Cascade CLS Vault hacked, approximately $1.34 million in user funds in USDC stolen.

Perpetual decentralized exchange (Perp DEX) Ostium stated in a post that platform trading remains suspended following the security incident. User positions are still open but cannot be modified temporarily; trading margin remains in the frozen smart contract and has not been moved. Ostium added that its team is continuing to coordinate with relevant authorities, SEAL 911, and multiple security researchers, and will release updates on the timeline for smart contract activity resumption and fund recovery. According to PeckShield’s monitoring, Ostium’s public OLP vault was hacked for approximately 24 million USDC, with the attacker subsequently converting the funds to around 12,100 ETH, of which about 10,500 ETH has been transferred to Tornado Cash.

According to market data, the semiconductor sector in China's A-share market continued to weaken in the afternoon, with the decline of China-South Korea semiconductor-related ETFs expanding to 5%.

TSMC (TSM.N) announced that it expects its third-quarter revenue this year to range between $44.6 billion and $45.8 billion, compared to its Q3 2025 revenue of $33.1 billion. The chipmaker projects demand will remain strong in the third quarter, and forecasts its U.S. dollar-denominated revenue growth for 2026 will be slightly above 40%, an upward revision from its earlier forecast of over 30%.

According to an official announcement from HTX DAO, the second-quarter 2026 HTX token burn was completed on July 15. On-chain data shows that a total of 7,474,935,439,560 HTX tokens were burned in this round, worth over $13.6 million. To date, the cumulative amount of HTX burned and donated has reached 117.79 trillion tokens. Burn details: https://tronscan.org/transaction/06b58562732cbff13ce6a3b2a0556f6ffefd158b4cc4313968750923c779810d/overview. In the first half of this year, HTX DAO’s two-quarter combined burn exceeded $32.82 million. Against the backdrop of intensified market liquidity competition this year, HTX has still been able to consistently execute quarterly burns worth tens of millions of dollars, showcasing strong operational resilience and anti-cyclical capabilities.

Bitget has launched 16 US stock tokens, including rXBI (S&P Biotech ETF-SPDR), rDIA (SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust), rKSTR (SSE STAR 50 Index ETF), rJBL (Jabil), rKR (Kroger), covering sectors such as finance, healthcare, information technology and industrials. The rTokens, marked with the prefix "r" plus stock tickers (e.g., NVIDIA is rNVDA), are issued by Reality, a licensed RWA protocol under Bitget, which connects directly to global liquidity pools like NASDAQ and NYSE via cooperation with regulated broker Alpaca. Its key features include: 1:1 reserve of underlying assets held by licensed custodians; stock dividends distributed 1:1 in token form; support for synchronous mapping of corporate actions (such as stock splits and consolidations); and positions can be used as combined margin for unified accounts and USDT-denominated contracts, allowing users to flexibly manage funds while holding global stock assets.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSM.N) released its Q2 2026 financial results, posting revenue of NT$1.27 trillion, up from NT$933.792 billion in the year-ago period, and net profit of NT$706.6 billion. The earnings report indicated TSMC’s Q2 gross margin hit 67.7%, a 9.1 percentage point rise year-over-year. Its high-performance computing (HPC) business segment revenue grew 20% quarter-on-quarter, remaining a core growth driver. Additionally, the Taiwan Weighted Index closed at 45,624.98 points on July 16, down 6.61 points, or 0.01%.