Suspected Sonic Labs-Related Address Transfers 11.78 Million S Tokens to Binance, Valued at Approximately $5.55 Million

According to CCTV News, local time on July 27, an informed Iranian official disclosed that six unauthorized vessels shut down their navigation and positioning systems in the early hours of that day, attempting to illegally cross a dangerous waterway south of the Strait of Hormuz at the instigation of the United States. One of the vessels was involved in an accident, while the rest were escorted back to the Persian Gulf under Iranian control.

According to Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, SoftBank Group has attracted 21 new lenders to the broader syndication phase of the $40 billion bridge loan it raised to invest in OpenAI. The insiders said these new lenders collectively secured roughly $70 billion of the loan facility, with First Abu Dhabi Bank, Singapore’s Government Investment Corporation, and Standard Chartered each subscribing for nearly $10 billion. The remaining portion of the new funds was allocated to banks in parts of Europe, Japan, and Taiwan, China. The insiders added that the remaining $330 billion of the bridge loan is currently held by underwriters and senior lenders, though it may undergo further syndication in the future.

According to on-chain analyst Ai Yi (Twitter handle @ai_9684xtpa)’s monitoring, a whale has withdrawn another 120 WBTC (valued at approximately $7.8 million) from a trading platform over the past two hours. As of now, the whale has accumulated positions of 59,404.19 ETH and 820 WBTC, with a total value of $156 million, average cost bases of roughly $1,742 and $64,329 respectively, and an aggregate unrealized profit of $8.927 million.

，据官方公告，Bithumb 将上线 GEOD/韩元交易对。

According to monitoring by Onchain Lens, a crypto whale withdrew 281,140 LINK tokens, valued at approximately $2.45 million, from Binance.

Goldman Sachs noted in its latest South Korea market weekly report that despite foreign investors’ consecutive net purchases of the KOSPI recently and Alphabet’s upward revision of its AI capital expenditure expectations further reinforcing the semiconductor demand narrative, the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) still fell around 2% last week. By sector, construction, software and telecom held up relatively well, while securities, automotives and insurance led declines. In terms of market performance, the KOSPI extended its sell-off on July 24, closing 5.72% lower at 6,690.62 points, hitting an intraday low of 6,650.41 points, with programmatic trading briefly suspended. Yonhap News Agency reported that rising Middle East tensions suppressed risk appetite, with foreign investors and institutions combined net selling roughly 5.2 trillion won that day, while retail investors net bought around 5.18 trillion won. Goldman Sachs holds that foreign capital inflows are mainly concentrated in the tech sector, but the South Korean market still faces significant medium-term capital outflow pressure, and foreign holdings in the semiconductor sector are near historical lows. Meanwhile, the KOSPI’s 12-month forward earnings per share (EPS) forecast was cut by 0.4%, with the automotive sector facing the largest pressure on earnings expectation adjustments. Margin leverage is also cooling: the report shows that South Korean retail investors’ margin balance has dropped from a peak of $25 billion to $22 billion, and the size of leveraged ETFs has fallen from $53 billion to $26 billion. For South Korea’s stock market, AI capital expenditure remains a core support, but amid downward earnings forecast revisions, light foreign investor positioning and fluctuating risk appetite, the index’s short-term volatility may continue to expand.