BNB Chain said on July 15 that it has completed its 36th quarterly BNB burn, removing 1,615,827.795 BNB from circulation. Based on the token’s price at the time, the burned amount was worth about $931.7 million. The burn was carried out through the Auto-Burn mechanism on BSC, and the transaction hash has been made public. After the burn, the remaining total supply of BNB stands at about 133.17 million. BNB Chain said its longer-term target remains reducing total supply to 100 million BNB, a plan it says is intended to strengthen the token’s deflationary profile and support the development of the BNB Chain ecosystem.

Data tracked by Hyperinsight on July 15 showed a wide pricing gap between the two Hynix-linked instruments trading on Hyperliquid. The U.S. listing proxy, SKHY, was quoted at $181.58, while the Korean listing proxy, SKHX, was at $1,358.50. Based on the conversion of one SKHY ADS to 0.1 share of the Korean common stock, the implied on-chain ADR premium stood at about 33.7%. Trading activity was heavy. Over the past 24 hours, SKHY recorded about $450 million in volume and roughly $121 million in open interest, while SKHX posted around $1.213 billion in volume and about $425 million in open interest. Combined, the two instruments saw approximately $1.663 billion in turnover and $546 million in outstanding positions. Hyperinsight also compared the setup with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. According to the figures cited, TSMC’s current ADR premium works out to about 10.8%, making the Hynix premium roughly 3.1 times higher. Positioning around the spread has split into two camps: five addresses betting on convergence held about $32.4 million and were down around $1.117 million, while one address betting on further widening held about $9.719 million and was up about $127,000. Funding rates also favored the widening trade, leaving convergence traders paying on both legs.

Alex Thorn, head of research at Galaxy Digital, said a large amount of long-dormant Bitcoin was reactivated and moved on-chain across 2024 and 2025, marking the second-largest such wave after 2017. Thorn said the current round of the so-called "Great Distribution," driven by the awakening of old BTC, is now largely over. He added that the amount of Bitcoin expected to be reactivated in 2026 will likely be less than half of the 2025 total. The remarks point to a sharp slowdown in the movement of older coins after two years of elevated activity.

Crypto venture capital in the first half of 2026 looked bigger on dollars and much narrower on breadth. A report by Tiger Research and RootData, based on 9,416 investment transactions recorded from 2018 through the first half of 2026, found that total funding reached $13.3 billion, nearly matching the $13.2 billion raised in all of 2024. The catch is that deal count fell to just 435, down 78% from the 2022 peak of 1,978. The report argues that the old spray-and-pray model built around token generation events and fast portfolio turnover has largely broken down. Capital is now concentrating in fewer companies, especially later-stage businesses with auditable revenue models, clearer regulatory standing, and infrastructure seen as useful to institutions. Traditional financial institutions were involved in 54.5% of H1 2026 transactions, according to the report. Sector leadership also shifted sharply. Infrastructure fell from 50.9% of invested capital in 2024 to 14.8% in H1 2026, while payments and stablecoins, centralized exchanges, and prediction markets moved to the front. Gaming, NFT, and social-related categories declined steeply in both deal count and capital raised. The report’s broad conclusion is that crypto capital has moved away from making dispersed bets on narratives and toward owning or controlling strategic rails, licenses, and operating platforms.

Beating on July 15 released its "most complete WAIC side events and food, drink, and entertainment guide," packaged under the theme "WAIC Amusement Park | Player Handbook." The guide maps out key activities inside and outside the venue during WAIC from July 17 to July 20, giving attendees a consolidated reference for planning their schedules in Shanghai. It is organized around sections including a roundup of hidden Side Events, city supply spots, and open locations. The list includes the AI Business Summit, Physical AI Camp Demo Day, AI Builders Night, the Shanghai stop of the vLLM Meetup, WAIC Afterparty, and Cafe Cursor Shanghai, spanning forums, developer meetups, startup networking sessions, brand receptions, and nighttime social events. Alongside event listings, the guide also recommends restaurants, coffee shops, bars, Citywalk routes, and Huangpu River night cruise options near venues in areas such as Expo, Zhangjiang, and West Bund. According to the release carried by BlockBeats, the guide is intended to help WAIC participants connect with industry resources more efficiently and build a fuller Shanghai AI Week experience.

Decentralized derivatives trading platform Aster has listed tokenized stock $SKHYB for spot trading and started a one-week holding and trading campaign, according to an official announcement cited by ChainCatcher. The campaign offers a prize pool worth $15,000 in SKHYB. The announcement also says Aster now supports bStocks assets as collateral for perpetual futures trading. After enabling multi-asset mode, users can deposit SKHYB and have up to 90% of its market value counted as collateral. That structure allows users to trade in any perpetual market without selling the underlying stock exposure. Aster said the setup is designed to use the advantages of multi-asset margin and improve capital efficiency. The notice adds that bStocks is a tokenized security issued by BTECH Holdings and is backed 1:1 by underlying stock assets held by a regulated custodian.

DeepSeek has formally completed its first funding round, according to a ChainCatcher newsflash. Corporate registration records show that Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Basic Technology Research Co., Ltd., an affiliated company of DeepSeek, recently underwent a business registration change. The update added Hangzhou Chengli Enterprise Management Consulting Partnership (Limited Partnership) and the National Artificial Intelligence Industry Investment Fund Partnership (Limited Partnership) as new shareholders. Following the change, the company’s registered capital increased to RMB 16.4475 million. The report did not disclose other financing terms.

Gate has launched pre-market trading for the NEURALINK perpetual futures contract, according to an official announcement. The contract is settled in USDT and offers leverage ranging from 1x to 10x. The listing adds a new pre-market derivatives product tied to NEURALINK, branded in the announcement as "Neuralink Neural Link." The notice did not disclose more trading details beyond the settlement asset and leverage range. The announcement also described NEURALINK as a U.S. neurotechnology company founded in 2016 by Elon Musk together with a team of neuroscientists and engineers. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California. No image was provided in the source entry.