opportunity, as the chip upcycle is not yet over, and truly meaningful new supply may not appear until 2028. 6. US ADP employment change for the week ending June 20 was 21,000, compared to 30,750 in the previous week. 7. BlackRock will launch an ETF tracking the tech-heavy Nasdaq 100 index, aiming to meet investors' growing demand for participation in the AI-driven stock market rally and challenge Invesco's dominant position. 8. Amazon is returning to the US bond market to raise funds for its artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company will issue eight benchmark bonds with maturities ranging from 3 to 40 years, raising at least $25 billion in the dollar bond offering. 9. Global brokerages have begun coverage research on Elon Musk's SpaceX (SPCX.O), and a preliminary consensus has formed on Wall Street: buy the stock. At least six brokerages, including Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and UBS, have given it a buy rating, optimistic about its long-term growth prospects, although doubts remain about profitability and valuation.
Coinbase launches perpetual contract trading competition in India with a top prize pool of 350,000 USDC.
PANews reported on July 8th that Coinbase has launched the "Coinbase Champions Cup: India" perpetual contract trading competition in India, with a total prize pool of up to approximately 350,000 USDC (approximately 330 million rupees). The prize pool will be unlocked in tiers based on the cumulative perpetual contract trading volume of all participating users; the current prize pool is 50,000 USDC. Participants must be legal residents of India, at least 18 years old, have opened a Coinbase Advanced perpetual contract account, and complete at least 100 USDC of trading volume in the designated competition account.
South Korea officially launched a 24-hour trading mechanism for the Korean won spot foreign exchange market.
Odaily Odaily reports that South Korea officially launched a 24-hour spot USD/KRW trading mechanism on Monday to enhance the convertibility of the won and strive for developed market status in the MSCI World Index. Under the new mechanism, the South Korean spot foreign exchange market will open at 6:00 AM every Monday and trade continuously until 6:00 AM on Saturday, achieving 120 hours of continuous trading per week. South Korean Finance Minister Koo Yoon-cheol stated that this move will be "an important starting point for the won's globalization." (Reuters)
New A-share trading rules will officially take effect on July 6, involving several core adjustments including the expansion of after-hours fixed-price trading.
PANews reported on July 5th that, according to Sina Finance, the revised A-share trading rules simultaneously issued by the Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Beijing stock exchanges will officially take effect on July 6th, 2026, covering several optimizations to the trading mechanism. The core adjustments made by the three exchanges according to the revised trading rules are as follows: 1. Shanghai Stock Exchange's key revisions: First, the scope of securities applicable to after-hours fixed-price trading has been expanded from STAR Market stocks to all A-shares and exchange-traded funds (ETFs); second, the trading method for funds at the closing stage has been changed from continuous bidding to closing call auction, with the closing price generated through the call auction; third, the price fluctuation limit for main board risk-alert stocks has been adjusted from 5% to 10%. In addition, adaptive revisions have been made based on rule changes and business needs, including optimizing disciplinary provisions and improving the wording of some rules.
predict.fun Institutional-grade block trading function officially launched
According to official news from Mars Finance, the BNB ecosystem prediction market platform predict.fun has announced the launch of an institutional-grade bulk trading function. This function provides off-chain matching and on-chain settlement services for large-scale transactions on the platform, supporting institutional users in conducting large-scale prediction market transactions. Through a dedicated matching service, buyers and sellers can directly match counterparties to complete large orders in a single peer-to-peer (P2P) transaction, avoiding issues such as slippage, insufficient liquidity, and position exposure in traditional order book trading. It is understood that predict.fun will waive all over-the-counter (OTC) transaction-related fees for the next two weeks.
Metaplanet added 2,823 BTC in Q2; RWA platform Securitize officially listed on the NYSE.
According to ChainCatcher and BBX data, early last week, Asia's largest listed BTC reserve holder announced record-breaking quarterly BTC purchases, and the world's largest RWA tokenization platform officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Key developments are as follows: Metaplanet Inc. (TSE: 3350) officially disclosed its Q2 2026 Bitcoin accumulation data on July 1st: It purchased 2,823 BTC at an average price of approximately $78,872 (35.4886 billion yen) throughout the quarter, totaling approximately $225 million. As of June 30th, its total holdings rose to 43,000 BTC, with a total cost of approximately $4.09 billion (overall average price of $95,209). The unique aspects are as follows: The company's dedicated Bitcoin options trading business generated revenue of $10.95 million in Q2. After directly deducting the cost of Bitcoin purchases from this revenue, the effective net average purchase price was approximately $75,032 per coin (still a discount compared to the current market price of approximately $61,000, but saving approximately 4.8% compared to the nominal average price of $78,872); H1 2026 options revenue totaled $29.2 million, with trailing 12-month options revenue of $70.7 million; Q2 BTC Yield (Bitcoin holdings/effective diluted share capital ratio) increased by 6.6% year-on-year; the funds for Bitcoin purchases this quarter came from credit lines, ordinary bond issuance, and options revenue, without using equity dilution methods. The company also disclosed that it has reached an agreement to acquire Siiibo Securities, a licensed Class 1 securities firm in Japan, and include it in its "Project Nova" strategic expansion plan. Securitize Corp. (NYSE: $SECZ) officially completed its SPAC merger with Cantor Equity Partners II ($CEPT) in early July and began trading on the New York Stock Exchange, becoming the world's first NYSE-listed company with tokenized asset infrastructure as its core business. According to CoinDesk, on its first day of trading on the NYSE, the company simultaneously tokenized $295 million of its own stock and deployed it on the Solana and Avalanche blockchains. This is the largest issuer-led tokenized stock offering to date—Securitize uses its own stock as a tokenization case to counter competitors' third-party synthetic token solutions (i.e., derivative structures with indirect ownership). The company previously managed over $4 billion in tokenized assets and established deep partnerships with NYSE, BlackRock, Computershare, Jump Trading, and others. Q1 2026 revenue was $19.5 million. After its IPO, $SECZ will serve as a valuation benchmark for the RWA tokenization sector, alongside Coinbase (Base Chain) and Galaxy Dig.