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Gate News: According to an official Gate announcement, Gate Launchpool will launch its 366th Launchpool: Solstice (SLX). Users can stake BTC, ETH, and SLX to freely share 2,000,000 SLX tokens, with airdrop rewards credited automatically every hour. The mining period runs from 2026-07-16 20:00 to 2026-08-06 20:00 (UTC+8), with 100% unlocked. This round of Launchpool includes three staking pools: staking BTC can earn 900,000 SLX, staking ETH can earn 700,000 SLX, and staking SLX can earn 400,000 S

Gate News: According to an official announcement from Gate, Gate has officially launched a new product—Event Contracts. Event Contracts are a trading product focused on price-direction predictions. Users only need to decide whether the price trend of assets such as BTC, ETH, and more will be bullish or bearish over timeframes like the next 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 1 hour, and 4 hours to complete a trade. Event Contracts feature a low-friction design. For each contract, the price range is 0.01 to 0

Bitcoin (BTC) gives back its overnight gains, trading around $64,440 as of July 16. Trump will attend a key meeting on Thursday at the White House regarding the ethics provisions of the “CLARITY Act,” aimed at addressing lawmakers’ concerns about Trump and his family’s crypto businesses. Japan’s parliament approved legislation that reclassifies Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies as financial assets, marking a major regulatory shift. Macro Events & Crypto Market Hotspots 1、According to The Block,

Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded to around $64,800 on July 15, rising 2.3% that day. The catalyst was the June Consumer Price Index (CPI) released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: the month-over-month decline was 0.4%, better than market expectations; on an annualized basis, inflation slowed to 3.5%, the first drop in five months. As inflation cooled, the market believed near-term rate-hike pressure eased, benefiting both stocks and crypto assets in tandem. June CPI Data: Three Key Inflation Indic

Gate News, June 2026: According to an official announcement from Gate, the platform continued to expand its product offerings throughout June across TradFi, wealth management, derivative products, the on-chain ecosystem, and payment scenarios. The prediction market’s monthly trading volume reached $280 million, the Gate ETF’s monthly trading volume was close to $20 billion, CFD Copy Trading volume increased rapidly, and institutional spot trading volume grew month over month by 49.39%. In stock

According to ChainCatcher, an address purchased 6.12 million CASHCAT tokens 5 hours ago, spending 519 ETH (approximately $925,000), according to Lookonchain monitoring.

On July 7, 2026, local time, U.S. Central Command announced the completion of a new large-scale military strike against Iran, hitting over 80 targets including Iran's air defense systems, command and control networks, coastal radar stations, and more than 60 small boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The U.S. Treasury simultaneously revoked the previous 60-day sanctions exemption on Iran's oil sales. Explosions were reported in multiple locations in southern Iran, including Qeshm Isla

Ripple’s USD stablecoin RLUSD had a total circulating supply of about $1.63 billion as of June, with $879 million (53%) on the Ethereum network and $760 million (47%) in the XRP Ledger (XRPL). Although Ripple positions XRPL as the “primary” issuing venue for RLUSD, Ethereum still dominates the supply split at 53 vs 47. Historical shifts in RLUSD supply distribution between Ethereum and XRPL (Source: DeFiLlama) Based on confirmed historical data compiled by Protos, RLUSD’s supply distribution bet

At around 2:00 a.m. Beijing time on June 8, 2026, Iran fired multiple rounds of missiles at Israel. This was Iran’s first direct military strike against Israel since the ceasefire on April 8. The immediate trigger for this attack was the Israeli military’s escalation of its military actions against Lebanon—especially the renewed airstrikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps defined this operation as a “direct response” to Israel’s cross-border attack. Unlike

Bitmine chairman Tom Lee confirmed on May 26 that Bitmine bought 111,942 ETH in the past week, the company’s largest single-week net accumulation to date in 2026. Lee also reiterated his view of a crypto supercycle, saying the two main drivers are asset tokenization pushed by Wall Street and the rapid development of AI agents. Bitmine 週二確認的增持規模與 5% 持倉目標進度 Lee 在週二聲明中確認，過去七天 ETH 交易價格在 2,025 美元至 2,147 美元之間波動，Bitmine 趁 ETH 回撤至 2,200 美元以下時購入 111,942 枚。本月初 Bitmine 曾放緩購買速度，此前連續三週每週購入逾 10 萬枚。Lee 確認，Bitm

Gate News reports that, according to an official Gate announcement, The Chubby Elephant (ชั้ง) has been listed for trading on the Gate Alpha platform. This token is built on the SOL chain, and the contract address is 2kBH6UcRR8TitebUbKNYNvjUkSFWaiFBJ7nAPTKQwpump. Gate Alpha is Gate’s on-chain trading aggregation platform. It has supported multiple major public chains, including SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BSC, Base, SUI, ARB, World Chain, AVAX, Polygon, LINEA, ZK, OP, and Berachain. Users can directly

The CLARITY Act passed the Senate Banking Committee on May 14 by a vote of 15:9, and still needs 60 votes to pass the full chamber, then be merged with the DCIA and House versions and signed into law. The focus is on stablecoin yield, DeFi, confidential-information provisions involving government officials, and the GENIUS amendment, with clear partisan divisions. In competition with summer and budget negotiations, FISA, and housing bills, Lummis warned that if it is not passed in the summer, it could be pushed to 2030 due to the need for cross-session procedure.

According to SoSoValue data, on May 21, total net outflows from Bitcoin spot ETFs amounted to $100.8 million, marking the fifth consecutive day of net outflows; BlackRock’s IBIT saw single-day net outflows of $103.6 million, the largest outflow product for the day, while Ark 21Shares’ ARKB was the only product to record net inflows ($2.83 million). Bitcoin Spot ETFs: IBIT led daily outflows, ARKB was the only net inflow The confirmed Bitcoin spot ETF fund flows for May 21 are as follows: BlackRo

Gate News reports that, according to Gate’s official announcement, CTM (c8ntinuum) has been listed for trading on the Gate Alpha platform. CTM runs on the BSC chain, with the contract address 0xc8fb80fcc03f699c70ff0cc08c09106288888888. Gate Alpha is Gate’s on-chain trading aggregation platform; it currently supports multiple major public chains including SOL, ETH, Gate Layer, BSC, Base, SUI, and ARB. Users can trade by searching for “CTM” in the Gate App Alpha featured section, without manually

Bit Digital has reported lower first-quarter revenue and another steep quarterly loss as the Nasdaq-listed company continues redirecting capital from bitcoin mining into Ethereum staking and treasury operations. Summary Bit Digital reported a $146.7 million net loss as revenue from ETH staking,

According to Greeks.live analyst Adam, on May 15, 250,000 BTC options and 274,000 ETH options expired with a combined notional value of $2.62 billion. BTC options had a Put/Call ratio of 0.59 with a max pain point at $80,000, while ETH options showed a Put/Call ratio of 0.4 with max pain at $2,300.

According to BlockBeats, Bit Digital released its Q1 2026 earnings report on May 15, showing total revenue of $27.9 million, down 13.6% from the previous quarter. The decline was primarily driven by falling Ethereum staking yields, which dropped 29.4% to $2.3 million due to ETH price pullback and re

According to Onchain Lens, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin transferred 50.25 ETH (approximately $113,000) via Privacy Pools on May 15.

According to Blockbeats on May 15, Taiwanese celebrity Huang Licheng (Machi Big Brother) recalled in an interview the process of shorting DOGE in 2021: he entered a short position after DOGE’s quote hit $0.25, held the position during the rising run and kept adding to the position; at one point his unrealized loss was equivalent to two mansions. In the end, after Elon Musk attended a U.S. comedy show as a guest host, the DOGE price dropped sharply due to the “sell the news” effect, turning defea

According to SoSoValue data, on May 14 (US Eastern Time), Bitcoin spot ETFs recorded total net inflows of $131 million. BlackRock IBIT led with a single-day net inflow of $144 million, while Grayscale GBTC saw the largest single-day net outflow of $31.6357 million. On the same day, Ethereum spot ETFs recorded total net outflows of $5.6511 million. Bitcoin Spot ETF Breakdown Data (May 14, US Eastern Time) Net inflows: BlackRock IBIT: Net inflow of $144 million (historical cumulative net inflow: $