A whale address beginning with 0x8af was caught on the wrong side of a sharp move in SK Hynix-related token SKHX, according to monitoring data from Hyperinsight cited by BlockBeats on July 16. The address reportedly chased the rebound around midday the previous day as SKHX climbed back to roughly $1,440, opening long positions in rapid succession. The whale accumulated 301 long orders in a short span, filling 6,008 contracts at around $1,440.00. The total position size reached about $8.6516 million, with an average entry of roughly $1,439.91. Hyperinsight said the trader entered at the top tier of the latest rebound. The market then turned lower. By publication time, SKHX was quoted at about $1,237, around 14% below the whale’s cost basis. Looking only at the SKHX long exposure, the address was still holding the position on 10x isolated full-position leverage, with notional value reduced to about $7.453 million. The unrealized loss stood at roughly $1.199 million, while the reported return rate was about -138.6%.

CASHCAT’s market capitalization has dropped below the $100 million mark, according to market data cited by BlockBeats on July 16. The token was valued at $95.27 million at the time of the update. Over the past 24 hours, it posted a decline of 33.22%. The report cited GMGN market data and did not provide additional details beyond the latest market cap reading and the one-day drop. The update was published as a brief market item.

Walden Robotics, a humanoid robotics startup spun out of Toyota’s robotics research lab, has raised about $300 million in seed funding at a valuation of $1.1 billion, according to Bloomberg. The round was co-led by Deviation Capital and Toyota Motor, with participation from Toyota’s strategic investment and early-stage venture units. Other investors included Nvidia, Boeing, AE Ventures, Samsung Ventures and CoreWeave Ventures. Based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Walden develops its own hardware, software and AI models. The company is focused on deploying general-purpose robots in manufacturing and logistics facilities to take on tasks workers consider physically demanding. Co-founder Russ Tedrake said Walden has already started selling humanoid robots to customers across multiple industries. That includes pilot projects at Toyota factories in North America, where the robots are handling repetitive work such as loading and unloading auto parts and cleaning equipment. Tedrake previously served as an executive at the Toyota Research Institute and also taught robotics at MIT.

ASML is preparing to raise prices for chipmaking equipment, according to The Information, a move that has met resistance from its biggest customer, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC). The report says the clash comes as AI-driven demand tightens supply across advanced semiconductor tools, giving equipment makers more room to push pricing higher. Tokyo Electron (TEL) has also signaled a long-term plan to lift equipment prices by as much as 50%, citing extended lead times and supply-side capacity constraints. ASML, for its part, has pointed to improving pricing in its own earnings commentary and expects equipment prices to keep rising. The timing matters because TSMC is set to hold its investor call on July 16 in the afternoon. Investors are expected to watch closely for any comments on how the company plans to handle rising equipment costs while preserving its long-standing pledge to keep gross margin above 53%. The report also points to TSMC’s earlier decision to keep upgrading existing EUV tools and delay deployment of ASML’s latest High-NA EUV systems in mass production until 2029. Meanwhile, ASML has raised its full-year sales forecast for the second time this year, and Intel has already started using High-NA EUV tools in chip production.

RoboStrategy, a closed-end investment firm focused on robotics and physical AI, has completed a series of private equity issuances, according to an official announcement. The company issued 450,684 shares at a weighted average price of about $35.5, raising roughly $16 million in total. The disclosure outlines both the overall size of the placement and the pricing used for the share issuance. It also names a major participant in the transaction. RoboStrategy CEO Andrew Kang subscribed for 272,405 shares in the offering. The filing said his subscription was priced at $36.71 per share, representing an investment of about $10 million. The announcement did not provide additional details on the broader use of proceeds or other participants beyond the figures disclosed.

According to an official announcement cited by ChainCatcher, Claynosaurz, a 3D clay dinosaur NFT project in the Solana ecosystem, has recently released an animated short on Amazon Prime Video, a major streaming platform. The project’s floor price climbed to as high as 24 SOL earlier today and was last quoted at 23.25 SOL. Over the past 24 hours, the floor price increased by 43.59%. The update links a content release on a mainstream streaming service with a sharp move in the project’s NFT market pricing, based on the figures provided in the source.

Gate recorded more than $127.52 million in net inflows over the past 24 hours, ranking first among centralized exchanges globally, according to data cited by ChainCatcher from DefiLlama. The brief did not provide additional details on methodology or broader exchange flow figures. The update was published as a 7x24 newsflash by ChainCatcher. Given the source format, the report focused on the headline metric: Gate’s 24-hour net inflow and its global rank among centralized trading platforms. No extra background, comparison period, or supporting table was included in the source item.

The Federal Reserve’s latest Beige Book said U.S. economic activity improved modestly from late May through June, with 11 of 12 regional districts reporting some degree of growth and one, San Francisco, reporting no change. The report, based on information collected by the Fed’s 12 regional banks through July 6 and compiled by the Chicago Fed, pointed to a labor market that remained steady overall and prices that continued to rise at a moderate pace. Nine districts reported moderate price growth, two saw strong increases, and one logged slight growth. The Fed said all districts experienced price growth that was either unchanged or slower than in the prior reporting period. Business contacts cited both the Middle East conflict and tariffs as drivers of higher costs, while some districts also noted that customers had become more sensitive to price increases. The report also showed a split in views on inflation in the months ahead. Some contacts expect inflation to keep running at its current pace, while others see it easing, helped in part by lower fuel prices. Employment increased slightly to moderately in five districts and was little changed in seven, with wage gains generally modest. Several districts said competition for skilled technical workers was pushing up pay.