Gate’s latest market data showed the U.S. dollar rising 0.24% against the Japanese yen to 157.513, while USD/CNH was quoted at 6.75728 with a 0% intraday move. In precious metals, gold slipped to $4,049.09 per ounce, down 0.06% on the day, while silver stood at $58.116 per ounce, up 0.45%. BTC and ETH volatility gauges, nBVIX and EVIX, were unavailable, with daily change fields also not provided. In equities, the Euro Stoxx 50 climbed 0.56% to 6,441.6, while the UK100 and Germany’s DAX40 edged lower. Crude oil prices moved higher, with WTI up 1.44% to $81.52 a barrel and Brent up 1.05% to $85.74. Gate also said users can directly trade traditional financial market products on its platform, including precious metals, foreign exchange, global stock CFDs, key indexes and commodities, through integrated TradFi functions on its app and web interface.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Aug. 4 that a new proposal presented to Iran was its "last chance," while saying he had previously called off a large-scale military strike to leave room for diplomacy. Trump said talks between the United States and Iran had already begun, with a first phase focused on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and a second phase involving Iran’s denuclearization. He added that the waterway could reopen as early as the next day, but warned the U.S. blockade would remain in place if no agreement was reached or if Iran did not "fully surrender." Iran’s Foreign Ministry rejected the claim that it was in talks with Washington, saying discussions with عمان were limited to temporary shipping lane arrangements to ensure safe vessel passage rather than a full reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Against that backdrop, Bitget data showed Brent crude fell nearly 6% on Monday. U.S. equities extended the rebound seen last Thursday and Friday, according to BIT (bit.com), with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 1.3% to a record close, the S&P 500 rising 1.48%, and the Nasdaq gaining 2.1%. Big Tech, semiconductor names, and optical communications stocks all advanced, while storage shares were mixed.

NVIDIA has released storage benchmark results for its Vera CPU, saying the NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage processor delivered higher performance than a comparison x86 CPU across several storage-heavy tasks tied to AI-native infrastructure. According to the company, the strongest gain came in CRC32C integrity checking, where performance reached up to 3.67x that of the x86 comparison system. Reed-Solomon data recovery improved by up to 3.26x, compression by up to 3.29x, decompression by up to 1.72x, and a combined compression-plus-encryption storage pipeline by up to 3.21x. NVIDIA also reported gains of up to 1.43x for AES-128 encryption and 1.29x for AES-128 decryption. The company said the benchmarks reflect a shift in AI infrastructure as AI agents handle knowledge retrieval, tool use, long-term memory management, and larger context windows. In that setting, storage is no longer limited to basic reads and writes, but becomes part of the inference path itself, with encryption, compression, validation, and recovery tasks adding pressure to CPUs. NVIDIA said Vera is designed to raise throughput per unit of CPU resource so storage systems can support more AI agent workloads without materially increasing infrastructure costs.

NVIDIA has released new benchmark results for its Vera BlueField-4 STX storage processor, saying the company’s Vera CPU-based AI-native storage platform posted clear gains over traditional x86 CPUs across a range of storage tasks. According to NVIDIA, the tests covered encryption, compression, data integrity checks, and recovery workloads that are becoming more demanding as AI agent applications scale and storage systems handle enterprise knowledge bases, long-term memory, KV cache, tool-call data, and model outputs. In the benchmark figures disclosed by the company, AES-128 encryption throughput improved by as much as 1.43x and decryption throughput by up to 1.29x. Reed-Solomon recovery reached up to 3.26x, CRC32C data integrity checks rose by as much as 3.67x, compression throughput increased by up to 3.29x, and decompression performance improved by as much as 1.72x. NVIDIA also said overall throughput in a combined compression-and-encryption storage pipeline improved by as much as 3.21x. The company said Vera CPU uses its in-house Olympus core architecture with 88 Armv9.2-compatible CPU cores, 176 threads, Scalable Coherency Fabric, and a SOCAMM2 LPDDR5X memory system, with up to 3.4 TB/s of interconnect bandwidth and up to 1.2 TB/s of memory bandwidth.

U.S. storage stocks moved higher, according to market data cited by ChainCatcher from Gate. Seagate Technology (STX.O) rose more than 17%, while SanDisk (SNDK.O) gained 20%. Western Digital (WDC.O) was up 16%, and both SK Hynix (SKHY.O) and Micron Technology (MU.O) advanced 11%. The move was reported as strength broadening across the storage segment in U.S. equities. ChainCatcher categorized the update under market analysis. No additional background, catalysts, or trading context were provided in the source update.

Bitget UEX’s July 29 market note showed geopolitical and policy risks driving cross-asset moves. Iran fired multiple ballistic missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan, with all missiles intercepted, according to the report and subsequent confirmation from U.S. Central Command. Oil prices rebounded sharply, with WTI crude quoted around $82.6 a barrel and Brent near $81.2, as traders repriced supply risk and inflation concerns. Ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, positioning in fed funds futures climbed to a record 967,000 open contracts, signaling unusually wide disagreement over the policy path. CME data cited in the report put the probability of no rate change in July at 69.5%, versus a 30.5% chance of a 25-basis-point hike. Crypto markets remained volatile. BTC was listed at $63,962 and ETH at $1,917, while total crypto liquidations over 24 hours reached about $372 million. In equities, Apple, Microsoft and Google posted gains, but semiconductor and storage names sold off again. Seagate stood out after earnings topped expectations, while Micron and SK Hynix faced renewed pressure as investors reassessed the durability of AI-related hardware demand and spending returns.

Chinese DRAM maker ChangXin Memory Technologies, or CXMT, became the focal point of a sharp sell-off in global memory names after its debut on Shanghai’s STAR Market. On its first trading day, the company’s stock surged more than 460%, pushing its market capitalization above RMB 3 trillion and prompting investors to revisit the long-term supply outlook for the DRAM industry. In U.S. trading on Monday, SanDisk fell more than 10% intraday and at one point was down about 14.6% from the session’s start, leaving it 47% below its June 22 record high. SK Hynix ADRs dropped as much as 10% and later closed 7.5% lower, marking their first close below the IPO price since the company’s July 10 U.S. listing. Western Digital, Seagate and Micron also came under pressure. The market reaction centered less on CXMT’s near-term earnings and more on what its record fundraising could mean for future capacity expansion, R&D spending and eventual progress toward higher-end products such as HBM. Some analysts, though, said the move may have overstated the immediate threat. They noted that CXMT still focuses mainly on conventional DRAM products such as DDR4 and DDR5, while Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung continue to draw their fastest profit growth from AI memory, especially HBM.

Gate’s latest market data showed a broad cross-asset snapshot spanning precious metals, crypto volatility gauges, foreign exchange, European equity indexes and oil. Gold fell to $4,079.65 per ounce, down 0.3% on the day, while silver was quoted at $58.718 per ounce, up 0.76%. In crypto-linked volatility measures, BVIX, the BTC volatility index, stood at 38 with a 0.56% daily gain, while EVIX, the ETH volatility index, was at 51.4, down 0.31%. In foreign exchange, USD/CNH edged down 0.03% to 6.7673, while USD/JPY rose 0.08% to 163.687. European benchmarks were mostly higher, with the Euro Stoxx 50 up 0.13% to 6,338.62, the UK100 up 0.09% to 10,778.6, and the GER40 up 0.89% to 25,493.9. In commodities, WTI crude declined 1.49% to $84.69 a barrel and Brent crude fell 0.38% to $88.42 a barrel. Gate also said its TradFi offering has been integrated into its app and web platform, allowing users to trade traditional financial market products without switching platforms.