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BNB Chain plans to launch a new Layer 1 blockchain, with the mainnet expected to go live in 2027.
According to Mars Finance, BNB Chain is developing a new Layer 1 blockchain for Agentic Trading and has released its first detailed architecture information after months of development. According to BNB Chain's technology roadmap for the second half of 2026, the new chain will run in parallel with the existing BNB Chain ecosystem, aiming to achieve transaction preconfirmation of less than 50 milliseconds. This aims to provide an execution experience close to that of a centralized exchange (CEX) while retaining the advantages of on-chain self-custody and transparency. In terms of technical architecture, the new chain will remove the traditional public mempool and introduce a transaction transmission mechanism called "TxStream," which directly sends transactions to block producers to reduce latency and minimize MEV extraction behaviors such as sandwich attacks.
JPMorgan Chase's blockchain account has added five more Asia-Pacific currencies, including the Japanese yen, bringing its total transaction volume to over $4 trillion.
According to CoinPost, Kinexys, the blockchain business unit of JPMorgan Chase, announced the addition of five new currencies—AUD, HKD, JPY, RMB, and SGD—to its Blockchain Deposit Account (BDA) network. This brings the total number of supported currencies to eight, including the existing Euro, GBP, and USD, making it the platform with the most supported currencies in the global blockchain settlement and on-chain foreign exchange sector. BDA operates on JPMorgan Chase's private blockchain, supporting 24/7 settlement and programmable payment functions. Japanese energy giant JERA Global Markets became the first company to adopt the Japanese Yen BDA to optimize its internal cash flow management and liquidity allocation. Kinexys has currently processed over $4 trillion in transactions, with a daily average transaction volume exceeding $7 billion.
Aster: The first burn under the upgraded token economic model has been executed.
PANews reported on June 29th that Aster announced on its X platform that the first ASTER burn under its upgraded token economic model has been executed and is verifiable on-chain. Since June 17th, 2026, 99% of daily transaction fees have been used to repurchase 2,937,125.53 ASTER for stakers, and an equal number of ASTER have been burned from the team's allocation. Previous reports indicated that the Aster team had potentially burned 2.937 million ASTER, equivalent to approximately $1.85 million.
Hinkal's privacy protocol has suspended affected smart contracts due to abnormal USDC transactions on the Ethereum blockchain.
Odaily Odaily reports that decentralized privacy protocol Hinkal Protocol has announced it has noticed unusual activity involving USDC on the Ethereum network within its system. Currently, this only affects the Ethereum blockchain; other chains are unaffected. As a precaution, affected smart contracts have been suspended, and a comprehensive investigation and analysis of related on-chain transactions and activities is underway. The investigation is ongoing, and updates will be released as information becomes available. Previously, it was reported that Hinkal suffered a loss of $800,000 due to a suspicious USDC transaction.
Analysis: Strategy sold off its first large-scale BTC transaction in five years, but the market did not show excessive panic.
According to BlockBeats, on July 7th, Crypto Quant analyst Axel Adler Jr. reported that Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) recently sold 3,588 BTC, worth approximately $216 million, marking the company's largest Bitcoin sale in history. However, the market did not experience a significant drop, with the BTC price remaining around $63,000. This is Strategy's first large-scale net sale since December 2022. The sale was completed in two batches: 1,363 BTC were sold between June 29th and 30th at an average price of approximately $59,256, generating $80.8 million; 2,225 BTC were sold between July 1st and 5th at an average price of approximately $60,773, generating $135.2 million, for a total of approximately $216 million. This sale is primarily intended to pay preferred stock obligations and replenish dollar reserves, and does not represent a change in Strategy's long-term Bitcoin strategy. The company currently holds approximately 843,775 BTC and approximately $2.55 billion in dollar reserves. This sale represents only about 0.4% of its holdings, indicating more liquidity management than a signal of divestment. From the derivatives market perspective, the news of Strategy's sale led to a significant cooling of sentiment in the Bitcoin futures market. The composite market index fell from the bullish zone of around 80 on July 6th to 32.6, entering the bearish zone, and at one point approached 20, indicating that leveraged funds began to shift towards a defensive stance. However, the Bitcoin price reacted only moderately, currently remaining above its 30-day fair value. The market tends to view this sale as a passive liquidity operation rather than a systematic exit from Bitcoin by Strategy. The market is currently in a "neutral to cautious" state, with relatively stable price performance, but derivatives positions have clearly weakened. If the overall market index rises back above 55, it may indicate a recovery in market risk appetite; if it remains below 45 for an extended period, it could further drag BTC down below its fair value.
"Whale Discovery": Samsung's large-scale long position is now down to its last remaining member, the sole whale on the blockchain holding a long position of 1.49 million SMSN.
According to BlockBeats, on July 7th, Hyperinsight monitoring showed that as of press time, a whale with the account starting with 0x7de was holding a long position in Samsung Electronics (SMSN) with 3x leverage, totaling approximately $1.492 million, at an average price of $204.35 and a liquidation price of $143.32, currently showing a floating loss of approximately $96,000 (-18.1%). Following the release of Samsung's preliminary second-quarter results today, Samsung's stock price has fallen sharply. Based on current monitoring data (million-dollar positions), this address is the only whale on the Hyperliquid platform still holding a large long position in SMSN. It is reported that this address began accumulating shares from scratch on the morning of July 6th, Beijing time, with the first transaction price at $208.97. After the stock price fell sharply at 9:00 AM today, this address did not reduce its holdings. Instead, it continued to add 2,870 shares in the range of $194.69 to $198.44, and its current net holding is 7,770 shares. Currently, this address only has one SMSN take-profit order at $245, with 2,100 orders, covering only about 27% of the position. The take-profit level is more than 20% above the current price. - HyperInsight Bot is now live. Add @HyperInsightBot to the Telegram community and set it as an administrator (message sending permission required) to automatically sync on-chain information.