Newfire Group's 2026 Interim Report: Losses widened to HK$245 million, with revenue from cryptocurrency trading business declining by 43.4% year-on-year.
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Chengbang Technology: First-half profit expected to reach 26 million yuan; semiconductor storage business revenue and net profit both saw significant year-on-year growth.
According to Mars Finance, Chengbang Co., Ltd. (603316.SH) announced that it expects its net profit attributable to shareholders of the listed company for the first half of 2026 to be 26 million yuan, turning a loss into a profit year-on-year. The company's semiconductor storage business accounts for over 70% of its revenue and is its core business. During the reporting period, relying on the favorable global semiconductor storage market, the company's semiconductor storage business revenue and net profit increased significantly compared to the first half of 2025, showing improved profitability, but the absolute amount is still relatively small. Note: The company's Q2 net profit is estimated at 3 million yuan, and Q1 net profit at 23 million yuan. Based on this, Q2 net profit is expected to decrease by 89% quarter-on-quarter. (Cailian Press)
The US CFTC has filed a lawsuit against cryptocurrency pool operator Trevor Vernon, alleging a $14.8 million investment fraud.
According to BlockBeats, on July 8th, the US CFTC filed a lawsuit against Trevor Vernon and his company, Argent Capital Management, on Tuesday. The lawsuit alleges that between March 2022 and February 2026, Vernon operated a commodity pool involving stock index futures, options, and crypto assets, raising approximately $14.8 million from at least 60 investors and falsely advertising investment performance, thus committing investment fraud. The CFTC claims that the transactions resulted in losses exceeding $8.6 million for investors. Vernon allegedly concealed these losses and misappropriated approximately $3 million to pay returns to investors, operating in a manner "similar to a Ponzi scheme," and misappropriated $136,000 for private jet travel. The regulator also points out that the transactions involved commodities such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, and is requesting the court to prohibit Vernon from continuing related trading and registration activities, recover illegal gains, impose civil penalties, and compensate investors.
SpaceX was officially included in the Nasdaq 100 index this week; historical warnings point to post-inclusion volatility. TeraWulf's Q1 HPC leasing revenue surpassed mining's high-margin annualized revenue of $630 million for the first time.
According to ChainCatcher and BBX data, the world's largest IPO completed its index inclusion milestone yesterday, marking a historic turning point in the valuation logic of mining companies' AI transformation. Key developments are as follows: SpaceX, Inc. (NASDAQ: $SPCX) was officially included in the Nasdaq 100 index this week, becoming the first company in history to have its largest single IPO ($75 billion) included in the Nasdaq 100. CoinDesk also issued a historic warning: "The previous two largest additions to the index—Palantir ($PLTR) in December 2024 and Strategy ($MSTR) in early 2025—both experienced a period of decline after inclusion, rather than initiating a new round of growth." Analysts pointed out that passive funds tracking the Nasdaq 100 completed a "forced buy" at the time of inclusion, and without new fundamental catalysts, the stock price often corrects after the technical buying subsides. SpaceX currently faces specific risks including: a net loss of approximately $4.27 billion in Q1 2026 (primarily due to xAI integration expenses), a $2 billion bond issuance plan, and a 3.4% equity dilution from the $60 billion acquisition of Cursor/Anysphere; Morningstar maintains its fair value estimate of $62 per share, implying a downside of approximately 70% from the current market price. For the market holding SpaceX Bitcoin (18,712 coins, approximately $1.2 billion, custodied in Coinbase Prime), Nasdaq 100 inclusion will trigger larger-scale SPCX holdings by passive funds, further narrowing the indirect exposure of traditional index investors to Bitcoin assets. According to the latest analysis, TeraWulf Inc. (NASDAQ: $WULF) reported $21 million in high-performance computing (HPC) leasing revenue in Q1 2026, accounting for approximately 62% of its total revenue of $34 million. This marks the first time TeraWulf has surpassed Bitcoin mining revenue—a historic reversal in revenue structure since its transformation into an AI/HPC infrastructure company. This represents a 117% increase compared to the $9.7 million in HPC revenue in Q4 2025. The company currently has AI/HPC leases totaling over 522 megawatts signed with Core42 and Fluidstack, with an expected annualized high-margin revenue of approximately $630 million. Its energy mix consists of nuclear power and hydropower, with an average electricity cost of approximately $0.035/kWh, among the lowest of its peers in the mining industry. The company is also developing a new campus in Kentucky, adding approximately 480 megawatts of grid connection capacity; analysts have significantly raised their target price range, with Keefe Bruyette & Woods from $23 to $37, and Clear...
"Whale Tracking"long that a whale holding 20 million shares of a long position in a basket of semiconductor stocks is now deeply trapped, incurring losses exceeding $5.5 million.
According to BlockBeats, on July 8th, Hyperinsight monitoring showed that a whale with the account starting with 0x519c currently holds 7 AI semiconductor-related positions, all of which are 5x isolated margin long positions, totaling approximately $19.541 million. The current unrealized loss is approximately $5.502 million, with all 7 positions showing losses. The losses are mainly concentrated in: MRVL: Long positions amount to approximately $7.456 million, with a floating loss of approximately $2.609 million; SNDK: Long positions amount to approximately $3.836 million, with a floating loss of approximately $1.162 million; SKHX: Long positions amount to approximately $3.883 million, with a floating loss of approximately $676,000; MU / NBIS: Unrealized losses of approximately US$281,000 and US$284,000 respectively. The other two long positions are also in the red, and the total unrealized loss for this address is currently $5.56 million. All four positions have lost more than 100% of their initial investment, making this the address with the largest losses in the market conditions of last night and this morning. Previous report from a whale: South Korea's largest chip production expansion in history failed to stem a massive sell-off, with one major whale who chased SKHX at a high price incurring a loss of over $2.2 million in a single day.
The CFTC has charged a North Carolina man with a $14 million cryptocurrency and futures fraud.
According to Odaily Odaily, the U.S. CFTC has filed a lawsuit against Trevor Vernon, a North Carolina man, and his company, Argent Capital Management LLC, accusing them of defrauding approximately 60 investors of $14 million through a fake commodity Ponzi scheme. According to a complaint filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, Vernon and his company operated commodity pools involved in trading across multiple asset classes, including stock index futures options, stock index futures contracts, and crypto assets. The CFTC stated that Vernon misled investors by claiming to be a "successful trader" through quarterly financial updates and monthly performance review emails, but in reality, he consistently incurred significant losses when using investor funds for trading. Regulators said Vernon had lost at least $8.6 million in futures, options, and crypto trading. The CFTC stated that its actual trading results were "consistent and catastrophic losses," significantly inconsistent with the profitability it presented to investors.
In the past 24 hours, the cryptocurrency market saw $314 million in liquidations, with bulls slightly in control.
PANews reported on July 6th that, according to CoinGlass data, 78,908 contract traders worldwide were forced to liquidate their positions in the past 24 hours, with a total liquidation amount of approximately $314 million. Of this, long positions accounted for approximately $180 million and short positions for approximately $134 million, with long positions representing about 57%. The largest single liquidation occurred on the Hyperliquid platform's BTC-USD contract, amounting to approximately $5.6877 million. By exchange, Binance saw the largest liquidation amount at approximately $136 million, followed by Hyperliquid at approximately $48.06 million, Bybit at approximately $36.98 million, OKX at approximately $27.84 million, and Gate at approximately $24.51 million. BTC and ETH were the main liquidation targets, recording approximately $137 million and $70.11 million in liquidations respectively in the past 24 hours.