Ant Financial, Edfin Financial, and Panrui Capital signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in new energy and blockchain finance.
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Bitplanet and Antalpha signed a memorandum of understanding to invest 15 billion won in equipment to shift to Bitcoin mining.
According to Foresight News , citing CryptoSlate, South Korean Bitcoin treasury company Bitplanet has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Nasdaq-listed Antalpha and its partners to invest 15 billion won in Bitcoin mining equipment and launch full-scale mining operations this month. The mined Bitcoins will be recognized as operating revenue and managed as long-term financial assets. According to the plan, the first phase of the equipment is expected to produce more than 7 BTC per month and more than 80 BTC per year (subject to equipment utilization and electricity prices). The mining equipment will be deployed in overseas regions with competitive electricity costs, including Oman and Paraguay, and will adopt an overseas hosting and joint venture operation model.
Trump: US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding "Ended"
According to Foresight News , citing data from Jinshi Data, US President Trump commented on the memorandum of understanding with Iran, saying, "I think it's over. I don't want to deal with them. They're a bunch of 'sick people.'" The decision on whether to continue negotiations with Iran is the responsibility of Witkov and Kushner.
PhotonPay launches on PhotonPass: Turning "clearing speed" into a "strategic advantage" and creating a closed-loop full-stack financial operating system.
According to ChainCatcher, PhotonPay, the next-generation global payment operating system, recently announced the launch of its account-to-account (A2A) transfer function – PhotonPass – designed to inject ultra-fast liquidity into the global business network. PhotonPass supports instant internal transfers between more than 19 major fiat currencies and core stablecoins such as USDT and USDC. This function eliminates the constraints of traditional correspondent banking networks, achieving "instantaneous fund transfers," while reducing intermediary bank fees, eliminating settlement queues, and unnecessary exchange rate risks. Simultaneously, relying on an AI-driven risk control engine, each transfer supports real-time tracking and automated compliance verification, ensuring the safety of funds. The strategic significance of PhotonPass extends far beyond simple transfer speed; it serves as the architectural anchor of PhotonPay's entire "payment operating system." By seamlessly connecting core modules such as Global Checkout, Custody Wallets, and Automated FX, PhotonPass transforms previously fragmented financial touchpoints into a single, programmable flow of funds. This allows global businesses to manage their global finances with high flexibility and composability, much like orchestrating front-end software code. Lewison, founder and CEO of PhotonPay, stated, “The competitive landscape of global commerce no longer depends solely on strategy itself, but also on the infrastructure for executing that strategy. PhotonPass completes a closed loop within the PhotonPay operating system, bringing us one step closer to our initial vision: building a financial infrastructure that truly keeps pace with modern commerce and covers all global markets.” PhotonPass is now fully available to PhotonPay users.
Trump believes the US-Iran memorandum of understanding has ended.
Odaily Odaily reports that US President Trump said at the NATO summit on the 8th that he believes the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is "over." (Xinhua)
SemiAnalysis' latest report: Meta computing power procurement will accelerate, and capital expenditure may increase significantly next year.
According to Mars Finance, a recent report by semiconductor research firm SemiAnalysis emphasizes that computing power demand is far from peaking. The report points out that Meta's computing power construction will continue, predicting its capital expenditure next year will be astonishingly high, and the market need not worry about it cannibalizing the market share of new cloud competitors. SemiAnalysis analysis indicates that Meta's data center and computing procurement will accelerate, not slow down, and that Meta will become a significant source of revenue growth for new cloud companies such as CoreWeave and Nebius. (Cailian Press)
Ant Financial's LingBot released its spatial perception model, LingBot-Depth 2.0.
On July 7th, Lingbo Technology, an embodied intelligence company under Ant Group, released LingBot-Depth 2.0, a spatial perception model. Trained on 150 million data points, this model represents a comprehensive upgrade in edge sharpness, small object recognition, long-distance depth estimation, and robustness in complex scenes. In addition, Lingbo also simultaneously launched LingBot-Vision, the visual foundation model for LingBot-Depth 2.0, establishing a capability chain for robots from "understanding" to "accurately recognizing," aiming to address core challenges in robot vision such as spatial perception, precise recognition, and adaptation to complex environments.