Odaily reported, citing data from MSX.COM, that AI-related U.S. stocks were mixed in premarket trading. MRVL rose 1.04%, while AVGO gained 1.17%. On the downside, MU fell 1.11% and NVIDIA slipped 0.35%. The update was limited to these named stocks and their latest premarket moves. The report also noted that MSX is an RWA trading platform. According to the same brief, the platform has listed hundreds of RWA tokens so far, covering popular U.S. stock and ETF tokenized assets including NVDA, GOOGL, MSFT, AMZN, META, TSM, and AMD. No additional market context or timing beyond the premarket snapshot was provided in the source item.

Economist Nouriel Roubini warned that inflation is still the biggest risk facing markets, according to a report cited by ChainCatcher from Jin10. He said several forces are pushing inflation higher, including geopolitical tensions, deglobalization, and rising government spending. Roubini added that if the US Consumer Price Index reaches 5% to 6%, the yield on the 10-year US Treasury could come close to 8%. That level would mark the highest point since 1994. It would also represent a sharp increase from the current level of about 4.58%, based on the figures cited in the report. The remarks focus on inflation as the core macro risk and point to the scale of the rate move Roubini sees as possible under a higher CPI scenario.

Binance said it will adjust the tick size, or minimum price movement unit, for 31 spot trading pairs at 05:00 UTC on July 22, 2026, according to an official announcement cited by Odaily. The affected pairs include AUCTION/USDC, AUCTION/USDT, BB/TRY, BB/USDC, BB/USDT, BERA/TRY, BERA/USDC, BERA/USDT, EPIC/USDC, EPIC/USDT, ETHFI/USDC, ETHFI/USDT, FIL/FDUSD, FIL/USDC, FIL/USDT, GLMR/USDT, GTC/USDT, HFT/USDT, LQTY/USDT, PEPE/JPY, QI/USDT, RARE/TRY, RARE/USDC, RARE/USDT, RESOLV/TRY, RESOLV/USDC, RESOLV/USDT, STRK/TRY, STRK/USDC, STRK/USDT, and ZIL/USDT. Binance said the change is intended to improve market liquidity and trading experience. Existing spot orders will not be affected, though users were advised to adjust trading bots to avoid unnecessary trading disruptions.

LayerZero said a movement involving an internal wallet detected earlier today was part of a standard reconciliation process. The team stated that the transfer activity was tied to routine internal operations rather than a security incident, and said all funds remain safe. The update was published by LayerZero itself in response to market attention around the wallet movement. The item was carried by Foresight as a 7x24 news flash.

Apple is working with Baidu on AI features for iPhone users in China, according to Odaily, which cited people familiar with the matter. Baidu is said to be focused on developing an AI-powered search tool that will be included in the Apple Intelligence feature suite. The reported system can handle both images and text, and is also tied to an upgraded Chinese version of Siri. The report also points to an earlier clue from June 23, when overseas blogger One Jailbreak said a code teardown of iOS 27 Beta 2 found the term “Baidu Visual Search” inside ExtensionKit. On the same day as the Odaily report, China’s cyberspace regulator published filing information for seven on-device generative AI services for mobile phones, and Apple Intelligence was listed among them.

Japan is moving ahead with a major overhaul of its crypto regulatory and tax framework. On July 15, new details reported by NHK showed that crypto capital gains would shift from the current miscellaneous income regime, where the top tax burden can reach 55% including local taxes, to a flat 20% tax treatment. The plan also includes a three-year loss carryforward, a change that would align crypto taxation more closely with stocks, futures, and investment trusts under Japan’s Financial Instruments and Exchange Act, or FIEA. The reform also defines scope. A total of 105 major cryptocurrencies, including BTC and ETH, are set to fall under FIEA and become subject to full disclosure requirements. Exchanges handling designated tokens would need to disclose each asset’s type and characteristics, underlying technical structure, volatility and market risk profile, and other material factors relevant to investment decisions. According to the timeline cited by ABMedia, the Cabinet approved the FIEA amendment on April 10, 2026, the House of Representatives passed it around June 10 to 11, and the House of Councillors is still reviewing it. Full implementation is expected in 2027.

Binance Research said in a July 8 report that stablecoins are no longer expanding mainly as liquidity instruments for crypto trading. The report argues that the sector is shifting toward a broader role as digital financial infrastructure, spanning value storage, yield generation, payments, settlement and cross-border treasury management. The report points to several data sets inside the Binance ecosystem and across public blockchains. On Binance, 30% of users with at least $10 in assets now keep more than half of their portfolios in stablecoins, up from 4% in 2020. It also highlights persistent fiat-to-stablecoin premiums across multiple economies, stronger savings demand in emerging markets, and growing use of tokenized Treasury products and structured on-chain yield products. Binance Research also links stablecoin growth to merchant payments, non-dollar stablecoins, weekend settlement activity, AI agent micropayments and on-chain foreign exchange. In its view, the category is becoming less tied to crypto bull and bear cycles and more connected to wider global financial demand. The report says regulation, reserve transparency and macro conditions will still shape how quickly this shift unfolds.

McDonald’s Japan has reportedly entered the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem and is holding 100 Ordinal Punks NFTs, according to Techub, which cited community user Jack. The report says the collection was minted within the first 650 inscriptions on the Bitcoin network and was created using the open-source PunksNotDead algorithm as a tribute to CryptoPunks. Ordinal Punks is described as an early NFT project built on the Bitcoin Ordinals protocol, using inscriptions to permanently store digital art on-chain. The Ordinal Punks reportedly held by McDonald’s Japan are part of those early inscriptions, giving them historical scarcity within the Ordinals ecosystem.