CryptoQuant analyst maartunn said Binance’s monthly futures trading volume has exceeded $1.6 trillion, setting a new high for the year. The update comes with Bitcoin still hovering around $60,000 and overall market sentiment remaining cautious. According to the post, many traders still describe the market as bearish. The report also noted that Europe is still adjusting to the Markets in Crypto-Assets, or MiCA, regulatory framework, while the summer holiday period usually slows trading activity. Even so, Binance’s derivatives business has continued to show strength. The jump in volume suggests that traders are still actively using Binance’s futures market despite restrained sentiment and seasonal softness in broader activity.

A Bitcoin address starting with 356myu transferred 2,931 BTC to a new wallet around three hours ago, according to monitoring by @lookonchain. The moved holdings were valued at about $188 million at the time of the transfer. On-chain records show the address had been inactive for seven years before this transaction. The wallet originally received the 2,931 BTC seven years ago, when Bitcoin was trading at roughly $6,513, and had not moved the funds at any point in the intervening period. Blockchain data has labeled the address as an early holder wallet that had remained dormant for seven years. Based on the historical receiving price cited in the source and the current transfer value, the position’s value has increased by about 40 times since the coins were first received. The transaction marks the first movement from the address since it obtained the funds seven years ago.

Binance will list the SKHYB/USDT spot trading pair at 13:30 UTC on July 13, 2026, according to an official announcement. The exchange will also enable spot algo trading bot services for the pair at launch. Deposits and withdrawals for SKHYB are scheduled to open one hour later, at 14:30 UTC on the same day. Binance also said the SKHYB/USDT pair will have zero maker fees during a promotional period running from the listing time through 23:59 UTC on Aug. 31, 2026. The update was reported by Odaily, citing the official notice.

Binance will list the bStocks tokenized security SK Hynix (SKHYB) for spot trading at 21:30 on July 13, according to ChainCatcher. The exchange will open the SKHYB/USDT trading pair and enable spot algorithmic trading bot services at launch. Deposits and withdrawals for SKHYB are scheduled to open at 22:30 on the same day. Binance also said users will receive zero maker fees during the promotional period, which runs until 07:59 on Sept. 1. The update covers the listing schedule, trading pair, bot support, wallet opening time, and fee incentive tied to the launch.

Bullish calls for Bitcoin to reach $300,000 or even $500,000 in the next cycle are gaining traction, with veteran trader Peter Brandt and Bernstein analysts Gautam Chhugani and Mahika Sapra among those pointing to 2029 as a possible peak year. But Blockcast argues that the more important story is not whether Bitcoin can print another all-time high. It is that each cycle’s gain over the previous peak has been shrinking sharply. The article ties market expectations to Bitcoin’s four-year cycle, driven by the halving schedule. Historically, Bitcoin has tended to bottom roughly 18 months before a halving and peak 16 to 18 months after one. With the fifth halving expected in April 2028, many investors place the next cycle top in 2029. Still, the historical pattern cited in the report shows a steep slowdown in upside multiples: from 2017’s nearly 75x gain over the prior peak, to 3.5x in 2021, and 1.8x in 2025. In that framework, a move above $300,000 would require Bitcoin to more than double from its 2025 high of $126,000, a jump the article says would break from the recent trend. Rather than reading that as weakness, the report presents it as a sign of market maturity, helped by spot ETFs, futures, options, volatility products, arbitrage funds, and other institutional tools.

Metaplanet (3350.T) has launched Metaplanet Securities after completing its acquisition of Siiibo Securities, according to ChainCatcher. The new unit will offer BTC-backed credit tools to investors in Japan. ChainCatcher also said demand for BTC-backed lending is growing. The update links the new launch directly to the completed acquisition and frames the product around Japanese investors. No other financial terms or rollout details were disclosed in the source brief.

Metaplanet has launched Metaplanet Securities after completing its acquisition of Siiibo Securities, according to a post by BitcoinTreasuries.NET on X. The new entity is aimed at investors in Japan and will offer BTC-backed credit instruments. The update links the new securities brand directly to the completed acquisition. Metaplanet was identified in the post as 3350.T.

Zhipu AI founder Tang Jie used an internal letter dated July 11 to tell employees that the company will keep directing resources toward artificial general intelligence research over the next two years instead of prioritizing near-term monetization. The message arrived at a sensitive moment. After listing in Hong Kong on Jan. 8 at HK$116.2, Zhipu’s shares at one point climbed to HK$2,980, more than 24 times the IPO price, before falling more than 19% around the lock-up expiry, which fueled debate over valuation and whether the stock had entered bubble territory. Rather than address the sell-off directly, Tang laid out what he called a long-term strategy built around four engines: long-horizon tasks, autonomous agent systems, fully self-training AI, and strict safety governance. He said the company plans to devote resources at the scale of tens of billions of yuan to mechanistic interpretability research and argued that safety work must advance in parallel with more powerful AI systems. The letter also linked Zhipu’s open-source push to that strategy, highlighting GLM-5.2, which the company described as its strongest open-source model so far, with million-token context support and release under the MIT license. The original report said Zhipu’s MaaS platform ARR grew 60-fold over the past year after the company shifted more resources toward coding and reasoning following DeepSeek R1’s release in early 2025.