Zhipu founder Tang Jie has laid out a new strategic direction in an internal letter titled "The Giant Wave Has Arrived," according to BlockBeats. The memo says the company will focus on Long Horizon Tasks, Autonomous Agents, Self-Evolving systems and AGI, while launching a two-year "Touch High" plan. Tang also said the company is not aiming for short-term monetization through applications. The report says the letter barely mentioned coding, even though Zhipu’s AI coding business had previously helped drive rapid commercial growth and higher valuations. That omission is being read as a deliberate repositioning: away from being valued like a traditional SaaS or AI application company, and toward an AGI infrastructure and autonomous agent story. Market commentary cited by the report says the move comes as valuation methods for AI firms are shifting from technology expectations to commercial delivery, especially after MiniMax saw a sharp stock pullback following the end of restrictions. In that reading, Zhipu is trying to reset its capital-market narrative early and anchor valuation around technical breakthroughs and its AGI vision.

PANews has published a Robinhood Chain starter guide by Biteye, laying out the basic path for users entering the network for the first time. The piece walks through how to add the Robinhood Chain network, withdraw ETH from an exchange to a self-custodied wallet, bridge funds onto the chain, and execute a first swap through Uniswap. It notes that Robinhood Chain uses ETH as gas and lists Chain ID 4663 for manual setup. The article also compares several bridge options, including the official Arbitrum Portal, Relay, and Across. According to the guide, the official bridge is presented as the most standard and secure route, with deposits taking about 10 minutes and withdrawals back to Ethereum typically facing a roughly seven-day challenge period. Biteye advises users to bridge 0.03 to 0.08 ETH at first and avoid swapping all ETH into meme tokens, since ETH is still needed to pay network fees. Beyond onboarding, the guide focuses on information flow inside the Robinhood Chain ecosystem. It groups a set of X accounts into meme signal, ecosystem and product, announcement, and low-priority categories. The article then breaks down four major meme narrative types and highlights five representative tokens: CASHCAT, JUGGERNAUT, HOODRAT, VEX, and WALLET, each with market value references, all-time-high figures where available, and contract addresses. The piece ends with a risk warning, saying meme markets are highly volatile and the content does not constitute investment advice.

TON ecosystem builder Ali said the network is seeing delays in shard block production and message processing on the TON mainnet. According to Ali, the TON core team is aware of the issue and is working on a fix. The source did not provide details on the cause of the delays, the scope of the impact, or when normal operations may resume. The update points only to an ongoing technical issue affecting shard-related processing on the main network. No other operational metrics or incident timeline were disclosed in the source post.

The UK government has designated Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, according to a July 13 report cited by BlockBeats and attributed to Sky News. Under the new legal framework, several forms of conduct are now treated as criminal offenses. These include inviting support for the Revolutionary Guard, expressing opinions or beliefs in support of the group, assisting its UK-related activities, or engaging in actions that could materially aid the organization. The rules also criminalize accepting or retaining material benefits provided by the Revolutionary Guard or its representatives. Violations of the new law can carry a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison and/or a fine. The update was published as a 7x24 flash news item by BlockBeats.

Bitcoin has pulled back to around $62,000 as tensions between the U.S. and Iran escalated, but some market watchers say the current bear phase could end as early as September or October this year. Trader Ryker said the market largely expects the next bull cycle in 2027, yet market makers tend to position ahead of consensus, leading him to expect Bitcoin to start rising in the coming months. Trader Jelle pointed to a weekly “death cross,” arguing that the signal has historically appeared near the end of bear markets and may indicate a fresh accumulation phase. In the near term, analysts still see pressure on price action. They identified $64,000 as a key resistance level and said failure to break above it could leave Bitcoin vulnerable to a drop toward $57,800. On-chain data from CryptoQuant added another layer: addresses holding 100 to 1,000 BTC recorded net selling of about 67,000 BTC on July 13, the largest distribution since February. Even so, the firm said similar distribution patterns have often shown up shortly before rebounds, though the latest data alone does not confirm a market bottom.

ChainCatcher reported, citing Coinglass data, that Binance recorded a net outflow of 33.0714 million USDT over the past hour. The brief did not provide additional breakdowns or context beyond the exchange, asset and time window. The item was published as a 7x24 market news flash.

CoinDesk’s latest exchange report said global spot trading volume on centralized exchanges climbed 15.3% month over month in June to $1.11 trillion, ending a five-month decline. Among the exchanges highlighted in the report, Gate recorded a 50.8% increase in spot volume to $66.1 billion, the fastest growth rate among global CEXs. Its spot market share rose by 1.55 percentage points to 5.95%, also leading the industry and reaching its highest level since October 2025. The report said that performance placed Gate among the world’s top three spot platforms in the AA-A tier of top exchanges. In derivatives, Gate posted $369 billion in June trading volume, while its market share increased to 9.52%, keeping it in fourth place globally. The exchange also ranked among the top three retail derivatives platforms by open interest, with a 9.20% share. Based on combined spot and derivatives trading scale, Gate ranked fourth worldwide, according to the report.

Robinhood Chain has posted nearly $4 billion in cumulative DEX volume less than two weeks after mainnet launch, quickly entering the ranks of the busiest public chains. Data cited from DeFiLlama, Token Terminal, L2BEAT and Dune shows the network has climbed to second place in 24-hour DEX volume behind Solana, while daily transactions, active addresses and Ethereum data availability usage have all surged past key peers such as Base in parts of the period. The activity boom has been driven heavily by meme-coin trading. On July 10 alone, meme tokens accounted for about 54.3% of on-chain trading volume, while daily token creation briefly topped 24,000. That growth has come with concentration and security concerns: meme market cap on the chain has exceeded $240 million, but Cashcat alone represents about 59.6% of that total, and Relay Protocol has warned about a wave of honeypot scam tokens targeting users. The report says the main beneficiaries so far include Uniswap, which handled 99.8% of the chain’s DEX volume as of July 12, Morpho and Ethena, which hold large shares of total value locked, launchpad NOXA.fun, infrastructure provider Arbitrum, and perpetuals platform Arcus. Even with the breakout debut, the report says Robinhood Chain’s next test is whether meme-driven traffic can convert into durable users, capital and a more resilient ecosystem.