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Bit Digital Q2 Results: Holding approximately 164,300 ETH, total revenue $32.1 million
Main takeaway: Bit Digital reported Q2 2026 revenue of $32.1M and improved margins. The company posted $18.6M gross profit (57.9% margin) and a reduced net loss of $107.2M. As of June 30, it held ~164,310.5 ETH and $83.6M cash.
Sharplink announced staking $200 million ETH through Lido, obtaining wstETH and custodying it at Anchorage Digital
Main takeaway: Sharplink will stake $200 million in ETH with Lido and receive wstETH held at Anchorage Digital. The move fits its strategy to make ETH more productive, adds Lido to its staking/re-staking plan, and uses wstETH for DeFi composability.
Michael Saylor proposed the digital asset "currency spectrum": Bitcoin as digital capital, STRC as digital credit, and stablecoins as digital currency
Main takeaway: Saylor outlines a "money spectrum" classifying digital assets: Bitcoin as digital capital, STRC as digital credit, SR-strcUSX as digital currency, and USDT as digital cash. He says volatility and returns fall left-to-right while stability and transaction use rise; Bitcoin is an unregistered store of value, digital credit and currency bridge capital and cash, and financial firms create and manage credit, currency, and cash as digital equity within Strategy's unified digital finance stack.
A certain whale used nearly $50 million in positions to predict a subsequent rebound in the US stock market, going 20x long on the Nasdaq 100
Main takeaway: A whale used nearly $50M in long positions to bet on a U.S. market rebound. The address 0xb37…a66ca is using TWAP 20x to long XYZ100 (Nasdaq-100), totaling 1,006.8 XYZ100 shares, about $32M filled at $29,778, with the rest still executing.
Robinhood releases July operational data: Cryptocurrency trading volume shows weakness, plunging 62% year-over-year
Robinhood reported 28.5M funded accounts by end of July, up 1.77M year-over-year, and $355B in total assets, up 19% YoY but down 4% from June. July net deposits $5.6B (18% annualized). Stock, options, and event-contract volumes rose; crypto volume fell sharply.
Strategy will hold a live Q&A for investors on August 17, Michael Saylor will attend
Main takeaway: Strategy will hold an investor live Q&A on Aug 17 at 12:00 PM ET with founder/chair Michael Saylor and CEO Phong Le. Natalie Brunell will host; the event streams live on X and YouTube, and investors can submit questions via an online form or on X.
Ethereum staking ratio rises to a historic high of 34.7%, staking yield slightly drops to 2.6%
Main takeaway: Ethereum staking has reached a record high with about 41.89 million ETH staked (34.7% of supply). That equals roughly $79.2B in value, staking yield ~2.6% (down 0.49%), ~789k active validators, staking up 0.77%, inflation ~0.86%.
Japanese retail investors are accelerating the use of leverage to participate in the AI market, with margin trading amounts reaching the highest level since 2016
Main takeaway: Japanese retail investors ramped up leveraged trading into AI stocks, pushing July margin loans to ¥123 trillion, double the level at year-start and a record since 2016. Margin trading made up 83% of retail trades; memory stock Kioxia drew heavy buy financing.
Yushu's perpetual contract plunged 5.5% briefly before IPO, currently quoted at about ¥600 RMB
Main takeaway: Unitree's pre-IPO perpetual contract briefly fell 5.5% from $94 to $88.8, trading around ¥600, implying a post-listing market value of about $36B (¥2430B). Its IPO price is ¥150.8/share, forecasting 3.98× open gains and ~¥224,600 profit after fees. Unitree expects listing mid- to late-August, pending Shanghai Stock Exchange announcement.